This week, instead of a Fantasy Girl post, I have decided to collect some nifty photographs taken from the recently concluded Comic Con 2010 in San Diego, California where a lot of female cosplayers were spotted to have donned eponymous costumes of the likes of Tifa Lockheart, Rikku, Lightning and Shiva. What really grabbed my attention was this photo of a female cosplayer that kind of transmuted the Final Fantasy VIII lion, Squall Leonhart, into a drop-dead, vivacious counterpart of the game’s silent protagonist.
Among others, Comic Con 2010 became a festival where popular culture from East and West collided and, some of our favorite Final Fantasy girls were present in an adrenaline-pumped event of comics, video games and cosplay gathered some of the galaxy’s most interesting personas whom, can be identified as the modern fanboy/s. Here’s another tandem that we’ve grown so fond of: Yuffie and Rikku.
Again, if we are going to talk about Comic Con, each character we came to appreciate over the years, from colorful genres like comics, Japanese manga, anime and video games, have become major household mainstays for a conference of such magnitude and, the more weird the character you chose, the more popular you become. Here’s another tandem whom I think would give Final Fantasy fans something to sneakily buzz about apart from the Cloud/Tifa engagement.
Next in the line-up is a very bothered Viera whom seems to have a thing for energy drinks and posters. Vieras don’t drink those and where’s the default crossbow hitched within her back? As punishment, I declare that she get the Zodiac Spear a hundred times via the excruciating treasure chest hunt inside the Henne Mines.
Finally, we can see here a somewhat sad Lightning. Don’t worry, there will be many more to come next year and here’s hoping that more cosplayers will show up as their favored FF character. There is no shortage of them, I guarantee you that.
Photos courtesy of Ripten and GameInformer
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