ACGC 2008 Finale - Day 2

My vote for best cosplayer goes to this girl

Last Sunday (28th September) was the second day of the ACGC 2008 Finale. Since I already (sort of) covered the booths on my previous post, I will cover mostly cosplay in this post.
The cosplay competition was held on this second day of the convention, afterall.

Once again, a warning- I have level 0.1 0 photography skills, and since I (usually) refuse to use flash, the following contains both clear pictures and blur pictures.


Well, if you've read my coverage of day 1, you would know that all the computers at the convention were down for a long while. I got to the convention a little later this time (at around 1 PM), but it was good to see all the computers up and running already.

During both day 1 and 2 of the convention, random computers were running CoD4 at random times

After arriving home on the first day, I looked at the pictures I took, and was highly unsatisfied with the quality. So for day 2, I decided to try different settings.

What I deemed to be the convention's "rest area" during day 1 was turned into a "cosplayer's square" in day 2

Unfortunately, trying all those new settings drained my batteries. And since I am so noob, I only got tons of blur, unusable, overdeveloped, and underdeveloped pictures. As a result, I have much less pictures to share today as compared with day 1 coverage.

All the CoD4 tournament computers properly set up this time

I realized I forgot to mention this during day 1 coverage. There were a couple of (as some of my friends call it) CoD4 clans there. Like this one clan that's supposedly one of the best: ESP (Eat Sleep Play)

Mr. Pikachu and Kitteh of ESP

Grr of SWL

Oh, remember the Panda Hammer I mentioned in day 1 coverage, and the queue it formed for the booth? Well, the queue got wayyyy longer in day 2.

The line stretched all the way towards the outside of the convention site

I had thought of getting one myself, but after looking at the massive queue, I gave up immediately

Anyway, who cares about all that? :P Let's move on to the cosplayers. Once again, I will need help with identifying some cosplayers, so please feel free to point out any familiar characters.

Not sure if she meant to cosplay as Kurauchi Anna, or if she was just wearing the maid outfit from He is My Master

This next cosplayer, IMO was the most epic of them all. XD

Gao Hai of Code Geass R2

Ran Shuuei on the left, and Ri Kouyu on the left, both from Saiunkoku Monogatari. I can't identify the character in the center

Keroro Lady from day one!

Apart from just cosplayers, there were some pretty goth-loli girls there too. :D

Girl on the right is <3

I really hope someone can help identify this character! I need to watch the anime she comes from. lol

Not sure who exactly, but some Naruto girl?

Graham Aker from Gundam 00. It's the reverse trap Gino from day 1. I also found out later that she's one of the judges for the cosplay competition

Hollow Ichigo from Bleach

At the Mo Siang booth, Runup (the company that owns Mo Siang) had a dance performance.


There was a dance performance on the first day as well, but I missed that.


In my panic, I forgot to use flash, and I even failed to get a shot of their finishing pose. So fail, me.


I also realized that I should have taken a VIDEO of the dance. Epic fail.

Spitfire (far left) from Air Gear, and Cross Yuki (far right) from Vampire Knight.

The three musketeers uhh... what?

Alternate costume Zasalamel from Soul Calibur (Thanks to Panther for helping identify this character)

Amane Misa (left) and Ryuuzaki/L/Lawliet (right) from Death Note

Why is L wearing shoes?

As with almost every anime convention with cosplayers, there will be a Narutard Naruto cosplayer or two. There were quite a number here, but I did not take many pictures of them. The only good Naruto cosplayer, IMO, was a (reverse trap) Gaara cosplayer (and I failed to get a picture of her. Yay).


There was this one booth, Gamefe, which was entirely Chinese (meaning I did not understand what their booth was about). But they seemed to be promoting some games, and a singer/actor.

The lady in the dark dress is the said actor/singer

Suigintou from Rozen Maiden

At this point, my battery died already, so now it's pictures taken with my phone. *Cue horrible quality*

Am not too sure, but I think La Corda D'oro?

Spirit (left) and Maka Albarn (right) from Soul Eater

"MAKA CHOP!!"

For the cosplay competition, there were only 8 contestants. To name a few, Spitfire, Gaara, Hollow Ichigo, Spirit, and Gao Hai.

For the competition, each contestant had to do a performance on stage (with or without aides). Spitfire did a "skating tutorial", Hollow Ichigo did a fight scene, while Spirit re-enacted two scenes from Soul Eater. Gaara, along with a few other Narutards Naruto cosplayers did a dance routine.. first to High School Musical (struck out for great justice), then to the "Ask a Ninja" theme song. XD

IMO, Gao Hai had the most epic performance. He forced a guy to hold a banana while he sang a Chinese song, then he suddenly grabbed the banana away from him and the tralala song played. XD

But as for who won the competition, I do not know. There was an hour an a half before the results were announced, and since my camera batteries were dead, I decided to head back home early.

Overall, the second day of the convention was much better as compared to the first day.

Albums: Day 1 Day 2

Day 1 coverage here.