On September 29, it was celebrated the Anime Festival Deluxe Convention, organized by Otaku Yakuza. It was the first time this con was held on September (it always have been on December), but this was part of a new and very interesting idea here in my country: the first Cosplay Tournament. It consist on 3 cons (this one, Kodama Cosplay Reunion and Anime Festival XL), where judges will pick a total of 10 cosplayers to compete on the Cosplay Tournament, wich big price is to travel to Brasil to compete on an international Cosplay Competition. From Anime Festival Deluxe, the 3 individual winners will be the first selected to the great final.

I will finally debut my Great Saiyaman 2 (Videl) cosplay at this con, with my friends Sairack as Great Saiyaman (Gohan) and Jano as Super Boo. Talented Sairack made our awesome helmets, I loved mine!! It's just perfect. In exchange, I made him her green tunic and red cape (I suck on props, he sucks at sewing). Unfortunately, we were late, so we were unable to compete on masquerade. Also, Jano was sick, so he couldn't cosplay with us. Con staff give us the chance to do our skit out of competition, but we decide to save it for another ocasion (the audio included Jano's performance, but it will be just 2 of us). We have a great time anyways, making stupid poses for a lot of pics we were requested ^^

As we were late, we couldn't see the masquerade. That was sad, because it was great (from what I've heard and what I saw later on videos). Awesome costumes like Rukia's Esther Blanchett & Hiromi's Seth Nightlord from Trinity Blood, Garudamon from Digimon, She-Ra, Code Geass group, were part of this festival. First place was Ikari Gendo as Laguna Loire from Final Fantasy VIII, second place was for Neko Juanito with his amazing Ghostbuster costume, and the third place was Rauru as Garudamon. They all won immediatly their place to compete on the Cosplay Tournament. Best group was the cute Hina-chan as Nakoruru and Natosa as Rimururu from Samurai Spirits / Shodown, and people's award was split between Mog as She-Ra and Hoshi as Kasumi from DOA.
Soon I'll be posting my pics.

This was a great event, one of the few were we cosplayers are well treated. It was sad we couldn't participate, but there's always a next time, and we have a great time anyways.