Lulz

If you’ve familiarity at all with the local and worldwide cosplay scene in general, you’d be familiar with all the hubbub that’s going around with the new Otacool 2 magazine. Otacool is a magazine feature for cosplays. In particular, Otacool 2 features cosplay from around the world.

Cosplayers are invited to submit photographs of themselves to the magazine via DannyChoo.com and from there, get picked to feature in the magazine and if lucky enough, featured on the front cover of Otacool 2.

But this isn’t what this entry is about. Having seen some of the “drama” on Facebook, I decided to take a look at the front cover features.

Do take note that while I do try not to take sides, the Internet… speaks for itself. More so when you go onto 4chan’s /cgl/.

In the line-up, amongst which I recognize are;

1. Danny Choo – No surprises
2. Kaname – Still no surprise
3. FranDan – Questionable reputation in /cgl/.
4. Alodia – Also has questionable reputation in /cgl/. Honestly, some cosplayers have BETTER costumes than her.
5. Yaya Han – Boob job, she looks quite unnatural due to bust size. Her feature photo is from an older cosplay set.

Luckily enough, I think we DO have some cosplayers from Singapore being featured on the front page. However, two other things have caught my eye.

Sakana Sashimi

Now if you haven’t already seen it, she has a “fan-site”, which is amazing after just one cosplay! Debuted after she was featured in DC for her submission of her meido cosplay in HiMM(He is My Master). Gained +4 to notoriety after leader of fansite creates thread to introduce her in CF Forums.

Saya

If you’ve not seen her galleries, do check out wakarimasenlol.com, Linkinstreet’s blog. He’s got a bucketload of cosplay just of Saya. Also featured on Sankaku(which counts for something I guess).

Now comes the kicker… IF Danny Choo doesn’t count, WHY IS THERE ONLY ONE MALE COSPLAYER IN THE ENTIRE FRONT FEATURE LINEUP!?

More photos added… please see below.

The opinion and article prior to the removal of the post are my own and no one else’s.

I cannot help it if you feel insulted and betrayed/angry at what I’ve written but as a person, I do not share the same opinion as everyone else and neither does everyone else always have the same opinion as i do.

However, in the interests of generating less controversy and insults at the cost of being labelled *insert here* for removing what I’ve said and done and in particular at which i don’t have the time to refute constantly, the post has been cleaned and all that remains are the photos.

For those who have responded kindly and have taken what I’ve said in jest, thank you. It’s not often that people are willing to admit that they did “so-and-so” cosplay for a lark.

For those of you who have taken insults from the blog post, try to understand the issue from my viewpoint. It’s not all roses and green grass. Sooner or later someone would’ve said something similar to what I did and I happened to be the first.

The views I’ve expressed here are my own personal feelings and i do not express those feelings in a professional manner when i write a proper event review/article on other sites.

On an interesting note: http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/08/24/malaysia-cosplay-gacc-2009/

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Some of the older photos starting from GACC08. I first caught the DSLR bug when i used a friend’s DSLR at GACC08 and realized the potential of the DSLR and what i was missing out on. Soon after, I HAS OBTAINED E-500 and things rapidly went on from there.

The gallery below was shot with varying DSLRs.

List:

Nikon D40 + 14-55 f3.5-5.6 kitlens
Olympus E-500 + 14-45mm F3.5-5.6 kitlens
Olympus E-500 + 14-54 MKI f2.8-3.5
Olympus E-3 + 12-60SWD f2.8-4.0
Olympus E-30 + 12-60SWD f2.8-4.0

Olympus E-500 + 40-150mm f3.5-4.5
Olympus E-3 + 40-150mm f3.5-4.5

I don’t really intend to repost what i report about in Shrine and if i do, it’s usually a copy-pasta of what i wrote in Shrine albeit with more personal views from me. I also tend to edit them less which makes me kind of lazy. So here it is, my “report” on Sunway UC’s Animangaki!

While i usually prefer to split my reviews into one per day, that is to say… one event day an article, i don’t really have the time now seeing as i’m still rushing around trying to finish my last college report before i end the term. So this Animangaki report will take only one article to summarize and review.  While i like would like to offer a more in-depth review, Animangaki has only debuted for the first time at Sunway UC and to be fair, there aren’t any comparable events that Ican benchmark it to.

More after the jump.

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I’m not one to post cosplay photos and/or to criticize cosplay photos and the cosplayer in question but i found something yesterday that tore the soul out of me and shook my faith in the Terran Emperor the Galactic Fairy.

First… it was this.

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Just when i thought i’d seen him bastardize it all… HE GOES AND DOES IT AGAIN!!!

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The report for shrine will be done soon. Linkin’s busy with that, Meanwhile, i have processed all the photos taken at ACGC for a grand total of 950 shots. However, i have only uploaded 30 from Day One and selected 50 or so from Day Two.

Not that i wish to be stingy but it would be kind of ridiculous having to upload too many. All shots were taken with an Olympus E-3(thanks, Aoitenshii), some flash-assisted, mostly not. Oh, and if you don’t know, i’m currently organizing a photography mini-contest at the ACGC portal which you can register at here.

The photo contest will start once the submission date ends on the 29th of March. So get busy because you are only allowed to upload two shots for the contest. Any extras and we will randomly choose two for the contest. Prize is currently 1x Kingston 133x Elite Pro CF card but we’re trying to include at least 1 or 2 more other prizes.

So be patient while we sort out the kinks.

PHOTOS PHOTOS!

Don’t hurt me nyaa~~! (more…)