Comments on: A Little Late but..: AFA08 Day 1 at Suntec Convention Hall

By: Happy New Year: 1/1/09 | zone otaku

Happy New Year: 1/1/09 | zone otaku — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:17:42 +0000

[...] it’s the separate piece of the O Raiser to dock together with my 1/100 00 Gundam I bought back in AFA08. Not expecting to see this for sale in Singapore since shops tend to stock up on items that are [...]

By: Q

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:44:25 +0000

Oh you don’t like it so much? Then I suppose you won’t like the annual Anime/comic festival in Hong Kong held every summer as it’s mainly small anime merchandises, manga, and gunpla + gunpla display. Figurines don’t seem to be very popular with us, especially when there are those figures with a lot of skins exposing to the little ones (it’s more for general attendence not just hardcore otakus), and the fact that they are relatively expensive so we get hardly any displayed there; there’s only a Kotobukiya stand this year and there isn’t a huge variety, and with people complaining how expensive they are for such sizes. Well, at least from the outsiders’ point of view :\

But wow, there’s some nice loot there. Limited clear colour 1/144 HG Exia, and limited clear colour 1/100 Trans-Am Exia, as well as the newly-released 00 Gundam and VF-25F (though I haven’t watch any of the Macross series yet)! You’ve stil got yourself some great stuff!

By: Blowfish

Blowfish — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:05:43 +0000

Too bad they didnt have any new figures/limited ones…Thats what i would have been after.
Well atleast you met some interesting people aswell

By: hika

hika — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:20:11 +0000

Nana fan here too haha. But still Sunday is worth going la afterall you bought the 2 days ticks ~_~;
anyway, theres other highlight on sunday ~~;

btw that Exia is the limited tran am ver. one right? wonder how come i didn’t see it T_T;

By: Anime Festival Asia 08 « Gordonator

Anime Festival Asia 08 « Gordonator — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:02:51 +0000

[...] AFA reports from other anime bloggers. (Please let me know if I missed anyone out) Alafista The Blue Fox Alley double Kyouran Kyōdai Otakurean? (pp) Soshi AK-kun e-jump The Banzai Effect Raven’s Random Rants Nipah Express 0ne Stifler MrMayat The Zhu keeper Hika zotaku [...]

By: gordon

gordon — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:02:43 +0000

i bought the VF-25F as well. finally after such a long wait! wanted to get VF-25S as well but no money already. lol.

btw i have added your report to my list of comrades’ reports in my blog.

By: zenical

zenical — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:45:38 +0000

@ Rin: Well would have love it if there were some figurines, like exclusives to hoot! T_T

@ V: Yar I saw the brochure there too, but wouldn’t that be too late? People should get the floorplan before entering so that they will know where they are going! Lmao, I am not complaining since I did get the brochure b4 the doors opened, but just kinda disappointed because it could have been better!!

By: V

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:02:36 +0000

IMHO, you didn’t stick there long enough or explored thoroughly enough.
The brochure could have been grabbed from the Schedule Board near the stage, and the first day was actually more of Gundam than anything. :/
Second day was much better than the first in terms of cosplayers and events too. May’N concert was awesome.(Would also have preferred Mizuki Nana more though. XDDD)

And I was annoyed with Hatsune being in the middle of of the case and blocking my view of Figma Nanoha and Figma Fate LOL.

By: Rin

Rin — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:47:46 +0000

That’s some good stuff!!!!!!
I want some of your loot!!!!!!!
Wish conventions here can be like conventions there…so amazing…
It’s sort of like how Comiket is like minus the concert and the amount of people…