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AFA 2011: Day 2

To be honest, the standards for AFA (or any cosplay/anime events in Singapore) is dropping with every passing year. I remember being so blown away at my first cosplay/anime events in 2005, where you can actually see the effort cosplayers put into their outfits and poses. These days, however, participants dress up as their favourite characters but I don’t feel their heart nor pride.

 
Photos from 2005: You can see it from their eyes, or her outfit with the ornament dagger.

The issue these days is that most people think of cosplaying as just dressing up. Personally, I believe it’s being one with your character, so one should bring out the uniqueness of their characters instead of posing half-heartedly. Also, the same popular cosplays repeat themselves every year, with the likes of Hatsune Miku and friends gathering a bigger family each time. I have enough of Vocaloids walking past me, tyvm. However, the most crucial problem is still the space constraint. With a growing number of visitors flooding in, it’s hard to even walk around, let alone find spaces for cosplayers to pose and re-enact hilarious anime scenes.

The only 2 cosplays that left an impression on me today:

 
No complaints on the expression there. And oo, AKB48 Beginner.

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