Days may have passed after APCC, but a lot of people are still having that post-con depression. The biggest one who’s having it is surprisingly the Internet. What’s causing it? None other than our local cosplayers and fans’ organizing the Boku No Hero (My Hero Academia) fan meet.

The famous anime that started from the Weekly Shonen Jump manga has won people’s hearts around the world. It’s nominated as the Best Anime Series in IGN for two consecutive years already. What started as a small project by a handful of anime fans turned into something that broke the Internet. The local gathering is still getting upvotes on Reddit. The fan gathering is still trending on both the My Hero Academia and the cosplay subreddit. They had professional Italian cosplayer Leon Chiro as All Might and Filipino-American cosplayer Canvas Cosplay as Eraserhead. With great local cosplayers to inviting two huge names in the cosplaying scene, they’ve organized a gathering that was beyond anyone’s wildest dreams.

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Curious on how these local fans got the Internet screaming “Plus ultra!” still? We sat down with one of the local fanboys that started it all. We asked local cosplayer and member of Fightsaber Philippines Cholo Tolentino (Deku cosplayer) on how they pulled off a fan meet up that accidentally blew up on a global scale.

All Might Chant Our #1 hero All Might (Leon Chiro) made a chant for us and we're feeling pretty heroic now 🤩😭 Posted by Funimation on Sunday, August 5, 2018

When did the idea to do the meetup start?

The idea began after an earlier pop culture convention (ToyCon) ended. My girlfriend, Reg Velez (Uravity cosplayer), and I were resting on the side. We’re talking about how fun it would be if it wasn’t just the two of us going around in full BNHA hero suits. As if on cue, a good friend of ours, Sean Price (Ingenium cosplayer), passed by to say hello. And we both shouted in unison “Sean, please be our Iida!” From there, we decided to make a group and started inviting some of our friends.

We ended up with a core team. This included Zack Tolosa (Todoroki), Roxanne Kho (Momo), and Elijah Tolosa (Tokoyami cosplayer). I then posted a thread on my wall about our lineup and interested cosplayers started pouring in! In no time, we had over 40 people involved. What really hyped everyone up was the fact that both Canvas Cosplay and Leon Chiro acknowledged the budding gathering on Instagram.

For a local anime fan gathering, this could make local con history.