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.