Well, its been a tough couple months for Northern Japan. Nagoya was never really directly affected by the earthquake and after visiting Tokyo on the weekend things have virtually returned to normal. Remember you can donate through the WCS website here and for cosplayers if you have not done so already, send a photo message to Prayers from Cosplayers here.

On Sunday May 8th the first WCS preliminaries ever held in Holland took place and a pair were selected, I expect to have more information in the coming days but here is a preliminary photo of them and their winning costumes from their Full Metal Alchemist performance:

More information to come, congratulations!

WCS2011オランダ代表は、「鋼の錬金術師 FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST」を演じたイローナ・アーレンツとリック・ゲ・ムーニックに決定！名古屋で会うのが楽しみです！
春から夏にかけて、中国、シンガポール、マレーシアの代表選考会のラッシュですネ！

Thanks to Nabe san and Patrick we have a little more information for you, the Holland pair are Ilona Arends and Rick De Mönnink and as you can see they cosplayed as Edward and Alphonse from Fullmetal Alchemist.

Congratulations again and looking forward to seeing both of you in Japan over the summer!

Coming up we have the Spring/Summer rush of events with the China, Singapore and Malaysia preliminaries just on the horizon.