Taylor’s Anime Fest 2008

July 27, 2008 by Aoshi_88

Taylor’s University College had it’s Taylor’s Anime Fest in the main campus in SS15, Subang yesterday.

Overall:

Response was lukewarm. The crowd just wasn’t there. The event itself was rather poorly coordinated. Cosplay competition and artwork competition schedules were also changed just one hour before both competitions started. Bad stage lighting made it hard to see what was going onstage. Venue isn’t anything to shout about but the audio equipment was horrible. At times, you could hear the music from the back of the stage, and occassionaly it would be from the front. Even participants for “Guess-the-song” had trouble hearing the song they were supposed to guess.

The crowd was also quite unenthusiastic about the event itself, crowd response was lukewarm until AMV movies were aired, which caught the crowd’s attention. A live band was also in attendance but the guitars were drowned out by the extraordinarily loud drums. There was no bass player as well.

Cosplay Competition:

Somewhat poorly executed. I had no understanding whatsoever of what was going on with some of the sketches. At one point, two cosplayers doing a skit didn’t say when their skit ended and the judges ended up being clueless as to whether it was over and done with or whether the drama was still going on.

1st Place: Dude from Final Fantasy 7. One of the Turks.

Due to missing the later half of the cosplay event, i was unable to obtain the other final results but from what i was told, Commander Chaos did not win any prizes. Neither did Chii. But a Katenkyou Hitman Reborn cosplay did win but i am unable to recall which place.

Akiko as Chi from Chobits. She didn’t win anything though.

And i blame Linkin for causing me to miss the rest of the cosplay competition. Had to rush back to PJ to pick him up from the LRT station.

Here’s another kicker, TWO of the judges were none other than Aiko and Shin. So watch out people, we of /AS/ are in ur backyards, snoopin’ ur lolis.

Booths:

Didn’t have much of an interest in the booths but i did hang out most of the time at the TFM(Figure Mall) booth. These guys are the ones who do booth displays at major cons/events in Malaysia but within the peninsula. This year’s team saw the addition of Setsuna and Sai as participants contributing their own figurines to the display in addition to Kev, Valho, Aiko and dishwasher.

Exiled_Gundam trying to be moe, and not failing too badly either.

Another shot at the TFM booth. Left to right; dishwasher, aiko, aiko’s pet sister, valho and kev.

Obligatory Haruhi dance

Some more shots(click on thumbnails):

MOST EPIC LULZ OF ALL!!!

One of our own LYN /AS/-ers as an RO Kafra

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