Leon Chiro
Leon Chiro
He mostly cosplays videogame characters; most accessories, such as armour, weapons, and accessories, are handmade.[4]
He makes all his costumes himself and he is always determined by competitions in every cosplay contest.
Early Life
Leon was born on May 31, 1991 in Italy.
Education
He majored in University Studies and obtained a degree in digital communication and marketing in video games at Vigamus Academy.
In an interview with overblog he said about his cosplaying
"Well, I started to cosplay in 2011, i was working in the modeling world, and I just wanted to try photoshooting with a videogame theme.
Then I just chose my Tidus cosplay and I still didn't knew what cosplay was.
And my friend talked about cosplay, he brought me in the first convention and let me there, and he said "just go, socialize, make some friends" and then I discovered the magic world of the cosplay and I started since the first convention to make competition, i started to win a lof of competitions, one after one, then everything was a chain reaction like getting invited as a jury, as guest, and so on."
Career
Leon began cosplaying in 2011 and is now a major competitor in European cosplay contests.
He has won numerous cosplay competitions in the main conferences in Italy and Europe.[4]
He has judged many high level cosplay contests and has also been a special guest, staff member, and jury member of the cosplay contest in the first Cosplay Cruise experience called EXPLAY.[2]
Facebook Controversy
He talked about this in an interview with overblog
"Well I don't wanna go back into that story anymore, it's past, it's negativity, I only show positivity.
But, it was like a private group of people wanting to sabotage my page, they just organized themselves to mass report my page and my profile, so they got down my profile and my page by declaring that it was fake identity, and then it was like a long process because normally it's quite impossible to have your things back but... I got it back because of the people following me.
For all the signatures, I collected more than 3000 signatures of people wanting me back on Facebook, it was a lot and i never asked for it.
So it has been a very hard & tragic moment because I had everything back thanks to the people following me.
Because I always try to spread positivity around the world, and then i got back all the positivity from all around the world by having back my social medias"[15]
Personal
He also talked about his other hobbies
"Well I'm a videogame student, at the Vigamus academy (in Rome), so it's a videogame university about marketing, social media, and digital communication.
I'm also a huge gamer, I'm a hardcore gamer, I collect platinum trophies.
I have 140 platinum trophies for the moment.
I have a lot of passion and hobbies."[15]
He also mentioned that all the male cosplayers are normally good friends, like he and Elffi Cosplay, RBF-productions, Rick Boer.[15]
He also made a special mention for Maul Cosplay stating him as one of the best male cosplayers ever, very good looking, very handsome, very talented, his pictures are stunning and he's also a very good inspiration for all the male cosplayers.[15]