ACGC 08 Finale at Mid Valley
In a nutshell, the event sucks. Its full of local online game promotional booths and there is hardly anything related to games and anime other than the few doujin booths, some cosplayers and 2 small stalls selling figurines and anime related items. 80% is full of online games that we have never heard before and almost all of it is in chinese!!!
The cosplay contest on day 2 is a joke. Really, it is. 8 cosplayers. Eight. I have more fingers than that. Even the recent Animax cosplay competition had 10 at least. I know. I was one of the judges. There was purely a lack of promotion and advertisement cause even I did not know about it until last minute when Akiko reminded me. Still to be more accurate in what was wrong:
1. Lack of promotion.
2. Stupid stage location (it was place in a corner…very stupid thing to do) and it was too small.
3. Too focused on online games.
4. Making use of cosplayers to pull in the crowd (I know…).
5. No proper security (an incident happened to one of the cosplayer and I got screwed because of it. Fuck you ACGC committee for not having a brain to have security at one of the most highest traffic locations in the hall! Dumbass!).
6. Small venue (for a corporate sponsored event you might think that they could afford a bigger venue).
I might be a tad little too cruel on my judgement but then again I hate sucky corporate sponsored events. A small consolation though is that the cosplayer who cosplayed for both days were really good in making their costumes. I have seen many throughout the years and I’m really impressed. I’m looking forward to what cosplayers will bring to Comic Fiesta 2008 later this year.
Here is some pics I took. I’m still new in using an SLR (thanks to Man of Honour for the camera) and I did not have a flash unit and the venue’s lighting was not that good. I’ll upload some of the better pics to my photobucket account later when I have more time.
Mintos-dono!!! Please do not overwork me during CF2008!!! >_<”
Akiko-chan~~~!!!!! Kya~~~!!!!!
I’ll upload my other pics into my photobucket account. Its not easy resizing 200+ pics so it’ll take me some time. In the meantime, you can enjoy a picture of me doing the ‘KIRA~~’ pose compliments of Aoshi88.
Kira~~!!!
And yes, I’ll most probably be doing the Kira pose again during CF this year…if Aoshi reminds me lah. hehe.
you got the event name wrong.. its supposed to be “ACGC 08 Finale”
ACGC 08 was already passed earlier this year at BTS and queensbay mall~
Okie, I stand corrected. But still they should really get a proper naming system. heh
Please don’t do the pose anymore. I feel thousand of cats is killed because of you. At least censor your face from humiliation!!
Then let the kitty cleansing begin!!!
doujin area dint really get the “highest traffic” actually. more like the games part. and this is afterall an event organised by leet games, naturally it would be mostly promoting games again..
darn and you just broke my record of promoting ACGC finale so well, until you said there was lack of promo. i was doing sooo well..
In usual ACG events it is one of the highest traffic especially with all the cosplayers there. I was not pointing at ACGC exactly when i mention that. There were no cosplayers at the ‘games booth’ to instigate my problem I had there. *ehem*
You did a good job of promoting it, thats why I knew about it!!! I’m talking about ACGC’s promo team doing a bad job. You’re not working for them so why so sad? =__=”
Sup. Quite a bit of your shots have too much yellow in them. That and the over-exposure.
But that’s way better than what my E-500 can take. Lol. You going to get captured doing the KIRA KIRA at CF again. >:D
heh?! the lighting in the event was great… i think the problems purely come from your shoting skill. I able to catch nice pics without flash. Maybe u need to change the ISO.
Doujinshi area was great too, it located beside the resting area, i really spent time to check them out (of course the gaming company come first near to the entrance)!
Cosplay was ok, dont compare too much, dont forget they are just bunch of otaku who entertaining themselve there. So it is waste to deserve a great highlight. somemore it is a repeat costume as well and i am sick of fake japanese voice, worse than doraemon. (dont hate me)
I agree their promo is not enough cox the comics competition is cancel lastly…
ei, ei. I earn money from those chinese online game leh