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Description Myself as Jirou Tomitake

From Higurashi no naku koro ni / When They Cry

Taken at London MCM Expo, London ExCeL Centre, May 2009
By Paul Jacques of Digital Vizualizations - DigVis.com


From the official Neo-shaped booth inside the Expo, as barely anyone thought I was in costume T_T

I have a particular fondness for Higurashi, a show I originally passed off as being purely a shock-value gorefest before being herded back into it by Leah.. Now I love it to bits and thought I'd pay at least a little tribute by cosplaying the ever doomed photograher Tomitake. Who dies in pretty much every chapter. ...the same way...

Also, yay for a costume that doesn't just let me still take pictures, but actually incorporates the camera

Most of it, obviously, is straight from army surplus.. They even punched the dogtag text for me with an authentic ex-army press

The vest is a modified tshirt which I dearly loved but alas the shoulders had to go (and I'm really uncomfortable with baring my shoulders..)

The pouches are my normal camera pouches, just rearranged to match his, and then my hugeass camera bag strapped on the back. not as uncomfortable as I thought but meant I kept forgetting it was there when sidestepping through gaps -_-

The glasses were originally oval, frames cut and bent into half-squares and the lenses replaced with cut-outs from those clear plastic dummy CDs you get in spindles to protect the real cds XD

The boots are from a friend who had to move house and was ditching his old cosplay stuff, including boots from a Naruto outfit, hence why they're tinted blue in places still, it's a nice effect so I left them.

For cosplaying a photographer.. when actually taking photos I still had to take off the glasses and swivel the hat out of the way
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Comments: 18

Minor-Detail [2010-08-02 21:49:21 +0000 UTC]

Awesome! there's barely any Tomitake cosplayers; it's kind of nice to see at least one.

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MIRA-09 [2010-06-26 13:48:11 +0000 UTC]

Awesome!

It's always good to see a "Higurashi" cosplay.
Especially if it's a character we see less of in cosplay. ^_^

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Emphiria [2010-03-24 12:03:07 +0000 UTC]

like I said before. tis awesome ^_^

I've "heard" that maybe theres a higurashi group at ame this year.........I may have to try and get Rena done for then.

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notanotherzombie [2010-01-03 19:14:08 +0000 UTC]

very wonderful <3

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Mihko [2009-11-05 03:40:27 +0000 UTC]

Wow. I've never even seen another Tomitake cosplay, but yours is amazing!!! If I was a guy, I'd cosplay Tomitake too

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Emphiria [2009-08-19 18:09:03 +0000 UTC]

NERT! this is like...bang on! hes my favourite male character in Higurashi! do it again when I get Rena done? we can have an epic photoshoot!

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Nert In reply to Emphiria [2009-08-20 11:43:22 +0000 UTC]

Sounds good to me, he's stupidly easy to pack except for the giant boots XD So I can break him out anytime.

I'm *always* up for a proper Higurashi shoot.. bring on the fake blood and maggots!

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Lulie [2009-06-26 02:26:49 +0000 UTC]

Nice pose! And costume. And arms, actually.

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Nert In reply to Lulie [2009-06-26 17:02:17 +0000 UTC]

The arms were pretty hard to do, I've had to grow them since birth and I kinda worry that if they get damaged I won't have time to start over..

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Lulie In reply to Nert [2009-06-26 18:01:24 +0000 UTC]

Ah, I sympathise. But arms are made of pretty tough material, and if they do get damaged, you could probably just patch them up.

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Xephios [2009-06-02 22:39:47 +0000 UTC]

You make a great Tomitake, it sucks hardly anyone recognised the outfit, you look a lot like him here!

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Sephirayne [2009-06-01 17:12:30 +0000 UTC]

Such a cool cosplay and works for you so well. Love the photo great pose as well.

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sjbonnar [2009-05-31 18:08:57 +0000 UTC]

I wish I'd known you were doing Tomitake at May man, I would have brought Ooishi with me!

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silverfangmeteor [2009-05-31 17:18:00 +0000 UTC]

what day did you go XD i went on saterday as rena

its quite sad how few people knew about higurashi at the expo tho but atleast there was a fair amount who knew about it XD

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Nert In reply to silverfangmeteor [2009-05-31 18:17:44 +0000 UTC]

I was there both days, running the cosplay desk and taking crazylots of photos XD

Aha! I remember you -- [link]

First Rena I saw There was another on Sunday too. Definitely needs more costumed love!

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silverfangmeteor In reply to Nert [2009-05-31 19:30:45 +0000 UTC]

OH YEAH now i remember (i never notice you where cosplaying as him dagnammit...should have got a photo of you now)
i think you were actually the first person(or secound...its either one or the other) who took a photo

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mtani [2009-05-30 20:18:22 +0000 UTC]

Hehe, must be the perfect cosplay for you! Looking good! ^_^

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TaiCat [2009-05-30 13:41:05 +0000 UTC]

I see you like 'hotographer' cosplay!

Y know,actually because I like to photograph peps,I often pick cosplays where I can hang my camera pouch and it won't look outstanding,like this year I had my pouch pretending to be Yugi's card holder and last october my friend lend me his SLR and I put it onto my military belt (as The Sorrow from MGS3)so it looked like part of my cosplay

I was thinking that if I get SLR cam I could cosplay Lotta Heart from Phoenix Wright

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