[ cosplay ] yuri inami : ruri 'kuroneko' gokou vol. 2

layer : Yuri Inami
character : Ruri 'Kuroneko' Gokou
series : Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai
score : *****

we're still in the middle of our burnout-recovery mode, so here's a few more of yuri-san's lovely kuroneko-get instead for all you serious cosplay lurkers out there. oh, and btw don't forget to stop by our previous entry [ here ] should you're in seek of the previous image set of this very kuroneko-get, as well as our brief commentaries written for it :3

[ cosplay ] sue : nymph vol. 3

layer : Sue
character : Nymph
series : Sora no Otoshimono
score : *****

the third, and final installment [ for the time being ] to our feature post on sue-san's nymph-get. in the mean time, you can also seek for [ as well as read our accompanying brief commentaries on ] the earlier two of sue-san's nymph feature from our back entries [ here and here ].

[ all images are property of yuuro_an ]

[ cosplay ] uriu : shana vol. 3

layer : Uriu
character : Shana
series : Shakugan no Shana
score : *****

here at +ophanium, there is only one solid truth that we would heed to; uriu-san is the best shana cosplayer around ever in existence. and these previous two [ 01 | 02 ] efforts from her pretty much proven that statement for us. also, thanks to her splendid performance / execution of shana, we can perfectly picture it in our minds how the character itself would exactly look like on our plane of reality.

[ cosplay ] ryuuna : sakura matou / dark sakura

layer : Ryuuna
character : Sakura Matou / Dark Sakura
series : Fate / Stay Night
score : *****

a magnificently spot-on dark sakura-get by ryuuna-san, of which gloriously stood on a level of its own currently unmatched by many other dark sakura-get we've seen so far - especially on the obvious visual fact that she greatly represent the original character very, very closely; both on her looks, and her costume indeed.

prior to this, ryuuna-san has once [ or more than twice, if we remember correctly ] executed a tohsaka rin-get which fell kinda short according to our initial evaluation since she's definitely not cut for the character [ rin ], yet with the advent of this dark sakura-get of her however, ryuuna-san has somewhat managed to redeem both our waning expectation and interest upon her stuff - which would later be carried forth until a recent arf [ of mahou shoujo lyrical nanoha fame ] cosplay she has wonderfully executed last fuyucomi.

intermission : obligatory filler post, pt. 1

seems like we've finally reach the [ creativity ] burnout phase for this blog here [ thus the lack of updates recently ], further augmented by hime's lack of free time lately due to ever growing workload / real life stress since march 2011, and zange's ongoing refusal to write down a post or two [ it does made me wonder why did we have her in the team, btw :D ] even until now. still however, this wouldn't mean the end of +ophanium yet, as we still desire to push and stretch this blog's presence / existence for as farther as we could - esp. with the recent 15K pageviews per month of which we managed to nab of recently from three years of posting nonsensical editorials, shallow anime overviews and derp-y cosplay commentaries.

that, and honestly we still have a lot of plans in store for +ophanium, thus hopefully we could field some of them out before the end of 2011, in hoping to re-invent this blog into more than just a personal rambling blog as how it started to be in august 2008 - but not to the extent of becoming an ad-infested 'otaku' news site of course [ no offense intended, just in case ].

frankly speaking, there's quite a handful number of incomplete drafts currently sitting on the dashboard [ excluding cosplay posts, most of which are produced on the whim with very minimal planning / editing ], yet so very little time and opportunity for me to refine them up for submission - especially when i had to painfully divide whatever free time i had in hand between anime and other worldly pleasures / necessities. not to mention, twitter's one to blame as well, as that very place has essentially butchered the productivity of this blog here due to its [ twitter's ] sheer awesomeness.

[ cosplay ] yuri inami : ruri 'kuroneko' gokou

layer : Yuri Inami
character : Ruri 'Kuroneko' Gokou
series : Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai
score : *****

been lacking on ideas to conjure up posts focusing on animes lately, so why not we go all out a bit on cosplay posts, don't we ? so anyway, here's a marvelous + fantastic kuroneko-get by yuri-san; another fresh newcomer to our cosplay feature segment and a layer of whom will probably be receiving regular entries from time to time here in the future.

taken from the same cosplay event [ of recent ] at which saw the debut of this outstanding astarotte ygvar, yuri-san has clearly put up a very fine job at conjuring forth the magnificent kuroneko to the outside of the fictional realm - particularly on both her look as the character and most importantly, costume-wise definitely. most [ if not all ] of the details were present on herself [ dat mole ] and her costume respectively - the collars especially, yet a slight miss is highly apparent from the piece of cloth above her chest, plainly left without being styled to that of the design seen on the actual character.

best of all, she had a very precise hime-cut reminiscing that of kuroneko, further accentuating the quality of her kuroneko-get to the highest level possible - and i for one cares very deeply on a layer's wigwork; for they are one of the most essential aspect of a cosplay - as they can either make or break a cosplay indeed :3

[ cosplay ] kana mineo : miku hatsune

layer : Kana Mineo
character : Miku Hatsune
series : Vocaloid 2
score : ***1/2

technically this [ miku-get of hers ] was my first encounter with kana mineo-san, and from which i start to built for myself an interest into her cosplay-works; some of which were quite decent in execution, yet were very apparent in the amount of passion one can certainly see and feel coming from her.

that said, the overall presentation of the costume component for this miku-get of her seems kinda rough and decent at best, and i for one doesn't really fancy the metallic finish most especially. both the sleeves and that particular hair accessory [ the latter were too large anyway, best to be reduced to suggested original dimension ] could've used some extra bit of work and refining, and most of the details were either lost or lacking from her - most noticeably the '01' mark on miku's left arm.