Cosplay Festival in Japan
Referring to unique festivals in Japan, cosplay festivals cannot be ignored. This is a festival that many young people participate in because they can freely role-play their favorite anime characters.
Cosplay festivals in Japan are gradually becoming popular and are also a very characteristic feature of Japanese culture. In this article, let's learn about the Cosplay festival in Japan and if you like, you can also join this festival in Vietnam.
What is a cosplay festival?
Cosplay festival is a festival where the participants in the festival will dress and have the same posture as famous characters, movie characters, game characters, manga or anime characters, etc.
The name Cosplay is an English name but it also has no meaning, it's just a name that the Japanese thought up and gave it that way. Cosplay is formed from the combination of the word costume - costume and role play - incarnation. According to the Japanese transliteration, cosplay is called kosupure (コスプレ) or sometimes reya for short.
Cosplay festivals have many forms of dressing or impersonating characters, but in Japan when it comes to cosplay, people will immediately think of people impersonating anime characters. Therefore, the Cosplay festival in Japan is sometimes called the anime incarnation festival or the anime cosplay festival.
Where did the cosplay festival in Japan come from?
When it comes to the origin of the Cosplay festival, it probably comes from the United States. In 1960, during the SF Convention - science fiction festival, there was a performance of impersonating fictional characters from science fiction movies.
This performance quickly became a trend and spread widely to other countries including Japan. After coming to Japan, this incarnation movement was quickly received by a part of young people and turned this costume into a trend called Cosplay.
Although imported from the US and initially just transformed into characters in science fiction movies, but when it came to Japan, it became an art.
Young people who love Cosplay in Japan have raised this costume to become a new trend of young people around the world. There are international students studying abroad in Japan who also admitted that because they love Cosplay, they have chosen the country of the rising sun as their study abroad destination.
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