Carbon Costume

Kazuya Mishima is one of the original playable characters from the Tekken series of video games.  The only game in which he does not appear is Tekken 3 where the likes of King take center stage and Kazuya makes only two brief cameos.  Kazuya was raised as an aristocrat in Japan before the death of his mother.  After his father threw him off a cliff, Kazuya awakened his Devil Gene, which provided him greater physical strength.  He trained throughout his childhood and eventually participated in the King of Iron Fist Tournament.  Kazuya’s general appearance has remained mostly unchanged throughout the series.  He wears white martial arts pants, and red martial arts gloves and shoes.  If you want the silver studs to be part of your costume, you can cut the fingertips off a pair of motorcycle gloves instead of using a fingerless sparring set.  In later iterations, his pants become a bit flashier with flame detailing, which you can add by using iron-on patches.  Likewise, he trades his standard black belt for a red belt with gold details later in the series.  Kazuya also sports a nasty scar across his chest, which you can use scar wax to replicate.

Seven (voiced by He Xiaofeng in the original and Ronny Chieng and Saito Shinji in the American and Japanese dubs) is the amnesiac main character of the animated series Scissor Seven.  Seven is rather goofy and a bit of a pushover, but it’s eventually revealed that he was a deadly assassin prior to losing his memory.  Seven has dark, bushy eyebrows, and wears his hair in a spiky ponytail on top of his head; you can style a black wig to look similar.  His usual outfits consist of comfortable black shoes, black shorts, and a white hoodie with symbols for the numbers 6 and 7 on it.  To recreate his noticeable undereye bags, you can use a bruise makeup wheel typically used for Halloween makeup effects.

Will (played by Seth Rogen) is one half of the friendly duo at the heart of the Apple TV show Platonic.  Will works as a brewmaster for Lucky Penny, a brewery funded primarily by his ex-wife’s step-brother.  He reconnects with Sylvia following his divorce and briefly dates Peyton.  Will dresses pretty outlandishly throughout the series, including donning a bright red jumpsuit following a trip to chain restaurant Johnny 66.  Will wears hip glasses and woven slip-on shoes with most of his outfits, including a green bomber jacket with the Lucky Penny logo on the back and his name embroidered on the front.

Umbrella Renoir (voiced by Ayaka Shimizu and Cassandra Lee Morris) is a character from the Skullgirls video game franchise.  Umbrella is the younger sister of Parasoul.  Umbrella is rather short with light pink hair.  She wears a yellow ensemble that includes a raincoat, rain hat, and rain boots.  She wields the Living Weapon Hungren; a purple umbrella with monster eyes. To recreate Hungren, take a purple golf umbrella and glue creepy monster eyes onto it with a glue gun.

Valentine (voiced by Asami Imai and Laura Post) is an antagonist from the fighting game Skullgirls.  A surviving member of the Last Hope, Valentine aids Brain Drain in kidnapping and transforming Painwheel.  Valentine has blue hair she wears in a ponytail.  Her dress looks a lot like a sexy nurse uniform, and you can update your costume to be more accurate with pink fabric paint on the dress and cap.  She also wears white flats, bandages wrapped around her calves, and white gloves. She carries a hacksaw.  You can tie pink ribbon into shape and glue it to your leg wraps to get closer to her look from the game.  Lastly, Valentine wears a patch over her heavily scarred right eye, so you’ll need an adhesive eye patch.

Painwheel (voiced by Izumi Kitta and Danielle McRae) is one of the eight original playable characters in the fighting game Skullgirls.  She was kidnapped and eventually transformed into her terrifying form by Valentine and Brain Drain.  Painwheel has brown hair that is mostly pulled back, though two pieces are left free to frame her face.  She also wears a creepy stitched mask with red eyes.  You can choose a full-face or half-face mask that is similar depending on your comfort level.  Painwheel’s clothing mostly consists of a high-neck sleeveless dress with thigh slits on both sides and cuffs around her wrists, ankles, and throat.  You can take a pair of scissors to your preferred dress to cut it to length.  A large part of Painwheel’s transformation is the weapon attached to her back, which resembles a large shuriken or a pinwheel, part of her namesake.  To recreate this aspect, you can purchase a replica oversized shuriken and attach it to your back or take a pair of costume wings and paint them metallic silver.  Lastly, paint your nails and draw dark veins using an eyeliner pencil.  You can also replicate the nails that stick out of her body using wooden golf tees and liquid latex to hold them in place.

Toadette is a recurring Toad character from the Super Mario Bros. franchise.  She is one of the playable characters in Super Mario Bros. Wonder alongside Mario, Luigi, and others.  Unlike other Toads, Toadette’s color scheme is almost entirely pink.  Her outfit consists of brown shoes, white pants, and a pink dress layered beneath a red and gold vest.  When deciding how to create your Toadette hat, you may want to purchase a pre-made crochet version.  Otherwise, you can use a pink mushroom beret and then add your own pom-poms by running a string of thread from the brim of your hat and through the pom-poms before tying it off at the end.

If you’ve ever wanted to date some of your horror favorites, then Hooked on You: A Dead by Daylight Dating Sim is the game you’ve been waiting for.  It allows players to romance creepy killers including the Huntress, the Trapper, the Wraith, and the Spirit.  Dwight Fairfield and other survivors also make cameo appearances.  Dwight’s look in the dating sim spin-off is quite different from his original costume.  He still has his messy brown hair and square glasses, but he trades out blood stains for a green and white hibiscus shirt, tan shorts, and a yellow neckerchief.  Finish the beachy look with outdoor-friendly shoes and a grey watch.