Yona Kuromatoki's Interactive Podcast Fan Favorite Awards 2024 x #YKPlatform10th Top Cosplays Rank Winners

It's the time of the year again for Yona's Blog in the Yuletide season because here are the winners for the Yona Kuromatoki's Interactive Podcast Fan Favorite Awards 2024 and the #YKPlatform10th Top Cosplays Rank!

But first, here are the list of winners for the Yona Kuromatoki's Interactive Podcast Fan Favorite Awards 2024:

Favorite Episode

1. "The Power of JaneNella 2.0: Electric Bonggaloo" - 28.6% (Winner)

2. "Pyonderful to You~! Satoru and Daifuku Toyama Appreciation!" - 25.7%

3. "United By Music, Now, Then and Forever! The Eurovision Song Contest 2024 Commentary" - 11.4%

Tie for 3rd Place: "Everyone's Friends! Wan, Wan, Wonderful! The Wonderful Pretty Cure! First Impressions" - 11.4%

Favorite Guest

1. Nightcat - 28.6% (Winner)

2. ThatOneLucarioFan - 17.1% (1st Runner-Up)

3. Yokio - 14.3% (2nd Runner-Up)

4. Mimi Arañez - 11.4% (3rd Runner-Up)

5. Dorian Gray - 8.6% (4th Runner-Up)

Favorite New Guest

1. Mimi Arañez - 25.7% (Winner)

2. Len - 17.1% (1st Runner-Up)

3. Yokio and Marco_G99 - 14.3% (Tie for 2nd Runner-Up)

4. ThatOneLucarioFan - 8.6% (4th Runner-Up)

And now, the moment that we all have been waiting for... the full and official tally for the #YKPlatform10th Top Cosplays Rank!

Thank you so much for voting and congratulations to all the winners and the participants of the two awards! You guys are all deserve the blessings received for 2024!

On behalf of this blog, I wish you all a wonderful Christmas and an idolish 2025! Till the next YKIP Fan Favorite Awards and the YK Platform Top Cosplays Rank, lads!

#YKPlatform10th Top Cosplays and Yona Kuromatoki’s Interactive Podcast Fan Favorite Awards 2024

Hallo again, YKPers! I apologize once more for not posting new content on the blog because of various ganaps for the past five months. But now we’re so back again and again, so it’s about time for the coolest events of the year - the Yona Kuromatoki’s Interactive Podcast Fan Favorite Awards 2024 and the #YKPlatform10th Top Cosplays Special Awards!

For the first time in seven years, we’re gonna bring back the top cosplays rank to celebrate the platform’s tenth anniversary and after a few weeks of deliberation, we internally select 15 characters that mark both its first ten years of existence and my first 15 years of cosplaying. But before revealing who’s who, the YKIP Fan Favorite Awards this year will consist of the first 11 episodes of and guests featured in Yona Kuromatoki’s Interactive Podcast 4F and what’s more, we have a new addition that is the Favorite New Guest category. Without further ado, here are the list of nominees for the three categories for the award!

Favorite Episode

1. “Honey Flash! A Golden Fiesta for Cutie Honey!”

2. “In Fiercely Full Bloom! Power of Hope ~PreCure Full Bloom~ Impressions”

3. “Soarly Fly Together!!!!! The Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure Overall Impressions”

4. “The Power of JaneNella 2.0: Electric Bonggaloo”

5. “Everyone’s Friends! Wan, Wan, Wonderful! The Wonderful Pretty Cure! First Impressions”

6. “United by Music, Now, Then and Forever! The Eurovision Song Contest 2024 Commentary”

7. “Queers and the Challenges of Society”

8. “Ready? Game Start! Road to Wonderful Pretty Cure! The Movie!”

9. “Gearin’ Up with the Gearsoul Productions Fam!”

10. “Cosplay, Politics and Society”

11. “Pyonderful to You~! Satoru and Daifuku Toyama Appreciation!”

Favorite Guest

1. Marco_G99

2. Cure Chronos

3. Dandy Basil

4. Dorian Gray

5. Yokio 

6. Nightcat 

7. Len

8. Alf aka Mita Futaba 

9. Mimi Arañez

10. ThatOneLucarioFan

Favorite New Guest

1. Marco_G99

2. Cure Chronos

3. Dandy Basil

4. Dorian Gray

5. Yokio 

6. Len

7. Alf aka Mita Futaba 

8. Mimi Arañez

9. ThatOneLucarioFan

And now, the moment that we’ve all been waiting for… Here the 15 cosplays that mark both my first 15 years of cosplaying and the first ten years of the YK Platform who’re battling for the top spot!

1. Shana (Shakugan no Shana, first debuted in 2009)

2. Hayate Ayasaki (Hayate the Combat Butler!, first debuted in 2013)

3. Seiji Sagara (Happiness Charge Pretty Cure!, first debuted in 2014)

4. Yui Nanase (Go! Princess Pretty Cure, first debuted in 2015)

5. Reina Kousaka (Hibike! Euphonium, first debuted in 2017)

6. Haruhi Fujioka (Ouran High School Club, first debuted in 2017)

7. Kobayashi (Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid, first debuted in 2017)

8. Pikario/Rio Kuroki/Cure Waffles (KiraKira Pretty Cure A La Mode, first debuted in 2018)

9. 13th Doctor (Doctor Who, first debuted in 2018)

10. Emiru Aisaki/Cure Macherie (HUGtto! Pretty Cure, first debuted in 2022)

11. Hizuru Minakata (Summer Time Rendering, first debuted in 2023)

12. Takumi Shinada/Black Pepper (Delicious Party Pretty Cure, first debuted in 2023)

13. Evangeline Burton (Birdie Wing ~Golf Girls’ Story~, first debuted in 2023)

14. Ellee/Cure Majesty (Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure, first debuted in 2024)

15. Satoru Toyama (Wonderful Pretty Cure!, first debuted in 2024)

To vote for both awards, we’ll open the Google Forms for YKIPFFA 2024 and #YKPlatform10th Top Cosplays within before Halloween or after the Undas break so please watch out. Also, get your gadgets ready because the four highest number of votes in these two online polls will be crowned for all four categories. As with last year, the voting will end on December 15 and the winners will be revealed on Xmas Day, December 25, on the blog.

May among the coolest chaps and the episodes mentioned take the four grand tokens, so we wish them the best of luck!

Update: The YKIPFFA 2024 and #YKPlatform10th Top Cosplays Rank online votings are now out on Google Forms, so please go to these webpages and start voting!

Yona Kuromatoki's Interactive Podcast Fan Favorite Awards 2024 Online Voting

#YKPlatform10th Top Cosplays Rank Online Voting

Yona Kuromatoki's Interactive Podcast Fan Favorite Episode and Guest Awards 2023 Winners and Honorable Mentions

 

Hallo everyone! I apologize again for not posting new content on my blog due to work and engaging in various ganaps for the past two months, as well as being busy for the Yona Kuromatoki's Interactive Podcast Year-End Special 2023. But we're back to business once again coz, thanks to your votes, we'll reveal the winners, and some honorable mentions, for the first Yona Kuromatoki's Interactive Podcast Fan Favorite Episode and Guest Awards!

Favorite Season One Episode (Note: Bold letters state the winner of the category)

1. "Yona's Random Rambles 2021" - 33.3%
2. "RIVER by MNL48 Fan Commentary and Impressions" - 33.3% (tied for first place)
3. "Why Do We Love Cure Grace?" - 16.7%
4. "Mid-Season Pretty Cures Look Backs! Road to Cure La Mer Part 1" - 16.7% (tied for second place)

Honorable Mentions

• "Yona's Doctor Who Fan Experiences So Far"
• "20/20 Vision! Up~on the Graceful Future! The Yona Kuromatoki Year-End Special 2020 Part 1"
• "#HealinGoodSakalam! The Yona Kuromatoki's Interactive Podcast Tribute to Healin' Good Pretty Cure Part 4: The Woman Who Chimed to Earth
• "Girls Can Be Heroes Too!"
• "#HealinGoodSakalam! The Yona Kuromatoki's Interactive Podcast Tribute to Healin' Good Pretty Cure Part 1: Our Amazing Grace"

Favorite Season Two Episode

1. "365 Araw ng YKIP x Sayonara Thirteen: The Prelude - Road to Regeneration" - 33.3%
2. "The Thasmin Effect on Queer Culture" - 16.7%
3. "#YonaXXIX and A Decade of Symphogear" - 16.7% (tied for second place)
4. "Doctor Who, Leni Robredo and the Negastar Army" - 16.7% (tied for second place)
5. "YKIP All Axezz Chapter Zero: Tropical Flux! PTAA Travel Trade Expo 2021!" - 16.7% (tied for second place)

Honorable Mentions

• "Trese and the Filipino Geek Culture"
• "1, 2 Kuru Jump~! The Mewkledreamy Talks!"
• "Cures Summer and La Mer Appreciation"
• "Red and Blue Oceans in Modern Society"
• "Anong Gentle, Gentle?! It's Cure Finale!!"

Favorite Part 3.0 Episode

1. "It's Krejza! It's Majestic! Thoughts on Our 78th Main Pretty Cure Hero!" - 16.7%
2. "The Power of JaneNella" - 16.7% (tied for first place)
3. "Is Bad Publicity Still Publicity?" - 16.7%
4. "Sayonara Thirteen! The Power of the Doctor Commentary" - 16.7% (tied for second place)
5. "What the Hell is the Eurovision Song Contest?!" - 16.7%
6. "Five Glorious Years of MNL48" - 16.7% (tied for third place)

Honorable Mentions

• "The Golf Gals and the Space Mecha Gals"
• "Fukkatsu! The Road to Pretty Cure All Stars F!"
• "Let Our Precious Moments Lead!! The Yona Kuromatoki's Interactive Podcast Year-End Special 2022"
• "#PreCure20th Specials Part Two: The Party Goes On Forever! Our Delicious Party♡Pretty Cure Impressions and Commentary!"
• "Six Decades of Adventure in Space and Time"

Favorite Recurring Guest

1. Christian Quilala
2. Andrea "Drei" Labastilla (tied for first place)
3. Jackson "Blazeix" Jordan
4. Nathaniel Vergara (tied for second place)

Favorite Season One and Two Guest

1. The Roaming Historyador - 33.3%
2. Dina aka Raspberry Cremé - 33.3% (tied for first place)
3. Christian Quilala - 16.7%
4. DregenScarletBloom - 16.7% (tied for second place)

Honorable Mentions

• Jay Agonoy
• Nightcat
• Usapang Cosplay Podcast
• Jackson "Blazeix" Jordan
• Charlie aka sheregenerated

Favorite Part 3.0 Guest

1. Philip Miguel Garcia - 33.3%
2. Leigh Craddock - 16.7%
3. JG Ramos - 16.7% (tied for second place)
4. NeraTheodore - 16.7%
5. David Seery - 16.7% (tied for third place)

Honorable Mentions

• Louie Aguinaldo
• Jernard aka Bern Bear
• ElectricAura
• Andrea "Drei" Labastilla

Congratulations to the first set of winners for the YKIP Favorite Episode and Guest Awards despite some tie-breaks! Your contribution and efforts to the podcast won't be wasted and useless, and you also made it more interesting throughout its three-year run. You guys are very welcome to come back to this silly but amazing podcast show and hoping to hear you all again in the future episodes.

Again, shout out to those who are voted for their favorites and thank you for spending your time to do it!

See ya all at the Yona Kuromatoki's Interactive Podcast Fan Favorite Episode and Guest Awards 2024, and we will wish you a very soaring sky Christmas and a wonderful new year, YKIPers!

It's Krejza! It's Majestic! Introducing Cure Majesty!

On September 3 and 10, 2023, fans of the Pretty Cure series from all over the planet have been witnessed the birth of the fifth Hirogaru Sky Pretty Cure that is Ellee, the Sky Land princess who is also known as the Child of Destiny, transforming into Cure Majesty for the first time.

Following these two weeks of surprised excitement and anticipation, Aoi Koga (Shouko Komi in Komi Can't Communicate, Ange Le Carre in Princess Principal, Kaguya Shinomiya in Kaguya-sama: Love is War and Yuri Miyata in Two Car) has already been taking over from Ai Kayano, the woman who played Amane Kasai aka Cure Finale in the global action magical superhero show's previous season Delicious Party, as the fourth exclusive additional and the first late season Cure in the Reiwa era, and also the first since Ako Shirabe aka Cure Muse. Despite these slight changes, Ellee's birthday will still be on March 12.

Continuing the current season's groundbreaking trends as with her teammates-slash-surrogate family, Ellee is also the youngest canonically main Cure and the first mascot-turned-Cure who doesn't automatically default to a human form around the same age as the heroes.

In an interview from Anehime, Koga expresses her reason of becoming a voice actor through the franchise, and wanting to be part of it and its expanding history since childhood.

"As a child back then, I admired Futari wa PreCure, and after wanting to become a voice actor, I said to myself, 'I want to be in the PreCure series someday!', 'I want to become a Pretty Cure someday!' became my dream and goal.

That's why PreCure is a dream, a goal, and an admiration! Even now that I get to play the role of Cure Majesty, my feelings of admiration haven't changed, and I want to cherish this feeling."

The seiyuu also stresses about the stereotypes at the time of the first Cure season's airing, but then she said that with the season, it's okay for girls to be cool, refreshing to see fighting through it and it was also cool to see them working hard for their loved ones and friends.

Koga also said that her favorite Cure is Nagisa Misumi aka Cure Black, the first hero and leader, due to being lively and has a strength that makes everyone want to follow her naturally, and the coolness that makes decisions to which she admires. She even learned about lacrosse because of Nagisa and the latter was the key to steadily overcome her shyness as a kid.

What do you think about Aoi Koga as Ellee and Cure Majesty? What are your thoughts about the mythical hero so far? Let us know in the comments section on the blog, and our FB page, our Instagram and the Yona Kuromatoki's Interactive Podcast X accounts.

Interview source: https://cocreco.kodansha.co.jp/anehime/news/interview/HAOLN