Anicult 2015 (Surabaya, Indonesia) has been a very fun event for me and my media team of 3 people, despite not being able to explore much of the event booth by booth. The warmth and hospitality of the people there are just extremely... touching and top notch. The staff has been good and helpful towards us throughout the event. The people who attended our booth were so hyper and we totally did not expect such a huge turnout and interest, that we ran out of Crimson Spell postcards to giveaway for each who registered for the lucky draw. We met many fujoshi and even fudanshi during the press con and two event days. I will be showing more pics and talking more about the booth activity on my next thread when the photographer's pics from his camera has been uploaded to me (he will need 1-3 days to do so).
Today, I will be showing you some of the very few photos I took on my phone first.
The event took place at Tunjungan Plaza, a big mall in Surabaya and they were doing preparations at night when they put up the posters of guests of the event. I was totally happy when I see a promo video in the middle of the hall of AarinFantasy's logo name side by side with Libre's publishing, it's such an honor!
Pic: Promo posters in the mall
Pic: AarinFantasy's logo appearing beside Libre Publishing's logo! Such an honor!
Day 0: Press con
We were introduced to Nekota Yonezou-sensei and Libre's editor/producer, Hisako Miyoshi. Didn't expect such an important from Libre to be there as well! Imagine how nervous me and my team were! We were not allowed to show Nekota Yonezou-sensei's photos publicly so I am unable to show it here unfortunately. The press conference is for her and the guest cosplayers of the event. Our team get to interview her and Baozi & Hana for the day.
Pic: Hana (left), me and Baozi (right)... after the interview session. They cosplayed as Ten Count's characters!
After that, we headed to have dinner with everyone (staff and guests) together. I am quite familiar with Indonesian food because in Malaysia, I do eat at Indonesian restaurants but anything that says "Surabaya" is something new to me.
Pic: Here I had Nasi Special Surabaya (Surabaya's Special Rice).
Pic: Part of the organizer's team, Chika (Takatsuki Raven) who has been liaising with me about the event
Pic: I was surprised that a forum member (lizijoy) is part of the helpers of the team too! It was nice to meet her!
Day 1: Event Day #1
Unfortunately, I did not take any pics with my phone to show here. Will be on the next thread when my photographer is ready with them!
Day 2: Event Day #2
So we started our day by going to the guest cosplayers' photoshoot. While some of them were waiting for the others to arrive, we get to mingle with them especially Pinky, Nakoto, Kuryu, Reach and Asuka. We manage to give everyone the AarinSecret magazine too! They were so amused by it and I am very happy to see them flipping the pages with so much interest!
Pic: Nakoto and Kuryu checking out AarinSecret after we gave each a copy.
I have some pics in my phone that I would love to show you all too but they were too blur (shaky hands from a nervous Aarin! LOL). I got back to Malaysia the next day, and here I will show you what I have gotten... well, NOT ALL of it exactly because I am saving some for publishing on the next AarinSecret.
I must applaud Anicult for printing such a high quality poster for Nekota-sensei's four merchandise packages! It is totally worth it!
Pic: Nekota Yonezou's autograph on all her posters that were sold during the two days of the event!
NOTE: I purposely bought an extra poster and may be doing a giveaway for one of the AUTOGRAPHED posters for AarinFantasy's forum members only, so please stay tuned!
Pic: Nekota-sensei's autograph for me with personal message! Oooh wah!
Pic: Some gifts and bought goods that I got from BlackMonkeyPro, Aphin's booth and Olivia of Anicult! Also a cute badge of "Please be my Fujoshi Sister" by a yaoi fan!
That's all for now. Please stay tuned for the "better photos" version after I get the photographs! I will be writing that on a new thread in the forum
If you are wondering about the interview that we conducted, well the content is for the next AarinSecret!
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