Otaku

Read more about the article The Seoul Searching Chronicles: Starfield (COEX) Mall

The Seoul Searching Chronicles: Starfield (COEX) Mall

This entry is part 2 of 6 in the series The Seoul Searching Chronicles

Welcome to the second part of the Seoul Searching Chronicles! If you’re just tuning in, check out part one chronicling our pathway to our first ever adventure to South Korea, which brings us to what we found in today’s post, featuring one of Seoul’s popular shopping spots. A few weeks prior to our trip, we discussed the places we needed to go check out during our stay, including with a couple of friends who have visited the country in recent years. Together with what we compiled, we set out on our first full day in Korea to the COEX Mall.

(more…)

Continue ReadingThe Seoul Searching Chronicles: Starfield (COEX) Mall
Read more about the article The Seoul Searching Chronicles: Arrival in South Korea

The Seoul Searching Chronicles: Arrival in South Korea

This entry is part 1 of 6 in the series The Seoul Searching Chronicles

If you’ve peeked in on this blog and social media accounts relating to Centaku Media for the past year, you remember that I announced that I was to embark on my first ever out of country trip, and the decisions that came about that led to our eventual journey to South Korea. While, out of the sake of privacy and suspense, I did not immediately reveal my trip date, but hinted that it would be in the Autumn of 2019 that this trip would happen, and it finally has. I present to you: The Seoul Searching Chronicles.

(more…)

Continue ReadingThe Seoul Searching Chronicles: Arrival in South Korea
Read more about the article Centaku Media: South Korea Bound
Passport: Aqcuired. Where to now?

Centaku Media: South Korea Bound

I posted on my Twitter a while back of an acquisition of exciting proportions! It’s a key to an upcoming adventure coming later in 2019 that will change my life as I have made it to Level 30 on this planet. I have obtained my very first passport! It took a year, maybe more, or debate of where I should go for my first out of country trip. It originally started as just saying random things that may not come true, but a close friend of mine, who I will refer to as DJ Panda, suggested two places: South Korea or Japan.

(more…)

Continue ReadingCentaku Media: South Korea Bound
Read more about the article Tutorial: Auron’s Katana from Final Fantasy X

Tutorial: Auron’s Katana from Final Fantasy X

The tutorial, or rather a walkthrough, is of the famous Katana held by the Legendary Guardian, Auron, from Final Fantasy X. This could be an entry in the #ThrowbackThursday series of posts, but it has not been published until today, and on a Friday. This was originally written in 2011, a year after I finished a cosplay project that was several years in the making back then, after completing the game in late 2003. Though I finished the costume literally 48 hours before MTAC in 2010 (the year which is known to many attendees as SwiMTAC), I had little time left to work on the prop beforehand. I needed at least two weeks to make it. In the end, it only took a week and a half to finish it, and two days of cutting it between letting the Liquid Nails dry between the dowel.

Profile of Auron from Final Fantasy X

(more…)

Continue ReadingTutorial: Auron’s Katana from Final Fantasy X
Read more about the article The 24 K-Pop Concerts I Attended in the 2010s
Epik High at their Atlanta leg of their 2015 North American tour.

The 24 K-Pop Concerts I Attended in the 2010s

Back in February 2018, I made a personal accomplishment by attending 20 K-Pop concerts since 2012. The first K-Pop concert I ever attended was BIGBANG‘s first world tour, held at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ. Since then, a close friend made it an effort to attend as many K-Pop concerts as physically and financially possible. Even if it’s not “In Your Area”.

(more…)

Continue ReadingThe 24 K-Pop Concerts I Attended in the 2010s

Instagram of the Day: Daft Punk Cosplay @ Hamacon Mini

I went to Huntsville, AL, to attend the annual day con event held by Hamacon. I had lots of fun, and it’s what you would expect at a day con. Since 2018 is winding down, it is probably the last con for the year for myself before the holiday rush. I only took a few pictures, but I really had to share this one on Instagram of these awesome Daft Punk cosplayers:

(more…)

Continue ReadingInstagram of the Day: Daft Punk Cosplay @ Hamacon Mini