Simple Cosplay for Beginners (Male): Anime Edition

It may be easier for guys to pick their costumes, however they are very limited in terms of simplicity. if you're starting out and your wondering what you can cosplay as, look for the chart below where the bold type represents hair color and the italics type represents eye color.

Green	Black
Athru Zala From: Gundam Seed	Sasuke Uchiha From: Naruto
Mello From: Death Note	Near From: Death Note
William T. Spear From: Black Butler	Roronoa Zoro From: One Piece
United Kingdom From: Hetalia powers axis	Kyoya Hibari From: Reborn!

Blue	Brown
Hanabusa Aidou From: Vampire Knight	Ryu Bakura From: Yu-Gi-Oh!
Toshirou Hitsugaya From: Bleach	Takeshi Yamamoto From: Reborn!
Deidara From: Naruto	Taichi Yagami From: Digimon
Senri Shiki From: Vampire Knight	Ishida Uryu From: Bleach

Black	Blonde
L Lawliet From: Death Note	Kisuke Urahara From: Bleach
Luffy D. Monkey From: One Piece	Sanji From: One Piece
Kyoya Hibari From: Reborn! l	Deidara  From: Naruto
Ash Ketchum From: Pokemon	Alphonse Elrick From: Full Metal Alchemist

Red	Brown
Abarai Renji From: Bleach	Raito “Light” Yagami From: Death Note
Shoichi Irie From: Reborn!	Kaname Kuran  From: Vampire Knight
Daisuke Niwa  From: D.N. Angel	Sousuke Sagara  From:  Full Metal Panic
Spitfire From: Air Gear	Asuma Sarutobi From: Naruto

Simple cosplay for beginners (Female): Anime Edition

I bet you've asked the question many , many times "what should i go as to this years convention?"  It's been asked many may times and its a really hard question so today i'm going to help you out. I'm going to make a chart which you will see below that is divided by  eye color and hair color of the character. the bolded type means hair color and italicized type means eye clor.

*note: simple but of a higher difficulty than normal.

Blue	Brown
Ino Yamanako From:  Naruto	Revy From: Black Lagoon
Rangiku Matsumoto From: Bleach	Nami From: One Piece
Nico Robin From: One Piece	Kyoko Mogami From: Skip   Beat
Android 18 From:  Dragon Ball Z	Hiyori Sarugaki From: Bleach

Green	Black
Talho Yuuki From: Eureka 7	Shana From: Shakugan no Shana
Sakura Haruno From: Naruto	Pan From: Dragon Ball GT
Konata Izumi  From: Lucky Star	Karin Kurosaki From: Bleach
Ichinose Tamao From: Rosario+Vampire	Alvida From: One Piece

Blonde	Black
Misa Amane From: Death Note	Nana Osaki  From: NANA
Chi  From: Chobits	Rukia From: bleach
Mai Valentine From: Yu-Gi-Oh	Nico Robin From : One Piece
Android 18 From : Dragon Ball Z	Videl From: Dragon Ball Z

Red	Brown
Yoko Littner  From:Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann	Nana Komatsu  From:  NANA
Misty  From: Pokemon	Haruka/May From: Pokemon
Orihime Inoue  From: Bleach	Tea Gardiner From: Yu-Gi-Oh
Kallen Stadtfeld From:Code Geass*	Lita Kino From: Sailor Moon*

Cosplay for Beginners

When you hear cosplay for beginners, you sometimes think of  Closet playing, which essentially means grabbing things out of your closet that looks like an anime character you're trying to play. Closet playing is usually frowned upon in the cosplay world, because let's face it, you didn't really do much work on your costume you just put it together and then basically just went like that to one of the Many Conventions. The trick to cosplaying is that you can pick one or two items from your closet, but only if they match, and usually if a cosplayer picks an item from their closet, they will alter it to better fit their character. Your best bet is to stay as simple as you can while sticking to your character. At my first con, I made fingerless gloves and a wrist band and i went as Nana Osaki. It was great because i portrayed her very well, but it was hard to tell who i was because i wasn't detailed enough. so pay attention to detail and get to doing what you love. The key to cosplaying is to have fun making your costume and enjoy the japanese culture that we know and love.