Cosplay Photo Library v2
Quick summary (TL;DR)
- the cosplay photo library is an archive of cosplay images
- it's divided on ~= 300gb parts, currently 8 main parts + 3 updares the links are here
- for a preview of the images check here, it's a bot that posts images from the library every hour
- you can check the status of future parts here
- seed
News
08-30-2024
- Update 3 released
- updated current status and next update status sections
- minor fixes
09-11-2024
- updated link to cosplaybot
- added sukebei link to Update 3
09-22-2024
About
What is the cosplay photo library
The cosplay photo library is an ongoing effort to put together a compilation of as many cosplayer images as possible for preservation, discussion so far has been mostly taking place on the cosplay general sub-thread of 4chan (/t/cg)
Rationale for the creation of the library
Image sets are often distributed as individual torrents (one per set) with the exception of a few megapacks that often overlap each other making it difficult and messy to find and download material from any particular cosplayer, in addition to that small torrents don't usually last very long, the library aims to combine as many of those tens of thousands of sets into a small number of large hopefully more resilient torrents in order to prevent individual sets from getting lost and provide a convenient way for people to find content from their favorite cosplayers
Rationale for dividing the gallery on parts
The format of the library makes it rather unwieldy in torrent form, this is because each part is composed of hundreds of thousands of individual images, each one of those is hashed individually and added to the torrent metadata,this metadata would be over 70mb had the library been released on a single part and would be extremely problematic to deal with for most torrent software potentially causing torrent clients to crash in an effort to reduce this problems the library has been divided on 300gb (about 10mb of metadata or 100k individual files) parts which through trial and error seems to be the maximum size that will work somewhat reliably on most popular BitTorrent clients
Differences between v1 and v2 of the library and rationale for creating v2
The original library had a substantial amount of duplicates as well as some formatting errors and corrupted images this issues have been largely taken care of on v2 in an effort to encourage seeding, in addition to that a significant amount of cosplayers have been overhauled with higher quality images that what was available on the original library
Structure and contents of the library
General structure
- The library is limited to images, more precisely other than the auxiliary directory (0.torrents to other parts) the library is comprised only of .jpg, .png and .gif files
- The library is divided on torrents less than 300gb in size
- Each cosplayer has a directory with all of their sets and each set contains the name of the character being cosplayed, more genetic cosplays have a descriptive name (maid, jk, etc.), each individual image also contains the name of the cosplayer and character, a generic example of a full path for an image would be /cosplay_photo_library/cosplayer/cosplayer - character/cosplayer_character_000.jpg
- The library contains (mostly) cosplayers with at least 10 image sets each, this was a hard rule on the previous version but after deleting duplicate sets some cosplayers dropped below the limit, i decided to keep them in to keep consistency and to make sure that v2 is an upgrade rather than a side-grade, on future updates new cosplayers will need at least 10 sets to be added to the library
- Each part will contain the .torrent files for all previously released parts
Specific part structure
main parts (cosplay_photo_library_partx)
these are the original parts and act as the "base" library
updates (cosplay_photo_library_updatex)
these are meant as an expansion of the main parts, not a replacement, IN ORDER TO HAVE ALL OF THE SETS AVAILABLE ON THE LIBRARY YOU NEED TO DOWNLOAD BOTH THE MAIN PARTS AND THE UPDATES
Contents
Currently the library is nearly 3.5Tb in size, contains over 1M images and more than 600 cosplayers, (see the cosplayer index for more details on the contents of each part)
Preview
Random images from the library are posted every hour on here, that should give a decent cross section of the content inside it
Torrent links
Part 1
Size: 297.67GiB
Content: 50 cosplayers aery tiefling - byoru
Info hash: 88ce13c350de51469dd513e8ac8a7307424ba545
magnet link
.torrent file (catbox)
sukebei link (Thanks to the anon who posted the torrents there)
Part 2
Size: 293.31GiB
Content: 60 cosplayers candy ball - hey shika
Info hash: e372ca7ef43cb28e6c418e09998d90dad1213758
magnet link
.torrent file (catbox)
sukebei link (Thanks to the anon who posted the torrents there)
Part 3
Size: 293.25GiB
Content: 59 cosplayers hidori rose - lada lyumos
Info hash: b68e0286803da559b64f8b13ca4890c7f70c1180
magnet link
.torrent file (catbox)
sukebei link (Thanks to the anon who posted the torrents there)
Part 4
Size: 297.35GiB
Content: 84 cosplayers kuukow - nyako
Info hash: 6d21316d47ed2044dbd19fb37ca404fa864b6f4e
magnet link
.torrent file (catbox)
sukebei link (Thanks to the anon who posted the torrents there)
Part 5
Size: 295.05GiB
Content: 64 cosplayers niannian d - sladkoslava
Info hash: 301586728497db441b72bc2879a6d1b1e475ffb4
magnet link
.torrent file (catbox)
sukebei link (Thanks to the anon who posted the torrents there)
Part 6
Size: 296.4GiB
Content: 53 cosplayers sophie valentine - yuzuki
Info hash: 55b8c3fc6678410873af9f55f34b882e64f858ba
magnet link
.torrent file (catbox)
sukebei link (Thanks to the anon who posted the torrents there)
Part 7
Size: 297GiB
Content: 100 cosplayers kanami酱 - 洛丽塔大哥
Info hash: c87b7ddf856b7c665e82abcd6e01a715d88285d4
magnet link
.torrent file (catbox)
sukebei link (Thanks to the anon who posted the torrents there)
Part 8
Size: 233.2GiB
Content: 101 cosplayers alex zedra - 黑龙贯通
Info hash: 3ce043b8081758fdb09e1d6e3fa1f065fcd43aa7
magnet link
.torrent file (catbox)
sukebei link (Thanks to the anon who posted the torrents there)
Update 1
Important
Update 1 is designed to be an addition to parts 1-8 so none of the sets on parts 1-8 are included on update 1 and vice-versa, to obtain all of the sets in the library you'll need to download parts 1-8 AND update 1
Size: 296.42GiB
Content: 232 cosplayer updates + 35 new cosplayers
Info hash: b85cc35865e23b5292902e10d35eafb6f5d969fa
magnet link
.torrent file (catbox)
sukebei link (Thanks to the anon who posted the torrents there)
Update 2
Important
Update 2 is designed to be an addition to parts 1-8 + update 1 so none of the sets on previous parts are included on update 2 and vice-versa, to obtain all of the sets in the library you'll need to download parts 1-8 AND both updates
Size: 298.85GiB
Content: 146 cosplayer updates + 1 new cosplayer
Info hash: 77f4f453f8dd55fff55e2cf1ec5bc5c983c06809
magnet link
.torrent file (catbox)
sukebei link (Thanks to the anon who posted the torrents there)
Update 3
Important
Update 3 is designed to be an addition to parts 1-8 and all previous updates so none of the sets on previous parts are included on update 3 and vice-versa, to obtain all of the sets in the library you'll need to download parts 1-8 AND the previous updates
Size: 299.7GiB
Content: 171 cosplayer updates + 22 new cosplayers
Info hash: 819eda8266c150595b2f2ced724c55e6c6bad83d
magnet link
.torrent file (catbox)
sukebei link (Thanks to the anon who posted the torrents there)
Update 4
Important
Update 4 is designed to be an addition to parts 1-8 and all previous updates so none of the sets on previous parts are included on update 4 and vice-versa, to obtain all of the sets in the library you'll need to download parts 1-8 AND the previous updates
Size: 298.16GiB
Content: 257 cosplayer updates + 8 new cosplayers
Info hash: d6351b83269d773f6091ad2751e8da8a3b00bca7
magnet link
.torrent file (catbox)
sukebei link (Thanks to the anon who posted the torrents there)
Misc torrents
Metatorrent
This is a torrent that contains the .torrent files for parts 1-8, should be faster and slightly more convenient than using catbox or the magnets for each individual part
Size: 86MiB
Content: 8 torrent files
Info hash: 71bc29b45219342903b67fb46a92953cc80c7807
magnet link
.torrent file (catbox)
Current status
- I'm working on spreading the torrents hoping to get more seeders in order to release more parts since so far the limiting factor for the growth of the library has been the strain put on each individual seeder, hopefully as more seeders appear the situation will improve, any help with that would be appreciated
- i'm looking into translating this document into different languages and mirroring it on different sites to improve it's resiliency
Next update status
update 5 is going to be worked on in tandem with update 6 due to the nature of the updates i currently have, i'm not sure how long it will take to get those ready but i should have enough content for at least one of them
Notes
This is a longshot but if you notice any major cosplayer missing i'd appreciate it if you were to mention it, the easiest route would be 4chan but i check the cosplaybot owner's account from time to time (check the description cosplaybot especially if you know where to find said content, now that there are over 600 cosplayers in the library it's getting hard to notice things missing, the same goes for translating the documentation, if anyone is able to translate it into any other language just post the translated version and i'll add it to the torrentss