The Bonkurasu Brigade

I’m quite tired out now, so I’ll just keep it short. Not going to write a whole essay or many posts regarding Daicon. For more reviews and coverage, here’s a mirror to NK-DS, of which I’m currently on the trip with. They have the Q&A panel, some thoughts about the concert (of which I’ll write about at a later date), and basically covered the event in its entirety.

Nice censor is nice. 笑

Here’s the gist of the things that were floating about in my mind, and also what I did in Daicon:

- Met up the following cosplayers from Malaysia (although some didn’t cosplay actually) : Masako, Bunny, Chocolime, Reins, Heal and more. Most of them were helping out at KKnM’s booth on both days. First time meeting up with Bunny, and I mistakenly took Chocolime for Mintos XD;;; -facepalm-
- Gave quite a few namecards to certain people, especially the Japanese MSS fans, and also exchanged mixi contacts, emails and whatnot with each other. It was good knowing them XD they were such a blast to be with.
- Good job to arkAile, Inaikken, and the rest who contributed to the lightsticks, while the MSS Japanese fans created a fan-made flag, together with instructions in Malay, English and Japanese! Very nicely planned, even though it was impromptu to co-inside with our side’s decision to supply as many lightsticks to the ticket holders.
- The cosplay competition felt more…. fulfilling? I guess this must be what most of my Singaporean cosplayer friends are talking about. It really did feel like 2003-2004 all over again.
- Spotted nice cosplays of Kuroshitsuji, K-on, Sailormoon, etc. The Dante cosplayer who signed up for the competition had very good stage presence during his own skit. XD

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Some nagging problems that I realised at Daicon:

- As there was no mention of any barricades during the Q&A session or anything like that, from what I’ve heard from the friends who were outside of it, everyone were trying to take pictures of her from outside when she’s on the stage.
- They were testing the auditorium out on how the hall will look like during the concert during the concert preparation. From that point, I thought to myself: how are the booths going to sell their wares outside? There’s no other light source, as the auditorium is an enclosed area (well duh)

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In short, Daicon is an event coined together based on Singapore’s Anime Festival Asia’s concept, while being in Cosfest’s scale. Admittedly, there are certain hick-ups during all sorts of events, so I won’t elaborate much on that. The public will compare the event to Singapore’s Anime Festival Asia just because of the guest; in terms of content, I’d say it’s quite okay for a ‘fan-by-fan’ event.

I’ll give my own review of the concert later in the day or something. ._.

On a side note, if I have the time, I might just translate her blog entries from her malaysian trip.