K-1′s Not Immune to the Touhou Invasion
Posted in Anime, MMA by lunarskye | Tags: Cosplay, K-1, Touhou, Yuichiro Nagashima
Ohhh yeeeeah! Let the flamboyant K-1 entrances begin!
Home to flashy, choreographed, and ultimately entertaining entrances, K-1 has been touched by Touhou. That’s right, and it’s brought to us in the form of none other than the “Cosplay Fighter,” Yuichiro “Jienotsu” Nagashima.
Now, clearly this is not his first foray in to cosplay as he often enjoys dressing up as his favorite female anime characters for fights, interviews, and other events. Yes, I said female. Be it genuine otakudom, gimmick, or psychological warfare, this display gains Nagashima much attention as well as some curious looks (o.O). But you have to ask yourself: how baddass do you have to be to walk out to a kickboxing match dressed up like Miku Hatsune?
Any way you look at it, the answer is: pretty badass.
Just to prove he isn’t all show, Nagashima wound up taking the belt March 27th at the K-1 World Max 2010 Japan Tournament. He won his first two fights of the night via TKO, and the last of the tourney by KO, which brings his professional kickboxing record to 12-3-0.
For each of his bouts, he had a different Touhou cosplay prepared, starting with Reimu, then Eirin, and lastly Marisa.
Do have a look at the entrances after the jump.
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Yamagata002 says:
I don’t know what too say other then the background image projected is (presumably him cosplaying as) Dokoro from Bludgeoning Angel Dokoro-chan and the music that was playing when he came out as Marisa was “Marisa Stole the Precious Thing” by ARM feat. miko from IOSYS’s 東方乙女囃子 CD. Also I don’t know about what order the video is but it shows Reimu, Eirin, then Marisa. One other thing in the picture up top, why does it say anime next to the Japanese flag (I think the text above that is “Cosplay fighter”)?
Yamagata002 says:
I forgot to point out the Char cosplayer in the stands at 0:26.
lunarskye says:
Hahaha, I totally missed the Dokuro-chan pic. Good eyes!
Thanks for pointing those out, and I corrected the cosplay order (pretty sure the vid is in fight order). But wow, I also didn’t realize his fans came in cosplay too! Makes total sense though.