Final Fantasy VIII: Rinoa Heartilly 04

Rinoa Heartilly is perhaps one of the most controversial characters created. No, I don't mean her personality, design, or anything of the like. I'm talking about her fans.

You can either love Rinoa or hate her. Some Final Fantasy fans think she's cute, while others think she's annoying. Honestly speaking though, without a voice actress portraying how she actually says her lines, it's quite difficult to determine.

Then again, even with a voice actress, I think people will still either love her or hate her.

What I do love is Saya's cosplay of her. She looks very much like Rinoa... like she came straight out of the game! Wonderful work as usual, Saya! I think I'm now a fan of hers too!

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Final Fantasy IX: Kuja

The main antagonist of Final Fantasy IX, Kuja is a gunrunner obsessed with power. He is narcissistic, flamboyant, and ruthless who is considered a classic villain due to his habit of monologuing. He is well versed in the arts and has a great fondness for classical works such as Lord Avon’s play, “I Want To Be Your Canary”.

Cosplayer Saya makes a beautiful Kuja. I cropped the original photo in order to focus the image on the cosplayer more. Thanks to Mini Mandy for sending this in!

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Fate/Stay Night: Tosaka Rin

A model student and idol of Kamiya Shiro’s school, Tosaka Rin seemingly prefers to be alone than be in the company of other students. This is because she is secretly a magus, the successor to her family’s magecraft, and she was instructed by her father, Tokiomi, to prioritize sorcery over her own interests. Since then, she strived to earn the admiration of her peers to avoid drawing attention to her private life.

Saya makes quite a convincing Rin! I love the simple beauty of this cosplay. Thanks to Michi for sending this in!

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Final Fantasy X-2: Yuna 06

Costume designer for Final Fantasy X-2, Tsukamoto Tetsu states that the radical design changes for Yuna from Final Fantasy X to Final Fantasy X-2 reflect a huge cultural change. Because Yuna, Rikku, and Paine now lives in a more care-free world, the designers wanted them to be able to dress up. Scriptwriter Nojima Kazushige added that Yuna's new outfit was a "natural reaction to the heavy stuff she wore in FFX".

Beautiful cosplay! I love how the cosplayer looks as if she has a secret that she's not about to tell. Thanks again to Linda for her contributions!

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Final Fantasy X-2: Yuna 06

Costume designer for Final Fantasy X-2, Tsukamoto Tetsu states that the radical design changes for Yuna from Final Fantasy X to Final Fantasy X-2 reflect a huge cultural change. Because Yuna, Rikku, and Paine now lives in a more care-free world, the designers wanted them to be able to dress up. Scriptwriter Nojima Kazushige added that Yuna's new outfit was a "natural reaction to the heavy stuff she wore in FFX".

Beautiful cosplay! I love how the cosplayer looks as if she has a secret that she's not about to tell. Thanks again to Linda for her contributions!

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Final Fantasy IX: Kuja

The main antagonist of Final Fantasy IX, Kuja is a gunrunner obsessed with power. He is narcissistic, flamboyant, and ruthless who is considered a classic villain due to his habit of monologuing. He is well versed in the arts and has a great fondness for classical works such as Lord Avon’s play, “I Want To Be Your Canary”.

Cosplayer Saya makes a beautiful Kuja. I cropped the original photo in order to focus the image on the cosplayer more. Thanks to Mini Mandy for sending this in!

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Guilty Gear XX: Bridget 03

I had initially though Bridget’s black costume was her- his original one since I’ve had two cosplayers having the same color scheme.

I was wrong. Bridget is blonde, not white/silver haired at all.

I had no idea how popular this character was in the cosplay world though. Beautiful cosplay and great work as usual! I wonder if the teddy bear is one of his weapons too?

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Final Fantasy VIII: Rinoa Heartilly 04

Rinoa Heartilly is perhaps one of the most controversial characters created. No, I don't mean her personality, design, or anything of the like. I'm talking about her fans.

You can either love Rinoa or hate her. Some Final Fantasy fans think she's cute, while others think she's annoying. Honestly speaking though, without a voice actress portraying how she actually says her lines, it's quite difficult to determine.

Then again, even with a voice actress, I think people will still either love her or hate her.

What I do love is Saya's cosplay of her. She looks very much like Rinoa... like she came straight out of the game! Wonderful work as usual, Saya! I think I'm now a fan of hers too!

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Clannad: Fujibayashi Kyou

Aggressive, violent, and a good cook, Fujibayashi Kyou is the older twin of Ryou and a good friend of Okazaki Tomoya. She owns a scoter and has a little baby boar named "Button".

In the beginning, she supports her sister's romantic feelings towards Tomoya, repressing her own feelings in the process. When a rumor spread about Tomoya being a two-timer between her and Ryou, she distances herself from them to ease the tension.

Who Tomoya really chooses in the end is up for debate.

This is Saya, the cosplayer behind Gintama's Yagyu Kyubei and Sound Horizon's Violette. Quite an impressive cosplayer, isn't she? Thanks to ~MPzero~ for the beautiful photography!

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Sound Horizon: Violette and Hortensia

Violette and Hortensia are Hiver Laurent’s twin dolls who represent night and day as well as death and life respectively. In order to find the meaning of life, Hiver searches for stories that involve life and death.

Sound Horizon’s most popular album, "Roman" is a collection of such stories where each song represents one romantic story.

Aren’t they beautiful? They really look like dolls, though maybe not twins. Great cosplay!

EDIT: Thank you to Koneko for letting me know who the cosplayers are! Violette is cosplayed by Saya and Hortensia is cosplayed by Tsugihagi Mishin from Japan!

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Vampire Knight: Touya Rima

One of the youngest students of the Night Class, Touya Rima is a quiet girl who works as a model along side Senri Shiki. Though little is known about the nature of their relationship, they are often seen together and have similar personalities. Like many vampires, Rima posses the ability to control lightning.

When Rido was using Shiki's body, Rima was able to tell almost immediately that something was wrong. She later confronts Shiki and tries to force Rido out of him. Ichijou comes between the two and sends a badly wounded Rima back to the Moon Dormitories; to protect both her and Shiki.

Technically, I'm still on break, but I wanted to change my layout for the coming new year. And because I'm a bit of scatter brain, I seemed to have deleted my poll..! ;~; I was able to save the results though, and Asian Cosplayers was the winner for this round! Rest assured, I will definitely keep featuring different cosplays from around the world.

I hope you like the new Vampire Knight layout featuring ON/OFF! I'll make link banners for this later...

Happy Holidays, Everyone!

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Gintama: Yagyu Kyubei

An aristocrat who was brought up as a male in order to succeed her family’s clan, Yagyu Kyubei dresses and acts like a boy but she has not forgotten her feminine self. Because of her upbringing, she was in love with Shimura Tae ("Otae" to most) when they were children. The lost of her left eye was actually a result of Kyubei trying to protect Tae.

The incident made Kyubei decide to become stronger. She is now a master of the Yagyu-Ryu sword technique and her strength is just below her grandfather’s.

Beautiful cosplay of Kyubei! I haven’t seen Gintama yet, but a lot of people seem to like this series… Maybe I should find the time to watch it. Oh, and this image was first found on Flickr! Thanks Ryan (蒼浩)!

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Shoujo Kakumei Utena: Tenjou Utena

You know, technically speaking, I know that I know from what series she’s from. I’ve seen hundreds of cosplayers dress up as her and her partner in the series.

Yet, there are simply days when the name escapes me. And how can I search for information about something I can’t remember?

Why, I put it in the Unknown Category, of course, and let my readers help me out.

So, help please?

Thanks to Syaoyue for letting me know this is Utena from Shoujo Kakumei Utena!

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