Mimicon 2014

The second Mimicon was held in Mikkeli on 17th-18th of May (hmm, is my blog entry late or what). I was super busy that weekend and before it too, because I had two new cosplays for the event. I've never done two costumes for the same convention and because of my university studies the month before Mimicon was super hectic. x__x

My first cosplay was a maid costume because I was working at the Mimicon's maid café. I was there together with my best friend Minorea, who was a maid called Alice. This was my first time working at a maid cafe, but it wasn't that difficult for me. After all I did my internship at a Japanese restaurant and I work at a hotel, so extremely polite customer service was nothing new to me. I was just happy I got to use the polite Japanese expressions again and all of my customers seemed to be surprised by it. x3

Roromiya doesn't mind what she's forced to wear as long as she gets to eat something. <3

To my amazement I was the only maid/butler with a self-made costume. All of the others had ordered or bought theirs, so I felt mine was a bit out of the place especially when I'm not that good of a sewer. My dress was based on Inu x Boku SS's Roromiya Karuta. Her "master" makes her wear an adorable maid costume at one point, and since I've wanted to cosplay Roromiya for a long time I decided to make her maid outfit. I didn't have time to finish all the details for the dress, so I decided to be just me and cosplay Roromiya later. Roromiya wouldn't have been that suitable for customer service either, she would have eaten all the cakes... :---D I'm going to finish the outfit this summer and get a photoshoot done as Roromiya. *counting on Minorea*

Welcome to Maid Cafe! <3 (c) Kyuu Eturaitti

(c) Kyuu Eturaitti

My another costume was something I never imagined I would wear, especially on stage.. But I did it and I even danced, a thing that I've never been good at. We took part in cosplay performance contest with our group FC Lonkerohirviöt (= FC Tentacle Monsters). Our cosplay was Hinoi Team with Korikki, and we did the costumes from the official music video of Night of Fire! All of us did our costumes ourselves.



My costume almost turned out as a disaster. I was Rena, the girl in blue and I decided to do things as accurately as possible. I'm actually proud of my top part. It's actually really neatly made, sits well on me and was perfect for dancing. I didn't feel embarrassed wearing it, and that's a lot when I have to wear something that shows my stomach. :3 This was my first time making shoe covers, and despise everyone else complaining it is horrible, I thought it was the easiest part of my cosplay. I like the result and they were fast to make. xD

The Gaylord, Paakku, Hobitti, Minorea and me. I love everything in our group, we look awesome! :D (c) Kyuu Eturaitti

The skirt is another story.. I could have simplified it and make a skirt of 10 parts. Instead I decided to make something that's exactly like Rena's skirt, something that consisted of 58 parts... My materials weren't the best possible ones and I didn't quite get the effect I wanted. The skirt was just a.. fiasco. Yeah. I didn't have time to finish it before the convention, so I sewed it at the hotel room until 2am. And I actually had miscalculated something, meaning the skirt turned out awfully short... :---D Luckily, LUCKILY, Paakku had bright pink dancing shorts with her and I could wear those during our performance. They saved my day and I actually felt really comfortable despite my small clothes.

(c) Kyuu Eturaitti

We have dreamed of this cosplay group for years, but finally we gathered all the members and all of us could go to the same convention. All of us practiced separately because we live in different towns. The first time we practiced together was on Friday, two days before the contest! But all in all I think we did really well and we had so much fun! People were shouting "Korikiii~ Asukaaaa~!!!" to us and clapped all the way from the beginning to the end of the song! Apparently it looked good to the judges too and we placed 3rd! GO TENTACLE MONSTERS! <3



Isn't it just BEAUTIFUL? We enjoyed it so much that we have new plans for future conventions... So if you ever hear of FC Tentacle Monsters, that's us!

I usually go to several conventions during the summer, but this summer I'm only going to Mimicon and Närcon in Sweden. I asked for days off from work during the convention weekends, but.. No can do. Our hotel is really busy during the summer and we have many events during the weekends so I have to work or they'll be in trouble... Luckily I can go to Närcon, we actually have some cosplay contest related plans for that... ;)

What, another maid outfit? And my very first prop? Airi from Queen's Blade.

In the next update you'll get pictures of my new fursuit project. :)

Desucon Frostbite R-18

Desucon Frostbite 2014 was the first R-18 convention in Finland. We had lots of fun and some things were better than usual: no high-pitched screaming of teenagers, more space to move around and no garbage on the floor and under stairways. Other than that the event was pretty much the same as earlier conventions, with the expectation that there was more boobs on display at the vendors' room. I think they were supposed to check every participants ID so they are over 18 years old, but for some reason they didn't check mine even though I was the youngest in our group. :'D Maybe the security officer thought he checked mine already because we looked alike with Minorea in our kigurumis.

A bunny airplane! ..almost. Atleast we had fun! (Minorea in pink wig and me in yellow.) Picture (c) Kyuu Eturaitti.

I think we are the laziest kind of con visitors out there. We usually have no idea what kind of programmes there are until we reach the convention, and this happened this time too... But we checked the schedule for the weekend when we got to Frostbite on Friday evening. This time either we didn't find that many programmes we wanted to see expect for cosplay contests. I have to admit I actually missed some interesting programmes because I didn't check them beforehand.. Maybe I'll learn to prepare better in the future? (I guess I have because I've already checked NFC programme and registered for some of them!)

Even Gaikotsu got wild with her poses because it was R-18 convention.

On Saturday we went to watch the cosplay contests and cheer on Päivi from UruharaFC. Having seen their shows before I was thrilled to see what she had come up with this time - and it was amazing! No surprise she won and she'll participate in Nordic Cosplay Championships in Sweden this summer. Congrats and good luck! ^w^
Unfortunately our furry meet was at the same time with the cosplay contests so I couldn't take part in it. I still met some furries, old and new asquaintances. And I also found a new furry friend at the convention's "friend hunt". Hehe, it was a fun way to meet Jummi!

We also tried a Maid Cafe at a convention for the first time with Minorea. We've been to a real maid cafe in Japan and I was glad to notice that this maid cafe was a lot like it! We shared a delicious strawberry cake which got even more delicious because we did a 'food spell' with our extremely cute and lovely maid. Thanks Alice!

"Taste - taste - better! <3"

This convention was weird for me in the sense that I had different costume for every day! On Friday we wore our lovely kigurumis with Minorea, on Saturday I wore my fursuit and on Sunday I cosplayed Soifon. I cursed both my fursuit and Soifon so much that I don't know if I want to wear them anymore.. Atleast I want to revamp Gaikotsu's head, paws and tail. But I'm pretty sure I won't have time for that before NFC so I have no choice but to wear that ugly thing.. ;__;

With and without the coat.

Hahah everything on my backside was so messed up but this picture will do... :'D

I cursed this cosplay whole Sunday because it was so ugly and stupid and badly made, but... This picture made me love this cosplay 10,000 times more! Thanks to Minorea for photographing~

I also bought a lot of stuff. Well atleast it was a lot of stuff for me because usually I buy only food during conventions. But this time.. I just found wonderful things. A black&red Hell Bunny dress with cute little bats  from Wannabe (you can see it in the Maid Cafe picture), a black&red collar from Kuroineko Clothing, and.. I bought two ribbons from Von Aidainder, they are lovely! I just  had to wear the black&red one for school the next day and I think it's my favourite accessory already... The brown one goes well with my steampunk related outfit. ^w^
(Yes I like combination of black & red, that's why Gaikotsu is black, red and white too. ;D)

Two ribbons from Von Aidainder and collar from Kuroineko.

All in all an R-18 convention was a good experience and lots of fun! I hope this format will continue in future Frostbites too. I think I didn't enjoy the con to the fullest thought because I'm SUPER excited for Nordic Fuzz Con! It's less than 2 weeks away! I can't think about anything but going there and meeting my dear Swedish cat Linnea <3

(Oh and I got a huge inspiration to make more cosplay costumes... Be prepared, for I'm going to finish Ponyta by LEVELS 2014!!)