I attended Cosplay Quest 2006 held at Cineleisure today. Long story short: it was somewhat disappointing. I did get to take a picture with a Haruhi cosplayer, though.
That’s how I look like IRL. No, really. Yeah, I was the guy walking around in the SOS-dan T-shirt.
Long story long:
I met up with tj han, tsubaki, bj0rn and zima (from SOS-dan @ rizon) at the event. We had a lunch break just after the individual round and stayed till the whole thing was over.
I was standing quite far from the stage and almost everything was taken with at least 2x zoom freehand. I fail at photography.
Generally speaking the costumes were on par with the recent Cosfest but unlike Cosfest there wasn’t any particular costume that I really liked.
The event is divided into individual and team rounds, with some performances in between, such as Mizuki performing “Endless Story” just like she did during Cosfest. You can see a bit of her Cosfest performance here.
The cosplay competition itself was pretty meh. The emcee wasn’t doing a good job. She couldn’t really engage the contestants and her attempts at humour made me cringe. At least the Cosfest guy sounded like he’s in the emcee business, sarcastic asshat as he may be.
The highlight of the show was probably when the guy cosplaying as Ichigo from Bleach took the mike, pointed at one of the judges with his sword and said, “If I don’t win, you’ll be the first.” (or something to that effect…) He ended up second. And there was also a guy who went up the stage and started singing the theme song from a last-century sentai show at the top of his voice. o_o
Apparently tj han was looking forward to meeting Lenneth, the Saya cosplayer from Cosfest, but he forgot to ask for her contact number and didn’t manage to bump into her. He claims that he’s fine, but we all know that he’s very disappointed. :( Well, I’m sort of disappointed too. :(
On another note, Haruhi didn’t take part in the competition and left the place quite early. Probably because there weren’t any aliens, time-travellers and ESPers around.
After the event, we went to Kinokuniya. It’s currently having a 20% discount for members. I picked up two volumes of Hayate no Gotoku and almost bought the latest issue of G’s Magazine. Then we headed down to Sunshine Plaza where I accidentally purchased the latest issue of Megami. We sat down on the comfortable couches in Kare Kano no Mise and wasted the rest of the time away talking about everything from figurines, seiyuu to tj han’s hidden lolicon tendencies…
P.S. I hadn’t bought an issue of Megami in a long time, but this issue is… special.
I still hate them folds though.
I saw Yuna there! But it wasn’t as legendary as the famous one.
Other memorable ones were the -69- guy from Bleach and Ichigo in his bandage shirt under the cloak….erm…not too many people were there.
Ouran bunch was missing many members, and Hani looks…tall.
Where is Mori?
Seems like the venue was too packed.
And it was great meeting you =)
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Ah. So you be the one walking Sunshine with the SOS tee then.
Yes. Yes I was. ._.
IT was great meeting you guys there. ANyway, LOL! I reserved my copy of the G Festival. Damn~ SInce u guys had 20%, i sld hav asked you guys to get it for me. T_T
u guys are mean … go out bo jio -.- >.>
*me goes to corner of room face wall squat down draw circles on floor.
I know now who Bridge Bunny is. He’s the guy in the faux-SOS dan black shirt.
Oh my gosh, you pushed the JLPT 1 mogi just for the event? see you on monday =_=“was just as well. i hadnt slept till 5 in the morn so i was in no condition for the paper. btw i was in orchard today too and was extremely puzzled to see a Full Metal Alchem Cosplayer run past me. He was cosplaying as the main charac. (older Bro). You have solved my question as to y he was there lol
NOOO!!! MEGAMI!!!
My copy was so totally censored by the stupid customs (excuse given by shop). Considering subscription.
oops shia i should have asked u on friday night :P
hi, i’m the haruhi coser, was bumping ard when i landed here.
the ouran team you saw at the event were actually 2 different teams LMAO
Tamaki was fr msia, and Kyouya+Hani+Renge was from my team. I was Tamaki in my team, but i decided nt to turn up as him so…. haha. Mori was there but din cosplay. you can see my Ouran team here though if u like ^^
http://images.cosplay.com/showphoto.php?photo=786638
Lenneth was at the event, but she was cosplaying someone else… you guyz probably din manage to recognise her…
and yes, in case you guyz are wondering. Saber was one of the 2 sabers from Cosfest, and she’s a lady. She did her costume and armour herself while the weapon was done by her bf :)
I still feel sad that you were freaked out by me. I’ll go face the wall. To lol.
No, I wasn’t. I don’t even have that tee shirt. Those buggers have yet to get one in my size.
Hmmm… I want a poster…
HEY! You totally ripped off my idea! I was the first one that put the GITs face on a picture. In fact it was YOUR picture I put it on, the one from Aichi :(
Your idea…?
Kouta is so original. All you 2chan/4chan ripoffs are assholes.
Nahh, GITS is t3h w1n. everything else is a ripoff
Ahhh! you finger! it’s dislocated!
Wat? Lenneth was there? Strange. Now I’m rather curious as to who she cosplayed as.
Tj, your saya detector sucks.
hi i jus drop by n c yr blog wow its so nice i love it… ^^ hehe… u r one of the memember of cosplay? hehe…