A few weeks ago, submissions for the Mirai Suenaga Fanart was opened and the response was amazing! Folks from all over the world have been submitting a load of Mirai Suenaga fanart to be featured in the Worldwide Otaku Report.
The Worldwide Otaku Report connects you with the anime industry and I want to highlight the talents of folks around the world who consume and enjoy Japanese Pop Culture. The book is being published by Ascii Media Works who brought us titles like Toradora, Oreimo, Railgun and more.
This time round, I'm featuring the talents of cosplayers as our mascot character Mirai Suenaga. All you need you to do is upload your selection of photos of yourself as Mirai Suenaga cosplay to World Cosplay or Deviantart (preferably both) and we will choose some to be featured in the book.
Ascii Media Works are not paying you for your work however so if you think thats bad then probably best if you do not submit anything. If however, you are a long term thinker and see this as a good opportunity to get your work out infront of many eyeballs (in particular the eyeballs of the anime industry) then submit away!
If you would like to submit photos of a cosplay that you have already done, make sure the full res is uploaded and leave a comment below with a link to the photo (This applies even to the cosplayers who have been featured in the Mirai Suenaga Cosplay page). We cant print anything in the book without your permission.
Look forward to your entries!
Below are some of the recent Mirai Suenaga cosplays we've spotted from around the world!
If you need reference materials for making your costumes, you can also find it at the end of this post.
The cover for the Worldwide Otaku Report!
Carolina Miranda as Mirai Suenaga and Ana Bertola as Haruka Suenaga in their Summer uniforms!
Thanks to Otaku no Baires for these beautiful shots!
From left to right: Jennifer from Malaysia as Mirai in her Summer Uniform, Esther from Singapore as Mirai in her Solar Marine Uniform, and Hammy from Malaysia as Mirai in her Winter uniform.
Jessie and Edward from the US as Mirai Suenaga and Eiji Seiun in their Solar Marine uniforms at Anime Expo!
From left to right: (sorry I forgot your name but please identify yourself if you see this! ><), someone cosplaying as me, Jessie in Mirai's Solar Marine uniform, coolmikeol cosplaying as Eiji in his Summer uniform, and Edward as Eiji in his Solar Marine uniform.
Arisa from Malaysia does a lovely cosplay of Mirai in her Maid Uniform.
If you think you need some props for your photos then maybe you can get some Moekana. Mirai Summer Uniform cosplay by Hion from Japan!
Sumire Lee cosplaying as Mirai in her Summer Uniform with her comrades from Malaysia!
Akihiko as Haruka Suenaga in her Summer Uniform!
And Abunai Usagi as Kanata Hoshikawa in her Summer Uniform!
Photos thanks to Hermanphotography.
M.I.R.A.I.!
Yuki as Mirai in Summer Uniform and angie as Mirai Cheergirl!
Photo thanks to A.R.C. Photography!
Cute!
Some beautiful Mirai Summer uniform cosplay by Ruki from Thailand.
Ichigo from the Philippines cosplays Mirai in her Summer uniform!
KazuoFubuki from Malaysia cosplays Mirai in her Summer uniform!
ShannaPalileo from the Philippines cosplays Mirai in her Maid costume.
Tamagochan from the US cosplays Mirai in her Winter uniform!
Many more mirai-chan cosplayers from around the world. You can find out more about them in the Mirai Suenaga Cosplay page.
For folks who need Mirai’s Summer Uniform in a rush - its available for purchase at Lucy Pop!
And here are the reference images for those who are planning to make a new costume.
This is Mirai in her Summer School Uniform. Do note that Mirai has her hairclip only on her left side.
Mirai in her Winter School Uniform.
Mirai in her Solar Marine Uniform.
Mirai's weapon of choice - the Millennium Blade.
The Biostream Boots that are worn with the Solar Marine Uniform. Do note that they are not symmetrical.
Mirai in her cheerleader gear.
Mirai works part time at a maid cafe and this is what she wears.
For the brave - Mirai in her bikini.
Update! Have tweaked the eyes so that Mirai does not look so...yandere ^^; Got this back from Good Smile this morning - this is what we are going to base the final product on.
There are many more parts that come with Mirai - all will be painted by end of next week. Then we will take the Release Photos for pre-order. Mirai Nendoroid will be featured in many of the Japanese hobby mags too. We plan to take her to events around the world too - one soon in Taiwan and AFA Indonesia, AFA Singapore etc.
And here are the sort of instructions that I create for the folks at Good Smile production team to follow. Just confirmed today is that Mirai will come with the "M-stand" - the same one that comes with Nendoroid Popura - that stand was specially developed by Max Factory - "M" for "Max Factory" but I like that stand a lot and makes it easier to pose so "M" for "Mirai" it is!
Everything below from initial announcement with the old face.
Announcing the Mirai Suenaga Nendoroid! Have waited many moons for this to happen but started to get that tingling feeling back in November - the Mirai Suenaga Weiss Schwartz happened shortly after and now the decoration master is ready just over half a year later.
Mirai Nendoroid was first displayed at the Wonfes last weekend to an audience of over 40,000 for the one day event - which was only 7 hours long.
Mirai Nendoroid will come with a pack of 1/8 scale sized pack of Moekana - thats the full set of 50 cards! This stand shows the actual size of the cards - perfect for doll owners too!
And for folks who dont know what Moekana is - its the Japanese learning series that I released with Good Smile Company that changes the way we learn the lingo. I've just received another order from Good Smile Company - that means Moekana is in its 3rd print run!
Read more about Moekana and find out how to get hold of yours.
Speaking of Moekana, Mirai Nendoroid comes with a few face parts - 2 are Moekana style illustrated by Ikkyuu-sensei and the default one by DMYO-sensei.
Mirai also comes with an Itasha that she can actually ride (folks who follow my Twitter or Facebook will have seen the images) and also a smaller moekana card which she holds in her hand.
Mirai also comes with her sidekick Retrokyu.
Retrokyu transforms into Mirai's Retrograde Suit - the transformation sequence illustrations recently added to his page.
*Aiming* for pre this Summer with a release this December - hopefully in time for Comic Fiesta.
Mirai-chan next to Wakana Sakai of Tari Tari.
Later that day at the Good Smile Company offices for the live broadcast.
Retrokyu will come with his own stand.
While I left the production of Mirai Figma to GSC - Mirai Nendoroid is the first figure where I worked on the development. I worked on the face parts, Itasha and mini moekana.
The eyes that you see on the Mirai Nendoroid will be a bit darker on the final version so that the pupils dont stand out too much.
Mirai's hairclip is supposed to be white but decided that it looks better in silver for the product.
Face parts will be compatible with all Nendoroids so that you can mix n match!
Another Mirai-fan spotted.
So cute I want to eat.
With Yoshimi at the GSC offices after the broadcast.
Will be updating this post and bumping it to the top when photos from the other parts come in!
But before I leave, I want to thank all of you for making this happen - thank you for your continued support!
