Between 2007 and 2009, KANAME☆ has poured his soul into 16 characters, cosplaying as:
Cloud Strife of FINAL FANTASY Vll ADVENT CHILDREN
Kurosaki Ichigo, Grimmjow Jaegerjaques and Tosen Kaname (fracture face version) of BLEACH
Rokudo Mukuro of REBORN! (Kateikyoshi hitman Reborn!)
Kaito of VOCALOID
Asato of LAMENTO
Portgas D.Ace and Sanji (normal/wanted) of ONEPIECE
Li-Xingke of CODE GEASS R2
Saotome Alto of MACROSS FRONTIER
Benten of ZONE-00
Lavi (3rd uniform) of D.GRAY-MAN
Okita Soji of HAKUOUKI
Tatsuzaki (elder brother/tentative) of ORIGINAL
Heine Rammsteiner of DOGS: BULLETS & CARNAGE
His list of appearances and achievements include:
“Minade tsukuro cocofuri”, a cosplay event: image character (since May 2008)
“ver2.5”, a monthly cosplay culture free magazine: official model (issue of May, June, July, September, December 2008, and January, March, August 2009)
“Cosmode”, a monthly cosplay magazine: featured in the article (June 2009), on the cover (July 2009) and in the top infographic pages (August 2009)
“Cos cos play play”, a TV program of CS Fuji: appeared in cosplay (#20)
“Cos Bon Fantasy”, a cosplay quarterly magazine: on the cover and top infographic pages (Spring 2009)
Modelled for “Kami” character wigs (Janet Co. Ltd)
“Anime Expo 2009” in US: participated with Mr. Inui Tatsumi, the organizer of “Cure”, a cosplay community site, and Mr. Nishimata, the chief editor of “Cosmode”.
“International Game Costume Festival 2009” in Korea: invited as representative cosplayer from Japan, first stage performance.
“Anime Festival Asia 2009”: KANAME☆ joins AFA09 as the judge for Southeast Asia’s first regional cosplay championship and held his own cosplay panel on the following day to share his rich cosplay experience an knowledge. |