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...
I hope you guys are in the mood for an Interview for today! Yesterday, I had the pleasure of chatting with the beautiful Courtney Michelle! She's relatively new to the scene but chatting with her here and there has led me to see that she has lots of potential with making some incredible outfits (some of which you'll learn in the video down below! Courtney has mainly been a gamer with playing whatever her older brother ended up having, including such hits like Goldeneye for the N64! It's not too much of a stretch to say that she currently has a love for Halo with looking forward to the game's 5th entry hitting stores soon, along with Fallout 4! Courtney's not much of a comic book reader but she sees anime as another outlet in which she cosplays from!
This is definitely apparent in that she's planning on several characters from Akame Ga Kill and Naruto! You'll be able to learn of how she came about discovering cosplay and seeing it done professionally. This ignited her love and drive for wanting to cosplay more even with the crazy schedule she has as a promoter for events. When not working on cosplay and her job, she's playing games, more so with Twitch and her newly acquired sponsor!
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You can easily see in the interview the excitement that Courtney has for her upcoming lineup. With dreams of traveling to many conventions including SDCC, NYCC, and ones in Phoenix, I imagine she'll be able to achieve those as time passes on. I apologize if this write up portion seems short but the interview was so much fun!
Courtney talks about other loves such as Pokemon with her gijinkas and cosplaying characters from One Piece, another anime love of hers! Oh and spoilers for Akame Ga Kill so you've been warned!
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I also apologize if the ending is awkward. Technical difficulties happen everyone! I want to thank Courtney so so much for taking the time to do this interview with me and I'm so glad she had fun with it! Really hope you all enjoyed learning more about Courtney! Please check out Courtney's work and her other social media sites which I've included links to down below!
