Ai Miyashita
Love U My Friends
Love U My Friends
Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club is the third anime installment in the Love Live series and I think Ai is my favourite character in the franchise - she likes puns, what can I say? The Love U My Friends costumes are adorable and so colourful, I think they're great.
Photographer: James the Enthusiast
This cosplay was another duo with my friend Kirra - she did Kanata. We sourced materials together and sewed nearly everything together, just doing finishing touches on our own. This is one of my biggest sewing projects to date, and I would not have finished if not for Kirra! While the costume is straightforward all the trims, layers and details made it a very big build and fortunately with two of us we were able to production line things. For example, Kirra painted the small flowers for us and I constructed the tricolour ribbons.
For reference, this costume consists of:
White top, which is a cheap singlet top with added handmade tricolour ribbon, chiffon ruffles, neck ribbon, buttons and flowers.
Three layer orange skirt with gold ribbon trimmed rainbow tulle overlay
Flower belt with hanging ribbons, once again constructed from multiple ribbons
Beaded belt (bless Kirra, she made these for both of us)
Hair clip, wristcuffs and garters (not pictured because they wouldn't stay up!)
Customised shoes (painted and flowered) with handmade straps with flower decorations
White thigh-highs - the only thing we just purchased and wore
Debuted
Status
Construction
I next wore this cosplay to Wellington Cosplay Photofest 2024, where I did two radically different photoshoots - outdoors with James, and indoors with Keane.
Photographer: James the Enthusiast
Photographer: Capturing Cosplay
Kirra and I debuted our cosplays at Central Coast Comicon 2022, which we attended with some friends and also my eldest niece. Our photos are courtesy of said niece and edited by me.