Yes, Ob and I went to the Expo in full cosplay!
She was Rikku from FFX and I was Matsumoto from Bleach.
It went pretty well, I thought. We went down to London on the Friday for the Saturday Expo-day – I had the Friday and the Monday off and, it seems, that was for the best – and spent two nights in a London TravelLodge. Oh. My. God.
We’ve pretty much agreed that this will never happen again; it made us sad (snobs that we are) just to be there and we always spend a lot of time in hotel rooms when we go to London. It was a CHEAP hotel room of CHEAP and we didn’t like it at all.
Still, the Expo did go fairly well. I pinned Ob’s hair on and seemed to do a good job with that – it stayed on all day! It did, in fact, take a while to take off. Which I take as a compliment to my superb pinning skills.
Putting on my Bleach cosplay outfit took (as expected) quite a while. My wig was fine, but the rest of it was several layers and two obi, one with a bit of big bow thing going on. There was much breast on display – I was heavily and oft complimented on my true Matsumoto-esque boobs. I was very proud.
We were, let’s be fair, awesome.
I did really enjoy the recognition and the being dragged away for photos all the time – I’m such a camera ho sometimes! I even got stolen by a Tony Stark for an action photo – three shots in which he was reaching for my amble bosom, I raised my hand and then slapped him in the face. I really want a copy of it now!
I very much enjoyed the day. I bought two plushies, Urahara and Orochimaru, a keyring with Matsumoto on it (I plan to get one every time I cosplay now of the character I went as!) and some Yu Yu Hakusho yaoi doujin.
The guy at the yaoi doujin stall was brilliant. I can’t remember half of the things he was shouting, but they were things like, “Yaoi! Men in tight pants!” which, of course, makes him truly awesome.
He also at one point commented that, “I’m always surrounded by all these beautiful women, but they only want me for my smut!” Which I found endlessly amusing.
One of the funniest aspects was definitely wandering around London streets and going on the Underground in full cosplay. Ob and I did have an issue with temperature though; when I was hot she was fine and when I was fine she was freezing. That’s what we get for dressing in such different costumes I suppose!
Next time I will remember to do a proper Matsumoto pose (arms crossed under boobs to make them even more awe-inspring) and I will put on a bit of make-up as well I think.
Speaking of next time though, it seems we might have an actual group cosplay thing going on! So next time could be anything that we all like and can do. We also plan to do a two day trip – one for cosplay and one for enjoying the event itself (buying plushies, doujin and manga, etc.).
I’m really looking forward to the next one now! Bring on the cosplay!
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| London MCM Expo October 2010 |
