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 Guild is not just swarmed of geeks and weirdos rather the guild is infested of artists in different means. Kidding and modesty aside, Anigumi Joukai is proud to say that most of members are highly exceptional talented individuals who can be misunderstood at times.
Audrey San Juan and Sam Suansing are just two of the best resident artists of Anijou. They are the ones responsible for these icons. Audrey draws the October events icons and so for the AI Expo. On the other hand, Sam draws and designs for the cosplay cafe.
Asobi-chan was the iconic mascot in Gamehouse, the annual october event of Anijou in 2011
Love & Struck are official icons for the valentine's cosplay cafe launched in February 2012
Love & Struck were redesigned in May 2012
for Book Latte's Cosplay Cafe
Ai-chan was first launched in May 2012 for AI Expo This is her chibi form
Retter,the hero, one of the iconic mascots for the Heroes Vs. Villains in October 2012
Die Domina, the villain, the other icon for the October 2012 event
Love & Struck in a more kawaii look for the Cosplay Cafe in February 2013
"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
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