The Chinese-American cosplayer, model and costume designer is often praised for her superior skill of costume making and characterisation. She was featured on Syfy’s Heroes of Cosplay and for a number of times she has joined the panel of judges as a guest for TBS reality show King of the Nerds Multiple Times. She has a deep interest in experimenting with the costumes and developing them to offer a deeper meaning to the characterisation. She has cosplayed as Gamora, Zhen Ji, Camilla, Evil queen from Snow White, Scarlet Witch, Eliza, Disney Mulan, Medusa etc. Yaya has a blog where she shares the reason for selecting the character and detailed artistic creation of the costumes. Many anime lovers find it to be an amazing experience to get the deeper thought of a cosplayer about the character she is playing.
Whenever an anime lover takes about the Elsa character they definitely get to watch the wonderful cosplay of Queen Elsa done by Anna Faith Carlson. The 25 year old instagram model and cosplayer belongs from Florida. Though she has been working as a model from second grade her first ever debut as a cosplayer was as Queen Elsa from Disney movie Frozen as she teamed up with her sister playing Princess Anna. Though Instagram identifies her as an Elsa look-alike but she has cosplayed as Rey from Star Wars, Harley Quinn from Batman. She got the fame of one of the 7 top sexiest Cosplayers in 2015. She is one of the most followed cosplayers in social media with over 1 million followers.
Jessica Nigri is an American cosplayer, model and voice artist who is well-known for her voice for Cinder Fall in RWBY. She is also an anime enthusiast who started cosplaying in the year 2009. One of her most memorable cosplay is “Sexy Pikachu” that she chose for San-Diago Comic con international and her costume went viral. She has also promoted Gears of War 3 dressing up as Anya Stroud character. She has portrayed a number of video game characters for promotion. She has cosplayed the character Vivienne Squall from the Video game Killer Is Dead, Connor Kenway from Assassin’s Creed III. Nigri is an active part of a popular cosplay group and some gaming cosplay teams. She has gained international acknowledgement for breaking the sharp gender-binary by creating the female version of some male characters.
Marie is a Canadian Cosplayer and model who started her career as a costume designer. She has been a part of some top brands’ advertising campaigns. The model has always been a part of the Cosplayer community as she has found it intriguing since the very beginning of her career as a costume-maker in 2009. In 2011 she participated in Calendar cosplay to raise funds for Japanese Tsunami. The model has been invited as a guest in some American conventions including Ottawa Comiccon in 2012. She is introduced by Pop miniature and Paolo Parnete as a character in their game. She has played the Hornet character in the web series Heroes of the North which has an action figure that looks like her replica.
11. Tasha
Tasha is a South Korean cosplayer who has been cosplaying since 1999. She is currently the leader of an all-female cosplaying group named Spiral Cats formed in 2009. Tasha was introduced to Japanese culture through manga and anime. Later when she attended a cosplay event she became interested in it. Initially it was her hobby which later turned into her profession. The internationally acknowledged cosplayer is famous for her armours and costumes. She creates her costumes by herself which showcases her crafting skill. She has more than 40,000 instagram followers. Oh Go-eun aka Tasha has recently cosplayed the character of Blizzard from the famous online game Overwatch. Previously she has portrayed characters like Acilia, Hotaru from Video game Cyphers, Janna, Katarina etc.
12. Pion Kim
Pion Kim, the Korean cosplayer is well-known for her high quality photo shoot that includes quality editing and first-class costumes. She started cosplaying in the year 2012 and has been working as a freelancer now. Pion Kim has studied acting and hence she tries to incorporate her acting skills in every photo shoot she does. She does the editing of the photos herself to ensure she herself is satisfied with the end result. For these reasons the pictures of her cosplay is often praised by fans. The Korean cosplayer has successfully worked on characters like ‘Poison Ivy’ and “Eliza” which needs much attention for their gory look. She has cosplayed different characters from anime, webtoon and videogames like Veronica, Harley Quinn, Vera Nair etc. and she considers Sombra from Overwatch to be her favourite character.
13. Riki “Riddle’ LeCotey
Riki LeCotey aka Riddle is a Canadian model and costume designer. She is considered to be one of the top cosplayers in North America. She was the main cast of Syfy Channel’s reality show Heroes of Cosplay and also featured in PBS’s documentary ‘Cosplay: Crafting a Secret Identity’(2012). She started cosplay as she was interested in the ‘cool outfit’ the cosplayers wear. She has portrayed characters like Hell Girl, Snow White, Black Cat, Huntress etc. The Canadian model has attended numerous fan conventions, comic con as participant and panellist. She is well recognised all over the world for her catchy performance. She has formed a charity group namely Cosplay for a Cause that has contributed over 30 thousand USD for the Japanese Red Cross after the 2011 Tsunami.
14. Haiden Hazard
The American Cosplayer is often considered to be one of the most beautiful and sexiest cosplayers on earth. She is a regular face of fan conventions and is one of the most followed cosplayers on Instagram. She has shown her tremendous love for anime, video games and comics through her posts on social media. The American cosplayer thinks that the first fan convention that she attended has changed her life forever as it made her interested about cosplaying. She has cosplayed the characters like Freya, Viper, Reaper etc. She got the attention of the international cosplaying community when she portrayed an overwatch game character along with Eclair Marie. She was also included in the list of most famous people born on November 23, 1998.
15. Monika Lee
Monika Lee is one of the most famous American Cosplayer and youngest of the original nine member cast of the show “Heroes of Cosplay ”. She has been into cosplay since 2006 and mostly portrays video game characters. She often collaborates with Jessica Nigri in XX Girls Group to create master pieces. Monika was featured by several gaming media outlets including Game Informer, Gamesradar. She has been invited as guests in many fan conventions. The 28-year old Cosplayer is pretty much interested in the art of designing and is a student of industrial design of Georgia Institute of technology. The Institute claims in their official website, “She has an online fan base twice the size of the student population”.
