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Somthing has come up to my attention: "easy" cosplays

People look at, for example, L (from Death Note, an amazing Manga btw), and they see the plain white shirt and the plain blue jeans and the lack of shoes, and think: "Hey, this is an easy cosplay! I should do this!"

If you want an easy cosplay that still looks good: don't try L, PLEASE!!!! People think that its easy and they think that they will be able to still look good, but L is a very hard cosplay! If you do L, you need to do the hair right!
L's only characteristics that pop out are his ridiculous hair and dark depressing eyes.
So if you do L, know that your costume will not look good unless you do the hair correctly. If you don't plan on your cosplay being good/you don't really want to try but you still want to cosplay as him/ you don't really care, then go right along and Cosplay as L. But if you want to loog good as L, then know that you will need to devout an entire day to styling a wig, or somthing!

*sigh ok, moral of the story: L is a difficult cosplay.
actually to make my point clearer, he is a somewhat easy cosplay; you just can't underestimate the hair, dudes (or gals for abundance of female crossplayers)

so discuss:
cosplays that people think are easy, but often do not come out well

To quote Uncle Yo's Death Note Rant:

"Death Note Cosplay is a cop-out. Light? Brown jacket, slacks, black book, pen. L? Take off your shoes. Your halfway there. White long-sleeve shirt, and baggy blue jeans. The only thing separating L from K-Fed is sleeves. Misa? Pigtails. And Hot Topic."

I agree, that it's the low road for cospaly. There ARE some really good L's and DN cosplays out there...but the majority I see are lazy failures.

Same goes for Bleach/Naruto/any other over-done cosplay. People see it done soooooo many times that everyone tries it and the majority, FAIL

I'm not talking about trying (though I totally agree that everyone should try), I'm just saying that people think that this cosplay will be easy, so they become lazy and it turns out horrible... but then they STILL think that its a good costume!! If they acknowledged that thier costume was bad, then I'm ok with it. As long as they realize that they did not try, and it turned out as a failure, then its ok. But if they think that thier costume is good... well that's when I have a problem.

I think most over-popular animes are pigenholed as "easy" costumes because you can basically buy it offline and be done.

Any costume can be difficult if you put the time and effort into it. C:

Agree!
At the last con I went to, I saw, like, ten L's and only saw ONE of them in character. Hell, one of 'em was jumpin' around, swooning over pretty boys and playing Red-Rover.
(Off topic, Red-Rover is fun in cosplay. I like randomly starting games of it. ouo)

Naruto cosplays are hardly easy. e__e I almost cosplayed Sakura and for the longest time I had no idea how I was gonna try and make that freaking dress. Those outfits have so many details and the hair... God, the hair. I'm glad I ended up deciding to cosplay one of the animals from Naruto than one of the actual ninja. XD

Don't forget about Radical Edward from Cowboy Bebop. If you wanna see a horrible Ed cosplay, check my profile XD! I thought it was easy. Black shorts, no shoes, white sleeveless top, wacky orange hair, and goggles. I just grabbed random crap from my closet

Characters that are not wearing the normal outfits, ie, Soul Reapers in regular clothes when they are in a gigai, find some random outfit, put on a short white wig and BAM! you're Toshiro and the only different looking visored is Mashiro so all but her can easily be done