what is coser

COS is the abbreviation of English Costume, its verb is COS, and people who play COS are generally called COSER (sometimes also called cosplayer).

In a general sense, the earliest Chinese translation of COSPLAY comes from Taiwan, which means role-playing.

The origin of the word COSPLAY is the abbreviation of COSTUMEPLAY, which refers to dressing up in the costumes of various characters to act out the roles in the works, including animation, comics, video games, visual kei bands, Taiwanese puppet shows, etc.

Cosplay started in Japan.

The starting point for dressing up became my love for the characters in each work. Through role-playing, characters that originally existed only in the imaginary world can appear in the real world.

The first people who played cosplay did it because they loved those people in the second dimension and wanted them to appear in the third dimension. They also wanted to satisfy their dream of being close to the people they love most.

The main difference is that if you just put on a certain kind of clothing (LOLITA, costume, etc.), it cannot be called COSPLAY, it can only be called cross-dressing.

Similarly, a person who just does this kind of behavior cannot be called a COSER, but can only be called a "person in cross-dressing".

In fact, the meaning of COSPLAY including and dressing up is not only an appearance of visualization, but more importantly, it is to understand the inner heart of the COSPLAY object.