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What draws you to create a specific cosplay? Is it the costume design or the character? I have some designs that I really like to sew. For example, I love making skirt and dress patterns for female charac- ters, and I recently really got into makeup and wig styling. Sometimes friends ask me to join their group and I am usually left with 2 or 3 choices of characters. I would have to go for taller characters if in a group, as being 5’ 7”, I am usually the tallest in my friend circles (haha). When I go to an event alone or want to do a photoshoot/studio series, I go for a character that fits either my personality or ethnicity; i.e. I cosplay a lot of blonde characters, German and Russian characters. Which cosplay characters have been your favorite or turned out the best? I really loved Elisabeth von Wettin (Sound Horizon, Märchen) which was the first full dress I made; it took me several months to get it right. Another one I really liked on me was Makoto Kikuchi (The Idolmaster).

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