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Join the Cosplay Collective NE as we talk about our time at 3 different cosplay events that happened spring 2026 in Boston. Up first was Japan Fest Boston, a yearly celebration of japanese culture featuring the Cosplay Collective as part of the program. Second was the pilgrimage of Raphael, Bullet, and Skoll to the church of our savior, Hatsune Miku, for Skoll's first Miku expo!!! And lastly, Hatake, Sahara, and Raphael journeyed to the north to attend the New Hampshire Ren Faire. What friends did we see and stories do we have from these events? Listen now to find out!!!
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Join the Cosplay Collective for our Anime of the Month, where we watch 3 episodes of an anime and determine if we're going to finish the series. This month we get pumped alongside Hibiki Sakura, learning all about how to sculpt that summer "beach body" with How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?. Will the members of the collective keep this show as part of their weekly training routine? Listen now to find out!!!
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Watch How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift? on Crunchyroll: https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GP5HJ80VJ/how-heavy-are-the-dumbbells-you-lift
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Join the Cosplay Collective as we talk about what happens in those days when you get back from a convention. For many of us, this is a sharp transition from the high of being with new and old friends, geeking out about the things we love, to our every-day lives. How do each of us in the collective experience this, and what do we typically do after the conventions to mange the feelinngs that pop up? Listen now to find out!!!
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What do you typically do after a convention is over? Let us know at: https://www.instagram.com/thenecosplaycollective/
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Join the Cosplay Collective as we dive deep into the cosplayer Psyche and talk about how we choose our next costumes from the hundreds of thousands of choices that we have. How do we handle learning new skills, and are we intimidated by some of our cosplay desires? Have we changed in how we pick over the years?, And what are the key things we look for when choosing our next build? Listen now to find out!!!
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What's your favorite personal Macguyver story, let us know at: https://www.instagram.com/thenecosplaycollective/
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Join the Cosplay Collective as we venture back into trivia town, this time hosted by Raphael Cosplay. In a board full of memes, music, and questionable statements, it's jeopardy time for the members of the collective. Which member will hoist the legendary collective trivia trophy this week? Listen now to find out!
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Let us know how you fared in this game of jeopardy: https://www.instagram.com/thenecosplaycollective/
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Join the Cosplay Collective as we celebrate Mothers day once again. This year we're shaking things up a bit, and asking them members of the collective which of Skoll's list of moms would we like to join in the bedroom. Whether for personality, beauty, or that je ne sais quoi, there's a mom here for all of us. Which were our most popular? Listen now to find out!!!
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Let us know which of these character's you'd smash: https://www.instagram.com/thenecosplaycollective/
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Join the Cosplay Collective for our Anime of the Month, where we watch 3 episodes of an anime and determine if we're going to finish the series. This month we peek behind the masks that we wear in public with the adorable couple of Hori and Miyamura in Horimiya. Will the stories of this couples budding relationship and antics be enough to thaw even the most frozen hearts within the collective? Listen now to find out!!!
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Watch Horimiya on Crunchyroll: https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/G9VHN9P43/horimiya
Let us know what you think of Horimiya on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thenecosplaycollective/
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Join the Cosplay Collective as we return home for another year at Anime Boston. We had a busy weekend full of panels, events, Cosplay, and even managed to cram in some Cosplay interviews. What were some of our highlights from this cheesecake fueled weekend? Listen now to find out!!!
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Were you at Anime Boston 2026? Let us know your favorite memory at: https://www.instagram.com/thenecosplaycollective/
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Join the Cosplay Collective as we talk about all the ways that our ideas didn't pan out, and we had to come up with solutions to our self-induced problems. We share stories about props, wings, fabric dying and a whole bunch more about how things went wrong, and what we did to fix them. What lessons can you learn from our mistakes and how we overcame them? Listen now to find out!!!
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What's your favorite personal Macguyver story, let us know at: https://www.instagram.com/thenecosplaycollective/
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Join Bullet from the Cosplay Collective as he returns to the Indie Studio studded halls of Pax East 2026. Joined by Raphael and Hati, they talk about what the vibe is at Pax East as compared to the more traditional anime conventions the collective attends, the cosplay and panels, and of course, the games.
Standout games this year for Bullet were:
Fading Echo - A 3D action adventure game where combining the elements drives the combat and exploration. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2467880/Fading_Echo/
Crystalmancers - A rouge-like which wears tetris inspirations on its sleeve (a most dangerous game for Bullet). https://store.steampowered.com/app/4313040/Crystalmancers/
Curse Breaker Dawnthief - An Acrobatic 2D platformer inspired by gameboy color games of old. https://store.steampowered.com/app/4228390/Curse_Chapter_Dawnthief/
Bolt and Whalington - A hand drawn Metroid-vania starring a Bolt, a Siamese cat driving a mechsuit through the floating ruins of Whalington. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3535270/Bolt__Whalington/
What other games are hidden gems that we enjoyed? Listen now to find out!!!
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What games are you most excited to see come out this year, let us know at: https://www.instagram.com/thenecosplaycollective/
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Join the Cosplay Collective for our Anime of the Month, where we watch 3 episodes of an anime and determine if we're going to finish the series. This month we join tossed out orphan Atsushi Nakajima as he's recruited into the armed detective force to help solve crimes too violent for the metropolitan police in Bungo Stray Dogs. Will member of the collective fight alongside the detectives to bring peace to Yokohama, or will they skip town before the fighting starts? Listen now to find out!!!
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Watch Bungo Stray Dogs on Crunchyroll: https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GR5VXQ8PR/bungo-stray-dogs
Let us know what you think of Bungo Stray Dogs on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thenecosplaycollective/
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Join the Cosplay Collective for our final celebration of the 30 years of pokemon with a bit of a spicy episode. That's right, pokemon smash or pass, where we each choose whether to swipe left or right for set of random pokemon. And because we're a bunch of cosplayers, we add in whether we'd make our own sygna suit (i.e. pokemon cosplay) as a different way to help further our pokemon bonds. What spicy picks do we have? Listen now to find out!!!
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Want to play with your friends? Here's the website we used: https://www.randompokemonpicker.com/games/smash-or-pass
Let us know what your best memories of pokemon are: https://www.instagram.com/thenecosplaycollective/
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Join the Cosplay Collective as we continue celebrate 30 years of pokemon with a game of "Pokemon Password". For those born after the 70's, password is a gameshow where a clue giver hints at a certain pokemon, and those guessing try to figure it out. Raphael, Bullet, and Hatake each take turns giving clues for pokemon from generations 1 through 5. Can you figure the pokemon out before we can? Listen now to find out!!!
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How did you do in comparison to our contestants? Let us know at: https://www.instagram.com/thenecosplaycollective/
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Join the Cosplay Collective as we celebrate 30 years of pokemon. We talk about our fond memories of the shows, merchandise we had when we were kids, what gym leaders we always thought we'd be, and what it's like comparing the pokemon games released now to the ones we remember fondly through rose tinted glasses. Which starter from Winds and Waves could you see the cosplay collective using in our team? Listen now to find out!!!
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Let us know what your best memories of pokemon are: https://www.instagram.com/thenecosplaycollective/
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Join the Cosplay Collective as we celebrate speed, style, and watching people slide big stones down a sheet of ice during the 2026 Winter Olympics. Hatake put together the short list of ALL the anime/manga that he could find related to the Olympics, which has some gems that only the most manga loving members of the collective had seen. What sorts of stories were the collective able to think up to continue expanding this collection? Listen now to find out!!!
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Let us know what your favorite Olympic sport is : https://www.instagram.com/thenecosplaycollective/
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Join the Cosplay Collective for our Anime of the Month, where we watch 3 episodes of an anime and determine if we're going to finish the series. This month we tag along with Motoko Kusanagi and Section 9 as they solve cyber-crimes in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. What makes Stand Alone Complex such a beloved show in the Cosplay Collective? Listen now to find out!!!
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Watch Ghost in the Shell many potential places, such as Tubii: https://tubitv.com/tv-shows/200202126/s01-e01-section-09
Let us know what you think of Ghost in the Shell on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thenecosplaycollective/
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Join the Cosplay Collective as we talk about some of the the skills and roles we have amongst our group. Master of armor, Virtuoso of yarn, Maestro of makeup, or that person who just wants to stab something repeatedly to create a beautiful pattern, individually we focus on most if not all of the skills in modern cosplay. How do we each fit into this puzzle that is the Cosplay Collective? Listen not to find out!!!
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Let us know what cosplay specialties you'd like us to deep dive into in a future epeisode: https://www.instagram.com/thenecosplaycollective/
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Join the Cosplay Collective NE as our resident Homestuck Raphael Cosplay, explains to us what Homestuck really is. From its humble beginnings, to how fans engaged with the deep lore, to how it became a cultural phenomena any of us "seasoned" cosplayers might recognize, Raphael gives us a little tease of what you can find in the homestuck world. In what ways has homestuck influenced your life without you knowing it? Listen now to find out!!!
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Let us know your experience with Homestuck: https://www.instagram.com/thenecosplaycollective/
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Join the Cosplay Collective NE as we celebrate one of the most New England things possible... Shovelling snow while drinking iced Dunkies!!!. We got up to 22 inches of snow depending on which member you ask the weekend of recording this ep, so we're going to chat about all our favorite snow related adventures, past, present, and future. What are some of our favorite ways to handle these frozen times? Listen now to find out
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Join the Cosplay Collective for our Anime of the Month, where we watch 3 episodes of an anime and determine if we're going to finish the series. This month we follow Yuji Sakai, as he is thrust into a conflict between earth, and the crimson realm which desires to harvest the essence of humanity in Shakugan no Shana. Will the collective renew their interest in this show each week, or will it fade away, no longer to be remembered? Listen now to find out!!!
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Watch Shakugan no Shana on Crunchyroll: https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GYW4EJZ26/shakugan-no-shana
Let us know what you think of Shakugan no Shana on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thenecosplaycollective/
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