Klik.TV is the Internet Broadcast Partner of Anime Festival Asia 09

We at Klik.TV are proud to announce that we have recently been appointed the Official Online Broadcast Partner of Anime Festival Asia 09, South East Asia’s biggest event celebrating all things related to Japanese animation and popular culture.

AFA09 will span over 5,000 sqm of space where highlights confirmed so far include the Akiba Town Marketplace, Anime Blockbusters, Kids Land, Regional Cosplay Championships, Moe Moe Kyun Maid Cafe, an AFA Exclusive Specialty Shop, and live acts straight from Japan.

A new highlight this year will be Kids Land, especially for younger children ages above 4 years old. Designed to maximize fun for families, Kids Land will have hands-on interactive sessions to learn how to make sushi, dumplings, sandwiches, etc. There will be workshops on how to assemble model kits at Bandai’s Gundam Caravan where participants will be able to take home what they have assembled during this event.

Children aged 4 to 8 years old can participate in a lucky draw to win a collection of Ben 10 toys on display at AFA09. There will be photo-taking opportunities with popular superheroes, including the new Power Rangers, Masked Rider and Ben 10 Alien Force. Popular animation and live action programmes will be screened live. Bandai will celebrate the 30th anniversary of Gundam at AFA09 where visitors can walk through Gundam Time Tunnel Showcase featuring items and memorabilia from the Gundam franchise through the years.

This year's AFA09 Music Concerts will be collectively themed as ‘I Love Anisong’ and will feature a power-packed list of Japan’s top music performers. Performing for the first time in Singapore and South East Asia will be multi-talented JPop performer and popular TV personality Shoko Nagakawa who is familiarly known by her fans as “Shokotan” and “Blogger Queen”. Her popular blog has achieved phenomenal success with a total number of more than 1 billion hits to her site.

Also making his South East Asian debut will be Yoshiki Fukuyama, acclaimed guitarist, singer, and songwriter and member of JAM Project (Japan Animation Song Makers Project). As a member of JAM project, Fukuyama has produced numerous opening and ending theme songs for anime series and games. Fukuyama also played the singing role and guitar of “Macross 7” main role Basara Nekki and will perform live “unplugged” at AFA09.

There will also be a special appearance by Asian top blogger Danny Choo, whose blog covers Japanese pop culture, was covered by Forbes as “Best Japan Blog” this year (July 2009), will meet his readers at AFA09. One of his more famous acts was dressing up as a Stormtrooper from Stars Wars and dancing in Tokyo.

Cosplay this year will have a bigger stage where AFA09 will host the first ever Regional Cosplay Championship in Asia. The top cosplay team from each South East Asian country will be sponsored by AFA09 to compete in the Regional Cosplay Championship during the two-day anime festival where they will perform and be judged by a panel of distinguished guests from Japan including internationally renowned cosplayer Kaname who is best known for portraying Cloud Strife from “Final Fantasy VIl: Advent Children” and Ichigo Kurosaki from “Bleach”. Kaname will also conduct a close-door panel session for cosplayers keen to learn more about how to improve their cosplay techniques.

AFA09 will be held at Suntec International Convention and Exhibition Centre, Halls 403 and 404 from Nov 21st 2009 (Satuday) to Nov 22nd 2009 (Sunday). Doors will open from 10.00 am to 9.00pm. See you there!

For more of our AFA 09 coverage, check out the offical AFA 09 channel on Klik.TV.