>>53386805>>53387082The reason for that is that cosplayers are often striving to "look like anime", rather than look like "anime character but IRL". In the community that's kind of what the street cred is based.
I agree that cosplays that look more like a real human wearing the outfit look more appealing.
Picrel is one of the few that goes for "character but IRL" instead, and I really like it...