Pictures of the EOY Cosplay

the EOY Cosplay or the End of Year Cosplay event is the first that i attended. whee what fun.

here are 70 pics of the 200 over i've taken, and the lighting there was pretty crappy. hence i pushed the ISO to 400, which resulted in unsightly noise and urgh i forgot to adjust white balance. the result? an overall yellowy-orangey looking overcast on the pictures.

but they're still good.

owing to the large number of pictures, i've segregrated them into: Dolls pics; pictures of great looking dolls, Trinity Blood pics, Bleach pics, Rachel's pics; where there are pics of rachel, Final Fantasy pics; pics with FF characters in them then the miscellaneous ones.

here we go!

Dolls pics


er nothing to say about this pic...


dolls of Yazoo and Kadaj! they're really lifelike, only minuscule.


Kadaj, Yazoo and some unknown doll.

Trinity Blood pics


Mary Spencer (i think that's what the sword woman is called) and some unknown person. (i don't watch Trinity Blood :P)


Mary Spencer and Queen Esther


The one holding the mic is a really great speaker and she's really funny. her commentary was although fast-paced, but it is quite reminiscent of the way funny and humorous people speak online in chats, for example, she said,

"to know more about these characters, watch the manga! or better still, read the novels. the mandarin ones! insert propaganda here..."


eh, i wanted to close up on her but ended shooting nowhere.


a group photo. this group is huge, consisting of 20 some members?


random targeting of people in the group.

Bleach pics


group shot, the mascot is called KON i think. this is by far the largest group, consisting of 34 members.


this guy was clothed, and when this group did introductions for pairs in the group, suddenly he removed his robe to reveal *phwoar* impressive tattoos on his bod. it's drawn on obviously, but still it's cool.


another costume that looks interesting.

Shameless plugging of Rachel's pics


she thinks she looks ugly/fat/something bad. hm i dunno.


complaining of running out of poses, she went to the back to practise posing.

[oops this pic is removed!]


one of the shots that involved adjusting of apertures, to achieve the blurry effect. blurry effect slightly enhanced by photoshop. =D


hm see above.


we found another cosplayer in the same costume as rach's! and she's only 14. rachel asked her how old does she think she is and the other girl said 20. haha that must have really wound rachel up. "i look so old meh??? >.<"


this pose was to be meant for a yuna and lenne, but seeing as there was no lenne so it's with 2 yunas.


the other cosplayer's friend came as Meiling of Cardcaptor Sakura.

Final Fantasy VII:Advent Children Pics
there are a lot of these, i assure you!

pics with rachel in them


Yuna and Kadaj! totally not related! =)


a cooler Kadaj, same old Yuna.


i think rachel's in love. with that aeris's looks. she was enamoured with the eurasianish looks of the aeris cosplayer. in this pic are yuna, of course, aeris, the pink one and tifa, the kneeling one.

the ones without


y'know what rachel said that spoiled this pic? the guy's...armpit hair. .... ok, right. but it's a cool weapon and costume, except the metal accessory (the cloudy wolf on his shoulder) isn't 3d, but a print-out. kinda spoiled the effect. anyway, this guy looks like raphael!! wuahaha.


still looks like raphael. except this time shamelessly flirting with a different aeris.


vincent and aeris. why's vincent trying to stuff the gun up aeris's nose?


emulating a scene in the movie, it's pretty cool. and that's rachel in the background.


looking even more like raphael. the 'good' side. from left, yuffie, cid, tifa, cloud and reno.


i don't know why i posted this.


!!?? since when did tifa become so whorish and went for aeris instead of cloud? i smell yuri action here...right.

mention-worthy pics, in my opinion
these pics i feel are better taken, so they deserve their own section!


Yazoo and Kadaj, oh and the Yazoo cosplayer is female. and Yazoo is a male character, for those who do not know. she pulled off the cosplay so effectively. and that pose is straight out of the movie!


the three 'Silver-haired men", the bad guys, from left: Loz, Kadaj, Yazoo.


nice pics of Kadaj. it doesn't hurt that the back is all nice and blurry and he glows! wheee! the powers of aperture 2.8 and a little photshop!


another scene out of the movie, it's nice and under-exposed, giving it a surreal, dark and foreboding feeling, although camera critics just say my light-tweaking techniques suck. so what? i like it this way. nyaa to you.


cloud's weapon, this one's not detachable, unlike the movie. but someone did make one that is detachable and comprising of 5 blades, like in the movie. i didn't get to go near that one though. but this one looks better.


truthfully, i didn't take this one. but it's cool to see the 3 SHM together.


rach's facial infatuation, the eurasian aeris.


from far, i thought reno was digging his nose, then i realized he was trying to smoke. this is the better cosplayed reno amongst the rest *cough*ahmad*cough*yours sucked*cough*.


how sweet. yazoo carrying a doll of himself.


another great pic of the SHM. yay.


the last FF pic, this one is not as good as the rest but i forgot to post it in the earlier section. when they were going through this pose, they ended up smiling at the end, quite spoiling the effect. lucky i got hold of this one.

Non FFVII:AC related pics
here are pics obviously not about FFVII:AC, as the title says.

cross-dressing cosplayer!
some guy dressed up as a female character named Meer-sama, i think. he/she seemed to be the most popular character there!


raphael, i think you have a competitor. he looks prettier in drag than you are!


and LOOK! he has prettier legs!

others


the most complicated and intricate costume, it's made up of cardboard and paper and there's someone inside it.


another pic. nearing the end, when he was to go to the stage to reeive the special mention award, he trip and his whole leg came off! he had to stand there and not move as 'emergency technical staff' went to his rescue for 'emergency repairs'. quite sad really.

pics of girls whom i don't think are cosplaying, but look pretty darn good!


the in-charge of the doll booth which i was shooting earlier.


i think she's cosplaying, but i don't know as what, but she's still pretty in that dress!


i think she's just going there as a normal lolita, not really cosplaying as anything. but still wow!


goth chick, with a leather whip!


another lolita/goth. pretty.

very miscellaneous miscellaneous stuff


Harry Potter cosplayers, going as slytherin supporters. their wands look...really cheapskate.


if i didn't hear wrong, rachel said the guy on the right is cosplaying as Itachi. i've never watched Naruto, so i can't be sure.


Kamen Rider! although i don't know what that is. but that's what it's called.


OMG Kingdom Heart's White Truffles! i didn't see those! so obvious this isn't taken by me. eeeyuuur where were they? i'd have liked to see them.


eh, i forgot their names, but they were carrying signs that read

"Vote for us!"

"Or Else.."

[edit 15/12] They're Katamari. But i bet you've never heard of them either.


a line-up of the solo contestants.


more naruto!


Dynasty Warriors! FC if you're reading this, this is for you. hm try to recognize them all?


rinoa heartily from FF8.


D Grayman, cool group! Rabi of that group (the one with the hammer) won the solo cosplay competition.


Rabi.


can't remember who she was cosplaying as, one of the contestants for the solo competition.


he had cool poses, only because he could flourish the sword! i can't remember which game he was cosplaying from.


rabi again


if i'm not wrong, he's Kyo of Dir en Grey!!!


hm some character from Guilty Gears.


don't ask me, i'm as clueless as you are what he is. but it's cool.


group photo at the end.


oh no! how they massacre the Kon doll! =(


oh? the robot's repaired already.


yawn that concludes my pics of the EOY cosplay event. also i learnt one thing. NEVER TO ADJUST THE ISO OF THE CAMERA TO 400 DAMN IT SUCKS!#@#%#@%