What does cosplay mean?

COSPLAY is the abbreviation of English CostumePlay, and the verb is COS, and people who play COSPLAY are generally called COSPLAYER (coser for short). Generally speaking, the earliest Chinese translation of COSPLAY comes from Taiwan Province Province, which means "role-playing". As far as today's COSPLAY is concerned, its form and content generally mean that some characters in ACG (animation, comics and games) or some Japanese Vision Rock and movies use costumes, trinkets, props and makeup to play their roles.

COSPLAY is a noun that belongs only to animation circle.

Role playing classification

COSPLAY of 1 ACG (Animation, Comics and Games): Imitate the behavior of characters in animation or games.

2. Eneng's COSPLAY: Imitate Vision Rock, or imitate the characters and stars in TV dramas.

3. Humanoid role-playing: Imitating existing dolls and models. ...

4. Original COSPLAY (this is a controversial point at present): Since it is original COSPLAY, it must be set by someone (including pictures of people), with story scripts and scripts.

Character design: character design, including name, clothing, appearance, personality, behavior, etc. , must be complete.

Portrait: When setting a character, draw the effect diagram of the character according to your own settings. This makes it easy to make clothes and props.

Story script: The traditional COSPLAY is to play a character or an object in a story, so the original COSPLAY should also have a story background setting, and you can create it yourself or choose to adapt the original novel and script.

In short, the original COSPLAY must have complete settings, otherwise it is no different from art photos. It can be seen that COS is a kind of performance behavior after the world has already had the role of a work. Not including Lolita and punk's very popular way of wearing.