This costume was made for my friend Devon for Anime Expo 2006. I used nylon/polyester fabric for the main body of the costume, trimming it in gray cotton bias binding. The cape is cotton the bottom design is appliqued on the main piece. Unfortunately I was rushing and didn’t get pictures of the process. But you can see how it looked on Devon compared to the picture of the character.
The color difference in the charters outfit in the pictures was Devon’s choice of fabric. This picture of the Character is not 100% accurate but it was the closest we could find. The actual color of the character’s main outfit fabric is more like the color Devon is wearing.
) and the major theme of the episode is searching for lost things.
Over at the high school, Masaomi is sorting Mikado out with stuff Mikado managed to leave at home when he overslept that morning – Masaomi is such a good friend 
While at the same time Dota-chin is staking out Yagiri Pharmaceutical, even though he promised the rest of his group to let the matter lie. He gives up when nothing seems to be happening and heads off.
Just as Dota-chin leaves the area a young man arrives on the scene and attacks the facility suicide bomber style with a heap of fireworks strapped to his body :|
Back home with Shinra and Celty, Celty is cooking (although Shinra has to remind her to use normal kitchen knives rather than her own summoned ones 
Celty is so fecking cute as she panics and insists that he not eat a single bite more – Shinra attempts to plough on regardless, but Celty uses her abilities to seal the meal in a floating black ball!
The conversation turns to Celty’s memories as she’s still bothered by her nightmare. Shinra is sweet, but manages to say the wrong thing when he tells her that she may not need her memories (or head). Celty gets upset and storms off leaving Shinra alone and a touch depressed that he upset her so much.
Walker is searching for his mobile phone, which he seems to have left in a Maid Cafe – he asks Simon if he’s seen Erika…….Simon says no despite the fact he was chatting with Erika not long before hand 
The two do manage to meet up later on though – they also make a cute couple 
In another area of town Celty has met Shizuo outside a vacant lot and the two have a chat. Seems that these two both have similar coping methods – Shizuo turns to Celty and Celty turns to Shizuo when either of them are upset.
Feeling better Celty goes home, only to find the apartment empty – Shinra has been called out on a job. This isn’t unusual but Celty has a weird feeling that this job is different and head out to find Shinra.
Back out in town, Celty meets Shinra when he’s on his way back from work. He asks her to accompany him to dinner because its lonely to eat alone 
They head to the Russian Sushi place, only to find that because the owner missed his fish delivery the sushi on offer is…….a bit unique. Shinra eats it anyway and finds that desert is fortune cookies. Celty is delighted with her, which is about finding lost things; Shinra’s on the other hand is ‘unrequited love’ which he eats to avoid Celty seeing it…awwwww~ poor Shinra!
In another area Mikado is delivering Anri’s shoes, but all he gets for his effort is a muttered ‘thank-you’ and the door closed in his face…….I do feel sorry for him, Anri is a bit socially inept.
Mikado also meets the blonde lady with her sign and flicks through the notebook to see what people in town have been looking for. He makes his own addition too – ‘connections’. That was quite poignant, Mikado really is lost in Ikekuburo and all he wants is to make some lasting friendships to anchor him; a simple wish but one that’s proving difficult to fulfill it seems. I’m looking forward to when Mikado gets his own episode, we’ve already seen how straightforward and pure he is in Masaomi’s episode, I’m interested in hearing Mikado’s own thought processes now.
Finally we cut to Seiji and Scar-girl, who it turns out has no memories. In a similar parallel to Shinra, Seiji tells scar-girl that she’s fine as she is and that he isn’t interested in her past. Then there’s the bombshell moment when he calls her ‘Celty’ 
Another Celty!?
Back at home Celty (the headless one) places her fortune under her pillow and for the first time in ages dreams of when she was whole. Cue vaguely irish music and a scene of Celty in a beautiful green forest. Then we see her head’s face for the first time – the same face as the Scared girl with Seiji! 
So we were right – Scar-girl does have Celty’s head, but this then raises the question of who’s head is in the tank and whose body the head is on? My guess is that is that missing stalker friend of Anri’s.
Thoughts: Mainly a slice of life episode, with the overarching theme of searching for lost items. The major plot revelation of Celty’s heads location was left to the very end. In spite of this I enjoyed the episode, Celty got a lot of development here – even more than she got in the Shinra episode. Her personality is adorable, I’ve said it before but Miyuki Sawashiro really does a fantastic job voicing her. Shinra was cute in this episode too – he can be a bit creepy sometimes, but in this episode he was just cute – he really does love Celty and I’m pleased that Celty does care for him too on some level……they’re a strangely adorable couple 
So, I decided that I needed something light and fluffy to watch in the coming weeks. A heady combination of Blassreiter, Dante’s Inferno and Higurashi has left in laughing maniacally at certain things, garnering strange looks from those around me. To counter act this visual malady I have subjected myself to the first DVD of Pani Poni Dash and am about to start watching this strange little comedy Dragon Half.
I have been raving about this figure since I saw it on Tsuki Boards, Alter’s 4th figure from the Hyakka Ryoran range is a perfect complement to the Yagyu Jubei and Hattori Hanzo. Senhime is sculpted and painted with a naginata and detailed kimono hanging off her shoulders.
