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Exhibition space for The Apothecary Diaries formed out of corridors where the walls are completely covered with printed material. One of the walls has a door on it, which is also covered up by a sheet printed entirely in purple, similar to the space around it. The only sign there is a door is the gap of the door's outline. There is no handle.
Exhibition area formed with corridors where the walls have large printed images and information on them. One wall appears to be covered, but completely black.
A printed display on the wall. It has text in Japanese and English. There is a 3x3 grid of screenshots from the "The Apothecary Diaries" anime, featuring scenes in front of a window, where bright light is cast into the darker room through the window. The colour of the light is different in each scene. It's titled "The Light Shining from the Window", followed by: The lighting in this exhibit changes with time and represents the lighting that's seen in the anime's few unforgettable scenes. Experience one of the many lights to color the story of "The Apothecary Diaries".
A boxed copy of "Rhythm Heaven Groove" for the Nintendo Switch on a textured surface. The box art is in English, but there is no ratings logo. Next to it is a small package labelled "Rhythm Heaven Groove Keycap Keychain", containing a trinket consisting of a yellow base and a large purple keycap, attached to a keychain with the game's logo on it.
Screenshot of The iDOLM@STER Million Live: Theater Days. The event page for "最上級：Invit@tion!" is displayed. Kisaragi Chihaya is displayed on-screen in the event outfit. The player has 720,000 points for her, and is placed at 880th.
Various booklets on a textured surface. Two wider ones on top titled "School Tales Records" and "After School LOG BOOK" by MAYOZOM. Below is a smaller wide shaped book titled "R.E.M.VOL_00_null.exe". After that is "QIPAOLOGUE", "SKETCH ILLUSTRATION ZINE FEATURING MY ORIGINAL CHARACTERS". Next to it is "DIARY OF THE ISEKAI STRANDED" by Isami". Below the wide one is a small booket "The Cutest in the Whole World", "short story zine by mizoe". Next to it a square booklet titled "artificial desolation" by @pepoccino on Instagram. Next to that is the "Passport" for "Comic Art Festival Kuala Lumpur X", from 13-14 June 2026, at Hextar World Exhibition Hall. Finally, there is "HOW TO FIT IN DURING SMOKE BREAKS AS A NON-SMOKER", "tired, tested, and proven to work in my brain" by "PLEAZHENTRY".
Various printed materials on a textured surface. There is a large and wide art print featuring Hisui and Kohaku from Tsukihime. There are 3 separate art prints featuring individually, Mint Fantôme, Enna Alouette, and Maria Marionette. There is a comic book titled "Turnabout Saints" featuring characters from Phoenix Wright, Saint Young Men, and Hetalia, with a name card for "Commander Mittens". There is also a brochure for Anime Fest+, from 18-19 April 2026 at the Sunway Pyramid Convention Centre, featuring the various guests at the event on the front. The guests include: Luna Haruna, KIHOW (MYTH & ROID), three guest cosplayers, three people involved with Needy Girl Overdose, and 13 different virtual YouTubers under hololive Meet, Nijisanji EN, and VOGI.
Four CD jewel cases on a textured surface. The CDs are: "THE IDOLM@STER MILLION THE@TER BEST", "THE IDOLM@STER LIVE THE@TER BEST", "YU☆YU☆HAKUSHO ~collective songs~", and "NIJISANJI Arc goes oN".
3 circular cookies with illustrations of characters from Arknights: Endfield printed on them, each individually wrapped, on a grey textured surface. The characters on each cookie are: Chen Qianyu, Ardelia, and Ember.
A page in a ring binded menu, titled "TIP TO EAT BBQ". The page is divided into 4 sections, 2x2. First box has "STEP ! START THE GRILL WITH UNMARINATED INGREDIENTS (IT IS ALSO A GOOD TIME TO ORDER SOUP)" along with two photos of raw meat and "EXAMPLE: FIRST TO GRILL". Second box has "REMEMBER THE TANNED BROWN COLOR IT IS OVERCOOKED IF THE MEAT TURNS BLACK (IT WILL BE HARD AND NOT TASTE AS GOOD)", along with a photo of cooked meat and "SHOULD BE IN THIS CONDITION". The third box has "STEP 3 TAKE THE MEAT COOKED TO PERFECTION FROM STEP 2 AND SPICE IT UP YOUR PREFERENC.", with smaller text "*SPICE-UP RECOMMENDATION BY THE CHEF: WRAP THE MEAT WITH THE CHIVES AND ADD SASEME OIL OR GOCHUJANG", and "**IT IS A PERFECT TIME TO MAKE A TOAST WITH SOJU", and finally in red, "NOTICE: THE FOOD WILL BE LATE BECAUSE WE ARE COOKING WHEN WE RECEIVED THE ORDER". The last section features clip-art of 3 people around a round BBQ table, followed by the restaurant's exterior sign "RESTORAN KOREA DAE BAK B.B.Q TRADITIONAL KOREA FOOD", and a photo of the restaurant's exterior.
A glossy white USB-C charging brick with rounded edges lying on a wooden surface. The USB-C port appears to have the metal part of a USB-C plug stuck in it that has broken off the rest of the rubber/plastic plug base.
A room with a large flat screen television in it, with a sofa in front of it. There is a desk between the two, with a CRT video monitor on it. There is an air conditioner mounted on the wall, and a basic ceiling fan spinning above. The flat screen TV is displaying a scene where Alec from Technology Connections is holding the motor and mount of a similar ceiling fan, with a different looking ceiling fan with blades on the table in front of him. The closed captions on the TV reads: "in this design the stator windings are inside the rotor,".
Close-up of a Sony PVM CRT monitor displaying a screen from a game. The scene has an anime-style man standing in front of a classic looking school building, with his right hand on his chin. He has a green shirt, yellow tie, and white shirt. The top left of the screen has "Options" in cyan, and the bottom of the screen has a green textbox on an orange background with the text: "The most important thing is to go outside!". There is a Nintendo 64 controller placed in front of the monitor.
Close-up of a CRT screen. A character portrait from a video-game is shown. It's Mary Barrows from Clock Tower (1995). The portrait is quite starkly shaded, as if there's a bright light shining on one side of her face, while the other side is completely dark.
Screenshot from the anime "Genshiken". Six characters are walking away from the camera towards the sunset. There are trees on both sides, and wiring poles on the left. The subtitles read: "PCs are cheap these days."
Anime screenshot from "Genshiken". Two women are sitting at a desk facing the camera. The one on the left is smiling with closed eyes. She has long black hair, and is holding parts of it that hangs in front of her chest with both hands. The other woman on the right with blonde hair is lying on her arm on the table, looking somewhat disinterested towards the left. The subtitles read: "People told me they envied how black and straight it was.". There are some cabinets behind them with book shaped items.
Screenshot of an anime "Genshiken". A man in a shirt is standing in front of the camera facing away. In front of him, standing near a wall, is a woman with blonde hair who looks disinterested. There are anime-styled posters on the wall. The subtitles read: "Is th-this what mundanes are like?"
Photo of an entertainment setup. A large flat-screen TV near the wall is displaying a scene from the anime "Genshiken", showing a character sitting at a desk in a club room. The left and right walls of the club room are filled with book shaped items. At the end of the room, in front of the window, is a long desk with a small CRT TV above a tape player, next to a few game consoles. Back in the real world, in front of the TV is a coffee table with a white Sony PVM CRT monitor on it, along with an SNES, Nintendo 64, and Sega Megadrive next to it, all with flashcarts inserted, as well as a stray Sonic 2 cartridge. There is a Thinkpad laptop on top of the CRT monitor displaying a wallpaper of widescreen SMPTE bars. There is a CRT oscilloscope on the floor on the right facing upwards.
Anime screenshot. A space is shown with dirty concrete walls and a doorway to a dark area. The walls are covered in various posters. One of the posters has partially obscured text "RAQ" and "PALESTINE" on it. There is a wooden cabinet next to the doorway with stacks of paper on it.
Anime screenshot of Mayonaka Punch. It is an outdoor scene at night. Two girls are standing right in front of the camera, facing away. Another girl is standing further away, also facing away, but head turned back, in front of a metal gate. She appears to be angry or shouting. She is wearing a shirt that is green on the left, white in the centre, and red on the right. There is also some rope wrapped around her torso, with many whole heads of garlic attached to the rope. The subtitle reads: "I'm starving."
Screenshot of "Mayonaka Punch" anime. Three girls are sitting on a sofa facing away from the camera, the one on the right is whispering to the one in the middle. Another girl in a black turtleneck is sitting across a table facing the sofa. Behind her is an older television, along with a Hi-Fi system. The subtitles read: "But... It's not that easy to get one million subs.".
A Brutalist tower around 15 stories tall. The exterior edges of the building are all rounded, including the awning shaped edges on each floor. The building is painted in grey, darker grey, and light yellow.
Interior of a tech store. A variety of portable speakers mounted vertically on a wall. These speakers have large plus and minus symbols on them, but as the speakers are mounted rotated, they look a bit like Latin crosses with a gap on the vertical line.
Indoor of a convention centre. There are various people standing around, many of them in costumes. There is a sign on a pillar on the left, titled "Free Wifi High-Speed Unrestricted Connectivity", followed by a map of the convention centre, then "Suntec Singapore Contention & Exhibition Centre", "The Preferred Place To Meet" at the bottom. There is a red dot on the map indicating the current position, which is slightly to the right of room 323. There is a table next to the pillar with a few items on it, including a lamp, a small white coloured model bald head, some flowers, and a plush of Sunset Shimmer from My Little Pony.
View of the lobby of Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre from the side and a higher floor. There is a queue that stretches back and forth about 7 times (that's visible) across half the width of the floor.
View of a space directly after a set of escalators. There is a large curved ceiling held up by large pillars. There are no walls in front, so the night outside can be see. Further on the right side, is a set of escalators going up about 2 or 3 floors in height, up into a hole in the ceiling, where there appears to be another floor inside the ceiling.
View from a theatre stalls seat on the rightmost edge of the left side. The person behind the camera is holding up a glowing LED glow stick in front of the camera. There are 4 podiums on stage. An LED screen behind the podiums is showing stylised imagery of 4 people behind podiums, done in a outlined pixels style.
A large LED screen with a yellow background with text in pixel style typeface. It's titled "KRAFTWERK", "MULTIMEDIA TOUR 2026", with the details "08 MAY SINGAPORE", "THE STAR THEATRE". In the centre is a logo that stylises the 4 members behind their stage podiums, using outlines around pixels.
Outdoor area with some stairs. There is a slope next to the stairs, but it appears to cut off and drop directly to the ground near the end, instead of smoothly connectiong to it. The slope is actually a slide for children made out of concrete (or similar). There are some multicoloured horns raising out of the ground in the background.
View of the pentagon/hexagon shaped cap on top of a time capsule. It's titled "SCIENCE TIME CAPSULE" in serif, then "Singapore's First Science Time Capsule" in a handwriting style, followed by the rest in serif: "To be opened in the year 2011. Contains science and technology artifacts from the years 1973, 1983, and 2001"
A time capsule at Singapore Science Centre. At the core, it is a metal cylinder that's bolted shut at the top. It is surrounded by transparent windows enclosed by metallic rings. There is a pentagon shaped cap above with the text "SCIENCE TIME CAPSULE", "Singapore's First Science Time Capsule", "This time capsule contains science and technology artefacts from the years 1973, 1983, 2001, and 2012. It is expected to be opened again in 2027 for Science Centre's 50th Anniversary". There is also a sign on a stand from the ground further describing some of the items in the time capsule.
Outdoor video. Close-up of a sign titled "Optical Scupture - Fractured Chair", with the description "Can you make sense of the seemingly random steel bars you see in front of you? Peer through the viewing hole and observe the arrangement again. What do you see? This is an example of forced perspective art.". There is a logo for "Kinetic Garden" at the top, and "Science Centre Singapore" at the bottom. The camera moves towards the viewing hole, and what is seen is a large tree. The chair artwork is obscured in the back, and doesn't exactly come together from that perspective.
Close-up of a store rack. Two prominent items that can be seen with faded packaging. One is a "DELUXE HANDHELD DIGITAL MICROSCOPE" from Celestron, with USB connectivity, and a price tag of $255.75 with "ASTRO SCIENTIFIC CENTRE" branding on it. The other item is a "Magic Adapter", described on the package as "Convert to Compact Flash Card equipped products like PDA, DSC, CF card Reader, etc. ...". The product itself has a label that reads "CF-SM Magic Adapter" with the model number "ACCF-SM" and an illustration of a SmartMedia card. The package has a list of models: "ACCF-MS: MS to CF adapter", "ACCF-SD: SD to CF adapter", and "ACCF-SM: SM to CF adapter". There is a price tag at "20" with "THANK YOU" printed on it. There is a bullet point list with items like "Supports Win 98/98SE/ME/2000/XP and Mac OS 8.6 or above", "Supports High Capacity Media: 8, 15, 32, 64, 128 MB or higher", etc.
A laminated sign on a green wall. It says "Please Do Not Touch", followed by a red circle "Do Not" sign with a line crossing over a hand, then "The Robot"
A flat grassy area. In the middle with paths leading to it is a small metal shed with an observatory dome on it.
Photo of an indoor exhibit. There is a fake electronic road sign on the wall with the text "GUILT TRIP AHEAD". The floor is decorated like a road, with arrows and the text "HOW TO PLAY", leading to a fake guard house with "GUILT TRIP" printed on it, and a "START HERE" sign above. Beyond the area is a space with "roundabouts" with information panels and touchscreens. The edges are decorated with fake dead trees. There is a sign with barely readable text: "EMBARK ON A GUILT TRIP & SEE HOW WELL YOU STEER CLIMATE ACTION!". There is a larger sign with "GAME CARDS are property of Science Centre Singapore." "RETURN GAME CARDS AFTER USE" "Failure to return the Game Cards will be deemed as an act of theft and may be reported to the authorities."
A wall sized screen made of a 3x3 grid of large screens is displaying a realistically shaded map of the world with clouds. The bottom of the screen reads "Typhoon Haiyan 1 November 2013". Printed on the wall below the screen is "Not a Touchscreen Do Not Touch".
A corridor with curtains at the end. Mounted on the left and right brown coloured walls are a bunch of fake buttocks, with "Press Me" or "Push Me" labelled next to them. Printed on the walls are various scientific facts about farts. The path through the corridor is marked by an illustration of a bendy intestine on the floor.
A carpeted area. One area has a checkerboard pattern, and there are 3 toilets (the thing that is sat on, not room) installed on it. Outside the checkerboarded carpet, there are also some seats that look like covered wooden buckets. There is an illustration of a plunger on the wall on the back.
A science exhibit with a vintage theme labelled "Automated Handshake Imitator". It is actually a parabolic mirror. A hand extends from behind the camera into the mirror, and a "ghost image" reflection of the hand extends from the mirror. The real hand flails around, trying to touch the reflected hand, but fails to do so, as it's not real.
A diorama inside a transparent dome. The scene consists of a person at the end of a dinner table that's shaped like a COVID-19 rapid antigen test with a positive reading. All the other seats at the table are empty. At the other end of the table is a large display with a video call application. There are 2 other parties in the call, one of a man with a cat, and the other a man and a woman. There is a sign in front with some partially obscured text: "APART, BUT CONNEC" "Even as technology alleviated our loneliness" "human touch." "Have the past years made you cherish your lo", followed by a QR code and "Scan the QR code for more."
Video of a transparent cylindrical container with water in it, and a vortex spinning through a hole through the centre. The camera is moved to look down the vortex, then into the water, viewing the vortex from the side.
A transparent cylindrical container mounted on a fountain. The container is filled with water, but there is a hole in the centre at the bottom, causing a vortex to form from the top of the container through the hole at the bottom. The top of the container is at around an adult chest height, and it's open with some steel bars radiating out from the centre, but with large enough gaps that you can stick your hand through it.
Close-up of a panel with a small LCD display on it. The LCD display is showing output from a thermal camera, showing a person with glasses, holding a smartphone where the back of the smartphone is facing the thermal camera. The face and hands of the person is shown in shades of yellow, orange, and red due to heat, while the glasses on the person's face appears black, as if they're sunglasses. The back of the smartphone is also dark.
A physical model of an optical illusion. There is a board with a checkerboard pattern on it, with white and grey squares. There is a cylinder on the top right corner with two loose tiles on it, with a light behind it, casting a shadow onto part of the board. There is a line with arrow on both ends, between two tiles labelled "A" and "B", one being a grey tile not in the shadow, and the other being a white tile under the shadow. Text under the arrowed line reads: "Are Tiles A and B the same colour? Use the loose tiles to compare to find out.". There is a plaque on the side with the title "Misleading Shadows", followed by a description, and a label "MEP-06".
Panoramic view out of the viewing mall at Changi Airport's Terminal 1. There are planes from Scoot and Xiamen Air at the gates on the left. Large clouds can be seen in the sky.
A row of food stalls along the side of the street, with cars parked in front of them and a row of trees behind. Further behind is a row of multi-storey mansions and a water tower. There is a gazebo on top of a multi-storey tall concrete structure. The sky above is blue with light clouds.
Photo of the street in a commercial area, viewed from one row of shops at an angle, showing the opposite site of shops. The sky is dim and grey, it is raining heavily, and the ground is wet. The parking in front of stores are full, while there are cars with lights on the street lining up. Visible stores include "Dreamy Cafe", "HAKSHAN", "AyuBorneo Family Wellness Centre", and "A-Optic".
Indoor room with 4 racks containing various plants growing on each deck. Each deck is illuminated with LED lighting mounted on the bottom of the deck above, leading to a pink-ish glow across the room. There are some PVC pipes and valves running vertically along the side of each rack.
Photo of an electronic mall directory. The top of the screen has the logo for "SUNWAY PYRAMID", followed by a search box with "Food & Beverages" in it. The visible options include "Burger King, First Floor", "Chagee, Lower Ground 2 Floor", "CHAGEE, Ground Floor", "ChaPanda", "CHATEAU DE (obscured)", and "Chateraise". The first "Chagee" only has the first letter uppercase, while the second one is fully uppercase.
Two three-dimensional physical models of the "yellow border" from National Geographic's logo. A smaller one mounted on a stand, and a larger one directly sitting on the floor, in an indoor space. The smaller one has faded marks such that "NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC" can be seen on the top, and "Level 3" on the bottom parts of the border. The larger one is slightly damaged such that there's a hole on the inner bottom part. There is an upright piano with seat next to the larger yellow border.
Close-up of an arcade cabinet with a realistic motorcycle shaped seat. Below the fake speedometer are a pair of speakers, a button, and a number pad that uses telephone buttons, including the * and # symbols and letters above numbers. Below the dial pad is a logo for "motoGP".
A "pop'n music High Cheers!!" arcade game cabinet in a corner illuminated by blue lighting. The cabinet features a large widescreen display with the title screen, and a smaller touchscreen below with a large on-screen button labelled "START". There are 9 smaller buttons lit internally to different colours, and two larger burger-shaped buttons on the left and right. There are printouts of the mascot characters peeking out from behind the sides of the main screen.
Photo just after sunset of a grassy area with a hedge going horizontally across the bottom 1/3 of the photo. There are some trees after the edge, with a gap in the middle, where a few tall buildings can be seen in the distance. The sky is not very dark.
A "Haier" branded washing machine being promoted. It is a front loading washing machine, except that above the main washing compartment, there are two smaller washing compartments above, each with a touch sensitive control panel on the front. The promotional labels show the main washing compartment is 12KG, while the smaller ones are 1KG each. There are boxes of other home appliances in the background, with people looking at them.
Indoor photo. There is a sign mounted on a pole with the logo for Harvey Norman at the top, followed by large text "ELECTRICAL CASHIER", and a red arrow pointing upwards. There is an open shutter behind the sign, leading into another area that is lit differently.
Close-up of a restaurant menu. The item depicted is a bowl, where the top is completely covered in ikura, with a raw egg yolk in the centre, with some dark spots scattered around. The item is described as "Truffle Yuzu Ikura Don", containing "Yuzu Ikura" and "Truffle Zest". The prices are RM59 for "mini" and RM98 for "regular".
View showing the area behind a counter of a cafe, from in front of the counter. There is an area partially obscured by a dark blue curtain, the visible parts on the right side include a refrigerator (partially), and a life-sized standee featuring the character Maki Nishikino from "Love Live!", which appears to have an autograph on it dated 2025.12.14. A fire extinguisher can be seen on the floor on the left side in front of the curtain. On the blue counter top in front is some coffee related equipment. There are characters from "Durarara!!" printed in front of the counter. Against the back of a counter is a stainless steel thing, with a smartphone and drink placed on it.
A countertop with a bunch of merchandise related to "Durarara!!" on display. The items includes can badges, acrylic stands, acrylic coasters, bookmarks, and stickers, featuring characters from the series. There is a sign on the counter on the right, with the logo for "animate cafe Kuala Lumpur", followed by the text "PICK-UP AREA", "KINDLY WAIT OUTSIDE UNTIL YOUR ORDER IS READY.", "Thank you for your cooperation!", "FOLLOW OUR SOCIALS FOR CAFE UPDATES!", and a QR code.