Japan Cosplay

What is cosplay? Cosplay is people who dress up as an anime character that they like. Cosplay is short for "Costume Play", it is a performance art in which participants wear costumes and accessories to represent a specific character or idea. Cosplayers often interact to create a subculture centered on Role Play. a broader use of the term cosplay applies to any costumed role play in venue apart from the stage, regardless of the cultural context.

Favorite sources include manga, anime, comic books, video games and films. Any entity form the real or virtual world that lends itself to dramatic interpretation may be taken up as a subject. Inanimate objects are given anthropomorphic forms and it is not unusual to see genders switched with woman playing male roles and vice versa. There is also a subset of cosplay culture centered on sex appeal with cosplayers specifically choosing characters that are known fot their attractiveness and revealing costumes.

This is some of the people that do cosplay and they pick their own characters.

This cosplay is from the video game Final Fantasy.

This Video is from The expo in japan.