OMG JAPANESE COSPLAYERS. ARE. AWESOME.
I uploaded a slideshow of the cosplayers on YouTube. Here is the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS8LKE7ZqS8
I went to World Cosplay Summit 2011 in Oasis 21 at Nagoya yesterday, right before the championship. I didn't get to see the championship, but there was so much going on before that!!
I left Shin-Yokohama around noon and got to Nagoya by bullet train in about an hour and a half. It went at about 170 mph. Yeah, it was fast, that's all I've got to say.
After taking the subway from Nagoya station, there was already a swarm of cosplayers gathering at the exit of the station. Oasis 21 was pretty much