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Oh yea, you did see Blend S right?

Hah, according another source that lives in Canada, he says that that could be anywhere because all of Canada looks like that.

Much like cosplay in general-- a mix of fear, amusement, and depending on who's doing it, a confusing and slight amount of arousal.

I actually spent a bit of time yesterday trying to figure out if I could tell which region of Canada she's in, no luck though.

That actually reminds me, one of Vancouver's anime conventions is held at a convention center right next to cruise ship terminal that handles a lot of Japanese tour groups that time of year, I sometimes wonder what they think of all the cosplayers walking around.

https://twitter.com/cowboybibimbop/s...11008738504704

Possibly relevant to your interests.

Did a bit of googling, the picture is from an album released on her 32nd birthday in 2008. Everything I've seen suggests she's still pretty good looking, though that's definitely a studio photo that's probably had at least a bit of post processing applied.

Yea really. I guess if you appear in everything, there will be a lot of crap.

And yes she looks absolutely stunning in that pic... is that recent? I guess she took the eternally 17 thing seriously.

I think any big name voice actress who is agressive about pursuing work is going to end up in a lot of guilty pleasure type crap. Even Yuuki Aoi does some and she gives off some serious "don't corrupt the puppy" vibes.

BTW, is it just me or is Yukari awfully fine looking in her current AniDB pic?
http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl...&creatorid=350

As for Infinite Stratos... it's honestly hit the point where it's starting to feel trollish to me. Read what I posted on Reckoner's wall for details.

Man Kana Hanazawa is sorta like Yukari Tamura; they get so many garbage shows to star in and expect them to carry them. ;;

Though I think Nana Mizuki might be worse off.

I followed one of the Kuroneko links and found another set of Inami Yuri… and in the right hands, she just might be the best Kuroneko of them all:
http://emily00cp.jugem.jp/?eid=122
Good balance between realness/surrealness + heartstopping cuteness.

It occurs to me that I didn't really do a good "plainclothes" Kuroneko yet. I didn't look that closely at Mashiro Yuki's stuff since I find many of her photos sets overly long and/or softcore-y, but she actually does this plainclothes Kuroneko pretty well:
http://behoimi.org/post/show/410066/

Ririchiyo… I'm not going to sift my sources as comprehensively for this one since Ririchiyo is so popular as a cosplay that I'd be swamped. I've photographed at least eight different Ririchiyo cosplays at local cons, which is quite a bit higher than I'd expect from the show's profile.

Kanata is really good at capturing Ririchiyo, IMO:
http://mrsktokei.exblog.jp/18419011/
http://mrsktokei.exblog.jp/18393607/
http://mrsktokei.exblog.jp/18211369/
http://mrsktokei.exblog.jp/18161934/
http://mrsktokei.exblog.jp/18064431/

Some of the materials in Uri's costume are as good as I'd like, but she's pretty decent at the role:
http://behoimi.org/post/show/202030/
http://behoimi.org/post/show/191291/
http://behoimi.org/post/show/202028/

Horns aside this girl is pretty good. Very bishounen Soushi as well (I'm guessing played by a woman…):
http://mrsktokei.exblog.jp/20855363/

And since she's such a good Kuroneko, I'll throw in the one Ririchiyo cosplay I know is her (though the last one looks a bit like her, actually - can't tell since the models aren't labelled):
http://behoimi.org/post/show/381194/

I should throw in some locals whose cosplays I like:
DarkenedXStar is pretty solid, perhaps even a bit more so than this photo suggests. Short in real life too, she's done a damn good Taiga in the past (seems to be a popular choice among Vancouver area Ririchiyo cosplayers who also do other characters for some reason):
http://darkenedxstar.deviantart.com/...vice-330044842

Two Ririchiyo/Soushi pairs… seems to be a fairly popular cosplay for couples from what I've seen:
http://tinypic.com/r/2rxh2ps/5
http://tinypic.com/r/jz7i1y/5

I feel like this girl is cute in a "girl next door" kind of way compared to a lot of others here - granted, that may be partly my lack of postprocessing work.
http://tinypic.com/r/2mpl9hu/5
http://tinypic.com/r/nbfdd5/5
Really wish I didn't have people in the background in the first shot but I wasn't the one who set it up (a decent number of my photos come from joining shoots other photographers have started).

BTW, for reference Ririchiyo is 145cm (4'9") tall, the same as Kud in Little Busters and well known voice actress Yuuki Aoi, pictured hear wearing substantially heeled boosts with her 187cm (6'2") Gosick co-star Eguchi Takuya:
http://hashihime.blogspot.ca/2011/04...ami-saori.html

(Okay, that's the last of these I do for a while... in concept, these posts are easy for me to write but in practice it takes me a while to dig up all the requisite links.

Dang that's pretty extensive Outfox. And it's true that it'd be hard to do Kuroneko since you have to approach the situation from many angles.

Got any Ririchiyo ones that are good?