Cosmania 2017 Highlights

You don’t need to leave the country to experience a grand anime and cosplay event. Cosplay Mania has it all for you. Held last September 30 to October 1 at Function rooms 1-5, SMX Convention Center. This is the biggest Cosmania ever since it started in 2008.

The event officially opened before noon. There were a lot of anime and cosplay enthusiast present. All of them excited to enjoy the event, meet their idols and win prizes!

If you were one of the first 500 people, you were entitled to play Cosplay Con-Quest. It is indeed a great way to explore the event. If you finish the game early, your prize awaits you at the Prize Redemption Booth located at the Show Management Office.

Toys, cute items, and fan art on sale—you'll get to see all of those. Did we already mention that Cosmania is also a great time to meet up with online sellers that are also exhibitors for 2 days? There are discounts and freebies from on-site shops that you can avail as well!

For two days, people got to see some of their favorite characters come to life. From anime, western comics, computer games, and movies—it is fun to see people with the same cosplay face each other!

From Wataru Hatano's Twitter Page

International guests were also present to grace the event. Anime Director Sayo Yamamoto and Anime Producer Fuuko Noda joined in for a panel discussion. Voice Actors, Koutaro Nishiyama and Wataru Hatano, were there as well for a fan panel.

Top: Angie and Kong
Bottom: Eki

Cosplayers from Asia and Canada came to meet their Filipino fans. Angie from Malaysia, Kong and Eki from South Korea, Siutao from Hong Kong, Knitemaya from Australia, and Hikarin from Canada stunned everyone with their costumes, acts on stage, and makeup tutorial.

From ELISA's Facebook Page

This year’s Jam concert featured Anisong artists, Konomi Suzuki, kradness, ELISA, Shiena Nishizawa. Attendees were able to jam with these amazing artists for two days! You can tell that the people enjoyed the concert. The floor was shaking from the attendees that were jumping during the concert.

Videoke and Chicken Joy Cosplayers

There were a few setbacks, but all in all, it was an enjoyable event! Looking forward to a better Cosmania 2018! Time to go back to our usual favorites!

Marshal Duties: Cosmania 2016

Pic from Cosmania

I'm back for another round of marshal duties for Cosplay Mania. Check out what happened on the 2015 CosMania. This year's program is way bigger than the previous one! More guests and the collaboration with I♥Anisong®. Over all this was the hardest one yet. There was too many people, there was a number of petty crimes and missing wallets. We got to watch the concert, but the main concern was to be on the look out for people recording the event as it was prohibited. 

I was not able to roam around and take photos. Everyone was busy not time of checking out the booths! I was not able to take a photo of the Dream and Delirium cosplayers. This was tiring but it was still fun as heck! After all we were a group working together!

Here are some of the photo of the event:

Loot bags

It has a fan, map of the event and hair wax

This was taken on day two!

More loot bags

We were basically farming them

For day two: I guarded the escalators

Cosplayers:

Reminders not just for people going to CosMania's event but for any event
1. Don't leave your ticket with your friends, especially if you know that there is a strict rule of no tickets, no entry.
2. Always ask if you are not sure!
3. Watch your things. Lockers were available for you to rent and use!
4. Respect begets respect. Don't be rude if someone asked you politely to do something.

If you have more to add to these reminders let me know! :)