"Hanegasaki Gakuen Summer Uniform Cosplay"

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After I waited for two weeks, I finally get my hands on my cosplay costume!

This is a summer uniform cosplay of the student of Hanegasaki Gakuen in Tokimeki Memorial Girl’s Side 2nd Kiss!

What do you think?

The cosplayer is myself.

Do you know Tokimeki Memorial Girl’s Side 2nd Kiss?

It is the second series of Tokimeki Memorial Girl’s Side game (TMGS). It’s developed in PS2, Nintendo DS, and PSP platform.

It is Otome-game genre. Otome game is a game for otome (young girls).

TMGS is a game about dating simulation in virtual school. And it is a reverse-Harem!

Yep it is!

You’ll created your character and define her name, birth date, blood type, and type of room.
It doesn’t affect anything in-game though.
You only would go “kyaaa” over that seiyuu’s voice calling your name :D

In that game, you’ll do/redo your high school life in a Japanese High School.

You’ll attend Habataki Gakuen for the first and the third series and Hanegasaki Gakuen for its second series.

You’ll be presented by beautiful prologue for each series.

You can attend clubs, focus on studying, do a part-time job or go crazy and spend time to go for your loved one.
It all depends on your choice. Your choice will affect the game and its characters. So if you go for a Gariben (bookworm type boy) then you wouldn’t want to neglect on studying.

It just as a real life!

You can buy clothes and make your chara use it. Every boy has their own taste.

And in your graduation day, you’ll get a confession by that guy you’ve been chasing assuming you fulfill his ending requirements.

You can choose to follow the prologue and fall for that main chara who have been destined for you or instead, you can choose the other guys and battle the rival-girls for his affection.
You even can court your homeroom teacher! :D
Isn’t that great?!!

I love every and each series and always have them in my DS Lite’s pouch.

But if I have to choose, I’ll choose the second series’s Gakuen.
I just love its uniform!

Well of course, I’ll make every uniform of TMGS series, but this one goes first.

What do you think, everyone?

 

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"Cosplaying"

Cosplaying is really fundamental for an Otaku (wait, me?)

I’ve been expecting for my hanegasaki-gakuen cosplay costumes. It’s tailor-made, of course. I’ve been wanting to learn how to sew better so I can make my own cosplay costumes. I can do the basic of sewing. And I created some clothes for my barbies. But I never make anything for human’s clothes. Well, I do make some pencil cases and small stuffs like that.

Anyway! Back to the topic!
Today, I want to talk about cosplaying.

Cosplay is an abbreviation of "costume-play". The term refers to dressing up as an anime/manga/game character.
Cosplay is a popular hobby of teen-aged girls in Japan, and is also prominent amongst anime fans worldwide. Sometimes, cosplays can be very good; with a well-crafted, well-fitting costume that looks like its original reference. Such cosplays often require hours of hard work, and considerable seing talent.
Other times, cosplays can be horrendous; especially when fat, balding, middle-aged men decide to cosplay as Sailor Moon, or when a costume really doesn't fit the wearer.

Cosplays are made for the following reasons:

1.   To recreate a 2 dimensional art form into 3-D. 

2.  To challenge one's self to create a cosplay. Many of which dont seem possible to physically create, but somehow are. 

3.  To show appreciation and/or interest in a certain anime/manga/videogame. 

4.  To take pride in a cosplay that looks well done. 

5.  Because normal cloth that is shitted out for everyone via mass factories and little kids are dull. Cosplays are much more interesting to wear. And each cosplay is one of a kind unique considering the wearer most likely made it him/herself. 

6.  It's a Hobby 

Reasons why cosplays are worn: 

1.   To take pride in ones own creation 

2.  To wear something out of the ordinary (societies restrictions on what is allowable to be worn everyday is bland) 

3.  To show support and/or interest in an anime/manga/videogame 

4.  Self expression. Often the character that is choosen to be cosplayed mirrors the actual person wearing the cosplay.

Now, wasn’t that interesting?
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