I can wait two minutes, the other photographer goes and I have them all to myself

Do you have to pay these kids if you are taking photos of them?

No. You pay to get in.it is 30/40 kuai

They are there to have fun and be seen

If a foreign photographer with a good camera and big lens

Comes up to them and asks to take their picture, they are quite happy about it

Cosplay is a phenomena that has been going on for a couple of decades in the US and other countries

Science fiction fantasy cons – they are called – which is a truncation of the word ‘conference’

It has now moved over into the graphic novel and comic book industry

Cosplay is combination of costume and comic

These kids basically become the characters they read and adore in the comic books and graphic novels

They look like comic characters or characters out of some different world

That is exactly what they are – and they all have personalities, characters and these kids become these characters

I went to one a year ago and the first thousand people got in

There were another thousand outside waiting to get in when I left at noon – I got there around 9.00am

As some left, others got in

It is really popular here

Questions

1. How much does it cost to go to a Cosplay show?

2. What are the young people happy about?

3. How long has Cosplay been going on in US?

4. What do the young people become?

5. How many go to the Cosplay shows in Beijing?