Since the now-infamous photos as Cutie Honey appeared, HezaChan began spreading to cosplay showcase articles and message boards all over the web. Her online fame further perpetuated with the widespread awe of her adorable Longcat scarf.
She was sweet enough to grant me an interview, sharing tales of her adventures in this surreal fandom of ours. As of this post, HezaChan is representin’ in Japan for Tokyo Game Show 2010!
First, a brief bio: In just a few years, HezaChan went from her first anime convention to becoming an ambassador to the community. She’s appeared in several publications, including Animerica and G4. She’s established a strong web presence for herself, maintaining her website (HezaChan.com) as well as regularly updating her LiveJournal, YouTube channel, DeviantArt, and assorted photo galleries.
There’s tons of material covered in this interview, so let’s get this party started!
Cutie Honey Flash is a bizarre attempt to turn a sexually-charged Go Nagai creation into a child-friendly franchise. That is, with the intent of selling toys of said franchise to toddlers. That would be like adapting the gruesome, violence-saturated Beast King GoLion into a neutered, Americanized children’s cartoon… Oh, wait.
It’s most likely because of this series’ distillation of exploitation that makes the show more accessible to audiences of all ages. Cutie Honey Flash is about a super-heroine who is a resourceful master of disguise. I grant you, her arsenal consists of the full gamut of cosplay fantasy against a horde of incompetent she-monsters, but the girl’s got heart, dammit!
She's accustomed to stairs...
This man is a masochist and a pedophile...NOT A HERO.
In the Method to Madness podcast, I’m joined with my good friend Kevin “The Business” Gray to discuss great anime and video games that you should be watching as well as ones you should feel ashamed you are watching.
Hezachan, now world famous by her Longcat scarf, has recently completed her latest cosplay jewel: Faye Valentine from Cowboy Bebop. As you’d expect, the most challenging piece of any Faye Valentine costume it her vest, since in order to attractively conform to her body, it requires forces that are more mystical than mechanical.
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