What is Cosplay?

A person cosplaying Link from Zelda

cos·play

ˈkäzˌplā/

noun

1. 1.

   the practice of dressing up as a character from a movie, book, or video game, especially one from the Japanese genres of manga and anime.

As the definition implies it is a dressing up as a character from books,and video games but mostly term used among the anime(Japanese word for animation) community.The community was inspired by the Japanese who first began cosplaying as they are the origin of anime itself. As anime and manga became popular to be spread all abroad to other countries around the world who continued this trend in their own countries and spread the joy and find people who have similar if not equal interest in the same thing as you.

Where do people go in their overly priced outfits and flamboyant, bright accessories and props and  you might ask? Conventions of course. Because nothing said 'look at me act like a character I wish I was for 3 days without the judgement of the normal outside world'! Yay! But cosplay is all in good fun. Some where them for personal excitement for the character that they feel they connect with or they're the victim of a friend who force cosplay upon them without  the concern of how they felt about dressing up, you know because cosplay is weird and only desperate attention seeking freak do it. So now you know what cosplay is you can go online and shop for that $200 Princess Zelda outfit that takes two months to ship because its all made by hand and you only paid basic shipping so it won't be ready for the con on time. But you know it's fine because you will have it eventually!