So I've wanted a plugsuit ever since I first started cosplaying ~ I could accurately say this costume was a product of roughly 10 years of casual brainstorming, in that sense...!! When Yoshiyuki Sadamoto was announced as a guest at Japan Expo, I knew my time had come. I decided on Mari's prototype suit because it's such a unique design compared to many of the plugsuits (I totally fell in love with it when I first saw Sadamoto's art), yet it still has those classic plugsuit details that I love (and kept me stumped for years... like the shoulders and the raised plugs on the suit). Putting it together in about a month was a struggle, and there's some things I do want to go back and improve, but overall I'm happy I did it!! And at least it wasn't #starry, hehehhhhh... >.>