happy cosplay appreciation day!!!!

As someone who never understood cosplay, I want to know: What motivates people to cosplay? I understand dressing up for fun, but the at the level that cosplayers do it - I just don't get it?

I'm not trying to offend you so excuse me if I came off that way. I honestly want to know what makes you guys tick. There's a Furry house near where I live (not the same I know), and week after week they congregate to live out this avatar life.

 

I shall not speak on the topic of furries. They are foreign to me.

But I kinda understand cosplay, being a casual cosplayer myself. It gives you a little bit of pride to get the look of the person you're dressing up as, down to the detail, in a way that makes the people around you who know your character feel a little bit as if they've come to life. That's why you try to adopt the attitude and manners, rather than just the look. When you have a really detailed, perfect costume, with the hair, and the walk, and everything, people at conventions give you this sort of awed respect, coupled with a sense of family and familiarity, since they know you share an interest with them.

It also gives you a break from the insecurity of being yourself when you can be someone else that you've watched and followed intently, for the purpose of knowing how to be them. And there's a right and a wrong way to act like them, whereas there's no right or wrong way to be you. I suppose that's true of all acting, not just the constant impromptu of cosplay.

Those are reasons I cosplay, mainly. And also, for a little bit of the same reasons people write fanfiction. If I want these two characters to be together, I dress up as one, make my girlfriend dress up as the other, and then I can have as many pictures as I want of the characters "together."

But the biggest reason is because it's fun~ <3

 

YAY! Cosplay Appreciation Day!!!

 

I had my first full-body cosplay back in October. Unfortunately I wasn't really prepared XD

It was an overall success, but I really should have thought more about transport.

 

Ok, Kudos on the lust costume. I never got cosplay either, although I do have a friend who is into LARPing (Live Action Role Playing). I will dress up on halloween, but otherwise I just cosplay daily as a semi-hippie who doesn't give a sh*t... Although, maybe you could consider my Park Ranger uniform as cosplay, since it just makes me look like an overgrown boy scout.

 

Awww lucky! >:/ lol

 

First I want to say, cosplay =/= furry. The reason people cosplay is because they get obsessed with something (or at least that's why I like it). Cosplay usually has the person's face showing if they're a catgirl/Pokemon/random anime character unless the character specifically doesn't show their face. Furry costumes (or fursuits) never show the person's face. Of course, that doesn't mean that furries can't simply cosplay. I think a similar analogy would be the difference between a guy dressing up as a specific female celebrity for Halloween, as apposed to actually crossdressing.

Anyway, why didn't anyone tell about this? I could have worn my Umbreon hat all day, sans when I'm at work. Should probably make a shirt and pants to go with it for the next anime convention.