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| Crowds getting ready to enter the exhibition hall when the doors open on Friday |
C3 Anime Festival Asia Singapore 2017 returns to its home ground after touring
Jakarta,
Bangkok,
Tokyo. On it's 9th year Anime Festival Asia as been the biggest Japanese pop culture event of the year never it fails to attract crowds. This Year its the first time
SOZO teams up with
SOTSU hence the have added C3 into their name. Let's take a look back at the capture moments!
Super Akiba Stage
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| Ayasa Performing on stage |
This Year Akiba Stage as been upgraded into Super Akiba Stage, with a bigger stage and more
contents there was something for everyone. Besides returning favourites like guest Cosplayers appearance there were brand new contents this year.
- Anisong Violin Performance by Ayasa
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| Ayasa |
Ayasa with over 120K subscribers on her
Youtube Channel is known for her Anisong violin covers,sometimes in cosplay brought her electrifying performance for the very first time in Singapore.
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| Lechat |
Lechat is a official Hastune Miku Cosplayer recognized by Yamaha. She also sings and have several collaborations with big names like Hachioji P and Powerless (Muryoku P), at her first
C3 Anime Festival Asia Singapore she sang
several song covers as well as her original songs. With her recent signing with Avex, fans of
Lechat can look out for her singles coming out soon.
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| Moso Calibration |
Fans of
Moso Calibration were treated to a Special Showcase at the Super Akiba Stage. Much to the delight to the fans,they performed several songs including the ending song of Saekano flat:Sakurairo Diary.
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Real Akiba Boyz
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Crowds favourites
Real Akiba Boyz returns to
C3 Anime Festival Asia Singapore. Once again the crowd was trilled by their explosive dance on stage. Meanwhile DJ Keitan has also his own stage time spinning several Anisongs at the Super Akiba Stage.
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| DJ Soba |
Another DJ that is spinning anisong is DJ Soba from our neighbouring Indonesia. The crowd dances and cheered along to the remixes popular anisongs.
- That Anime Man & Takahiro Baba
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| That Anime Man & Takahiro Baba |
The duo was on stage to talk about Key production specifically on the topic of
Little Busters! English Edition, with the localisation of
Visual Arts Key games on
Steam non
Japanese gamers finally have access to popular
Visual Arts Key Visual Novels such as Little Busters and Clannad.
- Local Talents- Usagi,RAE,Natsuiro Party,A-LIVE,Tokimeki JUMP, Singapore Wotagei Community,MechaPen & D.N.A
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| Usagi |
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| A-LIVE |
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| Natsuiro Party |
Several Local talents have also grace the Super Akiba Stage they include
Usagi ,RAE, Natsuiro Party,
A-LIVE,
Tokimeki JUMP,
Singapore Wotagei Community, MechaPen &
D.N.A. Attendees of local pop culture events would not find them unfamiliar. In fact,
Usagi was
Asia Anisong-Singer Audition(AAA) in AFASG 2014 & Tokimeki Jump actually made their debut at last year's AFASG. Talk about AFASG being a platform for aspirating talents.
- Star Cosplayers Appearances
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| Ying Tze |
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| Rosiel Kasyou |
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| Serg Loki |
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| Enako |
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Clarissa Punipun
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| Liyuu |
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Baozi & Hana
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| Cosplay All Stars with Thames Malerose on the far right |
Besides Returning Favourites like Ying Tze(Malaysia), Baozi & Hana(China), Enako(Japan) for the Star Cosplayers. This year we have Liyuu(China), Clarissa Punipun(Indonesia), Rosiel Kasyou(Japan), Thames Malerose(Thailand) & Serg Loki(Russia) attending
C3 Anime Festival Asia Singapore For the very first time.
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| Some of the cosplay contestants on stage |
The contestants are scouted out on the day itself by the guest judges whom walk around the event on the 2nd day of
C3 Anime Festival Asia Singapore. On the same evening, the contestants battle it out for the top prize of cash prize of $500, while the 2 runners up walk away with $300 & $200 respectively.
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Idolmaster popup exhibition by Bandai Namaco
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| SAORA Music Booth |
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| 1/1 Scale Megumi at Saekano Booth |
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| Muse Booth |
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| Bili Bili Booth |
The Akiba Town offers several event exclusives and Merchandises at discounted price. There are also booth that focus on their exhibits. While favourites like Muse and Proware made their return, there are several new exhibitors this year like
bilibili. For the hungry Event goers there is also a food street for them to recharge themselves.
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| Creators Hub Booths |
For the Event attendees that are looking for Fan arts of their favourite series, this year Creators Hub have a total of 100 booth, I am sure there is no lack of variety in the fandom of thier choice. Commission on the spot were also available at several booths.
- Cosplayers at the event ground
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Cosplayers Roaming the event ground
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Of Course, no event would be complete without the attendance of Cosplayers. With that is shall leave you with more memories captured at
C3 Anime Festival Asia Singapore 2017 in the gallery after the break, i have also embedded the official highlight videos for all 3 days.
