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Not until I heard of it on TV, did I know about World Cosplay Summit took place in Nagoya, Japan some time ago in this summer.  Cosplaying sounds more popular than what we think it is, as far as I read the article.  Cheking out the photos here is fun enough, even if you can’t read the article.

http://mainichi.jp/enta/mantan/graph/anime/20080802_3/

The summit is actually a contest to choose NO.1 cosplayer in the world (13 countries).
Here’s a website about it.  http://www.tv-aichi.co.jp/wcs/e/preliminary/course_jpn.html

Since Japanese anime has been shown worldwidely, cosplay can be a good way to share the emotion even if we cannot communicate by languages, just like music or art…