BRUCE ASATO / BASATO@STARADVERTISER.COM The group Dance at UH performed at the Cosplay Cafe during the recent Honolulu Festival at the Hawai‘i Convention Center. They will be performing today through ...

Anime and Japanese pop culture aficionados were blown away by a weekend of cosplay, concerts, and unbridled fandom – with a touch of renegade robot uprisings and alien invasions thrown in for good ...

Within minutes of entering SMASH!, the Sydney Manga and Anime festival, I’m standing in front of one of Japan’s most famous cosplayers. Takahiro “Goldy” Sakai is a man who dresses up in full body ...

Meet Dev, an avid writer, cat lover, and anime enthusiast. He has a passion for storytelling, traveling, and new adventures. These shows boast creative designs that range from extravagant, ...

The recently-opened cafe in capital Manila, also a Philippines first, hopes to cash in on the growing popularity of “cosplay” or costume play among Filipinos, in which participants dress up as ...

I’m standing in a line at Brisbane Supanova 2013, a pop culture convention, when I’m approached by a young family with a tiny girl in a sparkly Snow White gown, complete with bright red hair bow. “We ...