Yona Kuromatoki Platform Logo to Rebrand in January 2027

 

The current Yona Kuromatoki logo has been consistently used since 2017, the longest serving in the indie media entity's history

Happy new year, YKPers! Thank you for supporting me and the Yona Kuromatoki Platform for 2025 and the preceding years!

We would like to formally announce that the Yona Kuromatoki Platform logo will undergo a rebrand starting January 1, 2027. This move is to keep with the changing times for the global market while still maintaining our core values that the platform has been doing since its inception in 2014. Thus, the logos for Yona Kuromatoki's Interactive Podcast and the Yona Kuromatoki All Axezz online content series will also be rebranded, with the former will be started with the upcoming Anthology 6 season's second half next year.

During the one-year transition period, the permanent slogan, Sama-Sama I-Angat ang Lahat, will remain, and the 2026 secondary tagline, Building Bridges is the Answer!, will be the last under the current logo. The reveal of the new Yona Kuromatoki Platform logo will be slated this October to coincide with YKIP's sixth and my 17th cosplay anniversaries, yet the rebrand transition proper will be fully commenced by the new year of 2027 along with the new slogan, so kindly keep in touch to our socials in the coming weeks leading up to it.

For nearly a decade, the red, blue, and yellow colored mic, which represents the Philippines' three islands - Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, has been synonymous with the current Yona Kuromatoki Platform, and throughout various changes beginning with its immediate predecessors: the Yona Kuromatoki Cosplay Page (2017-19) and the Yona Kuromatoki Page (2019-23). It also features in all but two year end specials since 2017, with the 2025 edition being the most recent, and the upcoming 2026 one will be its swan song, as well as being used for both YKIP and YK All Axezz online content series.

Even with the impending logo rebrand, your support and appreciation remain the same, and we'd like to extend your understanding and patience regarding the transition. In the meantime, let's make more memories by looking forward for the cons and ganaps that I'll be attending for the year, and please watch out for the 2026 Year Opener Video on the last week of this month, the first since 2019.

This is Yona Kuromatoki, maraming salamat po!

Yona Kuromatoki's Interactive Podcast Fan Favorite Awards 2025 & Yona Kuromatoki Platform Top Cosplays Rank 2025 Winners

 

It's the time of the year once again for Yona's Blog in the Yuletide season because here are the winners for the Yona Kuromatoki's Interactive Podcast Fan Favorite Awards 2025 and the Yona Kuromatoki Platform Top Cosplays Rank 2025!

But first, here are the list of winners for the Yona Kuromatoki's Interactive Podcast Fan Favorite Awards 2025:

Favorite 4F Episode

1. "SatoIro: Pretty Cure's Wonderful Power Couple!" - 50%

2. "And the Next Piece Begins" - 27.30%

3. "KaiRain, Bahay ni Kuya's Hottest Yuri Pair?!" - 22.7%

Favorite Let's La a Go!!!!! Episode

1. "20 Years of the 48G and the 'Oh my pumpkin!' Impressions" - 13.6%

2. "Absolute Warrior Divas! The Princession Orchestra First Impressions" - 9.1%

3. "Road to the 70th! The Eurovision Song Contest 2025 Commentary!" - 4.5%

Favorite Guest

1. Miguel Pacquing - 22.7%

2. OriginalFish3 - 13.6%

3. Yakuma - 9.5%

4. Marco_G99 - 4.5%

Favorite New Guest

1. Warrick Studios - 27.3%

2. Yonesobi - 18.2%

3. Biribiri - 13.6%

4. The Anime Binge-Watcher - 13.6% (tie)

And now, the moment that we all have been waiting for... the full and official tally for the Yona Kuromatoki Platform Top Cosplays Rank 2025!

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 2025!

On behalf of this blog, I wish you all a kirakilala Christmas and an answerable 2026! Till the next YKIP Fan Favorite Awards and the YK Platform Top Cosplays Rank, guys and vadengs!

Yona Kuromatoki Platform Top Cosplays Rank 2025 and YKIP Fan Favorite Awards 2025

Hallo again, YKPers! I apologize once more for not posting new content on the blog because of various ganaps for the past three months. But now we’re so back again and again, this time for the two coolest events of the year - the Yona Kuromatoki’s Interactive Podcast Fan Favorite Awards and the Yona Kuromatoki Platform Top Cosplays Rank!
 
Much like last year aka the 10^th Anniversary fiesta, we once again internally selected 17 cosplays (an additional two from 15 in 2024), this time, that define the Filipino cosplay community’s 25^th anniversary. Unfortunately, some of them are out and replaced by both new and returning ones, in addition to reigning champ Cure Majesty (Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure) to defend the title. As for the YKIP Fan Favorite Awards, much like 2023 and 2024, the 2025 and 5^th anniversary edition will consist the last three episodes of Yona Kuromatoki’s Interactive Podcast 4F, and the first eight episodes plus three special ones of Let’s La a Go!!!!!
 
For reference, here are the previous winners of the YKIP Fan Favorite Awards:
 
2023
 
Favorite Season One Episode: "Yona's Random Rambles 2021"
Favorite Season Two Episode: "365 Araw ng YKIP x Sayonara Thirteen: The Prelude - Road to Regeneration"
Favorite Part 3.0 Episode:  "It's Krejza! It's Majestic! Thoughts on Our 78th Main Pretty Cure Hero!" and “The Power of JaneNella”
Favorite Recurring Guest: Christian Quilala
Favorite Season One and Two Guest: The Roaming Historyador
Favorite Part 3.0 Guest: Philip Garcia and Andrea “Drei” Labastilla
 
2024
 
Favorite Episode: “The Power of JaneNella 2.0: Electric Bonggaloo”
Favorite Guest: Nightcat
Favorite New Guest: Mimi Arañez
 
Aaand without further ado, here are the nominees for the Yona Kuromatoki’s Interactive Podcast Fan Favorite Awards 2025!
 
Favorite 4F Episode
 
1. “KaiRain, Bahay ni Kuya’s Hottest Yuri Pair?!” (aired November 27, 2024)
2. “And the Next Piece Begins!” (aired December 10, 2024)
3. “SatoIro: Pretty Cure’s Wonderful Power Couple!” (aired January 24, 2025)
 
Favorite Let’s La a Go!!!!! Episode
 
1.“Yona Kuromatoki’s Interactive Podcast at PreCord PreCure Festival!” (aired February 2/5, 2025)
2. “Wan, Wan, Wonderful Forever~!!!!!! Our Wonderful Pretty Cure! Overall Impressions!” (aired February 27, 2025)
3. “The Rose of Versailles and the Still Relevance to Modern Society” (aired March 28, 2025)
4. “Sing, Dance and Fan Service! The You and Idol Pretty Cure♪ First Impressions” (aired April 23, 2025)
5. “Francis: Our People’s Pope” (aired May 9, 2025)
6. “Road to the 70^th! The Eurovision Song Contest 2025 Commentary” (aired May 31, 2025)
7. “Yes BanG Dream! Fever at Ten!!” (aired June 27, 2025)
8. “Habemus Curatus! Cures Zukyoon and Kiss!” (aired July 21, 2025)
9. “20 Years of the 48g and the ‘Oh my pumpkin!’ Impressions” (aired August 22, 2025)
10. “Thanks for Waiting! The Kirakilala Road to You and Idol Pretty Cure♪ The Movie!” (aired September 27, 2025)
11. “Absolute Warrior Divas! The Princession Orchestra First Impressions!” (aired October 23, 2025)
 
Favorite Guest
 
1. Yonesobi
2. The Anime Binge-Watcher
3. Yokio
4. OriginalFish3
5. ThatOneLucarioFan 
6. Yakuman
7. Miguel Pacquing
8. Marco_G99
9. Nightcat
10. Biribiri
11. Warrick Studios
 
Favorite New Guest
 
1. Yonesobi
2. The Anime Binge-Watcher
3. OriginalFish3
4. Yakuman
5. Miguel Pacquing
6. Biribiri
7. Warrick Studios

And finally, here are the 17 cosplays for this year’s Yona Kuromatoki Platform Top Cosplays Rank 2025! These guys have marked and shaped the first 25 years of the Filipino cosplay community and will battle for the top spot!
 
BOLD - reigning winner of the previous year
 
2000s
 
- Natsuko Aki (Cutie Honey)
- Haruhi Fujioka (Ouran High School Host Club)
 
2010s
 
- Yui Nanase (Go! Princess Pretty Cure)
- Gora Hakone/Maximum Gorar (Cute High Earth Defense Club)
- Reina Kousaka (Hibike! Euphonium)
- Pikario/Rio Kuroki/Cure Waffles (KiraKira Pretty Cure A La Mode)
- Kobayashi (Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid)
- Emiru Aisaki/Cure Macherie (HUGtto! Pretty Cure)
- 13^th Doctor (Doctor Who)
- Yasmin Khan (Doctor Who)
 
2020s
 
- Takumi Shinada/Black Pepper (Delicious Party Pretty Cure)
- Evangeline Burton (Birdie Wing ~Golf Girls’ Story~)
- Ellee/Cure Majesty (Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure)
- Komugi Inukai/Cure Wonderful (Wonderful Pretty Cure!)
- Satoru Toyama (Wonderful Pretty Cure!)
- Tomori Takamatsu (BanG Dream!)
- Purirun/Purin Tanaka/Cure Zukyoon (You and Idol Pretty Cure♪)

To vote for both awards, we’ll open the Google Forms for YKIPFFA 2025 and YK Platform Top Cosplays Rank 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 2025 and the YKPTCR 2025 online voting are now out on Google Forms, so kindly go to these sites and start voting NOW!!

YKIP Fan Favorite Awards 2025 Voting: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfdEtQJXe9fiUmOb72Yr9jynuYN9d15bkJ2t-eXgaTcKmN59g/viewform?pli=1&pli=1

YK Platform Top Cosplays Rank 2025 Voting: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd4rwnod3xT_P47DaGVhKSn4ju2_sMhzNJdp4RrRavSwT2bhg/viewform?pli=1&pli=1

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

The Manalili Mastersplan on the YKP 10th and Others

Like any other industry or multimedia franchise, it is important to know about what the plans are for the upcoming months and the things that are cooked for the fans and followers, and the Yona Kuromatoki Platform is no exception. Because I'm not only doing its tenth anniversary, which is celebrated this year besides my 15th cosplay one, but I also did two special cosplay lineup series from the previous year. But how the heck these plans have been really planned from the start?

Known as the Manalili Masterplan, I came up these ideas in mind shortly after the first Yona Kuromatoki's Interactive Podcast Part 3.0 episode in 2022 and originally had plans to solely focus on my 30th birth anniversary in 2023 and the preps for the platform's first decade in 2024. But when the Pretty Cure 20th anniversary festivities were kicking off so early (Delicious Party was the season aired at the time), then I took the opportunity to bring back something that I had done before - the Ultimate Pretty Cure Cosplay Line Up! The special cosplay lineup series was the first in YKP and introduced during the franchise's 15th anniversary, when the former was known as the Yona Kuromatoki Cosplay Page (2014-19) and later the Yona Kuromatoki Page during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic before rebranding once more to its present name. Then another iconic franchise would celebrate another milestone, Doctor Who, which would be turned 60th in that year, and I thought that it'd be great to have its first cosplay lineup series too.

Plans for the UPCCLU 2.0 made clear when Hirogaru Sky! would be the next season of Pretty Cure, so the thought of adding at least one new cosplay from the show would be a good addition to both promote it and spread the wholesome agenda in pop culture cons. The then upcoming cosplans were Laura/Cure La Mer (mermaid form ver.), Takumi Shinada/Black Pepper and Nagisa Misumi/Cure Black, in addition to the active cosplays like Seiji Sagara, Yui Nanase, Pikario/Rio Kuroki/Cure Waffles and Emiru Aisaki/Cure Macherie. However, only Black Pepper made a cosplay debut in Pinoy Otaku Festival 2023, while Cure Black would be retained for the 2024 cosplans alongside Nozomi Yumehara/Cure Dream (Otona PreCure ver., currently on the canvassing stage), Ellee/Cure Majesty (currently in progress) and Nodoka Hanadera/Cure Grace (currently on the plans). There were also plans to bring back Ako Shirabe/Cure Muse for the cosplay lineup series but it was ultimately scrapped due to constraints. Fortunately, its first phrase made a huge success thanks to the constant hype over the 20th anniversary and a second phrase is currently ongoing for the Wonderful! season and the YKP tenth anniversary, so there's a possibility to push the comeback still within this year.

Speaking of which, I also considered the 15th Doctor for the first Ultimate Doctor Who Cosplay Line Up alongside Thasmin aka the 13th Doctor and Yasmin Khan, but also met the same fate as Cure Muse unfortunately.

The initial plan for the UPCCLU 2.0 would be held at Otaku Expo Anime and Manga Drawing Special 2023 day 2 to coincide with the Delicious Party♡Pretty Cure finale, but because I already debuted Hizuru Minakata on that con, it was later moved to the Ozine Summer Fest 2023 TriNoma leg on the day after EDSA People Power Day and I thought it'd be a perfect time to celebrate HUGtto!'s fifth anniversary with Macherie! The aforementioned stuff weren't the only ones to consider, the much-awaited comebacks of my Seiji Sagara cosplay and Yui-Yui's winter casual outfit were also part of my plans for the cosplay lineup series and proved to be successful with minor revamps and newly acquired props.

As for the DWUCLU, I would still push 13 and Yaz for it at least to commemorate Who's 60th and it became a success, notably thanks to Cosplay Mania 2023 day 2 and the recent watchalong party organized by the Whovian Philippines group. But also, here's to more cosplays from the silly but very iconic blue box show.

The advanced and the belated namida surprise fiestas at cons for Waffles and Black Pep on the other hand were my ideas, but what's more interesting to know that the latter also coincided with the actual one of Makoto Kenzaki/Cure Sword last Sugoi Anime Fest 2023 at Robinsons Antipolo in Rizal Province, so that's that. When All Stars F was first announced in March, I was excited and decided to take that opportunity to bring up the hype as much as possible. Three months later, the first trailer came out and the special teams had been revealed! Due to that, the idea of a helpers group was born and it was taking inspiration from the companions group from Jodie Whittaker's last regular Doccy Who episode, The Power of the Doctor, but a Cure-esque twist. And so, the three special cosplay cards featuring Black Pep (representing Teams Sky and Prism), Yui-Yui (representing Team Wing and Majesty) and Waffles (representing Team Butterfly) were released for a limited time and debuted at CosHabatsu 2023 day 2.

I even said in the YKIP Part 3.0 penultimate episode that the early plans for the YKP 10th were on the works and one of which was planning to attend a Visayas or Mindanao con first then an international one next, in addition to the continuation of the YKIP Live Panels and a theme song for the year-long party, much like the ones of the anime industry centenary in 2017 and the Pretty Cure series in 2023. The logo for the aforementioned would be the same as the podcast's current season , 4F, and it was made as early as September with little adjustments. When Wonderful Pretty Cure! was officially unveiled, sinabay ko talaga 'yun with the YKP tenth anniversary logo and poof, surprise guys! :p

And oh, speaking of anniversaries, December 2023 came out and the theme slogan had been revealed shortly after the YKIP Year End Special with "Sama-Sama I-Angat ang Lahat! Onward to the Extremely Wonderful Decade!" and a pubmat for my Cosplay Carnival 2023 day 3 lineup with the anniversary logo. Then more than a month later aka shortly after the Hirogaru Sky! finale episode, the YKP tenth anniversary song would be "Fighter" performed by Tali. Not only this is the first time that a Eurovision song, specifically the current seasonal roster from a comeback participated country Luxembourg after a 31-year hiatus, is used for the aforementioned, but this is also technically the second non-English one to do so after MNL48's "First Rabbit," which was used for the platform's fifth anniversary in 2019. Both songs are dealing with the struggles and perseverance that us humans do everyday, but just with two different genres from east and west hehe. That aside, they're also related to me and how I deal with the suffering and despair, but with multiple drops of determination and hope, and used the latter to overcome the former.

Oof, looks like we've gotta end this long-ass essay on how the Manalili Masterplan came to life! But I do hope you guys enjoy reading it from start to finish and apologies for not posting on the vlog due to busy schedules. Till the next random ramble on Yona's Blog, fellas! 

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!

Sama-Sama I-Angat ang Lahat chosen as Yona Kuromatoki Platform permanent slogan, 10th anniversary logo officially unveiled

We are excited to announce that "Sama-Sama I-Angat ang Lahat" (Uplift Everyone Together) has been chosen as the slogan for the Yona Kuromatoki Platform's tenth anniversary in 2024 - and in the successive years. The secondary phrase of the permanent slogan itself meanwhile will be revealed sometime around late December 2023 or early January next year, just when the new Pretty Cure season's title will come out and it has became a traditional norm for the platform since 2017. But we can assure that it has the words "extreme" and "decade."

The slogan was created shortly after the release of the 2022 year-end special Let Our Precious Moments Lead!, the very first under the banner of the platform's flagship podcast show, Yona Kuromatoki's Interactive Podcast, with the phrase "Goin', Flyin' Up to the Sky!" on December 31 of that year and it was revealed on the YKP Facebook page on the first few hours of January 1, 2023.

Therefore, after almost seven years of using different slogans and as we approach YKP's tenth anniversary, it's surely about time to use a permanent one that symbolizes true unity, inclusivity, universality, equality and celebrating pop culture diversity. Moreover, it's in my native language, Filipino, and not just a kinda crazy play and spin on the two iconic and infamous slogans of the last Philippines general elections in 2022.

As the Yona Kuromatoki Platform continues to steadily evolving over the years, transforming from a cosplay page to a multimedia platform thanks to YKIP and its All Axezz expanded content series, and the inclusion of the creator's Tumblr account, YouTube channel and blog aka Yona's Blog plus the creation of the podcast's Twitter/X account under the single roof, we believe using the same slogan will help and improve our brand even further.

Even though the now permanent slogan is in Filipino, we can assure our followers and supporters across this planet about what it means, to uplift everyone from all walks of life together, with the unconditional power of pop culture love and appreciation. Plus to sum up, it's also referring to our staunch stance for proper inclusivity, equality and accessibility to all, no matter the shape, size, gender or nationality.

With this announcement, we are going to unveil the YKP tenth anniversary logo and will use for all pubmats, cosplay cards, vlogs and physical promotional materials for the entire 2024. It's different compare to the fifth anniversary logo that we used in 2019 though, but these color schemes symbolize creative diversity in the pop culture world by all shapes and sizes. The font use in it is Cyber Shape 3D, which is also used for the upcoming YKIP season 4F. Under the commemorative logo will be the permanent and secondary phrased slogans, so we're working on the other font that we're gonna be using and expecting to reveal in the coming weeks as well.

Right now, we are looking for ways on how to promote the YKP tenth anniversary year as well as other activities to look forward to such as the yearly YKIP Live, various guestings and engagements. Stay tuned to our social accounts as we're about to kick off another fiesta on the platform together with my 15th cosplay anniversary!