Cosplay at NTU

This afternoon I happened to spy a large crowd of people clustering around costumed adults and taking their photos. Taking place at National Taiwan University outside a cartoon convention, some of these costumes were quite elaborate.

Cosplay (コスプレ, kosupure), short for "costume play", is basically describing a performing-art behaviour of self-rigging out as a character with corresponding costume, accessories and/or parameters. In society, interactions of "cosplay" behaviour form a subculture centered on dressing as characters from manga, anime, tokusatsu, video games, and less commonly, fantasy movies, Japanese pop music bands, Visual Kei, fantasy music stories (such as stories by the band Sound Horizon), novels, and anything in the real world being unique and dramatic (or their more anthropomorphic form). In some circles "cosplay" has been expanded to mean simply wearing a costume, without considering the mind of an actor and the common form of "cosplay" in a major "cosplay" culture.

Source: Wikipedia.com

The characters were more than happy to pose for photos. Here are some of my favourites: