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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I got this album not too long ago. The album titled Parade is Chihara Minori's third album.

Well, you can kinda guess what influenced me to get this album based on my previous post ^^;

The album was released on the 26th November 2008.

Limited edition cover

As with most Japanese albums, there tends to be 2 types of releases for an album which is the Regular Edition and Limited Edition albums.  I didn't manage to get the "Dream Limited Edition" version as its sold out everywhere I checked.

Regular Edition

Track listing is as follows:

1.  Toumei Park Nite (透明パークにて)
2.  Voyager train
3.  Prism in the name of hope
4.  Fairy Tune
5.  Lush march!!
6.  Sonotoki Boku wa Kamikazari wo Kau (その時僕は髪飾りを買う)
7.  Melty tale storage
8.  Aoi Kotou (蒼い孤島)
9.  Hikari (光)
10.  Paradise Lost -at next nest-
11.  FUTURE STAR
12.  Ameagari no Hana yo Sake (雨上がりの花よ咲け)
13.  Hanataba (花束)
14.  everlasting…

This album has 3 tracks that are from her previous singles released which are Melty tale storage, Ameagari no Hana yo Sake and Paradise Lost. The Paradise Lost track which was used as the OP for the animation Ga-Rei Zero is slightly modified in this album version.

Some videos of Chihara Minori

Booklet

Among the tracks that I liked are Melty tale storage, Aoi Kotou, Hikari and most definitely Paradise Lost  xD.

I got mine over at CD Japan. Other stores such has Yes Asia has it in stock too at the moment.

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Less than a month a go to DaiCon and I can't wait xP. Seiyuu and singer Chihara Minori will be performing live at DaiCon and having a Q&A session with her fans.This is the first time ever that a seiyuu will be performing a concert over here ^^.

Yuki

Some of Chihara Minori's notable voice acting roles include Yuki Nagato from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Kagura from Ga-rei Zero, Aya Natsume from Tenjho Tenge and Chiaka Minami from Minami-ke.

There are 2 types of tickets up for sale/ordering. First up is the Awsm tickets and the other is the Elite ones.  Awsm tickets cost RM250 with better seating (nearer to the stage presumably) and being able to get Minorin to autograph her related goods. Elite ones cost RM150.

Online Ticket

Acquired my Elite ticket. This is how the ticket looks like..... well not exactly. I am supposed to change this form with the real ticket on the day itself.  I wanted to go for AWSM but was faced with budget constraints orz. Hopefully my ticket will get upgraded to the AWSM tickets haha. You can order your tickets from the site here.

As for the DaiCon itself, it will be held on the 11th and 12th July at Multimedia University in Cyberjaya. Admission is free. There's the usual stuff that will be going on like cosplay competitions, doujin booths, figurine exhibition, etc. You can look up about the other things happening here.

Is there any seiyuu performances in your neck of the woods?