What is the history of cosplay?

Foreword: Recently, the CP29 Comic Con was successfully held in Shanghai, attracting the participation of many cosers and anime lovers. However, the scene is also amazing, and many of the cosers' clothes and makeup are not only vivid, but also shocking.

If you were attending a comic con for the first time and see such a scene, how would you feel? Let's talk about it.

1.Feel the cultural atmosphere.

If it's your first time at a comic con and you see such a scene, the biggest feeling should be the cultural atmosphere you are in. There are various cosers on the scene, who play not only anime characters, but also disseminators of anime culture. The visitors were also people who had a strong interest in anime culture, and the cultural atmosphere was very warm and gratifying.

2.Respect and appreciation for the coser.

At the Comic-Con scene, Coser is one of the most popular. They bring the characters from the anime to life in front of the audience through elaborate makeup and costume design. Their performances are very shocking and amazing, and people deeply admire and appreciate their professionalism and talent.

3.Recognition and love for anime culture.

The comic con is not only a stage for cosers to show their talents, but also a showcase for animation culture. At the Comic Con, we can see a wide variety of anime works, merchandise, and cultural products. These exhibits make people feel very novel and interesting, and they also make people's identification and love for animation culture more firm and deeper.

Summary: CP29 Comic Con makes people feel the warm atmosphere of Pei Nianshu's animation culture, deeply admire and appreciate Coser's professionalism and talent, and also have a firmer and deeper recognition and love for animation culture. I hope that the future Comic Con will continue to bring us more surprises and visual experiences.

When it comes to the original origin of cosplay, it is generally agreed that the birthplace of cosplay is located in Japan, but this can be said if the concept of cosplay is based on the current era. <>

But if broadly speaking, the real birthplace of animation cosplay is definitely the United States in the Western Hemisphere, and even if you really want to start the original form of cosplay, the author can tell you without hesitation that the earliest appearance of cosplay was in the centuries before the first year of the Common Era! For whether it is the costumes of the Greek priests who have existed since around 1000 B.C., or the great troubadours who were active in the 8th century B.C. who later wrote the two great Greek epics, Elijah and Odyssey, they are actually playing someone else's role. <>

The former led to the prophets and seers of later generations, and successfully cosplayed the existence of the apostles of God, while the latter is like the originator of today's stage drama, cosplaying the deeds of those heroes who can sing and cry. In fact, the meaning of cosplay is not only a kind of external visualization, but more importantly, the inner self of the cosplay. Well, to get down to business.

Next, let's talk about the real birthplace of cosplay - the United States. <>

In the 17th century, the Jesuit priest Athanasius Kircher invented the "Magic Lantern" (Magic Lantern) and successfully made animation popular in Central Europe, and it was not until the late 1930s that the American animation style had a clear and definite definition, and it was during this period that the first cosplay in history with animated characters as the subject was also born. <>

Mickey Mouse is all the rage in the United States and around the world. In 1955, WalWalt Disney created the world's first Disneyland, and in order to promote the product itself and better attract visitors, Walland Disney also invited employees to wear Mickey Mouse costumes for visitors to enjoy or take pictures. <>

This group of obscure Mickey Mouse costumes is the true ancestor of cosplay in the contemporary spring eggplant world.

The true origin of cosplay is the United States.

The inherent impression of cosplay is that it originated in Japan, but it is not incorrect to define the origin of cosplay in this way, and the birthplace of cosplay should have originated in the United States in the thirties of the 19th century.

Walt Disney, the founder of Mickey Mouse, created the world's popular Mickey Mouse, and successfully established his own animation park empire, Disney's Le Mo Dong La Garden. In order to make your Disneyland more popular with guests, shorten the distance between you and visitors. So Walt Disney decided to use Mickey Mouse as a bridge between them.

He custom-made Mickey Mouse's clothes and asked the staff to put them on and attract visitors to Disneyland, where visitors could interact with Mickey Mouse, take pictures, and do fun activities together to make the children tremble. Therefore, the originator of coser in the real sense of the word in the world is a little mouse, its name is Mickey Mouse, and the person who promoted the appearance of the first cosplay anime character is Walt Disney.

Later, the culture of cosplay was introduced to Japan, and after it was first introduced to Japan, it was only a niche culture imported from abroad, and it was not like the status of cosplay in Japan. However, driven by the growing development of the animation field, cosplay has also risen with the tide, and more and more young people have accepted and liked it, and they have invested in the cosplay industry.