Cosmania 2017 Highlights

You don’t need to leave the country to experience a grand anime and cosplay event. Cosplay Mania has it all for you. Held last September 30 to October 1 at Function rooms 1-5, SMX Convention Center. This is the biggest Cosmania ever since it started in 2008.

The event officially opened before noon. There were a lot of anime and cosplay enthusiast present. All of them excited to enjoy the event, meet their idols and win prizes!

If you were one of the first 500 people, you were entitled to play Cosplay Con-Quest. It is indeed a great way to explore the event. If you finish the game early, your prize awaits you at the Prize Redemption Booth located at the Show Management Office.

Toys, cute items, and fan art on sale—you'll get to see all of those. Did we already mention that Cosmania is also a great time to meet up with online sellers that are also exhibitors for 2 days? There are discounts and freebies from on-site shops that you can avail as well!

For two days, people got to see some of their favorite characters come to life. From anime, western comics, computer games, and movies—it is fun to see people with the same cosplay face each other!

From Wataru Hatano's Twitter Page

International guests were also present to grace the event. Anime Director Sayo Yamamoto and Anime Producer Fuuko Noda joined in for a panel discussion. Voice Actors, Koutaro Nishiyama and Wataru Hatano, were there as well for a fan panel.

Top: Angie and Kong
Bottom: Eki

Cosplayers from Asia and Canada came to meet their Filipino fans. Angie from Malaysia, Kong and Eki from South Korea, Siutao from Hong Kong, Knitemaya from Australia, and Hikarin from Canada stunned everyone with their costumes, acts on stage, and makeup tutorial.

From ELISA's Facebook Page

This year’s Jam concert featured Anisong artists, Konomi Suzuki, kradness, ELISA, Shiena Nishizawa. Attendees were able to jam with these amazing artists for two days! You can tell that the people enjoyed the concert. The floor was shaking from the attendees that were jumping during the concert.

Videoke and Chicken Joy Cosplayers

There were a few setbacks, but all in all, it was an enjoyable event! Looking forward to a better Cosmania 2018! Time to go back to our usual favorites!

Marshal Duties: Cosmania 2016

Pic from Cosmania

I'm back for another round of marshal duties for Cosplay Mania. Check out what happened on the 2015 CosMania. This year's program is way bigger than the previous one! More guests and the collaboration with I♥Anisong®. Over all this was the hardest one yet. There was too many people, there was a number of petty crimes and missing wallets. We got to watch the concert, but the main concern was to be on the look out for people recording the event as it was prohibited. 

I was not able to roam around and take photos. Everyone was busy not time of checking out the booths! I was not able to take a photo of the Dream and Delirium cosplayers. This was tiring but it was still fun as heck! After all we were a group working together!

Here are some of the photo of the event:

Loot bags

It has a fan, map of the event and hair wax

This was taken on day two!

More loot bags

We were basically farming them

For day two: I guarded the escalators

Cosplayers:

Reminders not just for people going to CosMania's event but for any event
1. Don't leave your ticket with your friends, especially if you know that there is a strict rule of no tickets, no entry.
2. Always ask if you are not sure!
3. Watch your things. Lockers were available for you to rent and use!
4. Respect begets respect. Don't be rude if someone asked you politely to do something.

If you have more to add to these reminders let me know! :)

Marshal Duties: Another Great Day Tour - LiSa In Manila

image from a FB event

Last May a friend opened a chance for us to be Marshals for the Animax Carnival event. It was the same time that she opened the chance to help with the security for the LiSa’s Another Great Day Tour that at that time to be held in the Samsung Hall at SM Aura on June 27. This was something big, it felt like this concert will be a test if we can handle such and if we are successful more events like this might happen.

The call time was 8am, the concert was at 6pm. It was a long wait but it was worth it, it was fun making sure that we have everything ready and secured. By 10am, people were already outside the Samsung Hall in Sm Aura, not sure if that was announce the we will be giving 300 (200 for the premium ticket holders and 100 for the balcony ticket holders) queue number so that they do not have to stay in the hall and secure their place until 6pm. We cleared the lines before 11 or so, don’t really have the time to check time XD

I was asked to secure the food for everyone. It was fun at the same time a bit stressing as I do not want anyone missing their food but I can’t be at the table where it was set so from time to time I would ran to the table and check how many is still there if there was a pair eating, I asked them not to leave the food alone. I think I did a good job for lunch, for dinner though I was not the one that received the food. I was at door 2, welcoming people to the balcony. We were taking turns in eating dinner as it was showtime. I was almost done with my food, when music started playing… I finished it asap and ran to the post I was assigned to as we need to make sure that nobody will be taking photos, recording videos or even recording the audio.

To be honest I do not know who LiSa is (sign that I’m old), so I was surprise with the number of people that came to see her. The VIP or Premium section was almost full I think there were just a few sit not taken. So I was dead on my feet when I felt the floor bouncing. Yes it was it felt like there was an earthquake whenever the crowd would dance or cheer for LiSa. Haha at one point we were told to asked the audience not to jump to much XD

All in all it was definitely Another Great Day! The crowd is pretty much behave and cooperative. I do hope that this event as passed us so that LiSa can comeback with a full band ^_^

Photos here Yes it is just photos of our team and the crowd before the concert

the winner for the Early Bird Raffle

look at that crowd

down time break 

down time break 2

Some guys playing games while waiting for the doors to open 

view from door 2

Saturday= Fireworks and Chocolates

I belong to an anime and manga loving group called Philippine Otaku Society. Three or four years ago, we started celebrating Valentines’ day in each other’s company. It did not matter if some of us have partners. We have adopted the Japanese tradition for this day, in which the girls are the one that gives the boys chocolate.

I will be sharing a few tips to avoid getting annoyed by the crowd

• Set a call or meet up time
• Set a meet up location
• If you have plans of watching something be at the venue early for a good viewing or sitting location
• Bring potluck if allowed
• Water is life (hahaha)

This year we got tickets for the first day of the 5th PryoMusical Competition.

This year's Schedule

While waiting for the others we decided to go to Chocolat for cake. This is my partner's favorite cake shop. We had cake and ice tea

Chocolat's Deep Dark Chocolate Cake and Iced Tea

We did a little shopping at the supermarket because I did not have chocolates to give out and I need to buy water and food

At the venue, boys got their chocolates a few of the girls gave the other girls chocolate too; I was all fun after all it has been a while since I got to see these lovely people. Oh! I was with my sister it was fun having to do things you like with the people you love. There was a scary situation where I thought someone took money from my coin purse (I suck at watching how I spend my money when I am happy).

I got a lot of things yesterday too, my partner gave me a necklace where you have to get the pearl out of clam

My partner's Vday gift to me

A late Christmas give from Kikyo and someone from out group bought an item from our (me and my partner) shop.

How was your Saturday? Did you have a blast?