COSPLAY is the abbreviation of CostumePlay in English, and the Japanese コスプレ. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info refers to the use of costumes, accessories, props, and makeup to play characters in anime works and games.

Cosplay is narrowly defined as imitating and dressing up characters in the virtual world, also known as role-playing.

When it comes to cosplay, it is generally agreed that the birthplace of cosplay is located in Japan, but this is true if this is based on the current concept of cosplay.

But broadly speaking, the real birthplace of anime cosplay is definitely the United States in the Western Hemisphere, and if you really want to talk about the original form of cosplay, cosplay first appeared in the centuries before the first year of the Common Era! Whether it is the costumes of the Greek priests who have existed since about 1000 B.C., or the great troubadours who were active in the 8th century B.C. who later wrote the two great Greek epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, they are actually playing someone else's role.

The former led to the prophets and seers of later generations, and successfully cosplayed the existence of the apostles of God, while the latter is like the originator of today's stage drama, cosplaying the deeds of those heroes who can sing and cry. In fact, the meaning of cosplay is not only a kind of external visualization, but more importantly, the inner self of the cosplay.

In the 17th century, the Jesuit priest Athanasius Kircher invented the "Magiclantern" (Magiclantern) and successfully made animation popular in Central Europe, and it was not until the late 1930s that the American animation style had a clear and definite definition, and it was during this period that the first cosplay in history with animated characters as the subject was also born.

Mickey Mouse is all the rage in the United States and around the world. In 1955, WalWalt Disney created the world's first Disneyland, and in order to promote the product itself and better attract visitors, Walland Disney also invited staff to wear Mickey Mouse costumes for visitors to enjoy or take pictures.

The obscure Mickey Mouse costumers are the true progenitors of cosplay around the world today.

In fact, the reason why Xu Yuan wants to go out today is mainly because there is a relatively large comic exhibition in this city recently, although the world view of the dragon world is somewhat different from reality, but in general, some world backgrounds and development directions that have nothing to do with dragons are similar.

Although the timeline is a bit early, it is only 2011, but Xu Yuan still wants to experience the atmosphere of ACG.

If you can't see the characters you like, sometimes you will have a pretty good feeling when you look at the coser?

It should be so, Xu Yuan didn't have much chance before, but today he really wants to join in the fun.

At the very least, it would be pretty good, right?

Since the 1990s, the animation and game industry in the island country has successfully held a large number of comic exhibitions and game exhibitions, and at this time, in order to promote their products, the island comic book companies and video game companies at these game exhibitions and manga festivals have found some men and women dressed up as characters in anime and game works to attract the audience. This trick can be said to be the same as the trick of attracting customers when Disneyland was opened by Helu Disney, which shows that the key to the emergence and vigorous development of contemporary cosplay is based on the commercialization of its own animation and games, and it can be said that it is the use of cosplay as a commercial promotion method that cosplay itself can be greatly developed and recognized.

As a result, cosplay culture has become popular and carried forward in the anime and game industries, and at the same time, through various cosplay activities, media introductions, and the dissemination of a large amount of information about cosplay on the Internet, the number of free participants in cosplay has proliferated, and cosplay has gradually developed in a real and independent way.

What's more, events dedicated to cosplay have gradually emerged, similar to masquerade balls, so that the public can gradually see these costumes on more and more occasions, and learn about this cosplay cultural phenomenon that integrates costumes, makeup, and performances.

In 11 years, in fact, the two-dimensional circle should have developed to a certain extent?

Contemporary cosplay generally aims at animation, comics, games, video games, light novels, movies, TV series, tokusatsu groups, idol groups, occupations, historical stories, social stories or other self-created tangible characters.

Another type of cosplay is mainly to anthropomorphize non-human animals, military weapons, vehicles, civil infrastructure, operating systems, websites, etc., with intelligent souls, and present such anthropomorphic characters with corresponding costumes, props, makeup, body language, etc., one of the common techniques is to appear in the form of cute anthropomorphism.

Overall, Xu Yuan feels that the rise of this ACG culture is not bad?

ACG (general name for animation, manga, otaku games) ACG (Chinese: roaming), an abbreviation of English Animation, Comic, Game, is a general term for animation, manga, and games. ACG culture originated in Japan and is spread through the Internet and other means.

THE FIRST RECORDED COSPLAY IN TAIWAN WAS ON AUGUST 27, 1995, ON THE FIRST FLOOR OF SAGAWORLD IN KAOHSIUNG, BUT IT IS SAID THAT THE SCALE WAS NOT LARGE AT THAT TIME, AND THE CHARACTERS WERE MAINLY CHARACTERS FROM VIDEO GAMES. Later, on October 13, 1996, Taipei Baby Bear Restaurant held an autumn party by the "Super Orange Group", although it was widely publicized before the meeting and many people knew about it, but the scale was still small. This situation continued until mid-February 1997, when three events were held in a row, and the number of cosplay began to increase, and since then it has become a characteristic of Taiwan's cosplay industry.