Fairy Tale Girl Costumes By Elena Litvinova

Cosplay is really advanced in Russia today. Many cities have several anime conventions a year. There are very many different contests – costume contest, cosplay performances, karaoke, “Para-Para”, fanart contest and so on. Russian cosplayers care not only about perfect external similarity with the character, but also good acting, behaving like the character they cosplaying. Several years ago they created the team called R&R (Ryoko and Rei), there were only two of us, but now they have more than 10 and sometimes even 15 people. Every year they make performances, musicals, sketches within different anime-cons all over the country. And sometimes they just meet together to have fun with friends. It is her second family.
The most difficult project she had was the Pokemon. They made a performance while there were 22 people involved. Together with Rei they were helping everyone with their costumes and wigs. The project has turned to be very spectacular and really memorable. She dream to make some costumes of her most favourite character Ryoko from Tenchi Muyo. That is why she chose her name as her nickname, Ryoko, and the postscript “demon” serves for difference from other Ryokos in the Internet. And Ryoko herself was a kind of a demon in anime.