JapanSugoi

Some nice cosplay photos of Hatsune Miku 初音ミク (above) and Izumi Konata 泉 こなた (below) from Lucky Star らき☆すた.,

Don’t be lonely on Valentines day…find a nice Japanese girlfriend here

Three Japanese guys in crazy cow costumes  promoting something in Shibuya!? (Or is this a new cosplay??)

Super sexy Japanese gravure idols Natsuko Tatsumi 辰巳奈都子  and Sayuri Otomo 大友さゆり  do a sexy schoolgirl cosplay video in their Young Sunday YSWeb video shoot from 2007.

Natsuko Tatsumi 辰巳奈都子  and Sayuri Otomo 大友さゆり videos

school girls on YSWeb 1

school girls on YSWeb 2

school girls on YSWeb 3

Alice Nine アリス九號 is a Japanese visual kei ヴィジュアル系, J-rock band from Tokyo formed in 2004. They have released 3 full albums, 3 EPs and 16 singles since 2004.  The band is pretty popular with Japanese cosplayers as you can see from the photos below.

Alice Nine Videos

Alice Nine Cross Game

Alice Nine sleep walker

Alice Nine Rainbows

There’s good cosplay and there’s bad cosplay and there is cosplay that is just plain wrong like the photos above. Definitely not the cutest Doraemon cosplay we’ve seen.

Ayako Hatta 八田亜矢子 is a 25 year old Japanese TV “talento”  from Fukuoka prefecture.  Although she is a graduate of the University of Tokyo and has appeared on numerous TV shows,  she is most well known as one of the Obaka-aidoru (dumb idols), or, more simply, “bakadoru” on quiz show Hexagon 2.

She’s also appeared in fashion magazines CanCam, ViVi and JJ, TV commercials for ANA, NEC, Nexon and Tokyo Gas.

Ayako Hatto Videos

Ayako Hatto rodeo boy
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v194742fTSkaHCZ

Ayako Hatto nurse cosplay rodeo boy
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v563592bETyeF4m

Ayako Hatta nurse cosplay
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A above photo taken in Harajuku, Tokyo of a young man cosplaying as Reita れいた (photos below), bad ass bass guitarist from the Japanese visual kei ヴィジュアル系 band The Gazette ガゼッ

Video of Reita from Gazette

The Janbari Tenshi Idol Unit (Janbari Angels)  ジャンバリ天使は are a Japanese  idol cosplay unit consisting of 20 idols who have appeared as maids, cowgirls, pirates, race queens, eva anime and now as sexy santas.

Check out their homepage as well as their videos below.  Merry Christmas everyone!

Janbari Tenshi idol unit

Mai Yoshimura

Saya Aoi

Seriki Ochikata

How Michelle Pham transforms herself into her anime idol Sailor Moon. Watch this make up and cosplay special.

While fans of 1970’s anime Space Battleship Yamato have been eagerly awaiting the completion of the animated film version  by Yoshinobu Nishizaki they can hop over to their local Pachinko parlor and play the pachinko game Space Battleship Yamato Pachinko machine!CR宇宙戦艦ヤマト made by Fuji.

Fuji has created a two games Cryamato 1 and Cryamato2.  For the launch of Cryamato2, there are a series of  impressive TV commercials with some awesome CGI footage  and starring Japanese model Sara Kagami 各務沙羅 cosplaying as Yuki Mori 森雪

Space battleship Yamato TV commercials