MadeinAsia Brussels Exposition 2017

Friday, 3rd day of March was the opening of one of the Majestic and well-known Asia’s Brussels Exposition in Belgium it’s my 4th time to attend this kind of event, last 2015

March 3,4 and 5 2017 MadeInAsia Brussels Exposition

I even wrote a blog and shared my pics of this event Brussels Exposition and now here. I decided again to not merely share my pics but also share my passion for this people “cosplayers” whether professionals or not who actually put a lot of effort to come up with their own themes and costumes.

What is Made in Asia all about

From the word itself, it doesn’t solely means all that is expose and presented are all Made in Asia. It’s actually a kind of showing Asian ways, culture and a bit of everything, especially on the animé and manga side.

This is open to all ages event from adults to children. This Brussels Exposition convention is pretty big that it can even accommodate thousands of people a day.
People invited to come with there normal casual wear or with their favorite animé cosplay wear. The fun side is it doesn’t necessarily need to be anime you may even wear Marvel’s, online games, Nintendo or Disney costumes.

Inside the Brussels Exposition venue, you will see a lot of stores who display their products which are definitely for sale:

• Asian food,
• Anime posters,
• Books, manga
• Figurines,
• Glasses,
• Shirts,
• Dresses,
• Cosplay Costumes,
• Stuff toys,
• Souvenirs, even replica of samurai swords,
• Statues, and a lot more.

There’s also a room where celebrity guess invited and you can queue for a one on one autograph plus a picture. There is a karaoke room, a big concert hall, a cosplay showroom, restaurants/food, and playroom where you can take part and play and many more.

What is Anime

For those who don’t know anything about Anime World. I’ll try to expand your imagination and let you understand what really is this. People might hear Anime often times but they don’t sincerely know what it is.
It’s simple means Animation with Japanese style implicated in it. It’s literally a Japanese style animated film or television entertainment. examples are

• Ghost in the shell,                                Princess Mononoke,
• Spirited Away,                                        Ariety,
• My Neighbour Totoro,                        Pokémon,
• Dragon Ball Z,                                        Fruits Basket,
• Black Lagoon,                                        Ergo Proxy,
• Angelic Layer,                                        Gundam Wing and a lot more.

What is Manga

Manga, however, is Japanese comic books and graphic novels, there are some manga series turned into anime series like

• Berserk,                                    Akira,
• GTO,                                          Fairy Tail,
• Pluto,                                        City Hunter,
• Bakuman,                               Tokyo Ghoul,
• Conan,                                      Black Butler,
• FullMetal Alchemist,           Monster,
• One Piece,                               One Punch-Man,
• Death Note,                             Yu-Gi-Oh,
• Bleach,                                      Slamdunk,
• Naruto,

Normally most of them started as a manga on comic books and later turned into animation series. They said that the writer of Yu-Gi-oh was inspired by Pokémon and Magic together that’s why he decided to write this manga.

Cosplay

Cosplay is short for Costume Play It’s dressing up and pretending to be a character from comic books, anime or manga.

It’s popular all over in Asia, they even make big events for world cosplayers competition. Some of this people made themselves as cosplayers as a job which is likely considered as a model or mannequin. It’s actually the trend all over the world today.

 Geeks

 The word that often comes to people mind when they hear this Anime, Manga, Cosplay etc is Geek. it considers being a person who loves to play video games, love to read comic books, manga series or even spending so much time on the Internet. So test yourself are you a geek? (smirk).

My Adventure in Brussels Exposition

On that day while walking around the restaurant/food area of Brussels Exposition. I saw this guy queuing in an Ice cream shop I was curious and when he turned he looks familiar (his outfit) It was Ace Portgas the brother of my Luffy from One Piece cosplayer.

I gently ask him if I could take a picture of him and he posed like an Ace.

On the other side of the showroom where there were a lot of people cause it’s the “You Play” area, where everybody can take part to play on the spot.

I had this opportunity to meet a young woman doing a cosplay of Perona, “The Ghost Princess” while we are in the middle of the way. I didn’t care to ask her to pose. She turned out really pretty just like the real persona (contented)

Disney Cosplay

At the concert hall that day despite the tight passage to walk I definitely have the time to look for my potential model (cosplayer) I’m eyeing on them as usual.

We found this woman with her grand costume Maleficent, she was excellent. I love how she pulls this off, regardless of your age she makes us believe that age doesn’t matter when it comes to being passionate.

You can do things as long as you like it. She may be older than those usual cosplayers around. But I absolutely like the way she poses on my camera, she is preciously adorable.

A part of me doesn’t wanna share this pictures but I wanted to show how I love One Piece and even figurines ans statues that are for sale, I don’t miss to take pictures of them

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MadeinAsia Brussels Exposition 2017