One of my absolute favorite ‘anime’ series is Juuni Kokki, or Twelve Kingdoms. I use quotes when I say ‘anime’ because I do prefer the light novels over the anime, but most know it as the anime. I highly recommend the series to anyone who loves fantasy worlds.
My favorite character is Youko Nakajima; I love the struggles she faced upon entering the Twelve Kingdoms and not knowing anything about the ways of this different world. I will definitely be cosplaying more from Juuni Kokki in the future, but for now I’ve posted pictures from the (beautiful) Palace of Fine Arts in San Fran. Ceratopian and I went to Fanime 2011 to join a Magna Carta group and I brought my newly completed Youko Nakajima cosplay with me. I’m glad I did because the location was gorgeous! And I had an amazing photographer, Robert Le.
This was a fairly simple cosplay. I used linens and made my armor pieces out of craft foam. I will use leather next time. Yes. I did not have my sword, but I will be getting more pictures of this cosplay once I have my sword complete!
Palace of the Fine Arts Photography by Robert Minh Le and i360
2015 Chinese Scholar Garden Photography by Knightmare6 and Brian Ngai
Used and altered Simplicity's 5840 'D'.
Craft foam was used for the armor pieces. Coated with flexible glue for sealing, then coated in rub-n-buff, and buffed with brown shoe polish.
