While I wait for Haikyuu!! To the Top to finish airing (there’s always one…) so I can share my end of season thoughts, here’s some photos of my cosplay from Minamicon three weeks ago. Very fortunate timing, any later and it would surely have been cancelled due to Covid-19. 😮 The studio photos were taken […]
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