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Thank god I did not have to queue up for the festival. MEDIA pass is totally awesome.

First, I would like to qualify my words by stating that there is absolutely no malice against cosplayers, figurine lovers and anime merchandise lovers. However, I think that there will be enough anime blogs out there ready to post all the cosplayers, figurines and gundam pictures that you ever want. For me, I believe that those things would always be around in every single anime convention. Sure, there might be cosplayers doing different characters, but I do not see the point. They will be there every anime convention. They won’t run away.

However, there are things in the AFA08 that are more unique in an anime convention. These are the things that I will be reporting on, and I hope that you take some time tomorrow to check it out. In order to hook you, I praised ODEX in this post. Check out why.

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This day I shall forever burn into my mind. I wish you were there RIUVA…but I guess that Island Paradise was worth it, yes?

So it was a glorious day for me on June 14, 2008 the day I shook hands with the God of Metal Gear, Lord Hideo Kojima. The minders would not let us tarry for pictures so I got some pretty crappy ones, hopefully the rest of my comrades got better ones. Nevertheless I got what was most important, my very own signed copy of MGS4. In addition the first layer of air on my freshly opened copy included air from the same room as Lord Kojima. I can now die a happy man. I was most fortunate to be a San Francisco native and even more fortunate that Lord Kojima would agree to visit so small a place instead of just stopping at New York City, and Los Angles.

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The video is cut off slightly due to the fact that Impzie’s stupid camera (more accurately, his memory card) went dead on him and hence refused to let him take any more videos that is longer. Still, cheers and this is perhaps one of the craziest presentations in the EOY ‘06!

Two more videos after more~ Very short and incomplete ones though.

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All right, Joo has done the honors with her immensely picture intensive entry on the EOY 2006. Other than the rather bad management (NOR, shouldn’t you help them with your event management skills?), the whole event has tons of good cosplayers. Honestly, even with the non-existent order, the cosplay standards are really improving, since the four of us did not really expect too much.

That, by the way, is the wisest ever decision because I was totally bowled over. There are tons of really great cosplayers and some of them are so friendly and nice, that I will think that they are wonderful. Completely.

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Since Jooo has done a general overview of the cosplayers in the STAC Resolution event, I’m just going to focus on the people who cosplayed on the Naruto theme.

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Its the cosplaying/anime fair held at the expo today.

The quadders consisting of me, impzus, alkanphel and invis trooped down with cameras and all sorts and found ourselves pleasantly surprised. Pleasantly surprised at the standard of cosplaying and the amount of characters turn out. We weren’t expecting a lot so you could say it was a very worthwhile trip and also because its our first time at a cosplaying event.. So we didn’t reallly know what to expect.

Very worth the 12buckeroos we paid. Hahaha. (After reading on some blogs about how management closed stores at 3pm oddish and people streamed in for free.. the 12 buckeroos we paid wasn’t that worth it after all.)

I’m pretty impressed with a couple of cosplayers’ outfits. And how some of the people look so apt cosplaying a particular character. For instance, i just hafta mention the naruto guy. He looks really good cosplaying him! hahaha. It really suits him to a T! And DOMO KUN!!! omg. That made my day, instantly.

So, without further a do. Photos that were painstakingly watermarked and resized by yours truly.

It was a pain, a realll pain. And should any of you want photos without us inside… Leave a comment with yer email or something, i’ma contact you and send them to you. hahaha.

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