Cosplay

Manila and Pasay folks, get ready! The last weekend of April still has lots of things in store for us — just look at these two events which will be held on the same weekend. Pinoy Gaming Festival 2019 Summer Assembly April 26 to 28, 2019 — Music Hall, SM Mall of Asia This year, Globe Telecom and Cyberzone will be co-presenters to bring out more summer gaming goodness at the event. It will be a 3-day weekend filled with games, activities and sizzling hot esports action courtesy of Playbook Esports, plus some surprise goodies from our event partners. And to continue the long tradition, PGF Summer Assembly 2019 will be a FREE ADMISSION event. ...

New and Bigger Venue, More Activities— and this time, unexpected guests! May is already becoming a busy month for me as I will be in two events — the second one will be the 2019 Pinoy Otaku Festival to be held at Robinsons Novaliches Trade Hall from May 17 to 19, Friday to Sunday. This year’s POF theme is “Asobu” / “Let’s Play”, which leans more on having an interactive experience for all visitors. ...

Say it with me, mga bai: “Oh-zeen,” hindi “Oh-zayn.” Imagine a conversation between a group of people: “Tara, Cebu?” “G.” Now, imagine if this was the team behind the Ozine Fest series of events. This is probably how Ozine Fest Cebu was set. Otakuzine has been in the events (and the magazine) business for a decade now, and I believe it’s their first time that they will go out of town and into SM Seaside City Cebu’s Sky Hall this May 18–19, 2019. ...

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. ...