Petshop of Horrors group for Anime Boston or AnimeNext?

[ladyofthethread]

A few months back, I asked if anyone were interested in doing a Petshop of Horrors group sometime but there weren’t any definite plans made. But novaraven (who has also cosplayed D plus his father and grandfather) is now working on plans to come down from Canada for Anime Boston so I thought it might be a good time to try for a group. She’s also making the 19th Century D outfit so we’re going to be confusing and wear our versions together as D and his grandpa. :-D Plus, she should have a Leon with her and possibly a Pon-Chan.

Currently, there are no plans to do a skit or the hall contest together but we were talking about applying for cosplay chess and I’m sure we’ll do pictures at some point. ^_^ If you’d like to join us, let me know. See the links for reference pics or if you want to look at the whole album: http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v342/LadyoftheThread/psoh%20reference/. We can also try to have a smaller group for AnimeNext if people are interested since I know at least one person isn’t able to make AB.

Count D – myself (although I can also wear his sister’s dress for a while if someone else would like a turn playing D)
D’s grandfather –novaraven
D’s father –
D’s sister –
Leon –novaraven’s friend
T-Chan (totetsu) – kiwi_lady is going to do T-Chan for AnimeNext but probably won't be able to make AB ;_; 
Pon-Chan (racoon) – novaraven's friend if she comes
Honlon (3-headed dragon) – a couple of people are interested in this although I don't have a definite yet
Ten-Chan (9-tailed fox) – bloodied_tears
Medusa (basilisk) – heartxofxlilith
P-Chan (bird of pardise) – Lilly from cosplay.com
Alice (rabbit) –
Keirin (kirin) –
Eva (mermaid) (obviously this one needs some modifications so you don’t get kicked out of the con if anyone wants to do it ^_^;;;) –
Suioh (phoenix) –
Alex (vampire) –
Norma (vampire) –
Dreizehn (doberman) –
Toki birds –jezeroth is tentatively doing the male ibis; the female bird has not been claimed
Mellow (digital fish) –
Pandora (Maine coon cat) –
Tina (jaguar) –
Butterfly – 
Sohki (kirin) (Sohki is actually from Genju no Seiza, another of Matsuri Akino's manga, but he goes to visit D in a bonus story in one of the Genju no Seiza volumes)– 

If anyone wants to do something I didn’t list, let me know and I’ll add it in. I omitted a bunch of the little kid characters with less interesting designs, pets we never saw human versions of, and stuff from the sequel since I didn’t think anyone would be likely to want to do those. Also, there are a lot of pets that only appear as background characters (you can see a few in the pic with Norma) and a few that are only in artbook pictures or extra illustrations. (I think the lolita catgirls are cute but D needs nicer clothes in that picture. Ripped cobweb patterned stuff and a bondage collar is so out of character. O_o;;) 


And, jumping to a somewhat related topic, I got the collar for the new costume finished. I ended up appliquéing the trim along the edges and I think it came out pretty well. ^_^ Need to work on the main robe next. 
 
 

Comments

[ladyofthethread.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I’d think Fruits Basket would be more well known, too. o_o Hmm… Maybe, it’s not cosplayed as much since it’s older and only had an OVA and not a real anime series? A lot of the popular series seem to have both an anime and manga and I can’t think of many that were popular as manga only. And maybe, people don’t want to do minor characters? Although a lot of the pets have pretty designs, many of them only appear for one chapter and the only main characters are really D and Leon. It seems like I’ve been finding more Petshop cosplay online this past year or so though. Like I’ve seen 4 cosplays based on the peacock dress since I’ve made mine o_o even though all the earlier ones I’d seen were from some years ago. Maybe, it’s due to the artbook coming out?

[novaraven.livejournal.com]

I don't think the art book is well known at all. It's hard to find and only in japanese. I think people are cosplaying the peacock dress because they've seen how well yours turned out. ^^ Actually most of them don't know about the art book and choose the colours randomly. It's a very plain outfit unless you change it anyways.

More popular series have far more cosplayers. Maybe we can get things to go the other way. By cosplaying a series will get it more attention? Maybe if we cosplay enough we'll get PSOH a real anime series someday! ^^;

[ladyofthethread.livejournal.com]

Hmm... I don't know. My peacock dress has gotten a couple of photoshoots and has been to more conventions but it's not as if I'm particularly known. ^_^;; I think at least one of them did see the artbook though since they had the accurate colors.

Oh, and I PMed the P-Chan cosplayer a few days ago. Might take a while to hear back though since it looks like she hasn't been to cosplay.com for a few weeks.