Cherry boy extraordinaire along with his Stand Hierophant Green as a working backpack. Kakyoin’s jacket is tailored for broad JoJo shoulders with homemade shoulder pads while Hierophant Green is a plush cozy spacious canvas backpack that is fun to poke.

Related tutorials

• Making and attaching properly-fitting shoulder pads
• Making and attaching a sleeve head roll
• Stuffed felt pillow base for gravity-defying wig details

Related primers

• Fabric crash course: Tablecloth vinyl (for the shoes)
• Using the one-step buttonhole option on a sewing machine

Competition info

I’ve competed once with Kakyoin at FanimeCon 2023. It was a short walk on where I struck a few poses on stage to Kakyoin’s theme song.

Build book

This is the build book presented to the judges. It covers not only how I made Kakyoin’s jacket from drafting to final version, but it shows the insides and guts for Hierophant Backpack and how I built it from scratch.

Performance gallery

Cosplay gallery