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Yea, the food menu can be expensive, though browsing the shop side is free though ^_^;;

I heard that for the exclusive merch, you would need to dine in. But from what I observed, this doesn't seem to be enforced strictly. Other merch though, you can definitely walk in and browse.

I had my fingers crossed but yeah, the second day was just not a good day for sales.

@@toastysqxiid Hopefully your experience with ACE003 won't be bad! If anything, I am very certain it will have a better reception than this Cosfest since the former will be held at Suntec (hard to go wrong) and in the early part of the year when there are less events around + people tend to be more willing to spend. 👍

That's true! I don't pay much attention to the scenes outside of artist boothing, but it is definitely a plus that beginner performers and cosers can get some experience on stage too. Yihao over at x/twitter made a public spreadsheet that contain many ongoing and upcoming anime/art related events that is happening in SG. You can take a look here: x.com/Kazue_Nakano/status/1796963749963923658 I shall do a mention about this list in my next video too, so that more people are aware of it.

@@kuehmerlion Just followed him!! He is a godsend for providing such a comprehensive list

I probably wont booth at Cosfest or ACE in the foreseeable future myself, from a sales and business stand point. I am planning to cut down on many of these artist halls, and unfortunately Cosfest/ACE are just not very time-effective for me. Yep, it is free admission and it is on the concourse level of Suntec convention (outside the halls)! If you have the time, come take a look this coming Saturday. 😊

Thanks tixit! 😁

I remembered! Thank you 😁

It is the same for me, I really cannot justify for myself paying more than $30 for a single day ticket to a convention. But it seems that this trend of ticket price increase won't be stopping anytime soon, and I can only hope it won't reach nearly as bad and expensive as western cons.

It is really unfortunate, and even if a few creators choose to not go for such events, they are still the minority and event organisers don't have that kind of urgency or need to change and improve since there are still a lot more creators and potential boothers willing to jump in for a chance to enter their events regardless - take for instance how well-received and oversubscribed Doujima 2025 was.

Will drop by and say hi again whenever we are at the same event!

Glad you are liking it~ (and bingeing haha)

Thank you for your kind compliment. I may not be tabling at any future AFA events, but maybe see ya at other local events!

I am beginning to see the "light" too on AFA related events and starting to share your sentiments on that. It is a bummer they are still the main organiser for anything hololive-related in Singapore, so I don't have everything in me to reject them completely yet. Thank you for watching though! My most recent event after CSF was a bust though; but I will leave that to let my next video speak for itself. 😂

@@kuehmerlion NOOOOO! The con bubble rly be starting to burst :( Do hope you’ll drop by Maker’s Quest tho! Haha! Yeah I think that’s how I feel every time when I see Bae is coming here but then I have to go through their shitty systems and prices ;; was also rly sad when they managed to secure Doki for CSF as well but eh. It be like that. You were there for the booth podcast but it’s true the only real way to make them consider changing their ways is to stop giving them money but unfortunately, their ability to draw a crowd with their brand name (for their nov event at least) is still very tempting to a lot of struggling artists :(

@@mintssu2843 I will definitely be seeing you at Makers Quest 😁 Since I am tabling there too. Please let MSQ be kind to me, because I am really tired of talking about bad cons lately.

​@@kuehmerlion OH!!!! See you there then! And yeah! I rly hope it goes well :'D

Thank you for watching, Angel! I sympathise with your past experience, and ironically my most recent event had the same issue with no space/gap in between tables 😅. More on that when I upload that video later this week. I will be tabling at Makers Quest, so looking forward to meeting you there!

I agree with your decision not to proceed with the premium. The basic tier for CSF was a much better deal all in all, and if I had gotten that, I probably won't have been so sour with the experience. But hey, when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade (in the form of a video) haha. Glad to know Hobbies Fair's experience was good. I initially wanted to sign up for it, but its schedule was stuck between DoujinFes Khatib and AFA CSF for me, thus I decided against going. Definitely would be interested to see how the event grows after their first rodeo.

What’s the difference between the basics and the premium?

@@qwc5210 You can see on the timestamp 00:26:48 The actual difference is Basics get a 1.8m better table and 2 cushion chairs, while Premium gets a 2m x 2m boxed in space with a signboard and bin, but smaller 1.2m table and 2 plastic chairs. All that for a price difference of S$225+

From what I heard from my friends, this year's AFA CSF, visitors (not boothers) were still not allowed to bring in food and drinks, and they do expect con-goers to discard their food before entering the premise. The bag checks weren't as strict though, so it was still possible to "sneak" in food. Unlike the main AFA though, CSF does not have any food stalls inside the event hall, so I guess there's not much reason for the security to forbid food/drinks beside minimizing potential spillage and mess. I do agree with you that SOZO/AFA team has been very profit-centric, I mean they are after all running a business, but after experiencing my fair share of being "exploited", I am now very tired of the way they run their business.

Thank you for watching! To be honest, I have zero expectation for Cosfest, but I whatever happened - good or bad, I will be vlogging about my experience for that on my next video, so do look forward to it! 😅

It really was nonsensical. 😮‍💨

Thank you for your continued support since my previous videos and now! I will take note about my bgm volume for the subsequent videos. For the kickstarter campaign, I did put mine under comics. But it didn't reach its goal in the end because of a combination of reasons - mainly lack of marketing and reach from my end.

@@kuehmerlion If you relaunch the campaign, I'll back it again. I think the title might have confused people, "Kueh-ving!" by it self doesn't tell people who don't know Kueh is. Maybe for the title put like "Kueh-ving!- Illustrated Guide to Asian desserts"

Thank you for your constant support 😭 I would like to take that hiatus from cons, but I already pre-booked multiple events for the months to come, haha. Definitely though, after this year, I will do less cons.

Ahhh, but no worries - there will be a next Doujinfes again

Thank you for always watching my videos! Yes, I am guilty of being one of the artists dozing off when you came at 6pm+. It was very, very slow for the last 2 hours before closing at 8pm. I don't think I will be registering for the next Doujinfes due to potential schedule clash on my side. But I will still look forward to the event, especially since it will be around the time for DoujinFes first anniversary. 😊

You're most welcome~ 😁 It won't be as exciting as the bigger events, but can just chill for a change of pace too

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Thankssss! When you ever decide to table at Doujinfes, I shall come and visit

Yo~! Thanks for dropping by, and also thank you for providing the voice for the mascot Teru. I especially appreciated the voiceovers on some of the promotional stuff on Instagram too, which were unexpected but welcome. I did initially have some of the skits recorded from the PA broadcast, especially during the artist set up part, but those unfortunately didn't make it past the chopping board as I was trying to keep this video compact. But cheers, nonetheless!

Hi! Thank you for watching so many of my videos~ You are right that it will be convenient for you to come to Singapore and table since our currency are interchangeable. For online transactions though, the customers here prefer to use the local QR payment PayNow and can only be applied if you have a Singapore bank account. To work around it, many of my overseas artist friends would use WISE to act as go-between for PayNow transactions. And yes *cries*, the tables for majority of Singapore cons are usually set at 1.2m, which is so much smaller than 6ft (1.83m). But that is how it is for SG = tiny country, tiny table haha.

Yes she was dressed as Korone! So technically, she doesn't qualify as a nekomimi but... close enough! From what I understood, she was part of the volunteer nekomimi crew of the event. Most artist alley events in Singapore only offer small tables; they are really tiny in comparison to the tables you guys have at your cons 🥲

That was great to know that you guys were overwhelmed and busy (in a good way)! I heard from some that the far end and backs suffered from less crowd venturing that deep into the hall, but that didn't sound like that was entirely the case. In contrast, I had a lot of free time on the second day which was why I could go around to talk to so many people in the video hahaha.

At this point, that bag is like a work of art by itself~

Not at all! Those figures would have been in the video, if the files didn't get corrupted in the end during render. I made about $570 in sales for the two days, most of it came from Day1. The table was $250 and meals + travel added to about $60~. Truthfully, I didn't make any profit from this event because of my new stock cost etc but those can be carried over to future events so I am not too worried about it.

@@kuehmerlion Thanks for the reply!! And I wanted to share that I love watching your videos, it also made me interested in boothing! I've signed up for EOY.

​@@loyard1167 Glad to have inspired you in some way~ I will be at EOY too so do come by and say hi!

Thank you for watching~

Yeah, it was a 20minutes long one after thought too haha; But guess that's how it is. In case you are curious, my sales for DDAM were less than Doujima intake - though not the fault of the event itself.