Wow.  It's actually been about 4 years since my entry entitled "A few of my favorite picures".  Well, I've decided to have another showcase, though there will not be quite as much variety.

  Same as last time, the images are the full-sized pictures resized to seem like thumbnails.  Just click on the image to open a full version in a new window.

  These are from a CosPlay website.  I forget what I was originally researching, but a tangent lead me to the site where I noticed this picture.

  It's hard to summarize my reaction in just one or two words.  I was confused, attracted, amazed and curious, to say the least.

  I later discovered that she portrayed a number of other characters, in which she is a mixture of disturbing and cute, but these photos were the best looking, in terms of photography.

  She's wearing color contacts, to make her look more like an anime character, but I'm not sure about her mouth.  In some other pictures, it really looks like she might have something in her mouth that forces it to look like it does, but I don't know.

  She has some pretty quirky expressions in some... well, most of them.  To be honest, I question her normal psychological state, but she definitely takes an interesting picture.

  Anyway, this first one is my favorite, but the others with it are very cool.

  It took me a few days to figure out what character she was doing, because it's really an anime character, as such.

  I don't know if I could explain it very well, so I'll just include a couple of links to what will explain it.

Wikipedia | Crypton | YouTube

  If you can get it to work, this is a 13:35 minute video that tells you everything.  It's in Japanese, but the video has an English Closed Captioning option.

  I decided to throw in a little extra stuff that I found neat.

  I forgot this song existed until I happened to hear it on the radio a few months ago.  Good song.

"Cantaloop", by Us3

  I've been enjoying "Japanese Boy", by Aneka for a while, but I never really knew anything about her or the song.  A few months ago, I decided to see what YouTube had to offer about it.

  It's apparently a 70's song.

  Here is a live performance.

  This might be the official music video.

  And, believe it or not, a modern cover of it by a japanese girl band called Shanadoo.

  Oh, here's something odd.  The "official" website, for this japanese group, is in german.