Editing Cosplay (section)

===Cosplay===
[[File:Tracon 2013 06.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Madoka Kaname]] and [[Kyubey]] from ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' during Tracon 2013 event at the [[Tampere Hall]] in [[Tampere]], [[Finland]]]]

Costuming had been a fan activity in Japan from the 1970s, and it became much more popular in the wake of Takahashi's report.  The new term did not catch on immediately, however.  It was a year or two after the article was published before it was in common use among fans at conventions.<ref name="AshcraftPlunkett" />  It was in the 1990s, after exposure on television and in magazines, that the term and practice of cosplaying became common knowledge in Japan.<ref name="AshcraftPlunkett" />

The first cosplay cafés appeared in the [[Akihabara]] area of Tokyo in the late 1990s.<ref name="yah140724" /><ref name="Galbraith">{{cite journal|url=http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue25/galbraith.htm|title=Maid in Japan: An Ethnographic Account of Alternative Intimacy|first=Patrick W.|last=Galbraith|journal=Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific|issue=25|date=February 2011|access-date=25 April 2017|archive-date=2 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302235335/http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue25/galbraith.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>  A temporary [[maid café]] was set up at the Tokyo Character Collection event in August 1998 to promote the video game ''[[Welcome to Pia Carrot|Welcome to Pia Carrot 2]]'' (1997).<ref name="Galbraith" />  An occasional Pia Carrot Restaurant was held at the shop Gamers in Akihabara in the years up to 2000.<ref name="Galbraith" />  Being linked to specific intellectual properties limited the lifespan of these cafés, which was solved by using generic maids, leading to the first permanent establishment, Cure Maid Café, which opened in March 2001.<ref name="Galbraith" />

The first [[World Cosplay Summit]] was held on 12 October 2003 at the Rose Court Hotel in Nagoya, Japan, with five cosplayers invited from Germany, France and Italy.  There was no contest until 2005, when the World Cosplay Championship began.  The first winners were the Italian team of {{interlanguage link|Giorgia Vecchini|it}}, [[Francesca Dani]] and Emilia Fata Livia.

Worldcon masquerade attendance peaked in the 1980s and started to fall thereafter.  This trend was reversed when the concept of cosplay was re-imported from Japan.