＊Types of Cosplay

The characters of Cosplay are various and different. Generally speaking, they are usually sourced from comics, animations, video games, novels, singers, movies, history characters, and etc. Cosplay participants (or called "cosplayers", "cosers") wear their similar or even the same costunes as characters' with combination of properties, expression and likely behavior to imitate the characters they choose.

In our opinions, we roughly divide the source of Cosplay into two groups:
‧ACG
‧Others


ACG
Animation, Comic, Game were abbreviated to "ACG". The three entertainment industries are related and intimate. As a result, one work may simultaneously appear in three types of forms: animation, comic and game. Cosplay in Japan originally developed from ACG so ACG Cosplayers are still take a great part of Cosplay today.

Cosplay in ACG for example:
Animation: Final Fantasy, コードギアス反逆のルルーシュ
Comic: 黑執事, NARUTO -ナルト-
Game: 咎狗の血

Recently, "ACG" has gradually become "ACGN" because of (Light) Novel's prevalence, such as 涼宮ハルヒシリーズ, 灼眼のシャナ.


黑執事
　　　　


NARUTO -ナルト-　　　　　　　　　　　　　Final Fantasy
　　　　


Others
Besides ACG Cosplay, other cosplays can be all classified into this group because there are too many characters can be cosplayed. Cosplay is a wide world. As long as you are interested in the character, you can cosplay it.

The common Cosplay for example:
‧Singers, especially Visual kei
‧Movies
‧Puppet show
‧... and etc.


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　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　the GazettE

ギルガメッシュ - Volcano



written by Sophie

Works cited
Cosplay - 維基百科-12 January, 2009
<http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosplay>
台灣論壇Cosplay 版精華文章-12 January, 2009
<http://www.twbbs.net.tw/1260900.html>
Photos by Sophie-12 January, 2009
<http://www.wretch.cc/album/album.php?id=gothicverde&book=13>
<http://www.wretch.cc/album/album.php?id=gothicverde&book=7>