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So, wondering what's Bunkasai? Bunkasai is Japanese Cultural Festival or 文化祭and this event is mainly to promote Japanese Culture. There will be a cosplay competition opened to public to participate as well !!

I guess some of you never heard of the word 'bunkasai' before right? This is because Bunkasai is held for the very first time in Malaysia which is totally organised by a bunch of university students! Please welcome the working committees from UCSI University! Kindly visit the website http://www.ucsi.edu.my/ to know the exact location of our university!

Also, please visit the main blog of this event: http://animac-bunkasai.blogspot.com/ for more detail. Welcome any enquiries
Please join the Bunkasai community at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=47183794927

Thank you!!

Care to provide more details so we can do a write-up in Shrine? Leave me a PM.

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Added on February 13, 2009, 10:46 pmWrite-up added.

http://shrine.lowyat.net/2009/02/13/animac...sai-night-ucsi/

This post has been edited by Aoshi_88: Feb 13 2009, 10:46 PM

look interesting..

will there be japanese food booth? like takoyaki, yakisoba, or maybe even a ramen stall?

Yafex, sure mahal one la.

ah, btol gak ek. but im a sucker for festival food. the atmosphere just makes me want to eat,regardless the obvious ripoff in the price

I want a curry stall.

I want to eat curry. IN HELL.

like I never heard of the word Bunkasai before

Correct me if I'm wrong.In most of the anime that I had watched, bunkasai should be held at school and organized by a bunch of school student supervised by the student commitee.Never heard about it been organized by university student.However of course schools at Malaysia also have bunkasai but the term is diff. for in here it called as "Hari Kantin".

Umm.No 'dancing while circling around firework' activity?I tot all bunkasai closing event are like that.

Wait.. Is there going to be shops just just like in the japan festival?

That bonfire is what we call open burning. Then after that comes something called, a "summons".

care to give an exact website to ur UCSI location? thanks.. dun pm me just give a reply here to all so everybody can click the website
it's weird as it is on thursday

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Added on February 14, 2009, 10:46 pmnvm i got it right here
Address to UCSI

This post has been edited by KyoLee: Feb 14 2009, 10:48 PM

why weekday... wghere got time to go

i thought GACC is considered as a bunkasai already since its held in a school/campus/uni...and how come its on a weekday? o_O|||

no comment

open burning need to apply with the local bandaraya and bomba. usually they would allow~ since it's a student activity.

but where the hell they gonna get the woods to burn?~ even curi classroom chair and table also plastic and metal.

steal at klang la.. many woods there

yeah man seriously why they plan this at weekday... next day somemore got class or work.... what the hell these student thinking wei...
any comitee member here?? care to explain pls

.... we actually wanted to have it on a Friday, but due there another activity on that day, so we have it on a Thursday, a day closer to the weekend, we could not organize it on a weekend due the campus its close on weekend, sorry for the incoveniece but we will be much appreciate if you came

later i steal wife at cyberjaya

ya there will be alot of food booths on that day..
won't be expensive one la...

bunkasai never held before in malaysia, so this is the first time.. since we don't have any experience for bunkasai, so please allow us to learn and improve...we can't really have the whole event 100% in Japanese style as we are Malaysian.. so sorry for that...

for the open burning session, we won't have that in the programme because we don't have the space for it... sorry again... but we probably have a dance floor session... please come and support us!

if takoyaki 3 for rm4 ok lah
but if 3 for rm12 it's insane

wah, luckily the 1st week of march is my uni sem break. will definitely come if have nothing else on that day.

(oy saiko, jom pg. aku drive )

i am lazy to read.. just want to ask.. is there any game+prize offered?

games like tekken or whatsoever

got japanese girls?? joke2...
it says got food...u mean japanese food??if yes i am sure will come..haha...

got! got prize to be won for games and each

This post has been edited by JapanKid89: Feb 25 2009, 10:04 PM

what games u have there?

come and find out!! not telling but its definitely japanese games
and there a cosplay competition, free admission with RM 1000 nett worth prize to be won,
we only have 8 more places left for registration!

Heh,I'll probably go for the makan and the games.

i'm into certain games only.. so i'll skip if u offers Dota, KOF, Street Fighter etc..

if there's tekken or RA3, i'll go... eh since it's japan related don't tell me that u also want ppl to play ero games

why RA3? o.O

Any info on what kinda food there's gonna be or are we gonna have to find that out ourselves?

Guilty Gear? I hope its not taiko drums. The place is near my house, so thinking nyone want to go there from bandar tasek selatan station can hitch my ride.

This post has been edited by Eccentrical: Mar 3 2009, 06:45 PM

I wanna go, I wanna go!

But dey, 5th March is like on thursday!
I have project submission la that day. why can't they hv it on weekends????????????

WHY CANT THEY HAVE EVENTS LIKE THIS IN UITM?!

This post has been edited by lovelyslickyvixen: Mar 3 2009, 04:20 PM

shah, ko pigi x?

besar kemungkinan tak.. pasal aku tak tau game apa yg diorg offer.. only after i know what games the offer us to play, there's wont be any guarantee that i will attend that event. sorry

Woh.. Baru igt nak tumpang ko...

Count me out, too busy with paperwork.

kalau ko bleh tau game apa yg diorg offer, maybe aku bleh tumpangkan

Aku pasang ps2 kat situ main tekken 5, boleh? I heard it's a wii game, ask chizzu about this.

thursday ... if got free food then I go if not , dont want

I think most probably because we are the first to organise bunkasai in Malaysia..
maybe you can ask UiTM people to come and see how we do.. then you guys can organise your own bigger and better UiTM style of bunkasai

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Added on March 3, 2009, 9:03 pmyes we'll have Nintendo wii and alot of Japanese food, not forgetting japanese games as well...

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Added on March 3, 2009, 9:06 pmPROGRAM ITINERARY

1.00pm - Food & merchandisers booths opening
6.00pm - Games (highlighted game: Wii) booths opening
7.00pm - Special video + dance performance
7.30pm - Opening ceremony
8.10pm - Cosplay catwalk
8.50pm - lucky draw 1st round
9.00pm - intermission
9.15pm - acoustic performance
9.40pm - piano performance
10.00pm - cosplay result
10.30pm - closing ceremony

(subject to change without prior notice)

This post has been edited by wlccherry: Mar 3 2009, 09:06 PM

hmmmm.. esok kan?

Dato' tak dak ni

got touhou?

Have Melty Blood, will come.

so anyone going?

Im going,
but wow,
cosplay starts at 6..

so, conform going is me, wanvedder and eccentrical. linkin-sama has to back out due to some thing coming up, if im not mistaken. shah-niisan is coming?

6 ah? can arrange meet up place with takumi at 5pm.. since he's coming from semenyih

yeah, me and wan is meeting him at Bandar Tasik Selatan at 6. were going by his car.

I'm paying a visit later in the afternoon. Its like 10 minutes from my place anyway. I got some things to do in Cyber, so I probably won't meet you guys since you'll be coming late evening and all

that time would be nice.. btw what u guys will wear later? /AS/ tee?

i dont have that t-shirt

how about lee? is he joining?

can't come cos preparation for japan trip...
visa baru saja confirmed...
shah u work for the embassy rite?
ur office is at cyberjaya if i'm not mistaken?

i am at the Foreign Affairs Ministry lol. mine is at Putrajaya on the top of the hills.
nice one la bro.. do contact me if u want to go there again

Where is this festival held?

Its in UCSI Cheras.

cheras dekat jer.. maybe bleh kot.. call lee ajak dia sekali

why you guys wanna go there? got anything special ah?

apart from playing free games and look for any discounted artbooks, i don't have any reason to go there

Lol, I only knew about this like this week.

This post has been edited by kct-86: Mar 5 2009, 02:37 PM

mmm... takoyaki....

Larrrrr, I blah at 6.30 pm. Just as when the best parts were about to start.

THIS THING IS A WASTE OF MY TIME!!!!!!!
im utterly disappointed in this event, the organizers are like "shock sendiri", the booth are as disappointing as the event. the only "japanese culture" thing i saw is the gold fish scooping booth.
AND NO TAKOYAKI IN SIGHT~

UCSI bunkasai - epic failure.

ah, feel free to tembak me later, im emo right nao

so how did it went ?

I heard lots of facepalm.

This post has been edited by kct-86: Mar 5 2009, 11:24 PM

i only remembered that i went there for the feast of my kfc dinner.

settings was not properly organized. the staffs were bad in communicating with visitors.
you just just want to talk to girls and among yourself only.

and yes as i had already predicted, no great games offered.. not just that. your staffs were the only one with controllers
and food.. if u ask me, i can go out to jusco or tesco to ....

ah enough of complaining

Bunkasai Night 09......

Maybe I should call it BunKANASAI Night... (meaning "like sh*t" in Hokkien)

What went wrong in that event?

When I got there.... The directions to the main event area in North Wing is a blur... The A4 paper sticking on the wall telling people to go to the area is easily missed. SO SMALL!!! at least put a stand there indicating the area please!!!

When entering... I already sense absolute phail... The booth placements are so.... SO SMALL AND CONFUSING! There isn't a little gap to walk to the game area. Come on...

Some booths fail to display price. I bought the Rm5 coupon thinking what should I buy.

The cosplayers are nice. Friendly too...

No PA announce the event is starting in the hall... Everyone like kena personally invited into the hall... Only the second half was announced on the PA... WTF!?!

The whole presentation is like cropping Japanese introduction videos and then placed with a lame simple... ANIME (coupled with Gundam, Samurai X and Chobbits scenes), MANGA (People making manga), COSPLAY (International Cosplayer Pics)... And it takes like 10 seconds to show the logo?! Please lah... make more efficient video and not waste our time. We know you are AniMaC, we didn't need a video to show us that. Come on laaaa....

The Emcees are trying too hard to get the audiences... Sometimes they fake too much. Every seen a DJ emceeing an event? No excuse using the we are only University Students...

Dancing performance? Aduh... I sometimes wonder if they really practiced for that or not. I tot got what something Japanese Traditional dance with umbrellas. fans and blossom leaves flying across the stage.

The JAPANESE costume wearing people please lah... If you wear those costumes, at least let people take picture with you mah.... Macam nampak hantu run fast fast when we want ask to take photo. All grouping at the main desk area... And the booth area none over there.

The hall area too less chairs placed... What... You think your event so less people go meh? I stood in the hall, stood at the stalls, My kaki patah no one knows...

Luck draw get what prize? Anime DVD? Comic book? The prize is so little. I remember my friend went to a UCSI event win ONE BIG HAMPER balik leh... And all you guys can think of is this?

I heard one Emcee say this... The guy... Bunkasai is about showing the Japanese Culture. I see not much culture there...

This is my final thought...

Not much Anime... not much Manga, Cosplay is sufficient enough, Japanese Culture is 0 points.

I'm still not going to change my mind... It is what I think it is...

The BunKANASAI Night 2009 in UCSI University North Wing.

Memalukan!!!

Complete waste of my time and effort and RM5 for the voucher. But the burger and the Ice Blended Chocolate is nice! The only think that comforted me.

Return back my RM1.60!!!!!!!!!!!!

What I expected : Japanese culture
What I get : Rickroll~



When typing doesnt make sense anymore.

....wow. Err... chill guys. That bad ka?

clearly it was the worst ever event i had ever attended. you are inviting us to go to your place.. and u simply left us there wondering around with nothing for us to choose...

THIS EVENT IS TOTAL FAILED

u're saved by the cosplayer good attitude towards visitors ONLY

I wish you are there to see it yourself. It really phailed...

I can't be the only person to have enjoyed this event, right? I mean come on, there were the obvious flaws, but personally, I thought it was a rather well planned and enjoyable event that reminisced the ones in Japan. Kudos to the organizing committee; Looking forward to next year's.

Well, everyone has their views. I just wished that they would not pull a 'stunt' like that promoting it like so awsome! Yet coming out like something equal to a secondary school food fair event.

I had a feeling it would not be so nice when their schedule is out like 2 days before the event. And the event time is so simple...

I just think they COULD have done it better...

Dude... you're in Ausfailia.

Anyway, my Shrine review will be up soon, and i quite agree with most... NOT ALL of the points posted by you guys here.

i dont know if you are a spy from the committee trying to reduce the damage or anything or what. but sorry to say this, you must be complete simpleton by enjoying this event. reminisced of the one in japan? THERE ARENT ANYTHING JAPANESE CULTURE-ISH ABOUT THE WHOLE THING, except for the cosplay. which is full of bleach character only, and a few others.
argh, me going emo isnt going to help, so i'll stop here.

p/s: a bunkasai with no takoyaki/ yakisoba stall = already fail

They see me trollin'

nasib baik aku tak pegi....lololol

obviously they need more experience

http://shrine.lowyat.net/2009/03/06/animac...asai-aftermath/

I've thrown impartiality to the wind tonight.

Show them.

This post has been edited by kct-86: Mar 6 2009, 12:59 AM

they hatin'

They lovin'

I agree with you , the amosphere planning and scheduling remind me so much of the festival in japan

two thumbs up

you failed the lyrics.

NO U.

Thank goodness I went off before everything started.

This post has been edited by kct-86: Mar 6 2009, 01:05 AM

I was yearning for that too I left early because there is no takoyaki But I do really agree that the only thing that kept the event alive is the cosplayers.

http://thugridindirty.ytmnd.com/

I didnt get to eat curry rice D:

we also left early... ended up eating kfc outside

We reached about 5 mins after you guys left to makan KFC XD

Event was so boring that I resorted to running live commentary on my laptop.

PFFFT.

failed.. time to close down this thread...

i didnt get to eat anything japanese, in the end makan warong jugak

This sums up Bunkasai.


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OH!!! Your the one with the "WE NEED MORE DESU!" on the lappy!!!

HAAHHAA!!! True... Not enough Desu on that event!

AHAHAHAHAHA. Aoshi and ejump were saying NOT ENOUGH DESU on the reception area.

This post has been edited by kct-86: Mar 6 2009, 01:30 AM

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LOL.... forgotten there was no "WE".... Hahahah... But still the Desu thing is good.

Made my day... I was so damn tired walking to the event then walk home okay? It's not great... It's lame....



http://www.timeoutkl.com/aroundtown/events/Bunkasai-Night

yeah... Non-Otaku will turn to Otaku's? My my... they phailed badly...

That will NEVER happen.

Agreed.... Next time they do... I'll be sitting at my home watching anime and draw better...