Comic Market Concepts

Gatherings of fans featuring cosplay, exhibitor's halls, viewing rooms, and discussion panels. On this site you'll generally see mention of anime conventions.

The practice of dressing like characters from anime, manga, video games, and even novels, TV shows, celebrities, etc.

A popular subset of cosplay which involves people cosplaying characters of the opposite gender, or "gender-bending" those characters.

Doujinshi is amateur-published manga, usually in a format similar to American floppy comics. Doujinshi is most commonly adult stories revolving around a pre-existing series, but also a lot of original works and non-adult materials.