Singapore's largest annual cosplay event, Cosfest VIII: A Very Happy Event, was held at Downtown East over the weekend. The festival attracted a crowd of 16,000 – 400 of whom were in costumes based on anime (Japanese cartoon) or manga (Japanese comics) characters.SourceWinners will represent Singapore at the annual World Cosplay Summit in Nagoya, Japan, later this month.
I’m not a cosplayer, but I like looking as cosplay pictures and videos every once in a while, especially those by cute looking girls he he. Here are videos of the Cosfest VIII at Downtown East from Razor TV. Some of the characters at this cosplay event I can recognize as I have watched the animes or played the games before, others which I can’t recognise are nice to look at too. Seems like most of them put in a lot of money and effort into making the costumes. I wish I was there to take some pictures ….
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Andrea and Jill, dressed as characters from Macross Frontier. They will be representing Singapore at the World Cosplay Summit in Nagoya, Japan!! I want to go Japan too!
Expensive cosplay outfits
Singles category winner Lim Wei Lun dressed up as Major Alex Louis Armstrong from Full Metal Alchemist, one of my favorite animes of all time!
Best Anime Singer Mizuki
Front Seat
Highlights plus Dawn Yeoh as Rei Ayanami of Evangelion?
Cosplayers play acting on stage (Costumes beautiful, acting needs improvement =P)
Better acting here heh
The weapons are cool! Are they heavy?
The 6 teams in the finals (but I think only 4 in the videos)
Anime Karaoke Contest winners plus more of Dawn Yeoh
Announcing the winners of the competition!
All cosplayers dancing. A very happy event indeed.
For pictures of the event, check these sites out.
ClubSNAP: Cosfest 2009 - A really very happy event 8D (Day 1 + 2) (Many other threads in that forum)
KODOMUT - Cosfest VIII
The Deathseeker - Cosfest VIII 2009
THE BANZAI! EFFECT - Cosfest VIII (2009) - A Very Happy Event Day 1 / Day 2
ASIAONE - Confest VIII: A Very Happy Event Photo Gallery
All the best to the Singaporean representatives!!
(Images Taken From: ASIAONE)