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Wow. I can’t believe Lan and I took over 500 cosplayer portraits in three crazy days. This was our first anime convention and I don’t think any of us expected such an enthusiastic turnout. In case you didn’t meet our team, we had our bloggers Mia Lerda, Lara Visconti and Jessica Dawson meeting and greeting, Lan Nguyen and myself on photographer duty, and Hoc Poeng as master of ceremonies at the Ningin.com booth. Bloggers Andrew Lim and Stephen Chen were able to make brief appearances on Saturday (btw, that was a day of anime insanity!).

Special thank you’s to our NYAF booth neighbors T.M. Revolution (TMR and Abingdon Boys School management Koichi and Michiyo), Japan Society (who stopped by many times to check out our Cosplay Photo Shoot), Lady Heather’s Fashions (enjoyable harassment by gothic Sujia, and yes, we know it’s not cosplay), New York-Tokyo (film fest planners Taeko and Steve), Pierrot (Keiko from the Naturo producing team), MSS-New York (video producer Takuro), The NEO Show (hosted by Angie), the Yaoi boys (thanks for a paddling), Ichi-P (a special Wonder Girls dance off at the Ningin booth) and NYAF head honcho Peter Tatara who found a moment to stop by and meet us!


Ningin.com has been growing quick these past few months. We’ve been going non-stop with exclusive events (btw, have you seen the Wonder Girls videos?). We thought we came in well prepared for the NY Anime Festival, but when we had a line of cosplayers going around the corner from our booth, panels to cover, voice actors to interview and the mobile phone ringing with news of upcoming events in October (btw, have you heard of the New York - Tokyo Film Grand Prix Film Festival?), that’s when it hit me - Ningin.com needs to find more talented people.

We need bloggers to cover events and interviews in the NYC, LA, Chicago and SF areas. We need volunteers for special events. And we need a host for our new video team in the NYC area (btw, bilingual skills a huge plus!). If you’ve got a passion for Asian news and events, contact us.


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sounds like it was fun!


lol Congrats.


WEeee thanks for whoever voted for me (2nd place).


I love the 1st place! Pretty colors!


Congrats to the winners!


That’s not who I voted for. :X


Want to give me free tickets?


Congrats!


Oh sorry, you guys look so cute in those pictures! :D


If I cosplayed, I think I’d dress up as Kagome from Inuyasha raspberry


Hey so voting ends in about 12 hours or so. It’s a pretty close race even though we have a few thousand votes… better get your friends to sign up and vote for you if you haven’t already =)


Do we know who’s in the lead so far?


XD My friend and I once discussed about dressing up as Mario and Luigi . . . for my psychology project hahaha.  It didn’t fall through, though, it would have been interesting!


hehe smile Cute avatar btw. You should cosplay anyways and see the reactions you get while walking around the base and itaewon.


@Hoc—I’m sure there are anime festivals here or some kind of comic conventions, but it’s either always during times I can’t go, I already have plans, or it’s too darn far and I’m lazy to make the commute.  Of course, there’s also the fact that I don’t hear about the event until it’s too late. XD

@Mia—Hahaha that’d be interesting!  Let’s do the dance, eh?

@Lan—AWWW!  *hugs her little dongsaeng* Thanks for the thought and offer. :3 I’d so like to escape from Seoul sometimes!


Zlade - 09/30/08 5:21 pm
lan - 09/30/08 5:11 pm
Zlade - 09/30/08 5:07 pm

I was happy to find your booth =) Awesome stuff. Thank you Lan!

Hehe! Thanks. Sorry I couldn’t talk more or meetup with you guys. I was super swamped with all the work. It was great meeting you though. smile

No worries, I know how it is, I didnt get to stop by until Sunday because of all the running around I had to do the entire weekend. If you ever need help just let me know. =)

Well whenever you guys do events, let me know we’ll try to cover them. smile Thanks!


lan - 09/30/08 5:11 pm
Zlade - 09/30/08 5:07 pm

I was happy to find your booth =) Awesome stuff. Thank you Lan!

Hehe! Thanks. Sorry I couldn’t talk more or meetup with you guys. I was super swamped with all the work. It was great meeting you though. smile

No worries, I know how it is, I didnt get to stop by until Sunday because of all the running around I had to do the entire weekend. If you ever need help just let me know. =)


Zlade - 09/30/08 5:07 pm

I was happy to find your booth =) Awesome stuff. Thank you Lan!

Hehe! Thanks. Sorry I couldn’t talk more or meetup with you guys. I was super swamped with all the work. It was great meeting you though. smile


I was happy to find your booth =) Awesome stuff. Thank you Lan!


Omg Tara Eunnie! If I had money, I would totally fly you out here. Get you away from the dirty Seoul air. haha


WE so need TARA to get out here for Comic CON!

we can all do the wonder girls dance. Lara Jess Tara Me and LAN!


They don’t have anime festivals in Korea? Well, we took all these photos so that our friends and users will be able to be there in “spirit” =)


I want that yaoi paddle.  Like, HOMG.  Actually, I take that back.  I’d have a hard time explaining to my parents, especially my mother, why I have a paddle and what exactly yaoi means X____X;; Dad already knows, I think.  My mother can remain ignorant.

Man, looking at all these pictures makes me wish I was in NY.  Darn ocean, landmass, and distance for being in my way.


I expected more Haruhis.


The top 50 are so good!


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