RIISIKAKKU

Hello everyone!!

So Desucon was held in the beginning of June. Even though we didn't have any major cosplayplans, we had to, yet again, stay up for the whole Friday-Saturday night working our asses off. We feel like this has become a thing for us lately, not in a good way. Time management is definitely something we have to work on in the future, because there's only that much stress human being can handle. Dalin also realized this while making her Hypecon costume (which she never finished in time). :((

Ennah didn't actually do anything new for this convention, mainly because in these last couple of weeks, She had really though time with school application thingies and stuff. So, she did some repairing on Chacha's costume and wore that and Koban on Desucon.

Chacha from Sengoku Arashi - Nobunaga no shou
Photo - Kyuu Eturautti

Dalin however, had to make two costumes. One for herself, and one for her little brother "T". T is crazy for Kuroko no Basket, and it's really great that he came with us, because the last time he was in any convention was about two years ago. He wanted to cosplay Kuroko when he first started watching the series in 2012, but because Dalin was out of country and going allover Europe, she didn't have time to make it.

I think one of the things people should consider while choosing fabrics for a cosplay that's from sportseries, is to really look what kind of materials are used in real life sportswear. We did some research in local sport shops and got pretty good idea of what should be used for Kuroko. Eurokangas doesn't have a good selection in sportfabrics, but we found great fabrics from Kangastukku. We recommend it to everyone, it has such a nice variation of fabrics and the prices are a bit cheaper than in Eurokangas. And you can get a student discount there too!!!

The costume itself was easy to make, but few mistakes did happen this time. When making the simple cosplays, it seems that mistakes do occur more often than not. This time it was with the jersey. We did the letters too big, and they didn't fit.

The letters were hand cut from fabric that had buckram fabric ironed to it. After that, we used the double sided buckram fabric on the letters and ironed it so they would stick together. It took really long time to cut all the pieces, as we needed to have 5 layers of different fabrics and buckrams to get one letter.

Otherwise the costume did come along fairly quick. It was nice to see T's enthusiastic face when he tried on the costume.

Ennah managed to get a pose picture of T. 

We found an amazing 2 meter tall Murasakibara cosplayer and just had to ask him if he would pose with our Kuroko.

Dalin made herself Akane Owari cosplay from Super Danganronpa 2 game. It was probably one of her easiest and simplest cosplay ever. Almost all the materials were from Ennah and the shirt was recycled from her vocational school thesis work.

The wig was the most infuriating part in this cosplay to do. Originally the wig was long and straight so getting it to stay up was pain in the ASS.

The pin Akane had in the corner of her breast pocket was made from fimo clay and painted with acrylics.

Photo - Kyuu Eturautti

Akane and her light lunch.

So overall this year Desucon went quite good... If you don't count the last minute panic and the point that there were four people living and making costumes in Dalins 34m² appartment.

We'll probably do the Hypecon-post in the following days! It was one of the most emotional conventions we've been in this year. At least for Ennah! ;-; <3

-D&E