Japantag 日本デー 2013

Hey everybody! ヾ(｡･ｪ･)

Here's the promised Japantag ("Japan day") post!
The Japantag is a big cultural (and pop-cultural) event which takes place every May in Düsseldorf at the Rhine promenades. Maaany people gather to watch a programme, look at vending and crafting stalls or just.. to watch people, especially cosplayers and Japanese fashion enthusiasts.

As a new invented tradition Ari visits us every year now! Haha. ♥ This time she brought cute Sayu with her and both arrived on friday (of course Shinpei came too).
The next day also my mum came to us and went with us to Düsseldorf! ヾ(*・∀・)/

My original plan was to wear my Adekan Shiro cosplay again...
But guess what? Right, it was fucking cold and rainy that day! So I just switched to my kogal outfit actually being happy to dress up properly again (I'm usually too lazy during uni-time).

So here's my look for that day:

I wasn't 100% satisfied with my make that day but whatever~

As you may not see, I really used circle lense... haha. These are the Barbie puffy three tone grey, which are exactly my original eye colour! ヽ(ﾟﾛﾟ；)

(And I need new extens.. mine are like.. nearly three years old now? And really thin.)

Have some in-train-pics here:

With my bby Aiji. ♥ 

She looked soo cool that day..!

With my little Aiji... haha.

Nose-picture.

And pics from my lovely companions~ 

Shinpei. ♥

Aiji and Masa. ♥

Aiji and Louise. ♥

Aiji's cute style! 

..little Aiji being utterly cute! (//∇//)

And Liang being cute....! ♥ haha.

Also, a small doll-meet took place.. but we nearly knew no one so we were very shy...

Eventhough everyone was pretty nice we left early and didn't manage to take any pics, sadly..

Well, but we had much fun although it rained sometimes... but until like 7 PM it was quite warm so it was okay.. but then we literally froze our asses of so we went home again and didn't stay until the fireworks.. sadly.

But I met a lot nice people! Also a girl who liked my hair and style.. she seemed to be a very very cute beginenr gyaru with an awesome style taste and I was so happy to see that. ♥

(So if you're reading that.. write me! （ΦωΦ）)

Here are some pics with others~ 

Our whole 'group': Aiji, Shinpei, Ari, Sayu and me! ♥

Group pic by Aiji with the dollies as well.

(The cardigan makes me look like a fatty-chan! （；￣Д￣）)

With Ari~ ♥

(Stolen from Ari's fb... ehehe.)

...So that was my picture heay post about a quite nice Japantag. Stay tuned...!

.Maya

Dokomi 2013 - Saturday and Sunday

Hey there everyone! (・。・）ノ

I know it took me damn long to post again, sorry, ahaha...
But here come two new posts: about the Dokomi convention and the "Japantag" (Japan-day) this year~
First of I'll start with the Dokomi.

We went there with Shinpei and Sammy, as nearly every year now.
This now pretty big convention (12,000 visitors!) took place at the convention center in Düsseldorf and I reserved my weekend-ticket kinda last minute..
It's sooo so amazing how much this convention has grown over the past 5 years. ♥

On saturday Aiji, Shinpei and me wore our Adekan-cosplays finally!
I was so happy to wear it finally  - and suddenly it was fucking cold for mid May. Σ(･口･)
Half of the day it was grey, windy and cold - but later in the afternoon the sun finally showed up!
...Buuut unfortunately we forgot our camera.. n__n
So here are just some kinda bad quality pictures~

I have to admit I loove this pic.. ;w;
I was so happy because of my weight loss I didn't even need to edit my legs, kyaahh!!

My beautiful Anri! ♥♥

Me derpin' but well..

Shinpeei and her amazing style~

Also one of my faves. u///u 

And here's the original: 

Those are all taken with my iPhone or a digital camera.. well we hoped to take some better pics at the "Japantag" but that is a different story...

On sunday I originally wanted to wear Kuu again.. but because it was supposed to rain and there should be a thunderstorm later I didn't want to in the end - so I wore my Mad Maya cosplay-thingy once again because Aiji wanted to wear my Ah hah! cosplay... haha.
...Buuuut the weather was fucking great all day! Damn it..

We also took our dolls with us and made some nice shots~

"Stop it!"

Eemil & Aiji ♥

Aiji loves the summer! ♥

Well, that was our Dokomi - quite nice but I'm still a little sad I couldn't wear my cosplays as planned...

We also met many nice people and friends, that made it a bit more happy! 

I'm already excited for next year! 

.Maya

Adekan Manga and Shiro Yoshiwara Test-Shooting

Hey again... ♥

So here's the promised second post for today.
...Since I got myself a long weekend we decided to head out together with Rumi and do a small photo shoot at the "Landschaftspark" here because the weather was starting to become really nice again.

In two weeks there's taking place one of my favourite convention again: The Dokomi in Düsseldorf!
I'm pretty excited about it and one of my planned cosplays will be a new one (the other is Kuu again).
It's Shiro Yoshiwara from the more and more popular manga 'Adekan' by Tsukiji Nao.
I simply loooove his character! He's mysterious, cheeky, elegant and somewhat cute but also a little arrogant and creepy sometimes. A 16-years old umbrella maker with a dark background...
The manga's not really Shounen-Ai but has a touch of it now and then, has a lot of humor, crime cases and simply stunning artwork. ♥
I can just recommend to everyone who hasn't read it yet! (In Germany it's also available in book stores.)

Here are some impressions of the character Shiro:

Yeah, right, a black haired boy again.. somehow.. I'm destinied to cosplay boys with black hair? lol

I don't really know..

Well, cosplayers here aren't that rare anymore, but what you mostly see are a few extravagant cosplays like from the outfit in the fourth picture - but rarely anyone pays attention to his/her face, impression and wig.. it seems like if you have a great outfit, everything else doesn't count. Well..

I'm not a really good crafter so I'm not gonna do what everyone else does.. you'll see. :3'

Anyways I wanted to practice posing and stuff so we did a small test shoot in a very improvised outfit consisting of my yukata and a self made hakama..

But here are the results: 

What do you think? :3

I hope with the final result I can catch the atmosphere of the manga and the character eventhough I'm not the best and elitest cosplayer...

.Maya

May Inspirations

Hey everyone!
No long talks, before a post about a cosplay test shooting we did on friday, here's my gal & body inspo for the upcoming month! ♥

~~~

.Maya