Zhi Jian a.k.a Silent: AniManGaki 2012

Last Saturday and Sunday was AniManGaki 2012. It was an anime event held at Sunway Pyramid Convention Center. I went there for both days.

Day 1, I managed to wake up at 8.40am, as I only slept for around 5 hours. I am ready to go at 9am, but still waiting for my friend, as yesterday he said want to follow my car. After waiting for 45 mins, I couldn't wait any longer, because the event is gonna start at 10am. So, I left my house at 9.45am and drive to Sunway Pyramid. It's a Saturday morning, so the traffic is quite clear. I reached there in 10 mins using LDP. As usual, whenever I go to Sunway Pyramid, I will always park just outside the convention center, because there always have space. As expected, I managed to find parking slot immediately after I reach there. It was just nearby the entrance of the convention center. Once I entered the event hall, I can see long queue at the ticket counter. Immediately I went in and queue too. After queuing for around 20 mins, finally I bought my tickets for 2 days. After getting the ticket, I did not enter the hall immediately. I went to McDonald's to have my breakfast. At McDonald's there's many cosplayers having their breakfast there too. After that, only I went back to the convention center and entered the hall. The hall is smaller than my expectation, because I thought they will be using few halls. I finish walking around the booths very fast. There are quite a few booths selling figures, but unfortunately, most of them are not genuine figures, totally same case like Comic Fiesta last year. There are like 2~3 booths selling genuine figures though, but nothing that I want to buy. After finished walking for a round, I went to Malaysia Vocaloid Party (M.V.P) booth, which is at the left side of the event stage. During AFAMY, I get to know some friends from M.V.P so I decided to visit their booth and slack there. Well, of course I didn't just stay at the booth and slack. I helped them to give out some stuffs and also look after the booth when they went out for group photo. From morning till end of day 1, I just sit at the booth and watch the stage performance from the booth. The stage events are quite entertaining. After the end of day 1, I didn't stay back to have dinner with them because I had to rush back to Sri Petaling for barbeque gathering with my friends.

Day 2, I also managed to wake up early and I went to Vista Komanwel A to fetch my friend. Yesterday he overslept. After picking up he and his friend, I use back LDP to go there, because I not really sure the KESAS way. Today I totally didn't walk around the booth and straight stay at M.V.P booth since morning. day 2 stage performances are also very nice, and most of the songs they performed are the songs I'm familiar with too. Especially when they perform YUI's song, I rush to the front of the stage and sing along too. Around 3pm, I participate the AniManGaki Otaku test. Actually I wanted to take the intermediate test too, but during that time I went out for lunch. The questions for the Otaku test is really though, and I almost couldn't answer any of those without using Google. The last 6 challenging questions I totally couldn't answer any. However, the winner of the Otaku test is my friend from M.V.P and he won himself a huge Hatsune Miku Plushie. When the event almost end, I helped them to clear the booth and bring stuffs to his car. After that, we went to KFC for dinner before going home. During the dinner it's kinda awkward, because within the 11 person, I'm the only one not from M.V.P. Fortunately most of the topics talked during the dinner are related to anime. Normally within my friends, I'm the one known as Otaku because most of my friends don't watch anime or manga. After today, I know that my level of Otaku cannot be called as Otaku at all, because almost any of them watched a lot more anime than me and had a lot more knowledge of anime than me. Thanks M.V.P for letting me to slack at their booth for both day! Too bad I heard they won't be having booth in events until further notice.