[The Keihancarl Diaries: October 21, 2023]
Hi everyone, Keihancarl here once again. And I bet this weekend’s gonna be awesome.
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The Ozine Fest Halloween Special, held at the Fairview Terraces, will be the third anime/cosplay event I attended for this year, after the Pinoy Otaku Festival 2023: Shizen (Robinsons Novaliches) last May and the Best Of Anime 2023: The Reunion (SMX Convention Center Manila) last September. I never got to visit Coshabatsu, which was also held at the Fairview Terraces a few months ago.
Anyway, my awesome weekend should begin with a post-birthday celebration, with a cup of caramel macchiato iced coffee, cinnamon roll, and bloody velvet cupcake from Cafe Luca. I was initially planning to have a slice of Basque burnt cheesecake, but I changed my mind at the last minute.
I managed to take a lot of selfies, as well as food photos. I even took a couple of videos of the fork cutting a piece of the bloody velvet cupcake (one of the Halloween items).
I then uploaded the first batch of photos to my Instagram accounts. At that point, I was probably enjoying myself too much, knowing that I’d be attending the Halloween-themed anime/cosplay event later.
I only stay for about an hour since I need to get to the Ozine Fest. It was already 4:00 PM when I left the cafe.
Next stop, Fairview Terraces. I immediately headed to the event center to check some of the booths and bought a few souvenirs, including a couple of anime pins, a small Pochita plushie, and a book by Sskait (yup, he had a booth at the event).
As it is a Halloween-themed anime/cosplay event, the cosplay competitions are, of course, Halloween-related. There are also some mini-games as well. And there’s the trick or treat.
By the time I got there, the Worst Nightmare Cosplay Competition was about to begin. Seeing that most of the booths took up the event center, there’s very little space left in front of the stage. Not only that but some of the booths are located in the eastern hallway near Owndays.
From the second floor of the mall, the event center looked incredibly crowded.
Back at the event area, I had a few selfies with some of the cosplayers.
At the fountain area, I took some more selfies. The wacky ones.
The first day of the event ended as soon as the winners were announced. It was almost 7:00 PM, but the stage was empty. But the booths remained open until about closing time, I assume.
I then head to SM Fairview and visit a couple of bookshops. I managed to buy a second-hand manga at Booksale (Bodacious Space Pirates) that was on the shelf for almost four years. I remember seeing that book a lot of times whenever I passed by that branch, but it seems like no one bought it nor it was pulled out. But on that day, I finally decided to pick it up, and that was that.
I only checked the lower and upper ground levels and had dinner at Bonchon Chicken at the mall’s second level. I checked the department store after that (there’s a Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf branch inside the department store aside from the one at the Parkway) and bought a couple of items at the supermarket before going home.
I must have spent a lot of money on these items, but they all serve as awesome souvenirs from the event. The manga, however, was bought outside the venue and may not be considered one of the souvenirs from the event, but I decided to include it anyway.
I'll definitely read the comic book very soon. Wish I also bought the eggplant plushie as well.
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That day was really special to me since that was the first time I celebrated my birthday at my favorite hangout place post-pandemic. I bought some awesome souvenirs from the Ozine event too. I never got to eat out at a Japanese restaurant (which I did a week later) or shop for some clothes to replace the ones in my wardrobe (I only bought a Shoyo Hinata shirt at the department store a week later as well). The small Pochita plushie and the recent book from Sskait serve as my birthday presents to myself. Too bad I never got to visit the second day of the event, but I somehow managed to squeeze almost everything in one day.
And that’s how my post-birthday celebration/first time at an Ozine event went. Hopefully, I can plan my next mall-hopping trip by November, as soon as I can procure some potential additions to my wardrobe.
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Most of the pics are from my Instagram account, @kcox_105. The Ozine Fest haul and the pages from the Sskait comic were exclusively uploaded to my Threads account of the same name.
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First Ozine Fest Mini 2023 Guest Announced
Ozine Fest has announced in a Facebook post the first Ozine Fest Mini 2023 guest. Ely Cosplay will be back to the Philippines.
Ozine Fest Mini 2023 will happen on May 20-21 at Function Room 1, SMX Convention Center
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First Ozine Fest Mini 2023 Guest Announced
Ozine Fest has announced in a Facebook post the first Ozine Fest Mini 2023 guest. Ely Cosplay will be back to the Philippines.
Ozine Fest Mini 2023 will happen on May 20-21 at Function Room 1, SMX Convention Center
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Ozine Fest Haul
Since I mentioned my plush xiao on my recent post, here's the stuff I've brought from yesterday while going to ozine fest 2023 <33333
Bonus: My Kuki Shinobu Shrine <333 (photocards not brought during ozine fest)
Shout-out and credits to the fan artists seller that I've brought yesterday! Your arts are amazing <33333
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