Anime Festival Asia 2008

Cosplay: Naruto Shippuuden








Cosplay: Death The Kid (Soul Eater) and Unknown Character








Cosplay: Medusa and Stein (Soul Eater)








Cosplay: Lacus (Gundam Seed)








Cosplay: Unknown Character Again











Cosplay: "Little Akatsuki"








Display: Gundam Models








Display: Digimon Data Squad Digi-Vice








Display: Digimon Data Squad Figurines








Final Fantasy: Cloud











Shana








Fan-Art: Kyo Kusanagi (KOF)











Poster: Shana








Doraemon











POKe'MON Diamond & Pearl








Display: Power Rangers Operation Overdrive






Finally! The long waited Anime Festival in Singapore is here! The exhibition will be only held for 2 days. However, the admission is not free and anime lovers are required to pay $5 to get a ticket before they can get in. Still, this is would not stop lovers from going into the exhibition!!!

Generally, most of the stalls are set up by the art studios. There are also displays of many models and figurines, you can purchase some of them too. Most of the displays are Gundam especially, and the organiser actually invited the Gundam Mechanical Designer to answer most of the questions that the Gundam fans may have. I knew a Japanese singer is also invited to perform the Opening Theme of the Macross Frontier, but I didn't stay to watch it. Moreover, there is a Japanese Arcade Game Competiton at the back of the hall. The games used are Tekken 6, The King of Fighters 98 (New Version), and Midnight Tune.

The festival really attracted a lot of fans and made the hall really crowded. And of course, there will surely be Cosplay in such event. Many fans dressed up themselves into the famous characters in the Anime, such as Naruto, Death the Kid, and Lacus etc. But I cannot seem to find anybody dressed up as one of the characters found in Bleach... I took pictures of 2 characters which I am unsure of, but I found them interesting, so I took them anyway.

What disappoints me in this exhibition is that it is very small and the space of the hall is not really used up. To me, I think the space used is only about 65% of the exhibition hall. Those who have been Suntec City should know how big is the hall. Also, I think more displays can be put up too, they should not focus on Gundam and Masked Rider. I'm pretty sure fans not only like Gundams, there should be people who like figurines of other Anime characters. They should also try to sell Anime Soundtracks and musics from Japan, CDs are something missing in the exhibition too. I really hope the next one can be better if there will be another one in Singapore.