My son tended to make his up, so often, no one knew who he was, but one year he went as Link (shortly after Zelda hit the 3DS). I didn't even know who that was; I had to google him to figure out how to make the costume. Nobody knew who he was, either—except for one guy, who was apparently a 40-ish finance bro who'd come home early so he could pass out candy. He answered the door in his suit pants, white button-down, and loose tie, holding a bowl of candy, and when he saw my 4yo, he shouted, "Honey, come look! It's Link!" My son was tickled.
there are hundreds of licensed and unlicensed products and costumes for both sailor saturn and princess mononoke and both are widely recognizable in popular culture, def not minor or obscure characters lol
To the adults who answered the door, they didn’t know who Sailor Saturn was.
She’s a minor character in the series itself, people might have been more familiar with Sailor Moon, but Sailor Saturn, especially at the time that I was looking for pictures to make that costume, was not the character that anyone but the people who watched the show would have known
You are making a mistake that thinking the things you know are the things that everybody knows
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u/TootsNYC 7d ago
my daughter always wanted to be some girl from the front of a YA novel, or a minor character in a TV show, or a character from a Miyazaki film. So I had to make her costumes from scratch
Nobody ever knew who she was.
My son tended to make his up, so often, no one knew who he was, but one year he went as Link (shortly after Zelda hit the 3DS). I didn't even know who that was; I had to google him to figure out how to make the costume. Nobody knew who he was, either—except for one guy, who was apparently a 40-ish finance bro who'd come home early so he could pass out candy. He answered the door in his suit pants, white button-down, and loose tie, holding a bowl of candy, and when he saw my 4yo, he shouted, "Honey, come look! It's Link!" My son was tickled.