Yes, I’m well aware I’m a week late with this.

On the Sunday 2 weeks ago (31 August 2008), I decided to head down to the Sky Garden at VivoCity to attend a cosplay competition.

Originally, I planned to join a group of friends, but after a friend, TX, phoned me up asking for something to do after the exam week, I decided to form my own little group to wander around the rooftop.

At first, we really couldn’t do anything; my phone camera was crap and my friend’s digital camera only had enough memory for three pictures since he forgot his memory card. =_=

Fariz came too after his SMRT Challenge was over, didn’t win anything unfortunately.

We just sat at the stage, listening to the craptacular (in terms of sound quality) anime music being looped. It felt like they only had 10-12 songs to play, some of them being direct OP rips. There were dance performances, but for the love of me I couldn’t find in them any sort of relation to anime or even basic Japanese culture, except for maybe the fact that some of them wore yukata.

Their co-ordination was crappy too.

The majority of the cosplayers were Bleach and Naruto, though there were some new faces, including a guy cosplaying Ami from Shugo Chara and Kagamine Len.

Eventually, my other friend, pkchukiss, arrived, and he dragged with him XJ and JJ, who left to eat somewhere else.

pkchu lent me his Fujifilm S800 since XJ was kind enough to loan him his Nikon D80. For the first time in my life, I felt like an actual cosplay photographer, even to the extent of kneeling (and eventually sitting) right in front of the stage during the competition to take close-ups.

The photos posted here were taken by the Nikon, which wasn’t able to shoot any close-ups since XJ didn’t bring a zoom lens. I have no idea where the pictures (which were mostly close-ups) I took with pkchu’s Fujifilm went though. Ah well.

pkchu gave me a some pointers on shooting, but I was using Automatic mode anyway since I’m such a newbie at shooting. >.<

I thought the children cosplaying were cute. Next thing you know, they’d get a baby in a Bleach outfit or something.

We left after the competition ended, not bothering to stay behind for the results since I had to go home in time for the fast breaking.

More pictures in the Flickr pool here, as well as in my brother’s blog.

So anyway, going back to Cosplay Matsuri.. It is one of the events when cosplayers come together and showcase their repective characters that they are cosplaying as.. From D.Grayman to Bleach to Fate/Stay Night.. ^^

Even though the cosplay competition starts at 4pm, the cosplayers were already at the event place as early as 12pm.. The place was packed with cosplayers, photographers, random ppl and families by 2.30pm..


So I took the liberty to take some shots of the cosplayers during the Cosplay Matsuri.. Without further ado, I shall let you see the pics.. Can you try guessing some of the characters they are cosplaying?? xD







Well, other than just cosplayers, there was someone who brought his figma collection to the event and take some shots of them..


There were figma Konata, Fate and Nanoha..


Last but not least we have the special figma Suzumiya Haruhi on her own bike.. How cool is that?? ^^

So with that, lets continue on with the cosplay gallery..

As the Cosplay Competition began at about 4.30pm(delayed), I was still taking my own sweet time taking more shots of the cosplayers.. I noticed there was a chibi Deidara cosplayed by a 9 year old girl…

Well, my bro, Infestor51 said that she will be coming for the cosplay event in her Haruhi costume.. However, I did not expect her to be wearing a Nekomimi accessories.. Nuff said, lets just see the pictures.. ^^




Loli Haruhi with her figma counterpart.. xD