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Weinbergstraße 48
65428 Rüsselsheim
Alte Schulstr. 55
53229 Bonn
0160 - 4648076
[email protected]
0160 - 8813974
[email protected]
*16.5.1989
* 25.9.1982
aka E-Chan
aka artflower
Questions and Answers
answered by Eva
How many costumes did you make yourself
since you started cosplaying?
Well more or less 45 costumes (The first and the second were
sewn by my mother, so let‘s say 43 costumes ;)) and the ones
I‘m working on at the moment.
Why did you start cosplaying?
For how many years have you
been cosplaying?
I startet cosplaying in 2002 at the
age of 13 (Wow that‘s a bit crazy),
without a pause.
At the age I startet, i was flashed by Sailor Moon and other
Manga. I lived near Frankfurt (still), and so a friend of mine
and i decided to visit the bookfair. In 2002 the fanscene
wasn‘t as big as today, but when i saw cosplayers, who where
really friendly, i began to think about starting myself. I also
liked the idea of turning kinda “In- your- beloved- character”
and to make everything with my own hands. All the people were so kind and warm, gave me tips and had the same
interests, so it wasn‘t hard to start all by myself. At this same
time I also was a member in the theater group at school
and the idea of a “real performance” was another point that
made me start to do cosplay.
Which kind of costumes do you like making?
That differs from time to time. A while ago i really like to
do handicrafts, at the moment i love to cosplay cool (side-)
characters whoever i really like and whose characters are
similar to mine. Most of them are friendly, joyful persons. I
feel now (after years) at ease with my sewing machine, so I
would say I prefer costumes, which are in most parts sewn.
What is your dream cosplay?
Oh, well that‘s Helba from .hack. She‘s been on my
wishlist for ages.
There are still a lot more, but she is the one!
What are your favorite manga
titles - anime shows - games?
All manga of Yuu Watase (Especially Fushigi Yuugi),
Skip Beat (damn, that‘s so great), Fullmetall Alchemist
(Anna brought me into this great series), Orphen,
Tramps like us, NGE, X (I love the way the story takes),
.hack (games/anime/manga) etc. etc.
If you want me to answer you the “Why” it would go
beyond the scope of this portfolio!
I‘m not the kind of gamer, but I like Eternal Sonata,
SingStar, Soul Calibur and all SuperMario Games.
Which languages do you speak?
English (very well), French (good), Latin (I can read it)
and of course German.
What is Japan to you?
A country with many faces and clash of cultures.
Modern, loud, bright but as well traditional and quiet.
For me, as a student of modern art, there is so much
to experience, that is different to western tradition and
cultures (in positive as well as in negativ way – i am
quite objective).
Do you like karaoke?
Can you sing Japanese songs?
I adore karaoke. I haven‘t sung typical japanese songs
until now, but we can change that!
(Openings are my delicacy).
At school I was in the choire, so yes, I like to sing.
Have you been in Japan before, what was is like?
If you haven’t been in Japan before, why do you want to go there?
No, i haven‘t, but my boyfriend and a really good friend of mine where. So
i could recieve a little impression about the people and the country. I want
to go there because of the culture, the food, the landmarks, also because of
anime and manga. For
my art studies it would be great too
(I‘m specialized on
photography ;)) It‘s one of my
lifetime dreams to
visit Japan. I am a person who
loves to travel
and who loves to see foreign
things, and
Japan is so special. It would be
an honour to
be there.
Questions and Answers
answered by Anna
For how many years have you been cosplaying?
Cosplay in sense of anime, manga and video games,
I started in 2004.
How many costumes did you make yourself
since you started cosplaying?
For this, I will only count my animanga/games costumes.
That would be around 35 then.
Why did you start cosplaying?
I actually liked to dress up ever since i can remember.
When I was a child, I always looked forward to „Karneval“
Similar to Halloween in the US, only in Febuary. I just liked
being someone else. This is why I started playing theatre
what I did for a long time. I always loved making the costumes by then, taking the designs from the big shows . I never
knew that could be called cosplay by then.
When I arrived at my fist con, I saw the cosplayers, and I was
like: wow, costumes, in a complete new surrounding! A much
bigger field to explore! The anime and manga world opened
up new kinds of costume designs and a lot more oppertunities than given real clothing.
Which kind of costumes do you like making?
Mostly costumes that have the majority of them sewn,
not crafted. Somehow the designs always appeal to me more
than armor stuff. I like the feel and touch of different fabrics.
I love working with laces and piping, and I love corsets. It‘s
not like I didn‘t do armor , it‘s just not what I basicly love ;D
What is your dream cosplay?
I don‘t think, that for me there is that „one“ dream costume. I have a lot dream
costumes: there are costumes that are dream costumes because I love the character. As for this, about every Ichihara Yuuko (xxxholic) is a dream costume for
me. Every time I‘m wearing one of her costumes, it‘s a little dream come true.
But then, there are the dream costumes because of the design. Like Fran (Final
Fantasy XII). Or Ultima (also FF XII) that I want to do. She actually does not have
a character since she is an esper (a summon), but she just looks gorgeous.
Which languages do you speak?
German and English fluently. A tiny little bit of french, and I
can say „The cat is in the bathroom“ in Japanese. Only stuff of
importance ;D
What is Japan to you?
Japan is a country that‘s kind of torn apart between tradition in progress, and that‘s what it makes so very interesting.
The culture and history is very different from ours. Apart
from those quite obvious reasons, there‘s one thing in Japan
that makes it special for me too: I never ate a big variety of
food before I met my boyfriend. He loved japanese food and
forced me to eat it - I loved it! So japanese food opened my
door to a lot of foods, because I‘m not so shy in trying new
things anymore.
Do you like karaoke?
Can you sing Japanese songs?
I love singing! I‘ve been in a musical association for 10 years,
so I sang a lot. I like karaoke too, but usually I don‘t know
japanese songs. Just very few openings, but not by heart. I‘d
practice like mad though ;D Or just be the person everybody
can laugh at ;D
What are your favorite manga
titles - anime shows - games?
For Manga I go with xxxholic and Fullmetal Alchemist. I love both shows and
I‘m more the shounen type. Not the girly one. Some goes for Anime, but add Mai
Hime here. Action! Drama! ;D For Games, I guess I love Final Fantasy X most,
because everything of it gave me goosepumps. I think it‘s the only game I played
in which everything is just perfect.
Have you been in Japan before, what was is like?
If you haven’t been in Japan before, why do you
want to go there?
I haven‘t been to Japan before. Mostly because my boyfriend
was afraid of flights. But I don‘t participate in the WCS to go
to *Japan* actually. I guess a good vacation would be more
appropriate for watching cities and landscapes ;D It‘s more
to meet other cosplayers and people from foreign countries,
and to actually present germany somewhere else. But this
goes into the next section.
Why do you want to win the WCS Preliminary?
Winning the WCS does not only give one a travel to Japan. We want to
make contact with other cosplayers, the japanese cosplay culture, we love
to perform on stage, and we want to give germany a friendly and open face
towards everyone and new things. We think it‘s one of those experiences
that is worth all the trouble of heat, stress and jetlag, because it‘s a one-in-alifetime memory.
It was already awesome with all those people at last years prelim. But we
guess it can still get better ;D
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We were discussing what to cosplay for WCS. Since
we‘re both fans of CLAMP, we decided to read
through the mangas and stopped with Clover. The
characters were perfect for us and we love this kind
of story, although the ending is sad.
Eva‘s thoughts on Suu and the costume:
There was a big choice of costume variations for Suu, but I
decided to make this variant, because the wings seemed to be
convertible and the rest of the costume was simply beautiful.
In 4 weeks we finished the wings which are fixed by a smart
construction under the corsage. I never have made a corsage
before and in my opinion this was the hardest part of the
costume XDD The next time I won‘t use boning for the staff.
Thanks to the construction of the wings, I was able to move
and walk easily. It was a lot of fun to work on Suu, I love to
work meticulously on such kind of costumes.
Anna‘s thoughts on Oruha and the costume:
Oruha was on my wishlist ages ago. I think it requires very
much strength to know the day you die, so I really think she‘s
a strong woman. For the costume I decided on her trademark dress and add the wings from another one (I really
wanted wings!). I hate sewing vinyl, and redid the corset
twice. But in the end I love this costume and my microphone
very much.
Clover gave us very valuable experience on the way
to our skits now. You can read about that in the free part.
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For the second time we took part at the WCS, we
wanted to do something new, not too dramatic, a
bit sweet. We both were nuts about xxxholic at this
time. Especially the side characters like Ame- and
Zashiki warashi were (and are still) great and so
it was decided that we were going to cosplay them.
They were perfect for us and also for the idea of a
drama-free performance on stage.
Holic showed us „our“ ideal way to do it.
Eva‘s thoughts on Zashikiwarashi and the costume:
Anna‘s thoughts on Amewarashi and the costume:
Thanks to Anna who had the pattern of an original Kimono,
Zashiki Warashi was sewn very fast. The bulk work were the
roses. Just as Anna, I used coatet film. Every single leaf was
cut out of it and steamed on the fabric and the green cirrus
was painted. Another challenge was the big rose on the bag.
It should be like the bow of an obi on the one hand on the
other hand it should look like a flower. The shoes are original
Getas from Japan. Well, all in all I am very happy with the
costume.
I remember how difficult it was to find a pink fabric. That
sounds weired, but it was REALLY difficult. Apart from that
the hardest parts in my costume was the wig (I had to back
part it and make those weired pigtails - I had never done
pigtails before), and preparing the umbrella for the performance. Poor thing had to endure a lot.
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2012 was the horror-year for our WCS performance. Originally Anna didn‘t want to participate
at all because she was preparing for the Eurocosplay finals. But well, Eva can be convincing.
We agreed to do something just for fun, a comedy
skit with Sailor Moon. Due to certain circumstances,
in the end, we had to skip our plan twice, and this
idea and costumes were made within four weeks
before the convention. So we‘re really proud of what
we made in the short time, and that we didn‘t fail
miserably - at least we got really nice feedback on
our skit!
Fushigi Yuugi showed us that we can achieve a lot
in a short time if we try.
Eva‘s thoughts on Miaka and the costume:
Fushigi Yuugi is one of my favourite manga series. I am
really happy we finally managed to plan this skit. It
was kinda obvious that I would play the „good“ Miaka,
you can find a lot of similarities in our character ;)
We tried to find the perfect fabric and paid a lot attention to the costume and the accessories. I think it cam
out quite well.
The planning of the skit didn‘t need as much time as
we feared due to our time plans. So we were really
happy it worked and the audience liked it. For me the
good fearful Miaka wasn‘t that hard, especially with
Anna as my contrapart.
Anna‘s thoughts on Miaka and the costume:
Of course I had to be the bad girl ;D For these costumes
we paid extra attention to the choice of our fabrics, to
the trimmings and such. We made a great part of the
costumes together, concerning they needed to be as
identical as possible.
I also liked our idea of the skit, which wasn‘t the stereotypical skit either, we started out funny and turned
into drama afterwards - Many people told me I shocked them with my blood-licking action (go ahead and
watch the video ;D) - which really made me happy. I
wanted to be disgusting.
Free Part
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We are part of the group “watashitachi peilosistas”.
Watashitachi is a japanese word for “we” or “us” (which
should be appropriate for girls/women and not too
formal – that’s what we were told ;D). So that kind of
means: we are what or who we are. We’re not a fixed
group. We’re just friends.
As you can see, we don’t do all our costumes together, at the
same time or whatever. We just got to know and like each
other at various times, places and reasons. Yet we’re glad we
found such nice people sharing our hobby. More and more
frequently it happens that we do par ner- or groupcosplays,
or that we perform with each other. We both were part of
musical groups in school or private, so we enjoy being on stage and performing for the audience. This makes us feel safe
and so is our planing for the performances.
But basically none of us has to do something for the other,
which leads to a pretty much relaxed and bitch free relationship ;D Everyone is still an individual, having own projects,
but we enjoy hanging out on cons very much.
Eva was the first to enter the WCS preliminaries in 2008.
Since 2010 we both are now together as team.
Something personal about Eva
Hi, my name is Eva, I‘m a german Cosplay-Nerd for a
long time now, but beside this hobby, I‘m studying art
and politics with the aim to be someday a (really cool)
teacher ;) I love to take photos and to be creative in
any way.
I‘m a really lively and joyful person, who also likes to
learn something new, to hang around with good friends,
to eat, to party and so on, but I enjoy moments of silence,
concentration and relaxing as well.
Something personal about Anna
Hi, I‘m Anna. Even though my foreing friends know me
as Artflower, my german nickname is Katrin Kleeblatt,
who is Patty O‘Green from Rainbow Brite. I love green.
I‘m a green person. I‘m also a graphics designer with
priority on webdesign and photography, running my
own business with a friend. In my freetime, apart from
being a cosplayer, I‘m a part-time-nerd, part-time-gamer, tribal bellydancer and plushy lover, who has to try
every stupid mainstream craft even once.
Actually, we don‘t participate in Contests often. but
here‘s our small „show off list“, and our performance
videos of the past premliminaries ;D
2004: Cosplay Competition Hon Con, Aschaffenburg,
2nd place (Eva)
2007: Cosplay competition Connichi, Kassel 2nd
place (Eva)
2010: WCS Preliminaries 5th place Germany
Watch the video - CLOVER
2011: WCS Preliminaries 3rd place Germany
Watch the video - XXXHOLIC
2012: Eurocosplay preliminaries 1st place and
Finalist for Germany (Anna)
2012: WCS Preliminaries Best Application
Watch the video - FUSHIGI YUUGI
2013: German Cosplay Championship preliminary ,
Animuc, 2nd Place and Qualifier for the final (Anna)
Wanna see more? Here‘s our website we have with the watashitachi group, as well as our Facebook pages where you can
find progress and such.
watashitachi.peilosistas.org
facebook.com/ArtflowerCosplay
facebook.com/EChanCosplay
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In this small section, we
want to describe how we
work on our skits. This
may not be common, but
for us it‘s really important how we choose our
ideas and make our skits.
And it may be interesting
for you was well.
And then, if there‘s something in it where we can bring in
surprise elements, or something that looks plain cool.
We also like opinions of other people. Because if one works
on something a longer time, the view can be narrowed, and
one is missing out stuff. Like something of that you think was
obvious, but for another person it was not. So we usually
ask a few friends beforehand, and we always ask the judges
after the skit for advice. What wasn‘t that good, what we can
improve. And was was good, to perfect it.
When we first participated together
we chose characters and then thought of a fitting skit. This turned out to be...not our „right“ way to do it.
Because after the prelim we realised that we had depended
too much on our characters, and that people, of course, did
not neccessarily know them. So for the next skit we decided
that it had to be easily understandable.
Usually we have more than one idea, so we figure out which
is, in our opinion, the best idea. An idea that has a closed
story with beginning, a peak and a conclusion. An end where
everyone knows that the skit is at it‘s end.
An idea that has characters who fit our attributes as height,
physical appearance, our actual character. Like Anna would
not do a Card Captor Sakura for a skit, because she‘s twice
as tall and 20 years older. Or Eva wouldn‘t do a sophisticated
midaged woman because she‘s softer and cuter.
An idea that can be done without words.
This is our preference when it comes to skits of international
background. Not too many words. Make it understandable
for every nation.
This was when we prepared our skit for 2012. Eva kept telling our
food looked like something that made Anna blush.
Well. This sounds quite obvious, but actually we needed that
first skit to understand that. So since then, we kind of go
through different options until we find a basic idea of which
we think that it will work out smoothly without too much
knowledge of the media where it‘s based on.
This all sounds a little like „work“ and actually, it is. We never loose our fun in it, but we also want to entertain people,
because it will also make us happier if people feel entertained (more fun then again^^).
Unusual wigstyles (pigtails keep haunting us...)
So called „Skills“
Even though we both like to sew most of our costume, it‘s
not that we didn‘t try different stuff! Here‘s a few samples
of other materials we worked with. Wigs with stubbing,
lacefront and foamcore, Worbla‘s finest Art and Wonderflex,
polystyrene, paperclay, Apoxie Sculpt, Craft foam, Resin....
Sewing wise it‘s also a wide field - from muslin to silk and
velvet, embroidery, corsets, hooped skirts, bodysuits, lapel
collars....
Weapons and armory
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Fran/FFXII helmet
Fran/FFXII wig
Skyrim armor
Allegretto/Eternal
Sonata Sword
That‘s it.
Of course we‘d like to show you, like, every detail in every
costume we made to convince you that we‘re suitable to
participate. But we guess we‘ll leave you with that since you
have to watch through a looot of other applications.
We hope we could entertain you a little ;D
Have a mysterious preview on what we‘d do i
n the prelims... and guess what ;D