[Cosplay] Want to do an Azur Lane cosplay but not a cute girl? I got you

Easy steps to cosplaying an Azur Lane shikikan (commander):

1. Buy a navy officer/captain costume off Amazon. Literally any will do. I don’t even think there’s a cannonic uniform design for Azur Lane. I went with these
2. Buy a pair of shades so that you can look cool (or at least keep telling yourself that). I went with these cause they were cheap. Bonus points if you get your hands on Deal With It shades.
3. Print out the Azur Lane EN/JP logos and slap them on the uniform so people will know you’re a shikikan and not a teitoku. When I took this photo I only had low quality images to work with but Intern-kun came to the rescue later and gave me high res pics which you can find here. See the full album here to see how I put it all together
4. Buy a dakimakura of your shipwaifu to drag around with you so that people know that you’re a Azur Lane weeb and not just some crazy navy military otaku. Remember to cover up your daki’s lewd side with tape so you can at least pretend to have public decency. I personally went with this one cause Unicorn is Not a Good Girl (and cause it was cheap and cause I’m a huge Gundam fan).
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6. Profit! Now you can live out the kansen harem life of your dreams! Or not. Up to you :P

I’ll be wearing this cosplay at Sakura-con 2019 (downtown Seattle) this weekend. If anyone else will be going and doing an Azur Lane cosplay, please drop by the video game room (where I’ll be volunteer staffing most of the weekend) to say hi:)

~Keripo

Originally posted on Reddit.