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Comic Fiesta 2008 - Day 1

Comic Fiesta! That is the name of one of Malaysia’s biggest otaku events. Similar to the Japanese Comiket (but on a much, much smaller scale), CF is a place for artists and the like come to display and sell some doujin work.

As you can see in the above picture, this year’s CF was held at Sunway Pyramid, on 20th and 21st December.

Was there early on day 1, but there was already a number of people waiting to enter.

I entered the convention hall through the exit (that door you see in the above picture), which I only found out was the exit on day 2 because the guard told me so. If you full-view the above picture, you can make out the word “EXIT” written on a piece of paper and stuck on top of the door where no one would see it.

The first thing I see when I’m in there is the doujin booths area.

Well, let’s take a quick look at the stuff to be found at this year’s booths.

The Figure Mall booth. I could be wrong, but I believe their goods were only for display, and none for sale.

I spot something familiar…

Amazing stuff, really. The artwork present was impressive. I had a hard time deciding where to place my money. ^^;

Other than the doujin booths, there were also the sponsor booths. Let’s take a look at some of those booths:

Blank DVDs, for all your piracy data burning needs

This booth (which sold make-up, I believe) felt a little out of place at this event.

Awesome shirt!

One booth was selling bootleg goods, which was rather saddening.

On to the stage area. To the right of the stage, there was the screen and some artwork on display.

They were screening this awesome video

To the left of the main stage, there was a smaller stage.

They later changed the setup of this area a little by moving the chairs.

And that was basically the convention site of Comic Fiesta ‘08.

Let’s meet the two emcees for this event.

Alfred

and Chuck

The emcees were good at keeping the crowd entertained, but their humor was rather crude, as some people have pointed out. Admittedly, I personally found them very funny, though I do agree that they should tone down on their jokes a little. Afterall, this is a public event.

VIPs getting ready to cut the ribbon for the official opening

Opening video

Being half the attraction of CF, here are some cosplayers of day 1.

Nyan~

At one point in day 1, kiDChan was having a live demo, and what you see above is the crowd that had gathered to watch her.

kiDChan in action

Trap Haruhi!

Patapon cosplayer is epic

Playing some games for prizes

… This was part of the game

V-Kei!

When I stay too long at conventions, I tend to forget which cosplayers I’ve taken pictures of, and so I sometimes end up with repeats.

As I was on the escalator going down, on my way to lunch, I spotted this Akita Neru cosplayer.

Since there were people behind me on the escalator, I waited til I reached the bottom, then went back up, just to get a picture of her. After taking my picture, I got back on the downward escalator, when I saw some Macross Frontier cosplayers go up.

I was like, “Why..? ;_;”

Lunch @ Mr. Teppanyaki

When I got back, the group cosplay competition had already started/was just about to begin, and so I rushed to the stage.

I only saw three groups perform. The first being a miscellaneous collection of cosplayers, then D. Gray-man, and finally Bleach.

Frankly, I didn’t really enjoy the perfomances, though the D. Gray-man one wasn’t too bad.

Well, that’s all I have for day 1. There weren’t many events going on. At one point, they even screened a full episode of Tentai Senshi Sunred, which I lol’d at, because they showed FANSUBS by ANBU.

Omake
Comic Fiesta 2008 Day 1 album here.

Other people who posted about day 1 of CF08:
Atarashii Prelude
e-jump’s Weblog
I crave for seme(s).