DRAMAtical Murder: Seragaki Aoba

Seragaki Aoba is a calm and caring individual who often smiles and helps others in any way that he can. Although he is kind, he does not allow others to take advantage of his kindness and knows when to stand up for himself. He is also unafraid of showing his true feelings even if he doesn’t know the other person very well. Aoba has strong leadership skills, often suggesting methods to their plans and asking questions as a precaution on whether something will succeed or not.

Japanese cosplayer Ichiha (イチハ) makes quite an impressive Aoba, doesn’t she? You guys might remember her as she also cosplayed Abe no Yasuaki from Harukanaru Toki no Naka de - Hachiyou Shou! She has an amazing album of cosplays in her Archive, and a really charming blog too, so please be sure to support her! Thanks to Andrea for sending this in!

Source: イチハ on Cosplayers’ Archive

Samurai Shodown 3: Hisame Shizumaru

Hisame Shizumaru is a young, amnesiac boy who doesn’t remember his real name and thus chose to take on the name of his sword. He was labeled a “demon child” ever since he was born, so he chooses to live and survive on his own. He travels to find a “demon” in order to figure out for himself what it means to be one.

Initially believed to be modeled after Himura Kenshin of Rurouni Kenshin, the creators have stated that Shizumaru’s visual model was actually Kurama of Yu Yu Hakusho.

Belated Happy New Year everyone! Life is still throwing a couple of curve balls on my way, but I wanted to start the year right with one of my favorite characters! I actually thought he was Kenshin too when I first played Samurai Shodown, but then again, wasn’t Kenshin also modeled after Kurama? At least, that’s what I heard?

I hope everyone is having a wonderful new year! Let’s have even more fun together, shall we?

Source: The Elderly Gamer on Blogger

Ribon no Kishi Musical

One of Tezuka Osamu’s most beloved series “Ribon no Kishi”, also known as “Princess Knight”, received a musical adaptation which performed last 3rd to 6th of December 2015 in Theater BRAVA! of Osaka. The musical was produced as a 60th anniversary project for Kodansha’s Nakayoshi shoujo magazine, where several manga series have been serialized back in the 1960’s.

The Main Cast includes:

• Princess Sapphire: Ikuta Erika (Nogizaka46)
• Prince Franz Charming: Kaminaga Keisuke (Yukimura Seiichi in The Prince of Tennis Musical)
• Captain Blood: Tsunemori Aoki (Atobe Keigo in The Prince of Tennis Musical)
• Hecate: Sakurai Reika (Nogizaka46)
• Plastic: Akazawa Tomoru (Akutagawa Jiro in The Prince of Tennis Musical)
• Tink: Kanda Airi (Chibiusa in Sailor Moon Musical)

I honestly think it’s pretty amazing how Japan has a lot of stage play / musicals based on anime and manga. And did you know that they even have glasses at the theatre that show subtitles in English, Chinese, or Korean? I guess the fans of this kind of theater is growing world wide acclaim! Thanks to Justine for sending this in!

Source: Crunchyroll

Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge: Hsien-Ko (Lei-Lei)

Hsien-Ko, also known as Lei-Lei in the Japanese version, first appeared in “Night Warriors: Darkstalkers’ Revenge”. Her character is based on the Chinese hopping vampire, the Jiang Shi, who are actually more like zombies than vampires as the Western world knows them.

Hsien-Ko has an older twin sister named Mei-Ling, who is called Lin-Lin in the Japan. The two appear to be fraternal twins as they do not share the same appearance. However, Hsien-Ko had always appeared to be a Jiang Shi while her sister was among the living.

Well that certainly explains why her skin is blue in the game! She supposedly the undead! But I think she’s cute enough (and busty enough) that the guys won’t complain about the lack of blue make up, yes? Thanks to Vagabond for sharing this!

Source: Vagabond on Photobucket

RahXephon: The RahXephon

The RahXephon is a bipedal, humanoid mecha born from an egg in the underground ruins of Tokyo. It is several stories tall, immensely strong, and is capable of unassisted flight. This mecha is connected physically, mentally, and emotionally to its instrumentalist, Kamina Ayato.

It is later revealed that the RahXephon was created by Ernst von Bähbem as a tool for re-tuning the world. Ayato succeeded in becoming one with the RahXephon and re-tuned the world so that the great dimensional split never happened and Tokyo Jupiter never existed.

Mecha cosplays are always really impressive to me, because most of the time, the cosplayers make these armors themselves! Talk about dedication to their craft! And I’m pretty sure those suits can’t be all that comfortable and easy to move in. Thanks to Tempura-sama for sharing this!

Source: Crunchyroll

Trinity Blood: Augusta Vradica / Seth Nightroad 04

In the manga, Seth Nightroad was first introduced as a tea seller in Andolu, a small area where Terrans reside in the New Human Empire. She convinces Ion to buy tea from her and later helps them locate Mimir’s medicine shop. She later introduces herself to Ion and Esther, and Ion comments how her name sounds like a boy’s name, wondering is her parents were hoping for a boy. Seth shrugs, saying she already has two older brothers, secretly pertaining to Cain and Abel.

At the end of the Night Lords Arc, Ion is horrified at the revelation that the tea seller he addressed as “girl” was actually the Empress, Augusta Vradica.

Japanese cosplayer Mitsuya (蜜也) looks absolutely stunning as Seth! I bet that costume took a lot of work to finish! Please be sure to support the cosplayer in her Archive account! Thanks to Zoe for sending this in!

Source: 蜜也 (みつや) on Cosplayers’ Archive

Sailor Moon S - Princess Cast

三日月のシャーレに
I take off my star earrings
星のピアスはずして
and place them in the crescent moon dish
どうしよう　胸が　胸がいっぱい
What should I do? My heart is, my heart is filled to the top
花火が星になっても
Even if these fireworks turn into stars
恋が闇に消えても
Even if our love disappears into darkness
おねがいよ　キスを　やめないで
I beg you, please don’t stop your kisses

ビロードの香りで　ぬすんでもいい
You can steal me away with your scent of velvet.
このハート銀河で　であった恋よ
This is the love my heart found in the galaxy.

夜ふけのマント　広げれば虹色
When the mantle of evening spreads out, it's in rainbow colors
もっと　もっと　あいしてる
I love you more and more

タキシード・ミラージュ
Tuxedo mirage
タキシード・ミラージュ
Tuxedo mirage

“Tuxedo Mirage”
Lyrics and Translation by Anime Lyrics

Hi, guys! This is Mei! I apologize for the long hiatus, but I’m finally getting my life back in order, so I’ll be slowly adding updates onto Cosplay Holic again! It will take quite a while to bring the updates back to normal again, but I have to start somewhere, right?

I’ll be doing away with the tags for future posts so that you guys can get the updates faster! Besides, it has lost its effectiveness now, so it’s time to stop being redundant, no?

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Source: N.E Project on Facebook