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[pacificpikachu]

I've spent quite a while (read: weeks) downloading Ayakashi so I can watch the Bakeneko arc before starting Mononoke. Finally, it finished, but...

All the subtitles are in Spanish. T__T Well, that's helpful. It would have been nice if the torrent specified this before I spent a few weeks waiting for it to download.

I've been having fun on Cosplay.com for the last few hours. 8D I'm so tired by now that I'm starting to get loopy and realize my sentences aren't making sense, yet still I'm looking around on the forums at great length. I should probably go to bed soon, but Cosplay.com is just so addictive. I can't help it!

I found a Yasako cosplayer who's attending AX, so I PMed her in hopes of traveling around with her at AX while I'm in my Densuke costume. Maybe there will be at least the slightest bit more recognition that way. Man, we seriously need more Dennou Coil cosplayers. Anyone up for it? I know most of the characters are eleven years old, but...it would be fun! And I know where to get perfect Dennou glasses for $5, if that tempts anyone further. I'm trying to get Nicole to be Tamako, Makayla said something about doing an Isako costume, and...yeah, I think that's about it. LOL, Nicole's little brother Dylan would be the perfect Daichi. Too bad he'd never do it.

Speaking of Dennou Coil cosplay, my friends and I still need to get together and make that giant paper-maché Satchii before we all forget about it and remember two days before Fanime or something equally ridiculous. Wait! :O That would be awesome if I hosted a Satchii work party for my birthday. Or maybe just cosplay in general, with an emphasis on building the Satchii...? We'll see. It's a thought, anyway. I can't think of anything more fun at the moment than getting a whole group of friends together for a huge cosplay work party/photoshoots/showing off costumes. The problem would be, of course, that not everyone cosplays, but...we could work around that. :D

Today I discovered that Dad's DVD player plays .avi files, so I had fun rooting through my data DVD-Rs and watching the few files with the correct codecs on the big screen. So pretty! I wish Gurren Lagann worked, though I suppose I could just burn it on DVDs until the official ones are out. All of Beck worked, but the aspect ratio was weird so I couldn't see any of the subtitles at all. ;__; I still enjoyed watching a few of the concerts, though. Darker than Black is prettier than I remembered it being. *__*

Hm, I guess I should really go to sleep... The light is starting to look distorted, and my eyes feel all heavy.

Comments

[loika.livejournal.com]

I demand you share photos of your Dennou Coil cosplay when it's done~ 8D

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

Oh, I definitely will! ♥

[ethersol.livejournal.com]

lol yeah I wanna see. D: in fact, do you have any photos of previous cosplay outfits you've done/worn? I'm intriguied :3

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

Yes, I do have pictures! I'm a mascot cosplayer, just so you aren't like "WTF?" when you look.

http://www.cosplay.com/member/70798/

[ethersol.livejournal.com]

LOL aww they're cute :3 so you hand-made all those costumes? o.o;; they're so cool

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I work really hard on them. Yeah, they're hand made. I do everything except the actual sewing, because sewing fur is too hard for me. ;__; But I make the heads and do the patterns and cut everything out and...everything except the sewing.

[kirarakim.livejournal.com]

Cool Dennou Coil cosplay. I don't cosplay but I would be excited if I saw that.

You should try the mononoke_anime community. I think they should have direct downloads for Bakeneko and Mononoke. You can also buy Bakeneko since it is out on DVD.

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping there will be enough people who have seen Dennou Coil to recognize me!

Oh, thanks for the link! I'll go check and see if those direct downloads are still working. :3 And I wasn't aware that Ayakashi is out on DVD, so if I end up liking it, I'll probably buy it. I'm one of those people who downloads fansubs, but I do almost always buy the legit product if I can afford it. (If I can't, I just wait until I can.)

[sammywhatammy]

I really want to cosplay Daichi. It's such an easy costume, too.

B-but AX is way too far 8D; I'm on the other side of the country. I've been thinking of trying to get a group together for Otakon, though...

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

Aw, you should! Too bad you're so far away. ;__; Be sure to post pictures when you finish, though! I want to see. 8D

And if you do manage to get a gathering together, pictures of that are needed, too.

[sammywhatammy]

I know ;_; It'd be awesome to group with you. I WANT PICTURES TOO, MISS.

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

Oh, you'll get pictures! ♥

According to the Yasako on Cosplay.com, we also might have a Haraken and an Isako, too, so we might end up with a nice little group. :D I hope you're able to get a good group together, too!

[sammywhatammy]

Huzzah! \o/

That's awesome!! I hope you get as many people as possible :Dbbbbbb
I'll try! I'll have to make a cosplay.com account in order to advertise on the forums, but xD;

[ensuing.livejournal.com]

OI"QTQYE"FG Please do a Satcchii! That would be so awesome!

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

Oh, we will! It's just a matter of two things:

1. What to use for the internal structure. (We're thinking chicken wire, as myself and a few friends already have some, but chicken wire is tough to work with.)
2. How will we transport it to the convention?

But I think we'll figure both things out and possibly have a few work days to get it all together and painted and such. I want to put it on wheels and attach it to myself with fishing wire (when I'm Densuke) and have it "chase" me around Fanime and Anime Expo, hahaha.

[ensuing.livejournal.com]

Well, I hope you figure those things out! It would be SO AWESOME. =D

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

We will, I'm sure! We just have to brainstorm together.

By the way, are you planning on going to the Pillows concert?

[ensuing.livejournal.com]

No, unfortunately it's RIGHT before I get out of school for the quarter. T^T

[hitchi.livejournal.com]

See, that's why you should learn Spanish! You could probably understand a good amount of it by reading cognates and listening to the Japanese.

I don't really like cosplay.com...I don't know why.

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

LOL, learning Spanish to watch three episodes of one anime series would be kind of ridiculous. XD And you're right--I probably could understand a lot of it, but still...it'll throw me off too much! XDDD

Really? That's kind of odd. I had heard rumors about it being really "elitist and snobbish," but after hanging out at the forums I realized that this wasn't true at all. In fact, almost everyone I've talked to there is super-helpful, encouraging, and just...there are a lot of cool people there. Do you have any particular reasons?

[hitchi.livejournal.com]

Well, you can use Spanish for a lot of stuff... (I always read elblogdelny.com, which you might find helpful as well), and you DO have a Hispanic surname. XD;

Yeah...I think when I went on the forums there once, people were rather snobbish, now that you mention that. I can't remember exactly, but I haven't had any desire to go on there.

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

I know, it would be helpful. Especially as a Californian--we have lots of Spanish-speaking people here. I just have too many things going on already to learn another language, especially when I'd rather be focusing on Japanese. XD

Really? Everyone I've talked to there has been so nice (one time I was having trouble with my costume, and like fifteen different people posted TWO PAGE posts on what I could do to solve the problem), and I love reading all the threads! I mean, I'm sure there's the occasional stuck-up person, but same with...anywhere else, really. Maybe you should give it another chance.

Speaking of cosplay, do you have anything planned? You haven't mentioned cosplay in a while now.

[hitchi.livejournal.com]

Well, other than considering Will from Excel Saga, not really. If I am going to make Will, I'll be able to talk to my uncle about her tomorrow. I just haven't really had the time or gumption for cosplay as of late. Plus, I always get frustrated because my costumes turn out to be mediocre always.

[pacificpikachu.livejournal.com]

You should definitely do Will! It'll be really funny and I think a lot of people will like it.

I've loved all of your costumes I've seen pictures of. D: What's mediocre about them? Perhaps you just need a more ambitious project.

[hitchi.livejournal.com]

Oh, crap! I forgot to ask my uncle about it today. I'm so out of it.

Well, my Tohru costume, which was my first cosplay, has several problems. The ribbons aren't aligned in the front, the top is too wide, and I don't have a wig, so my hair is the wrong color. For my Colette costume, the collar is too narrow, so I can't wear either of the necklaces that are supposed to go with it, and the top jacket gets misaligned, etc. Plus, I'm really bad at the "playing" part of cosplay. To me, a more ambitious project = even more time and money invested in producing a mediocre product and just getting everyone around me angry.

[cultnirvana.livejournal.com]

Fansubs on the TV = supreme enjoyment. I used to hook my computer up to the TV to watch stuff (need to get my new lappy to do that), and now with the PS3, anything that isn't softsubbed (which I need my lappy for) can be encoded and played on the TV though it. Allows ya to watch so much more anime!