[Event] - Animagaki 2014

Bigger than ever

Animagaki is an annual event adored by our ACG fans. Hosted on Sunway Pyramid Convention Center Hall from 9th August - 10th August 2014, we expected this gonna turn up a huge event as last year surpass 7,000 attendees for such local event.

Media Pass -  Cute Design as usual

However, due to 9th August 2014 is also a TedxKL - The Open Future event hosted on the same day, I can't possible attend both functions at the same time. So I'm only visiting the 2nd day of Animagaki, and regretted missing tons of fun of the Day 1 activities.

Little Akiba

This year due to time constrain, I'll be focusing on the display of figurine and the Indie product design and produced by our talented artist. We can totally see a huge increase of quality and quantity of exhibitors.

Artwork for sale

These are the awesome magazine that can be purchased on any convenient store in Japan(My Recent Trip to Japan), and the organizers display huge amount of these on the floor to showcase to our local ACG hobbyist.

Anime Magazine

Last year, the awesome figure and model are displayed in a rather congested walkway outside the entrance, which have poor lightning and area for us to observe and take photo. However this year, they are located inside the hall on the sides where special lightning are set-up for photogs and hobbyist to observe and carry their photography.

As you can see, this are sole lightning provided by the hall, no flash gun.

[Event] - Garena League of Legends Circuit 2013 Grand Finals

Welcome to Summoners Rift mid or feed

In association with Comic Fiesta 2013, Garena decided to host their Legends Circuit 2013 on KL Convention Centre together with Comic Fiesta 2013. It all makes sense as e-sports are closely related to ACG such as cosplay activity.

As a former e-sports competitive player myself, e-sports has been growing steadily in Malaysia, especially League of Legends and its counter part Dota 2 by Valve. With the recently success by Orange e-sports claiming 3rd in The International 3, e-sports has been a quite a huge thing in Malaysia now. Even our Youth Minister are promoting e-sports.

As business point of view, it is a very strategic move. Not only can guaranteed a certain amount of visitors watching the tournament live by pre-selling ticket, also promoting e-sports and League of Legends. At least 40k visitors at least pass by and know what's going on. As a fans point of view, they are giving it free live performance back to the fans which ain't bad.

The Legends Circuit 2013

If you read the blog of any event we cover, we like to uncover the behind the scene thing. And yes, we met the earliest team in the field of justice.

Meet Team Singapore Sentinels

They sure do arrive early, we meet them around 9am where they are already inside the hall waiting for the competition start. 

SGS Chawy - Mid Player

There are 4 team competing the Champion which is :- SGS, KLH, KTB, and IGS.
You can find them on Leaguepedia.com for more information.

The Main Stage

Summoners Cup

The Legends Circuit Summer Season 2013 - Champion Cup

How can it be a ACG event in Comic Fiesta 2013 without some Cosplay Competition?

League of Legends Cosplay Competition

Silent night Sona w/ Amumu

JINX! Isn't she excited

Pulsefire Ezreal

After the Cosplay Performance, the competition continue.

They warm up with ARAM, what?

Score Board

Lylia and LII will be casting the matches

Ah, I so wish that I can back to the e-sports once again. O well, casual player is pretty enjoyable too. Watching matches like watching football, pretty awesome hobby don't you think?

Join the community here at Garena League of Legends!

[Event] - Comic Fiesta 2013 Day 2

NO MORE LIAO! as today is the last day for CF 2013

Beautiful morning in Comic Fiesta Day 2.

Morning KLCC is gorgeous

Day 2 que system is much better as you can see.

No Long que, it was smooth as butter

As they improved with their system, the que is just fast and simple. As compared to the Day 1, the process of buying ticket is much faster and efficient.

Fast lane, buy fast

As usual, the morning peeps is early. Even the event starts around 10-ish, the 1st waiting zone is already packed with people.

9am que

We actually missed some of these amazing art work located inside the convention hall at the waiting area.

Artwork

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[Event] - Comic Fiesta 2013 Day 1

YOU SHALL NOT PASS through the crowd even with early bird pass to the event after opening due to bad que-ing setup to the awesome Comic Fiesta 2013.

Is here, the long awaited Comic Fiesta(CF) 2013 on 21/22 December 2013. One of the largest ACG(Anime Comic Game) event in Malaysia. If you still don't know what Cosplay is, despite the wrecking news few weeks ago with the teenager boy rape-fail-killed cosplayer incident ; Cosplay is known as Costume play, an activity where participants dress up to represent a character they adore. It is a sub-pop culture in Japan inception in Akihabara.

As an ACG lover, we can't resist ourself to attend this event. We even got ourself a 'Official Blogger' pass to ease our coverage. Benefit with such pass is we get to access everywhere. As always, we do have responsibility to not abuse the pass. Respect and self behave always come first.

Enough lecturing, lets get started with the event!

Arrive at 8am in the morning

Well we arriving as early as 8am, talking about early bird.
Let me rephrase that.

8am and it is crowded!

Well we arriving as late as 8am, talking about lazy bump. Cosplayers, photopraghers, bloggers, volunteers, crew, even visitors arrive early, que-ing to get the best seat, beat the deals, buy-it-before-gone~

Entrance to go to another entrance

The long que around 9am-ish

Early bird's ticket holder entrance

Non-early bird ticket holder

As past experience with many ACG event, Comic Fiesta is out of the league. We truly can define that CF is one of the largest ACG event in Malaysia, every single year the crowd is just amazing. Speaking last year experience of mine, I can't even enter the event hall due to the huge crowd que-ing for ticket.

I strongly recommend to future visitors for such event, please just buy the Early Bird Ticket, totally worth it. If you can't attend event after purchasing the ticket, you can just sell it to others, many people that live outside the City are drooling for the Early Bird Ticket. So reselling is not a problem.

First Aid prepared for emergency, thoughtful 

Online Purchase via MRuncit as CF Official Ticketing partner, also part of the early bird perk

[Event] - #Churp Out 2013

A street fair with a cause

#Churp Out 2013 is a street fair event hosted by our local micro bloging advertising company - Churp Churp. Despite they hosted various events such as Churp Hangout, movie premier and such, this is their first time organizing such huge event.

Event took place in a far away town from KL, Setia Alam. Ok, is not that far just 30 minutes driving from KL will do.

There's a huge green field beside the huge mall where the event located.

It's 10am, vendors is setting up their booth.

Churp Out 2013

Churpers who RSVP to this event gets a goodie bag.

[Event] - Animangaki 2013 - Day 2

Moe moe kun?

On day 2, we arrived as usual ; they arrived as usual. I'm impress with their spirit on arriving early either on giving us a hella quality cosplay, or being entertained for the whole day.

I have to show you these blurry picture, a glimpse on behind the scene.

The behind the scene of setting up

 As a privilege of the staff, we get to see things earlier. Here's some figurine shot before the opening of the event. We can take as long as we want for these shots.

Hulk :'Talk to the hand'

[Event] - Animangaki 2013 - Day 1

We Define ourselves

Cosplay also known as costume play, which is an activity in which participants wear costumes with accessories to represent a character. It is a pop culture in Japan which brings it to a world phenomenon in 1990. We often see ComicCon, Anicon or Pax which is a huge event for geek in the North America or Europe.
In Malaysia, we have such event as well. Comic Fiesta(CF) is the well known event for cosplay. However Animangaki is the first time I heard of this. I'm always a big fans of games and anime myself, and been attending to CF since 2009, and once AFA in 2012. Some friends share this event to me, so I decided to give it a shot.
To experience the event, I'm thinking why don't I apply for a media/volunteer pass to fully experience the event since I'm a big fans. But I was too late to apply for the media pass, so volunteer pass was given at the end. Well, we have to pay of course, our soul and sweat, for helping them.
Benefit with such pass is we get to enter and out, backstage any where we want, but bare in mind we have to be responsible since they trust us and approve this pass. I really suggest blogger to apply such pass if you seriously want to understand the behind the scene.

We worked hard for this

The event take place on 24-25 August 2013 on Sunway Pyramid Convention Center starts from 10.00am to 6.00pm. For us volunteer, we had to come at 8am for a brief. We reached at 8.30am.

Die hard fans already bee queuing since 8am

The main coverage of this event is to discover indie spirit of a cosplayer. Indie is a term for independence, referring artists independent on something they worked on, and cosplayer is a perfect subject for this. If you ever cosplayed, the hard work behind for their fancy look is huge. The amount of money and time spend, just to bring us the joy of our living fantasies. So in return, as a blogger myself, I hope this coverage will bring them some positive push to continue their amazing job.

Kirito who was the first cosplayer arrive at the que

Our cosplayer cum partner in volunteer work