ARCHCon Cebu 2023

Happy New Year! It’s the first time the keepsakes. website has been updated. To recall, I went to ARCHCon Cebu 2023 upon the invitation of my good friends at Ambox to talk to the guest artists, cosplayers and more. Here’s the full playlist of videos produced for the said coverage. Photos are also posted on Facebook (keepsakes. / VTuber NewsDrop)

January 3, 2024 · 1 min

ARCHcon 2019: Cebu's biggest geek event

ARCHcon 2019, the annual Anime, Role-playing, Comics and Hobbies Convention held last November 16-17 at J Centre Mall Convention Hall gathered thousands of anime, cosplay, role-playing fans and hobbyists for a weekend of activities. On this feature, we will be running down the highlights of this year’s event which has the future-looking theme of “ARCHLight.” Thousands of visitors In line with this year’s theme, ARCHcon took on a different route in handling their entry process, focusing on lessening the use of paper tickets. They have partnered with Symph to implement a ticketing system that uses facial recognition. ...

November 18, 2019 · 5 min

ARCHcon Cebu 2019 set on November 16-17

Just last February this year, I went to Cebu for Otakufest 2019. That is my second time to do so - and I learned a lot. This November, I’m about to get back to Cebu - this time to witness ARCHcon 2019 (Anime, Role-Playing Games, Comics and Hobbies Convention). I know I’ve written about the 15th ARCHcon last year, so let me quote what I mentioned before: “What started as an open-to-the-public school activity of the then Sacred Heart School — Jesuit ‘Alternate Hobbies Club’ has grown to cater hobbyists from Cebu and the Visayas region.” ...

November 7, 2019 · 4 min