角色扮演的英文怎么说

角色扮演始于日本。刚开始时，各社团的成员打扮成动漫画或电玩中的人物以吸引相同爱好的人来参观摊位，称为“看版娘”，由此迅速引起了一股爆炸性的风潮，加入角色扮演行列的人数急速地增长。到后来角色扮演已不再只是为了促销，而转向成为一种文化，打扮的出发点则变成由于热爱各作品中的角色，通过角色扮演，使原本只存在于虚幻世界的人物，能够出现在真实世界里，同时也使得自己能有置身于漫画世界中的错觉，过一过当漫画主角的瘾。那么，角色扮演的英文怎么说呢？

What is cosplayer

什么是角色扮演

Cosplay, short for “costume play”, is a type of performance art in which participants don costumes and accessories to represent a specific character or idea. Characters are often drawn from popular fiction in Japan, but recent trends have included American cartoons and Sci-Fi. Favorite sources include manga, anime, tokusatsu, comic books, graphic novels, video games, hentai and fantasy movies. Any entity from the real or virtual world that lends itself to dramatic interpretation may be taken up as a subject. Inanimate objects are given anthropomorphic forms and it is not unusual to see genders switched, with women playing male roles and vice versa.

Cosplayers often interact to create a subculture centered on role play. A broader use of the term cosplay applies it to any costumed role play in venues apart from the stage, regardless of the cultural context.

Cosplayers typically come from the ranks of otaku―that is, fans of Japanese comic books, known as manga. They gather at public events such as comic-book and video game trade shows, as well as at dedicated cosplay parties at nightclubs or amusement parks. In Japan teenagers gather with like-minded friends in places like Tokyo’s Harajuku district to engage in cosplay. Since 1998 Tokyo’s Akihabara district has contained a large number of cosplay cafés, catering to devoted anime and cosplay fans. The waitresses at such cafés dress as game or anime characters; maid costumes are particularly popular. In areas outside of Japan, cosplay is primarily done at manga and anime conventions.

The single largest event featuring cosplay is the semiannual doujinshi market, Comiket. This event, held in Japan during summer and winter, attracts hundreds of thousands of manga fans. Thousands of cosplayers congregate on the roof of the exhibition center. The largest event for cosplayers outside Asia is the annual San Diego Comic-Con held in the California city in the USA.The biggest event in the UK is the MCM Expo events at excel london

Cosplayers in Japan refer to themselves as reiyā; pronounced “layer”. Those who photograph players are called cameko, short for “Camera Kozō” or “Camera Boy”. Originally the cameko give prints of their photos to players as gifts. Increased interest in cosplay events both on the part of photographers and cosplayers willing to model for them have led to formalisation of procedures at events such as Comiket. Photography takes place within a designated area removed from the exhibit hall.

Cosplay为Costumeplay的缩写，即“角色扮演”，指的是通过穿上商业作品里各种角色的服饰，扮演成作品中的角色，范围包括动画（cartoon）、漫画（comic and animation）、电玩（video game）、视觉系乐团以及台湾独有的布袋戏（glove puppet show）等等。任何一个参与cosplay的人，都是copsplayer。在国内，cosplayer被简称为coser。