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To Jinji and the Ghosts, Halloween is the most important holiday of the year! After all, it’s the day that the veil between the Spirit and the Mortal realms is at its thinnest, and Ghosts can freely travel between the two (wait, so how do the Ghosts haunt humans the rest of the year…?). It’s also a day of celebration, where the Ghosts will often throw a massive party to celebrate the year; and where they revel in the respect and decoration they receive from other beings too!
As part of this fun, Jinji and the Ghosts regularly dress up in kooky costumes, paint jobs, or otherwise alter their appearances to cause either a scare or a laugh. This special page collects together the artwork of every costume Jinji et al. have worn for Halloween into one distinct gallery.
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2025
Kumada Panda reprised her now-annual tradition in 2025, choosing to draw the Gengar OCs of herself, Jinji, and all our friends in Halloween costumes, with the theme this year being “Cookie Run Characters”. In other words, each of our Gengar characters was reinterpreted in the style of a cookie from the game, Cookie Run.
If you’re not familiar with any of the characters, just click any bolded name to read about them on the Cookie Run Kingdom Wiki.
For Jinji, his choice of costume this year was obvious. Following being introduced to Shadow Milk Cookie earlier in the year, Jinji had become super-obsessed with the Beast Cookie, falling in love with his shadowy nature, sassy personality and voice, Jester-like outfit, and his role as a master of ceremonies. So when Panda asked if he’d like to dress up as Shadow Milk Jinji, of course he jumped at the chance! The fact this costume’s release also coincided with the release of Jinji’s Ghoulish Games — a story all about Jinji hosting his own crazy game show — made the costume choice feel even more apt; though Jinji is quick to point out that this is not the outfit he typically hosts that show in 😛
But Jinji’s obsession was nothing compared to Kitty! Kitty has been a long-term Cookie Run Kingdom player, with many favourite cookies, but none had her obsessed more than Eternal Sugar Cookie — the fallen angel of the Cookie Run world. Perfectly befitting her own personality — a mix of sweet and angelic, but with a touch of spice and fierceness — Eternal Sugar Kitty is as fitting for her as it is a sign of just how excited she was when she finally unlocked that Cookie to play! 🙂
Joining in with the tradition for the very first time was Aadvay, Cat’s messy, Australian-sounding Gengar who co-stars with Jinji in their Two Shades of Green collaborative canon. With St. Patrick’s Day being such an important holiday to him and Cat, what else could he be but Clover Cookie?
Kumada Panda’s own Sad Panda also decided to join the Gengar in dressing up, just as she did in 2023 (but not 2024). Being a type of bear (a Panda Bear) and given Panda’s love of sweet food, Sad Panda’s choice of costume was a given: HoneyBear Cookie! Unlike the previous costumes, this character actually originates not from Cookie Run Kingdom, but from another game in the same series, Cookie Run Tower of Adventures, where it currently remains an exclusive.
Given how much effort Panda has put in to doing all these costumes over the last few years, when it came to her own Gengar characters — Ghost and Ectoplasma — Panda’s decided not to reveal their costumes publicly. Instead, they shall remain a secret seen only by her close friends and her loyal subscribers. So, if you want to see what these two Gengar decided to dress as for their own Cookie-inspired costumes this year, check out ko-fi.com/pandakumada — where you can subscribe to one of her two monthly tiers to show your support and unlock this and other exclusives!
Deviant Artist @Lolobee2005 unintentionally also joined in with the tradition when Panda decided to open free Halloween Art Requests over October. In a slight reversal of the format, however, she chose to ask for her OC Kirono to dress up as a Gengar! While this technically doesn’t count as a costume for Jinji’s closet, I nevertheless decided to include it here just for giggles 😄
2024
In 2024, Ghost and Ectoplasma — the two Gengar characters of Jinji’s close artist friend, Kumada Panda — hosted the Halloween celebrations, with the theme being, “let’s paint ourselves in Neopets Paintbrush colours”. Each member of the Jinji family, along with Kitty, Ghost, Plasma, and a few other guests all chose a colour from Neopets’ Rainbow Pool, then Panda drew a costume for each of them inspired by that colour:
“Kekekeh! Were you expecting a different colour for me? You don’t know me very well 😉
Slipping into the shadows, ready to strike and steal away your life force… and your candy! Ninjas have been a source of inspiration for me for years, even forming part of my very name — so what more appropriate colour for me than Stealthy! Gehehe… I think I might just keep this costume in the closet even long after the Spooky Month ends…!”
“We couldn’t allow Jinji to have all the fun, so we joined in too!”
Ghost: “As the youngest of the Ghosts in Jinji’s mansion, I’m still not fully used to my new form. So Jinji thought, if I painted myself ‘Ghost’, I could learn to embrace it more.”
Phantisserie: “Jinji dared me to go for a food-themed paintbrush to go with being the mansion’s baker. I eventually settled on Candy as my colour, since I always make everyone sweet treats.”
Alessandro: “I chose Electric because I’m always a bundle of energy!”
An unexpected guest! This Eventide-painted cat is actually meant to represent Jinji’s real-life mother. The choice to make her a cat represents her own love of cats; while Eventide was a colour of her own choosing. Her grumpy expression was a deliberate joke by Panda to contrast against the happy expressions of the Disco-painted Ghost and all the other guests 😛
2023
In 2023, Jinji had the funny idea to dress up as Digimon instead of Pokémon, and quickly decided on a Phantomon costume for himself. Kitty also joined in, dressing as Bakemon; while Panda herself decided to dress as Pandamon, hilariously using her Sad Panda persona, who is already a Panda and thus needed very little effort for their costume:
Kitty later admitted she was unfamiliar with Digimon, and had selected Bakemon as she had learned about that character in the intervening weeks, and thought they were cute. Panda would later draw her an additional costume, this time of a character she was more familiar with from a different franchise:
