#cosplay competition judging

[telekineticmaniac]

Still talking about cosplay competitions but this time WHAT GOES ON BEHIND THE SCENES IN PERFORMANCE JUDGING!!

[femmedaraya]

hello hello!! hs cosplayer here; was curious to how you pulled off your talald cosplay!! im plannin to do one soon at some point and i wanna atleast know what materials i need for the outfit since im already havin a big bopper in the works!! :o

any help would be appreciated!! thank you in advance,, 🥹✨

Hey there, thanks for the ask! I think one of the great things about Talald’s jester outfit is that the way it’s rendered in her sprites allows for a lot of interpretative freedom towards your fabric choice.

(whoops this post ended up really long)

You can really make it work for your comfort level and budget—for example, I used neoprene for the main body of the dress because I like working with fabrics that do weird structural things, but you could just as easily use a woven cotton with a zipper somewhere in the bodice, or a jersey fabric if you want to make it more like a skater dress.

Regardless of fabric choice though, really stiff iron-on interfacing is probably gonna be one of your best friends. It’s how I got the “shoulder pads” on the tabard to stand up, it gives my purple collar its stiffness, and it keeps the points in the skirt from flopping down past the bottom of the petticoat.

There are a couple of specific fabrics I’d recommend for specific parts of this costume: for the pink under-sleeves, your best bet is a light to medium weight stretch fabric like spandex, stretch velvet (what I used), or cotton jersey. For the purple sleeve petals, you’ll probably want a super light woven fabric so the petals flop around the way they do in her sprites. I like polyester chiffon but I could also see cotton voile working well, or something else that’s really light without any stiffness.

Also, a lot of people ask me how I got the tails to stand out the way they do! I used polyvinyl tubing, thanks to this very helpful video from Vailence the Clown/sugarvail on Tiktok, whose whole page is full of great reference material for clown and circus type cosplay stuff.

I’m planning on making another cosplay detail highlight post soon, so keep an eye out for that too!

[projectgoblin]

Miss when I had the time and energy and expendable income for building cosplay like this, Big Sister has been my favorite cosplay for years.

[thatrandombystander]

Me looking at previous winners of the Australian Cosplay Championships: "Yeah I could make a respectable entry for next year. Dunno about winning, but at least not enough to embarrass myself."

Like surely if I get proper motorised articulated wings working I'd be a decent contender for the FX category????

[fortes-fortuna-iogurtum]

ah yes, that famous yarn-crafting technique, crotchet

[olive-schmolive]

hehehe i applied to help coordinate a cosplay contest today :3

[yupuffin]

omg I'm so glad I don't compete at Sakura-Con anymore. They were absolutely overblown with cosplay contest applications this year. (Apparently, within 10 minutes of the submission form opening, they already had 70 applications. Not sure about walk-ons, but I know they only allow space for 20 skits.) So glad I don't have to stress about that

[nyoomerr]

Normally, the community of Proud Immortal Demon Way can hardly be called as such. To call PIDW readers a ‘fandom’ would be akin to calling everyone who visited the same porn site a family. PeerlessCucumber is a loud exception, but in the end he’s still only an exception - by and large, people reading PIDW know exactly what they’re there for, and it certainly isn’t for any sense of shared enjoyment or community.

The community of people following PeerlessCucumber himself, however, is a whole different story.

PeerlessCucumber is the asshole single handedly responsible for at least seven different copypastas, the rich bastard that will pay an artist’s rent for a single picture of Luo Binghe if only the artist can tolerate his demands for constant revisions, the dictionary definition of an anti-fan.

He is also blissfully unaware of the absolute glee in which people take in riling him up. And in the age of the modern internet, nothing brings a group of strangers together like the opportunity to poke fun of a guy like that.

“How do I look?” HualingsWife whispers to her companions. They take a moment to scrutinize her, gaze lingering around her chest.

“I don’t know,” SwordsOfCultivators says, “I think the guy ahead of you let his robes drape open further.”

HualingsWife rolls her eyes. “If I let my robes drape open that far, I’d be disqualified - you know the rules are different for men.”

“It’s not like you’re looking to win, though,” XuanyuMeat says. “And the open chest is clearly effective.”

The three of them pause, turning to look at the stage from their spot in the wings. The competitor that came before HualingsWife is running through a series of poses that are slowly but surely allowing his robes to slip ever wider. 

Two of the judges are watching with thinly veiled amusement - after several years of this tradition, they’ve gotten used to the chaos that PeerlessCucumber’s fans bring to these cosplay competitions. 

The third judge is PeerlessCucumber himself, and he looks like he might be experiencing a serious health condition. A serious mental health condition, to be clear.

“- robes of inferior make! Binghe’s exposure is always purposeful, and artful, and it wouldn’t be because he was wearing robes that didn’t fit him! If you don’t care about dressing true to his character -!”

“Hm,” SwordsOfCultivators hums. “Is it just me, or is Peerless not being as harsh as he usually is? Do you think he’s finally losing some of his obsession with Luo Binghe?”

“He better not!” HualingsWife cries. “I’ve put way too much time and money into working on a cosplay for that awful porn book for him to lose interest right when I get my chance to join the torturing-Peerless-fun!”

“No, no,” XuanyuMeat says, shaking their head. “You heard his rants for the Luo Binghe cosplayers one through four - he was especially cruel to them! Look at his face now, that isn’t the face of someone losing interest!”

They turn back to the stage. Luo Binghe cosplayer number five - likely DickBiggerThanBinghe, if HualingsWife were to guess based on her limited interactions with him in the PeerlessWatchers discord chat - looks unbearably smug. His robes have fallen completely off his shoulders by now.

PeerlessCucumber, on the other hand, looks so red HualingsWife wouldn’t be surprised if she started seeing steam pouring out of his ears.

“Ah,” she says, understanding. “You think he’s recently finally realized his obsession with Luo Binghe isn’t that of a straight man’s?”

“I wouldn’t put it past him to get this flustered over a man’s exposed chest and still think it was caused purely by the outrage of seeing one of our ‘poorly done’ cosplays,” XuanyuMeat says wryly. They send HaulingsWife a pointed side eye. “So…”

“Oh yeah, I’m on it,” HualingsWife says, already loosening her robes further. “Just make sure to have the cameras ready to get the direct comparison of his reaction to a woman’s nip-slip versus the absolute conniption he’s going through now.”

“Please, he probably won’t even see it - he’ll probably get all awkward and look away like he does with any female cosplayer dressed in anything but a full body suit.”

“I think he’ll peek through his fingers anyway,” SwordsOfCultivators says gleefully. “He wouldn’t dare miss the chance to oggle another Luo Binghe cosplayer.”

On stage, DickBiggerThanBinghe finally waltzes off, having received his scoring from all three judges and a score from the back of the room where the group of PeerlessWatchers are sitting. 

After all, none of them are really here for the actual cosplay competition. They only care about one thing: whoever can get the highest scoring Peerless rant about their cosplay will pay for dinner for everyone that night. 

“Ohh, seven out of ten!” HualingsWife says, as the group PeerlessWatchers wave their scorecard around with glee. “The last time someone got scored that highly was when TofuBuns dared to cosplay as a half-dead Luo Binghe covered in wounds!”

“TofuBuns still has their display name set to ‘faithless mongrel undeserving of witnessing Binghes success’ in the discord server,” SwordsOfCultivators sighs. “I can only hope to one day trigger a Peerless rant so iconic.”

On stage, one of the judges glances down at the score sheet, sees that another Luo Binghe cosplayer is scheduled to come out next, and stifles a laugh before gesturing for HualingsWife to come on.

“No way I’m getting something that iconic my first try,” HualingsWife says, “but if I can get Peerless to make that hilarious choking noise he made the last time he saw a female-presenting Luo Binghe, I’ll count it as a win.”

[qui-gg]

that one post you made about lightbulb and how she made up her entire relationship with paintbrush until ep12 made me like her character a lot more soo has ur thoughts and opinions on lightbulb and maybe paintbrush changed since episode 15??

Thank you for this question and it definitely has, it’s just been taking me a bit to think and format into words exactly how to say this! But with ii16 releasing soon i should go through this now, so be prepared for a ramble.

Since i’ve made that post, I’ve gone through a few more realizations about the preexisting material itself. I should say it’s a bit dramatized when I said she made up the ENTIRE relationship- there was obviously something there since they’d known each other for a very long time, after all Paintbrush does say “we’re STILL friends”, but she moreso took it and ran with it to a level it was never at. I’ve never properly talked about my feelings on Alternate Reality Show here? But it’s my favorite episode and I have TOO MUCH to say. I’ll be bringing up key parts of my analysis though since this is about 15.

This episode features Lightbulb’s elimination, and so evidently that means it should be seeking a way to properly wrap up her story. It’s not the total focus of the episode, and neither is she the main character (she already had that in 12), but I think it was handled the best way it could have been. Initially when I watched the elimination in the Chicago theater (slack jawed and having my heart broken I was cosplaying Lightbulb😢) there was a lot running in my mind but the fact Lightbulb’s expectations had been subverted in the very best way was on the forefront. Leading up to 15, there was a lot of extra material released that pointed towards hyping up Lightbulb. She’s a very popular character so the average fan’s expectation is exactly what she mentioned in the episode, that she’d win for her team. The exit interviews of the flying buddies ALL point towards their expectations of Lightbulb to win- which I think was SO clever and must’ve been intentional. Lightbulb likely hasn’t seen these interviews, but I think on a meta level it’s for us to see and then Judge Lightbulb’s reaction to those expectations. Because as she does, she takes something as friendly and simple as what Test Tube said to her at the end of 14 and blew it out of proportion. Her friends are giving her encouragement to win of course, because that’s the nice thing to say and do when your friend is in a competition! But as we learn from 12, Lightbulb is seeking more from the game than just the game. She’s here for relationships first and foremost. And, we see that she has so much more of a thought process beneath the surface than we initially expect, that she is very observant and aware of her own feelings and others and takes that into account which presents as her backwards intentions in her quirky behavior, the stuff she does that doesn’t seem to make sense all has meaning. (We also see this exerted in one of my favorite Lightbulb appearances, the Jacknjellify upload of the 2022 meetup short, where there’s a scene of her in her own head through the situation. She recognizes she’s failing an interaction, gets insecure about it, and we see her make up a quirky lie in real time! It’s incredibly important LB material) She just prefers to distract herself from them the more intense they get because when things get more serious it is hard for her to be taken seriously or believe that she could be. And Test Tube is very important to all of this despite not speaking in 15 because Lightbulb’s relationship with her was one of the first that became Real. Test Tube recognized that Lightbulb was struggling most prominently as she alone had been on that journey with her and had that talk, she knew her heart wasn’t in the game for a long time. Which affects her actions towards her in 15! But I’ll get to that in a bit. The point i’m trying to make here is that it is the PERFECT SUBVERSION of audience expectations, that Lightbulb would be willing to win for her team, to reveal that instead she just wanted to go home and be with her friends. She had built up those expectations for herself too and thought EVERYONE (both her friends and on a metatextual level, the real fans) would be disappointed in her for feeling that way but it’s something you can see if you’re looking! Her reactions to all the flying buddies’ eliminations, in the 14 stream there’s a discussion about how she’s not doing well at all being all alone, She just disguised it! As usual! And punished herself for feeling different. And I need to emphasize IT IS THE PERFECT WAY TO GO TO ELIMINATE HER VIA LIE DETECTOR. That was one of the coolest things to me. LIGHTBULB, WHOSE FATAL FLAW IS THAT SHE CANNOT SAY WHAT SHE’S FEELING COMPLETELY STRAIGHT OR HONESTLY, WHO NEVER MAKES SENSE, is forced to fight for a position she doesn’t believe she deserves on a lie detector. My little analytical heart knew as soon as the challenge was revealed she was out. But again, the way it all played out was subversive in just the right way and accurate to her character and I couldn’t be more thankful.

Now it’s time for me to address the Lightbrush elephant in the room. I think Brian said it best on the Jazzy ii15 stream- why does a relationship need to be romantic in order for it to be special? There’s a lot there that is written into the show as is that doesn’t need a kiss scene to suddenly make it pay off or matter. So in this analysis i’m not here for Lightbrush at all. It’s best appropriate to look at it from the lens of a platonic friendship as it was intentionally written and portrayed in the show itself, not to speculate on things that aren’t there.

(Plus, i’m less of a fan of the ship these days. My relationship with it is complicated. I just adore Lightbulb and Paintbrush as characters too much)

Obviously it had to be Paintbrush who responded to the emergency signal. It wouldn’t make sense thematically for it to be anyone else. It was revealed by Brian on a few streams that Test Tube chose to tell Paintbrush to go answer the signal intentionally to help Lightbulb out, knowing that she was missing them and her heart was not in the game. I think it speaks to the strength of the flying buddies that they’re able to read each other like this! In III, we come to understand this is how Paintbrush was feeling after their elimination in 12 and solidified in their season 3 elimination, Their heart wasn’t in the game without meaningful relationships. Both of them were just seeking connection the entire time they were apart, and I think this has to go back to what I said in the post you mentioned that she made up their entire relationship with them. They both had a lot of regrets about the way their friendship worked before their first real connection in 12 before being separated, and spent so much time dwelling on how they could repair that but weren’t able to yet. So now that they have to chance to build that up again together they’re going to take it. I think the talk with her between Baseball Knife and Suitcase at the start of 15 is indicative of this as well, she questions Baseball about voting out Paintbrush, something she never previously expressed any anger about. But she’s not angry, she just has been thinking about it more. And also, that scene is incredible because I fully expected Lightbulb to be alone and misunderstood by the Grand Slams because they saw none of her development and hardly understood her but they approached her to see if she was doing okay and I was surprised! Very much a necessary step towards her decision in the end.

It is INCREDIBLY difficult for Lightbulb to be straightforward. When she’s clicking the pen that’s a coping mechanismmm and when she’s FORCED to say outright “I’m scared, and I need help.” That’s painful for her. Unnatural. Her behavior and method of presenting herself through quirks can’t just be turned off, it’s baked into who she is. And she doesn’t need to change that, she just needs to be seen and recognized and taken seriously anyway. Which makes it perfect when she chooses to eliminate herself with what else but a lie. It’s too hard for her to say “I don’t want to be here. I want to go back and stay with you all”, so she tests her resolve once and for all despite knowing in her heart she just wants to leave with them. She’s not giving up a million dollars just to go be with Paintbrush and I think that take is a bit degrading towards her character- This decision holds a lot of weight to her and the audience who expected a lot from her over the four years of buildup to her appearance here. But everything I mentioned previously built up to this choice, plus the point Taco had been making about leaving the game spoke to her but she chose to leave in her own way, not for the reasons Taco thought she should. And we see also at the end of the episode “today I think an old friend tried to show us she’s drowning” despite being scared of her earlier in the episode SHE STILL SEES TACO AS AN OLD FRIEND FROM SEASON 1! It’s so good that Lightbulb says that line so juicy. But that goes to show again Lightbulb is extremely observant of others. Also i love all of the ocean lingo and theming with her. I should post the Baxter essay sometime. ANYWAY! The point is Lightbulb didn’t make this choice lightly, she’s been toiling with it for three episodes now. She missed “her crew”. And she was always here for relationships and fun, not for the money or the game. She finally built something, and now she just wants to lay with it. She’s earned her rest.

I also need to mention the Dunce hat. Oh my god. Her exiting the show with a Label announcing her as an idiot, a perception so so many have of her and within the show, her friends previously had of her, but she doesn’t care because there are people who see through that, who see her! Sure she might not be understood by everyone for the way she is, but there are special people in her life who do. Lightbulb is such an incredible character.

I tried to keep this brief but of course it isn’t!! And this still feels like I haven’t said enough. But yes 15 was very good for Lightbulb and a great way to wrap up her story- even if it’s not technically over yet! We’ll see what happens in the movie. Thank you for reading this far!

[mythriteshah]

The Higuri Regalia is pleased to announce the return of: The Mythril Showcase!

As a refresher to those uninitiated: this fashion show was created during the twilight days of Menphina Madness to provide the frequenters of the sport an opportunity to show off their acumen in style outside of the Blitzsphere. Since then, Thiji Higuri - the merchant-lord and fashion nabob himself - has tested the skill and daring of haute couture hopefuls through various themes. This time, The Higuri Regalia, in collaboration with the Great Ishgardian Frostfaire and Anamnesis Eorzea, is providing this as a new avenue of competition for the glory of charity!

With three successful shows now under the Regalia’s belt, the deciding of the next theme was opened to the public via poll to give proper closure to this turn; now the results have finally arrived. The theme for the fourth Mythril Showcase will be: “Eternal Sphere.” This incredible theme will challenge fashion faithfuls and newcomers of couture alike as the arrival of the shard of Alexandria invokes designs never before seen on Etheirys, combining aesthetic with technology - be it Garlean, Allagan, Lopporit, and other high-tech civilizations - though vastly different from what we are used to - capable of interstellar travel and unique methods of item synthesis!

(TRANSLATION: this cosplay contest is based off the Star Ocean franchise)

Those who wish to participate are welcome, and will be handsomely rewarded with a glamour weapon of their choosing for their efforts. This time, however, there is a twist: as there were warring factions during ancient times, so, too, will there be specific glamour weapons tailored to them! They are detailed below:

 The top four winners will receive far more greater prizes:

4th Place Winner: An assortment of Eurekan weapons (Great Shin-Zantetsuken; Penthesilea's Spear; Shin-Zantetsuken)!

3rd Place Winner: An Air-Wheeler A9 Identification Key!

2nd Place Winner: A Qeziigural Horn!

1st Place Winner: A Voucher of the Higuri!

(Translation: a drawn commission of your character in the desired outfit from the Power in Beauty Catalogue will be made!)

As an additional incentive to honor the season: for every participant who signs up to compete, $10 will be donated to charity!

The event will take place on Saturday, December 14th at 2PM EST (Doors open an hour prior)! The location: The Birdcage in Empyreum, Ward 15, Plot 30 (Balmung World). Whether you wish to spectate, or show off your own Power in Beauty, all are welcome to attend!

Contestants will be judged based on a variety of categories on a 1-to-10 scale.  For the sake of fairness, these criteria will be made known to all.  They are as follows:

-Emulation: Cosplaying - as accurately as possible - a certain character from a particular source of media (game/show/movie, etc.)

-Adherence: Remaining within the scope of the theme.

-Embellishment: Complimenting your outfit with accessories and other small details.

-Stage Presence: Your ability to “strut your stuff” via actions or emotes.

-Reception: How well you command the audience’s excitement and attention.

*-Innovation: Any additional nuances to your entry (using minions, reciting lines, etc.) for extra points.

(You may request to sign-up to compete by utilizing this form: https://forms.gle/Xty9CFEdD3aVq3wWA. Sign-ups will conclude prior to the contest’s commencement - 30 minutes prior to showtime.)

[telekineticmaniac]

I made a video guide on what to expect in CRAFTSMANSHIP PREJUDGING AT COSPLAY COMPETITIONS!!

[ichigo-kitten]

Happy to finally be able to share my Titan Luz cosplay from The Owl House!!

I debuted this at Amecon and won the judge's wow choice award in the cosplay competition!! ✨️

I wore full sclera contacts for my Titan Luz cosplay and became my friends new sleep paralysis demon 😈☠️

Now eat this sucka!!

[innominaterifter]

My friend who accompanied me to the convention sent me the results of the cosplay competition, the three winners. Until recently, I didn’t even know that there was a jury and that they decided who won.

This was my first participation in a cosplay event of this format. I saw the opportunity of the performance as an interesting challenge to convey the impression of Taylor in her cape look to people who are not familiar with the world of Worm. A separate, interesting, and difficult task was how to convey the image of a swarm (and it's really not easy). I liked how the fabric idea worked out, but I have a few more ideas to improve it.

As a result, my thoughts were busy with a bunch of things, and I didn’t think about the fact that this was also a competitive performance. Which, in general, is for the best since it definitely eliminated one of the reasons to be nervous.

Therefore, when I did not see my name in the winners' top three, I was not upset because I did not count on such an opportunity in principle.

But my friend was definitely more worried than me. She started writing supportive comforting messages, which was very cute, although not necessary.

She began to explain that this was probably largely due to the fact that it was an anime event, and my cosplay is different both thematically and visually. I told her that I remember her funny (and unexpected) video about how people reacted to my insects. It is quite unlikely that the judges' reactions will differ from the average reaction of other people. (I I have already made a mental note to increase the expected level of negative reaction to insects for the future).

She smiled and said that it’s not just about insects. Moreover, the judges from their seats could hardly even understand what was in my backpack.

As it turned out, those vague spots in front of the stage were judges and not just spectators. But in general, I had no time to look at the hall at that moment, I was focused on my actions, and poor eyesight did not make the process easier.

My glasses don't fit under the mask, so I left them in my backpack. I have not yet found a way to make lenses for a mask that would be at the same time:

a) curved to the desired shape;

b) yellow;

c) with diopters.

At the moment, a temporary solution in the mask is a net with cells in the shape of a honeycomb, which facilitates ventilation but certainly does not contribute to clarity of vision.

I was toying with the idea of ordering additional lenses with diopters (the same ones I use in my glasses) and gluing them from the inside of the mask onto the honeycomb net. But as a result, I decided not to do this because of the risk that the lenses might come unstuck during active movements, and this could be dangerous for the eyes.

In general, I didn’t know about the judges at the time of the performance, but the judges really were also unlikely to understand that the cockroaches in my backpack were alive.

In response to my questioning grunt of what else she thought was the matter, my friend giggled and said to watch the video that she had just sent me. I looked and I can say two things.

First: she clearly enjoys conveying to me the subtleties of social interactions in this format.

Second: yes, it’s not just about insects.

She found videos of the performances of other participants and compiled a cut from them with my performance. Well, it turned out quite clearly, just like last time.

My costume was indeed very different from the other participants' costumes, but it was the comparison of performances that showed how “your vibes are on different ends of the scale” as she put it.

I myself did not see the performances of other participants, since I was one of the last to go on stage, and before that I prepared, checked my equipment, repeated the snatching a knife and baton, and working with a fabric swarm.

After the performance, all the participants scattered around the location and mingled with the audience. So, before watching this video, I didn’t know how different I looked compared to others. It was contrasting, mhm. I didn't think that the image and performance would look so grim, especially compared to others. My swarm did not save the situation, although in my opinion, it should have added entertainment in a good way.

When you are making a suit, until the last moment, you see it not as something whole but as a set of different parts, each of which individually looks quite neutral. Only after fully putting on the suit and armor could one understand that they looked really grim. But I still underestimated how much. That video with visitors’ reactions to insects also did not provide a complete understanding since it was mainly concentrated on the audience, and I saw myself in the frame in fits and starts.

Also, when I watched the video of my performance separately, I concentrated on how well I was able to perform what I had planned and trained. I didn’t think about how it looks in general, from the outside, and in comparison with other performances before and after me. Especially from the perspective of a person who sees this character for the first time.

Yes, I didn't place on top, but I was glad I did well. Almost none of the cockroaches escaped, and those couple of videos were pretty interesting to watch. In my opinion, a good result for the first appearance in a suit.

P.S. The song from "Wednesday" made me smile🙂

[transatlantic-crochet]

When I say - this was THE photo I was waiting to share 😂

After the prizes were handed out, we all milled around the stage and photographers appeared from all angles - and I saw an opportunity to continue being my dweeby self 🤪

In other news, I have gone through the full spectrum of emotions regarding crochet, cosplay and competing - and being a judge in our own local competition (Heimar og Himingeimar) helped a lot. I am now able to redirect all these feelings back into productivity and have decided I'm gonna start making shoes. Like from scratch 👠

But I'll start with Mirabel's espadrilles as the base of those is ACTUALLY crochet (gasp) 😱

I am of course still diligently working on queen Anna's dress but I had to frog 3 balls worth today lol

[meglyfer]

Today I went to an anime con cosplaying as Cross, and took pictures with a bunch of other cosplayers, so I wanted to share them :3

Most faces have been censored for privacy reasons, and those who haven't I will be tagging their Instagrams

Wolverine is javiparedes2814

Alastor is reita_351 and Lucifer is kuronokaren (must clarify, I do not like Hazbin Hotel and do not support Vivzie in any way, but the cosplays were drop dead gorgeous, so I HAD to take a picture)

Mitsuri is erigmeza

Link is joakenobi

This absolutely amazing Vi is xmoonartx, and also the person who won first place in the cosplay competition (I got second place) (If you ask how Alastor, Lucifer, Link and Wolverine didn't win, the first three were judges and the last one didn't participate)

Minecraft villager, Sub Zero, Escorpio, Saw and one of the seven deadly sins whose name I do not remember

This is supposed to be Sasuke during the exploding people arc (without the cloak, and with his left arm)

Human Alastor (kinda worrying that this kid knows Alastor because he was 11, Jesus Christ)

And lastly, Bonnie

Here you have the picture I took of my cosplay alone

[limbuscompanysituations]

situation where all the sinners go to an anime convention? :0

The company surprisingly has a booth in this one event. They're trying to advertise their services to the public, as well as hopefully open a line of recruitment. Vergilius tells them they have to be by the booth at a certain hour for a Q&A event. He doubts anybody will come, as the corner they're at is pretty deserted, but still it's their job. The guide warns the sinners they can wander but should stick together and absolutely not get lost.

Don Quixote is already rushing to find her favorite color fixer fanmerch sellers. Faust and Yi Sang are off to find their favorite serialized comic panel, Dr. Rock; a comic about a scientist who uses logic to defeat her enemies.

Gregor is swarmed by curious people who ask him about his cosplay prop and how did he get it to look so lifelike. Hong Lu sneakily signs him up for the cosplay competition. Rodion helps him with this, and then vanishes into the sellers area. Ryoshu clicks her tongue disapprovingly as she watches the trailer of an upcoming murder-mystery series.

Sinclair wonders if he will have enough time to visit a panel that has his favorite voice actors. Dante is trying to wrangle them all with Outis' help but failing miserably. Meursault got too into playing a rhythm game at the arcades section. Heathcliff is too nervous to leave the Limbus booth, he doesn't want to have to face another consultation with Vergilius. Ishmael got a map of the location and uses it to find the booths/panels that might interest her with ease.

They all somehow manage to make it to the booth in time for their presentation. Three people show up. Two of them realize they're in the wrong place, and the third is there to give Gregor his third prize winnings for the cosplay competition. The judges liked the concept and the execution but thought the materials weren't of high quality enough to justify even a second place.

Dante is just happy everything turned out fine.

Where's Charon? Impatiently waiting to vroom vroom. Cons are boring.