Today's the first day of the 2 day Anime Festival Asia 2008. Having attended it, I'm going to talk about what I did today. Missing the pre-registration by a day or a few hours (I tried to register on the evening of the last day and somehow it said that the registration was closed...), I had to take a line that opened later than that for those who pre-registered. So, I went in a bit later than those who pre-registered (about 1/2 hour).
Going in, I went around looking at all the stalls set up as unlike SOME people, I didn't eye anything in there beforehand. So I went around looking at everything. Immediately upon entering, is a gundam stall. It sold gundam model kits, from the latest 00 to even the Three Kingdom gundams. To the left, was a big display of gundam models. There were some pretty cool models there and I think I took a few pictures of them, but my handphone ran outta battery earlier today and is charging right now, once it finish recharging, I'll check and post any and every picture I took today.
Pass that, were some stalls about Animax and some other stuff that I don't exactly remember. Next was a figurine display section. It took up a decent amount of space and it had some interesting figurines up on display.
Near there was a booth set up by Chuang Yi (any Singaporean who don't know them, seriously, get a life). I saw 2 series that interested me. I was following one while the other was one that I had interest in for a while now. The one I was following I had the latest 2 volumes but not the first 3, so that bundle was exactly right for me. ^_^
Though admittedly, I hesitated n buying them (they totally $20 for the 6. Yes, a bargain I know but I still hesitated...). I got them later though, so no disappointment there. ^_^
Then there were figurine selling stalls. I don't exactly know what the shop's were (those interested in knowing can probably ask hy, he'll probably know) but they had some stock of figurines there. Some were bargains while some were at normal prices. I took an interest in one of the figurines on sale there and hesitated only a bit before shelling out $50 ($49 but hey what's the difference?) for it before it disappeared. After that, I continued to check out the place.
There was this small stall in the middle of the place that sold anime posters and a few other collectables. I wanted to check out the stuff there but there was a frigging loooonnnnggggg line there... >_<
Not wanting to line up that long to just see the stall, I moved on. There weren't much left after that. Another anime advertisement booth which advertised some animes (Toradora, Skip Beat and Casshern Sins and Shakugan no Shana to name a few). Surprisingly, there was a doujinshi booth too near there! They had some pretty nice Nanoha doujins there. I didn't get them though as I didn't want to blow so much money.. Regrets around, but I think I would have regretted it more if I blew my savings on them.
There was a stage there, but I didn't pay much attention to it though. I was concentrating more on the arcade there. *eye sparkles*
There, was *drum roll* Melty Blood Actress Again. *loud clapping* Yayyy!! In total, I played it trice losing in all 3, but I put up a good fight too as in all of them, I won 2 out of the 3 rounds before losing.
Around 3, I was feeling tired and went home, ending my trip there.
Yes, my handphone camera sucks and rotating the picture didn't exactly help either...
