The Fashion Of Cosplay And Its Influence On Youth

With the globalization and diversification of culture, Cosplay emerged in our country from 1990s. Cosplay come into being gradually in the past ten years with both ACG industry's catalysis and its fans'impetus. Some professional competition and performance come out in succession besides some amateurish ones on ACG exhibitions here and there. Cosplay fans can be found in many places in our country and more young people will participate in this activity. Moreover, Cosplay culture became one of those that representing the youth's popular culture today.Cosplay culture, as ACG culture's ramification, is of entertainment, fashion and rebellion, which are shared by other youth popular culture. Besides, it's also a team sport with visual enjoyment and technical features. Youth loving Cosplay culture show their passion on ACG art craft and characters by participating in Cosplay and then get satisfied psychologically. Cosplay becomes one of youth's important cultural entertainment activities and they show their own live style this way.The youths'philosophy or value are not mature enough and can thus be easily shaped. And, their value and behaviors can also be easily influenced by Cosplay culture. This author summarizes the features of Cosplay culture by surveying, observation and studying on the related data. The author also analyzes Cosplay culture's influence on the youth and makes contribution on its health development.This article is mainly composed of five parts. The first part is about definition of Cosplay culture. The second one is about the characteristic and features of Cosplay culture. The third is about reasons for Cosplay culture's popularity. The fourth is Cosplay culture's influence on the youth and the fifth are about contributions on the development of a health Cosplay culture and revelation out of this research.