Everything you didn’t know about Cosplay and didn’t know who to ask!

Hindustan Times | ByAnanya Ghosh

Jan 12, 2019 09:59 PM IST

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International cosplay star Yaya Han decodes the underground subculture that has captured the imagination of the millennials

With due apologies to millennials, it is extremely difficult to walk into a Comic Con event for the first time in your life and not feel as though you’ve inadvertently crashed a massive fancy dress party with a focus on anime, animated characters, sci-fi and superheroes and heroines.

(From left) Cosplayers playing Spider-Man (Soumya Sharan), Kitana (Vanna Calista Da’costa), Wonder Woman (Srishti Chandra), Iron Man (Jeet Molankar), Wargreymon (Saqlain Ansari) at the Mumbai Comic Con 2018(Aalok Soni)

“Cosplay is combining creativity with art... you need to learn a lot of skills and be an active fan”

Han in her avatar to play Medusa from Inhumans (2018 Mumbai Comic Con) (Aalok Soni)

“My parents thought I had fallen under some bad influence and battered me with questions like: Why are you being so frivolous? Why are spending so much money? And, of course, why are you showing so much skin? ”

“My parents didn’t understand me for years... until I took them to a convention where they realised that cosplaying is not a frivolous activity but one with passion and professionalism”