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My First Photobook

Yohco — Wed, 24 Dec 2014 02:07:52 +0000

My first cosplay photobook “HEROINE!” will be released in the next Comiket! I look forward to your visit to my booth K21b, the third day of Comiket 87!!

C87で初めての写真集「ヒロイン！」を発行します。

【タイトル】『ヒロイン！』　A4サイズ/フルカラー　オフセット印刷 20P/1,000円
【日時・場所】コミックマーケット87 3日目（12月30日）東K21b
【サークル名】kawaiiotaku.com

「フツーの会社員の私が憧れのヒロインになりたいという妄想を現実にしちゃいました」がテーマです。誰でも知っている日本のヒロインキャラ６人になりきりました。すべて大好きなキャラクターなので、撮影から編集まですごく楽しかった！写真集という体裁ですが、読み物としても楽しんでいただける内容を目指しています。

【企画・編集・デザイン】ヨーコ
【撮影】cargotさん、エレノアさん
【スペシャルゲスト】海橙なっちょんさん
【一部衣装協力】ちぃさん

★通販
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これまでお会いしたことのない方ともたくさんお話できると嬉しいです。

GAKUEN BASARA

Yohco — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 13:36:24 +0000

I went as photographer for GAKUEN BASARA cospley!

Model: Mitsuru
Photo: Yohco

It’s a perfect day to play hooky, isn’t it?
　
　

I only swim freestyle.

Yohco — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 17:15:27 +0000

I went as photographer for “Free!” cosplay.
“Free!” is one of the biggest cosplay trends of this year, without doubt. All of cosplay events seemed just “Free!” and “Attack on Titan“.

Of course most of “Free!” cosplayers are girls, but they face a tough problem of how do they make their own bodies look like male swimmers. This cosplayer challenged to be Nagisa Hazuki and Makoto Tachibana with body painting and photoshop.

『Free!』のコスプレを撮影してきました。
今年はどのコププレイベントもこれと『進撃の巨人』だらけでした。
『Free!』は女性レイヤーにとっては「上半身をいかに男に見せるか」が大きな課題になるわけですが、このレイヤーさんはボディペイントで渚と真琴に挑戦。

Makoto is the most popular character.
やっぱり真琴がいちばん人気のようです。

Ranmaru Cosplay

Yohco — Sun, 12 May 2013 05:50:38 +0000

I went as a photographer for Utapri cosplay.
Ranmaru Kurosaki.

Senpai characters’ popularity is sky-rocketing.

She transformed into cool Ranmaru!
Maybe I will try to be Rei-chan or Camus…

Shopping in Ikebukuro

Yohco — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:22:01 +0000

I strolled around Ikebukuro to get cosplay goods. I want to be Reiji Kotobuki from Uta no Prince-sama next time, so I am looking for his costumes. Ikebukuro is the best place to find good things of cosplay.

I want to get this costumes!!!! White jacket, pants, shirt, hat and navy tie.

The east exit of Ikebukuro station.

If you have seen “DRRR!” anime, I’m sure that you recognize these sights.

At first, I visited a cosplay shop MAPLE, which is one of my favorite shops, but I could not find Rei-chan’s costumes. This shop only had Camus’ costumes today.

Then I came here, Animate’s costume shop ACOS. ACOS is in the old building of Animate Ikebukuro. This shop has only 6 princes’ costumes right now. It seems that Senpai’s costumes are very rare…

At third, K-BOOKS cosplay shop. This shop sells second-hand costumes. No Rei-chan neither…

No Rei-chan…

I visited MANDARAKE at last, but I could not find Rei-chan’s costumes. GEEZ…(´;ω;`)!!!

With a new attitude, I came Animate’s new building for anime gooods and books, and I bought a cosplay magazine “COSMODE.” COSMODE provides popular cosplayers’ photos, make-up and photgraphy advices.
COSMODE’s official website is here.

Haaaa… It’s difficult to get Rei-chan’s costumes. Actually I already have his wig. How do I handle this?

Wonder Festival Report

Yohco — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:08:52 +0000

Visited Wonder Festival today. Wonder Festival is the biggest event to display and sell garage kits. You can find millions of anime and game characters’ plastic figures at the event.

Wonder Festival is held at Makuhari Messe(幕張メッセ), which is the represent of event sites around Tokyo alongside Tokyo Big Sight. It takes about one hour from central of Tokyo by train.

People, people…

…and characters!

Wonder Festival is divided into amateurs’ area and commercial area. You will be amazed at the great plastic figures displayed proudly on the amateurs’ booths.

Kyaaaaa♡ Keith Goodman from Tiger&Bunny!!! They look real!!

Shizuo Heiwajima from DRRR!

Asuka from Evangelion. Kawaii^^*

Handmade dress-up dolls.

This is also from T&B… Amazing…

Found Ren Jinguji♡

Commercial section. So many new figures were released!

Life-size Dio from Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure.

The Prince of Tennis♡ Kawaii^^*

This Ryoma remain in a development stage, but it’s perfect!!

Blue Exorcist. I want to buy this Rin Okumura.

HUNTER×HUNTER.

Wow!!! Gintoki in childhood!

Kuroko’s Basketball♡ Super kawaii!!!!

You can see also wonderful cosplayers at Wonder Festival.

Wonder Festival will be held in August next time.

Comiket 83 Report

Yohco — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 13:17:43 +0000

Comiket 83 (コミックマーケット83) was held in Tokyo from December 29 to 31. Comiket, the world’s largest self-published comic book (Dojinshi) fair is held twice annually, each event attracts about 500,000 visitors. This time, the total number of visitors over the three days was about 550,000, which is the highest of winter season’s Comiket ever. This biggest otaku event is gaining more popularity every year.

There are about 30,000 participant groups over the three days, but the categories vary from day to day. I usually visit the day one and two. The day three is often for male’s categories.

In front of Tokyo Big Sight at 13:00. When I arrived there, the long line had disappeared.

For your information, you can see the video of long line in the morning.

So many people…(×_×)

Tiger&Bunny section. T&B is one of the biggest categories of the day one.

Gintama and other Shonen JUMP manga section. The main section for me!!! Gin♡Hiji (>_<*)

Unfortunately, Comiket planning committee banned the participation of groups that belong to Kuroko’s Basketball categories in just before the scheduled date, because intimidation cases against the artist and publisher of Kuroko’s Basketball have been occurring one after the other. According to the report, the criminal holds a private grudge for the artist. I hope Japanese police force arrests the selfish criminal as quickly as possible. This sections are for the 900 groups… What a sad sight. Kuroko’s Basketball was the third biggest category of this Comiket.

At the Comiket, there are not only dojinshi groups but also participant companies. You can buy various official anime goods at each company booths.

Kawaii umbrella!!

What’s more Comiket than cosplay?

★Catch at Comiket 83

Dojinshi of Gintama, Reborn, PSYCHO-PASS, Tiger&Bunny, Hakuouki, Uta no prince-sama and more… This is a piece of that.

Tsuritama goods by Noitamina Shop. Kawaii!!!

Tokyo Disneyland Halloween

Yohco — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:38:51 +0000

Visited Tokyo Disneyland in Halloween season. Tokyo Disneyland has various seasonal events like Christmas and Valentine’s day, and this Halloween is the most attractive event because this is the only period that you can enjoy the park with Disney characters’ costumes and this particular season has the best weather of the whole year in Japan.

Tokyo Disneyland and Disney Sea is near to Maihama Station (舞浜駅). Perhaps Maihama means Miami Beach where the Walt Disney World is. (Mai likes Miami, Hama=Beach)

Tokyo Disneyland Hotel.

The entrance of Tokyo Disneyland. There are many characters.

What you can see in Tokyo Disneyland at first is “World Bazaar.” Full of goods shops!

Mr. Walt Disney, Mickey Mouse, and the symbol of the park, Cinderella castle. This is the main photo spot.

So many kawaii costumes…!!! Disney Halloween is funny!

The parade has started! Disney all stars appear!

　
After the parade over, let’s walk around the park and attractions.

Flavored popcorn’s outdoor stands are the staple of Tokyo Disneyland.

Tokyo Disneyland has Halloween special parade as well.

At night, Halloween’s decorations are stand out more.

Night parade “Tokyo Disneyland Electrical Parade Dreamlights” is the main event of the park.

The interesting day passed quickly…

Tokyo Disneyland Halloween season is really recommendable, but in weekends, the park is usually full and the gates are closed. So I recommend to visit there on weekdays.

Cosplay in Tokyo Dome City

Yohco — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 14:42:04 +0000

From September 22 to 23, one of the biggest cosplay event in Japan “New Layers Paradise” was held at Tokyo Dome City. Tokyo Dome City is very popular shopping and theme park complex in Tokyo, and also is well known as cosplay event spot. If you like roller coaster and other attractions, I recommend this event because the participation fee is including free pass of the theme park. You can ride the attractions with anime costumes, it will be an interesting memory.

Alibaba and Ren Kougyoku from Magi

Sogo Okita from Gintama. SO CUTE!!!

Gintoki and Hijikata

Kamui and Takasugi from Gintama. They are full sisters and well known as cosplayers and artists. Their website is here!

Shiraishi and Oshitari from The Prince of Tennis.

Shura and Yukio from Blue Exorcist

Pokemon Red and Green (and Pikachu ^^*)

Recently, Kuroko’s basketball is a trend in cosplay world.

Kise and Aomine

Kise and Kuroko. This two characters are the most popular with cosplay girls.

Tekken and Taro from “Kyutikuru Tantei Inaba (キューティクル探偵因幡)”

Uta no Prince-sama is the most popular!!!

Mother-doughter cosplay! How amazing!

　
★撮影させていただいたみなさま、ありがとうございました！

Cosplay in Vienna

Yohco — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:25:55 +0000

Guess what!!! My friend visited Vienna last week, and found an interesting scene in front of the St. Charles’s Church, which is an important historical facilities. She took photos with fascination, and sent me them.

She found out later that the event was AniNite 2012. We, as Japanese, were very surprised that around this historical and renowned church in the capital of music was filled with many Vocaloid and other anime characters’ cosplayers. At the same time, we are so happy that young people in Vienna appreciated Japanese pop culture.

(Photos by Kei Norimatsu)