COSMOSIS 2011 + SPECIAL GUEST

October is the month for upcoming cosplay events here in Cebu City. From time to time, cosplay events have raised along with different kinds of themes and activities for one ultimate goal, to express the love for anime, gaming and cosplay!

In corporation with Robinsons Cybergate and Hattori Events presents COSMOSIS: A cosplay shock masquerade. This event will be held at Robinsons Cybergate on October 22, 2011. A cosplay event full of cosplayers cosplaying characters that are inspired of wearing masks or hiding their identities! There are countless of anime characters who wear masks, covers and such so expect to see anime characters in the event and not as cosplayers. 

Here is a preview of what the stage would look like during the event, this will be used for cosplayers who will join the competition proper.

For those who wanted to join the cosplay competition, click HERE to view the competition guidelines and informations about the event.

The price lists for the event are as follows:

This is not a surprise to everyone but during the event, the winners from TORCH 2011 held at COSMANIA 2011 in Manila last October 2, 2011 are invited to judge the cosplay competition for COSMOSIS 2011!  Yes guys, the cosplayers who will represent the Philippines for AFA 2011 in Singapore will be our special guest during that day! I am personally excited to see them again and this time, they are going to Cebu!

Please everyone, meet miss Zhel Guiral. The awesome girl slash awesome guy’s face. 

Photo By: Dennis "Shot" Li

Photo By: Dennis "Shot" Li

Zhel has countless of amazing cosplays from the past until now. Zhel is a cosplayer based in Davao and went through from cosplaying simple anime/video game characters to armored anime/game characters. She learned a lot from wig styling, make-up,  props making to making her own armor costume. With help and support from friends, she dedicated herself that someday, she will showcase her cosplay works to the world and hopefull will represent her country in a form of cosplay. She realize this dream when she went to AFA 2010 with her cosplay friends from Manila and Davao. She was just an audience spazzing over how awesome it would be to do a cosplay skit, showcase her creativity and would represent her country just like the representatives during the event. She told her friend that hopefully someday, she will be up there and express her love for her craft. With full support along the way, she will represent our country for AFA 2011 together with her partner, Amado Carl Hernandez or commonly known in the cosplay community as A.C.

If you remember this guy from last TORCH 2010, then that’s him. <3 Ain’t he amazing? A.C. is the best in props making, costume making specializing craft foam, rubber sheet, and would you believe, household materials. He cosplays his character not because of popularity but it’s for the love of his characters to come to life and the feeling to cosplay his favorite character are very much priceless to him. A.C. is very humble when it comes to his craft. I would not know if he realizes how awesome he is but all I know is, he deserves to win TORCH 2011 with Zhel! A.C.’s mentor for costume making is Sir Guy Singzon. So, he never fails to thank Sir Guy for all the cosplays he has done for himself and the knowledge he acquire from him. Ofcourse, A.C. developed his own style on making his own costumes! 

Photo: Dennis "Shot" Li

If ever I’ll have a free time to post about them, I will in the future. Hopefully though because I want to make a separate entry just for the two of them. Come and see them in Cosmosis 2011!  See you guys there! 

Last photo from COSMANIA 2011 with Zhel cosplaying Noctis. Noctis, what nice purse you have. <3 

All rights reserved, 2010

Written By: Eunice "eun_ice" Enrera

Photos are credited to their respective owners

and attached their site link upon clicking on their names.

I would like to thank A.C. for the time for talking with me and 

to Zhel. Zhel is really a nice friend to us. She's just fun to be with 

and I thank you so much for taking the time to write a very long

thank you message in her page, it's really touching to read

those words written by her. Go Zhel and A.C.. 

GO TEAM PHILIPPINES!

CEDf-IT Cosplay HD Harajuku District Event Details + Guidelines + Advance Ticket Reservation

Another exciting event for Japanese culture enthusiast alike! Cosplay HD (Harajuku District) will be held at Ayala Linear Park, Cebu Business Park across Marriott hotel on October 28 and 29, 2010.

Harajuku is the common name for the area around Harajuku Station on the Yamanote Line in theShibuya ward of Tokyo, Japan. Where people dressed up as Gothic Lolita (also gothic loli) Visual Kei, Ganguro, Gyaru, Kogal, to "cute" Kawaii style clothing and cosplayers dressed up as their favorite cartoon, game and anime characters. Harajuku is also a fashion capital of the world, renowned for its unique street fashion. Fashion designers in the world also made their own piece inspired by Japanese street fashion and intergraded throughout the world. 

Photo By: Kira and Daishi

Photo By: Kira and Daishi

People who wear outrageous outfits like these in the streets of Harajuku wear these outfits in everyday life! Harajuku is mainly a runway for these people. It takes guts to wear something different and to think about the world without Harajuku is unimaginable.

Photo By: Kira and Daishi

Just like the streets of Harajuku, Cosplay HD (Harajuku District) are putting up a theme inspired by anything going on in the streets of Harajuku in Japan. A festive night with live bands, dancers, musical performers and various artists to celebrate the feel. In Harajuku, there are also stores and shops for their own like for teenagers to afford. Just like them, this event will have mini stores, food stalls, fashion, souvenir shops and outlets for sale for us to buy via the event’s ticket coupon and enjoy what it is like in the streets in Harajuku.

 Yes, this event will be held for 2 days but there will also be a Cosplay Photo Exhibit by Cebu Digital Photographers (CDP) at Ayala Center Cebu starting October 24 – 30, 2011 featuring famed Cebuano Cosplayers! October 28 will cover a cosplay workshop conducted by TUXEDO team from Manila. Yes guys, the TUX team will fly all the way from Manila to talk about how TUXEDO team started cosplaying, why cosplay is a part of their life, how to start cosplay, their characterization, cosplay photography, costume making and talking about props making.

Just in case you would not know the TUXEDO team, this right here is a photo that reflected their perfect combination of cosplay, photography and creativity to pose just like the real characters.  Hopefully I get to talk about them in detail for the next post. I’m still trying to get a hold of their approval of posting their cosplay photos. 

Photo By: Erving Go

Photo By: Jonathan "Z3ll" de Belen

Photo By: Jonathan "Z3ll" de Belen

On October 29, 2011, the event will also held a cosplay competition for the following categories:

Kiddo-Cosplay, Male-Cosplay, Female-Cosplay and Group Cosplay and the prizes are:

• Group Cosplayers – Php 10,000 CASH, Cetificate, and Gift Pack
• Individual Male Cosplayer – Php 5,000 CASH, Certificate, and Gift Pack
•  Individual Female Cosplayer – Php 5,000 CASH, Certificate, and Gift Pack
•  Best Kiddo Cosplayer – Gift Check plus Gift Pack.

The tickets for this event are 200PHP and 500PHP. The 200PHP comes with a Entry to COSPLAY HD - Harajuku District, inclusive of P100 worth money coupon, good as cash in the Event Venue. Good for two days!

Another ticket to be sold at 500PHP includes the entrance to a private room for the workshop, snacks, Cosplay event access for the next day, and consumable coupon for stall and shops. The workshop will be held on October 28, 2011, Friday at 1PM-6PM at the Cebu City Sports Club. You may want to make sure you won’t lose your ticket for the next day or else, you need to buy another ticket. L

HOW TO BUY/RESERVE YOUR TICKET/REGISTRATION FOR THE WORKSHOP:

Reservations for the tickets is actually not allowed at the Privileges Desk in Ayala Center Cebu and the workshop can only accommodate with a limited people of 50  but for Anime Otaku Crib, we will be the one reserving the tickets for you! The tickets will be available on Oct. 12, 2011 on Wednesday this week but the registration for the workshop will be on October 14-25, 2011. It’s up to you if you want to reserve the tickets for the workshop or just for the event entrance and coupon. To reserve your ticket in advance, send me a PM via Facebook or you can look me up at Eunice Enrera in Facebook: 

• NAME (No screen name/cosplay name allowed)
• DATE OF BIRTH
• ADRESS
• CONTACT INFO
• TICKET RESERVATION (Are you going for the 200PHP or 500PHP)

The process for your advance payment will be tru MEET-UP’s at Ayala Center Cebu at Tom’s World from 12NN-4PM everyday starting tomorrow, October 11, 2010 until the limited 50 tickets for the workshop are sold.  

To those who didn’t go to Manila to meet them, THIS IS YOUR CHANCE to actually to meet them, talk to them and perhaps, spazzing infront of them. Lol. But more importantly, getting to learn a few things from them will be much more of a privilege as a cosplayer and as a person too. Miss Jin and the Tux team are really nice people so I myself could not wait to meet them again for the second time! Here is one photo that we have when we met with Jin Joson during Cosplay Mania 2011. 

WIth Atom, Kidd, Miles, Franchi, Me, Jin, Mika and Jessica .

(This photo was taken from our personal DSLR during the event that Miles owned; I just don’t remember who took the photo. I think it was Leandro who took this. haha)

And on October 29, 2011, will be filled by excitement with acoustic live bands, live dancers,  cosplay competition,  harajuku lovers, special guests appearances, night markets, photo ops or photoshoot opportunities, and AMAZING unexpected prizes will be given away! The event will also have a raffle draw so do not lose your ticket! =D

FULL guidelines for the event/workshop and cosplay competetion can be found HERE.

The event is making me excited! Thank you again for reading my post and I hope to see you everyone there! 

All rights reserved, 2010

Written By: Eunice "eun_ice" Enrera

Photos are credited to their respective owners

and attached their site link upon clicking on their names.

I would like to thank Mr. Jonathan de Belen or most popularly 

known as Z3LL Photography in the Philippine cosplay scene for 

the support and help for this article! 

To Mr. Erving Go also for allowing me to use his photos and 

for making me awake with his photo sharing session hahaha. 

To Chai Rico for giving me task worth working for!