Cosfest VII
Cosfest VII was held over the weekends at Downtown East. It is an annual cosplaying convention, home to the Singapore qualifying round for the World Cosplay Summit in Nagoya, Aichi, along with other animé-related events and competitions. Also, the cutest Haruhi cosplayer ever. :O
Cosfest VII was held over two days. I was busy on Saturday so I had to miss the anime song karaoke competition. Apparently the winner Rika (a 2006 performance by her) sang Nico Nico Douga Gasshou Kumikyoku in its entirety. You can watch a low-quality recording on YouTube.
As usual, there were too many Bleach and D.Gray-man cosplayers for my taste. I guess it’s up to people do decide what they wish to cosplay as, but it’s becoming a textbook example of conforming to be different. I think good cosplays are a form of self expression, and cookie-cutter costumes somewhat defeat the point of the entire ritual.
I have nothing else to say, so here are the pictures.
Awesome
It’s a girl
We are all special!
涼宮ハルヒの週末
Annhilating targets
I wish I had a proper external flash
意義あり！ Objection!
I’ve taken this exact composition at least five times before
The only good game on NDS until the next Gyakuten
Exia deploys some kind of energy wave weapon
This is not LotR
Sometimes I can’t decide if Pita-Ten was over or under-rated
There was no Miku :(
wtf
This is no cosplay. This is the real Ayu
Uguu~
Usagi-su
Tony Stark makes a surprise visit
I can never tell these people apart
Zero idea what this is
The hair colour is really authentic
That’s not the paper aeroplane Alto folds
FFVIII is guilty pleasure
アニヲタが溢れた世の中に絶望した
マクロス７に絶望した
写真をきれいに撮れない僕に絶望した
C-C-Combo breaker
最近のくそアニメに絶望した
As usual, the rest of the photos are in my gallery. Cosplayers depicted, feel free to contact me if you want the original 10-megapixel JPEG. But that won’t happen because my photos suck. :(
July 8th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
you should have seen Ironman when he was going off the backstage after the whole thing. the entire swat team was walking with him like some VIP lol.
July 11th, 2008 at 7:53 am
wow, awesome sauce. Ironman is the best! but its probably hot and suffocating in that shiny red armor. XD
July 11th, 2008 at 7:57 am
Nice.. you got quite a number of good shots.
July 14th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Start a fund for “Cosplay photographers need an external flash” so that we can take better photos for the good of the cosplayers for the better community.
Judging from a photo you took, you were probably standing right next to me , yet I didn’t notice your prescence! You ninjas? :O
July 15th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
singaporean otaku~!
lol~~ah~
i m in singapore now~~OTZ…although not singaporean~aha~
the haruhi cos is awesome!~
the customs are really nice~
系色望先生so funny~~~XD
i love vapire knight~but only the comic~~
can exchange links with me?
July 23rd, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Nice Photos~ I wish I could see it live~
“Zero idea what this is”
Hmm~ It reminds me of Maken-ki manga~
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August 18th, 2008 at 11:14 am
I’m surprised how good some of these people looked… usually, I feel like like puking after I see cosplay - but I’m pretty impressed with this one.