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Cosplay is a Japanese-made English term (wasei-eigo) derived from the combination of the words "costume" and "play". Cosplay means hobby along with accessories and wearing makeup as worn characters in anime, manga, manhwa, tales, video games, idol singers and musicians, and cartoons.
Cosplayctors called cosplayer. Among fans, cosplayers also abbreviated as a layer.

In Japan, cosplay participants can be found in the events held fellow fan clubs, such as Comic Market, or attending a concert of the music group the visual kei genre.

Fans of cosplay can include cosplayers and non-cosplayers are scattered throughout the world, namely the U.S., the PRC, Europe, Philippines, and Indonesia. History since the second half of the 1960s, fans of science fiction stories and movies in the United States often hold a science fiction convention.

Convention attendees dressed as worn figures of science fiction films such as Star Trek. Culture of the United States since the first known forms of masquerade (masquerade) as in Haloween and Easter celebrations.

The tradition of holding a science fiction convention to Japan in the 1970s in the form of a demonstration event costumes (costume show.) In Japan, the show "cosplay" was first held in 1978 in Ashinoko, Kanagawa Prefecture in the form of a science fiction convention masquerade Nihon SF Taikai to-17.

Critics Mari Kotani attending science fiction conventions dressed in costume as a character in the cover story of A Fighting Man of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Not only is Mari Kotani attended Nihon SF Taikai, turning cosplay. Gainax animation company director, Yasuhiro Takeda Star Wars character costume.

At that time, participants thought Mari Kotani convention costume manga character Triton of the Sea works of Osamu Tezuka. Kotani itself does not try hard to deny, that the mass media often wrote costume Triton of the Sea as the first cosplay costume worn in Japan.

Furthermore, the cosplay contest events become fixed since the Nihon SF Taikai 19th 1980. Participants dressed in a Superman costume, Atom Boy and Toki o Kakeru figures in Sh? jo and film Virus.

In addition to the Comic Market cosplay events become more frequent in the exhibition held d? Jinshi and science fiction fan meeting in Japan. Anime magazine in Japan gradually began to carry news about cosplay event in the exhibition and sale of publications d? Jinshi.

Coverage massive first performed Fanroad magazine inaugural issue in August 1980. The special edition contains news about the emergence of a group of young people called "Tominoko-zoku" areas in the Harajuku cosplay costume with Gundam mobile suits.

The "Tominoko-zoku" reportedly emerged as rivals to Takenoko-zoku (the strangely dressed young man, who was to enliven the Harajuku district).

The term "Tominoko-zoku" is taken from the name of Gundam animation film director, Yoshiyuki Tomino, and is a parody of the term Takenoko-zoku. Photos of cosplay participants dancing while wearing costumes Gundam robot also loaded.

Although the actual article on Tominoko-zoku only meant for sensation seeking, the article managed to make the "cosplay" as a common term among anime fans.

Before the term cosplay is used by the electronic mass media, the assistant announcer Minky Yasu had often done cosplay. Costume characters Minky Momo Minky Yasu is often worn in a gathering ground mami no radi-karu broadcast communication among others by Radio T? Kai since 1984.

Furthermore, the same radio show began a cosplay contest. From 1989 to 1995, ranking aired on tv asahi cosplay costumes that are popular in the Land Data Hanakin event.

Around the year 1985, cosplay hobby increasingly widespread in Japan for cosplay has become something that is easily done. At the time it happened to Captain Tsubasa figures are popular, and only a T-shirt Captain Tsubasa football player, people are able to "air-cosplay".

Activities cosplay reportedly started a group activity since 1986. Since then emerging amateur photographers (called camera-koz?) Which pleased photographing cosplay activities.

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