Finally its over! The very first anime based event in Singapore, Anime Festival Asia 2008 came to an end on Sunday evening at Suntec Exhibition Hall. On the organisers part, the 2 years spent on planning this event paid off. What a crowd it was on both days. The performances of Ichirou Mizuki ala Aniki and May'n were simply amazing. Can we have them coming to Singapore to perform again? Never had I been so fired up and hot in a concert. May'n live in front of my eyes, hontoni sugoii!
Also, Aniki was really the legend in Ani-songs, Marzinger Z to Captain Harlock, he brought out the garness in my friends who were big fans of old school super robot shows. His actions portrayed what a good aniki (brother) would do. Aniki took a group photo with the fans that welcomed him in the airport. Also, for the signing session, he signed on the personal items brought up by the fans, shook hands and took photos. Nicholas, Calvin and Chin How, do cherish the moment upstage with the man himself. Darren, your Aspire umpc, find a way to preserve the autograph.
Sadly, for reasons unknown the autograph session with May'n was very disappointing to a great extent in my view. What was done on stage was very unprofessional and disrespect to the fans that paid a premium sum for that moments with May'n up close. Her autograph was signed beforehand on a board was bad enough already, to make things worse, it was her representative that passed the board to the fans that came up. Not May'n herself. Yes, it was really nice to shake her hands and exchanged some words, but the way they did it was totally wrong. Yes, I'm really voicing it out. Surely there are many many disgruntled fans out there that felt the same. No autograph on my personal item, no photo with her to keep. Boo, very very negative fan bonding session. Well, I did managed to give a card to her, my time spent running around Suntec, Marina Square and Citylink for a giant 'Thank You' card paid off. Well wishes from splifearts.com, Nakadashi, Bonkuratsu, CDS and KKnM were in it and hopes she like it.
Here's end of part 1 of my after thought. Will do up the rest later.
-Kenneth.
