but they might as well be the same character so meh.
True that.
Me and my friends have been planning/wanting to cosplay at an anime convention for a few years now.
The only problems being-
1. Finding a character group of 2-4 guys + 2-3 girls to cosplay as. [easy as piss]
2. Handmade costumes (at least if planning to enter one of the comps, they only accept handmade costumes and the majority of our group are like to poor to buy the costumes anyway, not to mention they usually don't look great) [reasonably hard & time consuming]
3. Looking good (every anime con I've been to has a guarantee of 95% of the cosplayers looking like stuff and the remaining 5% being pure gold, neither I nor my friends want to waste all that time/money/energy and still not look awesome, so must do whatever it takes to not look like stuff) [time consuming and semi difficult]
^ Pretty much why we haven't done it yet (though 2 of the girls have cosplayed there before)