Yui Izmori – Page 4

Kigu 360°

There’s nowhere to hide when you have a 360° camera!

Once you’ve opened an image look around using the mouse or arrow keys. You can hit the square in the lower right to go full-screen! Hope you find these fun.

Kigurumi at Yorkshire Cosplay Con 2017 in 360

Sheffield Kigu Posse in 360 (make sure you pan around!)

360 Kigurumi rehearse for Love Live qualifiers (scroll around! 360 video!)

Christmas 2017 UK Meet

A short weekend break away for Christmas where I met many kigus from around Europe, some old friends, some new friends.

Photos by Cloud Tied, Jade Tatsuko, Dominic, Skye, Jack, and me.

Kiggington Manor

A weekend away in the country with new friend Skye.

Photos by Jade Tatsuko.

For the Glasgow Winter 2017 RaiCon I did a cosplay of Iffy from Hyperdimension Neptunia. It was so much fun to play this character. I bought the outfit from an Aliexpress seller but it needed some modification. We added foam buttons, adjusted the length of the shorts, added fake fur to the bottom of the jacket, and a wire to give the jacket some extra shape. I made the leaf accessory from some scrap latex.

Photos by @Junecetra and Perrine.

Travelling with Kig

I was about to take my first trip overseas on a plane with Yui to a German meet up. Asking around, many performers take their masks as hand-held luggage, but Yui was too large for that, coming in at a minimum dimension of 25cm. The budget European airline we were taking had a 23cm limit, and they were known to be quite strict about enforcing this. I didn’t want to end up at the airline with them forcing me to check in the mask at the last minute, so she’d have to go checked in.

Asking around, other performers also put their masks in suitcases with careful padding, but that seemed scary. The performers I asked who didn’t carry on or use suitcases used drum cases. So I found a suitably sized case in a sale, a SKB D1414, a 14 inch tom case (for £70).

I was going to get foam to wrap around the mask, but decided instead to completely fill the case with foam and cut out a Yui-sized hole in the middle. So I bought four 18 inch by 18 inch blocks of packing foam from a UK company (for £40).

Then just some time to do measurements and cut the foam (with an electric carving knife).

Checking in the case was straightforward, although both times it had to be taken to a special counter at the airport once we’d checked it in and it was labelled. We’ve flown twice and there’s been no issues at all so far.

Timer Padlock Fun

On one of the chatrooms someone posted a link to a timer padlock. A padlock for you can set the time and it locks until that time is up. Imagine all the fun you can have with a timer lock padlock and a kigurumi skinsuit and mask. For only USD15 it was worth a try and three weeks later the package arrived.

It arrived broken and the display was stuck. Noticing the display bezel was only loosely stuck on with glue I prised it off and underneath was a small hole and two screws. Putting a pin into the hole shorted a connector and reset the device and it started working properly.

If you do happen to lock yourself into something for 99 hours by mistake, and you don’t want to cut the wire or destroy the case (both of which would free you), then you can peel off the display cover and short the reset pins. Resetting the device doesn’t open the lock, but you can just set a “1minute” counter, start that, and at the end the device unlocks anyway.

What about those screws? after unscrewing them and unclipping the case you end up seeing how it works. There’s a motor and a cam in a quite elegant solution. In one position the cam lets you push the side button which releases the padlock wire. In the other position the cam stops you pushing the button (locked).