Fanime '07: Kirihara cosplay and the tenipuri gathering!

[lucathia]

Thursday night musicfest with ZZ was very awesome. I love them so much. They sang their two songs from Eyeshield 21, their song from One Piece, and Samurai Blue (and a whole bunch of other songs too.

I didn't cosplay on Friday (my friends wanted to dress up as school boys/school girls) but I did wear the pair of wings that my dad helped me make for my Eureka cosplay. Lots of people stopped me for pics just because of the wings! I wasn't even cosplaying as anyone!

As for this post? Kirihara cosplay!! (link takes you to cosplay.com) I cosplayed Kirihara on Saturday. I almost couldn't cosplay him because my wig hadn't come yet. But on Friday just as I was leaving for Fanime, my wig came! Just in time for Saturday! More people stopped me for pics than I thought would. One of them even said, "Kirihara-kun desu ka?" XD; For some reason, people think I look Japanese when I'm cosplaying Kirihara with that wig...some guy asked me if I were from Japan. 0_0;

Here's a teaser. =P




First off, this was how my wig looked like before I dyed it black with sharpie:



It was auburn! But I bought it anyway because it was cheap and it was the right hairstyle...just not the right color. The black sharpie sort of came off everytime I tugged at the wig...so my fingernails got black very easily. ): This darn wig was so hard to put on. It's waaay too small for my head. After I put it on, I didn't want to take it off.

Before I left for Fanime, I had my brother take pics of me on the tennis courts. I couldn't really remember what poses Kirihara did off the top of my head...so we just sort of improvised. X3;



Kicking the net after losing a game. I think I aimed a bit too high. ^^; I never finished my polo shirt, so I had to wear my jacket zipped up the entire time.



Copying the Higuma Otoshi. Didn't really remember what it was supposed to look like. ^^;



Defeated!Kirihara...my brother made me do it. The ground was HOT.



I whacked the net with my racket, but you can't really tell in this pic.



My form is horrible.



Looking over my back...I need red eyes for this.



Look! A pic at the actual convention!



Me, and mini me! I forgot to bring my Kirihara j-mini with me to the convention, but a Hyotei cosplayer gave me her extra one. How awesome is that? X3;



Ahahaha, look! Kirihara and a pink umbrella! (It was my friend gem2niki's umbrella. I hung around her table in the artist alley a lot.)


I met yoshikochan, ycysusan, and a bunch of other people who's names I don't quite remember...anyway, if you see your pic here, do tell me which one you are! I have a horrible memory. ^^;




The Tenipuri gathering. It was quite tiny and full of Seigaku members! I know I saw more PoT cosplayers walking around the con (at least a few more Echizens!) but I guess they didn't make it to the gathering.



Thankfully, the ground at Fanime wasn't hot like the courts. XD;



I asked my friend to take a picture of me with my buchou Yukimura~. All the while, I was hesitating on asking if she were yoshikochan since she didn't seem to recognize me. I should have been sure since we've met at AX, but I am quite horrible at recognizing people. The glomp after we figured out all of our identities amused me a lot. XD; Meeting people you know online is so very awesome. ♥ (look, pretty blue hair! And yoshiko, how were you able to open your eyes so wide? I'm squinting so much! ;_; )



Sanada bitch slap. Gotta have one of those. <3



A more normal pic with Sanada fukubuchou.



After the Seigaku people left, a lot more Rikkai people came. <3 Made my day!



Oh wait, can't forget that Fuji was still there with us. XD; Fuji, who loooves Inui juice. I've met ycysusan at AX last year, though I didn't know who she was that time. Meeting again was great fun. (I've also seen ycysusan around yoshikochan's journal. XD; )



Ahahaha, and with a pair of glasses, Fuji transformed into Tezuka. Two for one!



Double Higuma Otoshi. I think it looks cool...even though my racket's not at the right angle. ):



Hugging the rival. :D



Yukimura buchou and Sanada fukubuchou. :D



Us tenipuri cosplayers who wandered off to hit against the wall (which didn't work out too well, but it was still great fun). Thanks to Fuji (ycysusan) for taking the pic.

I wasn't able to stay long...I had to leave for the PLAY! video game music symphony. Watching all those people play was very, very cool. (It felt too short for me.)

I had an awesome time with the PoT gathering (even though it was small!) and meeting everyone. It was the only gathering that I participated in this year.

Comments

[lucathia]

Ahaha, that, I don't know. People probably just didn't comment. Some tried to touch my wig before I warned them off that their hands might turn black. XD; Curly hair just makes people want to pet it, doesn't it?

Back in high school, I filmed videos with my friends for class. Although the topic was rectilinear motion, we somehow tied it to tennis and had a "tennis match" to settle things. XD; I've always wanted to do an actual tenipuri video, but alas, that hasn't happened yet.

Oo, I didn't know your brother's going too. You should totally dress him up as Kaidoh. But yeah, the gatherings pretty early especially for those who have to drive to get to the con. For Fanime, I never got to the convention earlier than 12. ^^;

Yay for rival teams! XD;; (I'm sure there'll be a lot of Seigaku representatives. *nods*) Do you have a racket? Should I bring my wooden racket for you? :D

[disutansu.livejournal.com]

I know. XD I like petting/messing up short hair because it doesn't get too messed up.

THAT'S SO AWESOME I WANNA SEE. XDDDDDDDDD

He is. He's been going for... this'll be his third year? Something like that. ^_^ I tried to convince him but no go. XD; HE DOESN'T KNOW HOW POPULAR HE'D BE!!! Will you be able to make it to the gathering? ;-;

There's always a lot. @_@ Last year there was only that one Fudomine and two (two?) St. Rudolph. I have no racquet, I thought I would make do with a tennis ball. XD But if you have one (!!!), mayhaps I'll borrow it for the gathering? If only it'd not too much trouble. ^_^;;;;;;

[lucathia]

Ahaha, I do have my Calculus video on youtube, but I have it marked private. It's too embarrassing to show to the whole entire world. XD; (not the tennis part, though that's embarrassing too. I'm afraid that tennis and calculus together...doesn't make much sense) Is there some way to share videos with select people? I've done a video with calculus and igo too XD;;;

Aww, does your brother not like cosplay? Tenipuri cosplay shouldn't be very embarrassing or anything since the outfits are almost normal-ish. Kaidoh and his black shirt is totally something that can be worn on a day-to-day basis! And yes, he'd totally be POPULAR. He's probably afraid of that very fact?? XD;;

I'm going to be staying at the Westin, so it'll just be a matter of getting up early. No commuting or walking far for me, so I better get there on time. XD;; The D.Gray-man gathering is an hour after the tenipuri one though, so I might have to leave early to change. ;_; I don't even know if I'll be able to change fast enough even if I do leave early.

I'll bring my wooden racket then. :D I'm going to borrow my brother's racket bag again, so it'll just be a matter of storing two rackets in there instead of one. ♥ Won't be much trouble at all. I might even bring a third one so that the racket bag maintains shape even after I take the other rackets out. XD;

[disutansu.livejournal.com]

I don't know actually, never tried using YouTube that way. Not that I have an account to begin with. XD; Calculus and tennis sounds like Inui. He makes sense... sorta. XDDD

It's not so much cosplay, but I think the popularity. *nodnod* He's a very keep-to-yourself kinda guy. It took a lot to get him to let me take pictures in the first place after all. XD;

Aw, I hope you make it! ^^ *squish lots* To both too to have fun, but don't rush yourself too much ne?

XD That's awesome. I was thinking about buying a wooden racquet but I wouldn't know where to look for one. At least I have tennis balls. And the whole playing with my hair thing.

[lucathia]

I think I'm able to privately message people on youtube about the video. I think that's how private works. X3; I can embed it too.

My brother's not as into cosplay as I am, but I think it's because making outfits takes a lot of time and skill. He'd cosplay tenipuri if I made an outfit for him. X3; I was going to make him cosplay Yagyuu this time, but I ran out of time and he ended up not going to the convention anyway. *sigh*

Ahaha, I had a dream that I missed the gathering. XD;; I think I'm getting paranoid now.

Hee, a pail and some clams/seashells would make awesome props too. XD;;

[disutansu.livejournal.com]

So I see. ^o^ Try it one day.

There see? XD; I don't even do anything to my outfits. Well I have to somehow get he kanji on my currently Rokkaku-less jacket, but nothing too much. You spend lots of time on yours. *bows down to you*

Oh NOES! Lucathia can't miss the gathering. T-T *will cling to*

LOL! Yes, I suppose so. XDDDDD But me carrying around a pail... hmmm... XDDD