/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

Chii from Chobits.

Its the darn wigs! I've never seen one with enough volume and thickness (and obviously the gravity defying shape and split of her locks is impossible). The ears are often placed too low on the head as well.

That aside I think she's modeled best by someone very short (she's only supposed to be 5 feet tall) and with a very slender frame. I think her design just doesn't transfer well to photography of real life analogues. A cosplayer might look ok in person but to photograph well as her they'd need to be on the low end of a healthy BMI if not a little underweight, Chii looks so dainty to me. The face is likewise impossible, its so highly stylized and doesn't seem to suit European facial features at all.

She'd probably look best cosplayed by a 15 year old Asian girl, which to be fair, she's supposed to look like one anyway.