Cosplay affects people. It helps them express who they are and who they want to be. It also helps them express what they like, how much they like said thing, and what they like about it. Those are some reasons why cosplay affects people. Cosplay helps people show what they like. Take Cupofsquirrel, NyaPro, and Rhyme Lawliet for example. They cosplay, because they like what they cosplay. They cosplay and make jokes about what they cosplay like Soul Eater, Death Note, and Ouran High School Host Club. The only difference between them and others who cosplay is the fact that most of them are in theatre, but other than that fact they are just like everyone else who show what they like. That is one way cosplay affects people. Cosplay helps people make friends. Most cosplayers’ friends also cosplay. In fact most people who cosplay meet their friends, because they cosplay and go to conventions. Their friends usually aren’t people who hate cosplay either and they might even cosplay together. It is sort of like the saying, “They family that plays together stays together.” I honestly don`t know who said that, but that applies to cosplaying. They are usually like a family and they cosplay together, so they also stay friends. That is the second way cosplay affects people. Cosplay helps people express who they are like. Say you`re like Black Star who is always saying that he is the biggest star there is and he will surpass God and such. Someone could be loud and proud like he is and would dress up like him to show it. Maybe you`re like L who has amazing deduction skills, insomnia, a love of sweets, and a hatred toward socks, you could dress up like him to show you are like him or admire him. You could be like Death the Kid who has OCD and everything has to be perfectly symmetrical or he will freak out and try to force it to be perfectly symmetrical. You could very well be calm, cool, calculative, and intelligent like Kyouya. If you were a cosplayer you could show who you are like through cosplay. That is the third way cosplay affects people. Cosplay helps show what you like about a certain thing. It would be dressing up as your favorite character from a book, movie, or television show. You would be able to show who you like from whatever it is that you`re cosplaying. Cosplay isn`t just a game, it is a way to express what or who you like from something like Hetalia. That is the fourth way that cosplay affects people. Cosplay affects people in many ways. It helps people express what they like about a show, who they are like and show what show or book they like. It also helps people make friends. Cosplay helps you be yourself and who you want to be. I personally know how some people absolutely despise cosplay and I`m not trying to get them to like it, but they have to understand that cosplay helps people. Those are some ways cosplay helps people.