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Today, AFA09 held another press conference aimed specifically at bloggers. During this conference, the ticketing price and several new guests were revealed. Suffice to say that AFA09 is shaping up to be the anime event to beat in the region.

First thing first… the normal ticket price will be $15 for a day and $25 for two days. Students will get to enjoy a special student rate of $12 for a day and $20 for two days. The concert tickets will be priced at $188 for both days’ concert and $108 for one day’s concert. There will also be free entry for children under the age of 12 and for cosplayers who meet adequate standards for the event. Note that all prices are in SGD.

EDIT: The concert tickets will cover the entry fee as well. For example, a one day concert ticket will cover the entry fee for that day, while the two day concert ticket will cover the entry fee for both days.

Yes, this is a substantial increase as compared to last year. But considering the total amount of content available in AFA09, one might argue that the price of admission is a good deal compared to any other anime event of comparable size and depth. Not to mention the concert ticket pricing this year is actually cheaper per artiste as compared to last year!

For the students out there, the deal gets even sweeter with substantial discounts available to you. 20 bucks for two days comes out to 10 bucks a day. Not bad at all.

Now, on to the new content revealed in the conference.

EDIT: More details such as Industry and Regional Cosplay Championship included!

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“Don’t say lazy” live version?

The K-On seiyuus seem to be practicing or rehearsing for a performance of some sort. I wonder if there’s any event coming up that might feature them? I can’t think of any at the moment.

Good luck to the seiyuus if they want to master their instruments in such a short time. I really hope they can succeed, but learning a musical instrument from scratch is not easy.

On a side-note, I seem to be making a lot of short posts recently. This trend will probably continue as my working hours do not give me the luxury of writing long posts.

This is Julius Firefocht, signing off. 

My new wallpaper.

It’s a bit late, but I finally watched the blu-ray edition of K-On. It’s really insane. They were not joking when they said that screencaps from there can be used as wallpapers. As evidence, I present a screencap of Mio from the ending sequence… and I suspect that KyoAni in their infinite wisdom did mean for these to be used as wallpapers in the first place.

I’m going to post up the screencaps/wallpapers of all four girls, so feel free to take your pick.

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The K-On madness continues, this time in the form of the Nendoroid version of the ending animation… in 3D.

So moe I almost died. Thanks to Xak for the heads-up!

This is Julius Firefocht, signing off while in a half-dead status.

Take us home! Take us home!

I am normally resistent to plushies, but I cracked when I saw these. They are simple too cute not to have!

Yui and Tsumugi are in the 1st set, with Mio and Ritsu for the 2nd set. The final set will have Azusa and a character that I can’t recall for now.

Anyway, I already preordered all 3 sets at KKnM, and apparently they would arrive in November. So yeah, I am looking forward to having a whole group of K-On plushies occupying my bed.

This is Julius Firefocht, signing off.

And so I’m back once again to write since I have more time on my hands now (or rather, I feel a huge urge to write), I’ll be doing thoughts and impression of K-ON! Why? Because it rocks.

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