Our second podcast for the month of March features MaDe-paisen, a.k.a. Matthew Marcelo.
He’s been coding for so long that when a comment on a Reddit board pissed him off so much, he had built the Good VTuber Subs bot on Twitter.
This, among his other projects, shows how he is an “otaku for others.”
This discussion talks about the recently-held Fandom February as well as the Good VTuber Subs in general.
Audio version available this March 19, 12 noon on anchor.fm/keepsakes or wherever you listen to.
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I’ve been talking about Indonesia on the blog before, so this is a great opportunity and a step forward towards more interaction with one of the largest consumers of Japanese pop culture in Southeast Asia.
Listen to the episode now on Anchor, Spotify or wherever you listen to:
It took us almost the whole night talking about Anime, Manga and Japanese pop culture in Indonesia, and I felt that it was worth it.
After a detailed description on how Anime and Manga came to Indonesia, I am treated to a fun discussion, as well as VTuber references.
At the end, I am looking forward to continue talking to my Indonesian friends about their wide VTuber culture.
For the final podcast for 2020, I talked about “Saekano the Movie: Finale” with Anime Corner‘s Marlo Barcellano.
Marlo, who has seen the movie already way ahead of us, joins me for a brief discussion on what makes Saekano special, including our best moments from the movie.
Did I mention that Marlo has watched this movie when he was at C3AFA Singapore 2019, when Aniplus had a screening there? Lucky him.
The Crackdown on Piracy Sites has just started as KissAnime is taken down, leaving the highly-visited website no choice but to say goodbye for good. This puts anime fans who are currently watching by season on a rush to find alternatives.
On this discussion, we round up what’s happening with the anime community and what can the industry’s producers do to spread the anime culture in amenable ways. Joining me are photographer Donnie Medina of Chiisu Studio, Geoffrey Kutsukawa, and Anime Corner’s Marlo Barcellano.
Quarantine Food Special! (September 24)
Serena of The Lily Cat joins me once again – this time, we talked about the food we ate to survive this quarantine period. This is a special Quarantine Food episode featuring our recommended de lata food. Yep.
MORE Virtual YouTubers (September 28)
It’s my birthday last week, and what a way to celebrate it than to talk about MORE Virtual YouTubers.
I have with me JM Melegrito of Anime Pilipinas, Sky-desu and Kurt (Kurumeme), my fellow VTuber fans, to talk about their discoveries as well as why gatekeeping exists in the community. Of course, we won’t leave the latest plethora of news go unmentioned.
Just after we launched the first podcast episode syndicated on both Anchor.fm and YouTube, let’s have a recap of all the episodes (posted and upcoming) for the months of July and August.
In and Out of Cosplay (July 13)
On this episode, we look back at our third Twitch live with cosplayers Ai Natsumi, Mais Semblante and Diane Marie Sabandeja as we talk about their lives on and off their cosplay careers. Gary Montejo co-hosts this discussion from his home base in Cebu.
While there’s definitely technical issues on Ai’s side, much to the disappointment of fellow mongrels who are very much active during the stream, I look forward to the installation of more infrastructure before this year ends so that we can have her back.
Cebu Hobby Event Organizers’ Roundtable (July 27)
We take a look back at the successful Cebu Hobby Events Organizers’ Roundtable held last May 30, featuring Max Qman Maquiling of UNITY Productions and Cebu Esports United, Jomar Joshua of Otakufest, Joshua Varela of Toys and Figures Convention Cebu and Jolu Escaño of ARCHcon Cebu. Journalist Red Mendoza moderated this panel discussion from his home base in Quezon City.
Following the successful Twitch steam, I sought Gary’s help to get in touch with Cebu’s hobby events organizers, and I’m really happy with the output. This is the audio version of the successful event, and I hope for an encore as things have changed drastically.
Career Talk – Cosplay to Digital Marketing (August 10)
Just before we reach 80 episodes, I decided it will be the best for the podcast to have its video version – almost everyone’s in it these days. Now that the podcast has a face to show on video, we are introducing our first guest for this month’s lineup. Prior to serving real estate clients with her digital marketing skills, most of you may have known Jasteanne Benito as the cosplayer Loli-J. On this episode, we will take a few pages from her book and share to us her life and the lessons she learned along the way.
The moment Jasteanne posted her online course certificate, I thought of guesting her already, so here we go. She’s an example of people in small businesses who are going big in their respective fields. Watch us on YouTube.
Usapang Wotagei at iM@S (August 24)
For our episode this month, we are joined by wotagei player Hinootora for a discussion on her wotagei journey (including her brief journey on how she got scouted by her current team Senkou Wotagei Dan), as well as her past accolade (whom she credits to our iM@S PH seniors Lor and Louie).
It took quite a while until I got to record an episode with one of the few ladies in the Philippines’ wotagei community. Looking forward to have another wotageishi in the future podcast episodes.
