Anijins in the papers

Anigumi Joukai's Cosplay cafe was featured in one of the leading newspapers in Iloilo, The Daily Guardian. The guild had their second cosplay cafe at Brew's Burger with the Maid Cafe as the theme.
(c) 2012 February

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Book Latte in The Daily Guardian

Since its not everyday you get to see and go to a cosplay cafe in Iloilo, Anigumi Joukai gets to be in the papers. Where you able to grab your won copy of this article?

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Book Latte's Cosplay Cafe

Love Meal Ticket

Anigumi Joukai was once again invited to help organize and host another cosplay cafe. This time, it's with Book Latte.
Located at Quezon St., Iloilo City, Book Latte is a special restaurant/cafe which makes it unique to all other establishment in the city. They have their own collections of books, from the classic novels of Edgar Allan Poe to the contemporary novels of Nicholas Sparks. Book Latte is the first library cafe and so far the only one of its kind in Iloilo.


This is considered to be the 3rd cosplay cafe of the Anijins and its literary character inspired. The theme was fairy tales but its not only limited to that. Servers that day were to wear any literary character from any literature they like.

Struck Meal Ticket

The Cosplay Cafe started serving at 2pm and the food were sold out around past 5pm.

Three sets of servers changed shift every two hours. The busiest hours always falls from 3:30pm going to 5:00pm. Each shift has 4 servers on duty.

Book Latte chose a few of their house specialty. Below was the menu used for the day's event. 2 rice meals and 2 pasta were the choices. Carbonara and Pan fried Chicken were the best seller that day.

It was another successful event by the Anijins. The restaurant was full and the tickets again were sold out. It was a another tiring but full of fun event.

soushi miketsukami inviting you all

busy servers relaying customer's orders

Precious Grabato (left) and Coleen D'Lovess(right) serving their customers right

Left to right: Dharlz , C.C. chan, Meishiel 

No vacant tables

Servers by day, customers by night
left to right: Precious, Coleen, John

Elisis, crew on duty

Wondering what they are up to...
Left to right: Elisis, Hyde, Sun, Lee, Jherben

Sylvester (left) and Lee Mizuumi (left) goofing around with Book Latte's crew

the captains are planning something
Elisis & Lee

for more pictures: Book Latte Cosplay, Book Latte Cosplay 2

Art designed and layout by Sam Suansing
Photo Credits to Sylvester Ichon, Robert's Sangrador

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Anijou Academy: Post Valentine Cosplay Cafe

"Okairenasai! Goshujin-sama, Ojou-sama"

"Welcome home master, mistress", greetings from the Anijins.

It's the second year that Anigumi Joukai partnered with Brew Burgers for the Valentine's Cosplay Cafe. In this year's event, the theme was seifukus and gakurans. Instead of seeing maids serving like last year's, Anijou had school girls and boys in uniforms serving omurice, katsudon and teriyaki.

The Official Poster for the event
Art by Sam Suansing

The official poster was released days before the event with Love in it. One of the resident artists of the guild, Sam Suansing, designed and did the layout for this event. 

The bookmarks/tickets were really cute which made everybody got excited to have their own. This bookmark serves as the customer's meal ticket. Each ticket is comes with a meal and a drink. This is the third bookmark which was designed for the cosplay cafe. This is the second time that Love & Struck were redesigned for the cosplay cafe too. 

Posters as Menu

It was also easier to have the menu posted on the walls for more convenience. It was made and designed by Sun Amargo and her friend. They did this art on the spot before the cosplay cafe started. 

Beef Teriyaki, Californian Maki, Katsudon, Omurice and Tori/Katsu Curry Rice were the meal of the day with Ice Tea. Your P120 is definitely worth it with their big servings at Brew. Californian Maki and Omurice with sausages were the first to be sold out. Katsudon was the choice of many. Chopsticks were also available at that time to those who would really want to fully experience it the japanese way. 

Katsudon ordered by Lanz

There were 12 servers who did their best that day. Supposedly there were 3 shifts but due to the flooding of customers, the crews were divided into two shifts. 

Brew was never full more than it was that afternoon. Last year's maid cafe had 89 sales but it was topped by this year's cafe. There were a total of 140 sold tickets in just a matter of 5 hours. More or less 120 out of 140 tix were all reserved days before the event. 

Jherben Lagon along with his fellow  Future Doctors visited the Cosplay Cafe 

Denz going for second round at Brew

Ai-chan doesn't care any less

The guys serenaded the crowd
nearest to farthest: GJ, Ivan, Pepo, Brendan

Games and prizes were planned for that event but due to overwhelming flood of customers, the planned flow of the cafe was not fulfilled. But the event was entertained by Robin Ivan Yap, Pepo, Gj Loreno and Brendan Apuan. They played different songs and even had the customers sang with them. Co souffle and Chill Bros were there selling key chains, bookmarks, wigs, kawaii glasses, etc.

Anijou's 4th cosplay cafe was a chaos in a good way. An overwhelming number of customers made their way that afternoon to Brew Burgers. 

Let's end the talk here and why not take a glimpse of the fun we had on our recent cosplay cafe.

Photo Credits Thongenn Lanz Patiam and Sylvester Ichon

Video Credits Sylvester Ichon

(c) Lee Mizuumi

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Pre-Valentine Maid Cafe

Not known to all, Cosplay Cafe is a very common sight in Japan, most especially in the district of Akihibara. Themed restaurant specifically, cosplay restaurants originated in Akihibara in the late of the 20th century. The main target market of these restaurants are otakus. A lot of otaku community abroad have embraced this phenomenon. As the dawn of the 21st century, it became known worldwide and gained its popularity then. 

Anigumi Joukai never fails to bring otaku culture in the city. As the guild is getting better as it turned two in 2012, the core members continued the legacies of the existing guild. Aside from making and organizing big events in malls, Anijou officers thought of organizing a cosplay cafe on a whole different level. Partnering with a local restaurant, Brew Burgers & Cafe, Anijou organized the second Cosplay Cafe. It is safe to say that the cosplay cafe is first to happen in Iloilo City, here in Panay Island. Now, on its second run, the guild closed a partnership with the professionals. 

The official anijin mascot for cosplay cafes, Love & Struck
Art by Sam Suansing

One of the resident anijin artist, Sam Suansing, designed the two mascots, Love and Struck. To know more the background of the mascot, click here. February 11, 2012 was the date chosen thus making it a pre valentine cosplay cafe. It was themed, maid cafe. Anijins, who were willing to be servers for the day cosplayed the character of their choice. Some servers didn't cosplay, rather wear their personal maid outfit ensemble. There were 8 servers that day.

The cosplay cafe opened at 3pm until past 7pm. It was a fun afternoon for those who came. There were intermission numbers by Kimsshi, Brendan Apuan & Lee Santillan, Marc Louise and co. from Beat by Arts.

Tickets at P100 were sold out. Each meal tickets include a meal and a drink.
The specialty of the house was part of the menu. Burgers, Pasta and rice meals were the options. Pasta was the first to be sold out. Burgers got the highest sale.

It was a very successful event.


Enough talk and let's watch a short video by Mark Henry Melocoton.

(c) Lee Mizuumi

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