撮影会 : ぴあきゃろ

Back in my entry on Connichi I said that Maddi and me would be going to have a photoshoot with our Code Geass costumes on October 4th, but guess what? It never happened (´-ω-｀)
Maddi caught a cold and because of the bad weather we postponed the photoshoot to... next spring (´；д；｀)

Krone (who was supposed to be our photographer) agreed to do another photoshoot with me alone instead and so this time it is:

The shooting itself was quite fun, thanks to Krone, who is not only a skilled photographer, but was also very patient with me: For some reason several parts of my costume suddenly just started falling off during the shooting (I still don't know why, everything was fine when I wore it at Connichi), so before taking a new picture, she always had to check whether all ribbons, batches and carrots were where they're supposed to be.
Apart from my costume falling into pieces we had a lot of fun, even when it started raining in the afternoon.

The location was a tiny castle nearby. It was the perfect setting for Pia Carrot. Well, no. Actually, a perfect location would've been a café or an ice cream parlour, but there's NO WAY I would go to such a place wearing a costume... But the castle and it's park were just fine. It was Saturday around noon and it was quite windy, so there weren't hardly any people around
apart from some grannies who looked quite disturbed
.

As for the costume... It was done in a rush, so I'm not 100% satisfied with the outcome (but then again, I never am), but I like all the ribbons and laces and carrots and oh teh sweetness.
I still don't think the costume with all its ruffles and laces suits me at all, but Krone and her fabulous PS skills made me look good (≧ω≦ゞ). She's awesome, I can't wait for the Code Geass shooting.

So here are some of my favourites:


　 　 　 　


　 　 　


You can see the whole gallery at Animexx (German, no registration required)

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.

ブックフェアー行って来ました♪

Okay, so I heard people complaining about me not writing anything about cosplay lately, so here's my (belated) post on Book Fair Leipzig.

The costumes


Originally I wanted to wear my Manpower costume since I've only worn it for a photo shoot once, but then my sister asked me to sew something new for the both us.
I was like: o___O Whut? Who are you and what have you done to my sister?!?
You see, my sister isn't really into cosplay, everytime she wears a costume she won't stop complaining about how uncomfy wigs are and stuff... All the more I was surprised (not to say shocked) that it was her who asked for it this time.
There was just one tiny problem: Only three weeks to go and I was terribly busy with an internship I had to do. Then my sister came up with the idea of doing Bleach cosplay, which was a brilliant idea, because
a) we love the series
b) my sister owns two pair of hakamas
c) the rest would be easy to sew.

I kinda felt uneasy using a bought hakama, so to compensate that guilty conscience I weaved the two pairs of waraji (sandals) - which was a pain. I found an awesome tutorial on Cos.com, but nevertheless it took me one hour to complete one single sandal... (∥>___>)

	Rangiku Matsumoto (BLEACH) Well... yes, this costume was quite... daring, so to speak ﾔ━━━(*｣´ｪ｀)｣━━━ﾝ But fun and easy to wear nonetheless. I don't really like the wig, though. I ordered another wig from ebay, which never arrived (I got refundend), so I had to cut another wig I had. It looks okay now, but could've been better.
	Kisuke Urahara (BLEACH) I absolutely love my sister as Kisuke ♥ She had some major problems staying calm during the photo shoot, though. She's that type of person who walks around grinning, you see, so looking evil kinda gave her a hard time. I was really happy when she said that she liked the outcome of the costume ヾ(o´ヮ｀)ﾉ She did all the painting on the coat herself.

When we were already on our way home I realised that we didn't take any pictures together ﾎﾟｶ～(　ﾟдﾟ　)～ﾝ...

The convention
Bookfair Leipzig has always been great. It's not as far away as most conventions, people are nice and the location is quite nice.
But now that the number of visitors keeps increasing, it's been really crowded lately and apparently there are still people who don't care about others when carrying their enormous wings, bags, fake weapons through the crowds...

Apart from that I loved it. I met a lot of dear friends, did some wonderful photo shoots and saw cosplay made of awesome.
Too sad we only had one day.
I was thinking about going the whole weekend, but judging from my experience it would get boring then.

My next convention will be either Games Convention or Connichi.



BTW, Happy Easter everyone ♪