this post is just my experience of AFA12, not a full coverage of the event. this post is full of my own opinions, if you feel uncomfortable while reading just close it.
AFA12
was held in Singapore Expo from 9/11/2012 to 11/11/2012. Finally this
year I am able to attend AFA in Singapore. The previous few AFA I wanted
to attend but couldn't because need to go college. For now, I already
graduated from college and still unemployed. Therefore, this year I'm
free to go there! The main reason I wanted to go to AFA this year is to
attend the concert. This year AFA Anisong concert has lots of awesome
artists coming to Singapore to perform, and the few artists I'm
interested are T.M.Revolution and Sphere. So I bought the 3 days basic
package in October via online and started planning my trip to Singapore.
Firstly I asked my aunty that stays in Singapore whether I'm able to
stay in her house during the few days, and I got permission. Next is to
buy bus ticket. I didn't bring much cash there, because I didn't plan to
buy anything due to the currency exchange rate is so high.
Day 0
So,
on 9/11/2012 morning, my mum fetch me to the bus office at Bangsar at
the morning. I'm taking the 11.30am bus, and estimated to arrive
Singapore by 4.30pm. At the bus office, I met one of my secondary
schoolmate unexpectedly. She's going to Singapore also and we're on the
same bus. The arriving time was delayed probably because of heavy rain
and traffic jam. I reach the destination around 5.40pm. My initial plan
was to put my luggage at my friend's house then go to Singapore Expo for
concert, then after concert return to get my luggage then only go to my
aunty's house. However, due to the delay, I couldn't do that. I waited
for taxi at Novena Square since 6pm, until 7pm only I'm able to get a
taxi. From there, it took me around 35 mins to reach Singapore Expo.
Yes, I brought my luggage along to the concert, no choice. After
reaching Singapore Expo, I thought I made i, since the concert supposed
to start at 7.30pm and I'm only 5 mins late. However, everything turn
out to be so different from my expectation. The queue to collect ticket
is sooooo long. Yes, just to collect the ticket I purchased online, not
to buy ticket on the spot. I queue for 40 mins to get my ticket, when I
get into the concert hall is already 8.15pm. Friday night is the solo
concert of T.M.Revolution, as this is also their first performance in
other country outside Japan. I missed about 6 or 7 songs. Fortunately,
those songs I missed are the songs I'm not familiar with. All my
favourite songs were sang after I get into the concert hall. The concert
was just awesome, even though I missed some part. After the concert, I
went to McDonald's @ Changi Center Point, then I took bus to my aunty
house.
Day 1
Next day, I reach Singapore Expo
about 10am. My aunty fetch me there after having breakfast. The queue to
buy entrance ticket is very long also. I actually wanted to buy the
ticket yesterday. The counter to purchase ticket was totally empty
yesterday, but after I collected my concert tickets, it's already 8.10pm
and the counter closed at 8pm. I didn't queue for the ticket
immediately. I walked around and saw some of my friends that came from
Malaysia. They are the members of M.V.P and they just came to Singapore
Expo right after getting down from the plane. I sit down and talked with
them for awhile, then I saw the long queue was gone then I went to buy
the entrance ticket. The festival ticket is $8 for one day and
festival+stage ticket is $20 for one day. I bought festival+ stage
ticket for 2 days. After going in the AFA hall, I can see many booths
having long queue, especially the Sword Art Online booth. My friends
queue at the booth since 9am until around 2pm still not yet able to go
in the booth. almost all of the merchandise are sold out by the time
they reach the booth. Yesterday when I was queuing to get the concert
tickets, the guy in front of me told me he's gonna queue overnight to be
the first few person to get in AFA hall in order to purchase items at
SAO booth, because purchasing over $50 at SAO booth, they can get a
ticket to get LiSA's autograph, and it's limited. Frankly speaking, I'm
not interested in buying things, so most of the booths I just walk pass.
The booth that get my attention is the Anime Karaoke booth, people can
sing at the booth using an application on Mac to see their score. I
stand at the booth for quite some time. Another booth is Sony Music
booth, because they are selling official merchandise of YUI. I was so
tempted to buy, but managed to control myself. For stage events, I
didn't camp at the event hall, so I missed many events. The few one I
watched were the appearance of I Love Anisong concert Artiste -
fripSide, m.o.v.e and LiSA, HoriPro showcase - Sea*A, May'n and Kishio
Daisuke.
In the concert, the first group to perform is
BABYMETAL. I've never heard of them until today, and their songs not my
type also. They're like a group of lolis at the age of 13/14. Next is
m.o.v.e. I also never heard of them, but their songs are great. They
sang theme songs for Initial D and Ikkitousen. motsu's english is quite
good and he interact with us a lot. Next group is fridSide. It's the
first time for this and the previous 2 group to perform outside Japan.
fripSide sang theme songs of To Aru Kagaku no Railgun, Hayate no Gotoku
movie. After fripSide is LiSA, which most people are waiting for this.
Today's concert hall is totally full, unlike yesterday still got many
empty spaces. So many LiSA fans in the concert. However, the set up
takes too long, until about 10.40pm only LiSA get on stage. The concert
was supposed to start at 7pm to 11pm, but delayed till 7.30 only start.
LiSA has been to AFA last year, but this is the first time I watching
her live. I don't know all the songs she sang, only some. After LiSA,
many people left the hall to catch MRT because it's already 11.20pm. I
didn't care and didn't bothered to leave because I'm taking bus, or
worst then I walk back, since it's only 4km away from my aunty's house,
because next is FLOW! I've became their fans since watching their
concert during AFAMY. Since m.o.v.e start performing I've been jumping
and shouting, and even ran out to buy glow sticks. even during fripSide
and LiSA also still jumping and shouting. I was so exhausted, but
continue jumping once the "Jibun wo" started. They even sing a cover of "Zankoku na Tenshi no These".
Day 2
I
won't write about the booths in day 2, since I'm not really interested,
but one booth I must write about it, which is the SAO booth. I
mentioned earlier, I met a guy when I queuing for concert ticket during
T.M.Revolution concert. During yesterday's concert, he was sitting right
behind me, and I had a talk with him before the concert starts. After
T.M.Revolution concert, he really stay at Singapore Expo and queue
overnight, and he managed to get the ticket for LiSA's autograph. From
what he said, around 3am in the midnight, there's already around 50
people queuing at the entrance of AFA. Around 5am+ when the first train
arrived, it's already over 100 people queuing. Right after he bought his
stuffs, he straight went home to sleep and come back for the concert.
This explains why my friends queue for over 5 hours still can't reach
the booth. And all SAO booth items were sold out one first day, second
day they're not selling anything, just displaying items at the booth.
For
the stage event, I went there late today because I was having lunch
with my Singaporean friend at Tampines Mall, so I missed Kamiyama
Kenji's presentation, but I guess it will be similar to what he
presented during AFAMY. When I went in the event hall, Danny is having
an interview session with Nishihara Fumiaki, the editor-in-chief of Lis
Ani! magazine. After this is Bushiroad Stage, I'm not interested so I
left the hall again. I return around 2.30pm for I Love Anisong concert
Artiste appearance - May'n, Kuribayashi Minami, Sea*A and Sphere. Before
the event starts, the crowd all rushed in front the stage with their
cameras. When they appeared, the crowd went so hype. So basically just
some introduction of themselves and answering some questions. After
this, the other artists left, except Sphere because next event is Sphere
special stage. If I'm not mistaken, it's also streaming live on nico
nico douga. Danny and Yoshimi had a short interview with Sphere, then
Sphere performed live dub anime on stage. It's really amazing,
especially Toyosaki Aki's voice. Every time Toyosaki Aki speak
something, the crowd was shouting so loud, so obvious that she has more
fans in the hall than the other 3 Sphere members. and yeah, I'm also her
fans xD After Sphere stage, next is Danny Choo's presentation. As
usual, Danny Choo's presentation is great. He really inspires me a lot.
Too bad I can't attend Culture Night Singapore tomorrow night because I
will be going back tomorrow morning. After that, I just anyhow walk
around and wait till concert time.
The first one to
perform in today's concert is Hachioji-P. He's a vocaloid producer. I
don't really know about him, because I'm not into vocaloid, but I know
many of my friends from M.V.P are his fans. Next is Sea*A. This is the
second time I watch their performance, the first time was during AFAMY.
Frankly speaking, I don't like their songs. For me, they are just like
some idol group. After Sea*A is Kuribayashi Minami. I always see this
name and I did listen to some of her songs but can't really remember
from which anime. The few songs that I know that was sang today are
Tsubasa wa Pleasure Line, Shining Days and Straight Jet. After that is
Sphere! Sphere is one of the reason I'm here today! Previously Sea*A and
Kuribayashi Minami's performance were streaming live on nico nico
douga, but Sphere's one will not be stream. So, thos who watching via
nico nico douga had to wait till May'n's turn. The first song Sphere
perform is Future Stream! That is the opening theme of Hatsukoi Limited,
which is also the song that makes me know about Sphere. After that
Sphere also sang 2 anime cover song, which are Sailor Moon OP -
Moonlight Densetsu and Mahou Sensei Negima OP - Happy Material. I was
wondering why they didn't sing Bakuman season 3 ED - Pride on Everyday.
The single was already released on 7/11/2012, which is few days before
AFA. The last artist to perform on the last concert of AFA is May'n!
Honestly, I don't know about May'n's song other than Chase the world. I
also know few songs which SEAMO was featuring, but those are not anime
song.
So, that's all. After the concert I went back to
my aunty house and the next morning I take bus back to KL. I will upload
photos to this post later, need some time to choose and arrange. 2
weeks after AFA ended finally done my post... yeah I'm just lazy...
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Sunday, November 25, 2012
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Anime Festival Asia Malaysia 2012
Day 0
Firstly, on Friday, it is Anime Festival Asia Malaysia (AFAMY) Day 0, which is the press preview event of AFAMY. The press preview basically is to introduce the special guests of AFAMY and also selling tickets for AFAMY. The tickets that are sold there are Festival access, Festival + Stage full access, Free standing concert ticket and VIP concert ticket. Tickets start selling from 8am if not mistaken, and the press preview starts at 6pm. I go there around 3pm with my friend and bought the tickets. When I arrive there, there was no queue at the ticketing booth at all. Quite lucky I guess, because I remember at the morning I saw photo posted by AFA, showing a long queue waiting to buy tickets. I bought 8 tickets for Saturday and 2 tickets for Sunday. 2 tickets on both day is for me and my friend, and the rest I help other friends to buy. All tickets are Festival + Stage full access. After buying the tickets, we went to Shikiya Restaurant to wait till the press preview time. At there, I also meet some new friends from a Facebook Anime Group. About 5pm, we go back to the stage and saw huge crowd out there. The ticketing booth having long queue and the front of the stage is full of people. Fortunately, I found an excellent spot to have a good view of the stage and take photo. 2 new friends I just met took out a drawing block and start drawing a fansign, as he just had art class before coming here. The fansign they draw attracts lots of photographer to take photo of them, and they even get interviewed. Around 6pm, the press preview starts, and the emcee of the press preview is Danny Choo and Ferlyn Yoshimi. They introduced the guests that come for AFAMY. The guests are celebrity cosplayer from Japan, KANAME☆ and celebrity cosplayer group, SP Cats from Korea. Other than that, japanese artist that will have concert in AFAMY are Aimi, Kalafina, Kurosaki Maon, Sea☆A, KOTOKO and FLOW. the photos of AFAMY 2012 Day 0 can be found in my Facebook album.
Day 1
On Saturday, I done preparing myself to AFAMY at about 5am. I actually didn't sleep for whole night, because the night before this I went home about 1.30am after yumcha with my friends. Then, after bath and watch some anime, it's already 3am. I wanted to sleep for few hours but at the end I could not sleep. Guess I'm too excited? *are you elementary school kids who are excited to go for picnic? Orz* On day 1, I did not drive there. The first reason is I not sure how much is the parking price at there, secondly I don't know where PWTC actually is. So, me and my friend decided to take LRT. I did some googling, and found out that from Sri Petaling LRT can straight away reach PWTC. Unfortunately, not long after we board the LRT, I heard news that LRT from Sentul to PWTC is not working, and we had to go down from Sultan Ismail station. After getting down from there, we actually wanted to take taxi to PWTC, but because there are too many people there waiting for taxi, so we decided to walk over there since it's still early. I use the GPS apps installed on my phone to get the direction to PWTC. We walked around 20 mins, 2km distance to reach there. On the way of walking, I pass by my mum's office and then I roughly know where PWTC is now. After we get into PWTC, we started to queue to get in the hall. The first thing to see when you get into the hall will be the Mirai Itasha. Damn feel like I'm typing some really long essay, because I really got many things to talk about. Guess I will just focus on some important part. The best part of Day 1 is the presentation of Culture Japan by Danny Choo. During the presentation, Danny shared his experience about how he get into his job and many stuffs, and he really inspired me a lot. He made me think that I can fulfill my dream to Japan too if I work hard on it. For photos of Day 1 will be available here
Day 2
On Sunday, although the LRT was already fixed when I return from PWTC, but today I decided to drive there, as I already roughly know where's the location of it, and my friend told me some parking nearly only cost RM3 per entry. Before starting the journey to there, I went to 7-11 and bought a pack of chocolate buns for breakfast (and I actually only had the buns for breakfast, lunch and dinner). I used my phone GPS again, and reach there easier than what I expected. The parking area I park my car is just RM2.80 per entry. This time, we are able to enter the hall before opening, because we help our friends who are having a booth in there to take some stuffs in there. Actually my aim of today is camp at the event stage, since yesterday already walked around all the booths and nothing really attracts me. I was in the event stage since 9.52am until 3pm+, when the last event ends, which is the cosplay competition. After that, I went out to the ticket counter and meet up with some RO friends that came for AFAMY. After walking around with them for awhile, they're going back, and I went back to my friend's booth to rest. My friend's booth is Malaysia Vocaloid Party (MVP). I slack around there until around 6pm+, then I help them to pack stuffs and ready to go back. Suddenly, for some reason, few of us who are packing stuffs in the booth are able to watch the concert! This was my first Japanese artist concert *although last year I watched Shimokawa Mikuni sang right in front of me, but that was just few songs, not concert!* The few of us are so excited and we're so hype since the beginning of the concert till the end. I've never imagine that I'm able to listen KOTOKO singing Shooting Star right in front of me. That was the Opening Theme of Onegai Sensei, one of the first few anime that makes me start to watch anime when I'm form 4. When FLOW 's turn, KOTOKO was just sitting 2 rows behind me! She was there until before FLOW's encore. I'm not really familiar with FLOW, as I didn't really listen to their songs. However, one song the sang was the cover of Siam Shade song, 1/3 no Junjou na Kanjou, the ending theme of Rurouni Kenshin! Kohshi Asakawa from FLOW said, last year when Japan faces earthquake and tsunami, he felt so hopeless that music can't do anything to help. However, soon he realized that music can help people to overcome their fear. Music is Power! After the concert ends, we went home, and AFAMY 2012 ends officially. The photos can be found here.
In AFAMY 2012, although I didn't bought anything, but I obtained many great things like experience, resolution and new friends. I get to know many new friends from AFAMY, friends from Malaysia Vocaloid Party, AniMaVox, friends of friend and some from Twitter. We all share the same interest, and it really feels great when you have comrade that share same interest. In my school and college friends, not many people are really interested in anime and stuffs, and some might even think I'm weird *well, I'm an otaku, I admit it and I'm proud to be one* Looking forward for the next anime event!
Firstly, on Friday, it is Anime Festival Asia Malaysia (AFAMY) Day 0, which is the press preview event of AFAMY. The press preview basically is to introduce the special guests of AFAMY and also selling tickets for AFAMY. The tickets that are sold there are Festival access, Festival + Stage full access, Free standing concert ticket and VIP concert ticket. Tickets start selling from 8am if not mistaken, and the press preview starts at 6pm. I go there around 3pm with my friend and bought the tickets. When I arrive there, there was no queue at the ticketing booth at all. Quite lucky I guess, because I remember at the morning I saw photo posted by AFA, showing a long queue waiting to buy tickets. I bought 8 tickets for Saturday and 2 tickets for Sunday. 2 tickets on both day is for me and my friend, and the rest I help other friends to buy. All tickets are Festival + Stage full access. After buying the tickets, we went to Shikiya Restaurant to wait till the press preview time. At there, I also meet some new friends from a Facebook Anime Group. About 5pm, we go back to the stage and saw huge crowd out there. The ticketing booth having long queue and the front of the stage is full of people. Fortunately, I found an excellent spot to have a good view of the stage and take photo. 2 new friends I just met took out a drawing block and start drawing a fansign, as he just had art class before coming here. The fansign they draw attracts lots of photographer to take photo of them, and they even get interviewed. Around 6pm, the press preview starts, and the emcee of the press preview is Danny Choo and Ferlyn Yoshimi. They introduced the guests that come for AFAMY. The guests are celebrity cosplayer from Japan, KANAME☆ and celebrity cosplayer group, SP Cats from Korea. Other than that, japanese artist that will have concert in AFAMY are Aimi, Kalafina, Kurosaki Maon, Sea☆A, KOTOKO and FLOW. the photos of AFAMY 2012 Day 0 can be found in my Facebook album.
Day 1
On Saturday, I done preparing myself to AFAMY at about 5am. I actually didn't sleep for whole night, because the night before this I went home about 1.30am after yumcha with my friends. Then, after bath and watch some anime, it's already 3am. I wanted to sleep for few hours but at the end I could not sleep. Guess I'm too excited? *are you elementary school kids who are excited to go for picnic? Orz* On day 1, I did not drive there. The first reason is I not sure how much is the parking price at there, secondly I don't know where PWTC actually is. So, me and my friend decided to take LRT. I did some googling, and found out that from Sri Petaling LRT can straight away reach PWTC. Unfortunately, not long after we board the LRT, I heard news that LRT from Sentul to PWTC is not working, and we had to go down from Sultan Ismail station. After getting down from there, we actually wanted to take taxi to PWTC, but because there are too many people there waiting for taxi, so we decided to walk over there since it's still early. I use the GPS apps installed on my phone to get the direction to PWTC. We walked around 20 mins, 2km distance to reach there. On the way of walking, I pass by my mum's office and then I roughly know where PWTC is now. After we get into PWTC, we started to queue to get in the hall. The first thing to see when you get into the hall will be the Mirai Itasha. Damn feel like I'm typing some really long essay, because I really got many things to talk about. Guess I will just focus on some important part. The best part of Day 1 is the presentation of Culture Japan by Danny Choo. During the presentation, Danny shared his experience about how he get into his job and many stuffs, and he really inspired me a lot. He made me think that I can fulfill my dream to Japan too if I work hard on it. For photos of Day 1 will be available here
Day 2
On Sunday, although the LRT was already fixed when I return from PWTC, but today I decided to drive there, as I already roughly know where's the location of it, and my friend told me some parking nearly only cost RM3 per entry. Before starting the journey to there, I went to 7-11 and bought a pack of chocolate buns for breakfast (and I actually only had the buns for breakfast, lunch and dinner). I used my phone GPS again, and reach there easier than what I expected. The parking area I park my car is just RM2.80 per entry. This time, we are able to enter the hall before opening, because we help our friends who are having a booth in there to take some stuffs in there. Actually my aim of today is camp at the event stage, since yesterday already walked around all the booths and nothing really attracts me. I was in the event stage since 9.52am until 3pm+, when the last event ends, which is the cosplay competition. After that, I went out to the ticket counter and meet up with some RO friends that came for AFAMY. After walking around with them for awhile, they're going back, and I went back to my friend's booth to rest. My friend's booth is Malaysia Vocaloid Party (MVP). I slack around there until around 6pm+, then I help them to pack stuffs and ready to go back. Suddenly, for some reason, few of us who are packing stuffs in the booth are able to watch the concert! This was my first Japanese artist concert *although last year I watched Shimokawa Mikuni sang right in front of me, but that was just few songs, not concert!* The few of us are so excited and we're so hype since the beginning of the concert till the end. I've never imagine that I'm able to listen KOTOKO singing Shooting Star right in front of me. That was the Opening Theme of Onegai Sensei, one of the first few anime that makes me start to watch anime when I'm form 4. When FLOW 's turn, KOTOKO was just sitting 2 rows behind me! She was there until before FLOW's encore. I'm not really familiar with FLOW, as I didn't really listen to their songs. However, one song the sang was the cover of Siam Shade song, 1/3 no Junjou na Kanjou, the ending theme of Rurouni Kenshin! Kohshi Asakawa from FLOW said, last year when Japan faces earthquake and tsunami, he felt so hopeless that music can't do anything to help. However, soon he realized that music can help people to overcome their fear. Music is Power! After the concert ends, we went home, and AFAMY 2012 ends officially. The photos can be found here.
In AFAMY 2012, although I didn't bought anything, but I obtained many great things like experience, resolution and new friends. I get to know many new friends from AFAMY, friends from Malaysia Vocaloid Party, AniMaVox, friends of friend and some from Twitter. We all share the same interest, and it really feels great when you have comrade that share same interest. In my school and college friends, not many people are really interested in anime and stuffs, and some might even think I'm weird *well, I'm an otaku, I admit it and I'm proud to be one* Looking forward for the next anime event!
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