The 4th C3 in Hong Kong event occurred over last weekend. This came a week late, but hopefully it's not too late!
Captions will be filled later! Also check out Shuichi Ikeda's (Char Aznable's seiyuu) stage appearance in the previous post!
One Piece 1/1 scale character stands
Gundam faction badges gachapons at Bandai's shop area
"Smartpants" - underwear for smartphones anyone?
Premium Bandai stuff: "Lighting wings" effect parts for upcoming RG 1/144 Destiny Gundam
RG 1/144 Zeta Gundam Unit 3
MG 1/100 Johnny Ridden's MS-06S Zaku
Black Lotus Ovedrive Mode Green
Robot Damashii Psycho Frame Initiation version
SHFiguarts Frieza
D-Arts Metal Garurumon
Now for upcoming Gunpla kits: HGUC 1/144 Full Armour Unicorn Gundam
MG 1/100 Jesta
MG 1/100 ReZEL Defenser Type a + b
Event exclusive Gunpla: HGUC 1/144 Unicorn Gundam 02 Banshee Norn Extra Finish ver
Early release of SD Unicorn Gundam Banshee action figure, with Unicorn Gundam next to it for comparison
SD Full Armour Unicorn Gundam action figure, display only
HGUC 1/144 Gundam Ez8
HG 1/144 Gundam AGE-1 Gransa
MG 1/100 Aile Strike Gundam HD version (what's wrong with the wings though? ^^;)
HG 1/144 Astray Blue Frame 2nd L
Diorama
Byarlant Custom vs Marasai
End of episode 5
Line art for episode 6
Stand arts for Kyousougiga (京騒戯画)
Gundam Battle Operation, a free-to-play game on PS3 originally for Japanese PSN accounts, is finally coming to Hong Kong too!
Upcoming Unicorn Gundam 02 Banshee 1/35 scale head stand on display from Hobby Japan booth
Collaboration project between Bandai (namely mecha designer Okawara Kunio) and Threezero
Now into Tamashii Nations stuff. First off is the chogokin "Disney Combiner", featuring Mickey and his friends as some sort of super robots
D-Arts Alisa Ilinichina Amiella from PSP game GOD EATER
Metal Build Gundam Exia / Exia Repair III
Code Geass Akito the Exiled banner
Alexander Knightmares plamos for Code Geass Akito the Exiled
New mecha Valvrave plamo for upcoming mecha anime Valvrave the Liberator
Sunrise has a huge signing board for anyone to feel free to sign or draw pictures on
Evangelion statues and a cosplayer (but I don't recognise the character she's cosplaying as)
Kadokawa pavilion
Artwork from Boku ha Tomotachi ga Sugunai (meaning "I have few friends") aka "Haganai"
Cospa t-shirt of Master Asia from G Gundam, which is Hong Kong exclusive
Toys distributor Elite Toys diplaying figures from Goodsmile Company, Max Factory, and ALTER
figma Ultimate Madoka
Belldandy with Holy Bell figure
figma Anzu Futaba and Rin Shibuya from THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls
Nendoroid Petite: IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls - Anzu, Kaede and Rika + Live Stage Set
Nendoroid Sakura Miku
Nendoroid Snow Miku Strawberry White Kimono version
There is a small section for photographing cosplayers with
Miku cosplayer in wedding dress
Silica from Sword Art Online
Nyaruko from Hayore! Nyaruko-san and Kirito from Sword Art Online
Nyaruko and Ezio Auditore da Firenze from Assassin's Creed II
Athena and Seiya from Saint Seiya
Sheryl Nome and Ranka Lee from Macross Frontier
Saber in her casual cloths from Fate/stay Night
Danboard from Yotsuba
Serra from Final Fantasy XIII-2
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Snow Miku
One final shot at the venue before leaving.
Just like previous years, C3 in Hong Kong is a much more spacious event compared to ACGHK in the summers. I usually don't take pictures of cosplayers, but this year's cosplaying seems to have improved a lot, which is a good thing (as I tend to be quite picky on this). The organisers seems quite pleased with this year's event, and announced that they will make a return next year! Hopefully this will be an annual event like ACGHK is!
Is C3 always held around this time? Dammit, why can't more events happen in the winter???
ReplyDeleteOne thing which separates eastern fans and western ones: You give them a board to write on and not one person has drawn something phallic! I remember Tecmo-Koei did something similar over here with Dead or Alive 5. Nothing offensive was written but some comments were childish.
Also, I'd totally buy that master asia T-shirt!!
From my experience all of the past C3s are held in March. Too bad I can't think of what events are available during Winter, apart from a game expo every December.
DeleteSuch signing boards are quite uncommon in Hong Kong events.
The Master Asia t-shirt caught my attention too, and for a brief moment I thought I won't mind buying one myself too if it weren't sold out for the day. There's also a t-shirt with a stylised image of Ramba Ral (not dissimilar to that of Guerrillero Heroico) saying "This sensation... This is War!".
Thanks for the event coverage Q, for us who live overseas, blogs like yours are the only way for us to enjoy some of the contents.
ReplyDeleteGlad that you enjoy the coverage! There are blogs that do cover this event in Chinese language, but fewer in English. Always good to know that such contents do get sought and read!
DeleteSadly I was too busy to go, but judging from the coverage I've seen C3 is a much more interesting event compared to ACGHK? A lot more to see and stuff to buy. (instead of those chinese junk stalls you now get Strict G etc)
ReplyDeleteI agree the majority of the HK cosplayers look awful compared to those from surrounding asian countries. Yet the pervert uncles stick to the teenagers like flies on a turd.
IMHO C3 is more of a exhibition for Japanese companies to display ACG (animation, comic, games)-related stuff to the public, whereas ACGHK is a mix of local stalls selling stuff in general.
DeleteI don't take much notice of the cosplayers in general, but I was told that the local ones are improving recently. I won't stick so much negativity to it as we all can call each other kettle black; as long as it's enjoyable then it's all the merrier.