Eriol’s AFA09 Cosplay Photos & Aftermath

The event that are highly anticipated over the region this year – Anime Festival Asia 09 had ended with  a splash, with the 2-day concert event I LOVE ANISONG highlight. I’m sure that many are feeling very empty right now, like me. Really enjoyed and appreciated the event highlights especially the Regional Cosplay Competition (RCC), K-ON!  seiyuu “live dubbing”, and of course – the I LOVE ANISONG concert.

I wasn’t really active taking photos on the first day as I was in fanboy mood for Shokotan’s autograph. And after playing Pokewalker with her .. i literally flew to Shokoland. Nevertheless, during day 1, I enjoyed alot during the RCC and meeting new friends in the process, one of them is from Malaysia. Without our friends of other countries, how would Anime Festival “ASIA” be as its named? Really glad that there are visitors, cosplayers, supporters and fans from other parts of the region to gathered at our tiny red dot.

Day 2, I covered more on cosplayers, but not before being trapped in the epic crowd of the Dubbing machine and Karaoke machine demo, and most anticipated highlight – the K-ON! seiyuus live dubbing and Q & A session. The crowd was scary, everyone is kinda crazy about the seiyuu /or K-ON!. To protect the rights of the seiyuus, the management had actually “requested” the audience not to take photos or videos in the process, which ended up in a few unhappy incidents involving the organizers and the audiences. Despite of that, I really hope that the Japanese side will still let their artistes come over.

Cosplays standards had indeed improved alot too ^^.  And throughout the event,  I observed that there are kids cosplayers with their parents as the photographers.  Is it a new trend?! It was really a good news, at least we know that cosplay culture ain’t disappearing in Singapore, despite the fact I’ve heard from other cosplayers and photographers that some of the cosplayers will be quitting due to their school, work commitments.

Anyway I had some photos too share with everyone. Its a combination of Day 1 and Day2 of AFA09.  The next event that I will be covering will most probably be a JROCK event called the Project Breakout! 3. Which was organized by a few JRock band members for JRock music lovers in Singapore. For more information you can check out here.