By Relly Carpio
INQUIRER.net

SO there I was, walking along aimlessly browsing at the cameras and lenses and whatnot for photography at the recently concluded Photoworld Asia Photoshow & Convention 2008 at the Glorietta Activity Center, when someone dressed as Hard Gay of YouTube fame passes in front of me. Of course my first reaction was… OMG?!

Next thing I knew I was surrounded by Naruto, a couple of Sailor Warriors, and there up on the stage in the middle of the whole convention was a Chaos Khrone Berserker waving his Chain Sword.

It meant only one of two things at that point: 1) either I was going insane because I couldn’t afford the cameras, or 2) I was in the middle of a cosplay!

Whipping out my cheap digital camera, I clicked away! Enjoy the photos!

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By Associated Press

TOKYO–A Japanese bureaucrat has been reprimanded for shirking his duties to make hundreds of Wikipedia contributions about the popular Gundam toy robot line and animated series, officials said Friday.

The agriculture ministry said the bureaucrat, whose name was not released, contributed 260 times to the Japanese-language Wikipedia entry on “Gundam,” a popular, long-running animated series about giant robots that has spun off intricate toys popular among children and adults who belong to the so-called “otaku culture” of fascination with comic books, animation and robots.

“The agriculture ministry is not in charge of ‘Gundam,’” ministry official Tsutomu Shimomura said.

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