At Anime Festival, we're all about cosplay.

It’s the perfect occasion to show off your skills at creating your favourite character.

We’ve put together a list of our 10 favourite characters to cosplay at anime festival, you can never start planning your cosplay too early!

10. Hotaru Shidare – DAGASHI KASHI

Just make sure you’re not mistaken for an employee of our dagashi shop.

9. Jūzō Suzuya – TOKYO GHOUL

We’ve seen some great cosplay of Jūzō recently and love how creative people get with the character, and looking forward to seeing more at Anime Festival.

8. Yoshino – DATE A LIVE

Get crafty with making a hand puppet and practice your softest voice and you’re halfway there with cosplaying Yoshino.

7. Koro-sensei – ASSASSINATION CLASSROOM

We’d love to see everyone’s favourite tentacled homeroom teacher at Anime Festival – bonus points for bringing a change in costume for mood changes!

6. San – PRINCESS MONONOKE

One of our favourite characters from Studio Ghibli, San is a fierce character that makes for an equally fierce cosplay option.

5. Naruto Uzumaki – NARUTO SHIPPUDEN

One of the most iconic characters in anime, Naruto cosplay is a staple at any anime festival!

4. Victorique de Blois – GOSICK

We love Victorique’s black Victorian dress, but that’s only one of many beautiful outfits of hers to cosplay!

3. Saitama – ONE PUNCH MAN

Have you lost your hair because you train too much? Is your number one priority at Anime Festival seeing ONE PUNCH MAN director Shingo Natsume?

2. Leafa – SWORD ART ONLINE

Kirito and Asuna always get a lot of love from cosplayers at anime festivals for good reason, but there are so many awesome characters in SWORD ART ONLINE to cosplay!

With a pretty amazing outfit to boot. We’d love to see Leafa represented at Anime Festival!

1. Asuka Langley Sohryu – EVANGELION

Time to start searching for the perfect orange wig!

(source:madman)