What Does Cosplay Mean?
COSPLAY, is abbreviated to COS, Cosplay = Costume + Play of the composite word, generally interpreted as “live-action parody”, similar to role-playing. Performers wear the same clothes, makeup, and props as characters from manga, games, or Japanese visual rock bands, and act out their own shows.
COSPLAY rough to classify, the most common is to play the role of ACG (anime, comic, game) in the role; followed by playing some of the members of the Japanese visual band, the popularity of the band is more popular by the cos of the medieval aristocratic style of MM (tragedy and malice) band; in addition to some of the characters in the movie, such as Harry Potter; the most special to be counted as a number of Alternative COSPLAY, from cos robots, to cars are there, some celebrity cos is also regarded as alternative, because there are obvious traces of spoof. From here can be seen in the positioning of COSPLAY contains a fairly broad space to play, and can even say that as long as there is a COSPLAYER in the place, this field is absolutely today’s youth pop culture mainstream.
