So here's my short, belated entry on Connichi (Sep. 12th~14th).
The convention
Connichi is by far my favourite convention: Beautiful site, nice weather, relaxed athmosphere.
It's a big anual event for me, because it's one of the rare opportunities to meet all my cosplay friends.
This year was even more exciting, because MiRay, a Japanese cosplayer I met during my exchange year came to visit me. We spent about ten days seeing like every single museum, gallery, church and castle there is in Berlin and then we went to Connichi together ♪
MiRay doesn't know any German, so it was quite stressful acting as interpretor all the time, but it was a nice opportunity for me to practise Japanese, because I realised that I've forgotten a lot of vocabulary since I've come back ↓↓
Another reason for this year's Connichi being extraordinary is that Maddi and I decided to participate in the World Cosplay Summit preliminaries.
We had such a great time planning the costumes and the skit and even though we knew we didn't stand a chance we had a great time and met a lot of wonderful cosplayers in breathtaking costumes.
I'm totally rooting for Marino and Deval who will be representing Germany next year in Aichi!
The costumes
 | Mimori Kugahara - Maid Ver. (Pia Carrot G.O.) Oh noez, I actually did a hentai game cosplay!! It's MiRay's fault, she talked me into it!! XD I had like 4 yrds of purple fabric laying around unused and when I asked her about it she came up with Pia Carrot G.O.. I don't really like hentai games, but I fell in love with the different dresses the girls wear throughout the game so I ended up sewing this dress. I love all the carrots and ribbons ♥ ↓1st picture taken by Pictoplasma |
   |
|
|---|---|
 |
Euphemia Li Britannia - DVD-Box Ver. (Code Geass) This is the costume I wore for the WCS preliminaries. From the first moment I saw Euphie in Code Geass I wanted to cosplay as her. I was planning to do the pink/white dress she's wearing in the series but then I saw that wonderful artwork from CLAMP. The design is rather plain in real life, though (you know, with gravity and actual humans wearing it...), so we used different types of fabric and lace to make it look more fabulous, shiny and CLAMP-ish. I'm quite pleased with the results, even though you can't see all the details on the pictures. Because the skit I was working on with Maddi (who was a wonderful C.C.) involved some undressing, we decided not to sew it as a whole dress, but devided it into a top and a skirt, which can be worn (and stripped off XD) seperately. You can see the short, loli-ish version on the first picture below. ↓2nd picture taken by Sakura_b ↓3rd picture taken by Sakymiyu Himbeer will do a proper photo shoot with us next week. WOOT! |
   |
|
 |
Queen Nakajerine 29th (MiniMoni. The Movie) I started working on this costume in 2006 (when I did the staff) and now it's finally finished. My grandpa hepled me out a lot with the staff and the wings. I absolutely love my staff, and the wings were great as well before I messed up painting them X/ I guess no one even knows Nakajerine, but I adore her, so I wanted to do her justice. The lining, painting the tights and moulding the accessories gave me a hard time ~_~ BTW, she's a villain. ↓2nd picture taken by shinkohyo ↓3rd picture taken by AB_the_diablo |
   |
|
I heard a lot of people caught a cold on Sunday, when it suddenly turned cold. I hope everyone's all right now.
