Japan Expo Bay Area - August 22-24, 2014 San Mateo Event Center, California
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Cosplay

Cosplay has pride of honor at Japan Expo! Cosplayers get on stage in the most breathtaking costumes, hand-made, from their favorite manga, anime or video games. Come see your favorite characters come to life!

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Cosplay Stage

Parade in total freedom on the Cosplay Stage. Prepare your best costume and enjoy yourself: that's what it is for! The Cosplay Stage is welcoming you with open arms: it’s the perfect place to show your costumes and perform if you feel like it and as you like it. No stress, no competition, you’re here for fun and the audience too!

Dressing rooms

Dressing rooms dedicated to cosplayers are set up to allow you put on your costume and to prepare for the show with no worry.

Masquerades

Masquerades are taking place on Saturday and Sunday.

At Japan Expo we see masquerades as celebrations of the cosplay community. For this reason not only do we have a contest with great prizes, but we're making it as welcoming and fun for all our entrants as possible!  All the entrants in our Saturday and Sunday contests will have priority access to the dressing rooms and cosplay first-aid station for repairs.

We'll have lots of great prizes for our daily winners from companies like NIS America, Viz, and Funimation, and our overall winners for Best Group and Best Individual will win special items, like merchandise signed by our guests, premium tickets to next year's Japan Expo, and more!

  • All costumes must be acceptable for wear at Japan Expo and not cause damage or mess to surroundings.
  • All prop and replica weapons must be legal to carry in the state of California.
  • All costumes must be from anime, comics, video games, TV, or Japanese music acts.  Adaptations from fanart and original designs will be permitted at the discretion of the event coordinator.
  • To be eligible for top awards, costumes in an entry must be made by the members, either entirely from scratch or by modifying standard items of clothing.  Entries containing costumes purchased from ebay, taobao, or any other costume seller will be allowed to perform as time permits, and are only be eligible for recognition based on their performance, and will not receive top awards.
  • A group may have up to 20 members total.  No more will be allowed, even as helpers or stage ninjas.
  • Anyone who is not performing will not be allowed to accompany entries backstage - with the exception of parents of young children who are entering, or cases where a special need has been demonstrated that our staff cannot fulfil.
  • To be eligible for Best Individual you must enter solo.
  • You may enter Masquerade every day of Japan Expo provided you show us something different each time: wear a different costume and do a different presentation.
  • If there are more entries than we have time for in a day’s event, priority will be given in the following order:
  • Entries that have made their costumes, and have not performed on a previous day.
  • Entries with bought costumes that have not performed before and entries that have made their costumes and have performed on a previous day.
  • Entries with bought costumes that have performed on a previous day.
  • Participants may only be part of one entry per day.
  • All entries are expected to do a presentation.  This can be a full skit or dance number, or strutting your stuff on the runway.  Groups will be allowed a maximum of 2 minutes and 30 seconds, and individuals will be allowed 75 seconds. This includes your set up time. For break down, you will only have 30 seconds to remove your props and such from the stage, so plan accordingly.
  • Keep things appropriate for a mixed audience in your performance, don’t swear and if you’re worried that your performance might be too questionable talk to us about it.
  • No jumping off the stage.
  • No incendiary devices, projectiles, silly string, or confetti.
  • We reserve the right to remove problematic entries from the contest.

Please read the complete rules and guidelines 

Download the complete rules and guidelines

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