Cosplay (コスプレ, kosupure?), short for "costume roleplay",[1] is a type of performance art whose participants outfit themselves, with often-elaborate costumes and accessories, as a specific character or idea. Characters are usually sourced in various Japanese and East Asian media, including manga, anime, tokusatsu, comic books, graphic novels, video games, hentai and fantasy movies. Other sources include performers from J-pop, J-rock, visual kei, fantasy music stories (such as stories by the band Sound Horizon), novels, and objects from cyberspace or the real world that are unique and dramatic (especially if they have or can be given an anthropomorphic form).
Cosplay participants ("cosplayers") form a subculture centered around wearing their costumes and reenacting scenes or inventing likely behavior inspired by their chosen sources. In some circles, the term cosplay has been broadened to include simply wearing a costume, without special consideration given to enacting characters in a performance context.
Cosplay is all about having fun, meeting new people and doing something different.
Events where cosplayers turn up in there thousands Include both MCM Expo's which happen four times a year, twice in London and twice in the Midlands. Other events inlcude LFCC ( London Film and Comic Con ) and Minamicon. Cosplayers turn up, have fun, have pictures taken both publicly and Professionaly. Cosplays either made from scratch or bought.
Join if you love cosplaying characters from any Anime & Manga ^_^ Everyone is welcome, even if you don't cosplay, come make new friends and have fun.
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