Every single time I saw that Mondo throughout the convention, I immediately went, “Oh my God, Josuke! … Ah, crap.” That happened maybe 5 to 7 times over the course of 3 days.
If you see any you want, you can get the images here. I know I promised you Dandy for next time, so just extend that to what would now be the next time.
Hey, there’s not a new episode of Kill la Kill today, so there’s no picture of the new episode. How will we fill the time? Well, the KlK creator Twitter is very open about behind the scenes pictures. They post storyboards, prelim sketches, drawing tables, bonus art, drawing models, junk food, a lemon someone wrote the show’s logo on, and others. It’s very cool to see the basic drawings that eventually progress up to the full show. There are the beautiful storyboard parts like the above and the simple circles before a big Mako speech.
You can see the current collection of those here.
And there’s always cosplay galleries to fall back on. This set is unique because, up until now, we were doing pure fan costumes. What you’d see at conventions, but we’re now at the point where professional cosplay with pro photographers is starting to pop up. They’re almost entirely Ryuko, though we’re seeing some Satsuki as we progress outside the pro costumes and back into the fan ones, but I don’t mind because I really like everyone’s different takes on the scissor sword. You’d think there’d be a lot of consistency, but there’s a lot of different handles and lengths and shapes and all that. Props are fun.
You can check those all out here.
The PV for Episode 7 is out. I want this picture of Mako as my new phone lock screen so that every time I go to watch another few hours of inane YouTube videos, I’ve just got her staring disapprovingly at how I’m wasting my time. Like the “Next Episode” preview, this face takes up 15 seconds of the PV, so I’m hoping that the episode just opens like this, and we find out that Mako just managed to scape together enough change to buy a soda from the vending machine and is just paralyzed by choice.
Besides that, we get to see her brother do her pre-speech pose, so maybe that’s a Mankanshoku signature or something. We also finally encounter the leader of one of the hot topic clubs, the Origami President, and Ryuko will also run afoul of the Baseball Club. If this series makes a Rookies reference, I will fucking lose it.
Last time I did the SQ teasers, I padded it a bit with a small KlK cosplay gallery I found, but this cosplay news isn’t quite as endearing as knowing people are willing to throw caution to the wind and install pink LEDs in their nipples. According to this thread from Singapore Hardware Zone, the Ryuko cosplayer you see towards the back had the police called on her for public indecency by another attendee [Edit: Actually, the woman in question was coming from a church service being held in the same building and not attending the convention] at this years Anime Festival Asia. Apparently, the two got into a fight over the outfit and ended up making a big scene before police were called in. [Edit 2: No arrests were made, though the Ryuko cosplayer did not take it well, as you can imagine.]
We’ve apparently stepped into a dangerous cosplay realm in certain regions. I’ve been to a convention once or twice, so I can’t see it being a problem around here, but if you do cosplay this show, please be careful. Maybe consider doing a Sanageyama if you want to stay safer, though you’ll have to sit around while everyone does this at you.
So, Kill La Kill. I’d call it pretty good, and it’s collecting a lot of the same response from what I’ve seen. Do you feel like you need to go ahead and express your fandom to the max just yet? Well, AnimeSenzen certainly things you do. One day after the show airs for the first time and they’ve already released a cosplay wig based on main character Ryuko Matoi’s hair. It’s specifically designed so that the hair parts over the ears for the perfect authentic look, too.
If you’ve already started setting up your cosplay super team, this wig is running for ¥3,680 on Amazon.
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