John UM
InHong Kong, this is the first team to be composed of Gundam. All of them are invited by BANDAI to attract everyone with a strong lineup this year. This is Hong Kong’s recently famous group “Zeal”. Zeal is a passionate expression, and it also represents their team’s passion for cosplay. Based on their homemade props and costumes, they present their unique performances on the stage. Be the first to send you a visit with them
JPbeta Q: How did I get in touch with Gundam?
纪利(神高): I started because I found out in FB that many people shared a lot of COSPLAY games about HI-ν and WING Gundam, and then they started to pay attention to their pages
凛月(reporting banshee): I can’t say that it is contact for the first time. It is the manager of Gundam who directly invited me, so I only know
JPbeta asks: Will it be difficult to start a cos up to the mother?
小夜(WING ZERO): Because WING ZERO is the first MS of our group, because according to the relationship of the original map, the back wing or accessories must be done with my own proportion, each prop It must be measured very carefully. Because WING ERO has two pairs of wings, each wing uses a lot of brackets to support the wings. Moreover, when I first played the game, I wanted to make both wings open or close, but because the organs and wings are quite heavy, this is the hardest place
纪利: At the beginning of the COS God Gundam, I was not used to some gestures of raising my hand, because the armor itself would make my hand stuck, and it was just that I was not used to wearing it. Armored activities, but then slowly know that those locations will be easy to rotten, and later will know how to make the move to armor
JPbeta Q: Have you been in contact with Gundam for about a year, and what changes have you made with yourself at the time?
小夜: My own COSPLAY is about two years old. When COS passed WING ZERO, my biggest achievement is that my ability has increased a lot! ! ! Because this armor can really be very heavy, I can carry this heavy armor for more than 6 hours! ! ! So this is an activity that can train endurance and is more able to stick to every COSPLAY event
纪利: Although I only have about half a year, I haven’t thought that I can make the props with one hand and one foot, and I am still so mobile! For example, your wing can rise, and the pair of wings are surprised and even themselves. There is also a lot of skill in repairing, and these skills can be applied to this piece
JPbeta Q: If you give yourself another chance to re-select, will you contact COS up to another? Why?
小蕉(EXIA): If you give me another chance, I will still choose to contact. When I first contacted Gundam, I think this event is very novel. After I really touched it, I became familiar with this set of EXIA armor. It was like assimilation. The armor became my own hands and feet, so I would like to choose cos
凛月: I will choose this event, because after I contact, I can recognize different people from here, and after participating in this live project, I can break through my own framework
纪利: After joining this team, I feel that I have risen a stage compared to my previous COSPLAY, and I have more opportunities to go to the stage I want to reach
小夜: Actually, after doing so many of the Gundams in this event, there is a lot of things brought to me. I started to join the COSPLAY circle because I like to see large props. I can finish the COS for about three months, and then another famous work, WING ZERO. In fact, there is a lot of room for improvement in handwork and proportions, so this is a very good opportunity for you to make progress, so if time goes by, I will still choose the same road
JPbeta asks: There are so many parts in Gundamang, will they make them themselves?
Ji Li: Because armor is our own use, and there will be opportunities to dance on the stage, plus the strength of each producer, so of course you have to do it yourself, so that you know that the part is easy to break
凛月: At the beginning, my mourning banshee had a lot of places to be cut, so I had to do it myself. Of course, I had to maintain it myself after I finished
小夜: In fact, most of the armor I have participated in, because the armor of Gundam is the most close-knit place in each place, so every part needs to be repaired. Because everything is hand-made, as a dance group, you need to re-color or make up the paint, and at the same time, you must conform to the dance movements. Sometimes the armor loss after the activity is quite large. Although the whole piece is not all I made myself, I will learn a lot in it
小蕉: On this armor of Gundamen, this EXIA I must do it myself. No matter how much it can be made, this suit is my own. Plus the armor is very close to the body, it is more appropriate to fit your own body. If you don’t do it yourself, you don’t know where it is loose, where it feels uncomfortable, and so on. At the same time, the armor that I personally did have a sense of belonging after completion, because this is the armor that I have worked hard to make
JPbeta asks: What do you usually do when you are free?
小蕉: Hey! Of course, the first question I have to say is that the free time is a gathering (small voice: good food), and there will be some small summaries after the dance, etc., to see what can improve. Finally, we must explore the future direction
纪利: In addition to rest, eating and going to school, all time will be put into COSPLAY, most of them are crazy props. Because if the props are not made by themselves, it seems that there is no such passion to go to COSPLAY, and there will be free time to practice dancing
小夜: If you want to say free time, I also want to know where my free time is (laughs). Because a lot of time is on this project, WING ZERO is always the origin of our Gundam, and then it took another year to set up a group, so most of the time I will study with the manager, such as how to install the parts of the foot. It will not hinder them from dancing, but also how to put the parts on their bodies, so they have spent a lot of spare time doing these things, and many of their own characters, COS, are more likely to stop because of these things, more likely I can never go out, so I want to have more free time in the future to do what I want to do
凛月: I usually watch new programs at home during my free time, because I don’t have a lot of time, or I will find some COSPLAYs I have come up with. Recently, I have practiced the same thing
JPbeta asks: The most favorite of the many Gundam works is that set of works? Why?
凛月: Actually, I have not actually seen the complete set of Gundam.. For a long time, I have only seen a set of Gundam, which is GUNDAM SEED, and then I have not seen anything else, so I will recommend everyone to see SEED. But recently, because I reported the banshee, I went to see UC
小蕉: When I first came into contact with the Gundam, I felt that making a Gundam model was a very fun and fun thing, but I didn’t like and hate that one, just look at the model beautifully. If you like it, I recently found one. I also liked the UNICON full gold before entering the group. It is the Phoenix. It is really handsome, so it must be NT! !
小夜: Although I am out of WING ZERO, my favorite is not Winged ZERO, is “up to 00”. Because this is the first one I saw. When I didn’t touch the Gundam works, I felt that a bunch of machines kept fighting each other after listening to them. I started to think that these were very boring, and I was forced to take a look under the pressure of my friends. I feel that the story and development of 00 are very interesting. Besides the battle, there are other stories, so I will recommend 00
纪利: If you say that you are up, you want to talk about the recent hot new work up to NT, originally I really like the design of the No. 1 machine, because after reading it, I think the whole set is very bloody, so it is the same as the small banana. I like the third machine, so I will introduce NT
JPbeta ask:If you want to introduce a set of works to get started, what one would you recommend?
小夜: If you want to introduce a set of people who have just started to look at it, I think I will introduce them to see 00 first, because I also started to look at it from the beginning, and I was cheated into this bottomless abyss.. At the same time, it is because 00 makes me change. Because I was originally appreciating some sci-fi but not mechanical works, such as magic or events happening on Earth, but not in space. The 00 set of works, the development of the story is very reasonable, but also can attract the audience, so that the audience intends to see it, so I think this is very suitable for the beginning of the masterpiece
纪利: If you want to introduce, I think I will recommend SEED, because this is the first time I was in contact with a child when I was a child. I really know what is up to when I grow up. In addition to the first contact with the body RX-78, it is FREEDOM.
凛月: I would recommend 00, because my favorite seiyuu Miyano has a voice, so I will recommend this
I have always been paying attention to the domestic and foreign Miao Niang or the mechanical mother, but Hong Kong is still the first contact, when personally contacted, it is a group of cute little girls who work hard for their dreams, can not help but make a small article I found the time when I was struggling for the dream
Photo, interview, author: Nick.
Editor: Star Contractor.