Few days ago Julie sent us this super cool cosplay from a past edition of Wonderfestival!

Spotted this on Akiba Blog...

The winter edition of Wonfes has just opened. I always been a fan of the Tshirts designed by Hironori Oooka but in the last couple of years I think he is not inspired as before, but maybe it's just me...
Winners of this edition Wonder Showcase are:


WSC #040
Haruki
BORN 1982.01.30

[Genocide Kitten]
http://www.hekill.com/




WSC#041
Kouji WAKITA
 BORN 1974.01.20

[カノン]
http://cannon.blog.bai.ne.jp/



WSC#042
Yusuke MASAKI
 BORN 1981.04.09
 
[桜前線]
http://sakuzensen.web.fc2.com/

Ai Flower hasd just posted a couple of nice Miku kigurumi photos! Now things are getting weird: a virtual idol cosplayed by a male cosplayer who would like to be an anime girl...

During Robone contests in Japan I saw many robot wearing anime character costumes, but this one spotted by Robot Watch is on a different level and I think is the first example of true robot cosplay (or maybe I'm just too much in love with Hatsune Miku...) 

I just found this Hatsune Miku costume on Ebay. The quality is not great but it's preatty cheap (it's just  $45.99) so I think I'm gonna buy a special present to my girlfriend for St. Valentine!

(via SamuraiSB)

(NSFW) If you liked the Sexy Christmas costumes posted in the past weeks, maybe you would like to see the costumes in "action" before choose the right one for your girlfriend so why don't watch this Christmas Angels - Santa Harem DVD released by Moodyz?
Ryo Mishima, Emiri Sena, Airu Kaede, Miku Takashima and Yuuki Kitada are the 5 lovely AV idols in the Santa Harem and I'm sure they will teach us something new to do during Christmas eve...

(via Haimaki) Wow! It's impressive to watch how otaku culture  was already alive and kicking in Japan more than  20 years ago when the western geekdom was still trapped into the Marvel super heroes universe...  1985 was a special year for Comiket since in that year Yoshihiro Yonezawa established the Comiket Ltd. to better manage an event that was already getting big and in the same year the female presence among attendees started to rise thanks to the success of Yaoi phenomenon linked to Captain Tsubasa parodies...

I just found out that also the cult Akiba shop M's Pop Life Department got a great selection of sexy Christmas costumes. (old "sexy xmas" post here). M's is my favourite audlt shop in the world. What makes this shop unique is that it has been created to attract  sukebe oyaji like me but also couples interested in discovering new ways to have fun sex. The Japanese artist Mizuno Junko has collaborated with several project produced by M's (actually I think this kind of collaborations are way cooler than the "traditional"  marketing projects made by KidsRobot or other so called streets brands). 
If you don't know this Akiba sex temple you should take a look to this  great reportage by Akibamap (translated by Sweat Pink blog).

As announced in this post the japanese cult label Vap has released a "compilation album" (for the 150th anniversary of Jingle Bells ) with the collaboration of some of most famous Japanese otaku artists like the new Akiba Superstar Aya Hirano (wiki)  "Love Gun" from Death Note and Lucky-Star. I'm in full Christmas mode playing  Christmas Nights on Sega Saturn so I started browsing japanese shops for the perfect sexy Christmas costume like the one dressed by Japanese companions...











More costume here...

Today on mixi (Vocaloid 2.02 Rin community) I found Kinako Mochiko: a beautifull cosplayer dressend like our Rin chan! Nose bleed mode ON!!

After admiring this cosplay beauty yo uare ready for some Vocaloid doujin artworks...

via monoganac2.sakura.ne.jp

If you are looking for an exclusive Christmas present for your girlfriend why don't bid on this japanese auction? There are a couple of days left and the price (36,000 yen) is not bad for a complete Miku costume. It's possibile to choose between three size:
Small (B〜84.　W.〜65　H〜92), Medium (B〜87.　W.〜67　H〜95) and Large (B〜90.　W.〜70　H〜99).

Ops, I missed this great release from the lovely "Kimino Yume " (that in Japanase sounds like "Your Dream". This a perfect name for an AV actress. Isn't it?).

There are already two doujin soft for Nintendo DS dedicated to (Vocaloid 2) Natsune Miku. These DS homebrews has been released during Vocaloid M@ster event held last saturday in Tokyo. One is Mikutsun Vol.1 and one is DS Miku. 
This is a preview video shooted a month ago when Miku Stun has been spotted in Akibao (a famous underground shop in Akihabara).  To run these homebrews on your DS you need R4 or our supoer favourite NeoFlash MK5. 

I was looking for something "special" for my (cosplayer) girlfriend and I found these game costumes inspired by PacMan/Ms PacMan: I love the ghost pants and the deep blue color choice is genial (in the game the 4 ghoosts, Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde, turn deep blue after pacman eats a  power pill that gives him temporary ability to eat them)! Whats better for a retrogamer girl love night?!  Waka, waka, waka....

  This is the video of the week: Hatsune Miku cosplay and anime song cover of LUM chan!!
These Miku videos ranked 2nd and 3rd in my personal Weekly Miku chart! I'm pretty sure that this winter negi will be the bestselling vegetable in Akiba!! As reported by Zepy (via Moonphase)  Hatsune Miku manga called Hatsune Mix! will start serialization in Comic RUSH starting from the 2008 January issue. The author is going to be none other than KEI, the artist who did the original character design for Hatsune Miku.


Akibablog spotted several ero doujin mangas dedicated to Miku chan!

After the last week Tokyo Game Show the "Otaku Season" is officially over so I decided to post a preview of this otaku documentary   shooted and edited  by our friend Antonio Mariani during the Wonderfestival (the DVD should be out in the next months). It features tons of garage kits, dolls, cosplayers and a (very) short interview with the legendary Danny Choo (and in a couple of scenes you can spot the superstar otaku photographer Julie from Samurai Girl photobook)!

(fonte Akibablog)

Il Kigurumi è un tipo di cosplay in cui la faccia del cosplayer è coperta da una maschera. Normalmente gli appassionati di questo genere di cosplay sono i ragazzi che in questo modo possono impersonare anche i personaggi femminili dei manga e degli anime preferiti.
Anigao è un locale di Akihabara dedicato al Kigurumi, ma quello che rende unico questo posto è il fatto che le ragazze indossata la maschera si lasciano fotografare pagando 10.000 yen all'ora (agggiungendo 2500 yen è possibile fotografarle in bikini). Se siete fortunati una hostess di Anigao potrebbe accompagnarvi anche in qualche altro locale come questo bowling. Siete pronti a far morire tutti di invidia?! 

Speriamo che qualcuno prenda esempio da queste produzioni culturali "Made in Japan" per rendere un po' più interessante la TV generalista italiana che sembra ogni giorno di più creata pensando a un target di ultra settantenni...