COS is an abbreviation of the English Costume, the verb is COS, and people who play COS is generally known as COSER. from the general sense of the earliest Chinese translation of COSPLAY is from Taiwan, meaning role-playing. But because this translation and the game of Role Play Game (RPG) with the meaning of role-playing, so in order to avoid similarity, the author prefers another translation - clothing dress. In terms of COSPLAY nowadays, its form and content generally refers to the use of costumes, trinkets, props and make-up to play the role of ACG (anime, comic, game) in the characters or some of the Japanese visual bands and some of the characters in the movie, from which it can be seen that in the positioning of COSPLAY contains a fairly broad space to play, and it can be said that as long as there is a COSPLAYER in the place. It can be said that wherever there are cosplayers, this area is definitely the mainstream of youth pop culture today.

Origin of COSPLAY

When it comes to the original origin of COSPLAY, nowadays we generally agree that the birthplace of COSPLAY is located in Japan, of course, if this is based on the concept of COSPLAY in the present age, it is true that it can be said so. But if you look at it from a broad sense, the real birthplace of animation COSPLAY is definitely located in the western hemisphere of the United States, and even if you really want to explore the original form of COSPLAY, I can tell you without hesitation that the earliest emergence of COSPLAY was in the centuries before the first year of the AD! Whether it was the costumes of the Greek priests who existed around 1000 B.C., or the great troubadours of the 8th century B.C. who composed the two great Greek epic poems "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey", they were actually playing the roles of others. The former, who became the prophets and seers of later times, successfully COSPLAYED the existence of the apostles of the gods, while the latter, like the originators of today's stage dramas, COSPLAYED the deeds of those singable heroes in a marvelous way. As a matter of fact, the meaning of cosplay includes and dresses up not only a kind of visualization on the outside, but more importantly, it is to cosplay people's heart. Well, let's get back to the topic. Next continue to talk about the real birthplace of COSPLAY - the United States.