About
Hana Ame—often styled online as HaneAme—is a Taipei-based Taiwanese cosplayer born on October 4, 1997. What began as a hobby of sewing character outfits at her dorm desk has blossomed into a full-time creative business with merchandise, photobooks, event appearances and, most recently, her own exhibition in Akihabara. Across Instagram, Twitter (X), Facebook, Patreon and a dedicated web shop, she now entertains well over three million followers worldwide, making her one of the most-watched personalities in Asian cosplay today. Fans praise her for painstaking craftsmanship—latex molding, hand-painted props, and cinematic photography are all part of her signature look. In 2024, she marked a full decade in the craft and celebrated with an international “Birthday Exhibition” that displayed both her character cosplays and original conceptual designs.
Before Fame
Hana Ame grew up a self-described “nervous planner” who sketched and built things in order to calm her thoughts. Art classes and model-making clubs occupied her weekends, and anime soundtracks often played in the background while she stitched accessories out of scrap fabric. In interviews, she recalls academic pressure pushing her toward escapism: cosplay felt like the perfect outlet because it let her “step into someone else’s shoes for a while.” By 2014, she had finished her first full costume—Ahri from League of Legends—and began posting photos online with a borrowed DSLR. A quiet trickle of likes turned into viral shares, encouraging her to learn wig styling, makeup, and prop fabrication. She spent the next few years juggling college assignments with late-night photo edits, gradually teaching herself photography, lighting, and social-media strategy before turning professional around 2018.
Trivia
- Marathon builds: Her recreation of Arcane’s Jinx consumed roughly 120 straight hours—she crafted three weapons, sewed leather straps, weathered every surface, and still squeezed in a self-portrait shoot when it was done.
- Multilingual content: Growing up in Taiwan and traveling frequently, she alternates among Mandarin, English, and Japanese in streams and captions, broadening her global reach.
- From photo to figure: Good Smile Company released a 1/6-scale statue based on her original “Dog Pet Girlfriend” photoset, one of the rare times a cosplayer’s self-designed look has been immortalized as an official collectible.
- Annual originals: She sets herself a New Year goal to unveil at least one brand-new, self-designed character every January—ideas often strike, she jokes, while day-dreaming in the shower.
- Travel tales: On her first solo trip to Japan’s Comiket, she lugged a 100-kilogram suitcase through the Tokyo subway, got hopelessly lost, yet still arrived smiling for fans who had lined up for her prints.
Family Life
Although Hana Ame shares daily progress shots of fabrics and foam, she draws a firm line around personal privacy. She occasionally mentions supportive parents who encouraged her artistic streak, but rarely posts family photos. Home these days is still Taipei, though work often keeps her abroad for half the year. When deadlines loom, she relies on a small studio crew—stylists, photographers, and logistics helpers she jokingly calls her “cosplay family”—to handle shipping and event booths. Away from the camera, she enjoys seafood dinners, with a special fondness for the lobster gratin she tasted during Anime Expo in Santa Monica.
Associated With
Hana Ame is best known for transforming beloved pop-culture heroines into vivid, real-world portraits. Her portfolio spans Ahri, Jinx, 2B, Makima, Yelan, Widowmaker, and Hololive’s Takanashi Kiara, among many others. Riot Games praised her Ahri look on social media, while Arcane fans marveled at the accuracy of her Jinx gear. Hololive enthusiasts likewise rejoiced when she donned Kiara’s orange feathers and sword. Outside of fan characters, she collaborates with figure sculptors (Good Smile Company), fashion latex designers, and game publishers who hire her for convention stages and promotional shoots. You can regularly catch her at Comiket in Tokyo, Fancy Frontier in Taipei, Anime Expo in Los Angeles, Dokomi in Düsseldorf, and New York Comic Con, where long queues form for autographs and quick snapshots. Whether she is posing beside League of Legends artists or sharing green-room laughs with fellow craft veterans, her ability to switch seamlessly from performer to designer keeps industry partners returning project after project.