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Date: 22nd - 23rd November 2008
Country: Singapore
Location: Suntec International Convention & Exhibition Halls 403 - 404
Organizer: I-Promo, in partnership with Dentsu Singapore.
Press Preview Day
 The main stage of where main events will be held.
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 Reiko, our MC for this press preview.
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I attended the press preview for AFA08 on 21st November 2008, which gave us a little peek on what the conventions offered. For those who do not know about this event, AFA08 was the very first anime convention in Southeast Asia, which was held in Singapore’s Suntec City Convention Hall 403 & 404 on 22nd and 23rd November 2008.
 Shawn, head organizer of AFA08
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 (Left to right) May'N, Yasufumi Soejima, Koji Morimoto, Kunio Okawara, Ichirou Mizuki a.k.a Aniki
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The preview started with some speeches and slide shows by the head organizer of the event, Shawn.
It also introduced the guests that would attend the conventions. They are:
• May’N (May Nakabayashi)
She is the singing voice of Sheryl Nome in Macross Frontier. Man, she is very cute!! I like her smile =D
• Yasufumi Soejima
He is a former GONZO animator, and currently, the storyboard director of LaMB, an animation that will be showing on Animax in 2009.
• Koji Morimoto
He is the co-founder of Studio 4°C, which created his latest work called Genius Party Beyond. He was well known as the animation director of Katsuhiro Otomo’s ‘Akira’.
• Kunio Okawara
He is the mechanical designer of Gundam Robots, who had designed most of the Gundams we see in the past and current Gundam animes such as Gundam 79, Gundam SEED series and Gundam 00.
• Ichiro Mizuki
Called “The King� and “Aniki�, this singer is famous for his super robots anime songs such as Mazinger Z and Tekkaman, and also other known anime/live action titles like Kamen Rider and Lupin.
After the introduction, there was a Q&A session, where the guests are each being asked a question from the online community.
Once the session Q&A session was over, we also had a short tour around the site, where we can see lots of different booths that has been setup.
