撮影会：女王ナカジェリーヌ29世

Hey there!
As promised here's my short entry on my long-anticipated Nakajerine shoot with Laura a.k.a MissKrone.
I've done this costume back in 2008, but it's still one of my favourite costumes, so I've been really looking forward to this shoot. I've already worn this costume twice to conventions, but never had a real photo shoot in a suitable setting. After all, Nakajerine is a queen, so you can't just simply go into the woods to take some pictures XD

Luckily, Laura lives in the most awesome apartment house ever. Seriously, that hallway is just plain epic. We've used it as a setting before for our Rozen Maiden and our Lolita shoot. The hallway has a beautiful chandelier (!!) and large, beautiful mirrors. It's a bit narrow, but she made it look like Nakajerine's throne room ♪ヾ(*>ω<)ﾉ It's been a long and winding road to this shoot. Since two years I've been dying to have some pretty pictures taken of it, but it wasn't until this July that I finally asked Laura to do a shoot with me - only to realize then, when I was at her place that I've forgotten essential parts of my costume at home (=ω=；) So I was really, really happy when we finally had the shoot in August and now that I've seen all the finished pictures I can finally retire this costume with a feeling of deep satisfaction. Thank you, Laura!
















Not to forget my absolute favourite:

My home is my castle by ~y-o-s-s-i on deviantART
(embedded from dA for higher resolution and prettier colours - is it just me or does Photobucket really do strange things to reddish colours?)

All pictures were taken and edited by Laura di Martino (MissKrone)
Full gallery at Animexx

Two weeks ago, we also had another long-anticipated shoot: My sister's and my Terra e costumes.

Again, with the incredibly talented Laura. Here's a preview until I have all the pictures:

EDIT Here's her aweome gallery: Terra


My next entry will be either on this photo shoot or AniMaCo at the end of this month. Until then I'll finally get around to write some papers for uni. I've been a very, very good procrastinator these days... orz

ロリ＝ムリ

Heyhooo!
Yesterday I went to Krone's place to have her take some pictures of my Nakajerine cosplay from 2008. And this time, I did not forget to bring all pieces of the costume. So yeah, I finally will get some decent pictures of it ﾔﾀ───v(-∀-)v───♪.
Have a preview:






More coming soon ♪

I also promised last time that I'd share with you the pictures of our spontaneous Lolita shoot - yes, the one we had when we'd originally wanted to shoot Nakajerine and I'd forgotten to bring essential parts of my wings and jewellery... (-∀-*)
Anyway, here they are:






I still don't really like myself in Lolita. I love the beautiful frilly and cute dresses, but it just looks really... awkward with my long and rather skinny legs.
Nonetheless I love the pictures MissKrone took that day. She never fails to make me look pretteh (〃ﾉωﾉ)





Full gallery at Animexx


There's one more thing I wanted to share with you:






I made this plushie for Eva as a belated birthday/christmas/welcome back resent. Or rather, it's the first part of it.
I don't know if it's actually recognisable, but it's supposed to be Ioryogi from CLAMP's Kobato. Eva told me once how she'd somehow like to try out cosplaying one day, so I decided to sew her a Kobato cosplay. And this plushie is the first part of it.
It's about 30cm (about 12 inches) high and the seams are not exactly neatly done, but it's my first attempt on a plushie, so I think it could be worse XDD It even has joints, so you can move it's arms, legs and head. I'm sure Ioryogi has found a nice new home in Eva's place ♥

イベントレポ:AniMaCo

Finally I got my hands on all the pictures I wanted, so let's have another terribly belated event report.

The convention


AniMaco is a small convention held in Berlin every two years. It's really tiny and the location is horrible, but since it is my local convention I fell kind of obliged to go every time...
It's thanks to all the wonderful people that I can enjoy this convention. At bigger events, like Connichi, I feel rushed all the time and hardly get the chance to talk to everyone, but at AniMaCo everything I do is basically sitting and chatting with friends and other people.
Plus, Pictoplasma held a booth where he took professional photos of anyone who liked. I know this is quite common at American conventions, but you almost never have these at German conventions!
So I took the chance to have some proper pictures taken of Euphemia and Nakajerine... and I deeply regret that I didn't ask Picto to take pictures of Rao as well il|li(;-＿-;)il|li


The costumes

	Rao (Ôkami) This year definitely was my "busty babes" year... But I love Ôkami to pieces and Rao was just perfect for me to do. I had a hard time deciding on the fabric, because Rao's dress looks lilac on some pictures and bright purple on others... Also, the hood (?) - I hate it! I drafted the pattern for this dress almost entirely from scratch. I did not want to sew it as a kimono because it just doesn't really look like one in the first place, even though it's propably supposed to be one. I was part of a wonderful group: Krone as Amaterasu, Tellurian as Demon Merchant, Feder as Waka and me as Rao. I love you guys ♥ ↓ 1st picture taken by Usagi_Moon, but I edited the hell out of it because the background was anything but pretty ↓ 2nd and 3rd picture taken by Krone
	Euphemia Li Britannia - DVD-Box Ver. (Code Geass) I wore Euphemia rather spontaneously and I kind of regret it because Maddi (C.C.) coudn't be there and so Euphie was all by herself...(･´Д｀･) But then again Picto took these wonderful pictures ~ ♥ This time I messed up the wig pretty badly. The buns are too small and the bangs just wouldn't stay up (>_>) Four pictures this time - I just couldn't decide which one to pick （≧ｗ≦；） ↓ All pictures taken by pictoplasma
	Queen Nakajerine 29th (MiniMoni. The Movie) I wore Nakajerine on Sunday only to have some photos taken by Picto (*｀ 艸 ´) One of my wings broke during the shoot---again! (ノ・｀ω´・)ノ :･'.::･ I really like how the pictures came out, though. I had one of them printed out so I can give it to my grandpa who helped me a lot with constructing the staff and wings. PS: I swear I did iron the costume! ↓All pictures taken by Pictoplasma

My next con... will propably be Book Fair Leipzig next spring, but before that I will be at the MTV Game Awards next week wearing Rao. ｨｪ━━v(o´∀｀o)v━━ｨｯ★

コンニチ、ワン、ツー ♪

LJ hates me. Just when I was done with this entry, it vanished X/

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.