”Cosplay” is a combination of the words “costume” and “play”. In Taipei, it’s an event held about twice a year at NTU in conjunction with a manga (Japanese comic books) exhibition called Fancy Frontier. During a cosplay event, people dress up as their favorite manga character and parade and pose for photographers. It began as a Japanese phenomenon but it’s caught on in many other places in the world, including Taiwan.
A girl poses while dressed in a "cosplay" costume at National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan.
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