AKB48 Madoka Cosplay: “They Can Cosplay After All!”
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jul 29, 2013 16:28 JST
- Tags: AKB48, Akemi Homura, Cosplay, Idol, Kaname Madoka, Puella Magi Madoka Magica
After a series of cosplay efforts which seemed more designed to provoke angry fans into a publicity inducing furore than win them over with cuteness, SKE48’s Rena Matsui and Nogizaka46’s Rina Ikoma have saved the day by earning much praise for their “too cute” portrayals of magical puellae Homura and Madoka.
The cosplay appears in the September issue of fashion rag “Smart,” with Rina also providing some additional Madoka by way of an omake on her blog:
Nogizaka46, though billed as an AKB48 “rival” group, is managed by Akimoto as well and so probably owes more to his canny efforts to create some pro-wrestling style inter-group tension than any actual rivalry.
SKE48’s Airi Furukawa has also previously been noted for her efforts:
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Horrible choice of lighting by photographers of the magazine...
It might just be me, but that is some fucking CREEPY-ass lighting.
Yeah, they went nuts with the lighting. It too strong all over.
they did it to cover up how ugly these girls really are
Rena Matsui is actually very pretty without lighting and make up. Learn to research you dumbass.
Yes, it's only the lighting that's creepy...
Homura looks like a dude.
yes, she looks like a dude...
a trap dude!!
Good Madoka!
Okay Mami.
Bad Homura... sad because she is my fav =(
Exactly, I was thinking manchin the second I saw her.
“They Can Cosplay After All!”
No they cannot.
I didn't realise there were men in SKE48.
Madoka cosplays always trip on the eyebrows.
Not bad. But not the greatest I've seen. Mami looked bit shite tho.
Rena would've been so much better as Kyoko. HINT HINT
I personally know multiple people who do far better Madoka cosplay than this, hell, one of the cashiers at the grocery store by my house can pull of a far better Homura, and and of my co workers does a much better Madoka, and he's a dude.
These cosplays certain beat that horrible Asuka cosplay though.
looks completely normal.
madoka magica it's so 2011
A for effort on their part, they actually did a good job with the cosplay with Madoka and Homura. Not enough to get rid of the Asuka cosplay disaster though.
just go to your base mend uneducatted joke.
yes i know he or she or it looked like a unohana retsu some time ago... and i didnt acknowledge the beauty...
but guess what? unfairness exists everywhere in this world.
i am in akb1 austria faggotry club. only 1 member.
AKB
*AKG
and i never realized they where reason's to critize this fanclub because some woman feel like they have to bitch about non existant competition?
But to finish it up they still have to sit with a bowl of cherries on a bed with ther legs open making the cherries disapear.
Madoka looks pretty good, but if the article hadn't said that these were AKB48 members I would have thought that Homura was a man wearing makeup...
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Wardrobe + Makeup artists + professional photographer does not make them cosplayers.
Mayu Watanabe have some decent cosplays.
Oh god Airi is even hotter now.
Not enough Kyubey :O
needs more 16 hit combo bullets :D
So they finaly learned how should they use photoshop?
Holy... no, unholy fuck!
trying to imitate that wavy long hair is difficult
maybe her imitation is not meant for show? and she doesnt want to be imitated because of this reason?
Japanese's makeup skills are as frightening as ever.
are they as tight as madoka and homura?
Japanese don't translate too well into anime characters.
How could they? Anime characters are stylized Caucasian depictions for the largest part. You know it's true.
*facepalm*
Just because you think drawn characters all look like "default human" to you, which is caucasian.
Learn to read.
Good Madoka!
Okay Mami.
Bad Homura... sad because she is my fav =(
So when's the AV coming out?
It's not that bad, but their not cut out for anime cosplay. Place them in a school uniform and they are perfect looking, but to make that cross into anime is not working. It's their faces mostly. Not into the character and their poses are all wrong.
At least they're not fat like usual madoka cosplay :D
The fact that AKB48 is cosplaying, and that what they cosplay is an anime with some loli/yuri fanservice is a fucking great thing.
You know, AKB48 is a mainstream pop idol group beloved by many japanese people (most of them probably don't watch anime but sazae-san or mainstream tamed shit). This will help anime to be seen with right eyes again, and to return the "otaku culture" to the point it was some years ago before right wings old hags started bashing it.
(And mainstream studios probably will not have the necessity of pandering woman or fujoshi so much to get funds, in fact this will probably help to save anime).
I was happy when they got the AKB0048 anime, because that lead many normalfags to start watching anime. But the fact they are cosplaying is better than that.
And also they are cosplaying a shaft anime (who really delivers), and not one made by those kyoani betrayers.
Lighting overkill
Please turn down background lighting next time! mr.photographer
yokel's do not follow rules.