SOY 2008 – Cosplay @ Ngee Ann Poly

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With just slightly a month after “EOY 2007″ the last cosplay event, the cosplay shenanigans over at Japanese Tsubasa Club (JTC) have decided to host an cosplay event at the Start of the year in Ngee Ann Polytechnic (Hey it’s my school!), to compliment it’s counterpart, EOY.

Taken about 400-ish photos here and have filtered the cosplay ones out. Will just dump the images here for you guys to enjoy as I’m too busy with Rin at the moment ^^;

Truth be told, I had almost though the event would have been a flop at first. The first location, the atrium, was a bad enough place to be due to it’s lack of lightning and weird layout, and the second location chosen was a lecture theatre – which meant that I had to be in front of the theatre to get any decent shots.

Anyway, enough babbling and enjoy the pictures!

1. Trinity Blood – Sister Kaya

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2. Air Gear – Akito

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3. FLCL

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4. Prince of Tennis

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5. Gintama – Sogou Okita

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6. Death Note – Ryuk

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7. D. Gray-man – Allen Walker

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8. Naruto – Sasuke Uchiha and Itachi Uchiha

I’ll crush that spiny neck of yours, you worthless scum!

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9. Final Fantasy IV

We are 8-bit characters, SRSLY!

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10. The Art of Fighting

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11. Trinity Blood – Seth Nightlord & “Empress” Mirka Fortuna

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12. Gintama – Gintoki

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13.

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14. Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu

Haruhi does not forgive! *punches*

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Kyon had better do something good now

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15. Shining Tears X Wind – Kureha

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16. Ouran High School Host Club

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17. Ikkitousen – Sonsaku Hakufu

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18. Ikkitousen – Ryoumou Shimei

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19.

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20. Haruhi & Ryoumou

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On the overall, I pretty much enjoyed taking shots of the cosplayers despite the change in venue etc. Also saw an increase in the number of photographers using DSLRs. It was also nice to see familiar faces from previous events.

Photography Notes

Canon EOS 400D, rented EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM and Speedlite 580EX Mk II. Note to self: Remember to bring extra batteries for the speedlite.

Other Notes

Am interested to join photographers in private cosplay photoshoots to improve my skills! Interested cosplayers who wants a shoot can contact me @ windbell[at]moeside[kawaiidothere]net

Link(s)

S.O.Y. 2008 CosPlay Event by nekoguchi

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“家でやろう” or “Please do it at home” is an manner poster series that can been commonly found in the subway trains stations of Tokyo.

I remember seeing the above sign in most of the train stations while visiting Tokyo in April and what had prompted me to take this photo was because the guy in the poster looked more like he was about to jerk off while browsing that magazine instead of sharing the seat with the salaryman that’s standing up so that they could jerk off together.

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15 Responses to “SOY 2008 – Cosplay @ Ngee Ann Poly”

  1. - Deathy

    No photos from the little boy who was dressed as Kon? XP

    And I guess Akito/Agito Bride ver. was the most photographed cosplay in SOY.

  2. - 0ne

    no chio babes. and the cosplayers need a little more make-up on their face. they look too plain jane

  3. - AS

    The Kureha, Shimei, and goth girls looked. Did you see the Nel cosplayer there? I thought that was cute considering the person being the right size for it lol, seeing a tall Nel would have been scary.

  4. - dice

    Your photos are very nice and sharp! I really love the first one. Artistic & sentimental – sorta relieved yet sad kinda feel to it. The shot of the two lolitas are kinda quite too. Very natural!

  5. - icie

    Hell yeah, we just got fingered by “Haruhi” in the last pic.

  6. - gordon

    picture no.9 what’s the colour of the pantsu of the girl in white sitting on the ground? me demand windbell to post full version. (‘~’)

  7. - LianYL

    I miss Comiket.

  8. - Rin

    Wow, nice pics. The akito/agito weddin version seems well done. The Sasuke and Itachi is cool. Nice shots…

    Not too bad man, got some improvement ne ^^

    One -> Aiyah this is not a beauty pageant lar XD

    @Deathy: Hm… Didn’t get the chance to take the photos of all the cosplayers there ^^;

    @0ne: LOL. Too much make-up is bad, unless you mean soldiers

    @dice: Thanks!

    @icie: Hell yeah!

    @gordon: LOL. That is the full version. I no lie!

    @LianYL: Let’s go for C79 then.

    @Rin: Welcome and Thanks!

    @Hexlord: Let’s do some photoshoots together ^^;

    Kureha looks good in mah opinion. Nice photos. Will there be cosplays during Feb 29 event?

  9. - Rokku

    Well, that`s a lot of good photos.

  10. - saku

    sumimasen. >_

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