AFO5's weekend full of panels and discussions had a full schedule of interesting things to learn and participate in.  From industry leaders to fan functions, fans could sit in and listen to everything from computer animation to cosplay, manga development to trivia shows, and voice acting to AMVs.

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Iron Cosplay Competition: This year's Iron Cosplay competition saw some of the best works come out ever!  Cosplay teams of three, Fish Fabric (left) and Dejiko Joe (right), gathered strength for this arduous quest to create a cool costume in 90 minutes.  The theme for this year: Magical Girls!  The secret ingredient: Plushies!  Competitors were given a huge stack of various fabrics to choose from along with a ton of plushies from which they could use in any way they chose.  Armed with sewing machines, ironing tables, glue, thread, and all the tools they needed to accomplish their mission, Fish Fabric and Dejiko Joe finally debuted their works by the timer's end.  A panel of four cosplay judges had a hard time deciding which of these were the best but they finally tallied the results: The Iron Cosplay winner was Sailor Jupiter!  Runner-up was Akazukin-Cha-Cha!
Additional panels and discussions also held throughout the busy Anime Festival Orlando weekend included: Anime Around the World, Make-up for Cosplayers, How They Make Anime, Ask Red Mage with 8-Bit, Anime Parodies, Hentai Anime and Manga, Origami, Modeling Techniques, Cosplay University, Robotech, Transformers, Anime Clubs, Modeling Cafe, Yaoi Anime and Manga, Anime Nation, Sushi Sake and Soba, Webcomics, Quick Draw Contest, and much more.

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