Malice Mizer Voyage
Cosplay, refers to Costume Play, a culture where avid fans create authentic costumes and props to role play as their favourite fantasy characters. Originally Cosplay was an Asian culture, predominantly in Japan, where fans would recreate their favourite characters from Japanese culture, including: anime, video games, manga, graphic novels, comic books, hentai and characters from J-Rock and J-Pop music culture. Popular Japanese Cosplay themes include characters from the Final Fantasy video games, the band Malice Mizer and characters from the manga series Naturo.
In the past decade, the popularity of Cosplay has expanded to the western world and now includes fans of non Asian cultures, popular western Cosplay includes: Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who, The Lord of the Rings and Disney characters.
When Cosplay takes place, fans spend an astounding amount of time to create the most authentic costumes, making close attention to every little detail. When in costume the Cosplayers take on the characteristics and mannerisms of the character they are portraying.
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