{"id":369072,"date":"2026-10-09T17:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/369072\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T17:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T17:14:09","slug":"the-most-amazing-cosplay-of-new-york-comic-con-2026-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/369072\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Amazing Cosplay of New York Comic Con 2026, Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given that <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/witch-hat-atelier-is-simply-magical-2000735060\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Comic Con<\/a> hosts a regional qualifier for the Cosplay Central Crown Championships every year, it\u2019s no surprise that cosplayers bring their A-game to the convention. Marvel characters got plenty of love (as always), but we also saw a beautifully detailed Qifrey from <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/witch-hat-atelier-is-simply-magical-2000735060\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Witch Hat Atelier<\/a>, Firion from Final Fantasy II (in his Dissidia costume, for an extra deep cut), and even a gorgeous take on Krampus. Here\u2019s the best cosplay we saw at New York Comic Con 2026 day one.<\/p>\n<p>Want more io9 news? Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/the-nerds-watch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the best movies and TV shows<\/a> to stream this month and all the <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/new-books\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">upcoming sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books<\/a> that should be on your radar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Given that New York Comic Con hosts a regional qualifier for the Cosplay Central Crown Championships every year,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[32819,9,2425,11,10],"class_list":["post-369072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-cosplay","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-comic-con","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}