Cosplay?

You may be asking yourself- What is this? Here a clip of information that may help you. It basically explains what costume play is and the importance of it.

"Cosplay a contraction of the English words "costume" and "play", is a Japanese subculture centered on dressing as characters from manga, anime and video games. All aspects of cosplay have spread across the world, joining with costuming at science fiction conventions in North America and Europe. It is also a common sight at anime conventions.

Convention activity in the United States and Canada has become a much larger and much more popular trend within the past decade. Larger conventions such as Anime Expo and Otakon have become renowned internationally. With the added public attention coming from such popular animated cartoons imported from Japan (see anime) including Sailor Moon, Inuyasha, and now the ever-popular Naruto, cosplayers and the anime world have peeked their heads into the world of mainstream pop-culture, on at least a relativey underground scale. More and more convention goers cosplay as their favorite characters from their favorite animes, and thus, the cosplay and anime subcultures have been able to have enough influence to further the creation of conventions to accommodate for the increasing number of cosplayers."

Anime?

--From Wikipedia.org

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