Cosplay is costume.
In Manga/Anime festivals, people cosplay as their favourite manga/anime character.
They make their own costume or they buy one, already made.
People usually wear their favourite character's outfit or a charascter they know.
Cosplays are awsome.
Google Directory Cosplay
http://www.Google.com/Top/Arts/Animation/Anime/Fandom/Cosplay/
Anime Costume resources:
http://anime.about.com/od/cosplay/tp/aa12.htm
The word Cosplay is used to define a particular type of costume worn by a rising sub-culture of video game and anime enthusiasts. The word itself is simply a combination of the words "costume" and "play". Cosplayers dress up like their favorite characters, often playing the part by acting out populars scenes for the character and expressing the same mannerisms. The characters portrayed range from Video Games like Devil May Cry to anime and manga like chobits.
It started in Japan a few decades ago and has been spreading across the world like wildfire!
That is not really an answerable question. Cosplay stands for "costume play". Anything regarding someone dressing like an anime or video game character would fall under the general umbrella of cosplay.
A more significant question to ask would be, when was the term "cosplay" coined. I believe it was coined in Japan around November of 1993.
It starts in the late 1980s.
No there isn't one. But you could just find a regular coffee shop and start meeting there in cosplay with your friends. In time, it might become a cosplay cafe :)
You can start cosplaying at any age.
It is basically an interview that describes your cosplay. they have questions that you answer such as , What got you into cosplay? How did you decide on this cosplay? How did you put together this cosplay? Basically a self interview on cosplay.
Try the cosplay suggestorator..
you can buy a cosplay costume online or you can make a costume yourself. There are also many places where you and other people can cosplay known as cosplay events.
You can cosplay any character! cloud-terra .com has some awesome outfits for cosplay!
Most cosplay stores sell mortal kombat cosplay.
It entairly depends of the cosplay. But in most of them, yes you do.
There should be a cosplay store in the United States, but if worst comes to worst you can just buy cosplay online.
If you need a cosplay fast and cheap the best place to always go is the thrift store that's where I have gotten all of my cosplay. (And I cosplay S. Italy)
World Cosplay Summit was created in 2003.
Cosplay Complex was created on 2002-05-25.