Tuesday, July 25, 2006

   MY INTERNET IS TEH SUCK
This right here is what I'm talking about. If there was one thing I'd change about my computer, It would have to be the internet service I get. There is just one thing wrong with having only one phoneline and dial-up. It makes me CRAZY! On the one hand, my sister uses it any time she feels like it (no trouble for her), and it just happens to be when I feel like my otaku needs to be updated, so here I am more than half a month later at school typing my latest rant. There, all done.

I'm really excited about going to anime-fest this year. I've just signed up and I may even have more than one costume to wear. Anyhow, my badge and costumes will be ninja themed, and most likely converted from Goodwill clothing. I'm quite handy with a needle you see... My one remaining problem is preparing a sheath to wear my sword on my back as ninjas should. The problem about it is the difficulty of sewing leather into a durable sheath that is also easy for pulling a sword out of (its just not as much fun to keep it in the sheath for pictures). Anyway, I thought that it should be known that this costume only took me two days to put together (I already had the shoes, socks and sword). Now, speaking of s-words, perhaps I should make some shuriken. My ninja outfit is not so much cosplay as it is a generic ninja outfit. I could consider it as portraying the ninja from "ask a ninja", but I really think there should be some kind of more realistic ninja than the swiffer ninjas and Naruto cosplayers. I haven't seen anything close to a Ninja Gaiden cosplayer, so I think I'll be the closer to it at a fest.

A realistic ninja costume needs at least 3 things to really qualify it as realistic:
1. Loose fitting, but not much.
Tight fitting clothes may rub against your skin during an infiltration making a sound that gets you detected. Baggy clothes are hard to keep from getting caught on something and also make movement more difficult. The key is either to use spandex, which is extremely uncomfortable (and who needs to be adjusting their outfit everytime they bend over anyways?) or use clothes without too much texture so noise it makes is less audible. Because spandex is so uncomfortable, old goodwill clothes (converted) work just fine.
2. Concealed Weapons
What kind of ninja wouldn't have weapons? The ability to set traps doesn't come from the lack of weapons. Neither does silent killings and assassinations. I'll just leave it at that. Weapons must be concealed because shiny things will bring attention to a ninja, and that is not the way of a ninja.
3. A real ninja
Of course a Realistic ninja costume is more likely to have a real ninja in it. I'm not claiming that I am a ninja (because it may or may not blow my cover), but people will be looking over their shoulders to make sure I'm not there to get them.

Sorry about my lack of good internet interfering with my lack of visitors (haha, cheap shot at myself). And I am also going to have to take back my promise of a scanlation of Akon 17 for a while.

Until my next post, train hard ninja pupils!
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