Posting a report on Comic Fiesta 09. First time attending it though. Comic Fiesta this year was on the 19 and 20 December and location was at Sunway Pyramid's Convention Centre. CF is a yearly event and is certainly one of the  biggest anime convetions in Malaysia.

The event was supposed to start at around 10.30 a.m on the first day where people were lining up to get their tickets.

Some of the pics aren't in order of the first and 2nd day ^^; . Anyway, there was already a massive queue at the ticketing counters when I got there on Saturday but not as massive as compared to AFA =p

Area outside the event hall.

Gachapons sighted.

Gundam modeling.

I pwn you OAO.

Rock Band!!! xD

Crowded >_<

Some merchandise stores. There were plenty of other doujin booths around but not permitted to take photos of them lol.

Weiss Schwarz is all the rage now.

Lucky Start WS cards. Nice.

Macross display.

Sheryl.

Tons of Macross model kits.

Lovely C.C. wall scroll. Oh, Feito is nice too xP

The Figure Mall booth.

TFM display.

Would you like some Yoko?

Alter Fate. Ugh.. mine had arrived and I still haven't posted an update yet.

Pantsu Wtiches coming right up ^^

OAO

Lucky Star.

actSta Subaru.

Asukaaaaa.

Nice Boat.

Kyouka-sama.

CF artowork.

Mascots.

The Anime Depot Booth. Towels - I want!!

This      is very wrong OTL.

Guess who?

Ok, stuff beyond this point will be cosplay photos so enjoy =)

Vampire Knight.

Hakuouki cosplay.

Shugo Chara.

Alice from Pandora Hearts.

Date Masamune from Sengoku Basara.

Lara Croft.

Tifa Lockhart.

Anya from Code Geass.

D. Gray-man.

Date Masamune and Sanada Yukimura.

Star Wars. Oh and there is something about the pic ^^;;;;  Can you figure it out??

Got milk?

One Piece.

Ichigo cosplay.

Lolwut.

Black Rock Shooter.

FMA.

Kuroshitsuji.

Love the lights xD.

Mio =D.

Halo.

Code Geass.

Cosplay Competition contestants.

MCs killing spree. Hahaha.

Kiss? Lol.

Vocaloid group.

Well, that's about it for Comic Fiesta 2009. I had a really enjoyable time there and time seemed to fly by so fast that it came to end so quickly >_<. Will definitely go for Comic Fiesta next year if I have the chance to.

More pictures for Day 1 and Day 2 in the respective links.

This is coming in a little late since I was occupied with "stuff" recently ^^; . Haha. Anyway, I will be posting a report on AFA 09 here which took place on the 21-22 November 2009. Anime Festival Asia or AFA as it is commonly referred to is an anime convetion event with much more which takes place on an annual year basis. This year's event being the second time its held.

AFA 09 was held Suntec Convention and Exhibition Hall, Singapore. Its the same venue as the previous year.. and that place is huge!! >_<

Entrance banner with the mascot.

Here you see a bunch of people lining up on the first day. This was before the gates opened and there were tons of people lining up to buy the tickets to get in. T'was about 10 a.m. ish before the event started.

Ticketing counter. Tickets were SGD 25 for 2 day pass. Surprisingly some of my friends managed to get the students price using their Malaysian student IDs ^^; . Guess they were too busy to notice.

And we're in.....

People building gunpla section. Lol.

Gachapon. Where ever you are.. you can't escape from them. xP

Moving on, there is a section entirely on Gunpla models on display.

Look! I'm shinayyyy!

That's one big Gundam. Not as big as the one which used to stand at Odaiba though.

Double O.

MS Zaku.

Transparent Gundam. Haha.

SD Gundam.

CandyToy? What a name.

Some Dragon Ball goods.

Next up, figure display known as Tokyo Figure Show Singapore.

Courtesy of Danny and the folks over at Good Smile Company.

figma Mirai.

Next objective:  Loot the whole display xP

figma Drossel.

Vocaloid figures by Good Smile Company.

Lucky Star figmas. Tsukasa is missing some love here ^^

Nendoroids time.

Yoshika looks so cute! Which reminds me of upcoming season 2 ^_^

Limited edition exclusives which makes your wallet cry.

Poor Raspberyl. Her arms are about to be severed.

Danny sigining Otacool books.

Danny Choo.

Tons of comics.

Doujin sales.

Some other doujin goods.

Artwork on display. There were a few of these scattered around.

This was at Studio Madhouse's booth. Was empty most of the time when I passed by.

Tatsunuko Productions timeline.

Production I.G was there too. Some of their notable works include Ghost in the Shell and The Sky Crawlers.

Some of their works on display.

Animax booth. Here they had a record your own anime dub thing as you see in that funny looking cubicle there.

Among some of the shops selling figures.

And more figures...

Lots of dolls.

Seiyuu from Weiss Schwarz anime autographing cards.

MCs on stage.

Anime Regional Cosplay Competition contestants. Pair representing the Phillipines.

Missed the starting part of the competition as I was having my lunch break OTL. There were already heaps of people when I got there.

Other contestants.

Kaname was one of the judges.

Shokotan <3

Ichirou Mizuki.

The pair with the Gundam which won both prizes.

Kamina pose =p

Danny giving a tour.

Starting off Day 2 events.

Kaname as Cloud from FFVII.

Kaname Panel session about cosplay.

Say hi to my biceps. （＾∀＾）

Cosplay 101. All you need to know. Haha.

What you lookin at? (･_･?)

The next section will mainly be cosplay pictures that I took.

Mind if I slice you up?

Name that character.

Macross girls.

Vocaloid cosplay.

Prince of Tennis.

Bunch of cosplayers filming for some Animax video.

Mio!!!!

Don't know what they are doing but I don't see the letters ^^;

Poor Mio getting picked on.

Simon and Yoko.

Cosplay competition contestants.

Kaito.

Kamen Rider guy got owned.

Pretty promoters for your eyes only. Why they are wearing Asuka's hair clip is beyond me ^_^;;?

Shokku ∑(O_O；)

My cheeks are softer then yours =p

Kaname touring the event.

Kamen Rider.

Black Rock Shooter.

Setsuna.

Ichigo.

AFA Loot

And this is the loot I brought back from AFA 09 xD . Not much but yeah...

Anyway, its was a enjoyable experience for me as I didn't get to attend the previous year's event. I didn't go for the concert since I had no tix and the "free" standing area was quite far back with so many people already lining up for it before the concert started. Will look forward to next year and hope that I will be able to attend AFA 10 ^^

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The event schedule for Anime Festival Asia 09 is finally up. Can't wait for it this coming weekend xD.

More details can be found at the AFA site here.

Anime Festival Asia 09 or more commonly refered to AFA 09 will take place on the 21 & 22 November this year in Singapore. I will be heading down to Singapore to attend the event. Already booked my flight tickets ^^; . I didn't manage to go for the one last year so decided to go this year.

The current lineup of events and activites looks really great from the info displayed on the website. There are much more concerts/performances this year compared to the last. They managed to get more artists from Japan this year. There's a whole bunch of other stuff that will be there during the event like a maid cafe. Then you have your cosplay competiton but the cool thing is that the judge of the competition is actually a well known cosplayer from Japan (Kaname). There's a also a conference known as Animation Asia Conference but that is more for folks related to the industry I guess.

Ticket prices are as follows. Apparently the student priced ticket only applies for student in Singapore I think, according to one of my friends. Some of the other activies also listed in the image above.

The K-ON! cast will also be there on that day for a Q&A panel and some live dubbing thing, whatever that is.

But the one that I'm looking forward too would be the concerts also known as I Love anisong event. There will be performances from artists like May'n, Shoko Nakagawa, Ichirou Mizuki, Yoshiki Fukuyama and Hatsune Miku. For the Miku performance, I'm thinking that they will do something similar to the one at MikuFes.

No photography/video recording during concert? OTL. Wonder how will they implement it because I remember they had the same ruling last year but there were still videos posted up on Youtube.. lol.

But the price for the tickets are kinda on the high side, especially when you have to convert SGD 188 to MYR >.<

I will be looking forward to the event this year.

More information can be found at the official site here.

I have finally upload all of the pics and this post will be a brief report on Taylor's Asaban Festival since I'm kinda exhausted from helping out in the event. The event was held last Saturday at Taylor's University College and its a combination of the usual ACG style event together with a matsuri at night.

Will be posting a bried summary of some of the key events.

MCs of the day.

Doujin booths.

Some nice looking doujinshi artwork.

And doujinshi merchandise too.

OMG. Gigantic Mio banner/wall scroll. Felt like looting this home ^^;

Airbrush tatto.

The Figure Mall and Little Akiba store.

Mainly Cospa merchandise and stuff imported from Japan.

The Figure Mall figurine display area.

Some of the participants for the singing competition.

Judges for cosplay competition.

And among some of the contestents.

And here are the pics of some of the cosplayers around on that day. Didn't manage to take that many pictures of cosplayers since I was quite busy helping out and covering other parts of the event. Anyways, here are some that I managed to take.

Cosplayers from the Cosplay Cafe.

Speaking of Cosplay Cafe... some pics here

Mmmm... delicious cupcake xD

Band performances during the ACG session.

From a band called Kizuna.

Performance by Zeolite, another band.

Moving on, is the Weiss Schwarz tournament. For those who don't know what WS is, its a trading card game which has gained subtantial popularity lately.

And here we have some of the figurines displayed courtesy of The Figure Mall.

Vocaloid Nendoroids. Kawaii!!

Clan Clan from Macross F.

Iron Man MKII. Love how his chest is lighted up. Look darn cool.

Yoko.

Moving on to the Matsuri session....

A very informative kimono demonstration.

Matsuri session.

Band performance.

And some Hare Hare Yukai Dance.

Mini Bon Odori

Last band performance of the night.

That's all for my report on TAF this year. Looking forward to next year's and hope it will even better =)

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Taylor's University College will be having their ACGC event next Saturday which is the 26th September. The event which is organized by Taylor's University College's own Taylor's Anime Society will take place at the main campus in SS15, Subang Jaya.

This year, the event will have 2 sessions which is the Day or ACG session and night or Matsuri session. Admission is RM 7 for the day session and there won't be any admission for the night session =). Tickets can be purchased on the day of the event.

As for the night session, coupons will be sold so that you can use them for the games, food, etc.

I will be going there this time as I have to help out with stuffs ^^;

Promotional poster for the event.

More information can be found on the official site here. Hope to see you there =D

What happens when you mix Hatsune Miku and a live crowd??

This is the first time Hatsune Miku has ever performed "live" in front of a crowd. If you are wondering how, watch the vid ^^. Pretty cool stuff here.

Animelo is a concert on anime song performances which was held recently in Japan. There is an English page on the official site here. The rest of the stuff is in Japanese.

There are other notable performances and artists as well. Must get hold of the full recording of the concert somehow =p

Okay... this post is really late but I'll put up some of the pictures that I took on that day and some of my thoughts on the event itself.

Bon Odori this year was held on the 18th July which was on a Saturday. The festival started at around 5 pm and lasted till about 10 pm.

Some information about Bon Odori. Obon or just Bone is a Japanese Buddhist custom to honor the departed (deceased) spirits of one's ancestors. Also called the Feast of Lanterns, it has been celebrated in Japan for more than 500 years and traditionally includes a dance, known as Bon-Odori. (From Wikipedia)

The festival was held over at the Panasonic Sports Comlex in Shah Alam. There is a field there which is for atheltic events I guess. You can see the stage which is in the centre of the field.

Its my first time attending Bon Odori so yeah... I found it to be quite crowded on that day. Did not expect such a huge turnout. When I arrived there, there were lots of busses outside the sports complex.

The performers lining up for a group shot before the dance started.

Those fences on the stage were kinda distracting not to mention that the stage was already quite high. The one in Penang didn't have those fences around the stage.

Drum guys. Lol.

Some stuff sold at the foodstalls section. This area was particularly dusty >.<. Since there was sand all over the place and the ground wasn't covered with grasss. Did not change my lens here. Therefore did not take many pics of the foodstalls ^^; The food was quite pricey though but I kinda expected that to happen.

Some more dances.

Owari desu~. This was after the last dance. They had 3 all together spread out at different times.

This is my first time going to Bon Odori but I felt that it wasn't as entertaining as it could have been. The one at Penang had some interesting stuff like fireworks display which unfortunately did not take place here ^^;

I will be looking forward to the one next year and hopefully can get myself a yukata to wear xP. That's all for my long deserved update for my blog.

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This is the continuation from Day 1 of Daicon. Most of the pics here are csoplay pictures.

There were a few other stuff lined up on that day besides the main event which is Chiahara Minori's first live concert in South East Asia.  Some of the events were the group cosplay competition but I didn't really bother checking stuff that was happening at the stage haha.

Drove there on the second day. Had to stick this in the car when going in to the campus ^^;

Stuff at the entrance. Ticket redemption, pass registration, etc. Dell had a booth set up promoting their products around the area here.

Row-o-gachapon dispensers.

Queue at the KKnM booth was long as usual on the second day too. And this was quite early when I lined up, sometime around 11 something. I fail to comprehend why they make people line up just to enter the booth though. Seems like they limit the amount of people in the booth at one time thus the long queue. And some people tend to browse the items in there for quite long ^^; . Did not get anything from the store.

Cosplayer posing with figures of character she is portraying ^^;

Al Azif from Demonbane.

Riku from Kingdom Hearts.

Name that character.

Cute cosplayer.

Promoting GACC and Comic Fiesta.

Kuroshitsuji cosplay group.

Their outfit looks great. Colourful and contrasty =p

Danny Choo cosplay? Lol.

Stormtrooper clone.

Revealing who he is - Wise Freeman.

Obi Wan and Ninja?

Duel.

GACC campaigning. Hahaha.

More Demonbane shots here.

Tarp.

Gandalf and another character I don't know.

Bleach cosplay.

Pirates of The Carribean.

Hiiragi twins.

Naruto group cosplay.

Stuff from the Chihara Minori's concert. Well actually, it was the flag only. Sadly picture taking was restricted T_T.

The concert was really great. Minorin performed 10 songs + another 3 encores. Haha, the crowd were like shouting for an encore after she left the stage the first time. Took about 3 minutes for her to get back but I think it was long cause she had to change into a Kebaya ^^.

Got the Elite tickets for the concert. My seat was to the far left. Did not expect the seats to be arranged that far apart from the stage. Did not get any glow sticks too OTL. Only the Awsm ticket holders got that and some of the Elite ticket holders that were seated in the centre area.

Autographed Parade album xD. My ticket got "upgraded" and was qualified for the autograph session on the first day.

Some other loot from Daicon. Free Comic Fiesta T-shirt. I did not buy anything for both days =p. Not much stuff that were able to tempt me to make a purchase.

Overall, the event was a really great one. I enjoyed my time there. This is the first time that Daicon is held and there are certainly rooms for improvement. Some people said that the committe focused their efforts too much on the concert itself and should have other interesting events going on before the concerts etc.

The venue for the event was quite far but I haven't been to GACC in Malacca yet to experiene what "far" is lol.  This is it for the event coverage. I hope that I will be able to attend more events in the future and look out for my event posts too.

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Not too long after Animangaki and there is another ACG event in Malaysia =).  Went to Daicon over the weekend and the event is also a 2 day event similar to Animangaki. Admission is free which is a good thing ^^ . I guess it attracts more people to come over.

Daicon is oraganised by Emina Cyberjaya of Multimedia University. The event took place over at none other than MMU located in Cyberjaya.  The venue was in some hall in the MMU campus. The campus is kinda big I must say. Had to drive quite around to actually reach the hall. This is the first time that Daicon is being held.

Some VIP presenting his opening speech.

This was how the stage area looks like in the hall. The hall is really big compared to all of the ones that I have been to before this.

Official launching ceremony by the VIPs.

Here we have the J-pop exhibiton corner. Their J-pop booth is literally a booth with Johnny's Entertainment filled goods and merchandise only ^^;.

KKnM from Singapore had a booth set up too.

...And the queue seemed to stretch on through out the event.

Weiss Schwarz trading cards. They had a booth set up with all stuf relatd to the trading card game.

Rock band! There was another one somewhere else in the hall too.

Some tour agency thing I think.

Other stuff that happened on that day included cosplay competition. Not all cosplayers took part though.

Mario cosplay.

Not too familiar with this series.

Mio from K-ON!

Yui.

Stormtrooper dancing to "Thriller".

Danny's "clone".

Haruhi cosplayer.

Her cosplay is good I must say =p.

Moving on, there were the doujin booths around the hall.

Badges for sale.

Comic Fiesta booth promoting their event and giving out T-shirts. GACC were promoting their event too.

Then, there's the karaoke/singing competition too. Most of the contestants' voices were not that pleasing to the ear since they whole hall is fitted with the speakers so its projected out everywhere. No offense though. Some of them are good, maybe like 1 or 2.

Macross Compendium.

Valkyries from Macross F.

Figure exhibition by the The Figure Mall.

Max Factory Kureha.

Yoko.

Bunch of Louises.

Lelouch.

Haruhi gals.

KOS-MOS.

Nendoroid section.

Kagami is cute here ^^

There were a lot of figures on display here. Haha didn't even count the number cause I'm guessing its like 200+.

And now, for cosplay pictures....

Haruhi from earlier.

A lot of the characters do not seem familiar to me orz.

Some character from Dynasty Warriors.

Some Gundam dude.

Maid off duty.

Maids from the cafe.

Okay, besides the other stuff that went on, there's the questions and answers session + autograph session with seiyuu (voice actress)/singer Chihara Minori. The crowd was anxious for her arrival.

This section onwards will be pictar spam of Chihara Minori xD. Some of the pictures' quality are not that good since my seat was far away and the lighting in the hall/stage area isn't the best that you would expect. Forgive me for that OTL.

Nice smile. She seems to smile everytime haha.

Oh, and if you were wondering why I don't have any pics of her during the autograph session is because of certain rule/policies. I think it has to do with the Japanese entertainment policy where they do not allow people to take pictures of the artists during concerts, etc. Don't know why they have such ruling but the official photographers are the only ones allowed to take pictures during the autograph session and concert.

o.O Shokku look. Lol.

That's it for day 1. Watch out for updates for Day 2 soon. Currently tied up with quite a lot of work to do.

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