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I've easily seen more male character cosplayers from DOA (mostly Zack, Hayate, and Hayabusa) then I've seen male character cosplays from SoulCalibur, who barely exist.Ĭonsidering its massive popularity, they were not as outnumbered by Street Fighter cosplay as one would expect. DOA largely remained a hand-to-hand fighting game, with most of the characters wearing quasi-contemporary clothing and carrying minimal extra equipment. I sort of suspect that had to do with Tekken costumes being less impressive (there are only so many variations on "shirtless man with chest as wide as a small truck") and SoulCalibur being more genuinely impressive, but reliant on difficult-to-construct and maintain fake weaponry. DOA cosplay easily reached a level of popularity at anime conventions that surpassed SoulCalibur and Tekken that seemed wholly disproportionate to the popularity of the games themselves, especially today. Since over a 2 or 3 day convention (I stopped staying at hotels for all local cons, and instead made the drive in and out of Atlanta), I would take ~300 photographs, I would easily have a dozen or more of Dead or Alive cosplayers alone. The point was that it was popular enough to be a reliable occurrence. They were not typically spectacular or anything, though some were actually quite excellent. There was period, about ~2005 to about ~2011 where every single convention I went to (about 2, sometimes 3 a year) featured either a Kasumi or an Ayane cosplayer, or both. I mean, technically speaking in humble-nerd-brag, I know multiple Dead or Alive cosplayers.