As we’re nearing the end of the year, I thought I’d look back on my 2016 Challenges and reflect on what I’ve learnt about myself and how I can improve the challenges for next year.
Out of the five challenges, I’ve completed two of them, so not a great way to end the year, but perhaps I was a little ambitious with the others.
Let’s start with the ones I did manage to complete!
Create 5 new cosplays
2015 was the year I started cosplaying seriously, and in 2016 I managed to take it to another level. I actually managed to do 9 new cosplays over the course of the year (not including variants of the same cosplay, so sorry to my casual and vampire Yamaguchi cosplays).
Here’s the list of my 2016 cosplays:
- Yamaguchi Tadashi – Haikyuu!!
- Nekozawa Umihito – Ouran High School Host Club
- Negan – The Walking Dead
- Undercover Kageyama – Haikyuu!!
- The Emperor – Star Wars
- Ootori Kyoya – Ouran High School Host Club
- Umaru – Himouto! Umaru-chan
- Bandou Haruki – Cheer Boys
- Katsuki Yuri – Yuri on Ice!
I’m pretty proud of myself for all of these, but my Cheer Boys cosplay I made entirely from scratch (apart from the base t-shirt and shorts), so that’s probably my favourite outfit of the year.
I have a lot of ideas about where to go for cosplay in 2017, but that’s definitely for another post! In the meantime, here are some shots of the cosplays I did manage to complete (sans Kyoya from Ouran). Sorry they’re mostly head shots – kind of defeats the object! One of my aims for next year is to get better quality photos of my cosplays, so hopefully I can share those another time!
Culture Shack 