Detour: ALL THE BLEACH!
Apr. 21st, 2013 08:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehousePerhaps some of you may remember that last year, I found the experience of interacting with cosplayers really... baffling. I didn't know if people wanted me to talk to them in character or...? I didn't even know how to really appreciate what they were doing without just being aggressively dorky (at least in my own mind.) I complained that I needed "interpreters." This year, I had two: Teri and Lisa. I started whining about how to interact again, and they patiently explained to this old lady two things: 1) you can always ASK to take a picture and 2) you're simply ALLOWED to talk to anyone in your fandom (if you are also attempting/doing cosplay.)
So, I decided to make this fun for myself and I gave myself a mission: collect ALL the Bleach cosplayers. I have a zillion picutres and I know I missed a Ukitake cosplayer (for a sick guy, he sure disappeared into the crowd fast. Shunpou?)
Okay, I'm not sure how many LJ (or my computer of Little Brain) will let me post, and I will attempt to say something to organize the jumble of awesome that is Detour.
First, given who I was cosplaying, I set out to collect all the Byakuyas (and the one other Renji-grrl):
Then, there were the people whose costumes were just AMAZING. I found the Espada guys particularly frightening because they traveled in a pack :-) :
A fantastic Hollow Ichigo:
Ulquiorra and Yammy:
Yammy and Zommari:
There were also people who not only did their costumes well, but also physically resembled the characters to the point I was like, dang, that's ISSHIN (from across the room) and then, I was like, "Why is he talking to Soi Fon???":
And THIS IS HISAGI, I SWEAR TO GOD:
In fact, he needs another pic:
A Urahara who was selling stuff in the dealer's room and very cagily would NOT tell me if there was any Soul Candy:
And, then, a couple of shots just to give you a sense of the scale of this thing:
Also, cosplay is so much a part of this con that there's a place in the garden plaza/atrium JUST FOR GETTING YOUR PICTURE TAKEN (I did not do this for obvious reasons):
So, I decided to make this fun for myself and I gave myself a mission: collect ALL the Bleach cosplayers. I have a zillion picutres and I know I missed a Ukitake cosplayer (for a sick guy, he sure disappeared into the crowd fast. Shunpou?)
Okay, I'm not sure how many LJ (or my computer of Little Brain) will let me post, and I will attempt to say something to organize the jumble of awesome that is Detour.
First, given who I was cosplaying, I set out to collect all the Byakuyas (and the one other Renji-grrl):
Then, there were the people whose costumes were just AMAZING. I found the Espada guys particularly frightening because they traveled in a pack :-) :
A fantastic Hollow Ichigo:
Ulquiorra and Yammy:
Yammy and Zommari:
There were also people who not only did their costumes well, but also physically resembled the characters to the point I was like, dang, that's ISSHIN (from across the room) and then, I was like, "Why is he talking to Soi Fon???":
And THIS IS HISAGI, I SWEAR TO GOD:
In fact, he needs another pic:
A Urahara who was selling stuff in the dealer's room and very cagily would NOT tell me if there was any Soul Candy:
And, then, a couple of shots just to give you a sense of the scale of this thing:
Also, cosplay is so much a part of this con that there's a place in the garden plaza/atrium JUST FOR GETTING YOUR PICTURE TAKEN (I did not do this for obvious reasons):