Rep on the Event

The Grand Hall, Multimedia University

After the tiring two days attending the DaiCon, laziness kicked in and posting an article on the event seems merely impossible. At last, after much postponing I finally regained enough strength to hit the keyboard.

Ok, actually I'm still in my lazy mode, so I will not write long in this article.

DaiCon 2009 could be considered small, if you want to compare it with the Comiket in Japan, despite it is one of the biggest anime event in Malaysia. There's quite a number of booth at the expo, and I could say that the most crowded one would be Kareshi Kanojyo no Mise (KKnM) booth. They sell anime merchandices that they brought straight from Japan, so the items there were quite expensive. But that did not dampen my spirit to bleed my own wallet and buy myself a Naruto T-shirt, a Katekyo Hitman Reborn mug (Hibari Kyoya) and paper folder (Sawada Tsunayoshi).

There's a long line of people who were waiting to enter the booth, and I also was not excluded. Took me about half an hour in those line, but it's worth it.

All my favourite characters lined up in a row

There was also The Figure Mall (TFM) figure exhibition where the TFM members exhibited their individual collections, with many of them being limited edition figurines not sold anywhere. It is one of the biggest and most well-known gathering of figurine collectors in Malaysia. You could check out more pictures of the figurines exhibited at The Envoy's Figma Gallery here and at Muzaffar's Blog.

Kidchan's doujin booth

While I was surveying the doujin booth that were scattered around the hall, I found myself face to face with kidchan, a One Academy graduate and an amazing artist that I've always admired. I managed to buy some of her artworks and take a photo of her. You could check out her amazing gallery of artworks at deviantART.

The maid girls posing in front of the maid cafe

Around noon, I had lunch at the Maid Cafe which was situated at the left side of the grand hall. It took me a while to be seated as it was really crowded with people.

FYI, I don't have a maid fetish. I was hungry, and that was the only place where I could get a grab of snacks. I don't know about the others, but I think most of them were only there to satisfy their needs to be served like a master, or just plain curiousity to try something new.

Cosplayers being interviewed by Animax

There were also a lot of cosplayers at the event. A few of them cosplayed 2D characters, while many others cosplayed characters from anime, and some of them characters from movies. There's a lot of pictures that i took of them, but to post them all up is a pain in the ass. So here I made a link to my friend's blog as he had quite a bunch of them posted up.

In the evening of the first day, there's a Q&A panel with Chihara Minori at 5.30 p.m. It was quite hilarious as there were some unexpected questions being asked. For more details on the interview, you could go here.

On the giant screen: Minorin wearing baju kebaya

View of her from where I stood

The highlights of the second day were the special performance by Chihara Minori. Although pictures and videos were not allowed during the concerts, I managed to take two sneak pictures of Minorin in baju kebaya (as you can see above). It was only after a few failed attempts, but I finally get a good shot of her. The pictures are quite blurry, but that's the best that I could get as DaiCon Committee members were roaming around the audience seats.

After the concert was over, there's not much left to see as all the booth were closing. Nevertheless, I stayed long enough to see the ending ceremony. After prizes were given to the respected winners, there's a dancing spree on the stage by all the cosplayers. and guess what, one of the dance was Hare Hare Yukai Dance! So they put Kyon on the center, as the Haruhi's cosplayer was not around.

Hare Hare Yukai Dance after the ending ceremony

Thus, DaiCon 2009 ended. Overall, it was a very hectic and tiring weekends, but the most important thing is that I've really enjoyed myself to the fullest.