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Crossplay (the term is a portmanteau of crossdressing and cosplay ) is a type of cosplay in which the person dresses up as a character of a different gender . Crossplay's origins lie in the anime convention circuit, though, like cosplay, it has not remained exclusive to the genre. While it is similar to Rule 63 (gender-bending) cosplay, it can be differentiated by the performer becoming completely immersed in the codes of another gender, rather than picking and choosing what behavior enhances the performance. [1]
Female-to-male crossplay
In most countries that play host to hobbyists who would call themselves cosplayers, female-to-male crossplayers (females costumed as male characters, sometimes abbreviated "FtM") are far more common, due to a variety of social and cultural factors. [2]
Many (or even most) females will crossplay for the same reasons that they would cosplay – because they like the character and/or the costume, and wish to represent that. In Japan , female costumers tend to dominate (in numbers) the field of cosplay in general, often portraying a huge assortment of colorful characters regardless of gender.
As bishōnen are portrayed in manga and anime as liminal beings , it is considered "easier" for a female to cross-play as a bishōnen than it would be for her to crossplay as a male character from a Western series. [3]
Male-to-female crossplay
Male-to-female crossplayers (males costumed as female characters, sometimes abbreviated "MtF") are somewhat more common outside Japan. Originally, in America, a popular anime series for MtF crossplayers was Sailor Moon , creating "humorous effect and social levity". [4]
See also
- Mana – figurehead of Japan's Gothic Lolita fashion movement.
- Cross-dressing
- Gender bender
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link ) CS1 maint: others ( link ) - ↑ Palmer, Ada (March 29, 2007). "Let's Cosplay: Crossplay" . TokyoPop. Archived from the original on April 21, 2007 . Retrieved 2007-04-18 .
- ↑ Craig Norris; Jason Bainbridge (April 2009). "Selling Otaku? Mapping the Relationship between Industry and Fandom in the Australian Cosplay Scene" . Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific (20) . Retrieved April 21, 2021 .
- ↑ Winge, Theresa (2006). "Costuming the Imagination: Origins of Anime and Manga Cosplay" . Mechademia . 1 : 65–76. doi : 10.1353/mec.0.0084 . S2CID 121679787 .
External links
- An article about Crossplay on TokyoPop's website
- "Sailor Bubba," recognized by a popular amateur convention journalist
- BBC story on cosplay and conventions (RealVideo)
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