[Asian Cosplay Group] HANABI GANG ~ Need Members!

[iluvshijimi]

[Edited: July 16th]

Hello! First off, this is not intended to be racist, so if you have something to say about it, please do so in my Racial Background of K-Con Cosplayers thread here. Any comments about racism posted here will be ignored, this is for group discussion ONLY.

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WE ARE THE HANABI GANG!

We will be planning our first group activities for Kumoricon 2010!

MEMBERS
Name: Samantha K.
K-Con Username: iluvshijimi
Age: 20
Location: Gresham, OR

Name: Vivian K.
K-Con Username: IcyMelon
Age: 15
Location: Tigard, Oregon

Name: Deborah
K-Con Username: DooFeRthePanda
Age: 17
Location: Crescent City, CA

Interested in joining? We are currently looking for two more members! This group has moderated membership and all applications must be reviewed before you can join. Please read the group rules below and send your member app to me in a PM. Thanks!

RULES
- Please check this thread every day for news! You don't have to post daily (unless we are voting on something and need your opinion ASAP!) but at least try to read all the posts and catch up. Warning though, the thread may move fast at the beginning as we sort out our stuff.
- Please make sure you WILL be attending Kumoricon. The convention is the only time we will get together, so if you are not CERTAIN you will be there, please do not join.
- Please be willing to cosplay a character you may not like! Though this may not apply because our group is so small, we may decide to do the main characters in a series or something, so we may assign characters for the sake of getting all the characters covered. That being said, we will still try our best to cosplay characters that we want, so don't worry, we will work it out~

MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION
Name:
K-Con Username:
Age:
Location:
Photo In-Cosplay:
Photo Out of Cosplay:

[Konan-ChanX3]

I'm a little over half asian does that count? 1/3 Korean 1/3 Japanese 1/4 Chinese

[iluvshijimi]

Of course you count, silly :P

[Konan-ChanX3]

xP I thought you meant full asian's that's why I asked. Mom says I'm an asian mutt, I say I'm an asian cracker

[DooFeRthePanda]

does being half filipino count?

[iluvshijimi]

xP I thought you meant full asian's that's why I asked. Mom says I'm an asian mutt, I say I'm an asian cracker

Hmm, well you do look more white but that doesn't make you any less Asian! :3 Where do your parents come from, may I ask? Both of my parents are from Laos~

@ DooFeRthePanda

Yup, any little bit counts!

[DooFeRthePanda]

what kind of cosplays do you plan on doing, and your adorable too!!!!! ahh moms yelling at me to clean lol she so fob.

[iluvshijimi]

So far no plans, just trying to see if there's enough interest first~ I'm hoping for five people.

Are there any series you've been wanting to cosplay from? I'm pretty much open to anything haha, and if it's a series I don't know about I try to watch/read/play it to get a feel for it :3

lol, fobby parents are fun to have, aren't they? xD

[DooFeRthePanda]

lol ya she just got back from the philippines. hmm i was interested in buso renkin, just the props would be hard and or eureka 7, no bad halfassed costumes either lol. watching more animes lately.

[iluvshijimi]

Ooh, I haven't read Buso Renkin or seen Eureka Seven but I always thought Eureka was cute! Both are really cool~

And I don't like half-assed cosplays either >.< It's like, "What was the point?"

[DooFeRthePanda]

lol thats what i think. i'm going all out on my cosplays this year, yup yup cuz last year i just did a female spinoff of ash. lol it was funn.

[iluvshijimi]

Yeah, I think I remember asking for your picture! It was great xD

[Konan-ChanX3]

Mom's from the US dad's from Japan, and his parents are from korea and China. Mom's white dad's asian. Never met him though.

[IcyMelon]

100% korean and you already know me ;DD
and I've always wanted to be in an all asian
cosplay group X)))

[LonelyBerry]

I'm thinking of starting an all-Asian cosplay group. I'm not trying to be racist or anything (I'm currently running a cosplay group that had really open membership), I'm considering running an Asian cosplay group because I absolutely admire East Asian cosplayers and thought it might be cool to have something like that here (the image of Asian racial similarity in cosplay) to appear at Kumoricon.

Any other Asian cosplayers here and would you be interested? Thanks! :3

Also offtopic but, despite my Asianness, I am currently eating a cup noodle with a spoon at work orz *forgot to bring chopsticks or even a fork from home*

Personally, I find this post very offensive and slightly racist. To me, it sounds like you're saying that asians are better than everyone else. I'm sure there are some cosplays that look better on asians, but other people can be good cosplayers too. In fact, some cosplays don't look good on asians at all. You should remember that not everyone is "lucky" enough to be asian, and I can guarantee that there are people other than myself who, because of this post, feel like they aren't as good as you, when I'm sure some/many of them are just as good, if not better. Just keep that in mind.

[StarryShay]

Really, I don't think that's what she intended at all. iluvshijimi is a really nice person, and she openly stated that she is not trying to be racist. I know that what I'm saying probably won't make you feel any better, but I'm sure nobody was suggesting that the Asian population is any better then the American, African-American, or any other population. Try not to get offended before you actually understand peoples intentions. ^^;;
Oh, also, I'm not trying to be mean by saying any of this, but I don't want people misunderstanding anything..

[LonelyBerry]

Well maybe she wasn't trying to be racist, but that's what it sounds like to me, and I'm probably not the only one.

[DemonSpawn]

I think its a unique tribute to where the fandom originated from. Anyone who is exclusive toward a race in one instance sounds racist, regardles of your intentions.
I don't see it as racist at all, simply a tribute to authenticity.

[LonelyBerry]

Like I said before, it sounds to me like she's saying that asians are better than everyone else. Saying that one race is better than another is considered racist, therefore, this sounds racist to me.

[Darknight2433]

Sam being racist? Pffft. She's too cool for that.

[IcyMelon]

I agree with you Megan XD
and I know that she didn't mean for it to sound
racist. Just because you want an asian cosplay group
doesn't mean your racist. She does have a group
called New Days Dawning and we are a variation
of cosplayers. Asian and Caucasian. And she's
not saying that asians are better then caucasians.
everyone is equal.

[iluvshijimi]

Personally, I find this post very offensive and slightly racist. To me, it sounds like you're saying that asians are better than everyone else. I'm sure there are some cosplays that look better on asians, but other people can be good cosplayers too. In fact, some cosplays don't look good on asians at all. You should remember that not everyone is "lucky" enough to be asian, and I can guarantee that there are people other than myself who, because of this post, feel like they aren't as good as you, when I'm sure some/many of them are just as good, if not better. Just keep that in mind.

Could you please tell me what part of what I said sounded offensive to you? Since you quoted my paragraph along with your reply, you should know that I did not state at all that Asians are better at cosplaying than everyone else. I said I admire East Asian cosplayers...that's all. If you really think about it, not all East Asian cosplayers are good either, so your statement isn't true.

Also, there are very amazing cosplayers all around the world, all of whom I admire, whether they are Asian or not. I would love to see an all-African American cosplay group, or an all-Hispanic group, etc~ I'm just trying to meet some Asian cosplayers to befriend lol, no harm intended.

[LonelyBerry]

If you read my post, I already said what I thought was offensive about it.

[iluvshijimi]

I did read your post and the thing is, I don't see anything that remotely SOUNDS like I'm saying Asian cosplayers are better than others, which is why I'm asking you. =/

Exactly which words did I use to make you think that?

Edit: And if you read the post up put up before this one, you'll know I admire cosplayers who are of other races other than Asian.

Also, I'm not going to continue this scuffle any longer. The people who are interested will post, this isn't a thread about cosplay racism. I have a different thread for discussing that, feel free to post there.

http://www.kumoricon.org/forums/index.php?topic=10301.0

[iluvshijimi]

I would love to join but I think I'm already in too many cosplay groups :'D

(Sorry for the doublepost x_x)

Yeah, you're in a lot already xD I would've loved to have you in this group! <3

@ Vivian

Yay, so you're interested? :3 I think counting DooFeRthePanda (and Konan? I wasn't sure D:) that's 3-4 interested!

[IcyMelon]

Of course I'm interested ; DDD
It'll be tons o fun ~! ))
so do we have to fill out a form
like at New Days Dawning?
and yay for 3-4 people interested ! X DD

[iluvshijimi]

Yay! I don't know if I should make a form yet... does everyone really want to go through with this group? Hehe~

[IcyMelon]

Ooh yeah ~
well we could wait until we have like 6 people
or so and is it going to be open registration
like N.D.D?
and I'm okay with it but..I don't know X DDD

[iluvshijimi]

Well, I want to hear from people who are okay with committing to a group~ So far, totally confirmed are me and you. I don't think this will be open registration because...well, I really want to be able to do THIS (sorry for big picture >.<):



DYNASTY WARRIORS AWESOMENESS xD

If we could find at least one other definite member I would start it up!

Edit: That's just one idea haha, we can think of something we want to do as a group if we find another person~

[IcyMelon]

AAAHhh~!
I've always wanted to cosplay
Dynasty Warriors ~!
I've seen so many good cosplayers
cosplay this : D
Totally want to cosplay ~!
I would probably have to be xiao qiao
or da qiao, due to my shortness XD

[iluvshijimi]

I would love to do Zhen Ji, Xing Cai or Diao Chan, hehe~

I hope we find at least one more person! >.<

[IcyMelon]

I would love to do Zhen Ji, Xing Cai or Diao Chan, hehe~

I hope we find at least one more person! >.<

I think you would make a great Zhen ji ~!
or Diao Chan ~!  ! :DDD
I hope so too >.<
Our positivity will prevail ~!~!

[DooFeRthePanda]

i want to be in this group to do one of those cosplays (T____T) it looks sooo fun!

[iluvshijimi]

OMG DOOFER WE SHOULD SO START THIS GROUP xD

Is it okay if I call you that? lol. Or do you have some other nickname you prefer? :3

Looks like we have three people super interested, I say we do it! Should we try to do something for this year's con or next year? o.o

[IcyMelon]

yay ~ :DDDD
welcome panda-chan~!

and I'm up for this year or next year.
but maybe this year because I don't know if
I can wait till next yr...xD

[iluvshijimi]

I don't want to wait either, lol xD

I think I will start up a form for us three so far?

Name:
Age:
Location:
Photo In-Cosplay:
Photo Out of Cosplay:

Here's what I've got~

Name: Samantha K.
Age: 20
Location: Gresham, OR
Photo In-Cosplay: http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w203/misty219/IMG_3680.jpg
Photo Out of Cosplay: http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/67/l_c2ed93f2177c4baf9f6068e22a0fe216.jpg

[IcyMelon]

hahaa , we should totally start this year ;DD
sam~! if we did it this year we would be debuting
twice :OOO our asian group and New Days Dawning ! :DD


Name: Vivian K.
Age: 15
Location: Tigard, Oregon
Photo In-Cosplay: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3335/3656665472_f097eb1881.jpg?v=0
Photo Out of Cosplay: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3625/3656665464_5b1de79c4a.jpg?v=0

[iluvshijimi]

Haha, you're right! xD (Btw, I love your new avatar!!! <3)

Since we're a small group, I think we should make sure everyone gets to have their say on whatever we want to do, so let's wait for DooFeRthePanda to post a profile before moving forward~ While we're waiting though, shall we think of group names? Hehe~

[IcyMelon]

Haha, you're right! xD (Btw, I love your new avatar!!! <3)

Since we're a small group, I think we should make sure everyone gets to have their say on whatever we want to do, so let's wait for DooFeRthePanda to post a profile before moving forward~ While we're waiting though, shall we think of group names? Hehe~

yep yep :DD
and thank you ;DD I can't blink as fast as her
but I wish I could XDD

and we are a small group so yeah we should wait and see : )
&yay ~! we should think of names ~ :DDD

[Cassiopeia]

You should call yourselves Asian Persuasion~

[IcyMelon]

You should call yourselves Asian Persuasion~

hahaa~ my friends and I call ourselves that at school XD
but I think we should stay away from the word asian
for the cosplay name XDD

[iluvshijimi]

You should call yourselves Asian Persuasion~ :D

Ahaha, that's a really good one! xD

Um, off the top of my head I came up with... SWEET BLUE, Nyamiii (three "i's" for three members? Iunno xD) and Funny Friends, haha.

Edit: Here's a couple more, Otomegokoro and Aozora (means "Girls' Mind/Feelings" and "Blue Sky" in Japanese).

[IcyMelon]

ooooh~
I like SWEET BLUE : )))
and Nyamiii (The i thing at the end is very niffty but when we have like 5 members it'll look like thin 'Nyamiiiii' XD so many 'i's~)
and Funny Friends reminds me of FRIENDS on tv XDDD

off the top of my head I can think of
CLEAR.AQUA.
Happi Bunny (:3)
Crossing Stars
Beat.Down~
ooh~! The Green Tea Ice Cream Team ! XDD
I love green tea ice cream ~!
My titles don't make sense XD

edit; oooh~ Aozora is cool ~  and Oromegokoro is nice too since
our team will probably only have girls in it XD

[iluvshijimi]

I like SWEET BLUE too hehe, not sure if it really sounds good for a group name though xD Nyamiii could just be Nyami; I just thought it was cute, haha~

I think Green Tea Ice Cream Team is funny! lol~~~ Except I think people would expect us to bring green tea ice cream or something wherever we showed up... DX

[IcyMelon]

Well we can leave Sweet Blue as one of our options
if we can't think of something else
and Nyami is cute >u<
so should the name be in japanese or english?

hahaa it is funny I love green tea ice cream
and they probably will think we give green tea
ice cream away XD and I could never do that ~
I love my green tea ice cream too much Dx

[DooFeRthePanda]

I don't want to wait either, lol xD

I think I will start up a form for us three so far?

Name:Deborah
Age:17
Location:Crescent City, ca.
Photo In-Cosplay:myspace, DooFeRworldDominator
Photo Out of Cosplay:myspace, DooFeRworldDominator
lol yup yup i'm not 17 yet tho, but i will be after con lol. ya this would be so cool ,and ya you can call me doofer, everyone does lolz. T___T the only thing is i cant do meet ups cuz i live all the way down here but you guys can inform me right? sorry i take a while to write back, i'm at work most the time now*SOOOOO TIRED* but i will do my best, I WILL DO MY BEST lol thanx for accepting.

[iluvshijimi]

Well we can leave Sweet Blue as one of our options
if we can't think of something else :))
and Nyami is cute >u<
so should the name be in japanese or english?

hahaa it is funny I love green tea ice cream
and they probably will think we give green tea
ice cream away XD and I could never do that ~
I love my green tea ice cream too much Dx

Okay! So our group name suggestions so far are:

- SWEET BLUE
- Nyami
- Funny Friends
- CLEAR.AQUA.
- Happi Bunny
- Beat.Down~
- The Green Tea Ice Cream Team

And I agree about the green tea ice cream haha, I want some right now xD

@ Debbie (I hope you get lots of beauty sleep so you won't be tired anymore! >.<)

I think I'll call you Debbie if that's okay? Or Panda-chan if you like that better lol, Doofer sounds kind of weird ^^;;

And thanks for filling out the form! I'll update the first page with all our new info~ Also, it's okay if you can't do meetups, I think we just want to meet with our costumes at Kumoricon and take pictures/hang out, right? I don't want to do a skit or anything haha, so we don't really need to meet up :3

Since you can't get on very often, I think I will bold any important stuff I post so you can see what the biggest topic is at that moment, is that okay? I think it would be helpful for everyone, including me~ For right now...

Please post some group name suggestions!

Suggestions in English, Japanese or any other Asian language only, just because we are Asian lol, it'd be weird if our name was in like, Russian, don't you think? xD If we don't get any more ideas, then I guess we'd just have to vote between what we have now~

Also...

First page has been updated, please read!

[IcyMelon]

Hahahaa the green tea ice cream team XDD
I love that XD haha I'm so random

and yay~ Debbie ~! : DDD
and we probably will just like post pictures
of out progress or something XD instead
of meetings.

and as for names..
Hanabi [fireworks]
BANG ╭★
uhh...
my brain doesn't work right now XDDD
I don't know anymore XXDD

[iluvshijimi]

Hahahaa the green tea ice cream team XDD
I love that XD haha I'm so random

and yay~ Debbie ~! : DDD
and we probably will just like post pictures
of out progress or something XD instead
of meetings.

and as for names..
Hanabi [fireworks]
BANG ╭★
uhh...
my brain doesn't work right now XDDD
I don't know anymore XXDD

- SWEET BLUE
- Nyami
- Funny Friends
- CLEAR.AQUA.
- Happi Bunny
- Beat.Down~
- The Green Tea Ice Cream Team
- Otomegokoro [Girl's Mind]
- Aozora [Blue Sky]
- Hanabi [fireworks]
- BANG ╭★

I'm terrible at thinking up names haha, so I'm done~ Let's wait until Debbie posts with maybe a couple suggestions and then vote! :3

[Konan-ChanX3]

Hey sorry, been playing KH RE: COM and yelling at people... Any ways, here's my name segustion Aozora no Namida [Tears of the Real Blue Sky]

Name: Fallon Q. [After nationalization Shiraume I.]
Age: 18
Location: Forest Grove, OR
Photo In-Cosplay: http://photopanda.smugmug.com/gallery/5511704_B3tRD#337333561_boBQg-A-LB [lemme know if it dosen't work]
Photo Out of Cosplay: http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f296/auto_mail_otaku/CIMG0089.jpg <- best one I could find [even comes with fiance Shogo >///<]