Mangafest Sevilla 2025 lineup!

Hola!

I'm going on my first convention abroad agdfsjdhgs! I've dreamt about expanding my views and experiencing a con outside my home turfs in Sweden and Finland since I started cosplaying. I come from a family who travelled quite much in my formative years I've been to more countries than I have memories from lol so it's not like I'm a stranger to visiting other countries and cultures – I've just never combined travel and cosplay before! But that's changing now since I'm going to Mangafest Sevilla in Seville, Spain, on 6-8 December and I'm so excited for this opportunity! I'm also fleeing the approaching cold lol.
A long-time friend of mine, erikavonmars, has lived in Spain for several years after settling down from a digital nomad lifestyle and she quite recently got a new apartment – I've been wanting to visit her in return after she visited me a couple years ago. :'D She happens to live relatively close to Seville and also wanted to cosplay again, after a long break, so we thought why not go together? It's been well over 10 years since our last shared con experience omg!

So what am I cosplaying then? Well, it took way too long to decide but here's my lineup:

Friday: Urahara Kisuke from Bleach
Saturday: Takatora's brother from Asaki, Yumemishi
Sunday: --

For the first day I'm doing Urahara, mainly for convenience reasons because we only get access to our hotel room at 14:00 on Friday (we'll drive to Seville on the morning) so yeah, I want to spend as little time as possible to get ready for the con and Urahara is quick and easy to put on and, more importantly, very comfy to walk around and explore in!
For Saturday I'm debuting a new cosplay and yeah, this has to be up there among the most obscure cosplays one could possibly do lmao. Bro's so unknown he doesn't even have an official name and there's only this one reference photo that exists so yeah, nobody will ever know what the lower half of his design even looks like and his eye color and so my only option is to guess – at least no one can tell me I'm wrong. xD Oh well, I wanted to cosplay him because the design and color scheme is pleasant and, thanks to my vintage kimono hobby, I happen to have suitable garments – I just needed to buy a wig. A simple yet stylish cosplay for the presumed-to-be main day. Not to mention that this is the guy whom the antagonist, Ichito, killed to have a body to inhabit. And Ichito I actually have cosplayed many years ago (the cosplay is in need of repairs/updating though) so I guess I wanted to cosplay this guy too because, in a twisted way, they are the same character and yeah, I like dark stories.
On Sunday I'll just be in casual clothes. We'll have to leave our hotel room early and I kinda don't want to deal with the hassle of having to change out of cosplay before the car trip back. We'll probably go for some sightseeing as well before leaving Seville so yeah, being in normal clothes made the most sense!

Of course it would have been super awesome with three cosplays (especially with all con days being full days) but we will leave earlier on Sunday because it takes a couple or so hours to drive back to erikavonmars's hometown. Besides, I already cut it quite close with the check-in baggage weight limit since my suitcase was 19 kg and the limit was 23 kg. :'D I already left at home several things I would normally have with me to cons, like my SLR camera, just to make travel easier and save weight. This means that all upcoming photos will be taken with my phone camera!

As per usual a con summary will follow after the event, so stay tuned!
Bye bye~