Anime Festival Asia is the largest Southeast Asian J-Pop & Anime Festival. Reporting a steady increase of attendees over the years, AFA continues to draw crowds from all over the world as it builds an international image of THE anime event that you wanna be in.

Of course, here at Honey's Anime, we won't make you feel left out. We are dedicated to providing you full coverage of the event over the span of 3 days.

Let's start! Honey's Anime is officially at AFA 2015 Singapore!

As this is the first day, on a working Friday to boot, we entered the event a bit later and as such, the first day was dedicated to locating the popular hotspots of the event and finding our way inside the packed event hall. Nevertheless, we are able to cover sufficient ground and get juicy dips for the next day as well!

Our day begins when the conversation even started. Even before the doors are opened, long crowds have started forming to get admittance into the event area such that even local papers are reporting on it!

One of the biggest problems faced by us event goers is sustenance. Lugging all our goods while rushing booth to booth takes a toll on the human body. Thankfully, AFA 2015 has helped us overcome this problem with the introduction of the food street! Lined with delicious treats and even full meals, this new concept is one we truly can sink our teeth into! Ramen at a convention is always welcomed. Especially if it is by an award winning chef.

Every year without fail, AFA will wrap up the day's events with the Anisong segment. Event goers are treated to popular J-Pop music and memorable Anime tracks. I think this is the AFA way of ending the day with a blast! The Anisong segment is a much anticipated event with front row VIP seats being taken up in a matter of minutes! Despite the hefty sum of S$398 (early bird VIP price) price tag for all three days, it is well worth it for the fans as they are given the opportunity to see numerous of their favourite artistes, LIVE! To put it into perspective, that's about 280 US Dollars or about 34,500 Yen.

This year's theme is Anisong Reboot! Featuring new faces, some never before seen on the AFA stage, we are of the opinion that it fits the title perfectly as it is most definitely time for a reboot! This year's line-up sees the most number of fresh new faces joining the grand stage of AFA as well as being the most varied throughout the years!

For the Anisong Day 1, Honey's Anime would like to feature ZAQ! Fans would know ZAQ as the artist that sang openings to favourite titles such as Chuunibyou demo Koi Ga Shitai! and Highschool DxD New.

This is ZAQ's first time in Singapore and while she may be an unfamiliar face for some, she definitely did not disappoint! ZAQ opened with "Katararezu Tomo" from Concrete Revolutio: Choujin Genso. The upbeat and thrilling tempo excited the fans, bringing their unity as anime lovers to an equilibrium as light sticks started swaying with more zest. Fans instantly recognised the theme ending to Chuunibyou and started to wave their light sticks fervently. The atmosphere intensified as ZAQ started dishing out track after track of familiar openings to some well-known animes. The finale? The opening to Chuunibyou: Sparkling Daydream. A perfect way to end her act!

It's day 2 at AFA! The first order of business is to check out the crowd for today. Even though it's the early morning, there is already a crowd forming just to purchase tickets.

Today, we would like to feature the very backbone of any cosplay convention. The cosplayers themselves! Cosplay is a niche hobby that requires great amounts of passion and dedication. The cosplayers are the key figures that bring life, zest and passion into an event. These people dare to step beyond their boundaries and bring forth their love and passion for anime into the material world. In collaboration with our resident photographer, we present to you, these pictures.

Unfortunately as it was a Friday, we were not able to see much cosplayers around. However, as it is a Saturday today, there is a clear increment of cosplayers at the event. The event hall was teeming in a myriad of multi colored hair and the snapping of camera can be heard wherever you go. The event sparked with energy and the atmosphere was very lively!

Before we entered the event halls, there are a couple of booths outside the hall itself. Being curious about anything otaku, we approached it. It was a booth selling makeup, a necessary extension to a good cosplay! The booth offers eyelashes, foundation cream and the likes. Whilst small, it is of very good quality!

As soon as we entered the event hall, we were pleasantly surprised to be greeted by our very own Domo-Kun

Domo greets every fan that enters the event hall with its popular trademark - his endearing Domo~

Immediately, we hit to the mini stage inside the event hall for its numerous events. Today's AFA mini stage event also featured a guest cosplayer! Some of you will know of her as YingTze.

Close to the Mini Stage, we've managed to find a Canon photo booth. Here, the expensive equipments provided by Canon will capture your perfect cosplay moment. You can choose to pose in costume or simply be cast away to a whole new world with the expert technology of digital photography.

Without the passionate display by cosplayers, there will be no life to the convention. Without their efforts to bring the inanimate to life, there would not be an essence to an event. One of the greatest joy of event going is to mingle with friends and to find people with the same niche hobby that is anime. Realising that such an unorthodox hobby does exist and that there are people who shares that same hobby with you gives you the ultimate sense of acceptance and camaraderie.

And with that, Honey's Anime will sign off from Day 2. Please look forward to the finale of AFA 2015!