Hakken Ryou: Cosplayer from Malaysia

Aku betul-betul ingat gambar ni lukisan. Kalau bukan lukisan, ni graffic realtime 3D anime yang biasa nampak dalam game-game atau contoh senang la eh, Final Fantasy. Tapi sebenarnya ini cosplay ya. Ni orang betul. Dia letak makeup, buat rambut dan pakai baju cosplay. Tapi masalahnya ini adalah cosplay paling realistik pernah aku tengok! Sebijik sama dengan anime. Ka aku sorang ja rasa macam tu? hahahah

Masa tengah scroll media massa tadi, tiba-tiba aku ternampak satu video Hakken Ryou ni. Aku be like, eh cantiknya anime 3D ni, betul-betul nampak real. Ke patung benda ni? Lama gak aku perati tangan dia. Tangan tu nampak real sangat. Sekali orang betul laa. Just how muka dia sangat er ummm anime? Akhirnya ada manusia yang rupa macam anime ka? 

Sebelum ni aku rasa Cosplay Anime ni semua merepek dan jujur buruk bila depa try hard nak nampak macam charater tu. Like, what on earth man, you don't look anything like him/her. Stop it please.

Nak dijadikan cerita, rupanya dia ni orang Malaysia! Dan dia ni sebenarnya seorang perempuan! Plot twist! Dia sangat suka buat male cosplay. Then, how would you explain her body? Aku pun tak tau. She consider herself as 'agender' not a male transgender. Dan dia tak kisah kalau nak address dia as 'she' atau 'he'. She must be the most handsome girl i've ever seen then.

Weh, Usui Takumi is real!

Biasanya aku tengok cosplay tak menjadi. Mungkin sebab bentuk muka dan sebagainya. Tapi cosplay hakken ni nampak almost perfect. Ni apa dia cakap dalam satu interview: 

Many people comment on your realistic cosplays, saying that they look “2.5D”. How do you achieve that look with makeup?

I think contouring and the eye makeup makes a really big difference, as well as the lip makeup. Through contouring, you can make your face look sharper, or your nose higher, so you can look more like the character. For the eye makeup, it’s not about the shape, but the feeling that you give your audience through different eye makeup, according to the character. You want to make your lips look thin and in shape.

Ahh, the power of makeup. Sebelum ni dah cukup amazed dengan makeup yang mampu ubah muka 360 darjah lain, boleh ubah muka seseorang menyerupai orang lain, muka dijadikan canvas untuk art dan sebagainya. Tak terfikir, cosplay anime pun boleh evolve dengan kuasa makeup. For me, its really is interesting. 

**her gender issues is not my main point here. its all about how realistic the cosplay is**