OTAKU culture - COSPLAY

Cosplay which is a short form of costume roleplaying. It can be considered as the most gorgeous product of OTAKU culture.
COSPLAY means People ware costume of anime characters and make up to make themselves look like the characters. They take photoes and photoshop them to make the whole image closer to the original characters.

It came of the feeling of becoming one's favourite character, now it's one of the most important activities of OTAKU culture. Big shows and events are held quite often, many famous COSERS (cosplaers) become popular like stars.

Specific definition of COSPLAY:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosplay

Gogle image result for COSPLAY:

http://images.google.co.nz/images?hl=en&q=cosplay&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=pkMGSoTnM5S6tgPVh6TlAQ&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title

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Maid cafe is another kind of COSPLAY, the waitress are all waring costume of maid and treat customers like masters. It's a type of rolplaying between the aitress and the customers. Maid cafe is very popular by male OTAKU.

What's Maid Cafe?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maid_cafe