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Taylor’s Asaban Festival Report

raptor_cZn — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:41:37 +0000

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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Daicon 2009 Day 1

raptor_cZn — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:55:58 +0000

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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Sunway Animangaki 2009 Day 2

raptor_cZn — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:13:41 +0000

Here is the continuation of my post for Animangaki at Sunway Univerisity College. This will cover Day 2 which was on Sunday.Here are the pictures and stuff that happened on that day.

One of the emcees wearing a traditional yukata. They had the lucky draw thing going on too on the second day.

Exia.

Akatsuki Gundam.

Shhhhhhiiinyy..... =p

This one looks pretty cool.

There were more Gundam model kits on display I think on Day 2. Don't know the names to all of them but they do look pretty cool. Makes me feel of starting the hobby of building model kits but I'll probably be too busy to ever complete assembling them lol.

Artwork from the previous day up on display for your eyes to see.

The finals for the singing competition was held on the second day. Some of the contestants in the pictures here.

Moving on, we have the finals for the group cosplay and there were 3 teams. This one is the Final Fantasy VII Advent Children group and you can see them posing for the camera. As usual, the cosplayers are supposed to pose and act out a short skit.

OTL

Another group cosplay contestant. Don't know where are the characters from.

Some Ranma 1/2 group cosplayers acting out their skit.

Some of the "judges" giving out not so serious comments. These weren't the judges for the group cosplay competition though. Haha. It was for judging the character impersonation where they had volunteers from the crowd.

Random person from the crowd who volunteered up the stage for some character impersonation thing since nobody claimed the lucky draw prize when the number was announced ^^; . Nice Vampire Knight cosplay though.

The winners for the group cosplay competition - FFVII AC group. And this was their reaction when they won.

Weib Schwarz trading card game.

There was a workshop going on for people who are new to the card game. Basically, its a trading card game from Japan and contains cards with characters from anime and what not.

Next up, pictars of cosplayers xD

Cardcaptor Sakura cosplay.

Okay.... this one is rather disturbing ^^; Not sure whether the guy on the left is cross-dressing or not but he looks like he's wearing a skirt of some sort.

Nice Tifa cosplayer. The resemblance is there ^^

Soul Eater cosplay.

The last event scheduled for the day were the performances by a few bands. Unfortunately, I can't remember the names of any of them ^^;

The vocalist of the the first band. They sang a few songs and managed to get the audience pumped up.

Bassist of the band.

Then we have the second band. Vocalist was a girl.

Guitarist in action.

Solos.

There was a third band but they were really noisy and shouting the whole time. Don't even know what the heck are they singing. Didn't bother to go up front to the stage area to take their pics. My ears were like bleeding at that time >.<

Last band to perform. The vocalist is a gal too.

The band's guitartist.

Bassist.

That concludes my coverage for Animangaki. The turnout was around average I guess on that day. The hall wasn't really jammed pack with people but that might just be because the MPH is quite big are there's a lot of room to move about.

I wanted to get a cute Miku badge from one of the doujin stalls but too bad it was already out of stock. Didn't get anything else from the booths there.

More pictures can be found at my Flickr here.

Well, that's it from Animangaki. Look forward to my next event coverage ^^

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Sunway Animangaki 2009 Day 1

raptor_cZn — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:16:08 +0000

Okay, here is another event coverage post. Sorry guys for the late update since I was down with a flu the past few days and busy with college stuff >.<

This time, the ACG (anime, comic, games) event is Sunway Animangaki which is organized by the Sunway University College Anime Club. The event was held over 2 days, last weekend. This post covers some of the stuff that happened on Day 1 as you can guess from the title.

The event was held at the Multi Purpose Hall at Sunway University College.

The emcees of the day. There wasn't much of an opening ceremony that day as compared to C2AGE.

There was some matsuri thing going on too outside of the MPH. This is one of the games they had which involves retrieving the ballons with some newspaper strip (there's a hook at the end of course ^^).

Here's how some decos look like in the matsuri section. There were other games too like scooping the fish out of the pond.

Another game with prizes included.

These lanterns look pretty neat I must say.

Heading back to the MPH, there were quite a number of doujin booths around selling all sorts of doujin stuff.

Other doujin stuff.

Mochi and onigiri ^^

There was the occasional lucky draw announcements too. Didn't win anything though haha.

Booth selling a lot of badges.

Exia with watcha call it thing attached to it.

RX-78?

Haven't watched much of the previous generation Gundam series to be able to name these models OTL.

Flag mobile suit.

Old school Optimus Prime.

There was a singing competition too. Below are pictures of some of the contestants.

And the participants for the group singing competition.

Judges at work.

Art competition in progress.

Found this too be rather cute ^^. You can see that its made out of things like screws and pins.

Ouran High School cosplay.

Lovely Kagamine Rin Akita Neru cosplayer =) .

Miku.

Random Vandetta dude.

KHR cosplayers.

Didn't take much pictures of the cosplay competition since I was busy with something else at that time ^^; . Anyways, that's all for Day 1 coverage of Animangaki. I will post more pictures and updates for Day 2 so look forward to it. I am still not feeling that well while typing this >.<

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