Homemade No More Heroes beam katana contradicts the game's title

by JC Fletcher { Nov 8th 2007 at 3:00PM }

Is it a good idea to make a costume and custom-built beam katana prop based on an unreleased game that may not turn out to be any good? Not at all! Is it an awesome idea? HOLY CRAP YES.

This No More Heroes Travis Touchdown costume from .ed is the antidote to yesterday's WarioWare cosplay. The jacket and shirt and drawn-on sideburns are great, but the real draw is the homemade beam katana accessory, which, using science, lights up with a blue glow. It looks just like the Blood Berry beam katana that we've only seen in tiny pictures!

The costume is so good that it even got the attention of a Grasshopper Manufacture employee named Naoko, who emailed him and said " I've just checked your pictures. It looks great. I really like it. I hope people recognized what you made for."

Tags: beam-katana, cosplay, grasshopper-manufacture, no-more-heroes, nomoreheroes, travis-touchdown, travistouchdown

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

ELIJAH @ Nov 8th 2007 4:10PM

I would buy that in a heart beat. Any info on anything similar?

Ed Palumbo (.ed) @ Nov 8th 2007 4:16PM

thanks guys!

Mr Khan @ Nov 8th 2007 4:59PM

Wow

Maybe if this gets publicized, it'll raise No More Heroes awareness

Awareness that this game has to have

Zack W. @ Nov 8th 2007 5:41PM

That is all sorts of awesome. I still need to make a Pyramid Head helmet....one of these days.

HawthorneKitty @ Nov 8th 2007 6:30PM

Wow, this is great, everyone should spread the picture now. xD

Strange Interlude @ Nov 8th 2007 10:48PM

I hate to break this to everyone, but that "homemade" beam katana is pretty much just a Master Replicas Anakin Skywalker lightsaber with extra doodads glued to it. Nice costume, but credit where credit is due...

[/just bitter about the dearth of Killer7 cosplayers]

Ed Palumbo (.ed) @ Nov 8th 2007 11:37PM

You're not breaking anything to anyone. If you read what i did you'd see that i made i t clear what i used and that there is a lot more to it, and no glue. Thx