That's Dope! Podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Cosplay”

King of Cosplay talks Final Fantasy

Godswill Ugwa Jr — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 09:00:00 -0500

We had the pleasure of sitting down with the King of Cosplay, Leon Chiro! He shared his incredible journey through wrestling and his deep passion for Final Fantasy 🎖️

Special Guest: Leon Chiro.

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Chatting with the Queen of Cosplay

Godswill Ugwa Jr — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:00:00 -0500

We had the pleasure to sit down with Stella Chuu and discuss everything cosplay, JayVik, and Bbno$ related!

00:00
Introduction and Guest Introduction
02:55
Stella's Cosplay Journey and Achievements
06:02
The Arcane Phenomenon and Javik
08:59
The Viral Cosplay Project with Baby No Money
11:55
The Creative Process and Challenges
14:59
The Evolution of Cosplay and Future Projects
18:55
The Influence of Cosplay Trends
19:55
Behind the Scenes of Sonic Cosplay
22:06
The Challenges of Costume Creation
24:12
Fan Engagement and Community Building
26:07
The Evolution of Cosplay Quality
29:59
Navigating the Cosplay Scene
36:03
The Personal Journey of a Cosplayer
42:32
The Evolution of KDA Ari Cosplay
44:39
The Physical Toll of Cosplay
45:36
Fitness and Cosplay: A Balancing Act
49:14
Food Adventures and Culinary Favorites
50:02
Finding and Setting Up a Warehouse
56:00
Creating a Community Space for Artists
57:16
Managing Commissions and Creative Workload

Special Guest: Stella Chuu.

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Ronnie Wrecks Us

Godswill Ugwa Jr — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 08:00:00 -0500

Wreck-It Ronnie aka Bunni Black and her partner Ty join Godswill and Dave in reminiscing on the good times at Waifu Expo (now Kimochii Con), why One Piece is amazing, what's poppin at this coming DreamCon, and so much more. It's a crazy good time!

1- Meeting Ronnie and Ty at Waifu Expo
3- Who is Ronnie?
5- How do your parents feel?
8- Kimochii cuties
13- Waifu Expo experience
17- DreamCon cosplays
21- Favorite One Piece movies
27- TMNT movie coming out
30- One Piece spoilers
34- One Piece favorite characters
37- Sasuke hate
43- One Piece spoilers pt 2
47- One Pace
50- How Free! got started
52- Abridged anime series
57- Top 5 anime
1:06- Jojo's

Special Guests: Dave Schot and Ronnie Bunni.

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Queen of the Cosplay Scene w/ stellerpebbles

Godswill Ugwa Jr — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 17:00:00 -0500

Dream Con Cosplay Contest winner, stellerpebbles, joins Dave and Godswill to discuss how she won the grand prize and the craziness that led to the judging. If you ever had been interested in what it takes to be a cosplayer, you have to check out this episode!

Follow stellerpebbles: https://linktr.ee/stellerpebbles

Music by KarpaBeats

Special Guest: Dave Schot.

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OnlyFans Ain't The Only Site w/ Bishoujo Mom

Godswill Ugwa Jr — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 08:00:00 -0500

After the news that OnlyFans would ban pornographic materials, one of its 0.01% top stars, Bishoujo Mom, shares the stress of finding a new home for her content and what it's like to be a sex worker on the Internet.

1- Intro
3- feeling after OF suspension
6- best place for sex workers online
8- trust with OnlyFans
9- Fansly
11- emotions when OF said it would ban porn
15- Fansly vs other SW-safe sites
19- becoming the top percentage on OF
24- issues on other sites, justforfans
28- get a real job
31- frisk vip gets hacked
36- manyvids too overstimulating
39- Patreon exodus
43- Instagram woes
50- plans after OF

Music by KarpaBeats

Special Guest: Bishoujo Mom.

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WATASHI GA KITA! w/ Leon Chiro

Godswill Ugwa Jr — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 16:00:00 -0600

Leon Chiro, one of the most famous male international cosplayers, joins the podcast with Godswill to reminisce over great adventures in the past, to talk about how nerd culture has inspired him to cosplay and get strong, his inspirations in wrestling, and much more!

Follow Leon here: https://www.instagram.com/leonchiro/
Watch Leon's Twitch streams here: https://www.twitch.tv/leonchiro

intro (2)
How we met (3)
Favorite Jojo's- Joseph (5)
Favorite Jojo's Part 5 (8)
Italy and Jojo's (11)
Joseph cosplay story (15)
How long to make cosplay process (16) - Aguilar from Assassin's Creed (19)
Doing charity as Starlord cosplay (22)
Dio cosplay mentality (25)
Life is a video game (30)
Italian dialects and US slang (33)
Favorite countries (39)
Wrestling and being bullied (50)
Evolution Dave Bautista, Rick Flair, Randy Orton (55)
SIW Wrestling Start (58)
Wrestling techniques (1:01
PS5 Woes (1:08)
and FF7R Celebration (1:10)
Crusu Core (1:19)
Last of Us II and
Platinum Trophies- Dead Space 2, Demon's Souls, Crash Bandicoot, (1:27)
Games that changed the world- The Witcher 3, Genshin Impact, Devil May Cry 5, Kingdom Hearts (1:38)
Bill story- Cioccolata (1:44)
First anime - DBZ, FMAB, HxH (1:48)

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Perspective of a Pornstar in Portland during the Pandemic w/ LanaBee

Godswill Ugwa Jr — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 08:00:00 -0500

LanaBee, PornHub model and cosplayer, joins Godswill (and introducing Matt as a cohost) to talk about her perspectives as a sex worker, a content creator, and an activist while in the heart of environmental and social contention, Portland. We go through all these topics and more in this episode!

Follow LanaBee here!

Music by KarpaBeats

Who is LanaBee
Tarantula collecting
Spider bite (1)
Name origin (3)
Keeping time as a content creator (4)
Hannibal TV Show (6)
Favorite TV Show (7)
Favorite Anime (8)
Artist (8)
Hellblade (10)
Horror Games (12)
Types of Horror (14)
Favorite Holidays (16)
Halloween Plans (17)
Favorite Horror movies (18)
First social media platforms for LB (21)
Stripper Days (22)
Homeless (24)
Bella Thorne (25)
BT explained more (29)
Experience in Sex Work (31)
Cosplay Times (37)
Favorite Anime (38)
BLM in Portland (39)
Ooblets Game (44)
Among Us (46)
Python (47)
Ferret (49)
Closing (50)

Special Guest: LanaBee.

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Whoa Mama! w/ Juliette Michele

Godswill Ugwa Jr — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 08:00:00 -0500

The Juliette Michele aka Bishoujo Mom is back on the podcast to catch up with Godswill online! We dive into her favorite cartoons that inspire her, her mom series of cosplay, what sex works means, and much more!

Follow Juliette Michele on her website, Instagram, Twitter, and OnlyFans!

Music by KarpaBeats

Special Guest: Bishoujo Mom.

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Remember When... w/ David Le

Godswill Ugwa Jr — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 12:00:00 -0500

Godswill catches up with an old friend with who he started an anime club with in college, David. The two spend the hour going down memory lane from adventures in college, past conventions, and the anime club they started together. Listen to a funny and anime-filled re-connection of old buddies.

Music by KarpaBeats

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Last Man Standing w/ Kyle Mason

Godswill Ugwa Jr — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 12:00:00 -0600

For the first episode of the year we bring in multi-talented videographer, cosplayer, and lightsaber duelist Kyle Mason to talk about bringing old school combat into the future. Join hosts Josh and Sam as we go through all things live action.

Digital autobiographies (0:05)
Kyber Combat, LARPing (0:10)
LSL and medieval combat (0:20)
Fighting perspective (0:30)
Cosplay as outreach/cosplay as a service (0:37)
Starkiller grip, dual wielding (0:52)
Kyle’s art skill tree (0:57)
The cinematic eye (1:05)
Invoking emotion (1:20)
Legacy and demimmortality (1:30)
Post-apocalypse sci-fi art (1:50)
Weapon of choice (2:05)

Music by KarpaBeats

Check out Kyle at his website and @jkforrealz on instagram. Also check out Kyber Combat and keep an eye out for That's Dope! events

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We Are The Champions

Godswill Ugwa Jr — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 10:00:00 -0600

Josh's fight (3), Switch (12), Stan Lee (23), Golden Kamuy (26), Yu Yu Hakusho (31), Broly (34)), being a nerd (37), gatekeeping & cosplaying (42), Castlevania (45), anime music (48), nerd lingo (50), Gundam (53), Gundam Versus (1:02), Why Gundam (1:05), Boruto (1:18)

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Why Anime? with CalebCity

Godswill Ugwa Jr — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 14:00:00 -0500

All of our guests are special, but we have a very special one today: the YouTube comedian known as CalebCity! We go through anime, how he got started, comic books, YouTube & content creation, the old TV channel G4TV, black people within nerd culture, and much more. This is a funny episode with tons of debates that will make you think a bit.

Music by KarpaBeats – Keep It Real

Big One Piece spoilers at 30:00-31:00

Special Guest: CalebCity.

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Getting Lewd with BishoujoMom

Godswill Ugwa Jr — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 20:00:00 -0500

We get our first female guest, the lewd cosplayer BishoujoMom (https://www.instagram.com/bishoujomom/)!

She explains what lewd photography is, Patreon, and more. Also we go through LGBT issues, sexuality, MeToo, nerd culture, and way more

Music by KarpaBeats

Special Guest: Bishoujo Mom.

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Cosplaying with KevBotCosplay

Godswill Ugwa Jr — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 19:00:00 -0500

Godswill & Josh get their first guest, cosplay guru KevBotCosplay! Right off the heels of the the summer cosplay circuit and winning awards for his cosplay, KevBot describes how he got into cosplay and what fuels him to keep going. Also included, the guys talk about crossplay (cosplaying as the opposite gender), nerd culture, anime, and more.

Music by KarpaBeats
Cosplay photo from Ngo photography (@ngophotosplease on instagram)

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