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World Cosplay Summit(WCS)
What is World Cosplay Summit
World Cosplay Summit(WCS) is an event “Cosplayers” who love Japanese pop culture such as anime, manga and games gather and create new forms of international and cultural exchange.Every year, cosplayers from around the world gather in Nagoya City and Aichi Prefecture to deepen exchanges. Many companies, local governments, ministries, and overseas diplomatic establishments support WCS.
*Cosplay is the act of dressing up as a character from a manga, anime, or game.
*Cosplayers are the people who dress up as a character from manga, anime, game.
Fundamental Principle of WCS
Cosplay Summit-ism
1st principle: The World Cosplay Summit is a pop culture festival centered around a world competition gathering cosplayers who love works of Japanese manga, anime or video-games, and it shall evolve adopting the changes in the times.
2nd principle: The pop culture dealt with at the World Cosplay Summit is a means of communication for the entire humanity and is an important tool for the formation of personality. The World Cosplay Summit has the mission to provide a space of communication, whether physical or online, to all the people who love pop culture, and the purpose to become a bridge to world peace by fostering friendship that can overcome any borders and barriers of race, culture, language or customs.
3rd principle: Cosplay is a manifestation of respect and admiration towards an original work, as well as the essential human feeling of identification with that work. All the people involved in the World Cosplay Summit pay a deep respect to all creators, and wish to protect this place of expression together with them, and contributing to cultural development by doing so.
Quote source : wcs.jp