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Are You a Cosplayer?
你是Cosplayer一族嗎?
What is a Cosplay?
"角色扮演" 是什么？
"Cosplay" is an event which people dress up as their favorite character from cartoons, animations and video games and can take photos with them.
角色扮演，一般指人們通過化妝來扮演卡通，動漫作品和游戲中的角色，并允許他人與自己合影。
The word is a compound word made up of "costume" and "play".
COSPLAY是英文Costume Play的簡略寫法。
History of cosplay
角色扮演的歷史
Cosplay's history can be traced back to the 1970s, when merchants selling Star Trek comic books dressed up as Capt. Kirk and Mr. Spock as a marketing ploy at the ComicMarket convention held in Tokyo each year.
角色扮演的歷史可以追溯到20世紀70年代。在東京每年一度的漫畫市場大會上，一些銷售《星際迷航》漫畫書的商家，會以自己裝扮成柯克船長和斯波克先生作為一種營銷策略進行宣傳銷售。
The idea slowly caught on with customers, and now thousands of costume players crowd into ComicMarket every year.
這種理念很受顧客歡迎，現在每年都有數千熱衷角色扮演的人涌入漫畫市場。
Throughout the country there are believed to be around 50,000 costume players.
據說東京現在大約有5萬人喜歡進行角色扮演。
What are players' reasons for cosplaying?
這些人為什么喜歡角色扮演？
"Cosplay to me is a way for me to make great new friends with the same interests as I have, improve my sewing skills, creativity, and let me use my imagination to help bring an amazing characters to life.
"角色扮演對我來說是一個認識志同道合的朋友的絕佳方式，還提升了我的縫紉技術，創(chuàng)造力，使我發(fā)揮想象把漫畫中的人物扮演的栩栩如生。
I also really enjoy the challenge of making a good costume. I know a lot of people ask me why I cosplay, so these are a few reasons on why I spend so much time and money cosplaying."-- Angela
我還很享受制作精美道具的過程。我知道有許多人會問我為什么進行cospaly, 以上這些就是原因。"---安吉麗娜。
"Have a few reasons why I currently cosplay. I enjoy the challenge of creating something with my bare hands, discovering new ways to design and duplicate complicated outfits and accessories, and finally putting on the final product.
我進行角色扮演有幾個理由。 我非常喜歡做手工，尋找做設計或者模仿漫畫中服裝和配飾的新方法，然后最終做出成品這個過程。
While I enjoy wearing the costumes, I enjoy making them even more.
我喜歡穿這些服飾，更享受制作它們的過程。
