Cosplay & Anime: October 2010

Surrealistic Fiesta in Helsinki

I went here last night and met some Finnish friends I haven't seen in ages! Susanna had an art installation here in a room full of her paintings and art. This work was my favorite:

This DJ played the most eccentric collection of music I've ever heard in my life. They didn't call it a surrealistic party for nothing :)

Here Susanna takes her painting skill on a gentleman with a tail.

She painted me too, with an earthy feel:

Nitai and Olli, our sweet hitchhikers from Turku.

The place was decorated beautifully.

We went upstairs and chilled out on the couches, played guitar, drummed on papercups, and sang the Hare Krishna mantra, Bob Marley, hilarious blues with improvised lyrics, grunge-kirtan and whatnot. Downstairs they had a meditative performance going on.

Today is my last day in Finland. And it's been delightful so far! We had a rocking hoop jam with Marianne, Jenni and Kaisu earlier and now it's evening and I'm sitting by the fireplace and singing with Kaisu and Mani. We recorded some of it, I'll put it up here later. It sounds pretty fairyish let me tell you :)

The cat's trap

the cat's trap by *otakitty on deviant ART

Kirana

Cosplayer:Kirana

Coutry:Ukraine

Character:Black Rock Shooter

Software:Vocaloid

Photos:5

All Credits to:Kirana

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«Todos los cosplayers son geniales, recuérdalo y respétalos~

KOIZUMI UTHENA 2010~

Kirana

Cosplayer:Kirana

Coutry:Ukraine

Character:Black Rock Shooter

Software:Vocaloid

Photos:5

All Credits to:Kirana

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«Todos los cosplayers son geniales, recuérdalo y respétalos~

KOIZUMI UTHENA 2010~

Samara wishes all the best of Halloween

♥ LALAax

Ryeain:
I really love her Nura, especially the wig !!~

and her name Lalaax sounds familiar to me until I click into her gallery.

Ah yes! It's the Bernard Otolani that blew me away with the awesome suit and background.

and this this THIS ...isn't it .. *nosebleeds*

✩✩ INTERVIEW SECTION ✩✩

Ryea: What is COSPLAY to you?

L:Cosplay is a hobby, a way to express love for the character.

COSPLAY是兴趣爱好,对角色喜爱的一种表现

Ryea: When do you first started to cosplay?

L: 7 years ago.. around 2002-2003

7年前,是几几年来着...2002-2003左右

Ryea: How many characters have you cosplayed so far ?

L: In 2010, there's many ...

近来是说2010年内吗?不少呢...我数数看

DRRR - Izaya

Nurarihyon no mago -Nura Rikuo

LUCKY DOG1 - Bernardo

KHR - Rokudo

KHR -Squalo

KHR - Tsuna

DOGS - Haine

Letter Bee -Lag Seeing

Ryea: Which is your favorite character that you've cosplayed?

L: I'm a universal love person~~ I'll cos the characters I like, in other words the characters that I've cosplayed are the characters that I like the most in the series.

我是个很博爱的人呀~~~喜欢的角色我都会COS,换句话说我COS的角色都是最喜欢的.

Ryea: Which is your first character?

L: HUNTER X HUNTER - Chrollo Lucilfer

Ryea: Which characters is in your future cosplay list?

L: There's to many... the latest one probably is Nura Rikuo from Nurarihyon no mago.

太.多.了...最近的应该是滑头鬼之孙的奴良滑瓢

Ryea: Do you make your own costume & props?

L: Props are all self made, costumes are tailor made but add on the details myself

道具都是自己制造的,服装是在裁缝店定做然后自己加工

Ryea: What is your favorite part when cosplay?

L: The making process and when photo shoot with friends

制作的过程.和朋友一起拍摄的过程(愉快的气氛)

Ryea: Any good/funny/memorable experience when you cosplay?

L: Once, due to rushing Final Fantasy 12 Rasler 's amour have not sleep or eat for 3 days 3 nights... suddenly realize human has unlimited potential and became superman.

曾经3天3夜不吃不喝不睡,一直原地不动的在赶制最终幻想12 RASLER的盔甲...突然发现人的潜能无限大自己变成超人了!

Ryea: Do you salute/idolize any cosplayer? Who?

L: I like everyone's cosplay they're awesome

大家的COS都很棒我都很喜欢哦!

Ryea: Any tips to share ?

L: Everyone just enjoy cosplay, this is an interesting activity~! Don't give pressure to yourself!

大家请轻松的玩COSPLAY吧,这是一个很棒很有趣的活动~!不要给自己压力哦!

and 3 super-random questions :

1) How many contact lens do you owned?

L: A bunch, if counted ... there must be over 30 pairs.. but of course thrown some away due to expiry date.

一堆,硬要数的话...30对以上肯定有的,不过很多过期了就扔掉了.

2) How long can you stay in your house without going out?

L: If there's food. =v= 2 to 3 days

只要有食物.=V=2-3天?

3) Your favorite food?

L: I love to eat all types of food! Welcome feeding me!

什么都喜欢吃!欢迎喂食!

Ryea: And lastly, what do you think about Let's Cosplay~?

L: It's an awesome page! I will always visit here!

是个很棒的网站呢!我会经常逛逛的!

Thanks Lalaax!!~

Macross Wishlist!

I've got plenty of available wall space after cleaning my room and re-arranging + rotating my posters. I'm just infatuated with this version of Minmay. I lie. I like all her outfits!!

Macross "Do You Remember Love?" Wall Scroll

Lynn Minmay Poster Illustration by Haruhiko Mikimoto

Lynn Minmay "Do You Remember Love?" Figure

Warm zombie, no zombie?

The big question is how I’m going to keep myself warm next Friday. I pondered some ideas yesterday and came to a reasonable and manageable result. Even if warmth doesn’t suit zombies, I’m trying to construct sleeves, which would look like decomposed skin. Positive side for them is that if they work, they will cut out time from the make-up process. This far things are looking good.

Greater hindrance with taking my little girl out is the weather, which promises rain for Friday evening. Usually I make the costumes so that they endure some punishment from Mother Nature, were it rain or snow, but with Samara I feel insecure. I don’t mind rain, but I mind the pink particles I cursed earlier. I've washed the dress for the last time, but there is still a chance that some survived. Of course it could be hilarious for Samara to look more like Hello Kitty at the end of the walk...

New Hairfalls

I made some new hairfalls that I will post soon to my Etsy shop. Kaisu took these pics of me on the backyard, modeling them :) Dressing up is a lot of fun, too bad Kaisu got slightly pissed off at me at times for being so bossy all the time. I guess I don't easily notice how bossy I am because I'm always with my hubby who's that way too. And then we just think it's normal to boss everyone around or something! So which one of these is your favorite, as far as the falls go?

I'm feeling nostalgic

Ten years ago I watched my first anime marathon. Anime was relatively new in the beginning of 2000. And by this I mean that there where established audience, but still it was considered as underground. Of course there where Pokemon airing in Finland already and it was anime for sure, but for me it was more like a children’s thing. My first real touch to anime was as a seinen and shounen fan… believe it or not… Sailor Moon. Somehow it didn’t appeal to me even if I saw few arcs, but years later I really got into Magic Knight Rayearth. Is a small part of me dreaming of being magic girl saving the world every now and then? I don’t know about that, but apparently there is something shoujo-ish lurking in me.

But not everything was pink in fairy land. The series which got me hooked few years later was Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ghost in the Shell and earliest find Escaflowne, which as mecha anime gave me a reminder how much I had liked Transformers in the nineties. To back up my interest in mecha series, my older cousin had sky channels on their household, which aired anime or would we say “American anime” in English. Through him and next to Transformers I had watched some episodes of Voltron, Saber Rider and one that I really can’t remember. There where a young boy, red droid as his helper and… something. Well, it wasn’t my favourite to start with, but if someone got anything out from my description, please enlighten me. When we were kids, we also had Starzinger on VHS subbed in Finnish. It’s hilarious to watch now, because we have still have the same debate about the names of their attacks. Was it “Dogmissile” or “Gro-aarmissile”?

Noir team, Mireille on right. Picture from a fansite.

Now from nineties back to the millennium. Little later, after Sailor Moon marathon, I also explored series titled Noir. It was more of my liking with the girls with guns concept. I happened to remember the series while I was browsing through cosplay.com’s newest costumes. Mireille jumped from the crowd and for a moment I thought from where I knew her. Obviously her design is not the most elaborate in the world, so that couldn’t be the reason. And then it struck me! It seemed as if the blond curls and high slit had never left me. I Googled and ended up rekindling old memories with Noir.

And then I got struck again! I have to make Mireille! I’m now rather obsessed about it. I fight the urge to dash to the nearest fabric store. The most horrifying thing is that I have blue eyes already and emphasizing contacts and the god damn curly, blond wig with bangs! Someone help me!

Note: Being nostalgic can be dangerous for cosplayers.

Edit: Yoki enlightened me with the mystery series, it was Macron 1. Thank you!