Let’s face it most of the cosplays we see in conventions usually hail from the franchises that have either been already aired, is about to be aired, is probably a well-known internet meme, or a gaming character. There are times however that rare cosplays from manga characters come out and more often than not they’d get the “who is that” look.
A perfect example of such is Taiwanese cosplayer, Yu Yi’s cosplay of Mayoko Okino from Zone-00. Finding this Japanese character very beautiful, she hopes that the fans of Zone-00 don’t mind that she did her own interpretation of Mayoko Okino in some of her photos and added a little personal insight in the photo composition. The photos were taken by Zuo Ye Ye.
Zone-00 is a Japanese manga by Kiyo QJO (Kiyo Kyujyo). The manga was released in Japan in 2007 and is published by Kadokawa Shoten. It is about a high school boy who is interested in mysterious things such as aliens and the supernatural. He meets a classmate who surprisingly is someone who exterminates demons that terrorize Tokyo. From there an adventure and a new story of his life starts.