Last weekend in Moscow, the third festival of Japanese contemporary culture J-FEST.
Among other things, the festival was the first all-Russian contest cosplay.
For nefanatov should make an explanation: Cosplay - short for costume play - «cosplay".
Participants characters transform into anime, manga, video games, etc.
Themselves (usually themselves, although in Japan there is a market for the production of costumes and accessories for cosplay) made costumes and attributes.
In Japan, cosplay - a very popular hobby, but gradually it is gaining popularity in other countries.
In Russia, according to some sources, the community cosplayers has 250 thousand people.