[Left] A photo shared by Gelo Arellano on Facebook, [Middle] an illustration by ViperXtreme on DeviantArt (©2015 ViperXtreme), and [Right] Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada’s Twitter profile picture. Last week, Tekken fans and Filipinos alike witnessed the unveiling of a new character which is said to be based from the Philippines itself — the character was Josie Rizal. ...
A panorama shot of Ozine Fest 2014 held in Pasay City. When it was alive and kicking, I set Deremoe as a place where basically I can do almost anything — no rules, for a lack of a proper word — and among the things I miss doing as that guy from Deremoe is to audit the tarpaulins that are being auctioned at Ozine events. It was just for kicks and then it went on to become my traditional routine at every Ozine event. For a fact that the auctions grew up as a tradition for Ozine as well, the feeling is mutual. ...
Fireworks — Adelaide Skyshow 2010 by anthonycramp, on Flickr Alongside our events coverage and the still-pending reviews and first impressions that we have to lodge here, we have been monitoring the news in the past few weeks. All of these news have been giving us the impression that 2015 might be a wonderful year for the Anime fanbase. If you have been living under a rock not knowing that these things happen, you’re in luck — we are going to summarize most of the news pieces that has been released in recent weeks. ...
Left: The Façade of the Senate of the Philippines [Wikimedia Commons]; Right: Animator drawing animation frames. [animaster.com] Today, I am going to discuss a piece of history that should have been relevant to the Philippines’ creative industry but nevertheless is disregarded. Before that, what is the “creative industry” that I am speaking of, for the benefit of those who do not know? Scope and Definition “Creative Industry.” Two words that define an industry where creative minds gather their skills and do something. This includes arts, the media, culture, etc. In 2001, John Howkins referred to this as the “creative economy,” and as defined as follows: ...
Team XO, composed of Sarah Jane de Ocampo and Jennifer Ong, is hailed as the country’s first competing delegate for the World Cosplay Championship in Nagoya after winning the Philippine selection for the World Cosplay Summit last June 6. [Photo by Al Barcenas] If I were to write like I was a newspaper journalist, I could write something like this: “Six teams from Metro Manila, Southern Luzon and Mindanao have battled it out in an outdoor venue amid scorching heat to see who will be the country’s first representative for the 2015 World Cosplay Summit in Nagoya, Japan this August.” The thing is, I’ll be writing on a personal perspective rather than the style that I did just now. ...
This Winter 2015 Anime season, which was the company with the most number of major TV productions? Diomedéa. They produced Seiken Tsukai no World Break, Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu LOVE!, Unlimited Fafnir and Kantai Collection. All of these five titles are titles that have been aired for one whole season. Previously, Diomedéa’s works include Gingitsune, Akuma no Riddle, Kodomo no Jikan, Shinryaku! Ika Musume and Noucome. They also did numerous in-between animations for various series. I constantly need to do corrections on that post because I keep getting the list wrong. ...
If you can watch an episode of Nisekoi that is cached in your phone even without a working data connection all the time, that is a blissful thing in itself. [Nisekoi © 古味直志／集英社・アニプレックス・シャフト・ＭＢＳ. Deremoe Composite] Just in time for the iflix event that I’ve attended for Deremoe, here’s a narrative on why “Offline Viewing” is a win-win situation for content providers and distributors. You will know more of what I think of Offline Viewing as you read further. ...
During the last days of Deremoe, we were given a chance to be a media partner for the Asia Pop Comicon Manila 2015. They held a press conference at Salon de Ning inside The Peninsula Manila last September 15th, and I was able to attend it. We are given the opportunity to talk with Linda Le (aka Vampy Bit Me) during the Asia Pop Comic Con Manila 2015’s press conference at The Peninsula’s Salon de Ning, and the conversation that we had along with other fellow media is interesting. ...
Whether in PC Gaming or in other communities, there’s no such thing as a “master race” event and is only a subjective stance. [Photo: The Escapist / Deremoe composite] It’s been a week or two since I rallied for offline viewing and why internet TV providers are making a good decision to do so. Now, let me write about something different. I have a friend named Jon. It’s been three months or so since I saw his posts on Facebook supporting a big event with big-shot guests and the biggest prize pool in the local cosplay scene. He’s giddy about it, and I could feel that he’s bowing to the organizers of the event. There’s just one thing that irked me — he’s bluntly dissing off anime fans, so to speak. ...
Cosplayers donning the characters from the DMM online browser game Touken Ranbu. [Photo: Dark Lab Visuals] This is a feature posted on Deremoe on August 8, 2015. So we saw Team Thailand’s skit at World Cosplay Summit 2015. It wasn’t exactly new to me since I saw it even in their country’s national qualifiers. I’m curious as to why they did that skit (curious in a good way). Not to mention, I think I’ve saw things similar to this on my Facebook feed. ...