What exactly does anime COS mean? This is not math.

COS is the abbreviation of English cost, the verb is COS, and people who play COS are generally called COSER. Generally speaking, the earliest Chinese translation of COSPLAY came from Taiwan Province Province, which means role-playing. But because this translation is the same as the role-playing game (RPG) in the game, in order to avoid the similarity, the author prefers another translation-dressing up. As far as today's COSPLAY is concerned, its form and content generally refer to the use of clothing, trinkets, props and makeup to play ACG (animation, comics, games) or some roles in Japanese Vision Rock and movies. Thus, COSPLAY contains a vast space for its positioning. It can even be said that as long as there is COSPLAYER, this field is definitely the mainstream of teen pop culture today.

Detailed explanation of cosplay vocabulary

Costume (noun) = costume of the character, costume

Clothing (verb) = clothing

Costumer = someone who dresses like a character, similar to cosplayer.

Cosplay-origin: the abbreviation of English "costume drama" put forward by Hiroshi Takahashi Yi. His inspiration came from the international masquerade ball in San Francisco, USA, and his enthusiasm for cosplay expressed in the article (1982) published in the Japanese magazine My Animation triggered the cosplay movement in Japan. Although cosplay did not originate in Japan, the current cosplay in the United States has been greatly influenced by Japanese cosplay.

Cosplay (noun) = wearing clothes about anime characters.

Cosplay (verb) = Put on clothes about cartoon characters.

Cosplayer = the man in costume.

Crossplay (verb) = part of cosplay: play the opposite sex in cosplay.

Crossplayer = a person who plays the opposite sex in cosplay.