How I wish I could put up one. While this blog is almost becoming such, I won’t let it come to that though. It just so happens that I am really busy that the only time I can go online is when I am looking for my character’s photos as reference. And if there’s time, I get to visit my blogs just like now. I am writing about cosplay again. Ugh.

One of my cosplay dreams is having to make my own mecha costume. Mecha, from what I know, is this gigantic, heavy-looking (because you have to find ways to still be able to move around wearing it), very detailed costumes such as Gundam, online game characters, robots and others which requires more than fabric to be made. When I met Ae Ri on the first cosplay con that I attended, I got inspired because she really makes awesome costumes. You can see the passion in every shade of paint and in every cut of whatever material she uses there. I regard her as the mecha goddess because she indeed is! I mean, she’s the only person that I knew who can make such almost exact replicas of the character’s costume she’s portraying. And she’s very approachable and down-to-earth. Talk about inspiration, right?

Photo: Alodia Gosiengfiao Facebook Fan Page

So yeah, I have been scanning through forums, blogs and websites in the hope of knowing more Ae Ri’s to inspire and teach me as I enter this world of cosplaying. I have also seen some tutorials and scanned industrial supply websites because you know, mecha is not only about fabric and thread. There will come a time that one will need to use cement just to be able to make one costume. Unusual really but it’s all about the art.

Starting small, I’ll have to focus on my recent cosplan which is Saeko Busujima of Highschool of the Dead. Not really a mecha costume but she has a sword, so yeah. A step forward to my dream!

I can count with my fingers the number of days left until I transform to a Japanese school girl under the name Tainaka Ritsu. In behalf of my cosplaymates, let me deliberate the excitement that each fiber of our being experiences.

Original plan is to not let anybody know about this cosplaying that we’re going to do. But being a bunch of college girls with close to zero cosplay experience, we needed assistance which only meant, we have to expose our plans. With my mother’s aid and the fabric in hand, we found a very cheap tailor shop, surrendered the fabric with the photos of the uniform as reference.  After having our measurements jotted down, we savored the moment upon realization that indeed, we will be cosplaying as the girls of K-0n!

The uniform-in-proress served as our cue and we then started to purchased wigs, bangs, hair accessories, false eyelashes and socks.

Days dragged on. Two weeks to go… One week… Four days. OMG.

Most of the time, it’s just the four of us (me, Clarence, Janel and Donna) who do the preparation because Clarence’s sister is busy at work but she will cosplay with us on the day of the cosplay con. Everytime the four of us are together, the dead air moments were replaced by sudden screeching of any one of us. Silence in the group means deep internalization and awe for ourselves in a few days. WE ARE COSPLAYING TOGETHER AS A GROUP! Nervous as hell, we try to encourage one another because our cosplay may look simple only but we have put on a different level of effort in here already. This is our first time to cosplay that’s why we are still experimenting and I hope that this Saturday won’t be the finish line of our cosplaying journey.

Still very excited.

Tainaka Ritsu

Only a few days to go and I will be cosplaying with my friends! OMG. I can feel it already because all of us are busy preparing for each others costumes. We already had a tailor get on our K-on! uniform which is relatively cheap since we are mostly first-timers, we are taking experiments first. I hope this one’s a successful experiment though.

We bought false eyelashes, wigs, buttons and everything to make this cosplay realistic. And right now I am watching Youtube tutorials on how to put makeup because unfortunately, we are not that good at makeup yet. We wanted to try out big doll eyes as well but decided not to anymore because we might seem do be overdoing it. In the meantime, we’ll try to have a makeup and wig rehearsal on the following days of our preparation.

It is our first time to cosplay as a group and all of us are really excited about it. I hope we can make justice to Mio, Yui, Ritsu, Mugi and Azusa!