JPOP Manila  (formerly magnetic-rose.net) is everything Japanese Pop Culture, for Filipino fans.

Affiliations

• Contributor to regional Japanese Pop Culture portals SO Japan (formerly AFA Channel) and AFA Station since 2016.
• Official Affiliate of Anime Festival Asia since 2009.
• Official Affiliate of the Singapore Toy, Games & Comic Convention since 2009.
• Official Affiliate Cosplay Mania since 2008.

Accolades

• Winner of Best Blog at the Otaku Choice Awards by Pinoy Otaku Festival 2013.
• Finalist for Culture and Arts Category – National Level of the Philippine Blog Awards 2011.
• Winner of Culture and Arts Category – National Level of the Philippine Blog Awards 2009.
• Finalist for the Reader’s Choice Award – National Level of the Philippine Blog Awards 2009.
• Winner of the Animax Asia Last Exile Blogging Contest October 2011.
• Special Citation from the Akegarasu Haya Prize Essay Competition 2011.
• Winner of Animax Asia and Hong Kong Tourism Board Blogging Competition for 2010.
• Winner for Games and Gadgets Category of MTV Asia Blogging Competition 2009.

Other Highlights

• Interpreter and Personal Assistant of Mr Munetaka Aoki at the Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno Asia Premier in Manila 2012.
• Interpreter and Personal Assistant of Director Mahiro Maeda at the AXN Anime Festival 2001.

Owner and Publisher

Rochelle started blogging on LiveJournal in November 2001 to distract herself from the loneliness and isolation of college life in Tokyo.

Rochelle moved to Singapore in May 2016 to join SOZO, the organizer of Anime Festival Asia.

Rochelle has a Level 2 Japanese Language Proficiency Certificate and can now swear in Hokkien.