AFA X

AFA X, the third Anime Festival Asia, will be held on 13 and 14 November at its usual venue at Suntec Convention Centre. As per usual, a small press conference was held this morning to announce some of the details. Here’s the quick low down on the most important bits that I sat through two hours for:

Confirmed guests

New programmes:

Confirmed performances

There’s also some unannounced exclusive COSPA merchandises, but the rest of the line-up appears to be SOP (standard operating procedure, not Sons of Patriot) — maid cafe (though it’s now a school uniform cafe), merchandise showcases, cosplay competition, etc.

I have to say that the biggest coup this year is probably either SCANDAL (the next ZONE?) or JAM Project. Personally, I absolutely adore angela ever since Uchuu no Stellvia. I had a hunch that they were one of the guests when Gou Nakanishi (producer of Soukyuu no Fafner and producer for angela) was listed as one of the speakers for an industry networking event that takes place one day before AFA proper.

The concert itself is split into two days as per last year, with JAM Project and Ichirou Mizuki on day 1 and the SCANDAL, angela, May’n on day 2. I suspect the two movie screenings will also be similarly divided, with Gundam 00 on the first day (to fit in with the whole manly robot theme), but that’s just my speculation.

Ticketing information is all up on the official site. It seems that this year the organizer is breaking the tickets down into even more tiers. I’m currently eyeing the concert ticket for the second day… SCANDAL is pretty cool (I mean really, it’s basically a real-life corporate-owned K-ON!) and angela is just incredible all the time.

And here’s a cover of K-ON!’s “Don’t say lazy” by SCANDAL.

Still no Maaya Sakamoto of course. Just as yosou.

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