Hakuren-Naoki [Cosplayer]5

Hakuren-Naoki: I started cosplaying long ago, when I didn’t even know the word “cosplay” or that what I was doing is called “cosplay”. Later, my brother, who is also a cosplayer, saw me trying to cosplay, and he explained to me what cosplay meant, dragging me to a cosplay event in Thailand.

HN: I was so excited that I was going to meet up with Hexlord in Indonesia, because he’s one of my favorite cosplay photographers. We also chatted about our photo session before travelling to Indonesia. I was very interested in it. And I also asked Kaname-san, who was going to cosplay a character of the same series, to go to the photo session too. I’m so glad everyone enjoyed it a lot.

HN: To me, the difficult experience as a cosplayer is the costume itself; it’s very difficult to make a costume similar to the original. The details and scale for armours and weapons should be also strong, because when I’m on the stage in a cosplay competition I don’t want them to break. Make-up is also important, not only the costume, because the cosplayer should be looking good. Study how the character looks like or if there is any special make-up for the character. That’s a very difficult part for me: “Observe the details”.

HN: : Kaname-san; he always pays attention to his make-up when cosplaying. It’s very amazing that someone can do this in such way. (I can stay with my make-up on only for a very short while). Also Goldy Mark, who’s making many robot cosplays, such as Gundam… he’s amazing! I can’t make that Giant robot! Respect! I want to try making a machine costume someday too. But later.

HN: As I am both a cosplayer and a photographer, I think they should understand each other. The photographer wants great photos and a great angle, while the cosplayer wants a picture that would give him/her a look like the character’s. If they understand each other well, they can make the perfect photo, the perfect art, very easily.

HN: To make my costumes and my cosplays better and better. I don’t want to lose to myself and want to do my best on the costumes of the characters I’ll cosplay.