Cosplazy Blog

Oh man. One of the best game series in the whole wide world has to be The Legend of Zelda series. (If you in any way disagree, please, go shoot yourself. Now.) The storylines, the gameplay, all that good stuff is just AWESOME. Rumor has it that when my mom would be up giving me my 2am feedings when I was a baby, she couldn’t go back to sleep, so she’d go hog my brother’s Nintendo and play the original Legend of Zelda. Even SHE knows how awesome the Legend of Zelda is.

I somehow felt violated, however, when I found this picture on 4chan. Somewhere in Germany, there’s these two:

Basing their costumes off of “The Ocarina of Time” (dude, I need to play that again), I must say their costumes aren’t all THAT bad; in fact, they’re not bad at all, even the girl’s looks like good quality…it’s just…seriously?

This is a simple case of the right costumes on the wrong people. Keep in mind, peeps, not all cosplayers are models or anything, but there is a line between “Yes, I can pull this off” to “I’m definitely in denial”.

The guy, holding his paper mache Hylian shield and Master Sword (I assume, since he is an adult and all…what self-respecting adult would carry around a Kokiri sword? *scoff*) looks nothing short of demonic, when that’s more Ganon’s job. Also, his (greasy) hair is all wrong. Tsk. Everyone knows that Link has honey blonde bangs falling out of his little hat, and they are ALWAYS bouncy. I really do want to shampoo this guy’s hair.

The girl…do I even have to say it? I really don’t mean to bash her looks or anything, but in the game, Princess Zelda resembled more of a lithe, willowly type, and not my old friend, Beth, who had a thyroid problem and always dressed in a manner not becoming of someone her size. That being said, the detail on her costume, like I’ve said, is pretty good. However, when of a bigger size, your eye doesn’t immediately go to how good the costume is; the human mind is more inclined to think, “That costume does NOT belong on her.” (or, more specifically, it doesn’t exactly flatter her figure).

Although, there is a problem here that I have to bring up, and it has nothing to do with cosplayers…but how many “curvier” characters are out there to cosplay? Not much (that I know of at least; remember, I’m the outcast non-anime/non-otaku dork of this site). So, we’re stuck with something like this, where the follow-through is great, yet the result isn’t exactly spectacular. Let this all be a lesson to all you out there; take a good look at yourself in the mirror before you leave the house. You KNOW if you look good or not. Everyone has that one little inkling of feeling where they know what they look like. If there is high doubt whether you think you look questionable…chances are, you should probably go change.