It's a cosplay studio in Akihabara.

Here's the sign.

It's a little hard to see from the street.

The building is currently under renovation right now.

So I don't know how it'll look when it's done! But this is how it looks right now.

So I've never done cosplay before ever, but I love dressing up

but they offered to let me try it for free tonight so I'm super excited!

Let's go inside!

This is the entrance.

Hello!

Please change into slippers and then come to the front desk!

So you're doing the cosplay experience, right?

These are the options we have so please select from one of these cosplays.

These are our non-character original costumes,

and these are the anime and game character cosplay options.

Do you know any of them?

Yeah, I know most of them!

Wow, that's great!

I know this one.

I want to pick her.

Okay, I'll be Mami.

Her, right?

Yes.

I'll start preparing things so please wait a minute.

Who is she?

She's a magic girl.

She's a witch (mahou)? Yeah.

The different characters have different colored eyes,

so if you want to pick out lenses to match your character you can also do that.

These are one month lenses.

People who do the cosplay experience usually get the one day lenses.

There are 6 of them in a pack.

You can use the one day ones at different times so most people buy these rather than the one month lenses.

Wow, you're fluent in Japanese.

Nonononono, not at all

really.

They're going to do my makeup now. They said it usually takes about 30 minutes.

I've used colored contacts once before but it was really hard putting them in.

Yeah, it's hard isn't it?

Yay, we got it in!

Does it hurt?

No, not at all.

When you put them in they feel pretty soft.

Yay!

Finally!

It actually [suits] you well.

I know, I like it!

Who's your favorite character to cosplay?

[Chamomile is a professional cosplayer and circle lens model!]

My favorite character to cosplay is Shinkai Hayato from Yowamushi Pedal.

The cosplay I'm doing now.

I also like Final Fantasy.

Who from FF?

My favorite game is 10

and my favorite character is Zack from FFVII.

Have you played Final Fantasy?

Yeah! We've [Jun and I] played...

7, 8, 10, 10-2, 12, and 13.

I've only played 7, 8, 9, 10, and 10-2.

When I started university I got busy so I haven't played much since then.

I so understand, me too.

But 12 and 13 were kind of boring anyway.

Right, the play was really straightforward?

Usually you can freely explore the world and fight monsters and stuff, but I heard 13 was different.

Yeah, it was kind of disappointing.

Everyone says that.

I liked the card game from 8.

Right! That was so fun!

Just playing the card game itself was fun.

Yeah.

I would find a save point and play near there, and if I lost I'd just restart.

I did that ALL THE TIME

Thank you!

You like the contacts, right?

Yeah.

I love these.

Yay! I'm using the same maker.

I wanna wear them every day.

I'm glad you like them so much.

You need to get the monthly ones.

Yeah.

Thank you very much for today.

You're welcome.

Now, please choose your favorite photos.

You can go though them by scrolling like this.

You can pick six pictures.

When you like one, hit the "p" button.

Okay.

These two are the prettiest, I think.

These two?

Don't you think so?

These two are Chamomile.

Wow.

Actually, they're all me.

The cutest two girls in this.

You're ALL of them?

Yes.

Oh, wow!

Wait, all of them??

Actually, the ones in the bottom case are also all me.

From here,

they're all me.

You look totally different in all of them.

Thank you!

Please pick the one you like better.

I like this one better.

Okay.

Here you go.

Thank you so much for coming today.

Thank you for everything. It was so much fun.

Me, too.

Can I take a picture of you two?

Thank you for everything.

No, thank you. I had a lot of fun.

[Just keep thanking everyone; it's a Japanese thing]

Have a safe trip back.

[CAN YOU GUESS]

See you again sometime!

Was it fun? YES.

I want to wear these lenses every day.

Although I guess that'd get expensive.

Maybe I can actually wear a yukata next time.

OOOOOOO that'd be so cool!!