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The 26 pages that link to Cosplay, each with the reason it gives.

• FandomBroader topic: It makes shared attachment visible through performance and craft.

• Costume designRelated: Cosplay adapts character costume design for personal construction and public display.

• Fan conventionRelated: Costumes turn convention halls into spaces for performance, photography, and recognition.

• Character designRelated: Cosplay turns design choices into garments and objects that can be built and worn.

• MakeupRelated: Cosplay makeup helps translate a character’s visual design onto the body.

• Anime conventionRelated: Costumes and character performances are among conventions’ most visible activities.

• Cross-dressingRelated: Cosplay can involve wearing a character’s gendered costume across gender lines.

• Japanese animationRelated: Anime characters are a prominent source of costumes and performance at fan events.

• Stage costumeRelated: It adapts techniques of character-based costume making beyond professional stage productions.

• CostumeBroader topic: Cosplay turns costume into participatory character performance.

• Magical girlRelated: Distinctive costumes and transformation imagery make magical-girl characters especially visible in cosplay.

• Science fiction conventionRelated: Costumes make shared enthusiasm for science fiction visible throughout convention spaces.

• Do it yourselfRelated: Costume and prop fabrication shows DIY as a form of creative self-expression.

• Fan artRelated: Cosplay turns visual interpretations of characters into embodied performance.

• Drag showCompared with: Cosplay and drag both transform appearance, but usually draw on different character sources and aims.

• Video game cultureRelated: Game characters become shared designs people embody at conventions and community events.

• Visual keiRelated: Fans sometimes recreate musicians’ elaborate looks through costume and performance.

• HanfuCompared with: Hanfu revival wear draws on historical clothing, unlike character-centered costume play.

• Live-action role-playing gameCompared with: Costumed portrayal can resemble live-action role-playing, but cosplay does not itself require a shared game or enacted scenario.

• Sexual roleplayRelated: Costumes and character portrayals can provide a visual frame for erotic scenarios.

• Anime and manga fandomRelated: Fans embody anime and manga characters through costume, craft, and performance.

• Comic book conventionRelated: Costumes make fictional characters visible throughout convention spaces.

• Lolita fashionCompared with: Lolita fashion is generally worn as everyday fashion, not as a character costume.

• Mohawk hairstyleRelated: A Mohawk can reproduce a character’s distinctive silhouette and signal a particular persona.

• Filk musicCompared with: Cosplay expresses fandom through costume and embodiment, unlike filk’s musical performance.

• History of animeRelated: Anime characters became a major source of costumes and performance in global fan culture.