Continued from Day 1.

Day 2 of Anime Festival Asia 09 features more of the same awesomeness, with Kaname’s Make-up and Cosplay Panel, the K-ON! seiyuu for The K-ON! Experience, and part two of the I Love Anisong concert series featuring MAY’N and JAM Project’s Fukuyama Yoshiki. To start off, let’s take a look at the other booths that drew in crowds at AFA 09.

Danny Choo of DANNYCHOO.COM, with the special participation of Kotobukiya, Max Factory, and Good Smile Company, staged the Singapore mini-leg of the Tokyo Figure Show. Danny — also known as the Tokyo Dance Trooper, runs the largest English-language website dedicated to otaku culture, and his influence can be felt all over the world. At the TFS booth, Danny graciously posed for photos and chatted with SEA fans.

On display are much coveted figures and statues from the Figma, Nendroid, and Kotobukiya Art series. The gents in the crowd got a real eyeful of the buxom beauties on display. However, my personal favorite would be the Hatsune Miku artist statues featuring her BLACK ROCK SHOOTER and WORLD IS MINE incarnations. They are super cute and worth every yen you spend on them!

Not to be outdone by their male counterparts, girls of every fandom and pairing trooped to the Doujinshi Artist Alley located behind the Animax Asia booth, to sample the wares of local artists and fellow BL fans. Some of the most popular merchandise were items featuring characters from AXIS POWERS HEITALIA and VOCALOID.

While looking through the booths we also ran across the ladies and gents from COMIC FIESTA, a doujinshi event in Kuala Lumpur, which is posed to become South East Asia’s answer to Japan’s infamous COMIKET events. As Victor of COMIC FIESTA states, “Comic Fiesta is less commercial than the huge anime cons, but we aim to bring close to 200 artists and circles together for this event.”. We wish everyone at CF all the best, and we will do our best to fly in and join you there!

Bringing the festivities to a close was the I Love Anisong concert featuring Fukuyama Yoshiki (Nekki Basara, Macross 7) and MAY’N (Sheryl Nome, Macross Frontier). Fukuyama-san started off with several rocking tracks from JAM Project, before settling down with his treasured guitar for some acoustic Macross 7 tracks.

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His set was followed by MAY’N, who sang track after track from her newest release STYLE (full-length album, out now). Despite the crowd being less familiar with her all-new songs, they still gave her a warm welcome and punctuated each song with cheers and yells.

The concert was capped off by two duets by both MAY’N and Fukuyama-san: Sheryl Nome’s Diamond Crevasse and Basara Nekki’s Dynamite Explosion. Still pumped by the concert, the hosts thanked everyone for another successful Anime Festival Asia, and invited everyone to come again next year for AFA 2010.

AFA 09 was held on the 21st and the 22nd of November 2009 at Singapore’s Suntec City Convention Center. It was organized jointly by I-Promo Events & Marketing, SOZO and Dentsu Singapore, and is proudly sponsored by Bandai. Animax Asia is the official regional media partner.

Thank you very much to AFA 09, Sozo, and Red Dawn for the support. Special thanks to Maurice of SOZO for providing additional photos for this event report.