Otaku Kazoku invades One Mega Fair 2012

Super late post from yours truly! Sorry for the lack of updates recently. I got very busy with my last ward duty that I had little time to do leisure activities. Anyway, I am done with the hospital duties and I am now "semi-free" to write maybe everyday!

Anyway, the Tzu Chi Foundation hosts the One Mega Fair, a charitable event every year and last year, 2012, was the first time that I participated.  All proceeds will go to charity. Kind of a Christmas present to them! What a great way to help others!

We were in costumes that day to promote the hobby, cosplay, and maybe attract possible sponsors into organizing a cosplay event. As you all know, the cosplay community in Zamboanga is still quite new and we rarely have events and competitions down here.

I went to the event with my friends - we named our group Otaku Kazoku or the OK club. We cosplay and organize shoots for fun.

Some of the members of OK: Cee, Gin, Shiba and Emina 

We browsed the stalls for some wonderful items and we found a lot of nice books for low prices. Gin bought one instantly! :)

Look at all the shoppers!

                   
Products from fruits to makeup are all here!! Some of the stalls off hair styling using spray-on dye and glitters!

After hanging around and observing, we headed to the dressing room to change to our costumes. Get ready for our awesome transformation!

Hipster mirror pose? :)

Wacky, they said.

So, are you ready to see our transformation? Brace yourselves!!

Mugi needs her servant to apply makeup on her. Oh, Hime-sama!!

Usually Most of the time, I am the makeup artist of the whole group. Well, I am not complaining though! I really love trying out what I have learned in makeup on my friends' faces. :D

Lelou!! Y U IN THE GIRLS' BATHROOM??

We're all ready now! Off to see the world and observe people's faces! I was expecting questionable looks that day. I don't blame them. Who would expect a bunch of kids in costumes and wigs? It ain't Halloween!

This guy just went straight to us and asked us if he can take a photo. He loves anime, according to him! 

So instead of weird faces from shoppers, we were greeted by this guy who wanted to take a photo of us. OERGOERDZ!! Someone who's out of our friendship circle appreciated our hobby!! I am so happy! *tears rolling down)

Mugi and Lelouch staying in-character. Shiba all smiles, and Queen and Mark... are Mr. and Mrs. Hitler?!

We found some friends who dressed up for the event too!! I think they were not portraying any character at the moment. Anyway, we also found another couple of shoppers dressed in Japanese fashion too!! Too bad we were not able to take a photo with them because the encounter was just too short. I brought coscards with me but I was not able to hand it to them! D:

And our friends danced on stage! Way to muster your courage, guys! 

So after roaming around the grounds, in costume this time, we went upstairs to rest and to take more photos. I think my craziness, which will be shown below, is a result of my hunger. I tried my best to look like Lelouch despite the pervy look. :D

I COMMAND YOU LOLITA GIRL TO BE Y GIRL FRIEND! 

Lelouch: KISS ME
Shiba thr Lolita: NO! *uses geass canceler*

Because of my, uhh, behavior - we decided to feed ourselves with great food offered during the fair. Again, I was not able to photos of the food stalls!! Forgive me. D: 

We bought a lot and gobbled everything. I had dumplings with rice (my ultimate fave!).

Now that we were full, we were inspired to take pose for more photos and enjoy more! LOL. Before heading to a nice place to do a mini-shoot, ze MuGIN ordered me to draw her Kotobuki Eyebrows. We totally forgot to thicken her eyebrows during changing so I obliged to this request and pulled out my trusty pencil. 

RESTRAIN HER!! :D

I did a pretty good job, eh? :)

And so... off to the hotel's lobby for the shoot! 

The hotel had a gorgeous lobby. We were lucky to have our photos taken there!

Ishan had to head home so Sheed took our photos during this mini-shoot. Thanks Sheed!! You're really a great help to us!!

Well, that's it guys!! Hope you liked my event report! We had lotsa fun that day and it was a great experience shopping while helping others. Can't wait for Mega Fair 2013!

Crimsolympics Cosplay Competition - WMSU (Part 2)

For the first part, click here.

And now, here's my report on the second part of the WMSU Palaro 2012 cosplay competition that was held last September 7, 2012. The event was the awarding night of the two-day competition. We dressed up again as our characters from the first day and did our catwalk for the last time.

(click on the photos to enlarge them)

Here's a photo of Jenaly before the event. I was like, "HARUHI!" and she turned around and smile for me. What a nice girl!

Jenaly as Haruhi

Before the event, we had a mini-shoot with my friends who were also contestants that day. I got mostly portrait shots of them and I will post the set soon so watch out for it!

We did not have a photographer during the first part of the event so I don't have any photo or video of our catwalk. Good thing Lucille arrived just in time for the awarding proper.

The winners of the event:

Cee won best in character portrayal and Ami Kawashima cosplayer won cosplay of the crowd.

Waa! I can't believe I actually won this award! Thank goodness for Lelouch's poses and regal aura that was really his trademark from the anime. It was a little bit easy to copy and portray during the catwalk. :D

Nouf as Utau of Shugo Chara won second place!

Nouf here changed her character from Mikuru to Utau of Shugo Chara. She won second place for her cosplay! Congratulations, Nouf!

First, second and third place winners of the cosplay competition

With Cristina as Elsie and the grand winners of the event. Out-of-character poses! 

The winners together with the contestants of the event.
L-R: Na'vi cosplayer, Utau, Kagome, Lelouch, Elsie, Haruhi, Ami, Kagura and Cat Girl.

Winners:

Na'Vi cosplayer from Avatar - First Place

Utau of Shugo Chara - Second Place

Kagome of Inu Yasha - Third Place

Lelouch of Code Geass - Best in Character Portrayal

Ami of ToraDora - Cosplayer of the Crowd

Kagome of Inu Yasha - Best Cosplay Photo award.

Congratulations to all the winners and thank you to the organizers of the event! I had so much fun on that event! 

Crimsolympics Cosplay Competition - WMSU (Part 1)

The long awaited post on that mini-event that I joined and won: CRIMSOLYMPICS COSPLAY COMPETITION during the Western Mindanao State University Palaro 2012 last September 5, 2012 . It was a fun event and I even won a special award for my portrayal of Lelouch Lamperouge.

I really had an awesome time during the event. It was fun cosplaying with my friends and meeting new ones as well.

(Photo credits: Lucille. Click on each of the photos to enlarge them.)

Okay, in-character now. :D

A photo with random people. It was nice of them to ask a photo of us with them. I felt like I was the real Lelouch that time! :)

After stopping by for photos, we went straight to the open stage for the competition. We were briefed by the organizers about the flow of the program and how to win the event. 

THIS IS A STOLEN SHOT! LOL I look so not Lelouch on this photo. 

Met up with Cristina at the event! She wuz zoo pretty cosplaying Elsie of The World God Only Knows

My new mistress. :DD

But then my original waifuu, Nouf, won't agree to that. LOL

The contestants...
Anyway, after fooling around, the event started and here we introducing our characters.

Nouf cosplaying Mikuru Asahina of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

Shellaine as Asami Hoshino from Myself Yourself

Here I am, portrtaying Lelouch Lamperouge and ordering the audience to die. I was being in character. LOL

Cristina as Elucia of The World God Only Knows. Purrdyy!

We met a new friend during the event! Here's Jenaly as Haruhi of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya!

The SOS Brigade? LOL

Aww, ain't it awesome to see the two beloved ladies of the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya?

Jenaly was nice enough to mingle with us and pose for a few shots that day. She was so friendly! We got to talk to her and joke around with her a few minutes after we were introduced to each other.

Anyway, we were back onstage for the competition. I think this is the only in-character shot that we have. 

Oh yeah! We were so in-character here!

Then there's the "fooling around" portion...

Get ready for a few fooling-around shots! This was taken DURING the event, when the host was still interviewing the other contestants. Okay so we did not care that there are A LOT of people looking at us while we did our "thing" on stage. LOL

I was glomped by the ladies! But no one will take me away from Elsie! :DD

We were so out-of-character and so out-of-hand!

We totally can't help it. :D

No explanations needed. ;)

And we got busy with other stuffs but Elsie was still game. :DD

Oh yeah. I have a harem nao. :D

So the event was taking time. The Great Lulu suggested that they should go home using Elsie's "Firebolt". 

The following photos are REALLY REALLY out-of-character. Be warned. 

This is what happens when you leave Cee hungry. LOL. 

Off to Hogwarts! 

Yes, the girl on the right does not know that she's being photographed. GOMEN! 

My thumb says LIKE but my face says otherwise. :DD

Somebody should shoot me dead. Oh well. :D

ZANEC MEMBERS were there to support us! 

The members of an otaku group that I belong went and supported us during the event. We thanked them by glomping each one of them. LOL.

Aww this is a cuute photo of everybody!

In-character now...

Boom! Wacky/out-of-character shot. :D

Anyway, watch out for the part two (second day) of the cosplaying event! A few more photos and the awarding ceremony of this event!

For the second part, click here.