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★

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
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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.