My Crazy Cosplay in the Philippines…

Guess where I’m going. [Music] Oh my god, [Music] this room is kind of crazy. All right, hello everyone. I’m sorry I look so busted, but we literally just checked into the hotel. And before we get into anything else, let me show you around because this place is actually insane. Right off the entrance, first thing you see, boom, guest bathroom. What kind of hotel room has a guest bathroom? That’s crazy. If you look over here, you enter into the main living room. There’s freaking couches here. Uh, you got a television mounted on the wall, as well as well, I’m sure the view is beautiful, but I can’t really see much right now. That’s not even the most insane part of all of this because if we come over here, we have a walk-in closet, a dedicated room for clothes and whatnot. There’s like a vanity mirror here as well. And right beside that, look at this freaking bedroom. What kind of hotel is this? And last but not least, look at this bathroom, dude. You have a bathtub just out in the open over sitting the uh the view outside. You got double sinks over here. This is a toilet over here. This one is a shower. Oh my lord. Anyways, I just wanted to say this place is absolutely freaking insane. I was in the middle of unpacking when someone rang on the doorbell and turns out we have a complimentary gift basket. It says uh Filipino delicacies. There’s crispy rice, cashew tart, banana chips, and I don’t know, just like these small snacks as a uh welcome to the hotel, I suppose. But pretty cool. Anyways, I’m going to try these. But while I do that, let me also tell you about what we are doing here in this mysterious, unknown country that you probably already guessed is the Philippines. Why am I in the Philippines? You may have seen 2 years ago, I was in the Philippines for a convention called Conquest. And you know, while they are no longer around for many, many reasons, there is another convention in the Philippines this time called an Friends. and they have actually invited me back here to Manila to appear at the convention as well as meet a ton of you guys. So that is why you know I did fly from actually Japan if you saw the previous vlog to the Philippines now and we will be here for the next 2 days for this convention. Now this is super super exciting because I don’t really get the chance to visit the Philippines ever. The thing that’s very special about the Philippines to me is there’s a ton of you guys who watch my videos and support my content here. And this gives me a chance to, you know, be able to meet some of you guys in person and actually be able to see you face to face. Because, you know, while I can feel your support through, you know, my stream, whether you be in the chat or watching my videos, it’s never quite the same as actually being able to interact with you guys face to face. So, yeah, super excited to be back. This time we do actually have merchandise as well as a booth for my merch brand May the Ants. I think this is the very first time I am actually um saying this on camera as well. But if you’ve seen, you know, my previous vlogs where I’m wearing this brown, orange, and cream jacket, as well as let me grab it for you. This shirt here, we have a Philippines convention exclusive. On the front, we do have Mayi the ant, our mascot with the sun in the back. And this is a graphic tea, Langam the Ant, a little Philippines convention exclusive here for you guys that are attending the convention. Super excited to be here setting up our merch. If you would like to check out Maya as well, by the way, the links will be down below in the description. You can find us on Instagram. Yeah, that’s all going to be happening tomorrow. It is currently 8:45. Just got to the hotel and unpacked everything. We shouldn’t have too much planned for the rest of the day. Just going to go grab dinner, maybe see a couple of friends, and then I do have to prep some stuff for, you know, the booth tomorrow as well as just finish a little bit of work. But yeah, I’m super excited for this convention as well as this trip. Can’t wait for you guys to see my experience in the Philippines through this vlog as well. And it’s going to be fun. So stay tuned. You’re not going to want to miss this one. Oh yeah, I totally forgot I was even going to try the snack. I think this is the banana. Very crispy. Has a slightly sweet aftertaste of banana, but not too overwhelmingly sweet. Being dry, it also takes out like a lot of the actual like punch. Savory yet still sweet aftertaste of a snack. I do like this one. Okay, this is the crispy tart. Here’s what it looks like. Oh, sorry. This is actually the crispy rice. I don’t know why I thought it’d be like soft and chewy like a Rice Krispie. It literally says crispy. I have no words. 10 out of 10. Okay, this is the cashew tart. Tastes like a tart with cashews in it. I’m a great food reviewer. Okay, I’m going to go eat dinner. [Music] Oh, thank you [Music] for that pork belly. They ordered this for five people, by the way. This is This is a very winnable situation we’re in. Check back in. True, true, true. [Music] This is Jake’s fault. This is not my fault. Jake’s fault. There’s nothing here. Everything else Jake’s fault. There’s nothing there. That was a big mom. He’s playing with food. Wait, I’m going to make a creeper face. How? I thought you were going to do this. Chicken chunky. Okay. Received 4K. 4K 30. All right. Why you record that? Why record that? Oh my god, that’s me. Wa. Anthony Chen. Wait, that’s crazy. It used to say Anthony Chen. I made them fix it. That’s me. I don’t know why there’s a space here, but okay, it is 3:00 a.m., but I just finished up preparing all of the merch for tomorrow. And let me show you. I think the thing I am Oops. most proud of are these here. Custom Gotcha Polaroids. One tenth of them will have a gold Anthony Chen signature. You know, I love my gotcha. But we also have a stande here. All of the merch prepped and ready for tomorrow. But it’s going to be an exciting day. I need to go to sleep because I need to wake up early. But yeah, stay tuned. Can’t wait to see you guys. And I’ll let you in on a little secret. I am doing a cosplay. See you tomorrow. [Music] Good morning. Well, it’s actually like almost 1:00 p.m., but we are doing a cosplay. What for? Stay tuned. It’s going to be crazy, though. We got the colored contact lenses. They’re purple. If that helps give you a hint. [Music] [Music] My eyes are so dry. This is because I play Genchin Impact all day. It’s kind of crazy though. I’m so excited. They’re filming Tik Toks. Off that whole table. All right. And all of you all of you guys look at me like yeah just like no smile just like look at me I’m going to be very happy excited and yeah she [Music] got it on the keep going with the contact [Music] How you feeling? My eyes are so bloodshot. It’s crazy. Not only do I have red contact lenses in, but wait, let me see. You look good though. I got annihilated. Bro, you look so high. I’m the highest I’ve ever been. Yeah, this is going to be funny. That’s also Holy, bro. We look like witches. What the All right, this is the final makeup look. Dude, honestly, I need to see it with the hair. I don’t think I look like him at all right now. No, you have to trust the process, bro. Once you get the wig on, the the wig changes everything. I’m like so contour. Oh my god. Look at me, bro. This guy’s head is so big. Yo, my head’s not that big. Oh my gosh. Holy with me. All right, let’s get the rest of the cosplay on and see what this looks like. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] This is crazy. Oh my god. Yeah, we’re locked in. We’re locked in. Twin Alex. Oh yeah. Let’s go. All right, y’all. This is the final completed look. Oh my goodness. I look so crazy. Look at this whole fit, too. Here, let me show you. [Music] Yeah, this is insane. What the hell is going on? What the hell? I’m not tall enough, [Music] bro. [Music] Cut. That was good. Yeah. All right, guys. I’m taking a quick break, but we’ve been in cosplay for like 2 to 3 hours at this point. It’s definitely a lot of work, but dude, I look freaking unrecognizable. I I I can’t lie, I wasn’t a believer at the beginning. I was like, uh, I don’t really look like them. And I don’t know if I do look like them at right now. But yeah, this cosplay is freaking sick. Shout out to Stella Knight, as well as all the makeup artists putting on this amazing look. And I think we’re just going to film some more content, maybe walk around the convention. I do want to go visit my booth. Rumsha is actually running that right now by herself. So, I do want to go provide some assistance. But yeah, this is the final look. Loving deep space cosplay. I am Raphael merman. Bad at crane games, hates cats, and uh I’m so tired. Okay, let’s finish this up and I’ll get back to you guys. [Music] head to the booth. All right, just finished up at the booth. Wow, I can’t do this no more. Honestly, it looks pretty great. Met a lot of you guys today. I’m sorry if I couldn’t get to everyone, but yeah, we have a lot of merchandise here. Thank you guys for stopping by and I appreciate it a ton. So, All right. You ready? Ow. What the heck? [Music] Oh my god. Okay, I didn’t lose that much hair. Oh, pull the cow. That was a terrible removal experience. [Music] [Music] All [Music] right, y’all. It is 1:00 a.m. and I am finally back at my hotel room. Just, you know, wanted to check in, give you guys a quick little recap for the day, and you just talk to you guys a little bit because obviously with everything going on today, I was pretty preoccupied. Didn’t get the chance to really vlog that much, but I’m sure you can tell that it was quite quite busy. And oh boy, was this cosplay a crazy experience. The way I actually got started or got into this particular cosplay project was I was reached out to by Stella. She offered me the opportunity to cosplay with other guys. Me personally, I haven’t played Love in Deep Space yet. I’ve seen a lot of it. I’ve heard a lot of it as well, and I did do, you know, my research. So, I hope, you know, I did do Raphael somewhat of a justice in the portrayal. But first of all, I do want to give a huge shout out to Knight, to Stella, as well as the other members of the makeup team because they did such an incredible job getting us all styled, doing all the makeup, getting the cosplays ready. Stella actually ordered these cosplays and tailored them to fit us. Yeah, I think they turned out great. At the end of it, I legitimately could not recognize myself. That was crazy. That was not me. That was someone else, dude. What a crazy transformation. And obviously just to get together with all the other guys and do this cosplay was freaking crazy. I’m sure you’ll see or you will have seen the bunch of just short form content that’s come out from our shoot here. But such an amazing experience. Super super tiring. Would totally be down to do it again. And I hope you guys enjoyed it as well. So for you Love and Deep Space fans out there, I don’t know. Stay tuned. Maybe you might see a Love and Deep Space gameplay experience on the Ant Ventures channel sometime in the future, but we’ll think about that. The cosplay was enough for now. After the cosplay, we actually did go down to walk on the expo floor and oh my god, we got freaking mobbed by everyone. At some point, there was just like this entire crowd just surrounding us, literally just blocking off the hall. I felt kind of bad cuz no one could get like past us. But I actually made my way over to the Mayi booth where a bunch of you guys were lined up and I got the chance to, you know, meet you guys, sell some merch as well as sign some stuff. If you guys were waiting there for a while, I do apologize. As you can probably tell from this vlog, I was really, really busy for the day. But I’m glad I got the chance to actually go down, meet you guys, run the booth for a little bit. And appreciate everyone that I did meet at the convention so far. Super stoked to meet everyone else who’s going to be attending day two as well. And I, you know, do actually have my meet and greet as well as stage event coming up. So that’s going to be pretty pretty exciting. Uh so yeah, going to get some bed. Going to get some bed. Going to get to bed, catch some sleep, and see you guys tomorrow for my K-pop makeup. Stay tuned. [Music] Okay, this is the final look. Oh my goodness, I low key can’t even recognize myself. So, basically, this was uh Lily’s makeup team, hair and makeup team that she flew out for this convention. And, you know, I thought it’d be a fun opportunity just to be able to get my makeup and hair professionally done. And honestly, I think they did a fantastic job. I showed Mr. Business proposal here and I was like, “Yeah, I want like something, you know, more natural and just like, you know, kind of like a part in my hair.” And she was like, “Oh, yeah.” And when I looked up, bro, I look freaking white as a ghost. Oh my goodness. Honestly, looks pretty good. I still have a clip in my hair. I’m supposed to like take this out before my meet and greet and do a little something there. Yeah, this is the final makeup. The hair will come together in just a little bit, but damn. Oh, here. Let me give you a OOTD. We got the shirt that I got in Japan. These are the cosplay pants, actually. And little secret, if you are uh joining me at the meet and greet, I’m wearing my cosplay shoes that have like 2 in inserts. So, I’m going to be extra tall. [Music] All right, hair done, makeup done. Oh my god, I look so different. It’s time to go to the meet and greet. Actually, I do have something to show you. We prepared a very special exclusive and limited edition print for this meet and greet courtesy of Rumsha. We have me and Mayi in the Philippines. So if you are going to the meet and greet, I will be giving you one of these. Okay, let’s go. I’m running late. This is some TFT product. I’m just trying to vibe. Meet and greet number one. Wait, I’m behind the tree. Meet and greet number two. Meet and greet number three. Plus 2 in plus 5 in. There’s nothing here. My dress shoes are in my room. All right, guys. We’re about to go in. There’s 100 people waiting for us in Okay, that’s really close. There’s 100 people waiting for us for the meet and greet. Kind of nervous, but it’s going to be fun. What the hell? That was tiring. Everybody, let’s give it up for [Applause] [Applause] All right. Uh, first off, welcome to the meet and greet. I’m just going to take the thin uh not But Jake, how how’s your time been in the Philippines so far? And take it away. Is this an interview? I guess it is now. I mean, it’s been great. I’m sure a lot of you guys saw it yesterday. Jake and I actually did a cosplay. First time. I think Jake said he will cosplay Senora next. This is a lie. But yeah, the day one experience was honestly pretty crazy and super glad to be here for day two with all of our events here. So, this is the truest thing to say, but we still haven’t tried other yet. I would like to ask Tongo if you can pull on my HSR account. [Applause] I mean, I guess brought the last one. [Applause] This is for everybody so you can answer individually. Who do you think would win a fight? One gorilla or a hundred of each of you. He could probably Where’s the gorilla? It was a guy. It’s a gorilla. It doesn’t matter. Come on. Oh, yeah. We’re close. Okay. So, [Music] [Music] They’re very cute. They’re very adorable. Just finished the meet and greet. My hair was terrible for like half of it because it kept falling in my face. But to everyone who came out, thank you so much. So nice meeting you guys. And wow, thank you. This is a lot of stuff. Thank you for all the gifts though. I will go through this all individually later as well. Um, but I think we have an event to catch right now. Just going to run back to the room, drop this stuff off, and then Oh yeah, let’s get to our stage then. Sigma boy. Sigma boy. Sigma boy. stage event. Woo! Okay, we’re walking to the stage. They took us outside and it was like immediate heatwave. Oh my gosh. I’m excited though. I think we’re uh playing Genshin Impact live in front of people. Incredible content. One more. One more. Chicken jockey. Chicken jockey. Uh uh balloon. It’s major event time. [Applause] There’s so many people out there. All right, here we go. And it’s about to be announced. He’s going to break us down here. [Music] This is crazy. Philippines have been amazing so far. Thank you. [Music] Philippines pretty awesome. Uh I like season I love Genjin. I actually didn’t start my content with Genjin though. I started with something else. You may or may not know this platform called Tik Tok. Uh however, I did after find Genchin Impact and it’s been an amazing game to play over the past couple years. I still do play, but uh you know, looking forward to the future as well. Tons of other types of content as well, vlogs, IRL stuff. There will be a video actually that will be posted, so you can look forward to, you know, just a bunch of other stuff coming on the channel as well. And thank you as always for watching. Thank you guys for coming out. And I actually do have a request. Um, can everyone say subscribe? [Applause] [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Applause] A [Music] [Applause] [Music] guys. All right, y’all. We are at the Mayi booth. This is the setup and a lot of people here. Very excited though. Also, I don’t think I got to show you guys uh the life-size 6oot stand. That is me. It’s a photo opportunity. So, all right, let’s get selling. [Music] Finally done with our food. [Music] All right, guys. We finished up at the merch booth. I think we were there from like 4:30 to 8:00 p.m. But got to see so many people. Sold a bunch of merch, actually. Uh, we still have a couple left, but I’m actually here at dinner now with 12 of my top donators in special dinner here and my my scammers as they say. But yeah, we’re going to we’re going to have dinner here and then head back to the hotel. But yeah, it’s been such a wonderful day. We have bunch of good food here. Actually, someone introduced me. Okay, so rice. That’s rice. Rice. And then this is like butter chicken. And then this is lung shanghai. And then this this is calamaras. This is like fried squid. And then this is like the the toppings for the binago cuz we asked for like plain dry. And then this is like what they call stir fried noodles. And then this is Yeah. And then this is curry carrot. Curry carrot. This is taco. This is shrimp. Shrimp. And then vegetables. Kang Kong prime. And crisp. Crispy pada. And then over there. Okay. [Music] What is it called? Silylvanas. Silylvanas. [Music] That was so good. Last time I was here, I was yelled at in the comments for not mixing this thing up. Are you ready? How are you supposed to do this? Damn. [Music] No. It’s mixed though. [Music] It’s so cold, but it’s so good. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. Happy birthday to you. [Applause] [Music] Oh, cute. Open. Open. [Music] Very well. [Music] Bryce wear [Music] like [Music] I drew that. There’s no like record. Oh, I’m opening this now. Hey, if you want present, you’re going to rip it up anyway. [Music] Oh my god. [Music] Thank you. So I wanted to give you happy like send me a blind box but no one that came to me it wasn’t happy. So I scrapped that. I had to find another one. So I hope you like it. Thank you very much. [Music] More more cheese. [Music] You got it. You got it. No, it’s a level three. Thank you. Wait, do you want it? I I already have. I can buy it for you. You want this one? There’s more that never ends. [Music] So much gotcha. Sub to sub to prize years ago. I owe him a body. Oh, wow. Nuts. [Music] Hello. I am finally back once again. Oh my god, it has been such an exhausting day and I’m really sorry. Super busy once again. Didn’t really have time to vlog, but holy cow, what a day. We started off in the morning of course with my makeup and after that we did have the meet and greet. Meet and greet actually went super super well. Uh was a little a little definitely a bit nervous at the very beginning but you know once we got rolling got everyone on stage and got to meet everybody. Uh it was super smooth. Y’all are super super nice. Thank you very very much for all the gifts as well like I said and actually oh my gosh there’s so much stuff from you guys. Thank you very much. I don’t know if I have the room to take everything. I’m going to try. Um, but I will definitely keep all the letters that you guys gave me. So, seriously, thank you very much for showing up to the meet and greet. I appreciate it a ton and it was so so fun to meet each and every single one of you. After the meet and greet, we did have our stage event. The stage event was honestly I thought we were going to play Genchin on it. I did tell you that we were going to play Genshin live in front of an audience. Turns out that didn’t happen. Uh, they actually shortened our stage segment to just 45 minutes. So, we kind of just did like a Q&A up there, kind of like a panel, just talked about stuff, and the turnout was massive, dude. I thought it wouldn’t be like that considering that this convention is supposedly smaller than Conquest, which we came to 2 years ago. But literally, the area was packed. If you guys saw the footage, yeah, the stage itself wasn’t that big, but it was like a sea of people and just the overwhelming amount of support and turnout from this convention as well as the Philippines has just been absolutely phenomenal. And after the panel, I think that ended at 4:30, I went pretty much straight to my booth. Uh, I heard that people had been lining up there for hours before it opened, which oh my god, guys, please, please, please don’t do that. Oh my god, I feel so bad to make you guys wait for so long out there while I’m, you know, out doing my other things for the convention. But, you know, finally got the booth open at around 4:30. And so, so many people I heard that our booth was actually the longest line in the entire convention, which is kind of crazy considering we didn’t even sell out of all the merch. But, um, yeah, we had to end up capping the line at some point. I think I was going for like three and a half almost 4 hours straight. But, you know, to each and every single person who did come up to the booth, waited in that long line. Seriously, thank you so much. I’m so sorry about the wait. Uh, but I hope you guys do enjoy the merchandise, and it was such a pleasure to meet everyone. Unfortunately, not going to be able to take that standy home. Ended up giving it to a staff member because, uh, she had been helping us for the past 2 days, just standing there at the booth for like 5 hours at a time, which is absolutely insane dedication. But yeah, this was day two, which is actually the final day of the convention. I am finally done with all my uh sponsored obligations at the very least. But this isn’t the end of the vlog. We are staying in the Philippines for a couple more days. And it’s been super fun as well. If you attended and friends, seriously, thank you so much. I appreciate every single one of you guys. And I can’t wait to have a little bit of time to have fun and relax in the Philippines. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] [Music] And I’ll be without your kisses. I’ll be goodbye and hurt you. [Music] Hi. [Music] Hi. [Music] Yo, that like Yo, look at these content creators. I’m not part of them. I love them. Seven waters, one magical unicorn juice. All right, let’s all do it at once. [Applause] [Music] I got it. You didn’t even drink it. [Music] Not bad. Yeah, pretty expensive though. [Music] [Music] There’s been two of those. All [Music] right, guys. We are here at what is this place called? Water sign. They have a special culinary class wars collab with Chef Troy. I don’t know how many of you guys watched it, but we did do a cooking video where we recreated some of those dishes, but we get to try the official stuff here. The only thing is it’s kind of expensive. If you guys know the Jung Trio, three uh cheapest pieces of steak, it’s like $120. Um, so I think all of us here are probably going to share some of this, but yeah, just cool to try. apparently. This is life changing. It’s pretty good. A lot richer. Very, very sweet. [Music] Oh, it’s so thick. [Music] I definitely taste the garlic in this. But on the show, they were like, “Oh my god, this is so good.” It’s pretty good. I don’t think it’s like life changing. It’s just like a good vom with garlic. I don’t like that. [Music] I mean, you can definitely taste all three of the jungs in each separate item on the plate. I don’t know how well they work together to like complement each other as part of one dish though. It’s pretty good. I think the steak has a really interesting flavor. You don’t even need like it’s already seasoned with the sauce here. As you can see, TLDDR, it’s pretty good, but not $120 good. We got scammed. I love you though, culinary class wars. Final thing I’m eating in the Philippines. This is a Filipino food. Wait, this whole game. Inception. Uh, Inception Deception. Squid Game perfectionist. Crazy. Uh, Squid Game election. Home say win the Squid Game. Season 3, June 27th. Go, dude. My glasses. Oh my goodness. As you can see, that is the final haul of all the gifts, all the letters, everything that you guys gave me during this convention. And dude, this is insane. Um, but as always, I appreciate each and every single one of you. I appreciate all the letters, all the gifts, everything you guys have given me. Most importantly, thank you for coming out. Thank you for showing up, and thank you for supporting me all the way through. for the gifts. Honestly, as of right now, I do not have the space to take everything back. I think I’m actually going to go in the morning and uh get a suitcase just to be able to pack all of these gifts and take them back. I have already gone through a majority of these, but I will properly read each and every single letter uh as well as, you know, go through all of the stuff once again when I am back home. But yeah, this convention has been incredible. It’s always such a pleasure to come out to the Philippines and meet each and every single one of you. Uh just to be able to give something back to you guys after all the support you have shown me. And I know I sound like a broken record, but I cannot state once again just how thankful I am to have you guys behind me. Thank you for coming out. Thank you for supporting the content. Whether you are, you know, a day one or just recently came, I’m seriously just so lucky to have a community like you guys supporting me. So, thank you very much for watching this video. This will be the end of the vlog. I actually go back home at noon. I have a flight back to LA. But yeah, it’s been an amazing trip. It’s been great seeing everyone, friends, community members, everyone who I met over the past couple of days. Certainly a life-changing experience and one that I will never forget. So, thank you for watching. Have a wonderful rest of your day. I’ll see you in the next video. [Music]

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46 Comments

  1. Sorry this one took a while, but hopefully well worth the wait! Thank you as always for having me Philippines and it was a pleasure meeting all of you 🥹❤

    p.s. 10k likes for LADS gameplay

  2. I just wanna say that I saw your potential before people considerated yourself "hot", okay? It don't matter that much but I just wanted to say that I thought you were beautiful to me ALWAYS, please always have high self-estime, that's it. Bye!

  3. u went to the philippines and cosplayed RAFAYEL?!?!! WHY HADNT I HEARD ABOUT IT WTHHHHH NOOOO ANWWW i hope u enjoyed ur short stay 🥹🥹🥹