Vampire Knight: Touya Rima

One of the youngest students of the Night Class, Touya Rima is a quiet girl who works as a model along side Senri Shiki. Though little is known about the nature of their relationship, they are often seen together and have similar personalities. Like many vampires, Rima posses the ability to control lightning.

When Rido was using Shiki's body, Rima was able to tell almost immediately that something was wrong. She later confronts Shiki and tries to force Rido out of him. Ichijou comes between the two and sends a badly wounded Rima back to the Moon Dormitories; to protect both her and Shiki.

Technically, I'm still on break, but I wanted to change my layout for the coming new year. And because I'm a bit of scatter brain, I seemed to have deleted my poll..! ;~; I was able to save the results though, and Asian Cosplayers was the winner for this round! Rest assured, I will definitely keep featuring different cosplays from around the world.

I hope you like the new Vampire Knight layout featuring ON/OFF! I'll make link banners for this later...

Happy Holidays, Everyone!

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Chobits: Chi 05

Time flies by so fast, and now it’s Christmas time again.

Who would have thought I’d be blogging about cosplays for about a year and a half now?

I should let you guys know that I’ll be taking a break from blogging until the first week of January to visit some family and friends during the holidays. I’ll be sure to come back quickly, don’t worry~

But I’m happy people like reading my blog. Thank you…

Merry Christmas, everyone! I hope you like this Chii cosplayer that I’ve decided to feature this special day.

Now go and spend the day with your families, I know I will…

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Fate/Stay Night: Rider

One of the servants of Fate/Stay Night, Rider is a vigilant servant who is very loyal to her master, Mato Shinji, despite being unable to provide her with mana like the other Masters. Her true identity is Medusa, the Gorgon from greek Mythology, although she does not posses Medusa’s trademark "snake-like" hair. She does, however, have very long hair and blindfolds herself to keep her Mystic Eyes, Cybele, from petrifying anyone within her range of vision.

Luty sent me this cosplay after I said I needed to find other cosplays of other character from the series, Fate/Stay Night. Thanks for sharing!

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Sailor Moon S: Sailor Saturn 02

After being reborn thanks to the power of Sailor Moon, Sailor Saturn (aka Tomoe Hotaru) becomes adopted and cared for by Teno Haruka and Kaioh Michiru as well as Meioh Setsuna. As a toddler, Hotaru had a habit of calling Sailor Uranus, "Hakura-papa" even though she is actually female. Similarly, Hotaru called her other two guardians as "Michiru-mama" and "Setsuna-mama".

I love this image of Malro cosplaying Sailor Saturn! This was sent in by a frequent reader, Syaoyue via email. Thanks for the contribution!

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Ragnarok Online: Hunteress

I had gone to Marikina to accompany my Aunt and Uncle a few months back and was surprised to see some cosplayers in SM.

This girl was one of the many cosplayers who were at the ASUS event. I have no idea what series she’s from, but she’s good friends with the Dark Magician Girl cosplayer behind her. A lot of people were taking her picture too.

Any idea where she’s from?

EDIT: Thanks to Animoni for commenting that this is a Huntress from Ragnarok Online!

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Magic Knight Rayearth: Ryuuzaki Umi

The Magic Knight of Water, Ryuuzaki Umi is an only child who is quick-tempered and reluctant on fulfilling her role as one of the three Magic Knights of Cephiro.

During her journey to becoming a Magic Knight, she often wished to return home because of a fencing tournament she is participating in. It is this desire that prevented her from becoming a true Magic Knight, but she overcomes it eventually and revives her rune god before Hikaru or Fuu.

Beautiful cosplay! I believe she’s using her natural hair or some hair extensions, but I like this cosplay a lot even without the blue hair. Great work!

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Ah! Megami-Sama!: Tatakau Tsubasa: Belldandy

In the Ah! My Goddess! TV Special, Belldandy becomes temporarily evil when an angel eater captures Holy Bell and the child-form of the devil Hild implants a Tsukaima egg in her to see if she will turn from being a goddess to a devil like her.

This is quite a unique rendition of Belldandy. I really love her shoes, but it must be a pain to walk around in those. Nice job!

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Lucky Star: Hiiragi Kagami

The older twin sister of Tsuakasa, Kagami (who is sometimes referred as "Kagamin") is a friend of Konata’s and Miyuki’s who loves to read light novels and play shoot ‘em up games. She is in a different classroom than the other main characters of Lucky Star; much to her distress since she even chose the same course in her second year in hopes of being with them.

Kagami studies very hard and is somewhat egotistical. Konata often pesters Kagamin to allow her to copy her homework or tutor her when the exams and/or the due date for summer homework is just around the corner.

Cute cosplay. I found this when I was browsing through Photobucket. I wonder who the cosplayer is?

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The World Ends With You: Hanekoma Sanae

The owner of the Shibuya Cafe Shop in The World Ends With You, little is known about Hanekoma Sanae. He is known to help Neku and Joshua several times in the game, but no one knows how or where he gets his information.

That is, of course, until you reach the end of the game.

I’ve yet to finish this game, since I’m still hunting for more pins to use. I gotta say though, this cosplay is really impressive. He really reminds me of the character. Great job! And thanks to crashwire for sharing the photo!

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Unknown Entry 022

So technically, this week’s unknown cosplay is actually "known". But I’m a little confused.

From the site info, this is Shiki Senri, Kaname’s younger cousin who works as a model along side Rima. But I asked a few people and they think he looks more like Kuran Kaname himself despite the red hair.

So I leave it up to you guys to decide. Is he cosplaying as Shiki, or as Kaname?

Thanks to andyRak for sharing the photo!

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Clannad: Sakagami Tomoyo

Rumored to have a violent record in the past, Sakagami Tomoyo is unbelievably strong and has a reputation of never being defeated in a fight.

After she transfers to a new school, however, she decides to run for student council in order to save the Sakura Trees from being torn down due to some construction for developing the area. This goal also has something to do with her younger brother, Takafumi, but I won’t go through that in detail; otherwise, it’d spoil the story for everyone.

She makes a really cute Tomoyo! It’s funny how one anime can have so many different endings… I actually prefer her ending than Furukawa Nagisa’s. Nice cosplay!

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Vampire Knight: Souen Ruka, Ichijou Takuma, and Kuran Kaname

Childhood friends Souen Ruka, Ichijou Takuma, and Kuran Kaname are Night Class students of the Cross Academy, and fellow vampires.

Ruka is loyal and dedicated to Kaname, even to the point of loving him. Her feelings are left unrequited because Kaname has chosen Yuki to be his lover. After discovering that Yuki is Kaname’s pureblood sister, Ruka comes to accept Yuki and remains dedicated to Kaname in a mature and level-headed attitude.

A beautiful, black and white photo of the 3 Night Class students! It’s also a good choice to go for a black and white photo for this series. Great work, Olga!

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