Cosplay Court Case Website "It's a well organized circus..."

Latest News: Videos from both Connecticon 2010 Court Cases are over here.

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Cosplay Court Case and 18+ Cosplay Night Court were both held at Connecticon 2010. Thanks to Rym and the Connecticon panel staff for everything as well as to the ever growing Cosplay Court Case staff! Check out the videos on Rob's channel here.

+Video Highlights from the Cosplay Court Case at Anime Boston 2010 are up.

+Videos from the Cosplay Court Case at U-Con are up.

Cosplay Court Case is an event that occurs at Anime Conventions and debuted at Connecticon 2006. Cosplay Court Case is an improv event in which Cosplayers act as their characters in a trial. Cosplayers are the Judges, Lawyers, Defendants, Baliffs, Witnesses, and sometimes the Jury too. Contact. tmchiba1 [@] yahoo.com for information.

How Cosplay Court Case works.

While prior planning is helpful it's not necessary for Cosplay Court Case to work. Basically, once the audience starts filling in, those running the event urge the cosplayers interested in participating to sit up front, and the rest to sit in the middle to back of the room. To whatever extent possible. This can be tricky of course.

It's a flexible thing what happens next. In general the next thing to do is ask who wants to be the defendant and see who is interested and who the audience might want to see up there. From there, the prosecutors and defense are chosen and the judge. The event can work with a few prosecutors and defense people or it can have a bunch, at Connecticon each side had a few people, at Anime Boston it was literally teams of lawyers. If there are a lot of cosplayers available they can be either witnesses or the jury. At this point the event is turned over to the judge.

The Prosecution gets to make an opening statement, then the Defense. Then the Prosecution gets to call their witnesses. The Defense gets to cross examine every witness. Once the Prosecution is done, the Defense gets to call their witnesses and the Prosecution gets to cross examine. Finally the Prosecution and the Defense each get to make a closing statement. Throughout it's the judges and baliff's jobs to keep everything under control. (At AB Dr. Cube and Ichigo had to kill a few people....) Finally the question is thrown to the Jury. Once the Jury's decision is made, if the Jury was cosplayers the loser of the case can appeal to the audience. If the defendant is still guilty then sentence is carried out.

If there's time, gather some more people and do it all again! : )

Good friends of the Court Case

Javier "Demarcus" who helped create Cosplay Court Case and gave it a chance to debut at Connecticon

While Cosplay Court Case and a different event called Anime Parliament have been similar enough to have people asking if they're the same event, they are not, there are many differences. The creator of Anime Parliament, which is a mega popular event, is aware of Cosplay Court Case and has given their blessing, but I'm pretty sure we're running different events. Nonetheless either way we keep in contact. Portcon Maine has their own version which is run independently but we gave permission to.

All appearing characters are copyright their respective companies. Cosplay Court Case is a noncommercial event that takes place at Anime Conventions and is a parody/satire. Idea for Cosplay Court Case developed by TMChiba and assisted by a bunch of people. Contact. tmchiba1 [@] yahoo.com . Pictures of Cosplay Court Case are from a variety of sources.