Alodia Gosiengfiao is fast becoming a familiar name in the international cosplaying circuit, renowned for her alluring appearance and exceptional costumes. Residing in the Philippines, she’s also an artist, model, blogger, performer, pianist, figure collector and BJD (ball-jointed doll) enthusiast. She graduated year 2009 from the Ateneo de Manila University with a BFA in Information Design degree.

As finalist and representative of the Philippines for the AFA Regional Cosplay Championship 2009, Alodia and sister Ashley cosplayed as Amaha Masane & Shiori Tsuzuki from the anime Witchblade in November 2009. Again, they won the hearts of Singaporeans with their elaborate costumes and acrobatic fight scene. The competition judge Kaname, a popular Japanese cosplayer, awarded them with high scores.

Currently dubbed as the "Cosplay Queen/Princess" of the Philippines, she has brought Cosplay to a higher level. Mainstream media now considers cosplaying as a form of art. SM(Shoemart), Philippines’ number one chain of shopping malls, recently concluded their SM Cyberzone Cosplay Tour with Alodia as one of the competition judges.To this date, she has a following of more than 130,000+ fans in Facebook (www.facebook.com/AlodiaGosiengfiao) and over 4 million page views in her Deviantart (http://blackmage9.deviantart.com) account.

"Follow your passion" are Alodia’s words of wisdom. For more of Alodia's photos and blog entries, please visit www.alodiagosiengfiao.com or www.facebook.com/AlodiaGosiengfiao