Sunday, July 25, 2010

Events - AnimeNZ Doujin Overload 10

AnimeNZ Doujin Overload 10






Once again I attended the Doujin Overload in Auckland. I think I might make it a regular thing I attend. Any how they had a figure display again and wow the number of figures has grown since last year, especially since there are only 3 guys who display there figures!!! 




I saw some rather nice figure this time, the new Miku Hatsune figures, and some nice exclusive hard to get figures are well.




Also they had some Figma's there this time, I lol'd at the Golgo running over Len! 




This year some Dollfie collectors also displayed, its good to see that the interest in these kinds of things are growing in NZ. 




There was a nice selection too, some anime character Dolls and some original characters too.




My fav was Rin Tohsake, she is just so pretty. 




Also there were the usual Cosplayers who came out for this event. I only took a few photo's though, not a fan of chasing down Cosplayers for photos!! 




I tried to get them in groups to save time XD




Then of course the reason for the event the anime/manga Fanart and original Art, and there were a number of really good artists displaying their work. I only bought from three different artists and only took photo's of a few booths which I were very impressed by their work. 





Some really great work, however I only limited myself to three posters as I don't want key chains and book marks so posters will do for me. 




I also had a nice chat to one of the collectors who's figures were on display which was fun, he told me how he has a room specially for his figures to be displayed in. You can see him looking at art in the above photo, across the artist dressed as Frankenstein from Soul Eater. 




I also got the chance to say hello to a fellow NZ figurine collector/blogger AstroBunny. It is actually a funny little story, but I saw Astro's blog post on Friday night saying he was heading to Auckland for Doujin Overload and I thought hmm maybe I will spot him there with his Figma's taking photo's of people. So I left a message on his post, but didn't get a reply before Saturday, and when I arrived at Doujin I thought hmm prob won't bump into him since I don't know what he looks like and there are a lot of people. But to my surprise the first booth I went to talk to someone was Astro's, I said hey do you blog about your figures and he was like yes my blog is AstroBunny and I went OMG lol I'm OptimisticPenguin!!!


Was one of those funny/strange moments which happen rarely in life. So any way now we have met, and had a good little chat about figures. Now I feel more connected with my fellow bloggers and collectors having met one in person. Very nice meeting you Astro, and omg I have already forgotten your real name I am sooo terrible with names XD




And finally my loot from it all. I got three poster, not sure where I am going to hang them up but oh well. 
An awesome looking Cyborg character, a cool looking Sanada. 




And this was just too cute to pass up, the K-On! girls at a playground with a bunch of Pokemon XD



14 comments:

GunStray said...

Pokemon+K-on, Hahahah, My heads gonna explode by moe

Those are some greatly displayed figmas there...and the guys posing them actually did a good job.

AstrayP03 (Zhe) said...

WOW! only 3 guys displaying the figures? :S

I didnt hear of this event :( the only one I went to was Armageddon in ChCh =/

OptimisticPenguin said...

well its only in Auckland and the first one was last year, started up by AnimeNZ and the Graphic Novel Cafe

Becky said...

Just like to say in reply to your comment above, 2006 was the first year, not 2009. It was a lot smaller then though, it has grown amazingly in four years.

Also, hi, I was the Cirno cosplayer if you saw me. Loads of Touhou this year!

OptimisticPenguin said...

oh was it, my bad didn't realize, I only heard about it last year XD

astrobunny said...

Great to meet you too OptimisticPenguin! Now I can put a face on you too! xD Maybe I'll see you in Armaggeddon Auckland!

OptimisticPenguin said...

Oh are you coming up for Armageddon too, lol I am hoping to Cosplay this year, but will have to wait and see, the costume I want is like 120 USD XD

xephia said...

Thank you so much for buying my K-on poster! ♥

OptimisticPenguin said...

oh ello ^^; no probs its way cute, lol just have to find some space to hang it now XD

oOgA said...

nice, you caught the bunny ! :3

Anonymous said...

Hi I'm the Spain cosplayer in one of your photos *the one below the BRS group*, can I please perhaps have a larger version of the photo? It would be greatly appreciated by me and my friends also in the photo.

my email is asil_shootingstar@msn.com

Thanks. =D

OptimisticPenguin said...

oh no! I cleaned out my computer last night and got rid of a whole lotta files, no longer have the original larger version, X.x sowi!!!!

astrobunny said...

I might be, if my sewing machine does not blow up before I manage to put my costume together, or something else more realistic happens.

OptimisticPenguin said...

wow you gunna make ur own costume, ^^; I can't sew for peanuts gonna order mine off line lol XD

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