This year I had the honor of being the MC for the VIP event at this year's Anison USA! It was amazingly fun, and I got to spend a lot of time with the guests! 

Some notable moments came when me and Nozomi bonded over both having cosplayed Grell from Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler), as well as seeing Loli Angels again and having them 100% remember me!

In other news, I have quite a few cosplays in the works for Fanime, I'm getting excited! It's going to be an almost completely new lineup so please look forward to it!

じゃ、またね！
マリスガ
​(marisuga)

ALA 2016 was a great year! I had a lot of fun, made some new friends, and got to see a lot of people I hadn't seen in a long time!

Day 0: Thursday started with a ride on the train, which is always exciting (have I ever said that I love riding trains? It reminds me of being back in Japan!) When we got to Ontario we had a pretty relaxing day (I took a nap) and prepared for the days to come.

Day 1: Friday I had the auditions for ALA Idol (I made it to the finals, woohoo!) Followed by A-to-J's AKB48 panel which I performed at. The performances both went really well (the panel even had a costume quick change which was super fun!) After the panel we spent time in the dealers hall (I bought so many snacks!) and met up with more friends before going to Tiffany's concert! It was a great concert and she had a lot of energy, I even got to go on stage and do an MC with her! It did start a bit late, but everyone really seemed to enjoy it.

Day 2: Saturday started early for me, and I was so tired T.T First I was part of a Posing for Cosplay Photography panel with my friend (and one of my favorite photographers) WJS Photography! I then performed in the ALA Idol Finals, before immediately going to A-to-J's Idol 102 panel where I once again performed. Everything went extremely well! After everything settled down I changed into my Potpourri cosplay and walked around the convention before we had A-to-J's Visual Kei 102 panel where we skyped in a surprise Japanese guest, Noah, the singer from Avanchick! After the panel we ordered pizza and celebrated a succesful day!

Day 3: Sunday was a relaxing day. I spent some time in the dealers hall before we decided to grab lunch across the street. It was raining and the ground got flooded so my shoes got completely soaked D: I then headed back to the hotel to spend the last few hours with friends before heading back to LA. It was very cold and when we got to the train station we realized our train was delayed by almost an hour! Thankfully we were kept company by some other congoers who were making their way home so it wasn't too bad...

And now finally I'm home! ALA was so much fun and I can't wait for next year! Expect pictures to be up soon <3

-marisuga

Info on Tiffany:
https://www.facebook.com/tiffanynnstream?_rdr=p

Info on WJS Photography:
https://www.facebook.com/WjsCosplay/

Info on Avanchick:
​http://avanchick.jp/

Today I went to the Los Angeles fashion district for the first time - it was amazing!!! I felt like I was in fabric heaven. If you can't find something in the fashion district, it probably doesn't exist. 

I got (almost) everything I need for my new costumes for Anime California and PMX (why are they only 1 week apart?!?) and have already started sewing my skirt for one of the costumes! Can you guess what it is?














Unfortunately, my poor sewing machine has a hard time working with the vinyl and the thread keeps fraying/breaking. Pretty sure I need to oil it up but for now I'll just have to work through it... Here's a picture of the back, you can see the places where the thread had some issues :P

In other news, I finally found a place to live more the foreseeable future! I'm super excited about it and will be moving soon. I've also been attending bartending school so if anybody knows of a place that's hiring bartenders, let me know haha!

Until I post again, 

marisuga

I'm super excited for Anime Expo this weekend! Here's my cosplay/event lineup (these are just events I am actually a part of, I still haven't decided which panels ect. I'll be going to as an attendee).

Very excited to be the official Nonon Cosplayer for Aniplex this year! Keep a lookout for more information on that to come! 

Also follow me on twitter @mariisuga to get updates on where I am in the con if you'd like to snag a picture!

With everything that's been going on lately, cosplaying has unfortunately taken a back seat. However, I have a few new cosplay plans that I'd like to get done and now that I have a job (cue applause) I actually have money to buy supplies! Yay!

This is an extremely short blog post but I'm very tired and going to go to sleep now, but I'll hopefully write again soon!

<3 Marisuga

I've now done 2 days of filming on a movie that I was cast in called "The B.C. Butcher", check out the facebook page!

I don't film again until thursday, so today, tomorrow, and wednesday I will be sewing like a madwoman trying to get my Nonon and the President cosplays finished in time for AX (which, as I said, I'll have to be missing part of, but I still want to get done!)

So far I've made good progress on both, so I'm confident I'll be able to get it all done. But it's hard getting used to a new sewing machine (I'm using my friends) and I don't have all the supplies I usually have. I have to pick up some stuff from the fabric store, but by the end of tomorrow I should be almost done!

Wish me luck!

Wow... I am really bad at keeping up with this blog. This is especially sad because of my first post where I say that I planned on keeping up with it. Oh well, maybe I actually will this time!

The past week has been very busy and the next week is going to be even more so! I recently moved apartments and now have a bigger place all to myself which will be amazingly nice for sewing purposes. My parents came out to help me move, and on one of the days we took a break and went to Disneyland! I twas my first time going in over 10 years so it was pretty exciting. I decided I wanted to disneybound, but only had time to use items I already had in my closet, so I ended up going as Lady from Lady in the Tramp. I don't think anyone recognized it as a disneybound outfit, but I did get some compliments on the outfit regardless!

After moving I was planning on spending the week preparing for Anime Expo, but I got a call from my manager that I had been offered a role in a film and that filming was starting this week (in 4 hours). I'm extremely honored to be offered the role, and hopeful that this will get the ball rolling on my career! The only problem is that some of the filming conflicts with AX, so I won't be able to spend as much time at the con as I would have hoped. Luckily, I have the 4th of July off and also will have a few hours on the other days to explore and do some photo shoots. I plan on bringing only 3 costumes because of the shortened time: Junko, Nonon, and Kanako Wakanabe/The President from Stardriver! I'm remaking Nonon and The President is a new costume so hopefully I can get it all done even with filming this weekend. 


Wish me luck!


~Marisuga

I haven't posted in here in a while, but today is my birthday! I am now 20 years old :)

Also, I got a dress form for Christmas which has so far proved to make everything MUCH easier. I'm probably going to remake a dress that I had made before since I now know better what I'm doing and I can fit it on something that isn't my own body.

I recently got a sewing machine and I've been using it like crazy! I've already made a skirt (for Kojiharu, the wonderful Mia is making the rest of the cosplay for me), a dress (for Panty), and I've started on the penguin hat from Mawaru Penguin drum! It's really satisfying and cool knowing that these are wearable things that I personally created. I'm really enjoying this!

Anyways, off to bed for me!

(P.S. you can visit Mia's website at ka-e.tk)

I really hope I actually stick with the blogging aspect of this site, but in case I don't make sure to check out my tumblr as I will update that for sure!

I'm currently working on recording the song "I Have a Dream" by Kalafina! A friend of mine introduced me to Kalafina at Fanime this year and I have been obsessed ever since. There isn't an official background track so I had to create my own, but thankfully audio effects help make it sound just as good.

I'll try to keep everyone posted! And see you at SacAnime Summer this weekend if you're going to be there! (I will hopefully have my cure cards then!)