AE "postponed" and *gasp* Yaoi-con

Looks like the OSCgumi home convention here in Vancouver has been "postponed" so we might not have a summer convention anymore. Too bad we may have had up to 2 dozen for a Shinsengumi march at AE too this summer. Oh well, not to be.

On the other hand, a couple of us were looking at Yaoi-con simply because well, we had an interest to go, and we figured, why not have a Shinsengumi presence at Yaoi-con as well? XD So far there will be a grand total of 2 OSCgumi members at Yaoi-con this year if we do end up going to that convention as planned. Things are still a bit up in the air at the moment though.

And lastly. I never did post these videos, but they were taken back in May when I (maiea) went to the annual Shinsengumi festival in Hino, Japan.

There's a bunch of other Shinsengumi festival vids as well, just look at my other YT vids if interested. ^^

Contemporary Shinsengumi Shoot

Alright, alright! Finally I present some of the photo's from the Contemporary Shinsengumi Photoshoot. It was certainly a surprise at how things turned out. Thank God it didn't rain! Hehheh.

There was no set theme for the shoot so we ended up with a pretty mix bag of "characters":

• yankee/street shinsengumi - SomeGuy
• osu! OSU! cheerleading/delinquent high school girl shinsengumi - Amefuri
• spider goth shinsengumi - s***** (don't know her screen name sorry)
• Bond Shinsengumi - KIMKAM
• Raver/Jrock/punk shinsengumi - maiea
• Evil Corporate/office lady shinsengumi - amenonine
• PIRATE Shinsengumi - Vyce
• Wild wild West Shinsengumi - Master Okita

Photographers were kimkam (treeviewer) and amenonine.

AND we can't forget the Shinsengumi MOBILE driven by our one and only Master Okita-san.

amenonine's photo-gallery
Shinsengumi Mobile pictures
KimKam's Pictures (Password hint: Viewing Cherry Blossoms)

So that's all for now!
Maybe we'll just go back to being our traditional selves for a while again before we pull off another random shinsengumi theme shoot in the future. :D

For the next business meeting...

Whenever we deem it necessary to have our next cosplay business meeting in New Westminster . . . I've taken the liberty of prepping the diagrams and presentations for everyone:

Doubling up comes based on gender preferences, of course. That said, who else do we need doing what?

Contemporary/Jrock/Punk/Rock/Modern Shinsengumi

So the project for May is our Contemporary Shinsengumi meet or photoshoot, also known as the Jrock/Punk/Modern/Yakuza/Gangster... Shinsengumi cosplay meet!

There really is no logical reason as to why we're going to be dressing up in our own contemporary renditions of the Shinsengumi uniforms. I guess, Variety is the Spice of Life? I thought it would be a fun project and perhaps we can also reused these costumes to march around SFU at night/evening--bwahaha!

I don't think a whole lot of us know exactly what we're doing yet, so its going to be a surprise for everyone! Yeah! We all love surprises.

Though to be organized, I say we should pick a date when to have this meet:
I was thinking either one of the last two weekends of May--

• May 23rd - 25th (I understand that on Friday, some of us may be going to a concert?)
• May 30 - June 1st

Which should also give us enough time to get our costumes together and have Maiea come back from her much anticipated trip to Japan.

Yes, and as for location dates I think we have decided that we'll at least look normal enough to storm down town to take pictures.

That is all!

OSCgumi Hanami

So we went out on the weekend, wanting to get some Shinsengumi cosplay pics before the sakura trees totally disappeared. Well, we got some, but it was *pouring rain* the whole time. hahaha. We're such hardcore cosplayers to be out taking cosplay pics whilst being pelleted by rain. XD

Anyway it was pretty fun, after taking pics, we drove to a nearby university, ate our sushi "lunch" indoors, took a couple more photos and proceeded to a local mall (after changing out of costume) to buy bandages (it was.. an eventful day) and eventually have dinner.. which extended for several hours as is common when you get our group together since we talk about anything and everything.