Friday, April 30, 2010

Touhou Project: Hakurei Reimu 02

touhou project cosplay - hakurei reimu 02Often teased by fans because of the way she's dressed, Reimu's main abilities include flying in the sky, good intuition, and getting along with everyone, even those who were once her enemies. She is characterized in the games by her homing amulets and yin-yang orbs. She is also featured in the games wherein ZUN is involved, notably Seihou: Shuushou Gyoku as one of the Extra Bosses and in Graffiti Kingdom as "Flying Maiden".

Cute cosplayer from Winter Comiket 2009! It appears I have more in my inbox then I originally thought. Thanks to SnooPeas for the photo!

River Island Boots - buyers review

This week I helped a friend in the US get a pair of the River Island Double Eyelet Boots, since they do not ship outside the UK.
Here are his views and comments now he has received them.
Thanks to a particularly awesome UK based member here, my pair of River Island double eyelet boots arrived today. If anybody was on the fence about getting a pair of these, I’d say go for it.



The pictures warranted the ridiculously overpriced Tom Baker socks.

Once you get the strangely oversized tongue tucked in place, they’re incredibly comfortable. They’re made with a nicely broken in predistressed leather, so they’re soft from the minute you take them out of the box. I'm not particularly planning on doing an 11 costume, but the boots look so cool I had to get a pair. In my opinion these are way better looking than the All Saints boots, and the sole is rubber with some really nice grips, so no slipping.

I like just about everything about them, except they only look good with tight pants, which contradicts the recent switch I made to never wearing tight pants again, haha. I’ll just have to find a compromise.

ComicGum Ikki Tousen Great Guardians: Unchou Kan'u

Another installment for the ComicGum Ikki Tousen Great Guardians set featuring Unchou Kan'u.

Of course I saved the best for last. If you want to see everything, this is the figure for you. If there is a figure of her for sale, you can be she has been placed in just about any position possible. She seems to have a hard time keeping her clothes from getting destroyed. She is suppose to be the most feared of the
Toushi as she wields the Blue Dragon Crest Blade and sword Kusanagi.

Like some of the other figures in this set, she is shown in full motion. Flowing long hair and her Blue Dragon Crest Blade in hand ready for battle. Like a lot of the other figures, her face is not her best feature. I could of actually removed the skirt from the figure as it did come off, but need to keep it in taste - what?

4 Revolving Poses

Random Shots









Infamous Pantsu shot


The Set is on Sale at Toylet.com for $54.99 O_O

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Thursday, April 29, 2010

Fruits Basket: Honda Tohru and Souma Yuki

fruits basket cosplay - honda tohru and souma yuki

There is a distinct difference between the manga and the anime of Fruits Basket; the anime shows a romantic relationship between Yuki and Tohru while the manga shows Yuki realizing his love for Tohru was more of a longing for the love of a mother.

To be perfectly honest, I prefer this pairing than Kyo and Tohru. It just seemed so perfect. You can imagine my disappointment when the final few manga volumes were released, but I guess you can't always get what you want.

At least Cherokee sent me this cosplay right? Featuring *Kanasaiii as Tohru and ~solano1984 as Yuki. Thanks also to their photographer, ~BanditYinG for the wonderful job well done!

The 'HELL' I Care!


Gawd!

Thanks Thea for the link.

I just discovered that I was featured on a Pinoy Cosplay blog...of which the blogger is a friend of Alodia.

I was a picture of the day last January...my picture as Monkey D. Luffy.

Check this blog...

http://pinoycosplay.blogspot.com/2010/01/random-picture-of-day_23.html?zx=7567dc604f0b241f

And somebody said...

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Fuck you!

And thank you.

You made me famous.

Final Fantasy X Lulu Cosplayers

I was never a big Final Fantasy Gamer as I never had a PlayStation to play it on. I did watch the Advent Children anime and loved the characters (not to mention the effects).

I have always had a spot in my heart for Cosplayers that were a mix of Goth/Steampunk. As far as I am concerned, Lulu from Final Fantasy X fits the bill (but whats up with that doll?).

Lets take a look now at some Cosplayers I found that did a good job on her elaborate costume. Any favorites out of this nice little group - mine is Jonetsu!

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance: Makinami Mari Illustrious

evangelion: 2.0 you can (not) advance cosplay - makinami mari illustriousThe pilot of the Provisional Evangelion Unit-05, very little is known about Mari, and her designation amongst the other Children has yet to be revealed. She has poor eyesight and is shown to have a difficult time locating her glasses when she dropped them from the collision with Ikari Shinji while parachuting. She also seems to have a fetish for LCL, as she appreciates Shiji's "smell of LCL".

Megane Complex sent this in and tells me this is another photo from Winter Comiket 2009 that I have yet to feature. Honestly, I wouldn't even know which anime she's from if it wasn't for the contributor. Thanks again for the email!

Wonder Circle Reworked

Alright Guys, one really major issue out of the way. I've redone the dialog and remapped the stupid area.

Levi and Miri don't find Kumo their either- in fact they decide they're going to leave him alone and explore other places. That's when the Event Circle stuff occurs.

Afterward you get called into the Infirmary by Lulu via Levi's phone. You get a brief explanation but nobody elaborates yet. Shadz says he needs to get some data from an Omniax computer located at the Fairgrounds that's related.

Exhibition Tower- Arithial shows up and summons Jenova LIFE, confirming the briefly mentioned 'Jenova Project's' existence. (Though obviously different than the FF7 one).

The building begins to collapse from heavy damage as monsters begin to attack it. Kumo and Levi steal some vehicles from the Display Room at the Exhibiton Tower and use the highway connected to 'Gold Saucer' to get on to the suspension bridge over a river that can be travelled under via subway- how you initially arrive there.

Tokyo from that point onwards is infested with zombies. Your party devises a plan using Shadz's knowledge of Omniax to obtain the ten keycards and infiltrate Omniax's main headquarters in Acaridae in a blaze of blood and gunfire to find a cure to the virus spreading.
Alicia announces her biological warfare plans on a world-wide broadcast. The TV Station in Tokyo is where they decide to head to try and stop her right then.

It isn't far from this point that you obtain the Ragnarok and though you have to go to the areas in a specific order, you can still explore the areas, you just won't be able to do any of the story events, etc.

In any case, I won't be updating as often. I'm going to take from SkieFortress's example and stop being so frivolous. I want to get this game done, dammit!
And thus I must stop distracting myself. So...ttfn, everyone.
I want to have this game released by September at the latest! So I have a lot of work to do!

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

The King of Fighters '96: Mature

the king of fighters '96 cosplay - matureThe "ruthless woman" of the pair of secretaries employed by Rugal Bernstein, Mature was ordered by Goenitz to keep an eye on Yagami Iori. Even though she is a wielder of Orochi, she is later defeated by Iori and is eventually killed. Mature becomes a playable character in the King of Fighters XII, exclusive to the home console version of the game.

Beautiful Mature! I wonder if she had a Vice to cosplay with her? Thanks to Light for sending this in!

Heroman

I caught wind of this a while ago and want to add my 2 cents to the story. I was waiting for this to come out so I can watch it with my son.

"What is all the hype about Bub" is what you are thinking - right? Well this is an Anime that is actually grounded in the United States - specifically Los Angeles. Of course with that said, Stan Lee of Marvel Comics fame was part of this with animation studio Bones (Darker than Black, Soul Eater & Eureka). About 2 years ago, ANN did a short write up about him working on this. If anything, having Bones as the animation studio is a reason alone to watch this.

With all the movies Stan has been in, he also shows up in this Anime at different times. I guess we can play - Catch Stan Lee in the Anime drinking game?

Check out "The Man" sitting on the stool

Now for some of the tidbits of the story:

~SPOILERS AHEAD DAMMIT~


Joey lives with his Groovin Grandma, but we do see pics of his Dad as well. Dad is no where in the "picture" and we have no idea whats up with that. He is picked on the by the overly stupid rich kids. To add insult to injury, a sisters of one of the rich kids seems to have a romantic interest in Joey. Poor dude nearly gets his ass kicked, but is saved by a crippled sk8r-boy with an Afro.

The Whole School Crew
What is school without a hot sexy teacher in class. I wish my teachers dressed like this when i was going to high school - damn!

Hot for the TeacherJoey also helps out Professor Matthew Denton. This dummass of a Professor has been sending out all types of communications to Outer Space in hopes of finding intelligent life. And wouldn't you know it, he does find other life. Only these "insect-like" aliens want to take over the world to utilize its resources.

Professor Matthew Denton
Now where the hell have we heard this line before. Looks like it is time for an invasion ~ can we come up with something original once in a while?

The Aliens

In the mean time, Joey ends up picking up a broken and trashed toy that the rich kids threw away. He goes and rebuilds it for himself. Now this toy was able to follow voice commands with a communicator like device. Remember this as it becomes key later on.

Joey Jones & Heroman Toy

So how the hell does this broken arse toy turn into a real-life robot? Well, I am glad you asked ~ as it turns out, this happens during a lightning storm (produced by the aliens). A freaking huge ass blue lightning bolt hits the toy as Joey comes home to save it from the rain. It takes out his room and he ends up with a flashing communicator he had for the toy. After pressing the sides of the device, it ends up becoming a gauntlet on his left arm and the toy now becomes HEROMAN! All in pretty USA colors (White, Red and Blue).

Engage Heroman!
Joey and Heroman

We soon find that Heroman relays heavily on Joey's commands which are shown on the gauntlet. Without these commands, Heroman is not that great. If you want to fly, hit, or use other powers, they have to show up on the gauntlet and Joey then "slaps" it for Heroman to use that power.

Joey's Gauntlet of Transformation & Power

Pretty much now we have out heroes who now have to muster the strength to fight to save humanity. Can Joey come to grips with his new power while trying to be a teenager in high school? Can he fully control that power he was given or will it be his downfall.?

I have already been informed by my son that we will be adding this to his collection. How about you, are you going to be catching this action yourself?
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