page_title: EOY Cosplay Festival
section_title: Celebrity appearances
hierarchical_section_title: EOY Cosplay Festival / Celebrity appearances
caption_attribution_description: English: Yui Makino at EOY 2009
context_page_description: EOY Cosplay Festival, also known as the "End of Year" Cosplay Festival, is a Japanese pop-cultural arts event that is non-profit and fan-run multigenre convention featuring anime, cosplay, doujin works, subculture fashion and Japanese pop music held in Singapore. Since 2012, it has become a free public event until 2018.
  Its highlights include the hundreds of cosplayers who visit each year, generous opportunities for cosplay photography, guest performances by Japanese celebrities, music and dance performances by home-grown talents, artwork exhibitions and booths selling anime merchandise and personal artworks.
  Alongside the annual events, EOY also partners related organisations to hold periodic events and performances related to anime, cosplay and music. Notable ones include the Singapore Silver Cosplay Club cosplay competition, Walk for Our Children, TAO “Art of Drum”, Liang Court Anime Week, Bon Japan Theme Cafes, SGCafe Maid and Butler Cafe and Marie Digby's Your Love Asia Tour.
context_section_description: Yui Makino (2009)
  Yui Makino, Japanese voice actor, actress, singer and pianist, best known for her voice-acting and music works in the anime Tsubasa Chronicle and Aria, gave two concerts; a 15-minute-long mini concert and a full-length 45-minute-long concert. Songs performed included  "Fuwa Fuwa", "Amrita" and theme songs from Tsubasa Chronicle and Aria. She also held two autograph sessions and a Q-and-A session with the audience. Prior to her appearance, she made a special comment video.
  DANCEROID (2010), comprising
  Aikawa Kozue
  Ikura
  Aikawa Kozue and Ikura (also known as Itokutora), Japanese dancing net idols best known for their self-choreographed dances to Vocaloid tunes on YouTube and Nico Nico Douga, gave two dancicals. They performed duets to "Luka Luka ★ Night Fever", "FirstKiss!","Gravity=Reality", "Megu Megu ☆ Fire Endless Night", "Lily Lily ★ Burning Night" and "LOL -lots of laugh-". Ikura and Aikawa Kozue each performed a solo dance to "Strobe Night" and "Teach me!! The Lyrics of Magic" respectively. They also did a mass dance with the audience to "Luka Luka ★ Night Fever", where some members of the audience were allowed to join them on stage. An autograph session and a Q-and-A session with the audience were held.
  Hitomi from @home Cafe (2011)
  Hitomi hails from @home Cafe, a famous maid café in Akihabara, Tokyo. Apart from serving food in a very 'moe' way, drawing cute pictures on dishes and casting magical spells on food, Hitomi also delivers singing and dancing performances regularly at @home Cafe. In addition, she is part of a J-pop duo, Team JJ, which has performed live concerts and released CDs and DVDs in Japan. Hitomi delivered a 45-minute-long song and dance performance at EOY 2011, and served lunch to the VIP ticket holders.
  Wata わた　(2013)
  Wata is a pop dancer who shot to fame after posting videos of her energetic dances to Nico Nico Douga. She performed 2 sets of dances EOY Coslay Festival 2013 spanning over an approximate time of 40minutes, and a flashmob with a group of local dancers. She also held a meet-and-greet-session, where merchandise including T-shirts, towels, wristbands and phone straps were on sale.
caption: Yui Makino performing at EOY 2009
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