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

å†çœŸã‚’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. :(

Sadly they didn’t win. I don’t remember the name of the winner, but she performed a song from DN Angel that was neither the OP nor the ED. I thought she sang very well too, but the song was meh.

BEST COSPLAY THIS YEAR

Okay, with that out of the way, continue reading for the rest of the cosplay pictures.

And yes I was wearing my ROD T-shirt on Sunday.

Congrats to those who spotted me. You won! There’s no prize, though.

Anyway, there are still a lot more pictures that are not included above. You can see them all in the gallery:
Day 1 Gallery
Day 2 Gallery

Now I shall go take a rest… Feel free to contact me to request for the original pictures (10 megapixel JPEG).

Head to the gallery for more cosplay pictures from the event (including the SOS-dan group). Also, a whole bunch of Danny Choos and a red balloon! Weee.

My camera’s batteries went flat soon after I got there, so I didn’t manage to take a lot of pictures…

There was a guy cosplaying as KOS-MOS… I couldn’t bare to take a picture.

Oh yeah, and that girl who performed “ENDLESS STORY” from Nana on stage, that was good. I love that song so much that I kept replaying that portion of the movie. :3

Anyway, we wandered around the event area for a bit before heading to White Sands for dinner and finally Kwok’s house to look at his pr0n collection help him set up Winny/Share. We ended up watching the first episode of Coyote Ragtime Show (which I had already watched). It’s looking good so far. All hail the killer loli’s.