End of Year 2009 Report

More pictures here

As you may have noticed if you were there on the day itself, a lot of artworks there were also at the Anime Festival Asia 2009, however there were artworks that were exclusive to here as there might be reasons why they did not get displayed there. One of the artworks has a striking resemblance to the Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha series. Can you guess which one?

First up was the solo cosplay competition. The contestants can be seen below.

The contests were Jr Snake Eyes (G.I Joe), Lu Bu (Dynasty Warriors), Suu (Clover), Ichigo (Bleach), Rude (Final Fantasy VII), Kanda (D. Gray-man), Kamen Rider (Kamen Rider Decade), Haruhi (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya), Alex Marcer (Prototype), Lenalee Lee and (D.Gray-man).

Congratulations to Rude (Final Fantasy) who came out with first prize, however I felt that Lu Bu (Dynasty Warriors) should have one as he clearly put the a lot of effort in his costume, but that’s just my personal opinion

Followed by the group cosplay competition. There were 4 teams, all required to do a short performance as well as a few group poses for the photographers at the end. The 4 teams and their performances and final poses can be seen below.

Team: The Idol M@sters
Series: Idolm@ster

Team: The Genesis of the War on Genesis
Series: The War on Genesis

Team: YuRiPa~fume
Series: Final Fantasy XI

Team: Team Baka Ninja
Series: Guilty Gear

Black Alice Loli Fashion Runaway followed.

Yui Makino Mini Performance

I found her voice to be very soothing and heavenly. She is indeed very talented, hope to see more in the anime industry.

Cam battery died so only got a few seconds >.<

Anyway for those who were not there, there was a little event guide given out. Found the cover a little interesting as it had chibi drawings of various anime characters of a variety of series. Can you recognize and name them all? I got about 90% of them.

There was a crossword inside, obviously it’s too late to win the prize. I would have entered but I couldn’t answer them all so I gave up hehe. Do you know all the answers?

Full Report here