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Karl VanRavenswaay, 41, left, Brandie Hable, 24, Kyle Thaxton, 24, Maija VanRavenswaay, 17, and Micah Leach, 29, all of Grand Rapids, dress as characters from the Japanese manga alternation "Soul Eater" at the YOUMACON 2014 appointment at Cobo Center in city Detroit on Sunday.(Photo: Regina H. Boone, Detroit Free Press)Buy Photo

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The apparel were added than a year in the making.

Karl Van Ravenswaay, 41, said he and four others put the finishing touches aftermost anniversary on weapons, wigs and wear, all allotment of their dress from the hit Japanese banana "Soul Eater," for their admission this weekend.

"The characters are commutual in a way, aloof like us," said Van Ravenswaay, a bartering architect from Grand Rapids, dressed Sunday as Spirit, complete with red wig and atramentous outfit, a ample atramentous brand bulging from his back.

The bristles had appear from Grand Rapids for Youmacon, a assemblage demography abode at the Renaissance Center and Cobo Center that celebrates Japanese pop ability and its appulse locally over the accomplished few decades.

Celebrating its 10th year, organizers said they apprehend to column appearance numbers of added than 15,000 for the four-day event, which concluded Sunday.

"Being able to watch it abound has been absolutely an experience," said Stephen Brey of Redford Township, who has formed with the accident back its aboriginal year, back it was captivated at the Hilton in Troy.

This year's accident appearance a anteroom abounding of vendors affairs comics, accouterment and added memorabilia from banana books and cartoons adherent to Japanese anime.

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Celebrities accessory included Johnny Yong Bosch, the additional atramentous forester from the aboriginal "Power Rangers" series, and David Vincent, the articulation of Marshall Law in the "Tekken" video bold alternation and Fukusuke Hikyakuya in the "Naruto" TV series.

For the "Soul Eater" group, their apparel centered on the alternation that is set about three teams in an academy with bodies alleged Meisters, who aggregate souls with human-like weapons, all for the adventitious of axis the weapon into a "death scythe," for use by the academy's headmaster.

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Brandie Hable, 24, dressed as Maka from "Soul Eater," with her albino beard in continued pigtails with a red checkerboard brim and atramentous cloak, said the activity took about four months, with lots of dabbling amid to handle life's circadian tasks.

The others in the accumulation were Hable's fiancée, 29-year-old Micah Leach, a accessory of Van Ravenswaay who works in administration at Wal-Mart. He was dressed as Dr. Stein, with a gray wig, white lab covering and a ample blade. His cousin, 17-year-old Maija Van Ravenswaay, was dressed as Madusa in a atramentous jumper and dotted snake tattoos on her arms. Family acquaintance Kyle Thaxton, 24, a biochemist, was dressed as Crona, with a amethyst wig, atramentous knee-length dress and sword.

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The best allotment of bathrobe up for the event, they agreed, was seeing others booty contentment in the accurateness of the costumes. And abutting year's apparel are already actuality anticipation about, Leach said.

"We appetite to accumulate accomplishing added accumulation things," he said.

Evelyn Jonio, 16, and her mother, Heather Knoll, fabricated the cruise from Coopersville — abreast Grand Rapids — for the convention. The teen, who dressed as the appearance Nitori from the anime TV series, said she got into Japanese anime in the fifth grade.

"It's like added bodies watching cartoons," she said, aggravating to call the allurement for the activated shows, calling them added "grown up" than cartoons.

Joseph Durham of Detroit said accepting a berth for bounded artists accumulation Able Ideaz, which produces its own anime-inspired products, for which he works, helps accretion afterimage for their latest projects.

"This is absolutely about accepting your assignment out there," he said of the acknowledgment from actuality at Youmacon. "It's about the canicule after, back bodies appear to your website absorbed in what you're doing, and affairs stuff. (Coming to Youmacon) bliss aggregate off!"

Contact Marlon A. Walker: 313-223-4531 or mwalker@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @marlonawalker.

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