2014 was a great year for cosplay in Japan, and Japanese costume makers and anime merchandise distributors Cospa, has now unveiled their annual costume rankings, which yielded a result a little bit more different from last year’s rankings.
These rankings are based on the sales Cospa has made on their officially licensed costumes, and only feature the costumes usually worn by either anime or video game characters. Here are their Top 10 for 2014:
10) Gintoki Sakata Costume Set (Gintama)
9) 6th Destroyer Fleet Costume Set (Kantai Collection)
8) Shimakaze Costume Set (Kantai Collection)
7) Nagito Komaeda’s coat (Danganronpa 2)
6) Free Planets Alliance costume set (Legend of the Galactic Heroes)
5) Hatsune Miku Costume Set
4) Trafalgar Law New World Ver. coat (One Piece)
3) Eren Yeager Survey Corps Uniform Set (Attack on Titan)
2) Kongou Sisters costume (Kantai Collection)
1) Otonokizaka Academy uniform set (Love Live!)
2013 was the year of Attack on Titan as the Survey Corps Jacket took first place, however, 2014 went to Love Live! which proved to be more popular to cosplayers this year.
Kantai Collection meanwhile is still as popular as ever as the popular net browser game has three entries in Cospa’s top 10, with the highest being at #2, which is the costume usually worn by the Kongou-class battleships, aka the Kongou Sisters. With the anime adaptation already airing, be sure that more of these ship girls will be making it to these rankings.