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Japanese cosplayer creates amazing outfit: Sailor Moon’s transformation sequence!【Photos】

Casey Baseel May 3, 2024
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10 years of creative energy turn into something magical.

When Sailor Moon fans decide to cosplay as the magical girl anime/manga heroine, they’ve got a few different iconic outfits to choose from. Obviously, there’s the sailor suit-inspired outfit that Sailor Moon wears when fighting evil by moonlight, but the school uniform she wears as ordinary schoolgirl Usagi Tsukino is also an option, as is the elegant gown of Princess Serenity from the Silver Millenium.

But cosplayer and Japanese Twitter user @princessusako recently passed up all three of those designs and crafted a Sailor Moon cosplay outfit that’s both extremely unique and inventive, and yet also something that fans will instantly recognize, by recreating Sailor Moon’s costume from the middle of her transformation sequence.

🌙ムーンプリズムパワーメイクアップ！🌙
セーラームーン変身リボン（本体）
オーロラリフレクターを約18mのリボンに縫い付けつつ裏面はリボンらしさを残してみました
ちゃんと両面リフレクターをコーティングしたので、裏面のリボンも反射すれば色が出る、筈🎉 pic.twitter.com/Cw7oYjgApd

— うさこ@スパコミ4日東1セ01a@5日東5ひ23a (@princessusako) April 8, 2024

In case you need your memory jogged, or are just in the mood for a trip down anime memory lane, for Sailor Moon’s first transformation, Usagi shouts out “Moon prism power, make up!” Glowing ribbon-like streams of magical energy then emerge from the Transformation Brooch she wears on her chest, streaming out over her torso and solidifying into her Sailor Moon outfit.

▼ Sailor Moon’s original transformation sequence

To capture this effect in the real world, @princessusako sewed a prismatic reflective material, called an aurora reflector, to both sides of an 18-meter (59-foot) ribbon. She then wound the ribbon in and around a replica Transformation Brooch over and over, until she achieved the volume and shape necessary to wear the ribbon as a garment itself.

Because of the shimmering effect of the material, light will play across the surface so that colors appear to be constantly changing, further selling the illusion that what you’re seeing is magical energy forming around Sailor Moon.

▼ @princessusako models her creation.

🌙メイクアップ！セーラー戦士🌙

ムーンプリズムパワーメイクアップ✨✨🙋
ウーウウーウーセーラムーン（ｳｰ♪

光ってます　凄いぃ！！
キラキラに包まれて私の人生が昇華されていく🙏（走馬灯

セーラームーン　うさこ
撮影（@inori_design）
撮影補助（@Marubayashi_） pic.twitter.com/f3W7vb5h0w

— うさこ@スパコミ4日東1セ01a@5日東5ひ23a (@princessusako) April 15, 2024

@princessusako actually first got the idea for a ribbon-based Sailor Moon transformation sequence cosplay outfit 10 years ago, and even he first attempt is an impressive piece of work.

こちらは10年前に作った初代変身リボン
2色のリボンで立体感を出してあります
この時は直接レオタードに縫い付けてたから分解不可能で運ぶのも超大変だったけど、今回は全てスナップで着脱してるからコンパクトに運べる🙌わーい！ pic.twitter.com/4ptVHqlacR

— うさこ@スパコミ4日東1セ01a@5日東5ひ23a (@princessusako) April 8, 2024

The new costume, though, is on a whole other level, and a reminder that there’s no limit to what cosplay creators can do if they keep chasing their costuming dreams.

Source: Twitter/@princessusako via IT Media
Images Twitter/@princessusako
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