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Get ready for the best NYCC 2025 cosplay

Four days of the best cosplay in the world from New York Comic Con 2025, and we'll be capturing it in hundreds of pictures.

Features by Chris Arrant, Editor-in-Chief

Published on Mon Oct 06 2025

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New York Comic Con is the largest gathering of pop culture fans in North America, but the fans you can pick out a mile away are the amazing cosplayers. Amateurs, pros, and celebrities alike in the cosplay community come to New York Comic Con, transforming the annual event, in essence, into NYC Fashion Week for this vibrant community. Yes, we even have a catwalk between the Cosplay Central Crown Championship and the Cosplay Central showcase event - but every hallway, aisle, floor, escalator, elevator, and more inside the Javits Center can be its own catwalk for some of the amazing looks on display at the show.

Each day of New York Comic Con 2025, we'll be grabbing photos of some of these amazing cosplayers and bringing them here for you - to share what you maybe missed, to remind yourself of what you saw, and in many cases to get photos of how you looked in that amazing cosplay.

Come back starting the evening of Thursday, October 9 for a daily gallery of the best NYCC 2025 cosplay.

Here's everything you need to enjoy New York Comic Con 2025:

About New York Comic Con

Welcome home, hero. This is your event where you can feel unafraid to geek out. Where you’re accepted and embraced for being yourself, regardless of your cultural background, physical ability, personal identity, or self-expression. Where you can experience the best in pop culture, be inspired, get star struck, treat yourself, and create all of those memories with the people you care about the most.

Dates

Oct 10 - Oct 13

Location

New York City
United States

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Chris Arrant: Chris Arrant is the Popverse's Editor-in-Chief. He has written about pop culture for USA Today, Life, Entertainment Weekly, Publisher's Weekly, Marvel, Newsarama, CBR, and more. He has acted as a judge for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, the Harvey Awards, and the Stan Lee Awards. (He/him)