photos will be uploaded as soon as i filter them :)

it was a long day after all at Cosfest 2010, and it was the very 1st time that i did went on both days = resulting in a huge pile of photos waiting to be filtered.

well, i'll start with Day 1 then...

i was actually quite worried for the day itself since it practically rained the entire day and amazingly stopped temporarily while i was there and re-started again after i reached home... kinda lucky i guess... so with the weather being rather cooling after the morning rain, destination Downtown East! it wasn't as packed yet when i reached there (with my friends of cos) and it was a perfect chance to look around the booths in the meantime, while waiting for the band competition to start. the stall layouts were changed this year and there are pro and cons to it too. i personally feel that having the public booths at the side of the tent was quite a good idea since the "owners" of the stalls wouldn't be blocking any public walking to and fro and they would have much more space as compared to previous years where people get to walk behind them. but for the main shops like pan-in-the-box and such, placing them in the center wasn't actually good, it did accommodate to more visitors but for space wise, it was a little cramped up... pros and cons yea... leaving that aside, the band competition was wonderful as well, however, i really couldn't see the drummer at all ._. he was like blocked by all the amps and was sitting alone in the corner, poor guy / girl. Music wise, it was OK, Bad Apple from Touhou was a good attempt, Butterfly from Digimon just rocked through, and the vocalist was not bad too :) didn't stay for the entire band competiton since switching among teams took a rather long time as they were using their own personal instruments. so moving in and out was a way to kill time and to spot-and-snap some photos to my collection. it then started to get packed later in the afternoon but i left the event early, like 4pm+ as there isn't much going on after that... and the Korean team that was invited had a great skit as well, great stunts and coordinations! thumbs up for them :D

for today, the weather was great throughout the day, no rain whatsoever to upset the event at all. reached there about the same time as day one and some performances have already started. decided to go to the Graffiti Wall to scribble somethings, leaving my first mark on Cosfest :) and then moving on to the spot-and-snap procedure. there weren't many repetitions as compared to Day 1 and most of the stalls, including the major ones, had restocked their goods... wanted to buy the small miku plush but it'll burn quite a big hole in my wallet =X when the competition on the Asia Meet had started, i was generally glued when most of the performers came on stage. especially the Kaito (from Korea) who had this super bright LED-wrapped guitar. went on to locate them afterwards and found them at last, after some zooming in and out of the tent. it was then the WCS competition, the FF team's monster had some awesome costume and exchangeable wings and THAT is cool =/ so for this year, there were 2 winners for the Asia Meet, Mr. Franky, previously Armstrong from Cosfest 2009 (he's got the luck to go Japan twice eh...) and another gal from the Philippines. and the WCS team representing Singapore was the FF team and the awesome costume. oh, and i almost forgot, the Singapore Wind Symphony was awesome too, beautiful FF piece and caramelldansen xD. But sadly, the Caramelldansen fever had expired and it was now turned into a parade around the shops, it wasn't a bad idea but i would've hoped for Caramelldansen fever to last a few more years... and thus, the finale and the end of Cosfest 2010, enjoyed myself quite well this time (although my Angel Beats! armband broke .__. nearing the end) and its sayonara Cosfest 2010! SEE YOU AGAIN ON COSFEST 2011 XDDD

oh and on the last note: LED-lights have now TOTALLY entered the Cosplay community, i mean, almost ALL the competitors are using SUPER BRIGHT LED lights to light up their weapons etc, maybe i'll get to see Mr. Gundam back again, and this time, with more LED @.@

and what i got from Cosfest :) Vocaloid + BRS lurve :D

day 1 of Cosfest is over! will be blogging the whole of Cosfest as a whole and will upload the photos subsequently.

After the wonderful Summer Fest with her senpais, Azusa is now left alone as the others had to study for their final exams. Ton-chan was temporarily left in her care and with the intense heat, she felt more bored without hanging out with the others. Azusa then went to Yui's house to give them a watermelon. Upon reaching, Ui tells Azusa that she was studying upstairs but sounds of the guitar came out of Yui's room and Azusa knew that it'll become like that if she was left alone. Ui then chops the watermelon into half before bringing it up to her sister. After that, Azusa discovered that the sisters had tempura in the afternoon and went rushing to Yui's rescue as she suspect that eating cold things with tempura could lead to food poisoning. Before she was able to reach Yui, Azusa woke up in her house and it was all a dream. Ui then came by Azusa's house, and couldn't recognise her due to her tan she got from the Summer Fest. Azusa then wanted to hang out with Jun but she was in school for her club activities and Ui suggested to go and find her in school and also bringing some snacks along. No one was there in school however, due to some festival going on and only Sawa-chan was left in the teacher's room when Azusa wanted to borrow the key to the music room and have their snacks there. While thinking about what they should do later on, Ui suggest that they go and watch a movie and off the both went to watch a horror movie. Just as the movie was about to start, Azusa sees Mio coming to watch the horror film as well and even though she herself was repeatedly scared by the different scenes, Mio doesn't seemed to have flinched at all. Suspecting that something wasn't right, Azusa went to look at Mio's condition and discovers that while she was trying to overcome her fear, she had already fainted in the cinema. Azusa had, however, dozed off in the heat in the music room and the movie trip wasn't actually real. Both Ui and Azusa later really went off to catch a movie together and while waiting for the movie to start, Azusa decides to get a part time job and both Ui and her went to help out in some lottery stall. Mugi then came and patronise them , in hope of obtaining a tissue pack which was 50/50. She really did get it and since the last prize was inside, Azusa turned it and won a trip to Finland. Suspecting that it was a dream, she asks them to pull her cheeks which didn't hurt at all. And Azusa had just missed the entire movie by falling asleep. The next day, Jun was free and hanged out with Azusa and Ui, and played on with the "who are you" on Azusa's tanned self. Due to her sunburn, Azusa stayed away from the water while Jun and Ui went in to play and all of the sudden, Azusa sees the other senpais around her, playing with a large slide and eating takoyaki at the same time as sliding down. Ritsu then pushed Azusa into doing it as well and at the end, she nearly collided into the others and woke up from the extreme heat again. On the way home, the trio met the other senpais and they decided to go to the festival together and everyone was brought there to celebrate. When the fireworks started, Yui grabbed on to Azusa's hand and pulls her to the scene and through that, Azusa realised how fun it was to hang out with the senpais and she'll all be left alone after they graduate and that wasn't cheering her up at all. But she was more determined to bring out the best during the school festival. Yui then returned home earlier than Ui and sees leftover tempura on the table. After eating it, she realised that Azusa had tried to tell her that after eating cold things during the festival, it could lead to food poisoning if she ate tempura... which she did.

so after the focus on the entire k-on members, they decided to shed light on the side characters as well, and similarly with the previous season, Azusa was tanned as she hanged out with her buddies. there was kinda too much of daydream there, although i loved Mio's part the most ._. literally fainted in the cinema... it would be great if they left Azusa in her world for 1 or maybe just 2, and this episode just brought in too many of it. this episode mainly focused on Azusa, like the one when the others were in their school trip, but i kinda preferred that episode rather than this. nothing much did actually happen and it merely showed how much Azusa enjoys hanging out with her senpais and the reality that she'd be left alone after they graduate, which will most likely won't be shown in the series unless they do a time leap (which is almost impossible)



and Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakamatachi has finally begun airing :D

so off the series start with a dude running away from Ryouko (Ookami) and Ringo who both are given the task under Otogi Bank. The guy being chased was however reluctant to turn himself in and attempted to retaliate with a small knife. Ryouko gets Ringo to stay back and prepares to face him with her neko knuckles. With the knife as a potentially dangerous weapon, the guy dropped his knife after getting hit by a stone from afar and taking the chance, Ryouko strikes him in the face, imprinting a neko red print onto it. Otogi Bank is a club which helps students according to their requests, which in turn they have to return the favour some other day. After completing the request, Ryouko and Ringo return to the club room where the other club members are introduced. The president of the club is Kiriki List and the secretary is the president's cousin, Kiriki Alice. Incidentally, there's also a maid, Otsuu-san and the other 2 freshmen are Urashima and Otohime. After club activities, Ryouko would go to the gym to sharpen her fighting skills for more difficult tasks and while returning home, she hears someone calling out to her but when she turns back, there was no one to be seen. Feeling irritated after hearing the same voice over and over, she finally managed to get the culprit out who introduces himself as Ryoushi, her classmate. Ryouko doesn't seem to recognise him but still asked him to repeat what he had said and Ryoushi confesses that he likes her and tells her that he likes her as she's strong, cool and brave which she does not seem to want guys to like her that way and left before Ryoushi could finish. Back in the dorms, Ringo was surprised and all pumped-up after hearing that Ryouko was confessed to and would like to see if he's suitable for her. The next day, Ryoushi's information was gathered and it was said that he prefers to stay away from people's sight and feels insecure when people stare at him as he has learnt the skills of hunting in the wild and his tailing skills might be useful for the club and thus, Ringo brought him to the Otogi Bank. Ringo further told the rest that although he does not like attention, he had already confessed to Ryouko which he then adds on that he's been tailing her for a week, in hope of finding the right time to confess to her. Everyone seems to have agreed in letting him join but Ryouko does not accept it as she knows that he was around when she was attacked by a knife and he did not bothered to come out of hiding at all. However, a new cilent gave way for Ryoushi to show his abilities and hopefully Ryouko would accept him. The new cilent was Haibara Kakari and she wants to request to stop her senpai, which she admires, from handing in his club resignation form as he was injured and unable to continue playing tennis. This time, Ryoushi's skills in tailing came in handy and amazingly managed to stalk Ooji, the target of the request. However, Ryoushi seems to have acted too suspiciously in the public bath, in hope of obtaining the resignation form but failed to get it. As the form would need approval from the club president, a teacher and a club head, there were many chances to intercept the form but as Ryoushi was afraid to be looked at, he failed to get it and Ooji was already approaching to hand in him completed form. With time running out, a new member of the Otogi Bank was introduced, Majo-san, who invents things to help the club and the neko knuckles that Ryouko uses are from her as well. So the tool to be used was a pumpkin carriage, similar to Cinderella. Ryoushi stood out and became the one to paddle it and told Kakari that its better to tell someone you like directly and off he goes, blindfolded, to avoid his symptoms. When Ooji was already in sight, Ryoushi then discovered that the carriage didn't have brakes installed and crashed. Kakari was flinged forward but with her skills, she tried absorbing the impact with somersaults and incidentally kicked Ooji directly in his face and the both of them fainted on the spot with List taking away the resignation form and thus, completing the request. After a busy day, Ryouko and Ringo were met with the same guy who attacked Ryouko with a knife and was back with two of his friends. With the neko knuckles equipped, she takes on the three of them but when the guy saw an opening and swinged down the metal pole, Ryoushi came to Ryouko's rescue and became her temporary shield. Ryouko then quickly take down the remaining two and went o Ryoushi's aid. He tells her that he had initially wanted to save her but froze up and could only become her shield. With that, Ryouko seems some qualities in him and formally accepts him into the Otogi Bank to work with her.

judging about the characters in this series, they are mostly made up of familiar seiyuus and the most prominent one was the narrator for the series .__. dear Kuroko, heres not Academy City!!! oh well, didn't really like the narrator, (not with the voice), but having a narrator that attempt to be funny but don't really work does not really interest me, feels like the series is spoiled by it. it'll be OK if its just a few lines but appearing here and there isn't really entertaining... ignoring that, the series headed off with a good start ad judging by the OP (by May'N), there seems to be some "boss" or something... and Ryoushi would get a slingshot weapon? O.o looks quite like Hand Sonic vers. 5 catapult vers :D hopefully it doesn't bring the series to another light. it would be interesting to see how the relationship between Ryouko and Ryoushi would develop and i LOVE the neko knuckles! so kawaii~! xD

*A GIANT THUMBS UP* for Angel Beats! i really did enjoy the entire series and 13 episodes is kinda short to make it an exceptionally "moving" series.

Yuri wakes up after losing consciousness back in Guild and sees Otonashi, Kanade, Naoi and Hinata beside her. Yuri then learns that the rest have already moved on and is glad to hear that but when she asks why are the four of them still here, they told her that it was because she was still around. The rest then sees that Yuri seems to be a little different from usual and suspects that she had already gotten over her regret in life but Yuri denies it, saying that as the leader of the SSS, her regret would be the most difficult to eliminate. But after Naoi tried to hypnotise her twice to make her speak the truth, Yuri gave in and admitted that she had already gotten over it and had no more regrets in her life. The five of them then moved on to the gymnasium and on the way, Hinata tells Yuri that even Takatmatsu had reverted back from becoming a NPC and have departed the world as well. Meanwhile, Kanade was humming the tune of "My Song", the last song that Iwasawa sang before she left the world and Yuri agrees that it was a nice song. In the gymnasium, the stage was taken care of, with the banner to mark the graduation of the SSS members. Somehow, Otonashi and Hinata sees that Yuri has become more girl-like after she returned from Guild and she even got easily embarassed with Hinata saying that she's cute like that. Otonashi then led the rest through the ceremony, singing the anthem that Kanade had composed (lyrics with Mapo Tofu lines), receiving a self-made graduating certificate and then singing the farewell song. With that, Naoi takes his leave first after crying in front of Otonashi, thanking him for helping him get over his regret in his life and then, he disappears. Yuri then went to Kanade and apologise to her with the fights between them and told her that they could have become great friends if they had more time and then, Yuri hugs her. Hinata then thank her for being a great leader and Yuri finally leaves the world. Next is followed by Hinata who thanks Otonashi for his help too and being a great buddy. Otonashi then asks Kanade if they could take a walk outside to have some fresh air. Outside, Otonashi asks Kanade if she would want to stay in this world together with him as he thinks that there will definitely be people like them, having regrets in their life, and that he could help guide them to move on and with Kanade by his side, he wouldn't feel lonely in the world. Otonashi then confesses to Kanade that he loves her and wants her to stay with him. However, Kanade refuses to reply and when asked by Otonashi, she replies that she'll disappear if she replies to his feelings as she was kept alive by Otonashi's heart and she was the one who had continued to live after Otonashi donated his heart after he died. Otonashi couldn't believe it but Kanade tells him that her only regret here was no being able to thank the person who had allowed her live on and that she knew it was Otonashi after stabbing him on the first day and knowing that he does not have a heart. It was further reinforced that Otonashi had regained his memory after lying on Kanade as his heart was in her after all. Kanade then asks Otonashi to say that he loves her once again but as she'll disappear as a result, Otonashi initially refuses to say it but gave in after pleas from her. Otonashi then hugs her, telling her to stay with him forever and ever but after finally thanking him, Kanade disappears and Otonashi was left alone and he cries after her disappearance as they'll probably never meet again. However, in the real world, Kanade was leaning against a wall and humming the tune of "My Song" and when Otonashi went past her, he somehows recognises the song and chases after her and touches her on the shoulder...

and it ends...

the initial part of the episode was rather plain in a sense that it was just a graduation ceremony being carried out, would've been better if they had used those scenes to add on more scenes from the real world. i really wanted to see Hinata and Yui =X just when i thought that everything was just a plain old ceremony, the climax came, with Otonashi suggesting that they should stay on and that was really something i did not expect. and the confession thing was rather "awkward" kinda like a little rushed in their "relationship" but perhaps it was the bond of them having the "same" heart. with that, i never really did expect Kanade to be the one who benefited from Otonashi (or was it just me? =/) and was Kanade dead? or just in coma or some sort as she would be alive if she had a heart transplant wouldn't she? (and since Kanade had came into the world of the dead waaay before Otonashi so whys that ._.) anyways, i absolutely loved how the climax was carried out with the beautiful song playing in the background and then the "time leap" i was waiting and anticipating for... =) *happy~*

overall, the series had a big "hoo-haa" even before it started airing and i was caught in it. it was the only series so far that i have anticipated almost every single episode and enjoyed every single one of it. the animation for the fighting scenes were great, story lines were great, and the emotional changes throughout a single episode was nice as well. music wise is definitely great and i definitely wouldn't mind watching it all over again. it could be more moving, given that it was a KEY production but the short 13 episodes was really too short =X really loved the series~ *DOUBLE THUMBS UP* xD

and the reunion :)

although it was already nearing their final exams, Yui still wanted to go on a training camp and was well supported by everyone, including Azusa, but Mio wasn't really supportive of the idea. And so the girls went to Yui's house to discuss more ab0ut the training camp and in the end, they decided to go to a Summer Music Festival and coincidentally, a mysterious appearance of Sawa-chan out of nowhere had brought the girls the tickets to the festival. The festival was held in the mountains and thus, there were bus services to bring the public there and everyone was quite surprised to see Yui arriving earlier than them, but was even more surprised when they see Sawa-chan's condition which she went drinking the night before and had not slept at all. Both Sawa-chan and Yui were knocked out in the bus with the lack of sleep and bad with vehicles respectively and when they finally reached their destination, there were already tons of people there, all waiting for the festival to begin. In the whole venue, there are many different stages where different bands will be performing and Mio had already carefully picked 0ut what she'd want to hear from the different stages the night before. Sawa-chan then miraculously revived and told the girls to be prepared for the intense heat during the festival and then the group headed out to their first stage. After the first band started performing for quite some time, Sawa-chan left to a indoor stage to go wild in there, Mio then dragged Ritsu to another stage to watch another band and Mio was totally attracted to the fact that there was a left handed member in the band. Soon, Mugi, Azusa and Yui went to locate some food and both Mugi and Yui were deeply disappointed when the food that they were looking forward in eating was already sold out. After taking a break to have lunch, Mio told the rest that she'd go and get some food but returned after purchasing a T-shirt of the band with the left handed member and without food. Luckily enough, Sawa-chan had already purchased food for the girls and heading to them in the meantime. This year, even with sunscreen, Azusa still became all tanned and when the girls laid of the grass patch to listen to the soft music around the mountains, they decide to have a goal together to perform in this summer festival one day.

Mugi seems more hyped up in this season as compared to the previous, and was all enthusiastic on eating Yakisoba which in the end, turns out to be sold out and Yui even threw a small tantrum after her food was sold out too. Mio was also captivated by all the left handed musicians and Ritsu seems to be happy for her after seeing Mio enjoying herself during the festival. So other than Budokan, this was another goal for them and i certainly agree with them that it would be great if they all remained as a band even after they grew up. =)

Kanade's smile is so sweet~ =X

hopefully it would be a great ending (time leap to the real world or smth) or just letting everyone move on... if there is a person being left behind... (Yuri / Kanade... HOPEFULLY NOT!) i wouldn't be surprised since its by KEY anyway...

i would say i'm rather impressed with the latest Angel Beats! episode, it was a short climax but touched on most of the meaning of life which i think is great...

with all the shadows on the lose, Kanade who has the "largest" offensive power, take out most of them in the meantime where Otonashi, Hinata and Naoi prepares for their next plan. While moving out, Otonashi sees most of the SSS members outside and the remaining members of GirlsDeMo tells Otonashi that they would accept his proposal of moving on and they themselves know that it is a path they have to take sooner or later. Hisako tells Otonashi that the short time they had to leave a fruitful youth was already enough for them and everyday was fun. After telling Otonashi that they'll form a band in the next life, Hisako and the other members departed from the world. Soon after, Hinata, Otonashi and Naoi were attacked by a shadow and rushes into the school grounds where they could hardly find any NPC at all, all they saw were just shadows everywhere. It turns out that the other members, Noda, Ooyama, TK and the rest were not ready to disappear yet and helped in fending off the shadows, even a miraculously skinny Matsushita joined in after some intense slimming down in the mountains. Shiina approaches Otonashi and tells him to leave this place to them and asks them to move on first. Otonashi then brings Hinata and Naoi with him and leaves the battlefield. Meanwhile in Guild, Yuri encounters more and more shadows as she ventures deeper and knows that with her handgun, she'll not be able to reach her final destination. Luckily enough, she meets Chaa who tells her that the Guild will now disband as the SSS are now ending the whole fight and then disappears after passing Yuri a larger ammo capacity gun. Yuri wasn't given a chance to rest at all and was quickly ambushed by a shadow from behind and somehow Kanade felt something was wrong too in the battlefield. Yuri then awakes to find herself in a normal classroom and that she was just a normal students with her friends too. However, Yuri knows that all this was fake and that it would really be a happy life she would've led if she had lost all her memories and started anew but if she did that, it wouldn't be her real life anymore as everyone only has one chance in life and that is why she chose to fight the life she had. With that, everyone in her class disappears and she's quickly overwhelmed by masses of shadows and had almost drowned until she heard Otonashi calling out to her and manages to pull her out. Hinata, Naoi and Otonashi had reached her in time with Kanade's help, who was also with them, as they somehow sensed her in danger. The gang then slowly approached the final location with a huge number of shadows defending that place. Without hesitation, Kanade leaps into the whole mass and clears all of them in a split second. Otonashi asks Yuri to move on first and will take care of the approaching shadows in the meantime. Yuri then finally reaches her destination and inside the room, it was as what she had expected, stolen computers showing the NPCs being "eaten" away, causing the birth of the shadows. And there, she finds the mastermind behind all this. Yuri deems him as someone who was programmed to do all this and when she asks about what exactly was the Angel Player, the teen merely replied that it was a software which allows someone to create or change anything in this world, just like how the Guild managed to produce weapons from dirt. The teen then reveals that it was love that had caused this to happen as with love manifesting, this world would be an eternal paradise and everyone would not wish to move on which contradicts that this world is trying to do. He continues to say that on a rare occasion, someone who has led a fulfilling life could still venture into this world if they had lost their memories and it would be a bug in this world. That particular person was the creator for the Angel Player. Among the NPCs lies the programmer who because of love, wrote a program to make him into a NPC as he could maintain his mind after somehow whom he loved left the world first. He tells Yuri that she could become the one ruling this world but she would not do so since she wanted to help the others move on and that was her main aim, and the source of the love manifesting was from her as well. With that said, Yuri destroys all the machines in the place and feels that with everyone saved, she felt empty and sees her siblings telling her that it was already enough for her and thanks her for thinking about them for so long. Yuri later awakes to find herself in the resting room with Naoi, Hinata, Kanade and Otonashi beside her.

it did felt rather rushed at the front which MOST of the members disappearing so quickly... like "poof~" and their gone... but with that left aside, it was nice to see how the climax concluded, with that unknown dude (Mr. Athrun Zala from GS, no wonder his voice sounds so familiar) appearing for only a short short while. Well, Yuri's life was indeed terrible for her and with that kept inside for so long, it would finally be time for her to move on. At the last moment with the rest standing beside her, does it mean that the others (TK, Shiina, Noda etc.) have already disappeared? with the climax now being over, the next episode, which is also the last, would be more "gentle" in a sense and would most probably show the remaining few moving on. Kanade's past being shown in the next episode? she's the only one left whose memories are still kept unknown among the remaining duds... am hoping for a nice ending too... one more week to go =X

HIIIYAAAA~ KANADE POWERHOUSE~