Himura Kenshin

Kenshin is the ever popular namesake from the anime Rurouni Kenshin. He's a very overly cosplayed character, but he's so cool that I couldn't resist from cosplaying him. He's a wandering man who once was the strongest and more deadly hitokiri battosai (assassin samurai) back in the Meiji era of Japan. Now he wanders and is a good guy, but still has lots of old enemies and new enemies to stop de gozaru yo.

Ani-Magic 2001:

Van as Kenshin, Melanie as Kaoru Kenshin and Aya Van as Kenshin and Nando as Sagara Van as Kenshin, Melanie as Kaoru Van as Kenshin
Van as Kenshin Van as Kenshin Van as Kenshin, Willis as Kenshin too ^^ a nice Kenshin group with Van as Kenshin
Van as Kenshin, Willis as Kenshin um, no comment the Jupan Gatana get their revenge! Everyone who showed up for the Kenshin group! What a ton of people -- and not really that many repeats! :D
Lauren Photoshoot (Sept. 2002):

Van as a dead Kenshin Van as Kenshin, y0 Van as Kenshin happy-go-lucky! Van as Kenshin about to get his smack on
Himura Kenshin
I'm pretty proud of my Kenshin costume, even though the majority of it was premade for me. I watched Kenshin while I was in Japan, and really fell in love with the series during my trip to Japan. I bought a katana for a friend in Kyoto, and with the katana I decided that I'd cosplay Kenshin, since his orgins were in Kyoto. I looked all over Japan for any other Kenshin parts I could aquire there, but actually everything beyond the katana was bought in the US. I ordered the white hakama from a kendo store, and the zori and tabi socks from another kendo martial arts store. You CANNOT find zori with WHITE hanao anywhere, like Kenshin has. They're all red or black, or mustard yellow or something sick. So I just ordered a normal pair and glued a white covering on them, from scraps of my white velvet. It turned out really well, and so I'm happy. I bought the wig off eBay, too, and its really perfect. I had to cut the bangs into it myself, but it came out so nicely. =D The kimono part I made myself. Tracked down a kimono pattern in Butterick patterns, and altered the womans kimono a bit so that it would fit Kenshin. I made two layers, his lighter under layer which is white, and made from linen and the heavy coarse fabric that is a suit material for the outer layer. Putting it all together came out great. As a last effect, I bought purple contacts to wear with the costume, and I got a lot of comments on them. =D My scar was drawn on with a lovely brown marker. w00t.


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