cosplay night

Come in cosplay. Get your money back.

Perfect Blue is a film about costumes, performance and who you are underneath. So Screening No. 1 is a costume night. Buy a General Admission or VIP ticket like everyone else so your seat is held, turn up dressed as somebody, and we count your money back into your hand — in cash, at the check-in desk.

No judging, no categories, no prizes. It isn't a contest. It's for fun.

When
Thu Oct 15, 2026
Doors
6:00 PM
Where
New People Cinema
In costume
Cash back at the desk
how it works

Buy the ticket. Wear the costume. Take the cash back.

  1. Buy a General Admission or VIP ticket on Eventbrite, the same as anyone else. That is what holds your seat, and it's the only thing that does.
  2. Turn up in cosplay. Doors are at 6:00 PM and the intro is at 6:20, so be in before then — the film starts at 6:30.
  3. Show the desk at check-in. We hand you the ticket price back in cash on the spot — $10 for GA, $15 for VIP. Then you go in and watch the film.
Cash, at the desk, on the night The money comes back as cash, handed to you at check-in by whoever is working the desk. It is not an Eventbrite refund, so don't wait for an email or watch your card statement — the refund is a person giving you notes on the night, and it happens the moment we see the costume.
General Admission and VIP. Not Co-Host. GA ($10) and VIP ($15) both get the cash back, and a VIP in costume keeps the seat they paid for — choice seating in the prime viewing area, same as any other VIP. The $100 Honored Guest / Co-Host ticket is not refunded for cosplay: that tier is how people pay for the night to happen, and a costume doesn't undo it. Wear one anyway.
About Eventbrite There is no cosplay discount code to type into Eventbrite, and we're not going to invent one. You pay the normal price when you book, and the money comes back from us in person on the night rather than through Eventbrite. Nothing about this changes the ordinary ticket terms.
any cosplay counts

Any character. Any budget.

Mima is the obvious move and we would love to see her walk in, but it isn't required and it was never the point. Any anime, manga, game or film character counts. Bought, sewn, borrowed, or a wig and a headband held on with hope — all of it counts.

There's nothing to judge and nothing to win, so there's no reason to be shy about a costume that isn't finished. Wear it in.

Why cash back and not a free list The room only holds so many people, and a free-entry list means we can't tell how many seats are actually spoken for. Buying the ticket keeps the count honest and keeps a seat with your name on it; the cash back is us keeping the promise that cosplay gets in free. You end the night having paid nothing either way.
No ticket, but you're in costume? We're not going to turn you away at the door. But the night is first come, first seated, and the ticket is the only way to know a seat is waiting for you — which is the whole reason we do this as a refund instead of a list at the door. There's nothing to hand back if you never paid, so walking up in costume gets you in, not paid.
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You'll be in good company

Our three honored guests that night — Liliphae, Kohalu Cosplay and Poppy Lop Cosplay — are cosplayers and builders off the California convention circuit. They're in the lobby at doors and again after the credits.

Meet the guests →
the short version

Five things, then go get dressed.

01

Any character

Perfect Blue, any other anime, a game, a film. Nobody is checking whether it's on theme.

02

Wear it in

The costume has to be on you at the door — that's what the refund is for, and there's nowhere to change at the venue.

03

Still 17+

Perfect Blue is rated R and the whole night is 17+, costume or not. A refunded ticket doesn't change that.

04

Cinema-safe props

New People is a working auditorium in a shared mall. Nothing that blocks a row or an aisle, nothing sharp, and nothing that lights up or makes noise once the film starts.

05

Photos are opt-out

The lobby gets photographed for our recap. Don't want to be in it? Say so at check-in for a no-photo sticker — the refund is the same either way.

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Be decent about it

No costume that's a slur or a uniform of one. Masks come off in the lobby if we ask. Everything on how a night runs still applies in the dark.

the look

What Mima looks like when somebody builds her.

The costume most people reach for is CHAM!'s pink stage dress from the film's opening — the last show Mima plays as an idol before she quits. Red headband, tiered skirt, white opera gloves. After that the film stops being a concert, and some people build that version instead.

Three different cosplayers below, at three conventions on two continents, credited to the photographers who shot them. Two are embedded from the photographer's own Flickr rather than copied onto our server, because that is his to give and not ours to take.

A cosplayer as Mima Kirigoe from Perfect Blue in CHAM!'s red tiered stage dress and long white gloves, raising a clear umbrella, at Los Angeles Comic Con 2024
Mima at LA Comic Con
A cosplayer as Mima Kirigoe from Perfect Blue in the red dress and white gloves, with the film's stage blood across her face, at Anime Expo 2022
Mima at Anime Expo
  • Mima at LA Comic Con 2024 — cosplayer @ezra.crimsonbutterfly, photo by shotwhore photography, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 — original on Flickr
  • Mima at Anime Expo 2022 — cosplayer @chaoticantic, photo by shotwhore photography, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 — original on Flickr
  • Mima at Acosta! @Taipei Vol.2, 17 May 2026 — photo by Saimmx, CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication), via Wikimedia Commons. Cosplayer unidentified by the photographer — if that's you, tell us and your name goes here.
  • CHAM! still — Perfect Blue © 1997 Madhouse, courtesy of GKIDS, used with permission
  • The two Flickr photographs are displayed with Flickr's own embed and stay on the photographer's servers. Every photograph remains the copyright of whoever took it.

More on the film →

still asking

The questions we keep getting.

So do I pay or not?
You pay when you book, and you get it back at the door if you're in costume. Net cost of the night: nothing. We do it this way round so the seat is actually held for you instead of being sold to somebody else while you're gluing armor together.
How do I actually get the money back?
Cash, in your hand, at the check-in desk. Not an Eventbrite refund, not a credit, not something that lands next week — the person working the door sees the costume and gives you the ticket price back, right then.
Which tickets does this apply to?
General Admission and VIP. GA gets $10 back, VIP gets $15 back and keeps the choice seating in the prime viewing area that the tier pays for. The $100 Honored Guest / Co-Host ticket is not refunded for cosplay.
Why isn't Co-Host refunded?
Because that tier is the one actually paying for the night — the print, the room, the posters. Turning up in costume doesn't change what the $100 was for. Come in costume regardless; you get everything the tier already includes, you just keep the badge of having funded it.
Is there a promo code for Eventbrite?
No, and we're not going to pretend otherwise. Nothing on our Eventbrite listing discounts a ticket for cosplay. You pay the normal price, and the money comes back from us in cash at check-in rather than through Eventbrite.
What if I turn up in costume with no ticket?
We're not going to turn you away. But the night is first come, first seated, and a ticket is the only thing that guarantees you a seat — so book one and take the cash back. If you never paid, there's nothing for us to hand over.
Is this a competition?
No. There's no judging, no categories, no prizes and nothing to enter. It's a costume night because Perfect Blue is a film about costumes, and because it's fun.
Does cosplay get me VIP seating?
No. The cash back gives you the night for free; it doesn't move your seat. Choice seating in the prime viewing area is what the VIP ticket is for — and if you bought VIP and came in costume, you keep that seating and get the $15 back too.
Can I get changed at the theater?
No — there's nowhere to do it, and the costume has to be on you at the door. Japantown has plenty of places to eat beforehand, so come dressed and make an evening of it.
What if my costume isn't finished?
Come in it anyway. Half-built armor and a wig held on with hope are still cosplay, nothing is being judged, and nobody at this club is going to tell you otherwise.

Rated R · 17+ · Japanese with English subtitles. Everything else about the night — venue, timing, accessibility, refunds — is on know before you go.

Thursday, October 15 · New People Cinema

Dress up.

Come as somebody else for a night, in a room full of people watching a film about exactly that.

Get tickets Know before you go