Mental health, which can be damaged by sadness, anxiety, and stress, is referred to as emotional well-being. These illnesses might exacerbate physical issues such as sleep disturbances and digestive problems. Emotional well-being is not the absence of emotions; rather, it is the ability to comprehend one’s own feelings. Cosplay is a cultural art form that has helped many people improve their mental well-being. Positive feelings associated with cosplay contribute to participants’ psychological and physical well-being.
The work of Cosplay is concerned with the interaction between young people’s self-perceptions and those of other participants in this fan culture. Even if the individual does not desire to be an artist, fan art and cosplay are aspects of visual culture, and these activities teach about visual culture. Cosplay includes creating unique costumes and dressing up and acting as characters from many works of fiction. Cosplay art is frequently displayed in galleries and on personal websites after performing live at fan conventions. Cosplay art entices fans to learn the skills needed to create fan art, and the happy emotions that accompany mastering these talents contribute to the physical well-being of those who perform these chores (Lamerichs, 2010).
Young people are drawn to cosplay because it allows them to choose their method of connection with the art based on the media that originally delivered the narrative that the art is based on. The art of cosplay progresses from self-discovery to the creation of the cosplayer’s role identity. This is viewed through the lens of self-efficacy, which is defined as one’s belief in one’s ability to imagine oneself as art. As a result, cosplay aims to help people build their own unique personalities. Cosplay has developed a number of methods for assessing an artist’s ability level, such as online comments in the individual’s gallery, which subsequently aid the cosplayer in improving their abilities.
Individuals develop the necessary skills for cosplay by employing foreshortening, perspective, and/or shading techniques. These strategies aid in improving the participants’ emotional well-being. Cosplay focuses on fan-based art creation, which aids in developing distinct personal styles that include fan canon (or “fanonical”) representation and the emotional well-being of participants.
The emotional affinity cosplayers feel with stories in popular culture motivates them to produce fan art. The process of self-seeking helps to explain this phenomenon. The outputs of these art-making tasks are social interactions that are facilitated by internalized self-concepts. Fans are motivated to a deeper degree by combining internal desires and exterior social forces, allowing them to improve their art-making abilities (Manifold, 2009). The accomplishment of affective states describes the internal and external events that balance the self-efficacy state. These artistic qualities and the desire for self-discovery through internal and external experiences result in excellent outcomes for an individual’s mental and physical well-being.
Participants’ mental and physical health is improved as a result of cosplay work, which enhances their emotional well-being and reduces anxiety and sadness. Finally, the happy emotions that arise from participating in cosplay contribute to an individual’s better emotional well-being by reaching both mental and physical well-being.
