As with last year, I went to Anime Festival Asia '09 as part of putting a bit of effort to stimulate our economy. IMO, I didn't stay there enough. I originally intended to explore the place for about 2 hours and catch some events, such as this, but in the end I was there for only about an hour or so and then attending the concert for the rest of the time spent in Suntec. That's because I went to catch Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance before heading there. I actually planned an hour half of Suntec hall exploring before the movie but due to unforeseen circumstances, namely serious traffic jam outside Orchard and long queueing times in Cineleisure, I sulkily skipped that exploration. Eva 2.0 was good by the way. :).

Anyway, here's all that I have in that short hour. Missed some pretty good stuffs, but the things on display can wait for me. It's quite image intensive, so click on the entire content button to reveal the rest of the post.













ZETSUBOU DA!












And some cosplay I was lucky enough to see.


Mio (K-On!)

Zero/Lelouch (Code Geass)

Hatsune Miku (Black Rock Shooter)

The concert was next. I was so tempted to snap a photo or two but my seat is so exposed to those AFA officials I decided not to. There were a lot of Gurren Lagann songs being sung by shokotan which is one of my main motivations for being there. Things would have been better if there were an actual band though. (And for miku's performance, I'd rather they give one fully rendered animation such as this than give three half-assed jerky and polygonal music videos.) Wasn't as great as I like it to be but it's still a worthwhile experience.



That's my only photo of the concert. I found more at shokotan's blog though.

The crowd:
http://ameblo.jp/nakagawa-shoko/entry-10393692311.html

And the gurren lagann's believe in me who believe in you:

P.S. The kamina figurine is not from the festival

That's about it for the first day. There's K-On! experience on the second day but ah, I couldn't make it. Gotta find pictures online tomorrow.

Labels: 2009, AFA, Anime, Personal

I've just reached home from Suntec, where the AFA is held. (It's open today and tomorrow from 10am to 9pm.) I intended to spend some money there initially but instead came home empty handed because they ran out of stocks. There's still lots of Gunpla around and other random stuffs like the mecha san guo things though. Man, they sure run out fast, maybe I should have been in the thousand man long queue in the morning to grab the goods.

Some of the figurines I could have potentially bought:




Okay, they are all Miku figurines. =/. Some other nice figurines on exhibit (most of them are either not on sale or sold out):










(The cloud figurine above is on sale for a hundred bucks from what I can remember)





Yeps, quite a lot of popular titles there. Haruhi Suzumiya, Shana, Lucky Star, Death Note, FF7, Gundam, etc. Next up is some cosplay spotted at the festival, there should be more cosplayers tomorrow since the cosplay competition is on tomorrow. ^^

Lenalee & Road (D.Grayman):


Tobi & Deidara (Naruto):


Sasuke & ? (I am not a big fan of naruto =x) & Sakura (Naruto):


One spastic Ranka (with the wrong eyes color?) (Macross Frontier):


Gundam Exia:


There should be more of these cosplayers tomorrow. I came home early so I missed the Ichiru Mizuki performance. And there's going to be a May'n concert tomorrow too!


EDIT 30/11:
Here are the promised links!

http://www.splifearts.com/2008/11/afa-cosplay-photos/
http://www.darkmirage.com/2008/11/24/anime-festival-asia-2008/

Labels: 2008, AFA, Personal