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This is an image-heavy report on three wonderful days in September ♥





This year was the first time I got to go to Connichi with my sister mehli, so I was reeeaaaally looking forward to it.
Her friend Sarah (whom we own 1000 favours for ... everything on that weekend) was also coming with us, which was great because
we were pretty much freaking out about the World Cosplay Summit preliminaries in which we were going to enter, but she supported us a lot... and kept us sane XDD

Because mehli is pretty busy at work, I did most of the sewing... 4 costumes in two months. Not funny.
mehli helped me a lot, though. She was in charge of our props and she did all the things I hate about sewing: Cutting, hemming, trimming... XD
Still, the costumes and the preparations for our WCS skit kept us both pretty stressed. It wasn't until Friday morning (8 ours before we got on our train) that I finished the last hem on her Jomy costume @__@



Friday

Rao & Oki (Ôkami)

Rao is a costume I sewed almost a year ago. Oki was done this March, but never worn to a convention.
I still have a lot of regrets about Rao (colour, fabric ...), but at least I managed to redo her necklace.
Oki was a pain in the ass because of all the patterns on his clothes, but I still like the outcome.
My sister did his mask and his sword and I think they look wonderful. Hopefully we'll get to do a photo shoot with
our full Ôkami group soon!
Unfortunately, mehli forgot her bracers at the hotel and we didn't take any pictures together orz

↓1st picture by Zora-Warrior, 2nd picture taken by me on a photoshoot earlier this year








Saturday

Jomy Marquis Shin & Soldier Blue (Terra e)

Pleather. I hate it. But oooh, how I love our capes ♥
Terra e is a wonderful yet terribly underrated series we watched last year. I instantly fell in love with the costume design and -ignoring our genetic crossplay incompatibility- decided that we would do this together. I knew that mehli'd have preferred to do Tony instead of Jomy, but I refused to sew a costume with a colour combination as hideous as his...
It was my first time using pleather and it was... horrible. I couldn't find any golden or silver pleather, so I spraypainted the off-white pleather I had used for the waistcoats... Attaching the golden and silver ornaments to the vests took me ages to finish and I'm not really happy with the outcome, but they look quite okay on the pictures... Which reminds me of the tiny photo shoot we had with Maddi (Thank you!). Oh, the homolust XDD








Sunday - WCS (o_O)

Souseiseki & Suiseiseki (Rozen Maiden)

These were our costumes for the German WCS preliminaries. I've been wanting to do Rozen Maiden ever since I first started cosplay, but I also wanted my sister to be Souseiseki (siblings cosplay FTW!). So when we decided to enter WCS, it was an easy choice. I always thought these costumes would be fairly easy to sew... but I was WRONG. The vests and Suiseiseki's sleeves gave a hard time, but apart from Souseiseki's cape I'm really pleased with the outcome.

↓1st and 2nd picture taken by -Krone- on a photo shoot this week (full coverage will follow), 3rd picture taken by Kai Wernze






When we saw the competition at WCS we were quite demotivated, all of these costumes were made of pure win!! They all had wings, LEDs, huge dresses, lots of detail... Yet, (for some reason we still need to figure out) we actually won 3rd place. WOOT!
It seems like there were a lot of people who really enjoyed our skit, which is almost embarrassing, because a lot of things actually went terribly wrong on Sunday... For instance: One of the ballons we needed for our skit (filled with helium) flew away o__O So we had to improvise. Luckily, our hotel provided us with some small ballons... And ... well... just watch it yourselves:
(Nevermind the first 30 seconds, we had some preparations to do first XD)

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10000000x thanks to Rinoa for uploading this!!

AAAnd because some things might have gone lost on the small Youtube screen have some EPIC stage-photo-summary:




Yes, plot... What plot? XDD Plots are overrated >_>
Anyways, we were reaaallly surprised (if not shocked) when they announced our names! We had to be backstage the whole time so we didn't get to watch any of the other groups' skits, but costume-wise most of them were... epic!! *___*
Congratulations to Brigitte and Desiree, who won the competition with their heart-warming Kamikaze Kaitô Jeanne performance! ♥

To sum up my Connichi 2009 experience:

+ cosplaying with mehli ♥ ♥
+ meeting anni_bunny, kumomo, marinou, lumis_mirage, princess_soffel , wild_kirsche & Maddi ♥
+ 3rd place!!!!11oneeleven!
+ awesome cosplays *_*
+ drama-free WCS (I think?)
+ nice weather

- crowded
- pricey dealer's room
- people leaving their garbage behind at the park
- no sa_pon and kyouzou_dankai ....
- hardly took any pictures

So that's it for me. If you want to see some ... er...outtakes, visit my sister's LJ: mehli (German only)