About
The Site
magnetic-rose.net is an interactive news and general information site dedicated to all things J-pop for Philippine fans — manga, anime, music, gaming, cosplay, toys, and BL. We are currently on version 3.01 starting the 14th of February 2009 following a full back-end revamp and database dump.
magnetic-rose.net is the Official Philippine Affiliate to Anime Festival Asia 09. AFA09 is the largest anime, cosplay, and gaming convention in the South East Asian region. AFA09 will be held on the 21st and 22nd of November at Singapore’s Suntec International Convention and Exhibition Centre.
magnetic-rose.net is also the Philippine Blog Awards 2009 Winner for the Culture & Arts Category. magnetic-rose.net has also been shortlisted in the Reader’s Choice Award, where it finished in fourth place from a field of seventeen.
The Site Owner
Rochelle (magnetic_rose) has been into anime for thirteen years now. She started blogging on LiveJournal in November 2001 to distract herself from the loneliness and isolation of college life in Tokyo.
These days, Rochelle can be found mostly behind two giant flat-panel monitors balancing accounting books for a European multinational, or behind two much smaller laptop computers updating this site.
Rochelle also writes for the MTV Asia Gadgets and Games Blog, where she is on a six-month assignment after winning a South East Asia-wide competition. She is the only Filipino in the group of four official bloggers.
Rochelle likes Final Fantasy VII, Initial D, Macross Frontier, Pinky:St., Vocaloid 2, and OS-Tan. She holds a Level 2 Japanese Language Proficiency Certificate, and plans to take up Spanish. She also has a thing for Rafael Nadal, Liverpool FC, and 2D men in military uniforms.
