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~!!!

Entourage, Animax, RAGE 2012

What happened to my February?? WHERE HAS IT GONE TO???!!! *le gasp*



LE TOUR DE NATIONAL ART GALLERY

Anyway, currently The National Art Gallery is hosting an Exhibition called JAPAN: Kingdom of Characters. So on Thursday 8/3/12, when the Japanese Ambassador came to visit, a group of us cosplayers volunteered to give him and his guests a welcoming entourage. Very short, nothing fancy, and gives me excuse to check out the exhibition. Unfortunately there's very little to see... wish there are more stuff exhibited considering there's a lot of empty space provided. NST and STAR journalist were around covering the event, but i stayed in the shadows lol~


Group photo. Funniest comment happened here...

Allen: Ok everybody pose in character... EXCEPT YOU TWO! *points to me and Yuan*


Ahahahaha~ for your info we 2 were cosplaying from a Yuri-genre anime.... if you know what i mean *cough cough*

You can find more pictures HERE and HERE.


ANIMAX CARNIVAL 2012

Animax Carnival was held at 1utama on the 10/3/2012. At first i thought of only checking it out a while b4 going to the movie.... but my friends keep asking me to join the competition. I agreed in the end.... but reusing old costume coz... well idk. Wasn't really gung ho about all this.

20 contestants overall. i couldn't comment much on the skits coz i didn't manage to watch. I only managed to hang around with cosplayers at the side stage area there throughout the event because i destroyed my shoes. There were many cosplayers and visitors that day, surprisingly! Mostly vocaloids hahaha.... the vocaloid force still remain strong in Malaysia! Had insane fun hanging out with friends, Yuan traumatizing the male... the usual gig.


YEAAA ANGST ALL THE WAY!!!! We had to do 2 skits for this competition, 1 pre-prepared and 1 spontaneous without audio help. My skits this time was so drama-filled i feel so "the fuck is this, the fuck was that" at myself! I was cosplaying the Chiru version of Beatrice, dragging Yuan as Battler the bastard-tsun Sorcerer and my son Wen as Ronove (managed to make his costume using my leftover cloth in time phew~)


ogod i know i gained weight hahaha my face so round~


Stabity STAB!! Honestly not enough preparation... even the sword we used was what supposedly for Shonen Onmyouji but still unfinished yet eheheh...


Yes that is the famous Alodia, cosplaying as Yui from K-On. She was one of the invited celebrity judge and spokesperson for this Animax event. SHE LOOKS AND TALKS LIKE A DOLL I TELL YOU!!! Ayase was judging as well as Killua (no Hisoka *sobs*) And then my other son Xajin was the most fangirled creature at this event with his Sebastian *whyaminotsurprised.jpeg

Unfortunately there's NO VIDEO of the skit nor competition i could find. The bane of cosplaying non-mainstream anime *fail laugh*


But somehow, surprisingly, won anyway trolololiduneven~ me 1st, Xajin 2nd, and Ayumi 3rd. Aaaand I got to hug Alodia on-stage HAHAHAH BURN FANBOIS BUUUURN <---- Yuan said that actually.


Right afterwards we were interviewed by Animax and required to say a million and one things for them. You'll probably see it soon on Animax channel after they edited off all the idiotic parts we did. "Thank you Animax and Astro for this fun and exciting event! yay!"

The next day we came back to 1utama and watch John Carter (without cosplaying of course), just as originally planned.



KARNIVAL BELIA KREATIF

... was CANCELLED *le fuuuuuu~!!! We were very disappointed becoz me and Yuan wanted to battle it out against each other over WHO IS MORE TROLLOLOL BEBEH?!!! Guess we won't be seeing that anytime soon....



RAGE EVENT
Radical Anime Games Expo 2012 will be held on he 31/3/2012 and 1/4/2012 over at Melaka. Yay~ roadtrip!!! Me and my friends will be doing a cosplay skit tribute in honour of Shiomaru and her amazing songs!!! Look forward to it on day 1 yaaa~ \o/




OTHER FUTURE EVENTS

- Gamefest 4 on 7th and 8th of April, Grand Hall Multimedia University, Cyberjaya. (probably won' be attending)

- C2Age on 18th, 19th and 20th of May at Tropicana City Mall, Petaling Jaya.

-Malaysia Games and Comic Convention on 19th and 20th of May at Kolej Damansara Utama, KL.

- Video Games Live concert on 26th and 27th of May at Istana Budaya, KL.

- (AFA) Anime Festival Asia on 9th and 10th of June at Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC), Kuala Lumpur.

- (ACM) Asia Cosplay Meet on early June.

Tiger & Bunny Heroes photoshoot, Cosplay Ball and Karnival Belia Kreatif

TIGER & BUNNY HEROES VERSION PHOTOSHOOT

Had this shoot on Christmas eve (since we don't celebrate it). A lot of OTL moments happened, which included me accidentally left my belt at home, a lot of humans thinking we're doing some shows and stalking/harassing us, and malaysia's beautiful heat-wave.... but overall with wonderful company, epic photogs and orgasmic scenery, our shoot came out pretty nice~!!!!



Thank you everyone for making it happen and I LOVE U ALL! I LOVE T&B!!!

Helpers: Wen, Chiko, Ranmaru, Shin, Ikki
Director: Hani
Photographers: Alex (A.R.C. Photography) & KC (Studio Omoshiroi)

Cosplayers:
Sky High@Deidara
Origami Cyclone@sky
Lunatic@Jinxie
Dragon Kid@Narukids
Fire Emblem@Yuan
Tiger@KayLi
Bunny@KerShin
Kaede@Xsaye

Costumes selfmade by respective cosplayers. Our Blue Rose couldn't make it for this shoot. *crai*

I'm so chubby~


Sky High is so tall!! (or rather... i'm so short...)


Our Team at CF got into Game Axis magazine!


Edited by Narukids! Origami is such a failure hahaha.... love you anyway!


Fire Emblem is so sexy and gay hahahaha run for your lives, Tiger!!!



NEW YEAR'S EVE COSPLAY BALL

Was organized by cosplayers for cosplayers. Held at Sri Petaling Hotel's ballroom. Pretty nifty and very fun private event. Pretty crazy night too.... the only time when male cosplayers discard their clothes in public, to the song "I'm Sexy and I Know It"... and yes they are sober. I shall leave that to your imagination.

Me and Yuan cosplayed as the Strawberry Panic wonderful Yuri pairing, Nagisa and Shizuma. Yuan cosplaying a girl really shocked some people hahahaha~!!!


We won a contest where we had to dress up a non-cosplayer. Thank you for being so sporting, future-cosplayer-man!! Men in blonde and black are 2 of our 4 'sons'. Very proud of them!


Hanging out and camho with the usual gorgeous buncha creatures.


I envy you ppl who are able to wear light-coloured wigs. My skin is so dark, i look ridiculous in white wigs. *crai*


Cappy bought new instax! So we raep itz!



Hermanmisao Photography set up a mini studio there. His works are gorgeous!! More can be seen HERE!!!

Hope there will be another Cosplay Ball later this year!



CARNIVAL BELIA KREATIF

Comic Fiesta goes to Carnival Belia Kreatif! So says the website.

This would be the first time i join for this event. Making it more interesting, Yuan is joining as Solo, I myself would be joining as Solo, my friend Junnie is joining as Solo, her bf Xenon (daddy!) is joining as Solo contestants. Partnership divided, fighting against each other (on the stage only of course!). I'm feeling the stress!!! But very excited too! And obviously the gar prize means we'll fight other gar contestants+partnership. Wooot~!!! Stressful so damn scary but BRING IT ON YEA!!!

Also I recently posted this status where i feel it's time Malaysia implement a rule that actually has existed in all over the world... which is

"If you have worn your costume for any other competition at any convention and have won an award, you will not be able to win in this competition."

Well, there is no such official rule yet, but at least i try to do the things which i preached.

... which is giving me lotsa headache right now coz most of my previous costumes had won at something at one event or another!!! And my CF costumes are... let's say it's not suitable for open air outdoor competition area.

Matila aku. MATI LA AKU. R-I-P SKY.

Oh well see u guys there!! If you're going!

*loves*

Comic Fiesta 2011

The biggest yearly event in Malaysia is back again!! i missed it last year so i was pretty excited for this year's!! Especially since it's held at KL Convention Centre... so called Dream Venue for most (and myself).


PREPERATIONS BEFORE CF

We started around... 2 weeks before event? Mostly because we didn't have enough money for materials.....but bless us the winnings from Gempak helped a lot!

So i started and finished off making Galaxy Angels' Mint costume. The pattern seem easy but i don't have Ruffler-foot so i had to handmade the ruffles and poofy sleeves and gold lining.... overall took about 3~4 days. And Narukids helped me make my boot covers!! Thank u sooo much!!!


Yuan also worked on completing the collar of his Kuhn costume.


Then we started to work on both our Fire Emblem and Origami Cyclone costumes. We did parts of each others' costumes.



Yuan did my helmet n shuriken. Isn't it fabulous?! Don't have pics of the rest of WIP since we were rushing like mad!!!

Oh yea we learn the hard way.... that if leather glue is drying up on our skin, IT BURNS. IT BURNS REAL BAD!!! yep.... we MASO ppl.


COMIC FIESTA DAY 1

Very uneventful day. In the late morning we rushed to event to see CRAZY QUEUE LINES outside the hall. I was so glad I have the 'Group Cosplay Contestant' immunity tag or i would have joined the queue. The competition is ... nothing much lol~ we didn't manage to practice at all so we all trollolol all the way. U can see the video here altho the angle/position is not in the middle.


Team Oldschool Rainbow (Galaxy Angels) and Newschool Rainbow (Uta no Prince-sama) combined!!! I love my team!! Thanks for making it happen!!

The cast: Mieko@Ranpha, RayRay@Forte, Aiko@Millefuille, Sky@Mint, Narukids@Vanilla


Yuan's Kuhn a.k.a the fabulous Cock-Head.

However, after the competition at hall 5, we went to hall 4 to chill, and that's when some shit happened. Not sure of the details, but the entrance and exit doors were closed for hours? Technically we were locked up in the hall. Doing nothing. Until late evening we were 'released' which by then i just went to buy some doujin stuff at Hall5 and then went home all tired and fed up with the whole situation.


COMIC FIESTA DAY 2

A lot of ppl assumed i'm entering the solo cosplay competition... I'm NOT!!! i'm just tired ok. We came really early because i read in the CF Forum the parking fee is flat rate RM10 if we park before 8.30am. And so we just chilled and waited for our Tiger & Bunny to assemble. I WANTED to photobomb people BUT apparently the hall was so obscenely crowded and my costume parts kept being knocked off by the crowd. So i didn't. Forgive this useless person oh my Sponsors!!! Anyway, the team manage to completely group up around 2pm, where we had a quick photoshoot n videoshoot (will update the blog later when it comes out). Then i admit defeat, changed to normal attire.

The costume was my first time making armour-ish stuff. Both costumes were 100% handmade by me and Yuan. All the sewing n the glueing of the leather, vynil, foam... and wearing it.... AGHFZZZ it is the MOST UNCOMFORTABLE thing. i really don't see the fun of armour. U won't be seeing me as a Gundam anytime in the future. But for the moment it was nice to cosplay Origami Cyclone. Onwards to pic-spam.


The cast: Cappy@Carina, Mbek@Cis, Belle@BlueRose, Deidara@SkyHigh, KerShin@Bunny, KayLi@Tiger, Yuan@FireEmblem, Sky@OrigamiCyclone, Narukids@DragonKid, Jinxie@Lunatic

Also...

Let's just have a moment of silence to admire this 'work of art'. This was my 1st time meeting n talking to him *insert fangirl silent scream*


AFTERMATH

camwhore with the King of Camho obviously!!!


It was awesome to be part of cosplay groups!! I rarely get invited because i'm not exactly a Moe-moe-kyun person. So i wanna thank you all for letting me be part of the team!! I love you all a lot!!! 1 old anime and 1 new anime... my fandom is really balanced, don't you think?

This year's CF i managed to meet up with Jinxie, K and Aly whom i met when i went to WCS Japan last few months. It's good to see them crazies again!!! *love lots* Hopefully we can meet again in the future. Also randomly met a Blue Rose which we dragged into our team LOL nice to meet u!!!

The year 2011 coming to a close. Will be doing one last cosplay at the New Year's Party. And then onward to another new year full of fun, laughter, and frills. I'm still trying to balance my love for lolita outfits and cosplay. They both cost a lot! And since i now have a lil experience with armour-making, Yuan suggested me to finally do that Saber cosplay that i have been postponing to make for many years due to lack of self confidence!!! Ah~ hope can do it well.


Not my picture, not my clothes.... but i sure would love to own something like that in the future *sigh* Anyway~ till next time!!! Y'all have a wonderful monsoon ok?!!

Oh btw... the RM10 parking fee WAS A CHEAT A LIE!!!! After CF, we went to chill at our friend's hotel room... and by the time we got back, the parking fee was RM40!!!! AAAGHH!!! i am so frustrated and broke and shitz!


# All pics taken from tagged FB. If it belongs to u and u want to be credited, please state and i would do so. Thank you so much for the lovely pictures!!!