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Cosplay Feature: Wumbo's Monoco!

Photo by David Ngo Happy February! I hope you had an amazing start to your new year and that you're excited to learn about the amazing cosplays that are out there for 2026. The cosplay community usually dubs the one-two punch of MAGFest & Katsucon as the kickoff for the convention season. I spent the last month or so gathering cosplays that as of today's date, all stem from the former! I also am insanely excited that many of these I'm about to share are first time write-ups for the creators themselves. Today, you get a look at Wumbo's masterful recreation of known feet lover Monoco from 2025's Game of the Year, Expedition 33! In looking at some of the photo posts on her instagram, she made all of this by herself so I don't have to worry about adding in extra creators who may have assisted with design files etc. Quick backstory, Monoco is the last party member you add to your team who's a longtime friend of Verso and gained a grasp on the English language...

Cosplay Feature: Karlibra's Genderbend Riku!


Throughout the course of my time on Social Media and cosplaying, I've came across so many amazing people. Some of which have become such awesome friends and I'm more than happy to gush about one of them to you guys. For today, I have my friend Karli who's Genderbend Riku INSTANTLY made me gravitate to her. It was so great to find another Riku cosplayer not to mention how incredibly beautiful she looks as the experienced Keyblade master! The version Karli chose is Riku's Kingdom Hearts 2 look. Complete with blue pants and the vest. The latter part has the classic colors of white, yellow, blue and black. I love Karli's shoes she chose for him. They're mainly black and white but incredibly high heels!

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Karli's eyes look absolutely beautiful here. Not to mention the long silver wig she wears which matches up Riku's color perfectly. Weapon wise, Karli has the Oblivion keyblade which looks to be done with foam. I have to say it looks so freaking cool and that she did an excellent job on it. The cosplay as a whole was debuted at Wonder*Con this year and I have with me many photos that she sent me so I hope you guys don't mind the excessiveness :).

The pictures vary between convention hall shots to outdoor shots. Karli can be seen doing a variety of poses from raising up her keyblade to standing a bit stoic like, ready for battle. It's unfortunate that she lives on the other side of the country as I would very much love to meet her one day and take awesome pictures of our Rikus together. Was so happy to hear she liked my cosplay of him as well <3. Enjoy the rest of the pictures everyone!








Photo by Alan C. Photography 
Photo by Crickets Hippo Cosplay Photography

Photo by Crickets Hippo Cosplay Photography 
Photo by Crickets Hippo Cosplay Photography
If you guys want to follow Karli on her adventures, check out her Instagram :)

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