Funan Anime Matsuri 2014

Funan Anime Matsuri (祭り matsuri means festival) is one of the annual Japanese Pop culture events organized by Anime Festival Asia (AFA). This time, it features guest cosplayers from Taiwan, Malaysia, China, South Korea and Japan. It features the usual things such as the Maid n Butler Cafe, a Creator's Hub for local artists, an area for merchandises such as figurines and titbits from Japan and an area for card games.

Our emcee for the event is none other than Kai whom has emceed various events by AFA. He also acts as a Mandarin and Japanese translator especially for the guest that are from Japan, Taiwan and China.

Kai	Kai showing off his piano playing skills!

Guest Cosplayers
Ying Tze (Malaysia)

Her short workshops were on sewing or costume making with focus on pattern making as it is the most important step. According to her, once pattern making is mastered, any costume can be easily made/created.

A special surprise for her:

Happy birthday!

Lita (South Korea)

Her short workshops were on costume making and make-up. Costume making was focused on modifying a pair of heels into boots.

Hot gluing	Finished product	Testing it!
Before	After. Much proud.

Sakuya (Japan)

Sakuya gave tips on how to she styles wigs using Sebastian from Kuroshitsuji as an example and how she did her make-up for her Undertaker cosplay. Tools for wig styling, wig, scissors, wax, super hard hair spray and a hair iron.

Job completed!

Kakashi sensei giving a make-up course?? Sign me up!

Before

After

Akatsuki Tsukasa and H (Taiwan)

Akatsuki Tsukasa

H

Akatsuki Tsukasa gave two workshops which were on costume making and make-up. Costume making was on making a common female head-dress in anime. Her make-up was based on her cosplay of Elsa from Frozen.

Poor Kai...

Throw ala bridal bouquet throw

Before

After

H's workshop was on wig styling using Akashi from Kuroko no Basuke as an example.

Hana and BaoZi (China)
The cosplay duo from China with Hana being the make-up wizard and BaoZi the prop maker.

BaoZi

Hana

Hana

BaoZi

Hana conducted a short make-up workshop and BaoZi did a prop making workshop to make the goldfish plant from Hoozuki no Reitetsu.


All guest cosplayers:

Other Stage Events
Illustration Workshop

Two workshops were conducted by illustrators from Collateral Damage Studios. They are the creators of the mascot for Internet Explorer 8, Aizawa Inori. Too bad this portion was plagued by technical difficulties.

Performance by Itowokashi (イトヲカシ)
No photography, video and audio recording was allowed during their appearance. So, no pictures for this except their fans. Their official website in Japanese here.

Performance by Valerie
She is part of the Asian Pop Collective (APC) and the emcee for AFA's Youtube channel program, "WOW Japan". Same for Itowokashi, no photography, video and audio recording was allowed during her performance.
 
Anisong Performance by PianoMinion 
12 year old Youtuber performing various popular anime songs. Visit his Youtube page here. 

Video by me:


Video from his channel:


Press Conference on Gundam: Duel Company
A new online/offline trading card game based on the popular anime series, Gundam. Official release date will be on 4 July 2014. More information in Japanese here.

Gameplay video:

Cosplay Singles Competition

Participants for the competition were selected by the guest cosplayers (Ying Tze and Lita left on Saturday).

Winner
1st Runners Up
2nd Runners Up

 

Participants with guest cosplayers

Non-stage Cosplays
Just picking and choosing some nice ones here.

Thanks AFA for having this event. Hope that it will continue!

More pictures here: Flickr, Facebook
Cosplayer's Page: Ying Tze, Lita, Sakuya, Akatsuki Tsukasa, H, Hana and Baozi
Anime Festival Asia (AFA)