When Saitou decided he needed pants too...

 Hello to everyone!

So today after a lot of "but I waaaaant to have a cosplay photoshoot today" whining to my twin he finally agreed to be my photographer, but he didn't cosplay because his next cosplay isn't quite finished yet. So I tried on my casual/plain clothes version Saitou cosplay to see that everything worked together before the coming debut at Oulun Animeseminaari and of course to, well, have a photoshoot. Duuh.

Less talk, more photos!

hakama!Saitou preview galore!

Model: Valkoinen Samurai (Hajime Saitou)
Photographer: Jäätynyt Enkeli

And well, let's say it wasn't all pleasure taking photos... we were butchered by a swarm of mosquitos. Almost. So here's a few mosquito related derp shots ~

SMACK a mosquito.. without giving a flying fuck.

Lawdy lawd my foot is itching ~ *scratch scratch*

And lastly two (more) bonus pictures because I know everyone loves random derptacular crap, heuheuheuheuhe. In the middle of the shooting I noticed there was something in my kimono sleeve and I had no memory of it at all... so I decided "fuck the shoot, I must know NOW what it is".

FFFF what the fuck is inside my sleeve??

PAPER TOWELS! OM NOM NOM NOM

What is this I don't even....

That's it, I'm outta here!

Oulu, here I come!

I just bought the train tickets to Oulu so me and my twin Jäätynyt Enkeli will attend the Oulun Animeseminaari event! Yay!

The problem relating to where we would sleep during the "con" has been solved. I didn't get contact with one of my cosplay friends in Oulu, whose place I (we..? ahah) had originally planned to sleep over at. Time was running out.. or well, time to buy these more or less cheaper 'advance tickets' was running out because VR stop selling them a week before the departure date. So today was the very last chance to buy train tickets cheaper for the Friday night departure and this meant that, because I didn't get in contact with said friend, we had to resort to use plan B.. aka asking one of mom's sisters who lives in Oulu if she would let us stay at her apartment during the weekend.
Jäätynyt Enkeli called her and it was green lights, much to our relief, even though her apartment is rather tiny. Oh well, a free sleeping place is worth being crammed like tuna in a can for!
Problem solved and now my appearance at Animeseminaari is secured!

My cosplay for the weekend -yes, just one cosplay- is still casual/plain clothes version Hajime Saitou from Hakuouki Shinsengumi Kitan. I don't think I can take with me another cosplay because I will share luggage with my twin during the weekend, herpderp ~

Sooooooooooo..

Watch out northern congoers, immah comin' like a DERP ~~

I heard a Chizuru will attend Animeseminaari...

And thus I think my Oulun Animeseminaari cosplay plans got changed.
I have a feeling I might not get my wig for Bakumatsu Renka Shingengumi Saitou in time and I'd rather cosplay with a wig even though my real hair would work decently for him. Yeah. So I figured I will postpone him for a later con and now do a Hakuouki cosplay to accompany said Chizuru, who, is a person I know from the "cons"/anime events in northern Finland.

Sooooo, I'm not too keen to cosplay Hakuouki Saitou's shinsengumi kimono version because I've been cosplaying it quite a lot at the latest cons and well, I have a love-hate relationship with that scarf. lol
So in the middle of last night, before I fell asleep, I suddenly got enlightened about what I could cosplay instead and already had everything I needed for!

I'm not sure what this version is called but it seems to go by something like casual/plain clothes version.. at least according to the names of the plushies wearing these alternative outfits. Most male characters in Hakuouki seem to have one of these different clothing versions.
I want to do this because I already have everything I need for it and I won't need to have a battle royale with that motherfucking scarf during two days, trololo. Hopefully people will still recognize me as Saitou though.. we'll see. I will carry with me two swords of course.. on the right side like he does.