Category: Cosplayer Interviews

Cosplayer Interviews – Kristina

Sherry

Axis Power Hetalia Francis Bonnefoy cosplay

On August 15, we introduced you a pretty German girl, who is known as Mari-Sama on DA. Her Axis Power Hetalia Francis Bonnefoy cosplay helps her steal the show in the busy crowd. Today, she accepts our cosplayer interviews. We are so fortunate, right? If you are looking for some afflatuses for your cosplay on the upcoming show, you had better listen to what excellent cosplayers, like this girl, share. Now, let’s begin.

1. Please introduce yourself first.

My name is Kristina. I´m 19 years old and a cosplayer from Germany. Right now I´m training to become management assistant, but will also study in the university after finishing this. In my freetime I like to read, to draw, meeting my wonderful friends and – of course- cosplaying.

2. What does cosplay mean to you?

Cosplay is very important to me. I really love to be one of my favorite characters for a day and enjoy meeting others who share the same fandom. Characters I do not know or like won´t be cosplayed by me, because the “play” is very special to me and my precious cosplay partner Roxieh-Foxieh. If you do not know the character well you cannot be him.

Kagamine Rin Cosplay

3. What and when was your first cosplay?

My first cosplay has been Wedding Peach in 2007! I loved the series then and I still do today! I plan to do a remake someday.

4. What is your most memorable cosplay experience?

The most memorable experiences are all the times trying to seduce an England cosplayer while cosplaying France. Their faces are hilarious!

5. What’s your favorite photo shoot?

This question is not easy to answer. I love every photoshooting I have because it´s always fun and awesome. But I think my favourite ones have been this year on Animagic in August. I enjoyed my group so much.

And also one last year in July when akumanokeki visited ma and Roxieh. We had a very great shooting with Sebastian, Claude and Ciel from Kuroshitsuji.
(where I fell down the stairs and lost my pants. Embarassing!)

Gakupo Kamui Cosplay

6. What’s your favorite anime/manga/game character to cosplay as?

Also not an easy question. It might be America or France from Hetalia.
I love to cosplay both a lot!

7. Any cosplay plan in future?

Many!!! And many from Hetalia! I relly love the series! Right now I´m trying to finish Germany´s King of Hearts outfit. Himaruya´s design is so lovely! Next will be also several outfits from France, Spain, Germany and America. Also Kojiro from Adekan and maybe some Vocalooid cosplays even though I lost my interest a little.

8. Do you make your costumes yourself or buy them?

I always sew my cosplays by myself. But I would love to buy maybe some of them because I would not spend this much time on sewing. Unfortunately I can´t buy the cosplays I want to wear!

Hetailia Spain Cosplay

9. Any other cosplayers you like?

Too many I think! Calssara, chasseneige, evil-uke-sora, fujimiyaran, hikari-green, vogelbeere, yuegene and yukigodbless are the ones I really really adore and whoe work I love too see!

10. Do some changes happen to you after cosplay?

I became more self confident and outgoing I think. I was such a shy girl back then! But all in all I think I stayed the way I used to be.

11. Any advice you wanna share with cosplay newbies?

I still call myself a newbie. *laughs* But okay! I think it´s important to find a character which suits you, not only face and body, but one you can also imagine to play. In my opinion you have to feel comfortable with the character, I could not imagine cosplaying a character I do not like or know. It is also not a shame to buy your cosplay. (In Germany the people are more like to sew the cosplays by itself and many of the newbies who are not that good in sewing keep excusing for buying their cosplays!). But all in all: Enjoy cosplay!

Cosplayer Interviews – Kicka

Sherry

Yoko Ritona Cosplay1

Does Monster Hunter Kirin Cosplay shared on Sep. 8 also draw your attention? We are lucky to invite that pretty Italian girl to join in our cosplayer interviews today. If paying a visit to her gallery, you may also be surprised by so many excellent cosplay works created by her. First, the picture for her Deviant ID makes me astonished. It seems irresistibly magic. Besides this one, Yoko, Erza, Aqua, etc cosplay shared in her gallery really look great. Either seeking for some inspirations for your own cosplay or hunting for excellent cosplay works, you will be delighted by what Kicka does!

1. Please introduce yourself first.

My name is Francesca (Kicka). I’m 21 years old and I’m Italian! I love anime, manga, alternative music, equitation and naturally the cosplay. I consider myself funny, crazy and honest with friends. My passion for cosplay started in 2009, to “Lucca Comics and Games”.

2. What does cosplay mean to you?

For me cosplay is passione, fun and being with my friends, it is important perfectly interpret my favorite character, from anime/manga/videogames, sew the dress well without neglecting any detail. Cosplay is a great passion to share with everyone! 😀

Erza Cosplay

3. What and when was your first cosplay?

My first cosplay was Haruhi Suzumiya from The melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya at “Lucca Comics and Games 2009”, most popular convention in my country. I chose Haruhi because is a very fun and weird like me 😛

4. What is your most memorable cosplay experience?

My memorable experience has been with Aqua from Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep, because I was chosen to go to the finals Italian, in Milan, for the Yamato Cup. I’m very pleased with my work and I’m glad that other people have appreciated!

5. What’s your favorite photo shoot?

My favorite photo shoot would be the Kirin from Monster Hunter.

Yoko Ritona Cosplay

6. What’s your favorite anime/manga/game character to cosplay as?

My favorite is Yoko from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann and Erza Scarlet from Fairy Tail!

7. Any cosplay plan in future?

Hehe I have many cosplay plans in the future! Now I prepared Judith from Tales of Vesperia, Lightining from FF xiii for Lucca Comics and Games 2011.

8. Do you make your costumes yourself or buy them?

At the beginning i bought the costumes on ebay, for example the costume of Haruhi Suzumiya. Now the costumes sew alone, for example Kirin, Erza and Yoko.

Aqua Cosplay

9. Any other cosplayers you like?

I like Malro-Doll and Aura Rinoa on Deviantart, two amazing people form me!

10. Do some changes happen to you after cosplay?

Yes! first I was a very shy person who was in difficulty talking with others, now open again and I met some wonderful people with which to do this hobby. I have to thank the cosplay for this positive change!!

11. Any advice you wanna share with cosplay newbies?

Interpret your favorite character with passion and fun, and try to build your costume the best, give you more satisfaction!

Cosplayer Interviews – Mashy

Sherry

Gokudera Hayato Cosplay

At the beginning of this week, we introduced you a Slovenian girl, who did well in Katekyo Hitman Reborn Gokudera Cosplay. Crossplay is perfectly expressed by her performance. Cool appearance created by her stirs up a big tide among our cosplay fans. This girl is also known as xMashykax at Deviantart.com. She believes nothing is impossible and shows us many great pictures in her gallery. Luckily, she also accepts our cosplayer interview today. To better know her, keep reading please.

1. Please introduce yourself first.

Hello, my name’s Mashy (actually nickname, my real name is pronounced Masha). I am 18 years old and am from Slovenia. I love anime/manga. I enjoy cosplaying, drawing, listening to music. I’m also a huge Potterhead. I’ve just finished high-school and am moving to our country’s capital city in October to start with university (I am currently living in the second biggest town which is quite far from the capital city, Ljubljana). I consider myself a funny and crazy person and I enjoy hanging out with my friends and joking around, but I can also be serious when I need to. At first I am mostly shy, but when I feel comfortable enough, you can see the fun side in me 🙂

2. What does cosplay mean to you?

Cosplay to me, means I can express myself in a different way, which is unique and new. I can dress up as my favorite characters from animes, tv shows, mangas and so on. I can relate to those characters and then act as them, meaning I can roleplay, but most of all it is a great way to have fun, meet new friends, practice crafts, sewing and so on… 🙂 But all in all cosplay is really great fun. 😀

Ichigo Cosplay

3. What and when was your first cosplay?

My first cosplay was Lavi from D. Gray Man. I first cosplayed him two years ago at a mini-convention in our country, and I was extremely proud, since I managed to make my first ever prop, which was extremely hard – his hammer. He was a great character to cosplay, I could really relate to him and it was really fun to act as someone else 🙂 after this I just got more and more into cosplay.

4. What is your most memorable cosplay experience?

It would probably be Animuc 2011, which is a convention in Germany. It’s not a really big convention, but compared to the mini-cons we have in our country it was huge. It was my first convention (outside our country) and I was amazed by it, I had loads of fun, I cosplayed Irie Shoichi from Katekyo Hitman Reborn at one day and Gokudera Hayato from the same anime, the other day. I meet loads of new people and we got along really well. We were there for a couple of days only, over the weekend, but it was definitely an amazing and memorable cosplay experience.

5. What’s your favorite photo shoot?

My favourite would be the Katekyo Hitman Reborn photo shoot we did at Animuc 2011 – Gokudera 🙂

Katekyo Hitman Reborn Gokudera Cosplay

6. What’s your favorite anime/manga/game character to cosplay as?

Woah….this is a difficult question, there is really A LOT of anime/manga/game characters to cosplay as, which are my favorites. But as for now my favorite one was Gokudera from Katekyo Hitman Reborn 😀

7. Any cosplay plan in future?

I have many cosplay plans in the future. The main one is a convention now in October that our cosplay group is attending. The London MCM Expo 🙂 I am very excited about it, since I’ve never been to a convention the size of this con. I am planning to cosplay Draco Malfoy from Harry Potter and Yukio Okumura (Ao No Exorcist) the next day at this convention. But I also have many cosplay plans for the future, including Hetalia (England and South Italy), KHR! (Daemon Spade, Superbi Squalo and more), Fairy Tail (Jellal Fernandes, Loki), and many more. 🙂

8. Do you make your costumes yourself or buy them?

I mostly buy the costumes, since I can’t really sew very good – I don’t have a sewing machine at home. I mostly do partial costumes myself, I try my best to do the costume props at home – for example bigger props like Lavi’s hammer, or Ichigo’s Zangetsu. I also do smaller props, like Irie Shoichi’s shoulder armor and so on. As for the costumes, if I don’t order them whole, I try to find clothes that would match the character’s clothes and then modify them, to look as the ones the character would be wearing. But I have plans to start sewing myself, once I get to go to university.

Lavi Cosplay

9. Any other cosplayers you like?

I like many cosplayers, I have many that I look up to as well, I love my cosplay group friends. Also I like DinoCavallone and LuckyShiro on Deviantart, two amazing people I met at the Animuc convention, they’re great cosplayers. I also have to mention the TeamPiC cosplayers, they’re pretty amazing :3

10. Do some changes happen to you after cosplay?

Actually, I am amazed, by how I changed after discovering cosplay. I used to be a really shy person, I hardly talked to anyone, but once I started cosplaying I opened up more and meeting new people with a smile on my face and casually talking to them would be almost impossible a few years ago.

11. Any advice you wanna share with cosplay newbies?

Hmm pick the character you like and do your best at it, it’s important for you to feel comfortable as the character, prepare the materials and plan how you will make the costume or where you will buy it, talk to some other cosplayers, share your ideas and all in all just have fun cosplaying, it’s not a job, it’s mostly meant to have fun ;D

Cosplayer Interviews – JuTsukino

Sherry

Neliel Tu Oderschvank Bleach Cosplay

Days ago, we introduced you a Brazilian girl, who showed us a stunning Dead or Alive Kasumi cosplay. We are fortunate because she accepted our interview for excellent cosplayers today. She is known as JuTsukino on DA. Below, you can see her understanding and acknowledgement for cosplay. Absolutely, it’s of great help for any cosplay lover to seek for inspirations from other cosplayers. Probably, you will realize the really desirable touch for your outstanding cosplay performance on the approaching show :D.

1. Please introduce yourself first.

Hello, my name is Juliana, also known as Ju Tsukino, cosplayer am to 8 years old, living in Brazil, Sao Paulo. My hobbies are karaoke, photos, cosplay and dance.

2. What does cosplay mean to you?

Cosplay for me started as a joke to dress, but in time I saw it was a place where I can meet great people (Brazil and other countries) I have great friends I met because of cosplay ^ ^ But over time also became my profession, today I have my own shop that produces costumes. Work and fun LOL

3. What and when was your first cosplay?

Chii from Chobits, in 2004 *.*

Panty Cosplay

4. What is your most memorable cosplay experience?

I think a moment I will never forget the first time I went up on stage, the nervousness, the butterflies, the applause, all this made ​​my head spin hahah, a very good feeling ^ ^

5. What’s your favorite photo shoot?

Hum.. I liked all, but the favorite is Cloud Strife- Final Fantasy Advent Children

6. What’s your favorite anime/manga/game character to cosplay as?

Hum…. Usagi Tsukino, Sakura Kinomoto, CC, Sreryl Nome, Hatsune Miku

Myioubi from Alichino Cosplay

7. Any cosplay plan in future?

Many haha XD Outhers versions of Hatsune Miku, Sakura Kinomoto, more Sheryl Nome, Tira, more Chii…

8. Do you make your costumes yourself or buy them?

I made by myself ^^ all then, I buy some acessories

9. Any other cosplayers you like?

Yeap! Yaya, Kaname, Aria is my favorites, but I liked outhers too.

Peach in Pink Cosplay

10. Do some changes happen to you after cosplay?

Hum. Some, I was a lot shyer person, today I love being on stage ^ ^ I met my skills, I met great people, I enjoy a lot, these are all good things that happened because of cosplay.

11. Any advice you wanna share with cosplay newbies?

Before you make / choose a character to cosplay, search enough, materials, people who have done so you managed to make a nice cosplay, and always have fun in doing this, be cosplayer is not a job, is a means of enjoy ^ ^

Cosplayer Interviews – Ariadna

Kevin

misa cospaly 1

Today we invite a beautiful Spanish girl named Ariadna into our cosplayer interview. She was known as tsukii07 in DA. Rather than a cosplayer, she is more like an artist – she draws manga and paints her nails beautifully. She may not have many cosplay works, but it is always great to have some new friends here!

1. Please introduce yourself first.

I’m Ariadna, i’m 17 years old and i love anime!

2. Cosplay What does mean to you?

I did the cosplay “Misa” because we seem quite physically. and give shape to be in the aspect of “love” are just idiots too! haha

3. What and when to was your first cosplay?

Kikio of Inuyasha

4. What is your most memorable cosplay experience?

haha how was dressed in “Misa” a man thought to be a Japanese prostitute. was awesome XD

5. What’s your favorite photo shoot?

I haven’t had too many cosplays, but i like the Misa, and Nana Osaki

misa cosplay 3

6. What’s your favorite anime / manga / game character to cosplay as?

Bleach!

7. Any cosplay plan in future?

I would go for Orihime Inoue, how do you see? haha or just geisha

8. Do you make yourself or buy your costumes Them?

depends! soil supplements make me.

9. Any other cosplayers you like?

im love to see Grimmjow cosplay, I love that man! haha

10. Some Changes to Do Happen After you cosplay? ?

i dont understand xDD

11. Any advice you want to Share with cosplay newbies?

yes. That does not matter if the cosplay is right or wrong, or if you like the character or not, what matters is to feel comfortable and be co disguise for a moment the person you want to be!