Cosplay Events and The Media

HARI WILAYAH PARADE (28th January)

Held at the stretch of road from Masjid Negara to Dataran Merdeka. Since we've been through all these parade things during WCS-Japan, me and Yuan volunteered to be saikang for this event, together with Charity (since Cap'n Allen will be cosplaying and leading the group of cosplayers).

The walk is long and tedious, but the cosplayers were having fun and the crowd is having fun and we're happy to see happy faces. The event was covered by various TV stations and newspapers, but since there were huge turnout of thousands of people, the coverage was pretty random and more selective towards the Prime Minister.

However, you can watch videos of the walk (from the cosplayers' eye view) from HERE and HERE.


The cosplaying cosplayers...



and the not cosplaying cosplayers ohoho~



ANIMAX EVENT (10th March)

Held at 1 Utama. Apparently the short commercial about it is out... but not yet the full blown coverage. You can watch it HERE.

I hope the full coverage will be released soon. I mean... that's half hour of my routine 'lepak session after event' gone for their recording amusement.

There's also coverage in the the local magazines.


Hot magazine, scanned by Weiss.


Gempak magazine, scanned by waninoko.




AMBASSADOR VISIT TO KINGDOM OF JAPAN EXHIBITION (8th March)

Held at National Arts Muzeum. Me and Yuan cosplaying as Strawberry Panic characters. There was a coverage on the page 2 of Japanese e-news HERE.

and also...


Local newspaper NST, scanned by Leena.



VIDEO GAMES LIVE PRESS LAUNCH (22nd March)

Held at Istana Budaya. It was to release info about the upcoming VGL concert, while the cosplayers are invited to make it more er... colourful lol.

Coverage by Rentak Sejuta can be found HERE.

Coverage by Game Axis can be found HERE.


Local newpaper Metro, scanned by Edlin.


Local newpaper Kosmo, scanned by Edlin.

....where am I? Well I'm just helping out as a minder. Making sure the cosplayers look presentable and not get harassed by the media people, etc.


I like the changing room. It's like.... something out of the movie Black Swan!



MAGSEVEN - COSTUME DREAMS (Comic Fiesta time)

i don't know much about this, as i'm not involved and the people who were, kept silent. But anyway enjoy the recordings!

TRAILER
PART1
PART2
PART3


Local media coverage on cosplays has certainly improved by a lot this year. Hope it will be better in the future!

RAGE 2012

RAGE event was over last Saturday+Sunday, at Pay Teck school in Melaka, organized by EMINA@MMU. Since it's held in melaka, me and my friends had a weekend sleepover roadtrip for this event. It was a pretty ok ok fun event. There wasn't as many ppl there as i hoped for, but whoever came, we made the most of it! Braving the heat, eat eat and eat and gossiping at Jonker Street. Yesssss~ very memorable weekend indeed (le ignores AFKLOL drama).

Day 1 (sat) we're cosplaying as Shonen Onmyouji characters, with me as Masahiro, Yuan as Gurren, Chiko as Dragon Goddess, and Mokkun as Mokkun, dragging Wen as random youkai. We did this for a skit based on Shiomaru's songs Amendment, which had a very disastrous result so i shall not post the video here until we redo it in the future hahaha OTL


eer...ooops??!! Hahah... thankfully the sword was made to be lightweight enough to not cause serious injury but tough enough to withstand impact and not break. But Yuan never stopped complaining about the bruise i gave her (hey you're suppose to BLOCK ok).


Mokkun (plushie)... both made by Yuan. Sooo cute!!

Had some shoot done, 1st photo by Hexlord, 2nd photo by e-jump, others not out yet (no rush! i know even photographers have other things to do in life).

I actually did a weird things this time by ASKING photographers for a shoot, instead of vice versa. Received many different reactions: some willing, some not willing, some are busy and took the initiative to call other photographers to shoot us instead. Hrmm hmm..... *takes note* Anyway i'm really sprry if i seem annoying and pester-ish!!! Thank you for your patience and guidance!!



oh well, aren't we sweet like chocolate?!


Day 2 (sunday) I cosplayed as Ponyo and Yuan as Nathan.


Some photoshoot pictures of my Ponyo. So nicely done by Hexlord~ *loves* My costume had a lot of error (too big!!) so i'll need to redo/fix it before my beach photoshoot with my 'boifren'.


During the prize giving ceremony, our Shonen Onmyouji won best group. Btw meet my new friend from Nigeria!!! HE IS FABULOUS!


This is me and Potter. i was trying new style of eye makeup+lashes...err.

BTW NOW COMPARE~



This is me and Yuan (and Eddie and Sparda) when we're in/out of costume. MIND RAPE BUBUBUAAAARGH!!!!


Hope there's another event like this next year!! i love Crazy-filled Road Trips with my friends!!

Anyway WATCH HERE for video of the event made by STUDIO OMOSHIROI. Enjoy~!!!