{"id":5279,"date":"2013-02-18T09:35:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T01:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/?p=5279"},"modified":"2013-02-17T23:41:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T15:41:44","slug":"mangafest-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/18\/mangafest-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Mangafest 2013!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lots<\/a><\/p>\n

Mangafest 2013<\/a>‘s events for the weekend was held at The Arts House and Kinokuniya at Ngee Ann City. The Arts House’s exhibit was from 10am to 8pm. I lurked outside, eating my Old Chang Kee porridge as I waited for my friends to arrive.<\/p>\n

And good grief… It was Saturday morning and I saw lots of people going up to the second floor where the exhibition was held at the Gallery.<\/p>\n

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\"A<\/a><\/p>\n

A survey I did! Do you know… the pirate edition? It took us a few seconds to realize this was in Engrish and they meant if we knew that there were pirated e-mangas.<\/p>\n

Mind you, we were surrounded with manga and such so we wondered if they were meaning some special One Piece edition??<\/p>\n

\"Free<\/a><\/p>\n

Free goodies! We got a bag like that and chose one item out of the three. I chose the cat cloth banner. I forgot the name but it looks super familiar, comment if you know what anime\/manga it is from!<\/p>\n

\"PSVita!\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Anyway, we got to see how e-manga is like on various platforms. Kinokuniya has a special app called Kinoppy<\/a> that can load up into various tablets and computers. It is in Japanese though, so hmm if you can’t understand it.<\/p>\n

\"Miku<\/a> \"Vocaloids!\"<\/a> \"Rare<\/a><\/p>\n

There was also vocaloid original works. The rare goods that they were keeping secret until you got there. Um, it was mostly artwork? Yeah.<\/p>\n

\"It's<\/a><\/p>\n

Then we hit Kinokuniya since the autograph session and mini talks were there!<\/p>\n

\"Local<\/a><\/p>\n

The first bit of the programme were representatives from Singapore polytechnics and a lecturer talking about manga in Singapore. It was like a fandom talk really and yeah.<\/p>\n

My opinion? You wanna do manga, it’s never gonna be easy. Not just manga, comics and webcomics or writing stories. It won’t go poof and you are it. It will take a lot of work and stubbornness.<\/p>\n

\"Line<\/a><\/p>\n

And then autograph sessions! I knew it was a Japanese mangaka thing, no photography of them because it’s not allowed so here is a picture of the queue!<\/p>\n

Maybe this was a mini tester to see how a mangafest would fair in Singapore because it was “small” and the publicity was quite rushed? It was rather last minute at least from the Singapore side.<\/p>\n

But there you go, last minute publicity and it being Chinese New Year weekend didn’t stop fans from attending so perhaps they’ll have a better showing next year so that more people can go to said exhibits, talks or sessions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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