Carmen Zhou is a Chinese-American cosplayer, resin-maker, and entrepreneur currently attending Georgia State University. In this episode, we discuss the good and the bad in the cosplay and anime communities and the changes within the Cpop and Kpop communities.

0:45 Getting into Cosplay

4:30 Parents’ Disapproval

8:00 Getting into Anime

11:15 Chinese vs American Cosplay

14:00 Anime Culture & Cosplay Community

24:00 Making Cosplay

28:00 Making Resin

30:30 Passion

31:30 Self-improvement

34:25 Popularity of Kpop vs Cpop

42:25 Chasing Numbers