ACGC 08 Finale at Mid Valley

October 1st, 2008

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.