I know what you mean. Anime can be quite time consuming. There's so much of it to go around. Thanks for the comment and invite, hope you have a great day!

Ah, so you're not entirely new to cosplay (like I am). What was the decent one you did before? I think you can easily pull off Rukia. You have the same black, shoulder-length hair. All you need is the shinigami uniform and some hair gel to fashion a cowlick down the middle of your forehead. I may need to find wigs because my hair is too short for most anime characters.

I've seen quite a number of girls do a good Itachi. I liked his character even before the revelation of his true motives. Perhaps his cold, calculating demeanor, not to mention his uber-elite ninja skills, appealed to me. The series is obviously gearing toward a final showdown between Naruto and Sasuke. Did you see Sasuke get his @$$ handed to him in the latest chapter? But knowing Kishimoto's Sasuke fanboyism, it was probably another illusion of the mangekyo sharingan.