Day 1 in Hong Kong. This time I'm over here working with Bushiroad on this n that and also doing some Culture Japan promotional work with Animax Asia.
TCG (Trading Card Game) and recently anime contents company (Milky Holmes, Vanguard) Bushiroad is attending C3 Chara Hobby together with a load of other Japanese companies such as Good Smile Company, Alter, Kotobukiya, Cospa, Sega Sammy, Bandai, Kadokawa, Toranoana and a load more.
Got two passes. The Contractor one means "if you get killed by one of the big machines while setting up then its the organizers fault" and the Exhibitor pass means "if you get killed while setting up then its your fault for not having a Contractor pass."
It's been a great learning watching/setting up other booths at various anime events worldwide and it looks like I'll be setting my own booths up once all the "stuff" is ready to launch ^^;
A Japanese Pop Culture event is not complete without Engrish.
At about 2PM, setting up of the Bushiroad booth starts. The local distributor comes over with a van with a load of boxes filled with card games and posters.
Posters slowly start to fill the booth walls.
The counter tables arrive.
And by 8PM everything is all setup ready for action tomorrow. The tables are for folks to play the trading card games. Hope I'll have time tomorrow to play a few rounds of Weiss Schwarz.
The event starts on the 11th but I'll be filming with the Milky Holmes girls all day around Hong Kong on that day. On the 12th, I'll mostly be at the Bushiroad booth at A-20 which is right in front of the main stage. If I'm not there then I'll either be doing some wheelings n dealings with other comrades at their booths or on stage for Animax.
Do drop by to say hi - I only bite if your hands smell of bananas.
When you exchange business cards with an employee of Bushiroad, you will find that their card does not fit in a conventional sized card holder because their business cards are the same size as their TCG's ^^;
A load of Milky goodies.
Stealing some of the goodies that will go on sale at the booth.
Never been to an event where the main stage is right in the middle of the hall. AFA and Anime Expo have their stage areas separate from the main halls. Will be interesting to see how this works with all the AKB fans running around ^^;
Engrish fixed for the booth sign.
Zooming back in time a few hours - was outside carrying boxes with the rest of the team.
Japanese style fans are called Sensu [扇子] and these Milky Holmes ones will be given away during the event.
Filling up with some Oolong tea. Speaking of Oolong, how many of you are old enough to remember the character Oolong from the game Yie Ar Kung Fu?
Popular titles with the locals are placed towards the outside of the walls.
Milky Holmes. Green, Yellow, Pink and Blue. One color seems to be missing at the moment.
Posted a few more photos of the Bushiroad booth over at the official English site.
This is the hall much earlier on in the day.
Volks and Animate are here too.
The outside of the Cospa booth.
A huge booth dedicated to Aquarion.
Kadokawa have a large presence too. I'm just bursting to talk about what Kadokawa and I are working on! But cant because I signed that NDA. Will announce in time for the Anime Contents Expo taking place at the end of this month in Makuhari Messe Tokyo.
The stage earlier on in the day.
You can take all of them home with you - buy buying stuff from their booth.
Been working with Sega Sammy of late too.
I love this font! Whats it called?
First time I heard about this company but the whole booth was filled with Zeon goodies. Those bikes looked rather nice too.
Twin Angel! Love em to pieces.
The Cospa booth in the middle of setting up.
Kotobukiya have a nice corner with a load of their goodies up for grabs - in exchange for monies.
Toranoana. I'm sure you will be seeing more of them somehow.
I like the look of these small suitcase thingies - need to make some with Mirai-chan.
Snapped near the end of the day. I don't think they would have Dollfies on display and would probably concentrate on their kits.
I'll be at the mini stage to make sure I don't get on every bodies nerves ^^;
The Kadokawa booth with have a load of localized books/manga for sale. Will probably pick some up for my Chinese/Cantonese study.
Alter, Goodsmile and Max Factory booths nearly ready.
The first thing I saw at this booth was the maid and her yokopai.
Main stage schedule.
Other events I'm due attend this year so far is Anime Expo - nothing fixed for anything else so far. What anime/Japan related events do you plan on attending this year?
