Seadra Pokémon Cosplay Photography

I am writing an article about Marginalia Search. I wanted to check something on the search results page. Since Marginalia is good at turning up small web and vintage websites and articles, I decided to search for an old school unsung Pokémon. After thinking for about 15 seconds, I settled on Seadra. Seadra seems like a good choice for an obscure generation one Pokémon. It was a standard water-type Pokémon and final-stage evolution in generation one. It received a new evolution in generation two, turning Seadra into a middle-stage Pokémon (with a stat hit to boot). I will venture that very few kids back in my day focused their energy on evoloving Horsea into Seadra for their in-game teams. (Seadra did have a moment in the Orange Islands arc of the anime, however. I will submit for the record that I remembered the first Orange Islands gym leader used Seadra off the top of my head.)

I ran a search and saw what I wanted to see on the results page. Then I started scrolling through the actual results for the search query. The desciption for one result caught my attention:

Seadra Cosplay: A woman dressed in a vibrant blue and yellow costume, reminiscent of the Pokémon character Seadra. The woman’s hair is styled to resemble Seadra’s fins, adding an extra layer of authenticity to her cosplay. Her outfit features a flowing sk …

Seadra cosplay? I clicked the link. Sure enough, courtesy of Yerna Photography, there is a woman sitting a forest setting dressed as a Seadra. This photo is from 2019. I wonder how she became a Seadra fan. I will submit for the record that I have never understood cosplay despite being a well-documented anime fan. But in my non-expert opinion, here Seadra cosplay seems very well put together and thought out. I tip my hat both to the cosplay effort and photography and to giving what I consider to be an “obscure” generation one Pokémon a moment in the sun. (I wonder if she used Seadra when she was a kid.)

Cosplay aside, I like how the Yerna Photography site presents the photographs. On the Seadra page I liked to above, note the “Yerna Color Index” section which shows, and names, the eight most prominent colors in the image. Clicking on any colors takes the visitor to all photographs featuring that color. That is a great touch to go along with the standard metadata about the photograph and image description.

You never know what you will find on Marginalia Search…