I've always been fond of the art design of the Disgaea series and the certain charm that the games' characters and stories have. But when I played D5 and learned more about Killia, I absolutely wanted to cosplay him. When I was younger, I loved the trio: Laharl, Etna, and Flonne. And I mean, I still do, but something about Killia really clicked with me (๑ˊ ꇴ ˋ͈)~♡. So here I'll be sharing the construction process of my cosplay of Killia from Disgaea 5! (I actually made two attempts to make this cosplay. The first time I did the wig and jacket they came out awful, so I had to remake them ;;) Resources/Tutorials: Nomad Elf Ears from Aradani Costumes Duplicate Your Favorite Pair Of Jeans by Professor Pincushion Jeans Assemby by Professor Pincushion PROGRESS: Wig: This was my second attempt at making Killia's wig. Last year, I had tried styling Killia's wig and ended up wrecking it so I had to buy a new wig and start over. However, when I was spiking the back of the head, I noticed that the weft base was visible in some places so I had to remove pieces from my old wig and add it into the new wig. So this wig is a combination of two wigs. Jacket: For the jacket, I used one of my longsleeve shirts as a guide to create a pattern. I drew out the base pattern on wrapping paper then I added the necessary details and alterations for Killia's jacket design. Pants: I actually made the pants last year. I made these following tutorials by Professor Pincushion. I first followed the, "Duplicate Your Favorite Pair Of Jeans" tutorial, then made alterations to the pattern to add in the blue stripe. Then I followed the, "Jeans Assembly" tutorial. Scarf: The scarf is made of the same material as the jacket and pants. I sewed a button closure on the inside of the collar so it doesn't show when it's worn around my neck. Gloves: The base glove was a plain black, so I painted the edge of it red with acrylic paint and lumiere paint. The armored fingers were made from worbla and painted with acrylic paint. Shoes: Shoes were originally a plain black, so the soles were painted with red lumiere paint. Belt Buckle: The belt buckle is the only thing I didn't make myself. This was made by HB.
The "X" is made of PVC, and the back loops are made of worbla.
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This is going to be a long post so prepare yourself. This year for AX I checked into the hotel on Day 0. This time, there were seven of us sharing the room together. It didn’t feel horribly cramped though?? And no one was fighting over using the restroom or anything. I felt like everything was peaceful. This year I wanted to be more prepared and actually go to events (something I kept telling myself I would do during previous cons, but didn’t really). I thought to myself, “I’m going to go to as many movie premiers as I can!” and circled a bunch in the catalogue. I wanted to watch Violet Garden, Card Captor Sakura, and In This Corner of the World. I ended up watching none. On Day 1 (Saturday), I got dressed as Killia (Disgaea 5) and left the hotel around 10am. In previous years it was usually easy breezy getting into the con at that time, but to my surprise, there was a long line. It took a little over an hour to get in (which was upsetting, but after hearing some people waited waaay longer, I felt I was lucky). Once I was in, I immediately shot towards artist alley, and went to Mightier’s booth and bought a Prompto keychain that she had posted on her blog a while back. Ever since I saw the sketches of her Galdin Quay keychains, my heart was sold, so I wanted to make sure to grab one before they ran out. After I secured a keychain, I went to exhibit hall. I spent the first half of the day looking through exhibit hall and artist alley, and got most of my shopping done Day 1. Because the worst thing ever is when you see something you like on Day 1, and then it’s sold out the next time you go looking for it. In order to prep for Disgaea’s Red Moon Day gathering on Sunday, HB bought a Red Moon Day shirt at the NIS booth. When he finished his purchase, the person who rang up his order gave us a ticket for an autograph session with the President of NIS, Sohei Niikawa, on Sunday. HB and I both stared at each other like, “??!!?” and we agreed that YES OFC we were going to the autograph session. I felt like such a dummy for this, but this is what happens when you don’t properly look at the AX catalogue -_-. I sort of skimmed through the booklet, and I felt I missed so many things because of that! Never again! From now on I’m going to thoroughly check everything. So yeah, I started freaking out, because I didn’t have anything for him to sign. I had a copy of Disgaea 5 for the PS4, and some art books too, but they were all at home, so that was no good. Then HB remembered there was a booth towards the front of exhibit hall that was selling shikishi boards, and we were saved! During some point in exhibit hall, we also went ahead and picked up our pre-ticket shikishi boards at the Bookwalker booth for our autograph session with Fujino Omori. BOTW Gerudo Voe Armor Link in Artist Alley! I actually didn't see him Day 1, but I'm just putting this here. While I was in exhibit hall I saw the Okita standee from the Hakuoki Festival at the IFFY booth. I found out later that there was a silent auction for these though?! Like, I would totally want an Okita standee, even though I have no place to put it. I wonder how much they went for??? At around 3pm I went back to the hotel and got out of Killia, and HB put on his machine cosplay. Then I had to guide him very slowly to the Nier gathering. What was cool was that the English voice of 2B was there! The only sad part of the gathering was that it was during the same time as the Card Captor Sakura screening. It’s ok though, because even if I missed the premier, I’ll be able to watch it eventually! While we were leaving the hotel to get to the Nier gathering I saw this really great BOTW Revali! We saw these three doing a shoot and squeezed in a group pic! HB and Kira Buckland! On Day 2 (Sunday), I dressed as Killia again and left the hotel a little earlier. Getting into con was much smoother than the day before since more lines had opened up. I think I wandered around artist alley and/or exhibit hall for a bit before it was time to line up to see Sohei Niikawa. While we were waiting I could start to feel butterflies in my stomach. When it came to our turn to see him, I had nothing to say. NOTHING. And I just- just regret it so much! I didn’t know what to say TAT! I could have said, “I loved playing Disgaea 5!” or like “I really like a lot of the character designs in the Disgaea series!” or the humor in the game is ridiculous and cute, or how nice it was that Disgaea is coming back to handheld consoles like the Nintendo Switch. But nope, nothing came out. I mean… luckily HB said something. I was hoping he would convey my feelings for me lol, but he asked if Disgaea 5 would come out for the PS Vita. Sighsighsighsigh. Apparently, HB wasn’t sure what to say either. But his question was better than nothing. I have all these woulda coulda should’ves. OH, but to answer the question, Sohei Niikawa said it’s not likely for Disgaea 5 to come out for the Vita because of the Vita’s limitations. On a side note, I was super happy because Sohei Niikawa recognized my costume and muttered, “Killia,” with a nod. I’m so glad I finished my Killia cosplay this year!! I got to shake his hand twice. He also drew cute pictures on the shikishi board. He said the rectangular creature is supposed to be a new character that’s coming out. After he finished the board, I got to take a picture with him, and I said thank you to him as politely as I could. All I managed to say in the end was thank you, but I hope he was able to tell that I loved Disgaea by my cosplay haa ; 7 ;. I didn’t notice until looking back at this photo but besides his Prinny hat, he also had Prinnies on his shoes! So cute! Sometime after the signing, I went over to Site 4 for the Red Moon Day gathering, but was really confused because all I saw were Dragon Ball cosplayers. HB and I kind of wandered in and out of the building until we realized, we had actually gone to the correct location the first time, but we had just arrived a little early. Once we saw a giant Prinny walking around we were like, “Yes, this is the right place.” When we were all settled at the gathering I saw a Laharl who did an amazing job at styling Laharl’s antennae. During the gathering, there were group pictures and a trivia contest hosted by the NISA staff. Jupy, one of the staff, asked Disgaea related questions, and we’d shoot our hands into the air to answer. If you answered correctly, you’d get a prize (the prizes were really nice!). Both HB and I were able to answer questions, and we got a Mage keychain and a copy of the game Operation Babel for the PS Vita. Then the staff handed out Disgaea pins, and Jupy announced that there will be a special guest at the gathering. Dun dun dun! It was Sohei Niikawa! So I was able to take pictures with him a second time, but I still wasn’t able to say anything other than, “Thank you.” //internalscreaming. The Overlords! Group! And a silly shot :p ! After the gathering I got out of cosplay and rushed over with some friends to see if we could make the screening of, “In This Corner of the World.” We uh—didn’t make it LOL. I was unable to watch, “Violet Evergarden,” too. Violet Evergarden was the premier I wanted to watch the most since it was made by Kyoani and was bound to be gorgeous. One day… one day! After finding out the room was full I think we all headed over to the arcade???? Or was that later at night??? I can’t remember. I visited the arcade a few times. But I got to play Shadowverse on two different days. It was my first time playing, so HB had to teach me everything while he was going super easy on me. When we got our random card at the end of the game play, I got the Beauty and the Beast card, and HB got the Phantom Cat card. When I saw Phantom Cat, I immediately switched cards with him, because I was not interested in Beauty and the Beast, and he was meehh about Phantom Cat lol. On the second day we played, I got the Wizardess of Oz card, and HB got another Phantom Cat. He ended up trading the Phantom Cat with someone for their Snow White. So we were able to get a total of four gorgeous cards! Shadowverse competition prizes and some Japan-exclusive merch. Shadowverse cosplayer! Her armor looked great :) Next to the Shadowverse booth was Lemon & Sugar! I actually wanted to take a picture WITH them, but then I had a sudden moment of shyness. They look so cute! On Day 3 (Monday), I dressed as Tiona from Danmachi. OR AT LEAST I WAS SUPPOSED TO BUT IT WAS SUCH A WRECK I COULDN’T. Basically, when I was working on Tiona before con, I was tight on time so I didn’t get a chance to try on everything together. So when I actually put on everything on con day, my wig was a monstrosity, and my belt was way too big for my hips. I was heartbroken, and I felt like I had wasted my entire time getting ready, and had to take everything off. So I changed into regular clothes, while HB was dressed as Bell. Then we lined up around 2 hours early for the Danmachi QA Panel. I’m glad we lined up early, because the line got really long pretty quickly. When we were allowed entry into the panel room, we got a seat in like the 3rd or 4th row?? It was pretty close to the front. Overall, the panel was pretty nice, and I got to learn little trivia. For example, how Fujino Omori really liked to read webnovels, but he doesn’t have as much time to read them anymore; how he has another spinoff novel in the works; what his reaction was like when he first saw Hestia’s art design, ect. After the panel ended, free Danmachi merch was being handed to the audience, so I was able to get a poster and a Hestia button. Sometime after, I went to watch the Live Drawing Panel for Akira Himekawa (which is actually the pen name for two artists that work together! A. Honda and S. Nagano). Honestly, this panel was such fun to go to, because while the artists drew, they told tidbits of their lives, and their commentary was so interesting and funny. The translators also had a lot of personality too, so it added that much more spice. And though Akira Himekawa are known for their works for Zelda, they announced that they were creating their own original story called Kamdo. So when that comes out, it may be something I’d like to stick my nose into. Akira Himekawa before they started drawing for the panel. I got to take videos of their live drawing processes too :D On Day 4 (Tuesday), the saddest day, the last day of con, I didn’t cosplay, and I went to straight to artist alley for the autograph session with the creator of Danmachi, Fujino Omori. While he was signing, I told him, with the best of my abilities, “Bete wa kakkoii desu,” and he and the editor laughed, and their reaction was just perf lol. Then Fujino Omori responded that he noticed that a lot of people liked Bete. HB and I then asked if he had played Ragnarok Online before, because Danmachi reminded us so much of it, but he said that he had only heard of it. But he mentioned that he was inspired by the author of Sword Art Online, who had some inspiration from Ragnarok (If I remember correctly). HB also told him how much he loved the show, and Fujino Omori laughed and said thanks. Afterwards, since photography was not allowed, HB and I said our thanks and left. So yeah, that's pretty much how AX went for me. And this is the most insignificant thing ever, but I had so much shaved snow from the food trucks lol. So good. Now we'll end with merch. The first thing I got were these posters from Yuqi. She got them from the FF lounge but didn't want them, so HB and I took them happily huhuhhuhh. Disgaea Red Moon Day pin, Mage rubberstrap, Sohei Niikawa's autograph, and Operation Babel. Danmachi poster, Hestia button, Fujino Omori's autograph, and Danmachi Light Novel Vol. 2. I also had my Danmachi Vol. 1 signed. Kamdo poster! Shadowverse cards! HB put them in a case after con. Bunch of artist alley goodies. Top Row: BOTW: Link, Link, and Zelda Bottom Row: BOTW: Mipha. FFXV: Prompto, Ignis, Noctis, Gladio Small Items: BOTW Stickers: Tepa, Revali, Kass. FFXV: Prompto Keychain Lon Lon Milk Candle and hamster fan.
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AboutHi I'm RQ and this is where I blog about my cosplay and daily life.
*I'm taking a break from cosplay.
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