Taipei Game Show to extend ACG cosplay mania with "TGS Cosplay Competition" at TWTC in Taiwan

As 7-year-old "Taipei International Book Exhibition Cosplay Competition" (in picture) temporarily comes to an end with termination of main showground for TIBE Comic and Animation Hall, there seemed to be no ACG cosplay competition to be held at Taipei World Trade Center.

But the Taipei Computer Association (TCA), organizer of "Taipei Game Show", decided to make a major impact before the Chinese Lunar New Year during the "Taipei Game Show", that is: 'To hold the first-ever "TCG Cosplay Competition".' This message noticed that the mania of ACG cosplay in the TWTC during the Lunar New Year Vacation will be succeeded by the Taipei Game Show (in picture).

The first ACG cosplay competition in the TWTC arena (as TWTC Hall 1, Hall 2, and Hall 3 included) is "Taipei International Book Exhibition Cosplay Competition" in 2007. It is temporarily enclosed as of "Taipei Show Hall 2" (TWTC Hall 2) demolished by its new land owner Nan Shan Life Insurance as Nan Shan planned to rebuild with a new complex building named "Nan Shan Square".

Taipei Game Show will be showcased at the Taipei World Trade Center Exhibition Hall 1 from January 23^rd to 27^th, registration for the "TGS Cosplay Competition" is opened to the public.

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• TGS Cosplay Competition: Fact Sheet & Registration Form (in Chinese)
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2013 TIBE: "Lost Islands" by Naoyuki Katoh illustrates the imagiation of modern city

Can we imagine the future of a modern city? Maybe we can't realize the future of modern city as some catastrophic movie described, but in the 2013 TIBE, Naoyuki Katoh made his live drawing named "Lost Island" to express about the possible future of a modern city.

'I set this subject "Lost Island" to simulate a lost future of a modern city just similar as a war age taken place in the "Space Battleship Yamato". It's difficult to mix objects from different eras in the same drawing. Although the whole event in the drawing may not be happened in our real life, but I hope this draw can take effect on life awareness.' Described by Naoyuki Katoh.

2013 TIBE - Hong Kong Pavilion: Creative ideas in essentials

As movie and entertainment industry in a great notability from Taipei Golden Horse Award last year, the publishing and printing industries came closer and closer in recent years.

This year, Hong Kong Printers Association and Hong Kong Publishing Federation still brought on several creative publications to the public to showcase creative achievements from architecture, photographing, illustration, design, music and entertainment, cultural and creative, and literature.

A "hand fan" symbolizes gentility of a intellectual, it not only can be used to cool down the heat in some traditional thinking but also can be a collective treasure as it added some special designs like this "Hand Fan Box".

A special red envelope is designed with dragon and celebration phrases to break traditional "full-red envelope" ideas.

Glancing modern histories of old-fashioned music era, "Elvis: Recording Career - Forever in the Groove" the book cover designed with a phonograph record to make music listeners got more interested in Elvis' history and music moments.

2012 Taipei Game Show features complex gaming themes and topics

Gamer's annual festival is ready to start! Different from the past years, the 2012 Taipei Game Show will be not only moved to the Taipei World Trade Center Nangang Exhibition Hall, in which the COMPUTEX Taipei and many famous Taipei Trade Shows are located, but also featured varied kinds of topics including web-based games, mobile applications, home gaming consoles, and achievements from academical researches and industries of gaming and digital content in Taiwan.

Meeting with school opening season in February, several major companies prepared several special discount plans and announced newly-published games for visitors. Taipei Computer Association, the show organizer, also announced Inter-Hall Shuttle Bus solution to serve visitors back and forth between the TWTC Nangang (Taipei Game Show) and the TWTC Hall 2 (Taipei International Book Exhibition Comic Animation Hall).

2012 TIBE: ITASHA-styled vehicles celebrate 20 years' anniversary of the show

If thinking about comic and anime, the Comic Animation Hall of the Taipei International Book Exhibition (TIBE) is the first impression from the fans. Different with the pasts, to celebrate 20 years' anniversary of the show, the TIBE invited local anime research community named "MOE-powered burning ITASHA Culture Association" to exhibit varied kinds of special ITASHA-styled vehicles including topics from popular animation, comic, to game series.

According to the leader from the community, several ITASHA-styled vehicles are professionally pre-designed with colors. As of copyright issue, most of ITASHA-styled vehicles are only visible in Taiwan's some major events including Bahamut Gamer Community Annual Celebration, Comic World Taiwan, or for example, this exhibition. In the ITASHA culture, most of designers and vehicle owners will consider harmfulness of vehicle body and topic popularity to design very unique ITASHA-styled vehicles to promote comic, animation, and gaming culture in Taiwan.

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Two major exhibitions ready for game and comic fans at the TWTC and Nangang Hall

Complexity to be real? This year, it should be. After 9-days holiday period in the Chinese New Year, the Taipei Game Show, an exhibition for digital content and console game industries, and the Taipei International Book Exhibition, the biggest publishing and book exhibition in Asia, are ready to invite visitors from gaming, comic, and anime fans to join in the TWTC and Nangang Hall.

Taipei International Book Exhibition, a 20-year-old historical exhibition, will theme on "Green Reading" this year to raise the awareness of environment issue in addition to the setup of the "Green Reading Pavilion" with e-books and e-publication solutions at the International Hall (TWTC Hall 1).

Besides of Green Reading Pavilion, the Comic Animation Hall (TWTC Hall 2) will present several author and voice actor signing events for comic fans. In addition, the 6th TIBE Cosplay Competition, the main event of Comic Animation Hall, will also be held on the weekend during the show.

Taipei Game Show, featured on digital content and console gaming industries, will be a major gaming exhibition this year moving to the TWTC Nangang, in which the COMPUTEX Taipei, TAITRONICS, Taipei Cycle, and several TAITRA Taipei Trade Shows are located since 2008. In presence, overseas pre-registration and local ticket lucky draw events are being processed.


General Information (All Times are GMT+8 Taipei Time)

Taipei International Book Exhibition
Date and Time	February 1 - 6	10am to 6pm
	February 3 & 4	Extended to 10pm
	February 5	Extended to 8pm
Organizer	Taipei Book Fair Foundation
Venue	Taipei World Trade Center Exhibition Hall 1 - 3
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Taipei Game Show
Date and Time	February 2 - 6	10am to 6pm
Organizer	Taipei Computer Association
Venue	TWTC Nangang Exhibition Hall
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