The qualifiers for this event will be held at events around Europe with the two spots for the UK to be battled for at the upcoming May MCM London Expo and Ayacon 2011 in August.
Cosplay
In her first article for Defcon Two Debbie explores why her hobby of cosplaying may be perceived in a negative light and wonders if she is doomed to be classified as a crazy person upon mentioning the subject.
So as of Monday, all of Kitacon’s free spaces have vanished almost in a blink of the eye. Don’t believe me? take a look at their waiting list and read the official announcement.
Defcon Two writer and admin Michael Hirst will be in attendance spinning Japanese and Western party classics. With a positive looking attendance roster this New Years party looks to go down a treat.
I posted last month that if you were able to attend to launch party or the MCM Expo in October you would be able to pick up a copy of Cosplay Fever Red, a book devoted to costumes from around the UK taken over the last year. I’m even in it, though I’ll try and let you spot me *cough* page 190 *cough*.
The newest con on the block – Kitacon – announced its first guest and also puts up an interesting little advert featuring their MC Chris Scown.
The – arguably – biggest cosplay story to break over the weekend were the winners for the Eurocosplay Championship held on the Saturday of the MCM Expo on the 30th of October
Michael will be cosplaying as the character Jin Kisaragi on the Sunday of MCM Expo to help promote the new Blazblue game. Has he bitten off more than he can chew?
