Travel, cosplay and cons
Sep. 23rd, 2008 09:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rallamajoopIt occurs to me it's way past time I said something up here about my plans for the next month, given how crazy, epic and generally incompatible with a good eight hours sleep per night they're looking from this angle. The short version is that I am going to be leaving for a few days in Melbourne tomorrow, coming home then heading to Japan a week later, with the rollerskating national champs squeezed in the middle. Yeah, somehow all this seemed like a good idea. (I would blame this on a whole lot of wonderfully crazy friends who kept making awesome-sounding plans, and I'm bound to regret it somewhere in the middle, but hopefully not that much if it's half as much fun as it ought to be~)
Manifest (25-28 September)
I'm going to be at the ball on Thursday night and at the con on Friday and Saturday - missing Sunday as I have to rush home early because of that little skating comp I'm meant to be at. As usual for cons, my sister and I will be running a stall selling various odds and ends based on her artwork and some doujinshi produced by our manga club. We're going to be more limited on who we can ask to help us man the stall than at Waicon, so we're going to have to shut down during the cosplay comp and such, but (as of last discussion on the subject) she's hoping to have it open at least some of both days.
Japan (8-24 October)
The big event for us in Japan is the Tokyo Gameshow. No elaborate plans for this one, unless you consider cosplay elaborate by default. The stories I'm hearing about the queues for this thing are damn scary, but I am counting on this to be one awesome event to get to attend in person. You only have to take a quick look at how much new second-hand gaming info floods the web after the TGS every year to get an idea of how much there should be to see.
After the TGS, we've got a couple of weeks in Japan and plenty of plans on how to fill them, but most of them are bound to be far more interesting to share after the fact.
Cosplay plans (a.k.a. why I haven't been online so much lately):
Millia Rage (Guilty Gear) - For Manifest day 2 and TGS day 2
Minus a few touch ups, the main costume, gloves and boots are all done; wig still needs some styling (should be doing this tonight). The contacts I've got orderedmay or may not arrive on time correction! They're down at the post office and I'll be able to pick them up this afternoon! But otherwise I'm really happy with how this one's turning out (excluding all that last minute wig stress >.>;)
Millia Rage (Ball dress version) - For the Manifest ball (and probably the Waicon ball+whatever else I can get away with wearing it to)
Shortly after I'd started translating the Night of Knives drama CDs (which I still haven't found time to clean up and post arrgghh ><) and had all these nifty mental images of Millia swanning around in a ball dress,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
velithya just had to go and ask me what my plans were for the Manifest ball. If that wasn't bad enough, then she had to offer to go with me as Sol if I pulled it off. By this point I was thoroughly sunk.
There's no official design for this one, of course, but in keeping with Millia-style it made sense to make it white with blue and black trim, and I managed to find a really nice dress pattern that was quite close to what I'd been imagining (high neck and open shoulders being the main features) to use as a good base. This is going to be a short-haired Millia costume, since her real (ie, non-kinju enhanced) hair actually isn't even shoulder length, and short wigs are a lot more comfortable to dance in and a hell of a lot less trouble to comb out afterwards.
Joshua (The World Ends With You) - TSG day 1
The easy one. Wig, shirt, jeans, shoes, orange phone (and a grey-painted nerf gun if I get time). Even easier sincealyssea (<3<3) made or lent me most of the costume already. And it's damn nice to have a low stress costume for a change. Better yet, I get to take this one to Shibuya with the whole rest of the TWEWY cast! =D
So, between that and skating, I have a lot of time in costume and/or performing in front of judges ahead of me in the next few weeks. And a lot of time in front of cameras.My natural introvert tendencies are feeling so pastede-on right now. XD
Manifest (25-28 September)
I'm going to be at the ball on Thursday night and at the con on Friday and Saturday - missing Sunday as I have to rush home early because of that little skating comp I'm meant to be at. As usual for cons, my sister and I will be running a stall selling various odds and ends based on her artwork and some doujinshi produced by our manga club. We're going to be more limited on who we can ask to help us man the stall than at Waicon, so we're going to have to shut down during the cosplay comp and such, but (as of last discussion on the subject) she's hoping to have it open at least some of both days.
Japan (8-24 October)
The big event for us in Japan is the Tokyo Gameshow. No elaborate plans for this one, unless you consider cosplay elaborate by default. The stories I'm hearing about the queues for this thing are damn scary, but I am counting on this to be one awesome event to get to attend in person. You only have to take a quick look at how much new second-hand gaming info floods the web after the TGS every year to get an idea of how much there should be to see.
After the TGS, we've got a couple of weeks in Japan and plenty of plans on how to fill them, but most of them are bound to be far more interesting to share after the fact.
Cosplay plans (a.k.a. why I haven't been online so much lately):
Millia Rage (Guilty Gear) - For Manifest day 2 and TGS day 2
Minus a few touch ups, the main costume, gloves and boots are all done; wig still needs some styling (should be doing this tonight). The contacts I've got ordered
Millia Rage (Ball dress version) - For the Manifest ball (and probably the Waicon ball+whatever else I can get away with wearing it to)
Shortly after I'd started translating the Night of Knives drama CDs (which I still haven't found time to clean up and post arrgghh ><) and had all these nifty mental images of Millia swanning around in a ball dress,
velithya just had to go and ask me what my plans were for the Manifest ball. If that wasn't bad enough, then she had to offer to go with me as Sol if I pulled it off. By this point I was thoroughly sunk.There's no official design for this one, of course, but in keeping with Millia-style it made sense to make it white with blue and black trim, and I managed to find a really nice dress pattern that was quite close to what I'd been imagining (high neck and open shoulders being the main features) to use as a good base. This is going to be a short-haired Millia costume, since her real (ie, non-kinju enhanced) hair actually isn't even shoulder length, and short wigs are a lot more comfortable to dance in and a hell of a lot less trouble to comb out afterwards.
Joshua (The World Ends With You) - TSG day 1
The easy one. Wig, shirt, jeans, shoes, orange phone (and a grey-painted nerf gun if I get time). Even easier since
alyssea (<3<3) made or lent me most of the costume already. And it's damn nice to have a low stress costume for a change. Better yet, I get to take this one to Shibuya with the whole rest of the TWEWY cast! =DSo, between that and skating, I have a lot of time in costume and/or performing in front of judges ahead of me in the next few weeks. And a lot of time in front of cameras.