Team China’s performance during the 1st Stage of the World Cosplay Summit 2017 Championship held last August 5 in Nagoya, Japan. [Photo: Mantan Web] Team China is 2017 World Cosplay Summit Champion Team China, composed of Xue Yan Xue and Tian Tian, has been selected as the Champion in the World Cosplay Summit 2017 Championship held at the Aichi Arts Center in Nagoya, Japan last Sunday, August 6th. Xue Yan Xue and Tian Tian performed a scene from the animated film “Blood: The Last Vampire.” Team China’s win is expected as they have won three awards, including the Laguna Ten Bosch Performance award, NicoNico Viewers’ Choice award, and the AirAsia Award in which its CEO Tony Fernandes was also present to give the award. ...

A photo dump of all things that happened when we celebrated Yoshiko Tsushima’s birthday at a local fastfood chain’s party zone YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYep. Hi Aikyan, please visit the Philippines — we have Jollibee here, and he’s better than the others. At the end of this post is a video, so make sure you watch it. ...

“This one focuses on the food they serve.” While I was at GameCon.PH, I was thinking where should I eat. My hesitant decision-making eventually led me to a maid who introduced me to Neko Maid Cafe, just around the leftmost corner of the venue. (What made me actually take a look at it is the discount they gave at that time — it was already minutes past 7:00pm.) As I am waiting for my food, I am introduced to CJ*, who manages the operations. Let’s say this is their first, but CJ told me he has been to our local maid cafes (he also checked out a small maid cafe in Japan). One thing he notices with our current maid cafes is the food, he and his comrades tackled that, and Neko Maid Cafe is born. ...

Featuring a video of the event’s highlights and photos of Mobile Legends cosplayers I was at GameCon.ph last weekend at the Megatrade Hall, and instead of describing my experience in prose, I shall explain it a la Snapchat — take a look at the video I’ve just posted. ...

Good evening! Here are some photos I took at the Likha exhibition inside SM Megamall’s Art Center. These paintings can be bought, and looking at the artist lineup, it’s no-brainer that these have high value. They are on exhibit until July 18.

Hi everyone! I’ve just got off from GameCon at SM Megamall Megatrade Hall 2, in which I have lots of videos taken form my phone — highlights will be posted next week. For the meantime, check out my entry in Otaku Journalist Lauren Orsini’s Anime Origin Stories. (If we are to believe that the number 7 is lucky, then I should be double-lucky as I’m under entry #77, jokingly speaking. Plus I’m the first entry in the site’s “Asia” category, in case you would like to know.) ...

Team Symphony of Swords, the Philippine representatives to the 2017 World Cosplay Summit, selected among seven teams during the National Finals at the 16th Philippine ToyCon inside SMX Manila last Sunday, July 2. [Interview] The WCS ZamPen qualifying round in the viewpoint of its event director Amidst all of the brouhaha happening in southern Philippines, one thing’s for sure: This year’s Philippine representatives to the World Cosplay Summit, for the 5th time since we first entered in 2013 as an observer nation, are from this part of the country. ...

yay nesoberis. very neso. Come one, come all — here are some Cosplay photos from ToyCon 2017 x PopLife FanXperience last weekend, June 30 to July 2! Special thanks to Sir Orly for the camera that’s used for the photos. More photos will be uploaded at the Facebook page of Ex-Link Events this week.

Art Exhibit featuring Hokusai’s Manga and how it shaped the industry as we see it now Just a week before ToyCon, I visited the Ateneo Art Gallery to witness the “Manga Hokusai Manga” exhibit presented by the Japan Foundation, Manila with support from Embassy of Japan, Manila. All that I know of Hokusai is the famous painting, which is actually a part of his “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji” series, but I didn’t know that he has done something beyond that. The exhibit chronologically shows the works of Hokusai, as well as contemporary works. ...

The Philippine representative to the 2017 World Cosplay Summit has been selected at ToyCon 2017 x PopLife FanXperience held last July 1 (Finals Night) and 2 (Awarding) at the SMX Convention Center Manila. Among the seven qualified pairs who hail from five cities in the country, Lara Florentes and John Daryl Pioquinto of Team Symphony of Swords from the Zamboanga Peninsula has been selected to represent the Philippines as a competitor in the World Cosplay Summit to be held from July 29 to August 6 in Nagoya, Japan. ...