Meaning of cosplay | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The art or practice of costuming oneself as a (usually fictional) character.
   uncountable
2. A skit or instance of this art or practice.
   countable

Equivalents

Examples

“Men, of course, also participate in cosplay and all its attending events, but women make up the greater numbers.”

“The environments and spaces created for and by cosplay provide cosplayers with a variety of spaces for social interactions.”

“It didn't take long for anime cons and cosplay to become a part of popular culture fandom in the West[…]”

“Central to the activity of cosplay is elaborate costuming, though some cosplays are enacted using a game system.”

“According to a student from France who went to Japan to study Japanese, "Universities in France are like Halloween when otaku students engage in these cosplays. They take Japanese language because of anime, but they see after a few classes that it's hard and not fun. Many drop out" (author interview, 2009).”

“Popular cosplays include, for example, characters from the Final Fantasy range of games[…]”

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