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Cosplayers are attached to various costume designs and accessories that often fascinated the audience.The desire to become a character according to the original characters often pushes cosplayers to make costumes and accessories that seem very complicated.Not infrequently, this costume exposes certain body parts of the cosplayer.Costume and body become one unit that is used as a tool to show self-identity and body control.This research examines the relationship between the body and cosplay costumes which symbolize the aesthetics and politics of the body.This research is a qualitative descriptive study that uses the perspective of aesthetics and body politics.The methods used are observation, interviews, and questionnaires with cosplayers who are members of the community in Banyumas.This study aims to determine the aesthetic value of costumes and body appearance in cosplay from the perspective of cosplayers.The results of the analysis found aesthetic forms and body politics in cosplay.Coplay aesthetics included the form of the costume, namely the complexity, simplicity, and color of the costume; mix and match costumesaccessories-make up, and harmonization of the movements and characters of the cosplayer with the character.In the relation between cosplay and body politics, it is found that costumes and bodies are used as tools to show self-identity, body control, as well as cultural agents.
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