Rika makes a shocking proclamation: She wants to break up with Hajime! And just as he’s headed for the United States! Even if the two of them do make up, Rika won’t be able to erase her history with Arata… Was it out of guilt that she wanted to break up?! Plus, we get a peek into Arata’s broken heart. And new developments are afoot!

With Hajime out of the country, Arata takes his chance to try to steal Rika’s heart! Given the circumstances, Rika might just be lonely enough to give in… Could she be falling in love with him? And what’s going to become of her relationship with Hajime?

Create one-of-a-kind outfits with this essential guide to Japanese-style fantasy fashion! Using the authors' unique Costume Matrix, you will learn how to develop new and daring designs for your anime and manga characters and cosplay creations. First, choose a look to serve as your fashion foundation. Then select an alternate style and fuse it with the first fashion theme to create an unexpected ensemble combining elements have never before been seen together! Mixing and matching basic themes and styles in this way results in one-of-a-kind mashups and hybrids, for example: School Uniforms & Military Apparel Casual Basics & Gothic Formal Wear Japanese Fashion & Folk Costumes Plant Motifs & Animal Motifs Nature Motifs & Mechanical Objects Seasonal Motifs & all of the above! Using the Costume Matrix, the fashion mashup possibilities are endless! Here are just some of the unique combos made possible by applying the Costume Matrix technique: A Folk Costume crossed with a snake motif that results in a Scheherazade vixen with veils transforming into slinky scarf-like vipers! A Gothic Lolita paired with a Rabbit for a fun and furry character with fuzzy paws for boots and a crazy carrot-top hairdo! A Sailor Girl School Uniform combined with a Female Ninja fighting outfit—with a throwing star as the perfect accessory! A mashup of Casual Basics and Plant Motifs creates a head-turning Sunflower Girl complete with a green-leaf collar and flared-petal skirt Fantasy Costumes for Manga, Anime & Cosplay presents over 55 fantasy fashion mashup examples and provides you with the key to designing your own totally original characters and styles!

Everyone’s a little bit perverted…right? For nineteen-year-old Rika, cosplay is her life! As she stands at the threshold of her twenties, she must bear the weight of an ambition she can’t share with anyone: She wants to have sex in her high-school uniform! One day, she meets a high-school student who she seems to get along with on a dating site, and before she knows it, she’s arranged to meet up with him IRL. The only catch is that he still thinks she’s in high school herself. He is younger than her, but he also seems to be her type… Can she really dive into a relationship while she’s still cosplaying?!

It's raining men again, this time in dashing lab coats and glasses! And as Hajime's absence starts to wear on her, Rika is having college classmate Soki press her more and more aggressively. It's a full-blown grown-up crisis for Rika -- and this volume features two special chapters depicting her from Hajime and Arata's point of view!

Most of us are conscious of having a single and stable self, but the self is more fragmented and plastic than we care to think. David Berliner explores the captivating world of identity through an array of astonishing experiences. From Napoleon doppelgangers to Philip Roth's alter-ego Nathan Zukerman and Wonder Woman cosplayers to anthropologists going native, he delves into the kaleidoscopic nature of the self and attempts to understand the heterogenous nature of identity. But Becoming Other also discusses a great cultural controversy of our time: who has the right to play at being whom?

Expand your costume-making skills and go from beginner to confident maker! Picking up where Creative Cosplay left off, this new volume prepares costume enthusiasts to create out-of-this-world effects from head to toe! Cosplayers of all experience levels have much to gain from Amanda’s expertise as a national cosplay competition winner and judge. Learn the basics of making an original costume pattern, using prosthetics and latex, and customizing fabric through dyeing and painting. Transform yourself into the character of your choice with Special Effects (SFX) makeup. SFX makeup uses prosthetics and smaller on-skin materials to create illusions — such as wounds, scars, deformities, or supernatural features — directly on the skin. Get the scoop on sergers, embroidery machines, and using a digital cutter Pick up industry secrets on the basics of LED work, body painting, and SFX makeup Create a DIY costume repair kit for conventions, and market yourself in the cosplay world