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Taken at Cosfest Day 2Shin Koihime Musou - Kan'u
weapon by me!
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I think you just made my heart skip a beat well done .
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oups! and...
this is amazing btw!!! thanks for sharing this picture,again wow ^^
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Hi! thanks for your compliment! good luck for your Kan'u cos! ^_^
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I'm gonna cosplay Kan'u from Koihime Musou this year and i'm very happy cause it will be my first cosplay ever!
yoshhhhhhhhh ^^
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u mean sell? >< sorry but i just sold it D:
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OMG!!! *o* kawaiii!
Since the weapon does you? *w*
Indeed that is not bought? owo
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hello! yeah i made the weapon myself 
thx !! ^_^
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You're welcome n-n
The cleaver and the dragoon out of compressed foam? >3<
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the dragon is out of modeling clay and the scales of the dragon is made out of foamsheet
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You have still had it very well seriously!! *o*
This is it your black hair indeed? x3
I like very much the characters with the very long hair >w<
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haha no.. i was wearing a wig.. (: not my real hair..
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Where the shpping? x3 pleasee >3<
It is possible that I disguise myself as Aisha Kanu for a convention of here xD since I met the anime a few months ago and I like me very much this character! >w< Is kawaii aisha kanu <3
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I wanted to say Shopping >.<
for internet, the wig of aisha kanu x3
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hi this is where u can get wigs cheap (: [link]
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So coool >.<
The lance thinging is so awesome
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I like your weapon , kinda looks Guan yu's ιιΎεγVery detailed made too
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haha! i doing female ver of guan yu ma 
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Since Guan Yu is such a folk superhero in Asia, you should go to one of those Chinese-run businesses someday and take a picture with their Guan Yu shrine since just about every Chinese restaurant or store has one!
Also, I visited an ancient Chinese water town called Wuzhen the last time I went home to China (I'm from Shanghai, which is in the area that would have been the Kingdom of Sun Wu back then) and there's a shrine to Guan Yu there - complete with an ENORMOUS statue of the guy. Hopefully you can go to the town someday with that outfit and take a photo there. It would be absolutely fitting.
On the other hand, I suspect I'm related to Rikuson/Lu Xun of the Kingdom of Wu, who came up with the strategy that got Kan'u/Guan Yu defeated, captured and ultimately killed. I kinda feel like I ought to apologize to your character. T_T;
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hahaha! I'm pretty sure Guan Yu would't bear a grudge (:
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I definitely hope not, especially since this version of Guan Yu is one of my favorite characters in the whole franchise! She's a powerful fighter, a great warrior, and she has a good heart and fights for the right reasons, but she keeps trying to deny that deep inside that selfless heroine is just a normal girl, so she's adorable in the "Koihime Musou" game when she gets all clingy and jealous over Kazuto (the player character) and tries to deny it.
I hope you had a lot of fun cosplaying her. Guan Yu is usually always sidelined in "Three Kingdoms" adaptations because Liu Bei is always the main character as the leader of the Shu-Han faction, but in the original game (and in the first anime), Liu Bei wasn't there so Guan Yu finally got to be the main character for once. Though I do wonder what she'd think if she knew that 1,800 years later, the Chinese people would worship her as a god? ^_^
Now, on the other hand, my ancestor (Rikuson Hakugen/Non) got turned into an airheaded, laid-back geeky girl with teal hair. I'm not sure how I feel about that just yet.
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ah yes, I was mesmerized by Kanu's character after watching Koihime Musou hence decided to do this cosplay. I feel ashamed that I am not familiar with the history of the three kingdoms. You are indeed very knowledgeable in this field!
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By the way, a giant weapon weighing almost 100 pounds that is supposed to actually be Kan'u's Green Dragon Crescent Blade is on display at the Purple Cloud Temple, located at Mount Wudang, in China in the present day. We can not confirm with 100% certainty that this indeed was Kan'u's weapon, but nonetheless, here is a website with a short blurb about the temple:
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Well, I'm not really *that* knowledgeable. I think anyone who's from China or Japan would be.
China, because this was probably the most famous civil war in our 2,000+ year history (trust me, my people know civil wars all too well), largely because there are both accurate records, and because the historical fiction novel, written during the Ming Dynasty many centuries later (I think it was the Ming but don't quote me on it) by a fellow named Luo Guanzhong, became one of the most famous and influential works ever to come out of Asia - I mean, that weapon Kan'u uses predated his (or hers in Koihime Musou) life, but it bears his name now because the novel made him so famous - the halberd is now called a Guan Dao (Guan Blade) in Kung Fu circles. We've also made a few epic movies about the novel, too, some more accurate than others, of course.
The Japanese, because for some reason, they seem to be obsessed with "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and have made so many adaptations of it. They spread its fame around the world by making numerous computer and video games - most notably the "Dynasty Warriors" fighting games, which they still make to this day - and by making other famous adaptations like "Ikki Tousen," "Koihime Musou," and "Koutetsu Sangokushi," which strangely enough, uses my ancestor, Lu Xun/Rikuson Hakugen (my birth name was Lu Dan-Yi) as the main character (Rikuson was just one of Sonken's main advisors, so it was interesting that they chose him to be the lead).
I'm not sure just what the Japanese, who have their own distinctive history of civil war and politics, see in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" other than an epic civil war lasting the better part of 80 years and a time of larger-than-life men and women squabbling with each other over who had more right to carry on the Han Dynasty (by the way, Gi/Wei eventually won the war, but not under Sou Sou/Cao Cao's family. Cao Cao's senior strategist later on, Sima Yi, was of the Sima clan and they forced the Cao family to abdicate, then led Wei/Gi to victory).
But I thank them for it, because they care more than my people do these days (which is very sad, as it makes me feel like we are forgetting our heritage, and that remembering where we came from can be a big motivation in deciding where we want to go today), and because I love seeing a good story retold, and new takes on an old idea. I'm just still getting used to seeing my legendary family members being turned into adorable girls, although I *did* mail-order a $99 figure of Sonken Renfa/Sun Quan. (Lu Xun/Rikuson Hakugen married the daughter of Sun Quan/Sonken's big brother, Sun Ce/Sonsaku - the daughter herself is known to exist, but her name has been lost to the records - so come on, it's not every day that one of your own family, however distant, gets turned into an anime character and then made into a figure!)
But all that aside, even if Aisha weren't a representation of the legendary Lord Guan, I would still think of her as one of my favorite KM girls, simply because I like her design, but I love her personality. There can be many girls who could act like she would, trying to overcome a past trauma by making the world a better place, choosing ideals and trying her best to keep them, sacrificing her own desires (to the point where she's no longer even aware she has them) to become the role model people need her to be, or in the KM game, where she has a boy (sucked in from the modern world) as her leader, being a loyal, but bossy manager and something of a workaholic.
But it also makes me sad to see what Aisha's devotion to bringing peace and justice back to society has done to her, because she can be very clingy, needy and a little jealous (at least in the KM game), and she isn't even aware of how much of a romantic she really is, and all of that comes from the fact that she's gotten it so stuck in her head that she needs to be a heroine that it's as if she's forgotten how to be a girl. She's shocked whenever people tell her that she's beautiful because she simply can't imagine that she could be, even though everybody thinks of her, as you know, as the "Beautiful Black-Haired Bandit Fighter," and she's constantly worrying about Kazuto running into the other girls and reminding him that she met him first, because her self-esteem is so low that she thinks she can't compare to them, even though Kazuto himself insists that she should feel better about herself. You know, in some ways - her traumatic past, giving up so much to shape herself to an ideal, denying herself things most of us would want even though it hurts her - she kind of reminds me of my other great hero: Bruce Wayne, the Batman. (She's just not as angry and insane!)
Anyway, if you want to learn a little bit more about Aisha/Kan'u and have time to find, rent or download a movie, Kung-Fu star Donnie Yen just made a movie that's about a particular period on Kan'u's life. Before the 3 Kingdoms officially formed, and Ryuubi's family were being sheltered by Sou Sou, Kan'u actually worked for Sou Sou for a little while (this is why, in Koihime Musou, Sou Sou/Karin is absolutely obsessed with Kan'u/Aisha and wants her for herself), and this movie is about that period of time, one of Kan'u's finest moments. It's called "The Lost Bladesman" outside of China. This is the Wikipedia entry:
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And if you want to learn more about Chou'un Shiryuu (Zhao Yun/Zilong), or Sei, and you can find this movie, then this film - "Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon" - has the historical Chou'un as the lead character and is all about his career as a soldier under Liu Bei:
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If there's anything else you want to know, but can't find the book or films or whatnot, there's always Wikipedia. Everything's up on Wikipedia. You shouldn't feel ashamed, you only just got into this whole thing through "Koihime Musou," after all. I'm actually very happy to hear that you are interested in knowing more about the history behind the anime. And it doesn't change the fact that you make a great Aisha. =3
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