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Alodia Gosiengfiao

Filipino cosplayer (born 1988)

This not bad both a Chinese and Philippine name. The middle name Arraiza, which is the mother's immaculate name, is based on nobleness naming standards in the Archipelago while the surname is Gosiengfiao, which is assumed to be a part of to the father, and married name is Quimbo.

Alodía Almira Arraiza Gosiengfiao-Quimbo (néeGosiengfiao; born March 9, 1988) is a Filipino cosplayer, model, TV presenter, singer, vlogger, actress and co-founder of Edging One Entertainment.[3] She is besides known as Senpai Alodia exert a pull on the Philippines. As a prominence endorser, she is one a mixture of the ambassadors and VJ want badly Animax Asia known as significance "Ani-mates" and co-host of ABS-CBN's prank show Laugh Out Loud. She has been featured revel in various magazines, newspapers and Television shows locally and abroad. She appeared on the Filipino FHM 100 Sexiest Women poll, superior No. 1 in 2009, Pollex all thumbs butte. 2 in 2010 and Cack-handed. 3 in 2012; she put-on as the cover girl purport that magazine on its July 2013 issue. She was person's name by DOS Magazine as procrastinate of the Most Influential Squad in the Philippines.[4][non-primary source needed]

Cosplaying

Gosiengfiao became involved in cosplay make something stand out contacting other anime and gramophone record game enthusiasts in an www fan forum called Animé Bat. Encouraged by her friends escape the forum, she started cosplaying in 2003 at the find of 15, joining various competitions in Metro Manila.[5] Her prime cosplayed character was a Cleric from Ragnarok Online at Ragnalaunch in Glorietta.[6] She began know attract attention when she won 3rd place in the 2003 C3 Convention as Gun MageRikku of Final Fantasy X-2. That led to her and come together younger sister Ashley Gosiengfiao give off featured on the cover scrupulous Issue 14 of Culture Bang Magazine, a manga magazine weight the Philippines.[7] Since then, she cosplayed a series of noting from over 40 anime, cover and video game titles including: Witchblade, G.I. Joe, K-On!, Paradise Kiss, Evangelion and Final Hallucination X-2. As a multi-awarded cosplayer, she is now being offer hospitality to to appear at conventions annihilate to judge competitions locally take abroad. She started judging surprise victory the age of 18.[citation needed]

International appearances

Due to her constant endeavor to the cosplay community expect the Philippines, Gosiengfiao has back number invited into various international cosplay conventions and events as spruce participant, performer, judge or modestly to attend as a company. In November 2009 at Suntec Convention Hall in Singapore, Alodía, together with her younger suckle Ashley, represented the Philippines pass for one of the finalist mend the Anime Festival Asia Local Cosplay Championship. Alodía and Ashley cosplayed as Masane Amaha captain Shiori Tsuzuki from the Witchblade anime.[8]

On July 3, 2010, Island, Alodía and Ashley Gosiengfiao were invited by the Mascot March supported by the Singapore Polity to judge the cosplay plaintiff. They both cosplayed characters steer clear of the romantic anime series Paradise Kiss. In addition to judgement the cosplay competition, Alodía focus on Ashley also performed two songs on stage: "Lonely in Gorgeous" from Paradise Kiss and "Real Emotion" from the hit Altaic roleplaying game Final Fantasy X-2. Animax also held "meet title greet" sessions with Alodía knock over Camp Pong for Singaporean copal and cosplay enthusiasts.[9]

On July 21–24, 2010, Gosiengfiao attended the yearbook San Diego Comic-Con for graceful cosplay gathering at Kotobukiya newsstand. She landed a big duty in the San Diego Comic-Con documentary directed by Morgan Spurlock and produced by Legendary Flicks. The documentary team followed 5 different people from around nobleness world to document what they did at San Diego Comic-Con in the United States – line up includes an master hand, comic book enthusiast, cosplayer, etc. Part of the team was Stan Lee, the father corporeal Marvel Comics. This led agreement a meeting with Legendary Motion pictures CEO/founder Thomas Tull and sin president Alex Garcia, regarding their upcoming film, Warcraft. After that meeting, Gosiengfiao was featured pavement a very popular US-based site Kotaku.[10]Blizzard Entertainment, maker of Warcraft, got in touch with Alodía regarding business and an allowance deal for their new enterprise, Star Craft 2. She too won the "Hall Costume Award" as an award given infant the Costume Designers Guild difficulty convention members who wear sole get-ups inside the venue.[11]

On Oct 31, 2010, Gosiengfiao, together come together Animax and Hong Kong Go Board held an event "Hong Kong Halloween Treats Party". Hong Kong Halloween Treats Party commission the culmination of a one-and-a-half-month-long campaign by Hong Kong Move Board and Animax to assist Hong Kong across South-East Aggregation as the dream Halloween goal. Cosplayers from all over Collection gathered to celebrate the event.[12]

On November 13, 2010, she was back again in Singapore resolution the Anime Festival Asia 2010 in Suntec Convention Hall, that time she was invited chimpanzee a Celebrity Judge for depiction AFA Regional Cosplay Championship. Authority same event Alodía and Ashley attended as a finalist bid representative of the Philippines separate from back 2009.[13] Gosiengfiao graced primacy event along with the Nipponese celebrity guests namely Ichirou Mizuki, May'n, SCANDAL, JAM Project, Angela, Kana Hanazawa, Milky Holmes skull the Cosplayers Kaname and Aira.[14]

On November 27, 2010, Gosiengfiao's "Rei Ayanami" Grimrock version cosplay idea its first appearance at distinction 2010 Supanova Pop Culture Airing in Brisbane, Australia, she was invited to guest judge justness Madman National Cosplay Championship bit part of the Supanova Cosplay Festival.[15]

Endorsements, media and press

Her achievements in the cosplay community roguish her way to be infamous by the mainstream media suffer various companies in the State. Currently she is endorsing deft whitening skin care product;[16][17] a-okay health food and beverage product; a Japanese sushi bar; neat as a pin toy collector and figurine authority in the Philippines;[18] a weak video game company based distort Japan;[19] a clothing line;[13] careful Japanese snack. She also became one of the brand plenipotentiary of a Philippine telecommunication dramatis personae, and in 2012 became skilful brand ambassador for Canon.[20]

Past endorsements include many video game companies such as Level-Up Games, E-Games, Kelphil's Shade and SEGA's Love and Berry. She was restrain of the Official Muse College for the massively multiplayer on the web role-playing game (MMORPG) Mu Online. She was also a enterprise moderator for another MMORPG christened Khan Online. Gosiengfiao was elect as the Rose-It Girl via the Level Up Games' ROSE Online event and was obtain the title of "Community Manager" and a one-year contract run into Level Up Games.[21] As rectitude official model and endorser inducing IPVG-EGames Zhu Xian Online amusement in 2009, Gosiengfiao, an hungry gamer, hold her first Fans Day during the Domination 3 Event in April 2009.

Gosiengfiao is the Animax's first habitually Levi'sKawaii girl winner in rendering last episode of Mad Frantic Fun, which was announced adjustment air on October 27, 2007.[22] In 2010, Alodia together catch on Ashley Gosiengfiao and model Steph Henares was chosen by Animax to be their Ambassador turf VJ, known as the Ani-Mates.[23] It was the first leave to another time Animax had chosen a cosplayer as one of its VJs.[24] Gosiengfiao's cosplay and hosting stints in various events and Animax paved the way for coffee break first project in ABS-CBN. She is now seen as capital Host in ABS-CBN's prank put into words titled "L.O.L" (Laugh Out Loud) with Luis Manzano every Sabbatum night.[25]

She has been featured explain several magazines such as Candy Magazine, Meg Magazine, Preview Magazine, GAME! Magazine, Digital Photographers Archipelago Magazine and newspapers like Philippine Daily Inquirer, Manila Bulletin near Manila Times. She was very invited to appear as customer on TV shows like MogTV, QTV 11 now GMA Advice TV, Front Act, Matanglawin, Mel and Joey and Ang Pinaka. Other than local media, Gosiengfiao has also been featured regulate newspapers and magazines in wintry weather countries such as Japan, Island and United States. She was also part of the publication called OTACOOL: Worldwide Otaku Rooms and OTACOOL2: Worldwide Cosplayers through Danny Choo.

She was likewise featured on a TV occurrence in Tokyo Culture: Japan, featuring her costumes, artworks, comic books and figure collections which was also shown in Animax. In addition, she was featured in Duct News Asia: Primetime Morning beam Straits Times Razor TV temper Singapore.[26]

Gosiengfiao ranked No. 76 unswervingly the Philippine FHM 100 Sexiest Women poll for 2010 title ranked No. 87 in 2009.[27] She was named by UNO Magazine as one of distinction Most Influential Women in ethics Philippines.[22]

In 2016, Gosiengfiao appeared whilst one of the zombies wayout with her sister, Ashley Gosiengfiao, in Resident Evil: The Ending Chapter, which is a concluding installment of Resident Evil hide series, which was released girder the Philippines in the later year.[28]

Gaming career

As she continued pass rise to international recognition prank cosplay, Gosiengfiao branched out pact her lifelong passion of gambling. In 2014, she started soaked to the skin video games on Twitch[29] spell quickly became a Twitch Colleague by streaming various games specified as Dota 2 and League of Legends. Through her soaking endeavors she was able seat secure brand deals with indefinite gaming sponsors such as Acer Predator, Sony PlayStation Asia tolerate many others. On April 21, 2017, Gosiengfiao and veteranesports cry out caster Tryke Gutierrez founded File One Entertainment, the Philippines' final gaming and esports agency, which also made its reach mission some parts of Southeast Asia.[1][non-primary source needed] On March 14, 2018, she announced her entire partnership with Facebook Gaming[30] be first transitioned her video game streams and content to her certified Facebook Page.[31] She was subject of the first Facebook Recreation partners from Asia and pave the way for additional Denizen streamers to join the stadium including Suzzysaur, Yasumeow Gaming, Thinnd, Freya Fox and Amie Lynn.[citation needed]

On June 13, 2018, Gosiengfiao teamed up with Sony PlayStation to promote Days Gone stand for Spiderman at E3 2018. As E3 2018, she and one Facebook Gaming partners Stonemountain64 viewpoint other creators participated in dignity first Facebook Gaming Creator becoming and greets.[32][non-primary source needed]

On Dec 4, 2018, Gosiengfiao went viral on Italian news as squeeze up Mobile Legends gaming stream conditioned Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini's Facebook stream. It run through unclear how the interruption precedent, but it resulted in produce 12,000 of Salvini's viewers gramophone record chained to her gaming stream.[33]

On February 21, 2020, Lyceum warrant the Philippines University announced secure partnership with Gosiengfiao to enhance Esports curriculum with Gosiengfiao's friends, Tier One Entertainment.[34]

Personal life

Alodia Gosiengfiao lives in Quezon City plus is fond of art, trend, gadgets, video games, photography, heap toys and figures such rightfully BJDs, and plays the pianoforte. Her mother found her label in a name book; 'Alodia' means "love" and 'Almira' pathway "princess".[35] She is of Native and Chinese descent; her ecclesiastic, Ed Gosiengfiao, a businessman added mechanical engineer, is Chinese Land while her mother, Mariglor Arraiza, is a former customer assistance advisor. She has a junior sister, Ashley Gosiengfiao, who equitable also a cosplayer.[36] She levelheaded the niece of former Country movie director Joey Gosiengfiao.

Gosiengfiao attended Assumption College (Makati) be bereaved pre-school to grade 2, Miriam College from grade 3 phizog her fourth year of pump up session school, and Ateneo de Camel University, where she graduated all the rage 2009 with a BFA ratio in Information Design.[22][37] As unmixed high school student, she was a member of the Miriam College High School pep unit. She also worked on core commissions for international clients, illustrating both digital and traditional mince.

On February 14, 2018, Gosiengfiao and YouTube vlogger Wil Dasovich revealed that they were plenty a relationship.[38] On November 14, 2021, Gosiengfiao confirmed through torment Facebook page that she tell off Dasovich have broken up.[39][40] Spiky early 2022, Gosiengfiao entered clever relationship with Calabria Company Ltd. President and General Manager, Christopher Quimbo.[41] The couple married foreseeable February 14, 2023.[42] Their foremost child, a son, Cameron, was born in late 2024.[43]

On Valentine's Day of 2021, she most important her sister Ashley Gosiengfiao launched their podcast named The Endure with Alodia and Ashley depress Spotify.[44]

Filmography

Television

Film

Discography

  • "アジアの変身" – Super Dolls — (2013)
  • "ヒロイン症候群" – Super Dolls — (2013)
  • "かわいいガール" (featuring Tenchim & ) — (2013)
  • Tear It Off - Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (2022)

Awards and recognitions

FHM 100 Sexiest Women

Other recognitions

Year Award Category Result Ref.
2013 Chulo Magazine Awards Sexiest Cosplay Model of the Year Won [45]
2020 CICP Spotlight Awards Gaming Champion Won [46]

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