Last weekend together with a fellow photog, I went to GACC at MMU, Malacca. This is the second biggest anime/cosplay/game event after Comic Fiesta. This is the first time I am going to GACC, have a heard a lot about it but never really got the chance to go till now. We were there for both days of the event.
We left for Malacca early in the morning, it was raining very heavily at the time. We reach the place around 10+, we actually miss the turn to MMU and have to u-turn back, fortunately there’s a sign board with MMU on it when coming from the other direction. Didn’t expect the place to be secluded, thought it would be visible from the road.
What surprise me the most was the size of the hall, it’s small for such a big event. Since it was early, the crowd were small, and only a few of the cosplayers were there. The crowd started to build up later, with more cosplayers coming in as well.
With not much cosplayers to shoot at the time, I just walk around, and took photos of some of the booths. No Enma Ai cosplayer that day, but I found a dolfie cosplaying as Enma xD.
One of the two shops that were selling figures, they have the bunny Haruhi nendoroids but not for sale though. Around the hall are the usual doujinshi booths, and they are a few games booths as well as an area for card and board games.
There was also a figures display area, but it’s inside a room with glass window. It’s a mixture of Japanese PVC, gasaphon, with some AVP and Spawn figures.
Some performance by some bands, the one below was singing “God’s Knows” from Haruhi, she won the karaoke contest during MAGe singing the same songs. A few other bands performance on both days, but I find the music too loud drowning out the vocal.
A shot I took from the Gundam D.I.Y competition, they were working on SD Gundam kits.
Some cosplayers photos, a must for this kind of events, they are the main attraction after all.
A Zeon soldier from Gundam.
The M.I.B team.
Not sure who this is but looks kinda cool.
Not sure what they are cosplaying either, but looks good.
One Piece character and the T.A.C team.
Ichigo Kurosaki from Bleach.
Archer from Fate/Stay Night.
Aiko as some random meido :P.
Some shots from the group cosplay performance on the first day, this one is Vincent and Lucrecia.
Code Geass, this one is quite funny…
…especially this part when the Euphemia cosplayer start waving the machine gun and shouting kill the japanese (a scene from the anime).
Vincent Valentine.
Lucrecia.
Euphemia Li Britannia
A character from One Piece I think but dunno her name.
Hard Gay, xD, when he came in people were swarming around him, pretty cool guy.
I think she’s a committee member.
Dordonii Alessandro Del Socacchio from Bleach, really long name xD.
Rukia from Bleach.
Commander Chaos with his minigun. This is from the Solo Cosplay competition on the second day.
Not sure who this is but cool looking costume.
Aiko as Holy Priest from RO, with a neko on her head xD.
Pokemon, didn’t know swat guy is interested in Pokemon as well.
Apparently she’s from Yuki from Vampire Knights, thanks xrysx for correcting me ^^, I just get confused sometimes.
From Bleach.
On the second day, the crowd increase by a whole lot, since it’s the final day of the event and it’s also the day when the seiyuu they invited will be there at the event for interview and autographing. This year they invited Masakazu Morita, voice actor of Ichigo, hence the reason they are so many Bleach cosplayers on the second day. Didn’t manage to snap a pic of him since I was outside the hall when he arrive.
Overall it was a very good event, and every one have loads of fun. I wish the hall was bigger though, on the second day it was so pack that it was hard to really get some good shot of the cosplayers. After staying inside the hall from morning till noon, I decided to go out of the hall with some of my friends and chit chat there, while poisoning each other with our camera equipment xD.
I left around 4 something with two photogs from LYN, so I have no idea who won the solo cosplay competition and apparently I miss the Commander Chaos and Hard Gay dancing, need to go download the video to watch soon :P.
I was so tired when I reach home, fortunately I took the next day off, so that give me sometime to rest and recharge my battery.
Looking forward to next year GACC, hopefully will have a chance to go.
For more photos of the event, go to my flickr here.
More report from ejump here.
How i wish i has DLSR ;__;
That hall is the old library aka the exam hall now.. it’s the biggest one in MMU melaka already.. haha 😛
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That D-Gray Man cosplayer is my cousin ^^
the girl with gun is not from d.grayman! that’s yuki from Vampire Knights! >.<
Not sure what they are cosplaying either, but looks good << and we are doing Pop’n Music! *thanks for the compliment!*
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@ejump~time to save for one 🙂
@Prim3~hmm well if can get bigger hall much better xD
@Shin~really cool
@xrysx~sorry my mistake, the costume looks similar somehow haha xD
The girl cosplaying Rukia… she’s… woho Beautiful ^^;
Will you envisage to take once portrait photos of such a model, I mean cosplaying? ^^
Really great job with outdoor ones.
I laughted at Pokemon group with the swat guy hehe.
cosplay in there is alot better than here (melb) ^^; lots of cute girls 😀
thanks for sharing the pictures 🙂
Hai.
Do you have any e-mail to contact with?
I wanna ask something about your GACC 08 pictures.
It quite personal & rather important.
Please reply A.S.A.P.
Thanks.
@lu-k~yeah that Rukia cosplayer looks pretty good. I don’t mind taking photos of model cosplaying ^^. Thanks but didn’t manage to get a lot of outdoor ones
@ron~really haha, cool
@Mr.K~my contact email is in my About page
I wish MMU Malacca have bigger hall than the Exam Hall… ^.^
That Commander Chaos dude is a hero in my book. I’d get myself some better gears and do a full cosplay next time there’s Hobbycon 2008 (local event in KK, Sabah). Anyway, I just moved my blog. Update my link in your blogroll with this one.
http://hangmen13.16ops.com/
@Flame~yeah it’ll be nice if they have a bigger hall
@Hangmen~that is one cool dude, he made the minigun himself ^^
alright link updated
Thanks for sharing the cosplay photos, i love them 🙂
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@Cosplayers Forum~welcome
Oh god, I laughed whole heartedly at the Zeon cosplayer, and the post just got better as I read XD
Also loved that Commander Chaos dude XD
Awesome photos too :3
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Thanks for taking my rukia photo! awesome photography skills!
I’m saving it :D! Thanks!
@kaika~thanks, your Rukia cosplay looks great ^^