The first ever singapore anime convention the Anime Festival Asia 2008 aka AFA08 is finally over after a wait of months of preparations and speculations. The 2 day event ended quite successfully without any serious hitches, except for a few.
Another was a one that involved with May’n, luckily it did not case a major big hoo haa. A fan manage to get to May’n room’s door and was block by the AFA organizer people. Even try to force his way in, till he was pinned down, by a huge guy…He just wanted to have May’n to sign on a poster, but her manager says no. Than he knee down to beg for her signature. That art surprises everybody.Eventually after much persistence by this craze fan, he was than led off by security.
I can say that it is a event that almost overshadowed the Singapore Toy and Comic Convention or STCC. Many people feel that AFA08 will kill STCC right off because of its good contents that are more appalling to anime fans. But this is not the case as I foresee that STCC can still survive as it’s contents are more for fans that are into ‘western’ comics and toys. There are still quite strong fan bases in Singapore.
Not only Singaporeans, AFA08 also attracted many fans from overseas, like from Thailand, Malaysia, Indonasia, HongKong, Japan, ….
AFA08 strong point is that this event manage to invite in famous people like Yasufumi Soejima , Koji Morimoto , Kunio Okawara from the Japanese anime industry and of course the singers like May’n, Ichirou Mizuki. These two singers attracted a huge crowd. The showcases and talks are informative.
It serves as a good platform for introducing Japanese anime based industry onto the local animators, fans and others alike.
Well done to all the organizer committee and the people who get involved in this event. Hope there will be a AFA09..
These are the photos i taken during the AFA08 event..
Photo session during the press conference. These are the main guests and
From left May’n, Yasufumi Soejima , Koji Morimoto , Kunio Okawara, Ichirou Mizuki
People's favourite... May'n with her cute smile...
Opening cenemory of AFA08. With the cut, here starts AFA08
Huge pic panel of Code Geass, D Gray man and Shana...
The Sky Crawlers Booth… coming to
Code Geass showcase
The standee of Imaginary Friends booth.
DOMO booth... is actually bring in by odex.
Toy N Toys showcase... i like the glass displays
The ever popular Rei from the movie Evangelion 1.0
The bean pops form Bandai... so cute i got one myself..
Armor Core series from kotobukiya.
One of the lagest robot from super robot wars....
MG Sinanju
from the barku gundam contest..
From the barku gundam contest..
From the barku gundam contest..
from the barku gundam contest..
From the barku gundam contest..
From the barku gundam contest..
A nice piece of work from Imaginary Friends at the manga showcase area.
Little Buster art from Collerate Damage at the manga showcase area. Nice!
Awsome five star story mech at the
The queue for KKNM booth spread out fast and lots of people
At the end point of the suntec convention area.
Gundam behind the crowd waiting for May'n concert to start ! haha