@zihua.art made the adorable artwork for us! 🥰

We had a great time at @matsuricon.bsky.social this year!💕
A lot going on in our lives right now, so we went with simpler costumes this time - we took the wigs and accessories we already made for the mario gals and mixed it with our love of Kimonos! 👘
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Having a good time at @sekaicon today!

#cosplay #sekaicon #sekaicon2025

We unfortunately didn't make it to Animarathon over the weekend, but hope everyone who did had a wonderful time. 💕 (We all caught the flu~)

We do plan on checking out #sekaicon next month! Looking forward to it!!
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This was pretty cool to see 💕

YES! 💕 We should to do another photoshoot eventually. We have been bad at making new costumes this year with all the moving, but hopefully we'll have something for Matsuri, and if you're up for it we can plan a fancy shoot. Your art has evolved WONDERFULLY, even with you starting off very skilled!

Ohmygosh!

Look at baby you!

Look at baby me’s photos!

12 years later, wow. I don’t shoot NEARLY as much. This is fine. Artists evolves. It brings me joy to see old shots floating around. Look how our friendship and art has grown!

#cosplayphotography #queerartist

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2012, PASWG Cosplay! We are excited they are finally making a new season 💕

In 2013, my little college cosplay club had a photoshoot. I was so excited to use a professional photographer for the first time that I made a new cosplay just for that photoshoot! After a week of hand sewing, I had the honor to meet the amazing talented @ctgraphy.bsky.social You are the best!!

Here is a snip of our first masquerade skit from 2012. Enjoy our Zelda Cosplay Skit, Dance For Me. You can watch the full video on YouTube: youtu.be/Tl2v3Zqpe8M?...

Back in 2012 we performed our first skit based on Zelda OOT. We never looked back! We had a blast, even though we learned dance skits were not our forte. 😂

A few old closet cosplays. Not every cosplay needs to be top tier - the important part is having fun! I loved all these cosplays, even if the work was minimal for them.

The first time of many that we cosplayed anything Mario. 💕 This was worn for a con in 2011, but a friend (Yeonsu) helped me and my sister get some good pictures in the spring of 2012. Fancy Toad and Princess Peach in her White Dress from Smash Brothers!

Everyone has to start somewhere! These were our first three cosplays: Full Moon O Sagashite in 2008, Scrapped Princess in 2009, and Higurashi When They Cry in 2010. We have come such a long way since then!

Who are we? We're the ShimaiTeam! We are a multi-award winning cosplay performance group, who really enjoy being silly with our friends and making people laugh. You can catch all our funny skits on YouTube, and also find us on Facebook, TicTok, and IG for now.

We're here! We're here! 💖