So it's confirmed -- despite all those rumours that emerged from God-knows-where Anime Festival Asia will still be held in Singapore this year. And they picked a gimmicky date for it too -- 11/11/11, giving rise the usual complaints about how it clashes with exam periods (I used to have that problem too -- another reason to be glad I've graduated).

Somehow the idea that AFA's location might be changed to Kuala Lumpur or another Southeast Asian city seemed especially prevalent this year. I guess people just thought a change might be due because AFA's been taking place in Singapore for the past 3 years. I doubt a location change will happen anytime soon. For one, the organizers, SOZO, appear to be Singapore-based. Plus, the local infrastructure and fan following are pretty supportive of this kind of event...It is still nice to have confirmation, though. Sorry, Malaysian/Indonesian/other Southeast Asian anime fans, looks like you guys will have to drag your butts over here again.

Eagerly waiting for announcements on the guest line-up. That info will probably take a while to come though.

On the J-rock front it seems that the band Vivid will be performing at the Sundown Festival on November 26th.



Not a lot of other info -- the Sundown Festival's page just links to their Facebook page, which doesn't seem to say much either. Too bad I'm not actually a fan.

And here’s the Day 2, which I’d been looking forward to for months. Here’s a big part of the reason why:

A/N: For now I'm just gathering the various relevant posts I've made elsewhere onto this blog. Not that there are any more people paying attention to them here than at the sites they were posted at and but hey it's my blog alright? Now leave me to pretend someone cares.


That 'X' is a bit of misleading – it’s only the third time they’ve done this. I guess they thought it looked cooler than putting a good old-fashioned ’10.

Anyway, this was the first time I’d ever attended anything resembling an anime convention, and for Singapore (and probably the rest of Southeast Asia) AFA is the biggest anime-related event every year. The previous AFAs took place right during that crunch time just before my exams, which is why I've never been to one. Actually, it was the same situation this yea,r but I guess this time around I just couldn’t resist anymore.

So here’s my little (okay, it might turn out quite long) take on what went on. It’s nowhere near a complete coverage since I couldn’t be there for everything. Also, I am a crap photographer. People with an actual idea of how to take decent photographs will still cringe but I’ll try to only include the ones that weren’t total eyesores.

Also, when it came to cosplayers...I’m for the most part too shy to ask, so I generally only took photos when they were already posing for a bunch of other people. Didn’t really help the already doomed quality of my photos. Ah. You’ll see for yourselves. Moving on.