＊Origins

Nowadays the cosplay culture in Japan origins from the activities of Comic Market in 1970s. Many participantes who joined the activities dress up like some characters of the famous animation . In the other hand, some people said that it's imitation from the MEG-CON because some fans of Star Trek wore like figures of the movie. This kind of imitation results in cosplay culture explosion in Japan. The first report of cosplay was pulished on the magizine, 《Fanroad》on Augst in 1980. Cosplay is the abbrviation of custume play, and a Japanes animation maker named this , ''Cosplay'' when he joined the world MEG-CON in 1984.Cosplay is a kind of art performance of interpretation of the figures' custumes, personalities,and characters.

written by Gina

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