Carbon Costume Posts by Jamie
Hacker from Akudama Drive
Hacker, or The Hacker, (voiced in Japanese by Shun Horie and in English by Y. Chang) is part of the main cast of the anime Akudama Drive, and one of the group of criminals or ‘Akudama’ that are key to the story.
None of the characters have much of an explained backstory, or a known name, so he simply just goes by Hacker. He’s true to his name in that aspect, as he takes great joy in interesting technological struggles that he’s able to force past, and gets bored easily when he can’t find something that interests him.
He has very messy blondish brown hair and one visible blue eye, while the other is covered by a glowing eyepatch. The outfit he wears is almost entirely body covering, with a long greyish white turtleneck shirt and a tailcoated blue jacket that he wears nearly open over it. His hair is partially covered by a hat that glows like his eyepatch and is the same color as his coat. Hacker also has a pair of black pants with a blue end piece covering them, and odd looking almost spat-like blue and black boots.
Wrath from Fullmetal Alchemist
Wrath (voiced in Japanese by Nana Mizuki and in English by Luci Christian) is a variation of the character that is exclusive to the 2003 adaptation of Fullmetal Alchemist, and is not found in the manga or in Brotherhood.
He is a being that came to be after Izumi Curtis tried to use alchemy to revive her baby, much in the same way the Elric brothers did, and it went just about as well. As a part of the group of Homunculi, he’s well suited to his name, becoming more and more like the title after consuming the stones.
Wrath has long, shaggy, blackish-brown hair and slitted violet eyes. He wears a similar outfit to Envy’s in style, once fully becoming a homunculus. It’s formed of a black crop turtleneck with a short, partial sleeve crop top over it, small matching shorts, and one foot cover/wrist cover respectively. There are red circular markings that start at mid-thigh and continue up past the bottom of the shirt, much like the ones the others have.
Ivy from Carmen Sandiego
Ivy (voiced by Abby Trott) is part of Carmen’s main team (be it thieves or in league with A.C.M.E) in the 2019 Netflix adaptation of Carmen Sandiego.
She and her brother Zack work in a team to aid Carmen in her retrieval and recovery thieving, doing everything from being a getaway driver to disguising herself as Carmen when necessary for the other to make a quick escape.
Ivy has short wavy reddish orange hair, very light greenish-blue eyes, and prominent freckles. She wears a very easy to move around in outfit due to the nature of her job. It consists of a pair of greyish white capris, a black t-shirt with blue sleeves, and red high-top converse shoes.
Ephemer from Kingdom Hearts χ
Ephemer/a (voiced in Japanese by Yūto Uemura and in English by Michael Johnston) is one of the characters that we first meet in Kingdom Hearts χ/Kingdom Hearts Unchained χ.
Like everything in Kingdom Hearts, there are many varied layers to his character and the story surrounding him, but we mostly see him in context with the Foretellers and Dandelions, such as the Player character, and Ventus.
Ephemer has short grey hair with a light curl to it (the wig I linked is actually the one I personally used for my cosplay for him!), and bluey-teal eyes. Like his backstory, his outfit is also layered.
He wears a simple short-sleeved button up white shirt with a short-sleeved black bolero jacket over top, finished off with a tasseled and detailed red scarf. Around his waist he wears a tan colored belted satchel, brown baggy cargo pants, and rounds it all off with flared wrist black gloves and matching high black boots.
Sebastian Castellanos from The Evil Within/Psycho Break
Sebastian Castellanos (voiced in Japanese by Hiroyuki Kinoshita, and in English by Anson Mount, in the first game) is the main character of the horror game The Evil Within/Psycho Break.
With a large amount of tragedies in his life prior to the start of the game, he struggles with severe depression and alcoholism, leaving himself prone to mental strain. This leads him to be very easy to pull in to the STEM connection, along with Leslie, Kidman, and Joseph.
As a detective with the KCPD, Sebastian wears a pretty standard outfit, a grey striped vest over a white button-up shirt, accented with a red tie, shoulder holsters for his gun, a tactical belt to carry the rest of his necessities such as a lantern, brown jeans, and black lace up shoes. For his hair I had a bit of difficulty finding an exact match for shade in the wig style, but if you have short, darker hair, it should be easy to just smooth it back as he does.
Ryunosuke Akutagawa from Bungo Stray Dogs
Akutagawa (voiced in Japanese by Kenshō Ono and in English by Brian Beacock) is one of the semi-antagonists turned reluctant part time good guy in the anime/manga Bungo Stray Dogs.
Raised to fend for himself and his sister Gin on the streets, Akutagawa grew up with a great distrust for people, but also the need to be seen as worthwhile in the eyes of people he looked to for advice. The downside is this person was Dazai, so it left him with a rather large complex for constant approval after a while.
While mainly a part of the Port Mafia, through Dazai’s connections and in response to a larger growing threat concerning both them and the Armed Detective Agency, Akutagawa has been assigned to work with Atsushi under the title of Shin Soukoku (New Double Black). Neither of them are very happy with this, but they’re figuring it out.
Much like Atsushi, Akutagawa has rough, choppy hair, though his is pure black with white tips at the ends of the front bits. His eyes are a cool grey.
The outfit that he has is a bit special in terms of composition. While the base layer is a simple fancy ruffled shirt, black pants, and black shoes, the high collar black jacket he wears overtop acts as a conduit for his ability, Rashoumon. While it is not bound to that coat in particular, it is the one we generally see him use it with.
Joseph Oda from The Evil Within/Psycho Break
Joseph Oda (voiced in Japanese by Isshin Chiba and in English by Yuri Lowenthal) is from the horror game The Evil Within/Psycho break.
He’s part of Sebastian’s three man squad, along with Kidman working for the KCPD. Joseph also gets dragged into the STEM system, and becomes greatly affected by the monstrous pull inside of it, being taken over by its force more than once, attacking his friends in the process.
While in a similar style to Sebastian’s outfit, Joseph’s has a few different aspects to it. His is a more polished looking navy-blue greyish vest over a white button up shirt, with belted dress pants to match the vest, black lace up shoes, matching black leather gloves, and black thick rimmed glasses. He also wears a shoulder holster, and has a tie similar to Sebastian’s, though his is held in place with a tie clip.
Atsushi Nakajima from Bungo Stray Dogs
Atsushi (voiced in Japanese by Yūto Uemura and in English by Max Mittelman) is the main character of the anime/manga series Bungo Stray Dogs.
Coming from a difficult and painful past in an orphanage, Atsushi is now a member of the Armed Detective Agency, able to use the power that he used to fear, when he was unaware of it. He is able to fully form-shift into a white tiger, which comes with superhuman healing, as well as the ability to semi-morph parts of his body, such as his limbs into clawed tiger paws while attacking.
He is one half of the Shin Soukoku (New Double Black) duo, assigned as such by Dazai, and works (reluctantly on both parts) in tandem with Akutagawa.
When he arrived from the orphanage, Atsushi was practically in rags, so the agency cobbled together an outfit for him. It consists of a white button up shirt, black mid-length pants, loose boots, and black suspenders, a tie, a belt with an extra long end to mimic a tail, and fingerless gloves. He has choppy greyish blonde hair with an occasionally visible black streak along the longer side, and purple-gold eyes.
Juli Kidman from The Evil Within/Psycho Break
Juli Kidman (voiced in Japanese by Yūko Kaida and in English by Jennifer Carpenter, in the first game) is part of the main group of characters in the horror game The Evil Within/Psycho Break.
While on paper assigned to the same unit in the KCPD as Sebastian and Joseph, Kidman’s allegiances aren’t so clear, as we spend part of the game and the DLC getting into her backstory, who she’s really working for, and what Leslie has to do with her part of the plot.
Kidman wears a standard white button-up shirt with dark-wash jeans, and has a shoulder holster, as well as a thigh one, slightly different from the other two. She has thicker soled stiletto heeled boots, which at first glance seem a bit impractical as an on-mission detective, but when we finally get a chance to play as her, she uses them to kick in monster’s heads. Effective footwear.
Finnian (Finny) from Kuroshitsuji
Finnian, also called Finny, (voiced in Japanese by Yuuki Kaji, and in English by Jason Liebrecht) is one of the important side characters in the anime Kuroshitsuji/Black Butler.
Finny is the gardener of the Phantomhive estate, serving under Ciel Phantomhive, and often does things disastrously wrong. He was a scientific test subject before being rescued and hired on to Ciel’s service, and as such is uncommonly strong to the point of being nearly superhuman.
He has golden blonde hair, kept short and fluffy with five red hairclips holding the bangs out of his face, and his eyes are a tealy-green. The outfit he wears is the outfit he gardens in, a cream colored long-sleeve shirt with a red trim on all the hems and collar, with a set of goldenrod plaid capri pants, finished off with dark socks and gardening boots with a red trim to match the shirt. He also has a waist pouch for gardening shears, a set of white gardening gloves, and a sun hat, that does the dual purpose of protecting him from the sun, as well as hiding his test subject number.
