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AFA 08 Commitee Wants Your Feedback

oOgA — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:36:33 +0000

Anime Festival Asia 08 may have ended but it is just not over yet, they have posted a notice on their official website to ask you to share with them your feedback. Check out their official website here

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Anime Festival Asia 2008 (AFA’08)- The Cosplayers Galore

oOgA — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:06:54 +0000

The Anime Festival Asia 2008 have ended with lots of bang and boom by performances from May’N and Ichirou Mizuki but let us not forget one of the key highlights in the event – The Cosplayers.

In this post, I will be posting the photos that I had taken in the event, a few of them are from nutcase23’s camera.

While I have tried to take the picture in the best quality I can, some photos were taken in a haste while some were due to lighting and the distance.

Disclaimer:

I do not represent any of the cosplayers and this is purely a photo galore post.

Ilya

Nice costumes

poor kid was scared :p

o_o

lovely

nice facial expression

fierce?

hmm..

I like the colors..

nice fan

cool

Geass?

held hostage?

nice umbrella..

deathnote?

nice. thanks for posing while i take your pic. :)

Guilty Gear..

cute

He shouldn’t be smiling. Berera that is.

L got pwned

This is one fine Inuyasha cosplay

“Look ma! No right arm!”

Exia makes a comeback! ORE WA GUNDAM!!!

The umbrellas make it abit…I dunno feminine? The cosplay’s great though.

Creepy and I don’t know what it is either ^^

CUTE!!!

hmm?

LOL?

hmm?

nice pose

kungfu?

babe on the right

bride?

The “Runner-up” Cosplayer that left an impression in me…

RANKA LEE!!

The Cosplayer that left the most impression in me….

omg babe!

Anime Festival Asia 2008 (AFA’08) Coverage – 23rd Nov 08

oOgA — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:00:29 +0000

I wont be covering much on the 2nd day as the exhibits are pretty much the same.

The only difference is the cosplayers, more were here today as the cosplay mana competiton is today and the other difference is….LOTS OF PEOPLE.

Reaching there at 2pm, I was greeted by a lovely cosplayer who did Ranka Lee. Not that impressive but cute enough.

Together with my girlfriend, I had a walk around the convention hall again and her attention was fazed by a interesting “toy” by Bandai – a sushi maker.

this sushiware costs $49.90… :o

sushimaker… ;o

Sheryl Nome…

Ranka Lee

nice artwork

Everything was much the same and I didnt stay there for long, instead I went to Beppu Menkan Japanese restaurant for their ramen, aint shabby and it was refreshing before we went back up for the most important performance…. MAY’N’s concert. As the host requested not to take photos, videos or any recording (not as people will care, so many people just fired their cameras anyway) I will not be posting any photos of her in person but instead….

The crowd was almost tenfold the amount yesterday..yes..from kids, to young people to working adults and even old people.. (wtf?) were there to bask in May’N’s songs. My only complaint ? damn…it is a $8 ticket , cant complain much about the speaker quality…zz

Anime Festival Asia 2008 (AFA’08) Coverage – 22nd Nov 08

oOgA — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:04:11 +0000

The Anime Festival Asia 08 (AFA 08) had kick start with people queuing for tickets as early as 7am, unfortunately for me, I had work but was able to secure a ticket with the help of a pre-order and a fellow blogger, nutcase23.

Right here in Suntec City Convention Hall, the Saturday event had ended some time ago with fans adoring some of the cute and moe figurines and also checking out the “latest” animes in the exhibition. Whats cool ? Whats not? check out here for day1 of the coverage.

Now, I do have my complaints in AFA but all comments are not directed to any personnel, staff, performers, etc.

yup, welcome

AFA 08 is basically grouped by 6 zones – Anime Blockbuster, Mangaka, Anime Live, Akiba Town, Planet Mech, Industry. Honestly, I am pretty impressed the extent that the event had went to, prolly because of a co-existing book fair, the group of people who are at AFA are bolstered to another extent.

Now heres what nutcase23 and I discovered in the morning and the afternoon respectively…

The Entrance Hall

here is what it is like at 7am…

The ticketing booth, honestly, it looks a lil cheesy, it was so cramped in the evenings..

ZOMG, the crowdz!

nutcase23: Oh, and did I mention I brought along Haruhi with me? So if you saw someone walking around with a Figma Haruhi strapped to him you know who it is ^^.

nutcase23 and I met each other in real..for the first time and thanks to him, I secured my ticket.

A special appearance in the morning…

nutcase23:

I managed to catch Ichirou Mizuki in his special appearance in the morning. Unfortunately, I’m not a fan of the genre so I’m pretty much clueless. I know a bunch of our local bloggers went to recieve him at the airport though.

I didn’t stay for his concert. Was too tired by then.

Akiba Town

While the name sounds it will be magnificent place to get your goodies, it indeed is a good place with booths from KKnM, Latendo, Hobby Art, etc. I have missed the uniques in the morning but whats is important is nothing but the FIGURINES that on display there. Yes, figurines..lovely.

this has to be my best shot ever with my powershot s5, standing without tripod. Tsukasa!

Miyuki..figma.. ;)

Konata..there aint a Kagami, as the pic is blurry and I deleted it.

Lucky Star..

Hatsune Miku Nendo

Len and Rin

the wonderful Vocaloid family..

Mikuru

another Mikuru

another….mikuru…

Enma Ai

Latendo

heh…CLANNAD FTW!

While the booths are small, the crowds are swarming and for KKnM, you have to queue up before you can enter the booth to check out the goodies. So make sure you prepare yourself what to buy. Do take note of their promotion by coming to their booth wearing original COSPA apparel (T-shirt, Jacket, Shirt etc) and you will receive a 10% discount off all COSPA merchandise at AFA 08

BANDAI

You know BANDAI, the mechas at the exhibition are definitely worth standing there and snapping your cameras away.

Okay…technically not a figurine ^^

nutcase23: My mecha fanatic friend went half bonkers over the stuff. Too bad his wallet isn’t as big as his love ^_^. The only thing I saw there I wanted was Figma Miyuki and the nendoroids. Posability is high on my list afterall.

The competition entries put on display were really impressive. Imagine the amount of work put in them.

WOOT!

Mangaka

Shonen Jump 40th anniversary world tour is right here in AFA 08, the booth consists of exclusive manga showcase amd even merchandise from Chuang Yi.

ARIA love

I LOVE THIS PIC

Kannagi…

Anime Blockbusters / Anime Live

Odex is here, while we won’t touch much on the ongoing PR hatred against them, their booth is pretty much well setup, showing previews of animes from Toradora, Code Geass, Shakugan no SHANA Season I, Skip Beat. It aint shabby and it is deifintely worth a visit to their booths.

A certain infamous company plugging their shows. Nothing against the show though.

I’ve heard about this one. Seems rather melancholy.

Sky Crawlers…

ARCADE GAMING COMPETITION

Street Fighter IV is definitely the main featured game here, damn, I love the smoothness of the graphics and fluid motion when executing the moves.

I managed to capture a video of the gameplay and I kinda like it, here is a flash video.

Stage Events

5 seconds competiton.. -_-

some Tamagotchi event.. -.-

QUIS, a Jrock band

“ANIKI” Ichirou Mizuki. Trust me, even some old people here have the hots for him. lots of camera flashing when he made his appearance. Unfortunately, the host requests not to have any recordings of any sort ;)

I wont be touching on Cosplayers yet but definitely later on, as the prize awarding ceremony is tomorrow and there was one particular cosplayer who caught my attention who had a sweet smile….

unfortunately to my shame, I am not sure who she is cosplaying as though..wonder if it is Tsukasa? maybe not.

Time for short sleep before I embark on the 2nd part of AFA 08.

This post is co-done by me and nutcase23 and with that, we wrap up our Day One coverage. It was fun though nutcase23 won’t be going down for Day Two unfortunately. Exams are around the corner. He have to study. And if anyone has noticed, the pictures are still watermarked as Anime Banzai. All I can say is, teething problems of a transition phase

Anime Festival Asia 08 …it’s coming soon

oOgA — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:41:55 +0000

Anime Festival Asia 2008 is around the corner this weekend, many otaku fans alike will be joining the crowd in Suntec City this weekend to experience a showcase of wide variety Japanese culture related events spanning many zones. Will you be one of them ?

Ways to get there:

Address:
Suntec Singapore
International Convention & Exhibition Centre
1 Raffles Boulevard, Suntec City,
Singapore 03959

Overseas Visitors – Check the map here on how to get to Suntec, it is about ~20mins from Changi Airport via a cab.

Entrance Fee: $5 for one day pass. $8 for two day pass. (not incl exclusive VIP events)

What’s Not to be Missed

May’N LIVE Concert

May’N is the latest pop sensation in Japan and this will be her first performance overseas. If you have enjoyed the singing voice for Sheryl Nome in Macross Frontier..yup! it is her who performed the songs.

Her performance will begin on Sunday 7pm and the doors will open @ 6, Diamond tickets are already sold out, the VIP tickets appear to be still avail @ S$68.

A Collector’s dream come true

AFA exclusive items will be here, the picture says everything. Come down now to AFA this weekend to check it out.

AFA 08 Industry Seminar

The industry seminar will be something for the serious. Featuring both local and overseas speakers from Animax, Dentsu, etc, the seminar reveals whats going on in the currently anime industry and many more. Registration is required.

Ani-Song SOUL by Ichirou Mizuki

Talk about the classics, Ichirou Mizuki will be coming to Singapore here too perform, he is gonna perform the songs that people will vote. Lupin ending theme FTW :P

Singapore Arcade Showdown

Organized by SCOGA, the arcade shodown will feature a pack of games, tournament games will feature

1. Street Fight IV
2. Tekken 6
3. KOF 98 – Ultimate Match

There are definitely more interesting events and booths in AFA08 this weekend, all you have to do to find out is to come down to Suntec City this weekend!

Source: AFA08, SCOGA