A hodgepodge of venue photos, makeup trials, and stamp collections. With so many cosplays, who do you choose?

COSPLAY is the abbreviation of English Costume Play, Japanese コスプレ. Refers to the use of clothing, accessories, props and makeup to play characters in animation works and games. People who play COSPLAY are generally called COSPLAYER.

The narrower interpretation of cosplay is to imitate and dress up characters in the virtual world, also known as role-playing. As a result, a new meaning has been derived on the Internet, and it is often used to describe "people pretending to be a certain type of person."

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As the name suggests, cosplay is the abbreviation of costume play in English. The verb is cos, and people who play cosplay are generally called coser [also called cosplayer] . The earliest Chinese translation of cosplay in a general sense comes from Taiwan, which means role-playing. But because this translation means role-playing in the same way as role play game (rpg) in games, so to avoid duplication, the author prefers another translation - dressing up. As far as today's cosplay is concerned, its form and content generally refer to the use of clothing, trinkets, props and makeup to play characters in acg (anime, comic, game) or some characters in some Japanese visual bands and movies , it can be seen from this that cosplay has a very broad space for development in terms of positioning. It can even be said that as long as there are cosplayers, this field will definitely be the mainstream of today's youth pop culture.

Costume (noun) = the outfit of a certain character, clothing.

Costume (verb) = to make clothes.

Costumer=A person who dresses similarly to a character, similar to a cosplayer.

cosplay-Origin: An abbreviation for the English "CostumePlay" proposed by Nov. Takahashi. His inspiration for this came from the International Masquerade Ball in San Francisco, USA, and his passion for cosplay expressed in an article published in Japan's "MyAnime" magazine (1982) triggered the Japanese cosplay movement in 1982-83 . Although cosplay did not originate in Japan, American cosplay is greatly influenced by Japanese cosplay.

Cosplay (noun) = wearing costumes related to anime characters.

Cosplay (verb) = put on costumes related to anime characters.

cosplayer=A person wearing Costume.

Crossplay (verb) = part of cosplay: playing the opposite sex in cosplay.

Crossplayer=A person who plays the opposite sex in cosplay.

Crossdressing=Wearing clothes of the opposite sex. When a person is crossdressing, it does not mean that he is crossplaying (that is, if a man plays a man, and the latter likes girls' clothes, then the former is crossdressing, but not crossplay). Crossplay has nothing to do with cosdressing, only the gender of the cosplayer and the gender of the person being cosplayed.