Category: Features

  • Preparations for Anime Idol Convention 2024 Underway

    Preparations for Anime Idol Convention 2024 Underway

    AICon 2024 organizers talk about this year’s event, bringing back staple activities with, new twists and a diverse lineup of anime idol performances.

  • Your Favorite VTuber Dances to Budots

    Your Favorite VTuber Dances to Budots

    Tiktok is an incubator for banger beats such as “You Know I’ll Go Get” which is based on Enrique Iglesias’ “Finally Found You,” or Jason Derulo’s “Savage Love.” We all know it as the home to wacky stuff. Here’s the thing: Does anyone know what they’re really dancing to? For example, Kizuna Ai danced to…

  • Online Shopping Experiences: From Groceries to Non-Food Items Delivery

    Online Shopping Experiences: From Groceries to Non-Food Items Delivery

    Long time no post! Prior to the release of Podcast #98 this Friday (I’m sure I’m going to post the show notes here late), I’ve done my online shopping as well, getting my groceries and some non-food items in one sitting. In fact, due to the virus scare (running for 2 years now), I rarely…

  • NIJISANJI is a Global Trademark

    NIJISANJI is a Global Trademark

    Just before I cap off the day, I’d like to share with everyone that NIJISANJI is recorded in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Global Brand Database as a worldwide trademark. If we look closely, there are classifications under this trademark (called “The International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of…

  • How to Secure your Discord Account

    How to Secure your Discord Account

    Over 150 million people use Discord, based on a Quartz report from July (unfortunately, the report’s paywalled). Imagine tapping into that 150 million people, stealing their data and using it for malicious purposes. Just today, VTuber Kitsui Akira had her Discord account stolen without her noticing. Taking into account that she doesn’t click on anything…

  • Review: Mari Okada’s “From Truant to Anime Screenwriter”

    Review: Mari Okada’s “From Truant to Anime Screenwriter”

    I had time to read in full a memoir I purchased three years ago. It’s Mari Okada’s From Truant to Anime Screenwriter: My Path to “Anohana” and “The Anthem of the Heart”, set in rural Chichibu in Saitama Prefecture. I’m glad that I am able to read this in full, as it talks about her…

  • Want to become a Virtual YouTuber? Watch these 8 wonderful personalities

    Want to become a Virtual YouTuber? Watch these 8 wonderful personalities

    Virtual YouTubers are the rage in 2020. VTubie lists more than 3,000 virtual personalities streaming on either Twitch and YouTube. There are much more You want to be a Virtual personality too, but do you know where to go first? I will be recommending five eight wonderful personalities who are in this community. These personalities…

  • My Best VTuber Experiences in 2020

    My Best VTuber Experiences in 2020

    “Unlike in local idols, I kept watching #VTubers despite all of the bad stuff they had. I’m confident to say that I can accept this community even at its worst.”

  • Remembering Restaurant 9501

    Remembering Restaurant 9501

    One of the memories I had with its broadcast complex, the ELJ Communication Center, is Restaurant 9501, the company’s corporate dining facility at 14th floor.

  • Quick Virtual YouTuber Super Chat Guide using GCash/PayMaya

    Quick Virtual YouTuber Super Chat Guide using GCash/PayMaya

    I’m having a great time watching Virtual YouTubers do their way in entertaining us especially in the time where we’re expected to always stay home. VTubers have been my refuge – it’s like watching a raw episode of an anime live. I’ve been watching more VTubers than anime episodes nowadays. As part of its support…

  • Singapore keepsakes 2018 in retrospect

    Singapore keepsakes 2018 in retrospect

    “Whenever you can, wherever you are, capture the moment with your eyes first, and with your camera next.”

  • 10 Years of YouTubing and what I am still learning so far

    10 Years of YouTubing and what I am still learning so far

    “Don’t get me wrong, you can treat YouTubing as work or as a hobby and nobody’s going to stop you from doing so, so just make your videos and let your viewers decide.”