HATTARA - Cosvision

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We've been struggling lately with this one issue. After we wrote the serigraphy-posts in finnish, it made us think more about the language we are using. English is great, because we can learn more when writing, but can we express ourselves as we should while writing in something that isn't our mother language? We are wondering that maybe it would be better to write in finnish. Tell us your opinion on the subject and help us decide!! ;;-;;

To the subject itself.

Cosvision was held last weekend at Turku, and of course we attended. We told you before about our Hôzuki no Reitetsu -cosplay plans, and we wore the costumes there for the first time.

The week before Cosvision was to say at least, hectic. So much to do, so little time. We started our projects already in Easter, but Dalin's outfit was completed by Saturday night. We sewed the outfit together by hand while watching Eurovision Song Contest and cheering for Austria. Because we managed to get the costumes ready so late, our group cosplay was held in Sunday.

Let's start from Thursday because it's the same thing as Friday. We were so much in trouble by then, there were too many things to do for a healthy person who want's their beauty sleeps. Because of that, the Thursday-Friday night was sleepless for both of us. We kept ourselves awake with the sound of sewing machines and idiotic anime songs. Sorry neighbors...

In the morning, we were sailing through tired moods of depression and hysterics. We were still so behind our schedule, and it seemed then that the costumes wouldn't be done in time.

The bus from Lahti to Turku left after three in the afternoon. We were dead tired while walking with our heave luggage for three kilometers to the station. After spending 30 hours awake, we just wanted to fall to the ground in x-shape and turn off the lights.

We slept through half of our bus journey to Turku. We actually met our hotel roommate, the lovely Elina, in the same bus. We had never met her or our other roommate Ilona before, and we were so worried how sharing the same space with them would go. Luckily for us, we got friendly really quick as they were such an awesome people! Thanks guys!!

On the Saturday morning we woke up with fresh eyes, while listening Dalin's alarm clock tune, Erasure's Always. We were almost ready to go to the convention, when the fire alarm started ringing in our hotel. We hurried outside, Ennah and Elina half ready in their cosplays. We stood there with this group of guys that were having the hangover of their life and waited a bit scared for what was going on. Finally one of the firefighters informed that there was a little spark in the basement, and that it was safe to go back inside. We packed our stuff properly and headed towards Logomo.

Logomo as a convention place was really nice and spacey. The whole area was full of wonderful photoshoot places and we bet every one founded a fitting place to go with their cosplays. Ennah was having a time of her life with cosplaying as Koban, even thought she didn't see anything really.

We went to see the cosplay shows and especially the guest of honor competition was awesome to see! All of the costumes and performances were great and lit a new fire of inspiration and motivation to our tired souls. Congratulations to all winners and participants!!

In the afternoon we went to photoshoot with our two new friends which we met. Our sweet and wonderful Hôzuki cosplayer, Ane-ue, was really fun and we had a great time while shooting and filming.

...some annoying journalist is disturbing Hôzuki's precious work time
Photo - Marika Taam 

On Sunday Dalin got her Okô cosplay finally ready. We went to see the lecture "Mikä mulle oikein tuli?" (What in the world came over me?) and Dalin got really good material for her university thesis. While listening audiences comments and sharing also some of our own experiences, it was kinda strange to notice how many cosplayers have to struggle with telling their hobby to their parents. Both of our parents have always been really supportive and have accepted all of our weirdest and most bizarre things we had to do to get the costume ready, as long as it is legal. It would be wonderful if there were more these 'deeper' lectures like this held by some outsider professional.

We also meet some familiar faces from last years WCS preliminaries. While remembering all of those painful memories from that experience we started to stress a little bit about this years Tracon, because there's sooo much work to do!! But before that, there's Desucon and Animecon where we are gonna be next. To Desucon we were planning on making new cosplays, but for Animecon we are probably recycling some old ones. Just because Tracon is coming closer really fast and we need to focus on that project!!!

So, overall these two Cosplay Spartans want to say huge thank you for all of you amazing and sweet people whom with we spent time last weekend !!! We had suuuppeeerrr~ (install Franky voice) fun and in the middle of all this stress it was really wonderful to get to meet your own kind of people.

Koban ja Okô
Kuva - Elina Nokelainen

Kuva - Elina Nokelainen

Kuva - Elina Nokelainen