Kawaii Kon Part II: Dressing the part
By Nadine Kam
Nadine Kam photos
At Kawaii Kon Saturday, Monchalee Steiger is Kanu Unchou.
If I return to Kawaii Kon next year, I gotta get myself a costume. Walking among those dressed as their favorite characters, it felt strange to be walking around in mainstream clothes. No. 1 rule of fashion after all, is to dress to the occasion, or bring it, in your own unique way of course.
I cover so many fashion stories, but it’s hard to parachute into the anime/manga/cosplay/Lolita worlds because they have a language and depth all their own, which can’t be learned in a couple of days. I tried to get it right.
Bryce Saito, left, is Suzaku from “Code Geass.”
Look around and you’ll always find drama at Kawaii Kon.
Christian Martin in character as M. Bison, from “Street Fighter.”
Yes there are human beings in there. Won Park, left, and Danielle Tubania are Transformers.
Capturing the moment.
Edward Feiteira channels Mayuri, of “Bleach.”
Yoshi Morinaga and Natalie Allcom inhabit the roles of “Naruto’s” Itachi and Sasuke.
Rain Ahn is Sephiroth, from “Final Fantasy.”
Christi Kon is Yuffi Kisaragi and Steve Bolo is Vincent Valentine, from “Final Fantasy VII.”
John Harrison as Alex Rowe from “Last Exile.”
Iolani Slate is Seychelles from “Axis Powers Hetalia.”
Korey Higa is “Final Fantasy’s” Vincent Valentine, while Lori Cooper is herself, though she appears to have joined Naruto’s Akatsuki organization.
Troy Uchida as mindless zombie.
Dani De Wald, left, and Julia Koga, double up as Saber, from “Fate/Stay Night.”
Inside the meeting rooms, attendees met up with vendors including nemu*nemu’s Audra Furuichi, Scott Yoshinaga and Connie Yoshinaga.
Liz Nomura looked over the nemu*neum booth while dressed as a panda.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:43 am
Hi Nadine! I missed you at Kon!
GREAT blog post. You captured some great cosplayers here. Getting them all would require way too much bandwidth, of course.
Kon was wonderful this year, as last, and the year before. I know what you mean, it is inspiring to walk around amid all those great cosplayers … but I’m a little too long of tooth to join in, I think. Besides, few can look as amazing as Monchalee. It’ll be T-shirts and jeans again for me at Kawaii Kon 2010!