Despite the many challenges, we are still grateful to be able to celebrate the eighth anniversary of our website in service to the Philippine Cosplay Community. As a media and cosplay website, it has been our pleasure to be the community’s trusted source of features, news and developments regarding cosplay, anime, and pop culture.
We would like to say “thank you” to all our readers who have always been supporting us, visiting the website, reacting to our posts, and helping us out at events. Thank you for sticking it out with us through all these years. Many thanks to our sponsors for keeping us alive for this long: Kei of Cosmic Bytes Cosplay Shop, the Hernandez family, Perry in Disguise, T-Tees, Otaku Asia Magazine, Greattoysonline, and Genki Shoppu, for all your support.
To all the event organizers that we have partnered with in all our eight years, thank you for entrusting your coverages to us, and for making the official media partner of almost all the cosplay, anime, gaming, and pop culture events in Manila.
arkadymac.com is proud to be the only community media organization to have worked with 12 schools and universities with their 17 Japanese culture/pop culture organizations and have helped them promote the love and interest for cosplay, anime, and Japanese culture within their communities through activities and events. For 8 years we at the website are glad and proud to have witnessed and helped the growth of cosplay and Japanese pop culture at the grassroots level, and we commend all these organizations, students, teachers, advisers, for all the hard work they have done. We salute all of you and we will always be here to support you! UP Diliman: UP AME, UP Tomokai, UP Variates. De La Salle University: Nihon Kenkyuu KaiGakuen, Anime Soshiki. Ateneo de Manila University: Hinomoto, Toushin. UP Clark Pampanga: UP MANIA, University of the Philippines Manga-Anime Associates. University of Santo Tomas: Thomasian Nihon Kyoukai. FEU: Junior Philippine Computer Society and the Alliance of Information Technology Students. Saint Paul University Quezon City: Paulinian Student Government. PUP Sta Mesa: Otaku URule. PUP Sto. Tomas: Otaku Guild. PNU: PNU NAMI. EARIST – Eulogio “Amang” Rodriguez Institute of Science and Technology: EARIST Anime Alley. TIP:Anime Holics Organization (AHO).
And of course a big thank you to our hardworking team of photographers, writers, correspondents and Cosplay Models who have made arkadymac.com what it is today, led by our Editor-in-Chief, Jillian. Let’s guide the website to more successful years to come.
With our growing team of correspondents, photographers, writers and models, we promise to bring you more event coverages and features that matter to you. Thank you, everyone, for helping us get this far. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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