Finally got off my slacking rear to post up Blazblue Comic Fiesta 2009, and all in all, it was a really enjoyable event with the folks from The Figure Mall (TFM)/Little Akiba (LA) as usual, and if you’re wondering about the post picture, yes, i spent literally half day, on both days, playing Blazblue with fellow TFM member Franstormer and Sichiri at Game Axis booth (thanks fatcat Lim XD) LOL! Don’t think i am going to do much writeup/coverage considering the above with the remainder of my time spent manning at TFM figure display booth, you know, my precious figures were on display too and the so called “barricade” this year was even worse as it is capable of sending shock waves through our line of figures and having many close calls D:

Regardless, I still took a decent amount of pictures and it will still be worth the read up and i will be breaking them down in to “sections” so you may just focus on particular sections that interests you.

Main event: Comic Fiesta itself

Well, overall i would say it’s much better than the previous CF08, be it the event itself, or from my own part, i mean, i had to run around snapping in PNS and being in the same terribad lighting that is Sunway Convention hall, the pictures were entirely bad. This year though, at least i have a DSLR and while the lighting conditions were as bad as ever, at least i can still make due with some post processing and editing of the RAW pictures taken.

Staging was definitely better, as it was accessible from anywhere in the hall, so you can still catch the action wherever you are. And even the artists (which is the main ‘theme’ of this ACG event, art) have seen a lot of improvement than before, which includes but not limited to the doujin section.

I didn’t really went around and snap on every possible good artwork i come across as the doujin area is off limits for photography (which i am not sure if the media/blogger pass would exempt from that rule) and the ones displayed on the center section, like the one shown above, all come with spotlighting and it was REALLY HARD to get a good shot at it and not to mention the post processing phase to get the spot light glares off so that you may see the art instead of the glare.

Anyways i believe it had been voiced by many regarding the hall:
- transportation towards Sunway isn’t easy
- again, lighting lighting lighting, BAD!
- figure displayers: dust, seriously. so BAD. the amount of dust your figure can rack up in a day of display within sunway hall, would take at least a week+ should i display it in my own room outside my detolf glass case. and my room is fairly dusty.
- another figure displayer complaint: barricade. per figure, would easily cost up MYR300 to even 600+, in which some or most are really limited edition figures in which money would not even measure up should any accidents happen. If CF does not care about us bringing our own personal collections for display, i don’t think i (again, this is from my own personal viewpoint, NOT TFM as a group) would like to contribute in future figure displays.

Aside the above few complaints, i believe CF committee had done a really good job this year around in terms of improving the event as a whole. Of course, you can’t possibly please everyone, however if you’re at least trying, and there are improvements, i guess its better than nothing.

Moving on: Cosplayers

This year we’ve seen an increase in good quality cosplayers and while i may not be able to cover on all of them, other sites from linkinstreet/valho had done a really good job in said coverage and you may visit their site instead.

From my own shots, i have misshermes’s Anya from Code Geass, gender bended Yukimura, cosplayed by Annie, and Sheryl Nome, which i faild in not asking her name:

Excuse the mediocre pictures, harsh direct flash is a pain to PP, and again, terribad hall lighting. The only problem i had with cf09 cosplay was a Rachel cosplayer that, well, was really huge, and i (sadly) could not even tell if ‘it’ was a guy or gal cosplaying her. And yes, brain was damaged quite badly. I mean, no offense, but Rachel is a very small vampire loli, if you really have the passion to cosplaying, you would start shaving some size to better portray the character you are cosplaying, not outright murdering it. Oh, and guest18, which i will not further describe it as my brain was already hurting enough for even typing this out.

Speaking of Rachel Alucard, yeap, Blazblue

Had LOTS of fun at Game Axis booth playing Blazblue which i have recently came to enjoy thanks to Sichiri spamming poison of it. And that game had the most crowd on both days, which is pretty understandable lol!

Almost finishing this post, Solomon and Crimotaku dual Storm Troopers

As with most Malaysia ACG events, you will almost always see our very own ‘Dannychoo.com.my’ in his storm trooper suit. This time however, we’re graced with not 1, but TWO of them

Finally ending this post, with TFM x LA, with our Figure Display

As with other major ACG events, you will also come across TFM and this time, along with their newly launched LA, with its boss beansprout:

If you don’t include the heart pounding shock wave events, i really had a great time with the people at TFM/LA. Just wished that CF would provide a little more on the display part, considering the things mentioned above. Anyways, an overview on the figure display we had:

For the rest of the figure display pictures, please do visit the gallery link right below. And thats it for Comic Fiesta. Hope you guys enjoy the write up as with my other previous postings ^^

Full gallery for Comic Fiesta 2009 is available here: http://www.quazacolt.com/galleries/comic-fiesta-2009-gallery/

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Valho just linked our TFM group photo:

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Here is another update for Daicon 2009, and it will be a pretty BIG one. Assuming you’ve already noticed the title and started going crazy with all the excitement (or in doubt for potential rick roll), yes, this is no April’s fool joke, the dates doesn’t show “1st April” – That’s right, popular Japanese seiyu (voice actor) and singer, Chihara Minori is visiting Malaysia to grace us at Daicon 2009!

Just in case if you’re still not familiar with this seiyu/singer, fear not, we will definitely provide as much info as possible, so here goes!

Straight from Daicon’s official website:
http://www.daiconnews.com/cm_profile.php 

Artist Name: Chihara Minori
Birthday: 18th November
Blood-type: B

Representative works:
Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu (Nagato Yuki),
Minami-ke (Minami Chiaki),
Ga-Rei -Zero- (Tsuchimiya Kagura).

Debuted as a voice actress in 2004 as the role of Natsume Aya in Tenjou Tenge. Her role as Nagato Yuki in Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu sparked a boom in her popularity. Since then, she has taken part in many popular works such as Minami-ke and D.C. II: Da Capo II as well as excelling as a singer.

A recorded video of Chihara Minori greeting us (English subtitles also provided) is also available from the Daicon Official Chihara Minori page. (http://www.daiconnews.com/cm_profile.php)

On her tour to South East Asia for the first time, Miss Chihara Minori will be holding a Q&A panel with the fans on Saturday, 11th July 2009 and a special performance on Sunday, 12th July. Be sure to witness this historic event at DaiCon!

again, Saturday Q&A Panel, Sunday special performance, DONT MISS IT!

Some links of interest regarding Chihara Minori

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chihara_Minori Wikipedia page
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=22271 ANN Page
http://chiharaminori.jp/ Chihara Minori Official page (Japanese language)
http://minorhythm.jugem.jp/ Chihara Minori Official blog (Japanese language)

In addition to the above, Daicon also released their trailer which you may view it from here:

Click here to view the embedded video.

 Looks pretty damn awesome if you ask me. Heck, so awesome, should you want to keep a copy of it, you get to do so via:
http://www.daiconnews.com/downloads/DaiCon_Teaser(1280×720).mkv
http://www.daiconnews.com/downloads/DaiCon_Teaser(704×400).mkv 

Lastly, do take a look at Aoshi’s write up for this update, which includes a nice jab at our Singaporean neighbours down south:
http://aoshi.wakarimasenlol.com/chihara-minori-live-at-daicon/  :P

Again, hope to see you guys this coming Daicon 2009, 11th – 12th July, MMU Cyberjaya, Malaysia.

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Embedded Chihara Minori greeting video to the post itself. Much thanks to Uncle-Valho for the codes  godai uncle
Removed Chihara Minori greeting video as per requested by Daicon folks due to agreements with the manager, the video is only allowed on the DaiCon webpage.  Sorry everyone~

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Daicon 2009, another ACG (AnimeComicGames) event happening at MMU Cyberjaya, Malaysia. This time around this seems a lot more promising with it being handled by Kurogane, also a fellow /AS/ member, and from the looks of it, outside the lack of big budget against events such as the previous AFA08, this one seems to be up for the best event of 2009. As such, i have also applied to being an Affiliated blogger for this event, and with this, expect coming updates for Daicon 2009 along with coverage of it when the time has come.

To start off:

http://www.daiconnews.com/index.php

What is DaiCon?

Discover the best and greatest of Japanese modern visual culture through DaiCon! Start here if you don’t know what this whole event is about. 

Just for the record, no, this not a vegetable convention.

From LYN thread:
DaiCon is EMiNA’s major ACG event for this year, focusing on all aspects of Japanese Modern Visual Culture from anime, manga, games, J-Pop, J-Rock, cosplay, figurines, doujinshi and much much more. We aim to cater to everyone with an interest in Japanese modern visual culture, so there will be something for everyone, from the cosplayers and doujin artists down to the casual gamers and J-drama fans.

 

Date: 11-12th of July 2009

Venue: Grand Hall, Multimedia University, Cyberjaya

Directions on how to get to Daicon when the time comes:
http://www.daiconnews.com/gethere.php

Highlights of Daicon:

http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/957595

Cosplay Competition http://www.daiconnews.com/c_cosplay.php
Karaoke Competition http://www.daiconnews.com/c_karaoke.php
Figurine Exhibition (by The Figure Mall) http://www.daiconnews.com/e_figurine.php
Macross Exhibition http://www.daiconnews.com/e_macross.php
GO adventure (by Persatuan Weiqi Malaysia) http://www.daiconnews.com/e_go.php

… and more to come!!! 

Do take note that the cosplay and karaoke competition registrations are ALREADY UP. Just visit their respective pages linked above

Questions about DaiCon? 

Visit the official DaiCon website at http://www.daiconnews.com where the latest updates about DaiCon will be posted! Feel free to email the DaiCon 2009 committees at the official DaiCon email address at info@daiconnews.com for any general inquiries about the event.

Join the Daicon Facebook group or add DaiCon to your Facebook’s event calender!

With all the info provided thus far, i do believe it’ll be a very promising event, with or without Japanese celeb invitations. Although if we can somehow get someone from Japan to grace us would be most welcoming.

Anyways, this end the first Daicon news and updates. Should there be more updates, i will be posting here as agreed upon becoming an affiliated blogger
Hope to see you guys too during July for this awsm event, and lets not forget to go lulz (or shocked at some hidden talents emerging) at the karaoke competition /gg

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Ok to you disappointed readers, first off i apologize for the slowking updates. (especially those that were looking forward to the AFA08 day2/updates) Work + World of warcraft = bad for blogging business LOL XD
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Slight announcement: sadly DMM will be on this slowpoke pace until im done with my IRL work project which involved me working until night getting home around  10-11pm or even later. And as mentioned, with WoW new season arena opening up, and the slowpoke fact that im still not a 80 like the rest of the kewl kidz, i gotta put in some extra effort in playing catch up with the damn world. Now, i did mention announcement right? thats right – LookingFor WRITERS/CONTRIBUTORS FOR DMM. there you go. If you are interested in blogging but couldnt be bothered to start your own blog, have a passion for otaku’ism or world of warcraft, or better yet, both, DO send me an email/instant message and see if we can work things out
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Fear not, for i have redemption for my slowpoke sins. As some of you may have guessed, thats right! I got invited to be an affiliated blogger for Comic Fiesta 2008, and got a kewl kidz klub – dubbed: KKK media pass! Awesome…right? RIGHT?!

Honestly speaking though, it really isnt much of an update, more so if you do actually visit CF08 official webby. But hey, copy-pasta news is better than no news at all, right?

So here you are, a FLURRY of copy-pastas.

First up:

Imaginary Friends Studio is coming to Comic Fiesta!

That’s right! Imaginary Friends Studio (IFS), South East Asia’s Premier Concept Art group, will be coming to Comic Fiesta 2008! They’ll be bringing their artbooks, conducting live demos, and will be on hand to have meet-the-fans sessions throughout the day!

Aspiring artists should also bring their portfolios for reviews, cause IFS will also be at the Portfolio Pavilion too! If Art’s your life, like it is for Imaginary Friends Studios’ founder Artgem, then you won’t want to miss this!

 

About Imaginary Friends Studios

Imaginary Friends Studios (IFS) is a regional homegrown concept art and illustration studio. Founded by a group of established artists in 2008, IFS has 30 artists under their wings across Asia and Europe. Based in Singapore, it also has a branch in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Most of IFS’ artists were influenced by Eastern and Western animations, games, films and comics, creating a rich diversity of works reflecting their upbringing. IFS has provided concept art for games, comics, cards, entertainment, film and animation projects. The studio counts Square Enix, Sony Online Entertainment, Ubisoft, Electronic Arts, Animax, DC Comics, Marvel Entertainment, Top Cow, Radical Comics, Games Workshop, Upper Deck, WizKids and many others on their ever-growing list of prestigious clients.

IFS is the first of its kind in Southeast Asia and is the place-to-be for industry professionals and talented artists from not only Singapore but from around the world, allowing them to realise their dreams of becoming a professional concept artist.

Now, if you’re like me who dont really give much thought of this, considering its art and all, (boring stuff i guess? NOT SO BORING DRAWING NAGI THOUGH) you still might wanna check them out as they were at the awesome AFA08, and they did had an on stage live interview with KOJI MORIMOTO from STUDIO 4°C. Sadly i didnt manage to post the day 2 pics yet, which DOES include pictures of said interview XD

Moving on to 2nd copy pasta!

Introducing… the Portfolio Pavilion!

First, we had life drawing sessions(I think its live, but eh could care less lulz) for the curious.

Now, artists, game designers and just about anyone interested can bring their portfolios for instant industry feedback at Comic Fiesta 2008! We’ll have industry bigwigs from companies such as Animasia Studios, Imaginary Friends Studios of Singapore, Foldees, GempakStarz, Eden Animation, Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) and more to review your portfolios! In fact, you may even catch the interest of these industry players and, perhaps, get a shot at working with them! All you need to do is bring yourself, your portfolio, and be at our Portfolio Pavilion* to get feedback for your works!

And yes, it’s completely FREE! Just attend Comic Fiesta 2008 @ Sunway Convention Centre on December 20 and December 21, 2008! Remember to get your tickets for Comic Fiesta 2008 if you haven’t already!

 

Why are we doing this?

Comic Fiesta was created for fans, by fans. Once most of us joined the working force, we realised that it was difficult for us fans to continue doing what we loved, as there was a gap between what we wanted to do, and what we were being offered. The Portfolio Pavilion was conceived to bring key representatives and icons from Malaysia’s, and its neighbouring region, comic industry closer to the fans, bridging this gap. So bring your best works and show them what you’re made of!

 

You never know if you’ll be offered a job on the spot based on your portfolio and your skills!

*The Portfolio Pavilion times and location will be announced shortly

Just like the 1st IFS news, again, if art is your thing, by all means, check it out. Who knows you can continue your art passion not just as your hobby, but your actual profession and making a living out of it?

At the end of the day, you got nothing to lose, but plenty to gain
Definitely worth a shot, more so if Art is your passion.

I gotta say that sounded a lil’ too marketing like. w/e. Its supposed to be some copy pasta yet im writing all this T_T

Third copy pasta!

Cosplayer goodies! and omgwtf longcat Artist list!!!

Hi hi everyone! It’s Coffy again! Day 8 to Comic Fiesta! Are you ready?

Ok, so the PR person just gave me this email, and then he told me to update everything by today, but I just got back from printing my doujin and then and then… WAAA HE’S SUCH A BIG BULLY!

*Sniff* He says I don’t have time to panic or cry, but I need to announce this right away!

Ok… so the list says:

Notice from Raincloud (she’s the head of the Cosplay Department in case you didn’t know!):

Good news for all cosplayers! Every cosplayer who registers for the SOLO Cosplay competition will receive a goodie bag with items sponsored by Gempak! and Shisedo (Day 2).

Winners will receive a trophy, certificate and other exciting prizes! YAY! I’m sure Tea will be very happy to hear this…

Also, a notice from Ezel (Head of Artist booths!)

We have a full list of all the Artist Booths that are coming! They are:

• Thingamagica
• Spam Inc
• Pekomik
• Nouveau
• Kazeki
• Deux
• TEAM
• Freedom
• Dokuen
• O!Saru
• Kiki - Myoumyou
• Flower Phoenix
• Meowned
• Rawr
• Zemotion
• Artfart
• Break Pieces
• Vision Overload
• Tsukihana
• Zettai Cucambaa
• Panpurin Production
• 3rd Sex
• Noir Mystere
• Rose
• Mibbles
• Yorume
• Terette
• Surface
• C.D.S
• Fiamette Ink
• The Quadrant
• Eliptical Shadow
• Codez
• Araishii
• YamGene
• D.Sign Underground
• Dream Team
• Mufufu
• Asylius
• RKH!
• Moonlight Rhapsody
• Lian
• Updraft
• The Silent Studio
• Sanctuary Wings
• Colours Dream
• Wolf Brothers
• 30 Day Artist
• Fazuu
• Graveyard
• Moetea
• WTF
• Yue
• Daruma
• Dango Daikazoku
• Rumble
• Monochrome Dumia
• Skylide (KHR)
• Paradox
• JAM!
• Shonen station 13
• Kaientenjutsu
• Shadow Moon Studio
• Dead Fish
• French Bread
• Unicornz
• Dearbear 3
• Icefish
• Mars N Uranus
• Smouldering Wings
• Inkz
• Kamcao
• YongGumi
• Kuro To Yuki
• Rum
• Arts
• Sketching Visions
• Konpeito

That’s all we have for today! Ehhh! Where’s my booth?

Signing off to go find the Head of Artist Booth Dept

Coffy

Fourth, and grand finale!

Blogger KKK list!

Just a little over one week left to Comic Fiesta. Have you booked your hotel rooms, confirmed your transport and most importantly, secured a map to Comic Fiesta 2008? We hope you have!

We’d also like to take this opportunity to announce Comic Fiesta’s Affiliate Bloggers! They’ll be covering Comic Fiesta 2008 as special media representatives. With that, say hello to:

E-Jump
http://ejump.wordpress.com

Mizunaga
http://mizunaga.blogspot.com

Royalshortness
http://royalshortness.blogspot.com

Joshua
http://joshuaongys.blogspot.com/

Toysworkz
http://toysworkz.valiantho.com/

Death Meets Moe
http://www.quazacolt.com

Shin & Setsuna
http://www.atalude.net

Welcome to the team, boys!

Regards
Coffy
Comic Fiesta 2008

Thats right. DMM WILL be providing CF08 updates and coverage. Just like i did for AFA08 (again sorry on the slowpoke pace, 2nd day will be out soon! T_T) and expect slightly better content considering i am running around with the awesome media pass XD

Now what CF didnt really provided me to copy paste (damnit that means more work to do lol) is our GRAND Figure display hosted by our moe-kev from TheFigureMall.com! With over 200 figures ranging from Scaled figurines, Figmas*, to Nendoroids**. Located @ http://forums.comicfiesta.org/download/file.php?id=49 within CF2008. This easily makes TFM figure display at CF08 the biggest figure display event ever done outside of Japan! (feel free to correct me if otherwise) With such a significant happening in Malaysia, how can you miss it? More so for the folks staying at Kuala Lumpur area, or heck, anyone from all over Malaysia interested in ACG/Figurines should definitely make an effort to drag their ass over

Some explanation for the above asterix’ed terms:
* Figmas: Articulated action figure made by Max Factory. Usually comes with changeble body parts such as facial expressions, hands, head etc.
Refer here for a sample: http://www.goodsmile.info/detail/eng/2233/figma+San+Seto.html 
** Nendoroids: Cute moe bombs with bigger/bloated head, buncha swappable cutesy facial expressions, and usually comes with some accessory of sort. They are really short and “chibi’fied” to further emphasize on the moe factor.
Refer here for a sample: http://www.goodsmile.info/detail/eng/2229/Nendoroid+Nozomu+Itoshiki.html 

TFM Boss, from previous CF 2007 figure display

*Above pictures are thanks to Valho from ToysWorkz

You can also check out for our List of figures that will be displayed at the event  right here: http://www.thefiguremall.com/exhibit/exhibit_cf08.php (not 100% finalized)
Most definitely, i will also be participating on the figure display itself contributing around 10 figures  More reason to come over right?!?!?! right…? XD Again, if your an ACG fan, a figure collector, or just simply love happening events, DO come over and support us at Comic Fiesta 2008!

Ok thats it for now. Hope to see you at Comic Fiesta 2008, which is just a few days away from taking off

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“Hell, its about time.” <– i know right? lol. Like, it could’ve been out latest tuesday, but nooooo, tmnut screamyx decided to give me a nice surprise buttsecks, and threw me back to the stoneage. So like, i was stuck with some 2KB/sec uploads that constantly time out, and some filtered out 140ish pictures (just the first day – saturday) or so to upload to the server. Like yeah, not gonna happen.

Anyways off with the rage, more AFA08! So, like the usual eager fanboi packing his stuff for the trip, i magically left out my handphone as i left it to charge. And thanks to some crappy accident, or more specifically, THANK YOU MALAYSIANS for raping the traffic by slowing/stopping down their god damned cars to watch the scene, i never got to turn back to grab it.

So we got on the Aeroline bus, i turned on my lappie and expected to finish tetsuwan birdy decode first season 13 episodes, and holy crap our bus wangan’ed its way to customs in around 4hours time? /omg

Since we’ve arrived unexpectedly early, and the MRT stations are closed, we stopped by Mc’Donalds for some breakfast. I even get to play a game of  Warcraft3 online b.net rated match with the free wireless It was lulz as the opponent just gave me a free win by having Bloodmage hero + spell breakers + sorceress vs my Tauren chieftain + grunts + demolishers.

We finally reached our hotel – Hangout hotel @ Mt.Emily and we were at room518 with a pretty nice view too as shown above. Pretty nice hotel for ~50+ sing dollars per person per night. Even comes with a bath tub!

Finally its almost time for AFA08 after lazying around the hotel room that the staff is so kindly allowing us to check-in earlier than the designated check-in time. We took 2 taxis to Suntec City hall, splitting 3 person per taxi, and woohoo our taxi won LOL! Arrived earlier even though it started later, for lower price

The moment we came to the AFA08 entrance, it was really, how should i put it, awesome and despair at the same time, seeing a REALLY LONG line queue’ing. (although i expected a longer/crowider line/crowd considering its AFA08 ) Anyways me and Sichiri have Diamond VIP, so we managed to avoid the line, and had early EXCLUSIVE (read:FABULOUS) entry to AFA08

Lets not forget the TFM gang:

Even met this guy, aoshi’s friend (not E-Jump guys! LOL sorry on this misunderstanding)… which i couldnt remember the name -_-; (sorry!)

The guy with the Ichirou Mizuki VIP pass, not kira ejump on the top lol.

So we went in, first thing i see:

Like, i had to snap pictures of it, and pose myself with it. I mean, its Gundam Exia man!

Had fun scouting the entire hall (which is surprisingly “small” for an event this big) with most of the booths arent even fully prepared yet. Even saw the main stage being finalized:

Odex even have their own booth, having some Cassherntora for the lulz by playing Casshern Sins with ToraDora! background rofl:

After done scouting, i head on to the main stage myself and wait for the opening ceremony. The moment it started, everyone’s greeted by the kawaii-Reiko with her heart warming voice:

After the whole long epic (read: boring. lol) speech from the AFA08 geezers VIPs, Ichirou Mizuki suddenly suprise buttsecks the crowd with his PUMPED mazinger Z Song. like WOAH! that was a GOOD wake up call. Towards the end the crowds were even singing along with him and chanting “Aniki! Aniki!” (big/older brother).

The opening ceremony concluded shortly after with somemore speeches and stuff from both Ichirou/Reiko. I have to say, thanks to Ichirou, its one of the BEST event opening ceremony thus far in my experience. And there you go, AFA’08 officially begins!

Not much happenings between the time from now to lunch hour. I did however grabbed the WoW Series 3 figure set from DC comics for SGD80 (a set of 4 figures!) and Sichiri with myself, grabbing Alter’s Hazuki from Tsukuyomi Moon Phase anime for SGD30 XD After that we went to lunch at Marina Square with the /AS/ guys and TFM guys.

After lunch, while being utterly bored from the lack of cosplayers and happenings during the first half of AFA’08, me+E-jump+Sichiri happen to stumble upon some private interview of Kunio, the gundam guy Obviously we got a few shots ninja’ed before the staffs signaled us to leave and closed the room’s door XD

As the event goes by after lunch with more and more cosplayer showing up, we found… LOLI!

Like, suppressing unspeakable urges to kidnap this purple loli LOL! While im no fan of fate/stay night, and definitely never seen the anime/played the eroge (though mana transfer is pretty damn tempting LOL), i do *SLIGHTLY* know of their characters. (who doesnt know the MASS saber merchandises? lol) Unfortunately, i dont know this one in particular and after asking my friend, and some wiki, i found out that shes apparently some german loli named “Illyasviel von Einzbern”. Magic sperm you say? So THATS the secret ingredient for lolis? Now if only i can grab some magic…

Awhile after probably around 3-4ish PM, most of us returned to our hotel rooms from exhaustion (remember that midnight bus trip? no sleep? yeap.) The initial plan was to get going around 5-6+ PM to attend Ichirou Mizuki’s concert. However, we ALL epic failed minus one – E-jump. Most of us either overslept, or just didnt want to move anymore.

Some summary + full gallery consisting of around 120 pictures arranged chronologically:

• AFA 08 is, win.
• Diamond VIP FABULOUS exclusive entrance wins.
• Ichirou Mizuki is win, my regret? Not attending his winsauce concert T_T
• Cheap. fucking. figures.
• ^ i bought 5. lulz
• I wonder if Reiko’s japanese or chinese, seemed hard to tell, not because of her non-sucky english, but she said she love “xiao ding dang” - Doraemon in chinese during a chat (this is day 2 btw, IINM XD)
• WHY NO MAJOR FIGURE COMPANY THEMSELVES COMING?!
• Kinda failsauced on the glass displayed figures, bad for cameras especially my crap PNS
• I have a good number of the figures being displayed on that day, and the entire TFM gang prolly have most of em. (japanese pvc figurines, mostly females, that is)
• No PVC figures exclusives (lotsa ancient treasures though!)
• 1/100 gundam 00 is exclusively sold earlier in AFA08

Gallery for all of the AFA’08 Day 1 pictures are here.

PHEW! Thats it for now. Thanks for your patient to those that are having that eternal wait for this slowpoke.jpg update. Dont worry folks, theres another major update for DAY TWOOOOOOOOOOOO. (will try my best to speed this one up this time around >_<)

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