Anime Festival Asia ’09 – Action Figures
I feel guilty for not fully participating in the barcampsg4 event, I only listened two topics. After that, I was at the AFA’09 for rest of the time! Even I reached there in the late morning, I consider myself quite early, the queue was very long.
The ticket was $15, quite expensive, compared to the last two Anime Fair I attended. However most of the school kids don’t really care about the price. Especially now is school holiday, people queuing next to me are cosplayers and all are still secondary schools. To them, I’m an uncle already!
Stepping into the hall, the first booth was Bandai. Almost all the Anime show, Bandai will surely be there. They still have their most famous product – Gundam. Just wiki Gundam, you can find the long history of Gundam starting from the 80’s.
I’m not a Gundam fan, I only roughly know that the Gundam action figure have their own grading. From master grade, prefect grade, high grade and etc.
Japan action figure collectors should know of Good Smile Company and Max Factory. The cute series of Death Note action figures come from Good Smile Company. This reminds me that I haven’t really finished reading the Death Note comics!
There are cuter little action figures from Good Smile Company. Even though they are small, but they are not cheap either. I would get all of them if I’m financially allowed.
Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya isn’t a long anime series, only 14 episodes. But the popularity starts from merchandizing. This also applies to Fate/Stay Night. I started to watch these two anime, just because of the cute/sexy action figures catch my attraction.
More coming up about cosplay and Danny Choo on the stage.
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