It's officially 2015! ...and I haven't posted in a while so I thought I'd do an update on how things are going. I had planned (and started writing) an aliexpress haul video from November (when they have their super 11.11 sale) but since things come at varying times and also since I'm using the things that come in costests I decided to just write about what I got as and when I use it.
Theres a lot of kaneki hoodies to chose from on ali, many were discounted by half but in the end I decided to go with this one [x] which wasn't on sale (of course) and is I think one of the most expensive (40USD roughly) I was a bit apprehensive about it since it was the most expensive thing in my haul but outside the realm of aliexpress its really cheap for a good quality hoodie. In the end I am sooo super glad I got this one- the quality and details on it are really amazing.
The fabric is proper sweatshirt material, It has two pockets on the side, two zips on the front (these are fake pockets sadly) a large hood (fave) and also thumb holes on the sleeves. The only part that feels 'cheaper' to me is the hood lining, but this is really just me nit picking, everything is perfect. The colour is exactly how it looks in the display image which I'm really pleased with. Many of the other hoodies either look too green or too blue. It's pretty hard to get an accurate colour reference for the hoodie from the anime in the first place since it seems to change every scene so I think this mid range colour is a good one :)
I'd 100% reccomend this hoodie to anyone looking for a Kaneki one, I have lived in it since I got it! I got it in a size M (I'm a UK size 10) and it fits perfectly. I should also mention I got a free Kaneki dust mask with it, which you can see below on my Ayato test. I think this alone costs around £5 so its pretty awesome they put it in for free!
I'll post more pictures of when I do decide to start fixing it up!
Moving onto Ayato....My friend The Lost Girl cosplay is planning a Touka cosplay so I decided I'd cosplay Ayato with her. So far all I have is the wig which you can get here [x]
These are my most recent costests using it. As you can see it looks pretty blue in these images but in real life its most definitely purple (closer to the image directly below, even then though its still much more muted purple) At first I was kind of annoyed as it doesn't really look like the one sold on the site but in the end it photographs ok and doesn't come up too purple. One main postive is the style of it, I barely had to do anything to it and it looks great.
The mask above is the free one! I also got this shirt for xmas so I thought I'd share :)
Thats everything for now, I think I will be wearing these to Kitacon in July/Aug so there may not be an update for a loooong time on these since I have other stuff in the works but I'll keep you posted!
Roo