At long last, I have moved from blogspot, and onto a better place. ^^;
I owe a big thanks to Netto who so kindly agreed to host me.
Well, without further delay, here's my new address:
On the 10th of this January, Animax will be holding a cosplay competition at the "Youth '09 Lifestyle Festival". The event this Saturday will take place at the Putra World Trade Center (PWTC), between 12 pm to 2 pm.
Registration for/participation cost the competition and entrance to the event are both free. If you are interested in joining the cosplay competition, you can register here.
Source: Anime Shrine
If you want to attend this event but are not sure how to get to the PWTC, you can check out this useful page.
Looks like they have some pretty cool prizes for cosplayers to win. As of now, I am unsure if I will be attending this event. Will let you guys know via a twitter update.
If any of you readers are going to cover this event, do let me know, and I will be sure to link you up.
Image unrelated. Source: Danbooru
With the end of today, we will have reached a new year, 2009. Though it is sad to see another year pass by, I am, overall, pleased with what this year has brought.
A lot of stuff has happened to me in this past year. Sometime February, I decided to make this blog into an otaku/Malaysia blog. Prior to this, I had been blogging about personal matters, and so this was all very new to me.
Initially, I was a "stand-alone" blogger- that is, I never visited other blogs, forums, or even fansites. As you can imagine, I was getting nowhere at that point. One day, while searching for fapping blogging material, I stumbled across Danny's site, and from there I began networking. I got to know some other bloggers, like Panther, Gordon, Squee X, Fariz Asuka, and, eventually, joined Team Blue.
I would really like to thank both Team Blue and Danny for helping drive traffic to this blog. Also, special thanks to Team Blue (and to Panther, who founded TB), for you guys really helped me grow, both as a blogger and as a person (well, sort of. lol).
I do have to apologize to my readers though. As you might have noticed, in the past three months, the amount of posts I write has decreased significantly. Due to some real life commitments, I have been busy, and any free time I have left is spent trying to catch up on anime, or getting precious and necessary sleep.
Anyway, it's been a great year, and I hope to enjoy more great times with you guys next year.
To close, here's one of my favorite EDs of this year- "Changes" by Base Ball Bear (Toshokan Sensou)
See you 2009! o/
Alfred was wearing a skirt for the day. lol
Trap Haruhi #2!
Trap Lenalee! This is the third trap I've posted in my CF posts.
Loli Sheryl is cute!
Shinigami-sama also had a damaged mask, but I did not see him wear it.
This cute loli, Elsa, played as well, but she ended up folding a paper boat. ^^;Art Competition
Over-18 Category
Grand Prize: Roden Chong Yii Siang (Roden)
First Prize: Sinn Chun Hou (Sitomize)
Second Prize: ">Fung Kin Chew (Santa Fung)
Under-18 Category
Grand Prize: Sonia Dai (Pochi)
First Prize: Low Soon Yie (Pyromaniac03)
Second Prize: Ain Hafizah bt Mohd Saadon (Lavendra)
Comic Competition
Coffy Award - Sou (Yam Gene Group)
Tea Award - Leong Tze Lin (Noir Mystere Group)
Merchandise Award - Loo Sooyan (Meowed Group)
Cosplay Competition
Best Cosplayer: Skye (Sheryl Nome from Macross Frontier)
Honourable Mention: Zend (Nemesis from Resident Evil 3)
Honourable Mention: Dusty (Yuna from Final Fantasy X-2)
Best in Hall: Pinky (Ashura from RG Veda)
Best Group Cosplay: D. Gray Man Group
Group photos on-stage. Because of rain outside, the roof was leaking at this point. lol
U-u-uma-uma!
As with every convention, one is almost sure to bring back some goods, be it freebies or loot. And CF, being somewhat of a comiket, was no exception.
First, let's take a look at the freebies I got:
A Foldees.com voucher, stickers by TEH Wedgie, a hp pen, hp sharpener, and color pencils, from hp!
I heard that there was also supposed to be a bag of freebies, but I did not get any. :( Not that I'm complaining though. lol
Yes, it's the CF08 t-shirt! Despite it being a time of financial crisis, I still had the cash to fork out and buy this t-shirt I won it by duck-walking up the stage. :D
Selling price for this was RM25.
Text at the bottom says, "i went to the event and bought this blardy t-shirt"
It's a pretty cool shirt. Black, green, and white! A nice combination of colors.
That's pretty much all the freebies I got. Now, onto the loot:
Rabbid badge (RM5), C.C. badge, and a ZETSUBOU badge (RM3.50 ea). There was also a pedobear badge, but it was sold out by the time I decided to get it. :( Admittedly, I hesitated over buying the C.C. badge, because the artwork isn't too fantastic.
Poster by Kaizeru (RM5). Before I bought this print, I was also contemplating purchasing this awesome piece, but decided against it.
Lastly, a Vocaloid print set (RM10) that I bought from Toonikun. The artwork is beautiful. It's highly detailed, and I love the way the colors of the prints go together.
Well, that's all I got from CF this year. There were some things I regret not buying (like certain interesting headgear, or some awesome t-shirts), but I hope next year will produce even more cool items.
There is one thing regarding the artwork that I have to complain about though...
There was a severe lack of C.C.! I only remember seeing about.. four items with C.C. :( And of those four items, there was certainly no good artwork of her. That's mostly the reason why I refused to buy stuff. ^^;
Comic Fiesta! That is the name of one of Malaysia's biggest otaku events. Similar to the Japanese Comiket (but on a much, much smaller scale), CF is a place for artists and the like come to display and sell some doujin work.
As you can see in the above picture, this year's CF was held at Sunway Pyramid, on 20th and 21st December.
Was there early on day 1, but there was already a number of people waiting to enter.
I entered the convention hall through the exit (that door you see in the above picture), which I only found out was the exit on day 2 because the guard told me so. If you full-view the above picture, you can make out the word "EXIT" written on a piece of paper and stuck on top of the door where no one would see it.
The first thing I see when I'm in there is the doujin booths area.
Well, let's take a quick look at the stuff to be found at this year's booths.
The Figure Mall booth. I could be wrong, but I believe their goods were only for display, and none for sale.
Amazing stuff, really. The artwork present was impressive. I had a hard time deciding where to place my money. ^^;
Other than the doujin booths, there were also the sponsor booths. Let's take a look at some of those booths:
Blank DVDs, for all your piracy data burning needs
This booth (which sold make-up, I believe) felt a little out of place at this event.
Awesome shirt!
One booth was selling bootleg goods, which was rather saddening. :(
On to the stage area. To the right of the stage, there was the screen and some artwork on display.
They were screening this awesome video
To the left of the main stage, there was a smaller stage.
They later changed the setup of this area a little by moving the chairs.
And that was basically the convention site of Comic Fiesta '08.
Let's meet the two emcees for this event.
Alfred
and Chuck
The emcees were good at keeping the crowd entertained, but their humor was rather crude, as some people have pointed out. Admittedly, I personally found them very funny, though I do agree that they should tone down on their jokes a little. Afterall, this is a public event.
VIPs getting ready to cut the ribbon for the official opening
Being half the attraction of CF, here are some cosplayers of day 1.
Nyan~
At one point in day 1, kiDChan was having a live demo, and what you see above is the crowd that had gathered to watch her.
kiDChan in action
Trap Haruhi!
Playing some games for prizes
... This was part of the game
When I stay too long at conventions, I tend to forget which cosplayers I've taken pictures of, and so I sometimes end up with repeats.
As I was on the escalator going down, on my way to lunch, I spotted this Akita Neru cosplayer.
Since there were people behind me on the escalator, I waited til I reached the bottom, then went back up, just to get a picture of her. After taking my picture, I got back on the downward escalator, when I saw some Macross Frontier cosplayers go up.
I was like, "Why..? ;_;"
Lunch @ Mr. Teppanyaki
When I got back, the group cosplay competition had already started/was just about to begin, and so I rushed to the stage.
I only saw three groups perform. The first being a miscellaneous collection of cosplayers, then D. Gray-man, and finally Bleach.
Frankly, I didn't really enjoy the perfomances, though the D. Gray-man one wasn't too bad.
Well, that's all I have for day 1. There weren't many events going on. At one point, they even screened a full episode of Tentai Senshi Sunred, which I lol'd at, because they showed FANSUBS by ANBU.
Omake
Comic Fiesta 2008 Day 1 album here.
Other people who posted about day 1 of CF08:
Atarashii Prelude
e-jump's Weblog
I crave for seme(s).
