I made this costume 2.5 years ago, hated it, and basically redid/repaired everything on it recently. Chousin Washu, from Tenchi Muyo. This thing is a pain to wear, such ridiculous designs in Tenchi! I like my hair, but that ridiculous gold thing on me...WHY would you choose to wear that!? Ahh well, cosplay is silly!
I love you. For doing this outfit you earn 10,000 cosplay points. Washuu is one of my most beloved anime characters of all time and to see her goddess form cosplayed makes me squeal like a fangirl.. er.. boy.. XD *bow* I would so sell babies to get to shoot something like this, anything from Tenchi period! Old School Rules.
OH YAY!! I kind of figured a lot of people wouldn't even know who it is, since it's not Naruto or Death Note I love Washu, too, but I had to pick her adult form because there was no way in heck I could do her 12 year old look!! YES OLD SCHOOL RULES!
If I had to guess, the gold thing is probably to accentuate the breasts. Japanese anime designers tend to be perverted, and the various Tenchi series stretch that fact to the very limits of American Censorship standards (probably beyond too, haven't seen the Japanese version yet), that being said, the costume is well put together, if not a bit awkward looking. Seeing it in living color makes it clear that such things are completely unrealistic. While the costume is wonderfully accurate, it lends the question: why accentuate sensuality, if you're going to hide it beneath layers upon layers of loose clothing? I swear, I will never understand some of those characters, lol.
Bravo, once more.