Cosplay vs Furry - What's the difference?
cosplay | furry |
(uncountable) The art or practice of costuming oneself as a (usually fictional) character.
* 2003 , Cosplay Girls: Japan's Live Animation Heroines :
* 2006 , Frenchy Lunning, Mechademia 1: Emerging Worlds of Anime And Manga , page 75:
* 2010 , Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, Dru Pagliassotti, Boys' Love Manga , page 5:
(countable) A skit or instance of this art or practice.
* 2010 , Sarah Lynne Bowman, The Functions of Role-playing Games , page 29:
* 2010 , Anne Cooper-Chen, Cartoon Cultures: The Globalization of Japanese Popular Media , page 121:
* 2012 , Dan Hunter, Ramon Lobato, Megan Richardson, Amateur Media: Social, cultural and legal perspectives :
To costume oneself as a character.
To costume oneself as (a character).
Covered with fur, or with something resembling fur.
(informal) Having both animal and human characteristics; of or related to the furry subculture.
An animal character with human characteristics; most commonly refers to such characters created by members of the furry subculture.
(slang) A member of the furry fandom or subculture; a furfan.
(slang) Someone who roleplays or describes themselves as being a furry character.
As nouns the difference between cosplay and furry
is that cosplay is (uncountable) the art or practice of costuming oneself as a (usually fictional) character while furry is an animal character with human characteristics; most commonly refers to such characters created by members of the furry subculture.As a verb cosplay
is to costume oneself as a character.As an adjective furry is
covered with fur, or with something resembling fur.cosplay
English
Noun
- Men, of course, also participate in cosplay and all its attending events, but women make up the greater numbers.
- The environments and spaces created for and by cosplay provide cosplayers with a variety of spaces for social interactions.
- It didn't take long for anime cons and cosplay to become a part of popular culture fandom in the West
- Central to the activity of cosplay is elaborate costuming, though some cosplays are enacted using a game system.
- According to a student from France who went to Japan to study Japanese, "Universities in France are like Halloween when otaku students engage in these cosplays . They take Japanese language because of anime, but they see after a few classes that it's hard and not fun. Many drop out" (author interview, 2009).
- Popular cosplays include, for example, characters from the Final Fantasy range of games
Verb
(en verb)- She cosplayed at the manga convention.
- She cosplayed Sailor Moon at the manga convention.