Cosplay

E-sports and Pop Culture Festival to be held at the Iloilo Convention Center Dubbing itself as “the Largest Esports & Pop Culture Event in Visayas-Mindanao,” Globe and ISC Events presents CONQuest 2019 to be held on June 22–23, 2019 at the Iloilo Convention Center. CONQuest is running on its third year, and they bring to the Ilonggos the fun of gaming and pop culture. CONQuest brings e-sports and pop culture personalities to the heart of the Philippines — popular streamers, content creators, illustrators and cosplayers such as GLOCO Gaming, Suzzysaur, Asurai, Cong TV, RogerRaker, Hazel Quing, Liui Aquino, Aeonix, Little Things PH, Libreng Komiks, Overdrive Design’s Rd Rogacion, Twitch’s Mark Candella and more are announced as guests for this year’ event. ...

Upcoming collaboration between Do it for the Aidols and DareDemo Sekai set on May 5 I’ve been through a handful of idol-related events such as the 1st Manila Idol Matsuri and BONDS Indie Idol Fan-meet* last year, and I can say to myself that I’m not yet done with idols outside MNL48 (this I will explain in Episode 36 of the podcast to be released on Sunday afternoon Manila time). This May 5, I’ll be at The Roxy Events Place in Quezon City as our friends from Do it for the Aidols (DIFTA) and DareDemo Sekai will be collaborating for the first Aidol Fiesta. ...

Philippine Fan gathering to celebrate Japanese drama & movies The first time I got to a JDoramaEiga PH event is when they held a block screening of Itoshi no Irene at Robinsons Galleria as part of the QCinema Film Festival last year. Guess what: They even got the lead Cebuana actress Nats Sitoy to join in the screening, and a Q&A was done afterwards. Now, they sent me an email telling me more about their first fan gathering for this year, JDoEiga Matsuri which will happen this April. ...

As of writing, the anime adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece has 876 episodes since its initial broadcast on October 20, 1999. That’s 19 seasons altogether. This series does not stop airing weekly for almost 20 years, and it still continues to bring joy to its fans. With that in mind, the second day of Otakufest 2019 at SM Seaside City Cebu (February 24, 2019) has been declared as “One Piece Day,” gathering cosplayers from around Cebu and nearby areas to participate. ...

#CEBUkeepsakes2019 features my first visit to Cebu’s Otakufest plus a visit to the recently-opened Moe Moe Kyun Restaurant To cap off my journey in Cebu from February 23 to 25, 2019, I’m making this post to share to you the content I produced: Podcasts We’ll start with the podcasts as these are the first ones that I processed (also probably the fastest): This may not count as Otakufest content but this marked my second trip to Cebu City. I’m with Serena of The Lily Cat in the airport when we recorded this episode. ...

Cebu’s kick-starting major event held for two days at SM Seaside City’s Maze Garden This year’s Otakufest has done firsts in its decade-long history: Being held for two days, and being among the first activities to be held at the recently-opened Maze Garden area. It’s been two weeks since and the thought of going to Cebu again just right after going to Singapore. This all started when I am convinced by my counterpart, Cebu’s Cosplay Event Buzzer Gary Montejo to be there. My initial plan was to visit ARCHcon, but as soon as I realized that I may not be able to travel by plane again on my own this year, I took the jump. ...

Team Weapon and Mask Destruction from Davao City to represent the Philippines in this year’s friendship event Among the major activities in the recently-held Otakufest 2019 at SM Seaside City Cebu is the National Finals for Pop Culture Hiroshima (PCH) Philippines held last Sunday, February 24. According to the tournament’s Facebook page, PCH is an annual Japanese pop culture convention held in Hiroshima City which features cosplay, idols, guest voice actors, independent/fan artists, and illustrators as well as an anime song (anison) singing competition. ...

The three pairs who participated in the World Cosplay Summit Philippines’ 2019 Cebu Preliminaries together with its panel of judge cosplayers Reika and 2018 Philippine representative Team Sekai. Two more pairs for WCSPH 2019 finals selected in Cebu’s Otakufest - 2018 National Finalist Team Class S to return for 2019 Nationals It was a busy Sunday for everyone who is at the Maze Garden of SM Seaside City Cebu as Otakufest 2019 holds three major events on its second day. ...

Photo: World Cosplay Summit Philippines committee “Samurai X” pair from Mindanao to represent region in the 2019 World Cosplay Summit Philippines Nationals In other news related to the World Cosplay Summit in the Philippines, the 2018 Mindanao Cosplay Summit hosted the 2019 Mindanao Preliminaries. Held at the City Hall of Tagum in Davao del Norte last December 26 to 27, 2018, the preliminary round gathered three pairs from the region for the chance to join other finalists in the National Preliminaries to be held this year. ...

keepsakes.’ guide on how to have your taste of the C3AFASG experience Hi guys! I’ve just come a long way from Otakufest 2019 in Cebu — my photo album is up on Facebook, the latest podcast will feature a series of recordings from the Queen City of the South. By this weekend I expect to use most of the footage I captured to create five videos that will be uploaded on both YouTube and Facebook. ...