Cosplay's popularity surged in the '90s, when Japanese anime and manga gained popularity in the US. Cosplay is so popular now that there's even a television show about it.

So seeing someone get a thrill out of dressing up as Lulu from "Final Fantasy" shouldn't be that difficult to understand.

https://www.ccosplay.com/

That's in which resistance to recovery happens. It's like a breaking through to a brand new set of paradigms" (Segal and Osborne 1993).