Ganba the Chocopuni

Plushies and convention cosplay photography in the 🇨🇦Montreal area! Next convention: Montreal Comiccon (July 3-5, 2026)

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Hello! Here, I post primarily two of my hobbies:

I'm a collector of plushies since 2017 who likes sharing silly photos of them, focusing primarily on nesoberi and the Blue Archive chocopuni plushies!

I'm a convention cosplay photographer in the Montreal area since 2012, currently rocking a Fujifilm X100F for that purpose since October 2019. Local con-goers tend to recognize me as the photographer always carrying his plushies along at cons!

My post tags:

#ganba's plushie posts

#ganba's cosplay photography

#ganba's vault - Photos and videos of mine created before the launch of this account on March 11, 2026

#ganba's miscellenea - Sometimes I post things that are neither plushies nor my cosplay photography

My reblog tags:

#reblogged plushies

Indexes of convention archive tags and my other accounts after the cut:

Convention post archives, in descending order:

Conventions:

Otakuthon 2026 (August 7-9, 2026)

Montreal Comiccon 2026 (July 3-5, 2026)

UsamiCon 2026 (May 1, 2026)

Laval Comiccon 2026 (April 25-26, 2026)

Non-convention cosplay events:

Quebec Day 2026 cosplay meetup & BBQ at Mont-Royal Park (June 24, 2026)

My other accounts:

Instagram: LittleHonoUmi (for the record, that's a grandfathered username from starting my plushie posts there with nesos of Honoka and Umi from Love Live)

Cara: GanbaChocopuni (just my cosplay photography since 2026, much like my cosplay photography tag here)

DeviantArt: GanbaTheNesoberi (serves as an organized, non-login-walled archive of my cosplay photography only)

Steam: Ganba Nesoberi

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Quebec Day 2026 cosplay meetup & BBQ at Mont-Royal Park Character: An OC Cosplayer: Sora (one of the two hosts of this event) https://www.instagram.com/itssorarose

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Quebec Day 2026 cosplay meetup & BBQ at Mont-Royal Park Character: Hua Cheng (Heaven's Official Blessing) Cosplayer: Mo https://www.instagram.com/moonlight.coser

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Quebec Day 2026 cosplay meetup & BBQ at Mont-Royal Park Character: Jotaro Kujo (Jojo) Cosplayer: Leo https://www.instagram.com/leo.33.33.33

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Quebec Day 2026 cosplay meetup & BBQ at Mont-Royal Park Character: Frieren Cosplayer: Mumen https://www.instagram.com/mumen_cos

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Quebec Day 2026 cosplay meetup & BBQ at Mont-Royal Park Character: Till (Alien Stage) Cosplayer: Vinnie https://beacons.ai/seaof_haze

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Quebec Day 2026 cosplay meetup & BBQ at Mont-Royal Park Character: An OC? Cosplayer: Emile https://www.instagram.com/emile_litalien

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Quebec Day 2026 cosplay meetup & BBQ at Mont-Royal Park Character: Ichigo Kurosaki (Bleach) Cosplayer: sepy_cosplay https://www.instagram.com/sepy_cosplay

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So on this last Quebec Day on June 24, 2026 (a holiday), two cosplayers decided to set up a cosplay meet-up & summer BBQ at Mont-Royal Park as a calm before Montreal's cosplay summer storm of the Montreal Comiccon and Otakuthon. And I went there as a photographer, so of course I'm gonna upload my snaps! The meetup was a success; about 55 people attended according to their counting, and they're thinking of continuing this in the future.

Quebec Day 2026 cosplay meetup & BBQ at Mont-Royal Park Character: An OC Cosplayer: filcosplays (one of the two hosts of this meetup) https://linktr.ee/filcosplays

And a bonus picture of the BBQ being cooked after the cut:

hmmm, tasty steak

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Loid and Anya spent some quality family time on Father's Day last Sunday!

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nesoberis are round(-headed) things that we love

Audio source: Doctor Who, "The Day of the Doctor" (2013)

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Pocha MTL 2026 Neru will win this crane game, she will get her plushie!

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ちょこぷに ぬいぐるみ 霊夢/魔理沙｜グッドスマイルカンパニー公式ショップ

『東方LostWord』よりぬいぐるみが登場です。

I don't see anyone talking about the Chocopuni plushes.

I'm the proud owner of the Marisa one.

My (not)controversial hot(cold) take? They're just as cute as the Fumos, and are severely underrated and under-recognized.

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If it's specifically about Touhou chocopunis? I concur, I don't see much discussions or photos of them on the internet neither.

If it's about chocopunis in general? Well, the "lead" IP for chocopunis is Blue Archive, just as Touhou is for fumos and Love Live is for nesoberis, so pretty much all chocopuni-posting occurs within the Blue Archive fandom as far as I know.

If it's about chocopunis on Tumblr? Hello there, I'm just about the only user on this site posting photos of chocopunis on the regular as of this writing since I arrived here five months ago! (The chocopunis I own are all Blue Archive.)

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miku at home cafe moment while I did my genshin pulls. Tried a new pu erh tea but I think I used too much,,,

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Laval Comiccon 2026 - Plushier & cosplayers, Sunday Character: Hatsune Miku Cosplayer: Gab https://www.instagram.com/the_kiki_cosplay

The Bocchi nesoberi is mine's; the Miku handpuppet is the cosplayer's.

And that's my final photo of this convention! Well then, time for three weeks of just plushie-posting here until the Montreal Comiccon on July 3-5...

...or rather, two weeks, since this year 2026 is my 15th year of full-on convention cosplay photography, thus my 15th year as a photographer at the Montreal Comiccon (...give or take 2020 and 2021 for obvious reasons) and to honor this milestone, I plan on a six-day countdown to the Montreal Comiccon by uploading my pictures of my first Montreal Comiccon as a full-on photographer way back in 2012 (which was actually my second convention as a photographer; my first was Otakluthon 2012, but back in the day, the Montreal Comiccon was in September, after Otakuthon)...

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Laval Comiccon 2026 - Sunday Character: Maomao (The Apothecary Diaries), with an original costume Cosplayer: Yuuzuki http://instagram.com/yuuzuki801_cos

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Laval Comiccon 2026 - Sunday Character: Sweet Tooth (Twisted Metal) Cosplayer: ???