Mizunaga has moved!

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:

Midori na Silhouette
( http://mizunaga.notcliche.com/ )

I would appreciate it if you could update your links. For now, that is the only banner I have, but I will work on making more, nicer ones.

See you there!

P.S. While I was moving, I found some extra stuff like that item in the pic way above. Any takers?

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Animax Cosplay Competition @ Youth '09 Festival

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.

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2009 - Open -

Image source

Happy New Year everyone! ^^
あけましておめでとうございます!
Selamat Tahun Baru!

So, 2009 has come. Has everyone made up their new year's resolutions yet? You know, those resolutions that would probably mysteriously vanish after a month or two. Of my many resolutions, one of it is to be more active in my blogging, or, at least, put more heart into it.

Anyway, I've got some plans for mizunaga.blogspot in the near future, and will announce them when the time is right.

I look forward to an exciting year with you guys again! o/
今年もよろしくお願いします. m(_ _)m

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2008 - Close -

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/

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Comic Fiesta 2008 - Day 2

Photo courtesy of TeeJ

Finally, it's time for day 2 coverage of CF. Having already covered the booths and convention site in my day 1 post, this post focuses on the cosplay aspect of the event and my failtography.

I arrived later on this day, (sometime after noon) because I had some business to attend to in the morning. Upon entering the convention hall, it's straight off to snapping pictures of cosplayers.

Alfred was wearing a skirt for the day. lol

Some of the better Kuroshitsuji cosplayers there, IMO. Sebastian needs evil smile.

When Yoite was still pointing fingers, he would frown, no?

Day 2 featured the Solo category cosplay competition. There were tons of contestants- about 55 of them, IIRC.

This is how small the Krauser II cosplayer really was.

Trap Haruhi #2!

Soul and Black Star embracing each other and making a scene on stage. I lol'd

Asura cosplayer is awesome

Trap Lenalee! This is the third trap I've posted in my CF posts.

The crowd on day 2 was much larger than the crowd on day 1.

Loli Sheryl is cute!

Shinigami-sama also had a damaged mask, but I did not see him wear it.

There were several song performances by some cosplayers. Naturally, Sheryl Nome was one of them.


And strangely, Ranka Lee didn't give a solo performance. :(





Emcees playing some games with the members of the crowd. In this game, you had to be the first to fold the Foldees voucher into an origami paper crane.

This cute loli, Elsa, played as well, but she ended up folding a paper boat. ^^;

After the game ended, it was time to present the awards to the winners of the competitions. Though I did not get pictures of all the award winners, here they are:

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

After the awards presentation, they had the final performance: "Lion" by Sheryl Nome, Sheryl Nome, Tako, Ranka, and Ranka's mom.



Video thanks to swordlink93

Group photos on-stage. Because of rain outside, the roof was leaking at this point. lol

Though CF08 had officially ended, there were still some cosplayers I hadn't gotten photos of, and so I went around and hunted down took pictures of them.




As I continued to look for cosplayers, a familiar song started playing...

U-u-uma-uma!

And that ends my coverage of CF08. ^^

This was my first time attending the Comic Fiesta, and I must say, it was a very enjoyable event. To be honest, I had expected fail and such, but it turned out good. Definitely worth the entry fee. XD


Omake
Comic Fiesta Day 2 complete photo album

Other people who posted about day 2 of CF08:
Atarashii Prelude
-=Mystical-Era=- (Part 1, Part 2)

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