This weekend I was in Manhattan’s garment district trying to get some ribbon to complete our Reborn cosplay for New York Comic Con happening this weekend. Anyway for god knows what reason the Garment District has their own little Blue Law and every freaking store (except the bead ones) was closed. So now I am ribbon-less and can’t do my Reborn cosplay for the con. So I throw out a question to fellow New Yorkers - is there another place I can get ribbon at?? Or do I have to run like the wind after work hoping one of these stores will be open?

If I can’t get ribbons I may have to revive my Shugo Chara cosplay, but that’s gonna suck since I’ll have to carry our wigs and then put them on in a bathroom somewhere at the Javitz Center (because I’m not wearing a bright pink wig in the middle of the subway. I did that once and all the lolis and shotas couldn’t take their eyes off me ) Anyway if you’re going I’m only going to be there Saturday with JP. I know my usual con buddy is gonna be there and perhaps if we have time before the T.M. Revolution concert we can all have some Shabu Shabu for dinner.

I feel like such a nerd writing this, but this could possibly be relevant to all you anime hobby related photographers (figures, cosplay etc.) As you all know I love cosplay as well as taking cosplay photos (of people who cosplay things other than Bleach & Naruto these days though). The annoying part is, when I get home I have to open up my camera SD card, stick it into the laptop copy the photos and upload them to the internets. Unless I have some sort of wireless access at the time, I really can’t do this until I get back from the anime convention. Continue Reading »

So here comes my report for Friday. I’m going to start out by saying I feel incredibly let down and almost heart broken because I completely overestimated the kind of audience that would attend this convention. After this convention, I seriously need to re-analyze my entire anime hobby. I’m still shocked at all that has happened, but read on and share in my misery. Continue Reading »

In case you guys didn’t know I’ll be going to the New York Comic Con on Saturday only though (mainly to see TMR concert in a squishy room ) I figured a con is an excuse to cosplay (*is a cosplay addict like Ohno) but I’m trying to save money for various things so have to be pretty cheap this time. So while I was reading Katekyou Hitman Reborn! today I thought of a fairly cheap but doable cosplay both JP & I could do:

Would this work? I mean hell I recall seeing a Mukuro cosplayer at New York Anime Festival o_o; Our original plans were to do Nougami Neuro and Yako but we didn’t wanna spend like $80+ to get a goofy looking blue suit that could never really be used again. At least for the Reborn cosplay I pretty much have everything and we don’t need to spend money on wigs. The downer? Well no one would really be able to recognize us without a Reborn group…but I doubt that cosplaying as Neuro anyone would recognize us in the first place.

Thoughts anyone?

Prints I’ll be selling at the con.

So here I am preparing for Anime Boston. I have been on & off but it’s crunch time now because it’s only 2 weeks away. My biggest worry is my Haruhi doujinshi. The guy who was supposed to print it originally told me in early February that his printer broke. I had then go with another printer and my order has been “print pending” on their stupid que for the last 3 weeks. I requested this stuff to be mailed no later than March 11th so I guess I won’t panic just yet. If I end up at the con with only 8 leftover doujinshis though they will feel the wrath of my fangirl rage. Continue Reading »

I need some quick advice from my readers:

Should I cosplay the gal above? I found a costume for $168 (+probably an ungodly amount of shipping) that will ship to the US of A but is it worth it? You know I’m a pretty active cosplayer who can’t sew for jack and most of my costumes consist of store bought items slapped together to look bootleg enough to pass for the character. I had original plans of doing another slapped bootleg costume of Amu from Shugo Chara but this just makes my life so much easier…hmmmmmmmmm. I love Miku’s character design though (even though I think Vocaloid 2 stinks lol) Opinions anybody?