Let’s be honest: Voltes V, for a variety of reasons, is pretty much the Philippines’ national super robot, even having connections to having been pulled during martial law and returning after the 1986 revolution. But Voltes V was not the only mecha (piloted giant robot) on Filipino TV at the time. “Mazinger Z” aired every …
After becoming a bestselling komiks series, an international graphic novel series, a Netflix Original Anime, a playable character in a mobile game and a forthcoming six-inch articulated action figure with all the right accessories, what else could a Kris-wielding, coat-wearing paranormal investigator want? If you are Alexandra Trese, the protagonist of Budjette Tan and KaJO …
How do you go about making a live-action adaptation of, “Cowboy Bebop,” one of the most iconic Japanese anime of all time? You make it real. For John Cho, who plays the series’ protagonist Spike Spiegel, it even got to the point of refusing to wear a wig. Like many anime characters, Spike has a …
Three of the series’ bestselling volumes are collecting in one e-book
The pandemic wasn’t able to stop Paolo Herras, the mastermind behind independent Filipino komiks convention and publisher Komiket, from pushing through with the first Philippine International Comics Festival or PICOF 2020 last year. Herras’ superpower is getting it done, no matter the situation and on the fly, PICOF 2020 became a virtual event, where “we …
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Dance is something that has long been identified with Filipino women. The only dance exclusively identified with men, for good or ill, was something we had to learn for cultural or field demonstrations. Yes, this is the bane of grade school or high school experience involving coconut husks and being half-naked, the maglalatik. Cut to …
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By now, this long into the pandemic, you have your safety routine down pat. Mask, face shield, disinfectant, sanitizer, frequent handwashing, social distancing—they’re all just a regular part of our day. But by being so focused on avoiding COVID-19, we could be neglecting other areas of our health, like our eyes. Life in lockdown has …
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How many times can you say, “By the Power of Grayskull, I have the Power?” If you are streaming giant Netflix, as many times as you want—as long as you do it differently. That line, of course, is the iconic sentence that transforms Prince Adam into He-Man, the most powerful man in the Universe from …
How much do you want to be a Marvel superhero? Which one? Better still, which version of that hero would you want to be? You can get to do all that with Marvel Entertainment and Netmarble Corp.’s new free-to-play mobile game Marvel Future Revolution, a multiversal battlefield unlike anything mobile gamers have seen before. “Being …
In 2020, “men in pearls” was all the rage, as Hollywood and music icons had taken to wearing pearls—not in the innocuous form of cuff links studs or a single bead in a leather bracelet, but strings of the ocean gems once associated with prim-and-proper, ladylike daintiness. Style arbiters declared men would keep wearing pearls. …
Men in pearls: Will it ever catch on with Pinoys? Read More »
