Malaysia Cosplay Toshokan™

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Editorial board dispatch the team’s photographer and went all the way from Penang to cover on the event. The editors were unable to make it for the event.

Day 1 and Day 2

The Singapore Cosplay Club is proud to present JAPAN ROMANCE featuring SUG as the star artist for the event. During the event, SUG will be having an autography, photo session and a gig on the 26th of June 2010. In a rare gesture, SUG will also be the judges for Singapore Cosplay Club’s Asia Cosplay Meet. Singapore Cosplay Club has invite SUG as a judge for Asia Cosplay Meet’s regional round. Asia Cosplay Meet Philippines will be hosted on the 27th June 2010 concurrent with the Japan Romance via internet live streaming. At the event will be also booth that will sell Japanese Items such as anime merchandises and games.

Venue: Orchard Central
Dates: 26th June 2010, 27th June 2010
Time: 11am – 9.00pm
Address: 181 Orchard Road
Admission: Free

The programme for the Japan Romance:-

26th June 2010
11.00am Opening of event booths
4.00pm SUG GIG!!

27th June 2010
11.00am Opening of event booths
2.00pm Asia Cosplay Meet regional rounds screening
4.00pm Asia Cosplay Meet Philippines Judging by SUG

What is SUG?
SuG is a Japanese rock band formed in 2006. The rock band is one of the visual kei movement in Japan. The band has released two EPs, two full-length studio albums, and several singles. Till 2009, the band was signed to “Indie PSC”, a subdivision of PS Company. As of 2010, they have signed onto a major label, Pony Canyon, and joined the forefront of major bands on PS Company. The band’s tagline in promotional work is Heavy Positive Rock.

Current Members:-
Takeru (武瑠) – vocals
Masato – guitar
Yuji – guitar
Chiyu – bass
Shinpei – drums

Former members:-
Shouta – bass (2006-2007)
Mitsuru – drums (2006-2009)

Discography
「Albums and EPs」
I SCREAM PARTY (19 December 2007)
n0iZ stAr (14 May 2008)
Punkitsch (3 September 2008)
Tokyo Muzical Hotel (9 March 2010)
Singles
Scheat (1 August 2007)
Yumegiwa Downer (2 September 2007)
Alterna. (5 September 2007)
Tricolour Color (3 December 2008)
39GalaxyZ (15 April 2009)
Life♥2Die (14 October 2009)
P!NK masquerade (18 November 2009)
gr8 story (27 January 2010)
Compilations
Cannonball Vol. 3 (2 February 2007)

Japan Romance is supported by Japan Airlines(official airlines), Japan National Tourist Organisation (JNTO) and Yokoso Japan!

Directions to Orchard Central

Bus Stop 1 (Alight at Emerald Hill)
Bus No. 7, 14, 14E, 16, 16B, 65, 106, 111, 123, 175, 508, NR1, NR2, NR3, NR4, NR5, NR6, NR7, NR8, 1N, 2N, 3N, 4N, 5N, 6N, 7N, 8N

Bus Stop 2 (Alight at Orchard Plaza)
Bus No. 123, 143, 576, 578, 579. 581, 587, NR6, NR7

Nearest MRT
Alight at Somerset MRT station. Orchard Central is just 3 minutes walk away.

GAMEHUB would like to invite all malayisa cosplayers to join the Asia Cosplay Meet Malaysia selection. Asia Cosplay Meet, produced by Singapore Cosplay Club,a grand party that gathers many of the top cosplayers from all around asia. GAMEHUB
is proud to be the official co-organser and venue for ASIA COS PLAY MEET; malaysia selection.
Top 3 winners from ASIA COS PLAY MEET in Johor Bahru City Square at Gamehub 2010 shall represent Malaysia to compete in the Finals in Singapore.

What is Asia Cosplay Meet all about?
Asia Cosplay Meet is all about gathering the Asia’s best cosplayers to meet up together for a competition to compete for the Number One Best Cosplayer title. The winner of the final rounds of Asia Cosplay Meet will get a chance to fly to Japan.

The current countries involve in Asia Cosplay Meet are:-
Korea
Phillipines
Singapore
Malaysia

Events Detail:-
Date: 6th June 2010
Time: 12:00pm – 6:00pm
Venue: Johor Bahru City Square

A message from Asia Cosplay Meet

Dear Cosplayers,

We sincerely invite all cosplayers to join this party with us!!

As for the transportation, it’ll be Rm85 for the round trip per person from KL to JB and back. This time we will also be providing transport from HOTEL PARAGON to city square and back

Hotel rooms at GRAND PARAGON HOTEL are as followed:
STANDARD ROOM:NORMAL PRICE:RM230
OFFER PRICE :RM150

DELUXE ROOM: NORMAL PRICE:RM250
OFFER PRICE :RM170

This year,we are pleased to be collaborating with GRAND PARAGON HOTEL to provide all participants a comfortable and affordable lodging.

The editorial team and reporters of Malaysia Cosplay Toshokan manage to cover on the most impressive concert at all times which is the Video Games Live. The day before the event, the Head Of Editorial personally head to the Hotel Concorde in Kuala Lumpur to attend the press conference of Video Games Live. The VGL panelists attended which are Tommy Tallarico, Jack Wall, Norihiko Hibino and Laura Intravia. It was a very delighted environment that Laura Intravia performed live at the press conference of Video Games Live. Soon after the press conference, the Head of Editorial headed back to Negeri Sembilan to prepare for the big day which is the day of the concert.

The day of the concert, the team arrived at the event place about 3 hours early as there was some inconvenience of transportation due to the Head of Events whom he came all the way from Penang. The team brought sufficient equipment for the event and as well as the team’s usual policy, “Cosplay to Support ACG events”. Malaysia Cosplay Toshokan head of department that attends an event will dress up into cosplay costumes. Before the concert started, the Video Games Live Great Musicians reherse perfectly in order to put up the great concert. At about 1230 hours the team registered at the registration booth to go into the Planary Hall in Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre. The concert started of with a cosplay competition. The competition was rather fast but very
intriguing. The three finalist of the competition were from Final Fantasy VII Advent Children, Halo and Resident Evil. The finalist of the Resident Evil won the cosplay competition and awarded with a goodie bag of the Video Games Live.

The concert played the all time favourite classic video games songs such as Legend of Zelda, Mario Bros, Tetris and more. In addition, the concert also showed a video on the invention of a video game console. In the surprise of everyone, the concert had a live video conference with the inventor of the video game console. Every single gamer that attended the concert felt it was worth it. Not only that, the concert included a game which is an all time classic which is the spaceship shooter participated by a 40 year old audience. It is never old being a gamer. Before Video Games Live started there was a Guitar Hero Competition running. The winner was then invited to the stage to give the last final challenge by Tommy Tallarico. The winner must play a song selected by Tommy Tallarico in hard mode which is the Van Halen’s Jump and the song is simultaneously played by Tommy on the guitar with the orchestral band. He accepted the challenge with the expert mode and impressed everyone that attended the concert. He was so close to winning the prize. As a token of appreciation he is awarded with a goodie bag as well.

Overall, the event was impressive in everyone’s vision. It ended with an all time favourite song from a video game. We managed to pick several attendees for interview. The comment and suggestion interviewed were wishing Video Games Live will be held in Malaysia again next year. To all ACG fans out there, it is a must attend event!

Concorde Hotel, Kuala Lumpur – Friday, April 16, is the official press conference of Video Games Live where the most spectacular event is announced to the public. Video Games Live which will be held at the Plenary Hall of Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre on the 17th of April at two different time. The time available for the shows are 2.30pm & 8.30pm. To extend the appeal to a wider audience, a special Matinee Show at 2.30pm targeting students has been arranged and the usage of student IDs which entitles them for a 15% discount at the designated seating area.

The Video Games Live panelist Tommy Tallarico, Jack Wall, Norihiko Hibino and Laura Intravia are present at the Press Conference alongside with Dato Zulkifli Ishak, Chief Executive Officer of Zi Production Sdn Bhd which is the promoter and organizers of Video Games Live Malaysia, Raymond Mooi from Gem-impact, an artiste management company of Video Games Live and Life College of Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. All of the personnels did a very big contribution in making Video Games Live Malaysia a big success.

Video Games Live is mainly an orchestra show which is a fusion of both classical symphony ochestra and as well as today’s music technology. All of the visual and audio landscape are created from scratch and it took 8 years of planning and material gathering including mainly musics by seeking the approval of the composers and creators. Not only that, the show consist of 27 local musicians and as well as 16 international musicians. During the first concert of VGL in Malaysia, it put the malaysian musicians to the test to see how far Malaysian Orchestra’s Performance in the show. Tallarico said its not only the knowledge on how to organize this show and is also an experience redemption to make this show even more impressive than before. The idea of Video Games Live in Malaysia emerges as they received many feedbacks and suggestion from fans and as well the approach of Norihiko Hibino during one of the Video Games Live Show.

What is it all about? (A brief idea on what Video Games Live is all about)
Video Games Live is a concert series created and produced by veterans industry and also video games composers Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall. The concert series contains segments of video game music performed by Live Orchestra with Live Video footage and synchronized effects and lightings including of several interactive sections with the audience present in the concert hall itself.

Video Games Live first started off by Jack Wall and Tommy Tallarico. It took a duration of 3 years to layout the plan for the Video Games Live. During the planning stage, Concert Master required the technology to communicate with the performers and as well to synchronize the lights and effects. The concert of VGL short form for Video Games Live debuted on 6th of July 2005 at the Hollywood Bowl where Los Angeles Philiharmonic Orchestra performed to the audience of 11,000 people. Only 3 concerts were played at the first year. Again the concert re-launched with an 11 show world tour. Then the concert was expanded to 30 and 47 cities in 2007 and 2008 respectively. In 2009, more than 70 shows are scheduled. Each VGL concert is performed by local professional musicians and local orchestra band.

The details of the Video Games Live performance in Malaysia.
Venue:
Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Plenary Hall
Date:
17th April 2010
Time:
2:30PM and 8:30PM
Tickets:
RM83 – RM253
15% discount for students available for 2.30pm matinee performance

List of Music Performed:-
* Advent Rising
* Assassin’s Creed II
* Beyond Good & Evil
* BioShock
* Castlevania
* Chrono Cross
* Chrono Trigger
* Civilization IV
* Command & Conquer (Red Alert)
* Diablo III
* Dragon’s Lair
* EverQuest II
* Final Fantasy (multiple segments)
* God of War
* Halo (multiple segments)
* Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
* Headhunter
* Kingdom Hearts
* The Legend of Zelda series (multiple segments)
* LucasArts Medley
* Mass Effect
* Medal of Honor
* Mega Man
* Metal Gear Solid (multiple segments)
* Metroid
* Myst
* Need for Speed: Undercover (featuring Splitting Adam)
* Shadow of the Colossus
* Silent Hill
* Sonic the Hedgehog
* Space Ace
* StarCraft & StarCraft II
* Super Mario Series (multiple segments)
* Tetris
* Tom Clancy Series Medley
* Tomb Raider (series)
* Tron
* World of Warcraft (multiple segments)

The Japanese Cultural Society of Multimedia University Cyberjaya organized a Japanese Cultural Night which is actually organized every year as a part of Carnival of Japan 2009/2010. The events in the Japanese Cultural Night and themed with Nagareboshi which is also known in english as the Shooting Star. This event is organize on 24th March 2010. Malaysia Cosplay Toshokan’s editor practically pay a visit to the event to make a cover on the event. To his amuse, he liked the event like any other event around Malaysia. The event is very well organized as in their managing of refreshments till the time schedule of the event. The committees worked hard for the event itself. It is very well done.

The Opening Ceremony of the Japanese Cultural Night. Song performed: Kitaro’s Matsuri. The song is performed fully accoustic without the guidance of the CD or any music file.

The Japanese Cultural Night throughout the years successfully bringing all the students which are interested in Japanese Culture. This event also aimed for students to go beyond academic aspect of their university life, and explore other opportunities, which will lead them to a more fulfilling university experience. In addition this event is also organized to inspire people to learn Japanese Culture.

A Street Music performance by students of Multimedia University Cyberjaya.

In the event, there are Japanese Traditional Dance (So-ran Bushi) which is performed by MGS School of Selangor, Kimono Sketch which is how to wear a Kimono and the steps to wear a kimono, Japanese Martial Arts Demonstration by the students of MMU Cyberjaya, and a very original drama created by the MMU Students. Not to forget, there are Fashion show on traditional Japanese wear and also the modern Japanese wear the full line up of the fashion show, a local band performance by Himitsu band.

As one of the support from other university. Inti University-College organized a trip to the event itself.

Here’s some pictures for the event…Hope you guys enjoy it ^^

Event Name : Comic Fiesta 2009
Date : 19th & 20th December (Saturda�y & Sunday)
Venue : Sunway Pyramid Convention Hall Kuala Lumpur

More will be coming ^^.

Date: 21st – 23rd November 2009
Venue: Concourse Level, Sungei Wang, Kuala Lumpur
Time: 10:30 a.m. – 9:30 p.m

Main Activities
� Kick off our bi-annual festival with a magnificent launching ceremony! – (2.15pm on 21st Nov)
� See our artists in action at the Comic Classroom Studio
� Watch what happens when radio collides with comics, as famous comic artist Keith takes on 98.8 FM’s Super K6 Gang!
� See the artwork from our Bakat Baru Komik Malaysia 2009, and cheer on the winners in our Prize Giving Ceremony
� Wow the crowds in our Cosplay Competition!
� Get autographs from your favourite artists in several special Autograph Sessions!
� Don’t worry about your little ones; have them join our Happy Learning Corner with plenty of edutainment activities!

Event Schedule:-

Specials:-

GACC 09 is finally over and this event was EPIC without a seiyuu !!

Thanks to all the Emina comittees of MMU melaka campus for helding a great and EPIC event again , *bows*

Below are the information for the events :

Date : 15th and 16th AUGUST
Time : 10am – 7pm
Venue : MMU melaka campus ( Exam Hall )

As for the pictures , it will be uploaded soon by 1 of our comittee here very soon

Stay tuned for more G4CC , always your epic acg event