Juuni Kokki/Twelve Kingdoms in '09?

Charis · October 08, 2008, 11:29:17 AM

Since Kimu demanded I post this. ;P

Juuni Kokki, also known as the Twelve Kingdoms, is an awesome series that exists both as an anime and as novels -- the latter more recently translated by Tokyopop, the former done a while ago by ... um, someone else. It is also a series seldom cosplayed, so this is a stretch, but ...

Last year, there was one.

This coming year, there are going to be at least two -- Kimu's bringing her Sairin back, and I'll be bringing up my Risai. I may have some folks coming down from Seattle, but won't know for a while yet.

So it's a stretch, but is anyone else going to be cosplaying it? If you are, it would be awesome to meet up and get some photos -- obscure seria need more love! (And if anyone out there knows of the series and recognises us in cosplay, that's awesome too -- those people seem to be almost as rare as the cosplayers themselves. :D )

Thoroughly Tentative and Sloppy List
Charis ~ Risai (formals or novel cover)
Kimu ~ Sairin (formals)
?Rai ~ Kyou-ou or Taiki?
?Tige ~ Kyouki or Gyousou?
?Yuu ~ Shoukei (third outfit)?
?capeswirlinggirl ~ Renrin or Kourin?

Yuu · October 08, 2008, 11:46:41 AM

I'm sooo torn!
I love ..antyhing relating to ancient ( ro slightly old) China most of all the costumes, but dammit if I get it into it taht will just be one more costume. I have a hard enough time with two!

and now i have...
Renji
Mini-Byakun
Kanda
chain-smoking Ullquiorra
and just been roped into hobo-Viral

..this is already too much madness! >-,

kimu · October 08, 2008, 04:37:07 PM

Yeah Charis!
You did it! You posted a thread for JK/TK!
I am very happy.

Yes, I'll be back at Fanime with Sairin.

Charis · October 08, 2008, 04:57:41 PM

Well, given how the AX group is exploding, one can always hope, right? :3

(Yuu needs to learn to sew so she can do more cosplays. *RUNS LIKE HELL*)

Yuu · October 09, 2008, 11:18:25 AM

Quote from: Charis on October 08, 2008, 04:57:41 PM
Well, given how the AX group is exploding, one can always hope, right? :3

(Yuu needs to learn to sew so she can do more cosplays. *RUNS LIKE HELL*)

Sure, you can hope all you want, but bribery has a much higher success rate. >D

* evil grin* Oh, I have a sewing machine now. Don't understand the instruction book, but I do understand "pointy metal object"

Charis · December 04, 2008, 03:41:12 PM

Well, just to be proper and all ... as evidently two of my Seattle family will be coming down and probably bringing Juuni Kokki (at least, I will assume so until I hear otherwise) ... Risai, Sairin, either Kyou-ou or Taiki, and either Kyouki or Gyousou (personally, I'm expecting Kyou for both).

We're technically up to four. Kimu, think it's worth putting us on the list tentatively? Not that this will be like AX's group, of course, but ...

kimu · December 04, 2008, 06:21:11 PM

If we know we have our 4 minimum, then let us be posted!!
And maybe, if we're really lucky, maybe someone else out there we haven't met that has a TK/JK cosplay might join us.

Charis · December 04, 2008, 06:26:22 PM

That would be awesome. One can hope!

*posts and slogs through the end of work*

Yuu · December 07, 2008, 10:28:21 AM

I've been watching, nit in order though, I get the impression it is a much less Shoujo-ey Fuusihigi Yugi.

Secondly, there don't seem to be a lot of main characters, none that really stand out to me anyway.

Does anyone havean idea of whom I could go as?

Charis · December 07, 2008, 11:20:34 AM

It's really not shoujo, despite the main character being female.

But as far as who you should do ... hmm ... I'm bad at this. And you don't like wigs, right? You should ... totally pester Tige about who to go as. *RUNS*
(No, seriously, I'll think about it, but I really am bad at these sorts of things.)

kimu · December 07, 2008, 11:45:05 AM

Knowing what I do know of you, I think maybe the character of Shoukei could be fun?
She's a princess that goes through some rough times when her parents are killed and she's banished from the palace. While on the run, she has a lot of 'attitude' and the costume wouldn't be too hard to make. So easy to make and you could really have some fun cosplaying it, too?
See what you think, and it'd be great to have you join us!

BTW...I am kinda thinking that we want to avoid Saturday and Sunday for our little gathering with so many groups setting up stuff on those days.

Charis · December 07, 2008, 12:19:32 PM

Timing: I was thinking vaguely of Monday off the bat, since we're such a small bunch and Monday is lazy, but we'll see how things fall out as it gets closer. It'll depend partly, I'm sure, on when folks are flying out as well.

(And Yuu, now that Kimu mentions her, I think Shoukei would be fab for you. And I'm sure Rai would be thrilled by it -- Kaasan too if you brought her to a con she'll be at. :3 Shoukei's third arc, which means interactions with the characters those two cosplay.)

Yuu · December 07, 2008, 12:23:34 PM

Quote from: kimu on December 07, 2008, 11:45:05 AM
Knowing what I do know of you, I think maybe the character of Shoukei could be fun?
She's a princess that goes through some rough times when her parents are killed and she's banished from the palace. While on the run, she has a lot of 'attitude' and the costume wouldn't be too hard to make. So easy to make and you could really have some fun cosplaying it, too?
See what you think, and it'd be great to have you join us!

Thanks
I looked her up and I would like to cosplay as her but I have never cosplayed as a girl. I don't know if I could pull it off, especially if she is young. >_<

I couldn't find ANY pictures. Do you know off-hand which episodes she is in?

Charis · December 07, 2008, 01:07:35 PM

23-39, according to ANN.

http://eop.rubberslug.com/gallery/inv_info.asp?ItemID=214050
http://eop.rubberslug.com/gallery/inv_info.asp?ItemID=214049
http://eop.rubberslug.com/gallery/inv_info.asp?ItemID=214044

Yuu · December 07, 2008, 01:30:58 PM

Quote from: Charis on December 07, 2008, 01:07:35 PM
23-39, according to ANN.

http://eop.rubberslug.com/gallery/inv_info.asp?ItemID=214050
http://eop.rubberslug.com/gallery/inv_info.asp?ItemID=214049
http://eop.rubberslug.com/gallery/inv_info.asp?ItemID=214044

Maaan almost perfect, but 'Kaa-san says her hair is blue. If not for that, I wouldn't have to do a thing with it. But I'll still give a trey.

Charis · December 07, 2008, 02:50:16 PM

What colour's your hair going to be? o.O Because really, black is close-e-bloody-nough in my book if you really don't want to wig things.

Yuu · December 07, 2008, 03:25:59 PM

Quote from: Charis on December 07, 2008, 02:50:16 PM
What colour's your hair going to be? o.O Because really, black is close-e-bloody-nough in my book if you really don't want to wig things.

Ah, I have no pictures and was just told 'blue'. So imagined a lighter blue but blue-black is doable, if that will work.

Charis · December 07, 2008, 03:45:38 PM

It depends really on whether you're going by the anime or the novel colours. Her hair's more powder blue on the novel cover, but it's more of a mid-dark bluish purple to deeper blue-grey to blue-black in the anime art.

kimu · December 07, 2008, 05:16:12 PM

Depends on how crazy you want to be to totally accurate or have fun with it.
Personally, I think if you have dark/near black hair, that would suffice to convey the character.

Or we can go character hunting if you want a crossplay, too.

Yuu · December 07, 2008, 06:48:51 PM

Quote from: kimu on December 07, 2008, 05:16:12 PM
Depends on how crazy you want to be to totally accurate or have fun with it.
Personally, I think if you have dark/near black hair, that would suffice to convey the character.

Or we can go character hunting if you want a crossplay, too.

I think I'll go with dark blue. I need it to be that color for Kanda, anyway. As for Byakun-teenagers are always dying their hair stupid colors. XD

Yea, looking for male characters would be fine except that most of them are just a pretty as the females. So it would make little difference.