Chrissy cosplays at pop culture conventions as various characters, including Super Sonico - the female music-loving, headphone wearing character from Japan who appears on various merchandise and even has her own anime, which fits SICK STAR’s audiophile narrative perfectly.

Shimapan, is a striped underwear fetish in Japanese Otaku, which is believed to accentuate a woman’s curves while looking cuter than plain underwear.

“A dakimakura (from daki “to embrace or cling” and makura “pillow”), is a type of large pillow from Japan. The word is often translated in English as a “body pillow”. In Japan, dakimakura are similar to Western orthopedic body pillows, and are ‘commonly’ used by Japanese youth as “security objects”. - Wikipedia, ‘dakimakura’

Chrissy’s second look for the shoot is based on the Super Sonico Gloomy Bear Racing Queen figurine by Taito Corporation.

“Supersonic” featuring Chrissy Lim, photography by eRecto. Makeup by Krystyl Hernandez.