WORLD COSPLAY SUMMIT 2022 Teaser site

WCS is an event where "cosplayer" who love Japanese pop culture such as anime, manga, and games gather to create a new form of international and cultural exchange. Cosplayers from all over the world gather in Nagoya City and Aichi Prefecture every year to deepen their exchange. One of the features of this system is that it receives support from local governments, governments, and diplomatic missions overseas.

The World Cosplay Summit “World Cosplay Championship” is a competition to determine the best cosplayers of the world, started in the WCS of year 2005. In order to visit Nagoya, Japan as representatives, contestants must win the preliminary rounds held by organizers in each country and region that have a partnership with the WCS.
This is a contest with solid evaluation criteria, with the combined score of a character judgement in which costumes are evaluated, and a stage judgement in which the contents of the performance are evaluated, in which every team must provide evidence of the construction process of their costumes and the production of the music, the structure and other elements of their performance, and only those teams that have succeeded in their preliminary rounds can earn the right to show their stage performances also subject to a time limit in the championship.

WCS Alumni

This event produces many talented contestants in each country and region, with those that have participated as representative cosplayers joining the “WCS Alumni” community from the following year, being invited as guests to events related with the WCS and featured in cosplay media, thus making the participation in the WCS a gateway to success and international recognition in the cosplay world.