Been going to ACEN for only 3 years now and was talking with a lot more people this year. I didn't even know about the suicide last year and I didn't think cosplay was so serious that groups would bring/threaten each other with guns.

Give me the run down of the forbidden ACEN lore that the discord doesn't want you to know.

Also who was your favorite cosplay? Mine was the ODST.

>cosplay capitol of the world
>never discussed on cgl in the 2 years I have lurked

What gives? I am going to Japan this year and no one I know in the gull group I am knows anything about this place, and I don't see any threads here about it. You think with the expensive hotels and bars people go to that there would be at least some slow general here about Comiket or some of the shows like Tokyo Comic Con. I got a flight from Dallas to Tokyo for a bit over 800(only 1 checked bag though) which isn't that bad compared to costs I would pay for ANYC and the hotels for a weekend but there I get a full 12 nights...

What gives why does cgl never post about Japan all that much?

>Obligatory "whoa no thread this place sure is slow" remark
Who's goin, what ya doin, excited about the announcement of Colossal Virginia?

This is going on right now. Surprised there wasn't a thread.

Lots of loud rap music, loud blacks, and now they are having a fight club with boxing gloves in the dealer's room.

Old thread is capped >>10868636

This thread is for ouji and aristocrat (aka "boystyle") discussion. "Boystyle" is shorthand for "boystyle lolita" and refers to the masculine counterparts of Japanese lolita and, often, aristocrat fashions. There is a lot of overlap between these styles, and different people use different terms to describe them. We usually just use "ouji" here.

>Shopping spreadsheet
This is broken, now. Can it be fixed?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1j7sg2_7CvXUeIgZGGSLvJ9lUUuSVXhW8FlWWFwiv1Yk/edit?usp=docslist_api

>Buttcape-sensei's shopping guide (mentions which brands/shops have men's or custom sizes):
https://stephano.me/blog/where-to-buy-ouji-fashion/

>Blogs for info; the classical-alice japanese blog link broke and has been removed
buttcape[.]blogspot[.]com
https://ouji-armoire.tumblr.com/tags
https://www.zhihu.com/question/398686032 (in Chinese; tap "read more" for a nice rundown of taobao ouji brands, which begin below the "couple clothes" section.)


Google your questions before asking them here.

Read the whole thread before asking questions here.

OC and selfposts encouraged! Random picspam discouraged.

Discussion: Are you a lone ouji, or part of a local jfashion community?

it's drawing near. are you going? what you cosplaying?

For the Canadian gulls, now that Anime North and Otakuthon are over, what conventions is everyone still looking forward to for the rest of the year? Will anyone top the truck rave at Anime North? I need a reason not to kill myself.

Have you ever thought about getting plastic surgery for cosplay?

If you did, were the results favorable?

Guys, how old is too old?

Like, I am an oldfag in his mid 40s. Used to be very involved in the con scene back in the 90s and early 00s. I am currently on a very nostalgic mood about those days of yore, and planning to visit a few of the big cons to see how's the fandom nowadays. Would I be, as you youngsters say, cringe? Worse, would other congoers immediately assume I am a creepy pedophile? I don't really want to ruin some kids con experience like that.

Two things, I would be attending alone because the few con buddies from back then that I still keep in contact, are too jaded and busy to give a shit. Also, I am considering if it is a good idea to go cosplaying as an old timer character.