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This is the only photo I got inside the ICITE Building at Eastwood City as Toei Animation Philippines celebrates its 30th year anniversary with a cosplay competition yesterday, November 26th. Unlike the last one held five years ago — a full Cosplay float parade, grand activity at the Eastwood City’s Central Park — this one was so simple. This is part of the celebration of Animahenasyon10 — the Philippine Animation Festival — held annually by the Animation Council of the Philippines (in which the company I’m with is part of this year’s team). ...

I took this photo at a secret socializing night at the BGC, and I can’t help but to wonder over this. This photo speaks “food is always the answer” or something like that. Tomorrow’s the last day of the Animahenasyon10 Conference, and I look forward to continuing my eventing at the ICITE Building this Saturday for TOEI Philippines’ 30th Anniversary Cosplay competition. I’ll make it a point to share the photos here before I get to Cebu. See ya!

Cosplay Photoshoot @ Terra 28th — November 20, 2016 It’s Sunday. I was supposed to lay rest by this time, but I’m too stressed out to relax, so I wind off and went to Terra 28th at the Bonifacio Global City — it went on to be a good decision. The Yokatta Otaku United group organizes seasonal cosplay gatherings at the park, and what you are about to see is a recap of their 5th gathering. The admins of the group also cosplayed. Aside from YOU, I saw other groups doing their own photoshoots, which contributed to the crowd inside. To give you a perspective, I estimate that we occupied 1/8 the size of the park if compressed — but since this is a photoshoot, we used the park to its potential and covered its nook and cranny. ...

By Manilaspirit2000 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Alrighty guys, I’m set to stay in Cebu by the first weekend of December to hold an event at SM City Cebu’s Cebu Trade Hall. This will be my first time there, and here’s what I’m planning to do: Take a set of photos so I can share them with you here Taste the food Look at the TV channels available If time permits, I can do a daily photo log of what I did during my stay there. ...

Part of the Animax Carnival Philippines 2016 is the Anime Pavilion where we play booth games, such as this Twin Star Exorcists-themed game in which I have to find as much star patterns as possible.

Part of the Animax Carnival Philippines 2016 is the Karaoke Booth, which I tried on both days of the event singing “Fly Me to the Moon,” the 1954 Bart Howard-Kaye Ballard song that has been sang by Frank Sinatra a decade after. This is the ending theme for Neon Genesis Evangelion, something that I have to watch in my spare time (read: I don’t), and possible the only anisong in English lyrics that I know (because it’s dangerous to me to sing in moonrunes — I tried doing it miserably).

At the moment, I watch intros of news programs being broadcast in Europe, East Asia, the US, so on and so forth, and here’s what I’ve learned so far: ...

Hi guys! First of all, I don’t have much updates to share with you at the moment, but I would like to introduce you to a side-project that I did a long time ago. I’ll make this quick for everyone, I promise. The map above was rendered over GitHub gists and uses the GeoJSON format, as follows: { "type": "FeatureCollection", "features": [ { "type": "Feature", "properties": { "marker-color": "#7e7e7e", "marker-size": "medium", "marker-symbol": "star-stroked", "name": "KFC", "offering": "Flavor Shots a la carte, Php50" }, "geometry": { "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ -239.01712238788605, 14.534527915006434 ] } } ] } The list contains the meals that cosplayers can afford, and the plotting was done manually. If you know a place inside Mall of Asia (or in places where there are cosplay events), let me know on Twitter (@jayagonoy — photos with the price do a big help on this) so we can track them down. ...

Marlo (left) and Carlo (right) Magtibay at the Animax Carnival Philippines 2016 taken last October 16 at SMX Manila. This was supposed to be a simple Instagram post, but since I have written a long narrative, I decided to post this as part of the “Photo/s of the Day” on keepsakes. The Magtibay twins Marlo and Carlo, along with Jan Michael Buensuceso (Jamibu), are the people behind the ZEN [Otaku Honbu]. As far as I remember, I got introduced to ZEN after reading through what people are talking about TV5’s AniMEGA Block. I think I was in high school when I joined in the ZEN forums, in which the twins serve as moderators. ...

The triad of legal anime- and manga- distribution websites has been completed with the launch of J-Novel Club There are legal gateways for reading manga and watching anime but I have yet to see a similar service for light novels (also called ranobe, raito-noberu, so on and so forth). Until now. What I’m going to share to you is as important as legit anime streaming/manga distribution sites. I would like to introduce you to J-Novel Club. ...