Thursday, September 28, 2006
It's finally here, or was finally here, Manifest 2006! The long awaited, pardon the cliche, event of my UniMelbourne year. Yah yah yah, that's right, the only reason I came to Melbourne is for it's anime festival!
Fu fu fu, and you think I came for you? NUH UH.....*do the warcraft dance*
/cough.
You'd notice I'm using alot of WoW commands....that shall be explained in a later post.
For now we shall concentrate on the anime goodness that is MANIFEST.
Manifest stands for Melbourne Anime Festival...work it out.
Apparently it's quite big this year, spawning some new cosplay and competitions and traders. Nice. SPGO was there of course, representing the go spirit full on. xD....listen to me crow, but really I thought it was a great success, the room was busy all day both days, new people came, played, learned, was awed, had fun, brilliant.
Of course that meant I couldn't explore much of Manifest. How sad was that -.-. I felt even worse for Connie cos she was stuck with me in the go room on both days.
Friday had a small preview thanks to Steph, collected passes and hopped over to the Fruits Cosplay. This is a new event due to the popularity of manifest goers dressing up goth lolita and jpop style, so it was for general Japan Fashion cosplay. Many created their own outfits which was interesting but.....
Taka has an aversion to fat people...fat people should not cosplay.....-.-....
If I gotto see stuff hanging out and sloshing....that's seriously too much information, yes I'm a bias fully socialised into society's love for beauty and No, I do not see beauty in everyone -.-.......I'm sure you're lovely, but I do not want to see sloshiness.....
And No, that doesn't apply to the people who I see atleast half a month, you're lovely.
Sue me if the rest of you find that preferential treatment.
Onward....Saturday came, busybusybusy. For the first time I shot awake at 8.15. Talk about dedication. Dragged Connie off and waited for the others. Davina did a fantastic job on the new banner and even baked us muffins. Then we waited...
Cheerful smiles, waves, lots of enthusiasm, fully believing we actually may have chased some people away.....ouch.
Then the crowd came. Four of us couldn't handle.....there were multiple people sent to this person that person, oi sensei what's this, oi other girl, oi committee member handle that person!
We were much amused to hear conversations outside ranging from 'oh its that black and white game', 'is that checkers...or chess', 'it look like mints...', 'can I plaaaaay....', 'that game where you use the black and white thing...'....
The gang came for several times for visits, including that one time when they couldn't get seats for cosplay competition and sat in our go room playing poker -.-.
Murfs.
Steph wore her poodle dress tho, very nice.
The others were usual otaku outfits...
I had on a gorgeously cute outfit comprised of my short black skirt, tights, black jumper and Steph's boots.......mmm....might as well...uh...sell me those boots....xD
Go room lasted until 6...which meant...we didn't get to see anything. Nyaa, hidoi. We went to the yaoi panel and then quickly to anime idol at 7pm.
Sunday was about the same, except we were adamant that we were going to take some time off and we did ^^.
Nearly died in the stampede onward to cosplay competition, which was good. Highlights were the Roy mustang, the guy who did his own sword, Rikku and Yuna, the girl who did the big claws....mmmm
And L, deathnote cosplay who came to our go room, and not the L in the cosplay competition......
Then fantrader hall where all the art is!!
So pretty...so gorgeous..people my age....goddamit, next year I'm selling art!
Then the traders hall.....ahhh, bought a Yuki mouse plushie and several pencil boards. Murfs happily. Saw a set of copic markers selling for 100 ++.
Happy...happy...happy...
We'll be back next year in cosplay, selling art, playing go and singing~
Mused by Sukunami Taka around 9:08 PM
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