Sica Ho

Sica was born on 24 May 2000.^[1][2] She became obsessed with Japanese anime and pop culture after watching Attack on Titan when she was studying in secondary school.^[3] Sica began to cosplay different anime characters, such as K-On!’s Yui Hirasawa and Cardcaptor Sakura’s Sakura Kinomoto,^[4][5] and ran a cosplay-themed Facebook fanpage called Casi's Planet.^[4] Sica later attended Hong Kong Baptist University and obtained an Associate Degree of Arts in visual arts.^[6][7] She worked at a maid café after her graduation.^[7]

In 2021, Sica auditioned for ViuTV's reality talent contest King Maker IV and was enlisted as one of the final 96 contestants.^[8] She received public attention after winning against YouTuber Jackie Lau in the preliminaries and was sorted to Team B, mentored by professional actor Joey Leung.^[9][10] Her performance in the subsequent rounds received widespread acclaim from the mentors, adjudicators and general public.^[11][12] Leung even recruited her to cast his latest theatre play War of Tung Choi Guys: Spiced Up Edition.^[13] Ho was signed to ViuTV and appeared on its music variety show Youngster Show Time  [zh].^[14][15]