@Ashcraft: Aww I should have sent you in the link to her blog, where she had those pics of the costume up first. XD

That will teach me to be lazy.

I don't believe "OMFG" correctly sums up my feelings... I need something stronger :(

I think that looks awesome! Though it might just be that I'm a sucker for power armour.

Shoko-tan love forever!

Ahhh, Shoko-tan! Bringing the Ryusei that there is inside each one of us! She is so sweediculous! lol

Great cosplay and she really seens to enjoy SRW.

Also, it's great to see that Banpresto will keep the 28/6 release. Can't wait to play this game. I hope that Atlus or Nippon-Ichi can bring it oversoeas so that the international community can play it while enjoying the game's great story and not only the gorgeous animations.

not sure if you can call it cosplay when she's being paid a fair bit for it and basically all she does is turn up, and wear a costume they have made for her - bit slack really.

I'm still waiting for the day when one of those cats bites her tongue off when she's sticking it's head in her mouth.

I could also make a pun regarding the eating of felines, but I won't, because that would be too low-brow for myself and Kotaku. And it's probably been said a million times before.

wow she sure looks stupid..

Oh come on, where's the effects? I see no cross smashing beams coming from her hands.

Isn't this the chick that sniffs cat ass? I really think that says it all.

i don't know what's so big deal about Shoko other than she likes to play dressup and eat cats for dinner....

i REALLY don't think she's all that cute or hot...

and the costume looks really stupid....

THIS is how Shoko-tan should have been selling...everything...from the beginning.

Also there's ANOTHER SRW game coming out already? I haven't even finished Alpha 2 or 3!

This chick kind of creeps me out, honestly. I bet someday she's gonna start some weird suicide cult. Sort of a Heaven's Gate for Otaku, with matching running shoes and everything.

She was on TV yesterday. Turns out that the costume she is wearing cost 500,000yen (or about US$41,080). Eeeeeesh. Talk about a marketing budget!!!

Good Christ that first pic is scary!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HSt05xfz0WY

-Izaak, Lord of the Lotus Clan.

@Nobita: Looks like you dropped a zero somewhere - according to the Famitsu article linked above, the actual cost of putting together this 8kg monster over a 2 month period was 5 million yen. (See the caption beneath the 2nd photo in the article.) That's some serious cosplay kit.

I find it amusing that Brian later described the finished CM as "cheap". :)