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He made his cosplay debut as Cloud Strife of Final Fantasy VIl: Advent Children at Tonari de Cosplay Convention in TFT on December 29th, 2007. Initially, he had a misunderstanding that one person should stick to only one costume, but he soon realized that he was wrong, and started devoting himself to cosplay.
Cosplay History in Japan
- “Minade tsukuro cocofuri”, a cosplay event: image character (since May 2008)
- “ver2.5”, a monthly cosplay culture free magazine: official model (Since May 2008)
- “Cosmode”, a monthly cosplay magazine: featured in the article and appeared in the cover (2009)
- “Cos cos play play”, a TV program of CS Fuji: appeared in cosplay (#20)
- “Cos Bon Fantasy”, a cosplay quarterly magazine: appeared in the cover and the top infographic pages (Spring 2009)
- “Kami”, a brand of character wigs (Janet Co. Ltd): wig model
Cosplay History in Overseas
- “Anime Expo 2009” in US: participated as a representative cosplayer in Japan, reported about the event with digital movies and so on for “Cure”.
- “International Game Costume Festival 2009” in Korea: invited as one of representative cosplayers in Japan, participated in the event and performed on the stage for the first time by giving a posing show and singing songs.
His costumes include Cloud Strife from “Final Fantasy VII: Advent”, Kurosaki Ichigo, Grimmjow Jaegerjaques and Tosen Kaname from “Bleach”, Kaito of the Vocaloid series, Portgas D.Ace and Sanji of “One Piece”, Saotome Alto from “Macross Frontier”, Benten from “Zone-00” and many more.
Kaname☆ will be one of the judges of AFA Regional Cosplay Championship and will conduct an open Cosplay Panel Session at AFA09, in addition to a Question and Answer session on the main stage. Click here to submit your question now!
KANAME☆ Profile Page on Cure: http://ja.curecos.com/profile/?ch=72203 |