CCAmanda is our June CosVisionary


Tell us a little about your cosplay life, and what it means to you?

I have loved anime since I saw "Cardcaptors". I knew it was a dub, but I wondered what it was like in japanese. I found "Cardcaptor Sakura" (a.k.a. the japanese version) and watched that. After that I was hooked on anime again and
have been ever since. As for the cosplay, I started back in 1998 when the Pokemon mania was in full
swing. I decided I wanted to be Misty, and since my two cousins loved Pokemon as well, they cosplayed Ash and Pikachu. Every Halloween after that I'd cosplay as something different. Then I found out about anime conventions. I had
wanted to attend Otakon '03' but my mother refused, so we ended up attending Big Apple Anime Fest '03'. Since then I've made so many friends (whom I now attend cons and cosplay with), and have been cosplaying at cons ever since (11 cons
to be exact and counting). Cosplay is a fun hobby and a way to meet many different people. I love cosplay and hope to do many more costumes and attend more cons!! 

Lani from Final Fantasy IX: This costume has to be my favorite one as of right now. It took about a month to do this costume. It wouldn't have been possible without the help of my dad. We altered a sweater,shoes,belts, and pants for this. The rest was sewn (I did the designs on the top and skirt, the headband, and the gradient job on the feather as well!) ^_^. I LOVE Final Fantasy IX and couldn't believe it was so undercosplayed, so I looked for characters to cosplay to Otakon. I originally wanted to do Eiko but, I ended up settling on Lani. Why? Her outfit is very unique compared to the other characters in the game, and her personality is funny. And besides Lani is a villain and Final Fantasy villains are cool ^_~..

Kurai from Angel Sanctuary: My friend cosplayed as Lucifer and I was apalled by his costume. So I was surprised to hear it was from an anime my friend had shown me called "Angel Sanctuary". I thought it would be cool to cosplay with him so I decided to do Kurai. I did her outfit that you only see in one page of the manga and for about 5 seconds in the show. I fell in love with the outfit when I saw it so why not do it? This is another one of my favorite costumes. I got to be a tomboy and I got to be all demon-ish, and best of all lots of photo ops with my friend (we ended up in Animerica with our Angel Sanctuary costumes!!).

Kin from Naruto: I told myself I would never cosplay a character from Naruto....oops I lied XD. I love Naruto, and I think Kin is an awesome character. She only appears in a couple episodes, but I wanted to be a Narutard with my friends and decided to do her. This is the first costume we sewed pants for ^_^. I love the pants! I made the headband, I altered a long sleeved sweatshirt for the vest, the armguards were socks, and I did the shoe covers among other things. I had no wig the first time I wore this, but I found one of my old Halloween wigs and used it for the wig. This is a very comfortable costume and I love music and what do you know? Kin is a sound nin ^_^!!

CCAmanda, keep on cosplaying since you love doing it so much. Good luck with your future costumes since Im sure they'll turn out just as nice as your resent ones.

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