AFOSEA

Alternate Future of Southeast Asia, mostly known and abbreviated as **AFOSEA** , is a mapping/countryball series made by KB Mapping. It was first released on December 18, 2019. The series currently has 2 official seasons, 1 spin-off season, and 2 extension seasons.

### Seasons

3 (official), 2 (extension), 2 (spin-offs)

### Language

English, Chinese, Filipino, Other Southeast Asian languages

## History

Back in November 2018, KB wanted to make a full-mapping series for his YouTube channel. He then made *Alternate Future of the World: Frozen*, which was a unreleased deleted series that was unable to be uploaded back in December 2018.

Seeing it as a wasted opportunity, KB became inactive for the rest of the following year, only uploading a Flag Transition video of Afghanistan which was released back on May 2019. But still willing to make a mapping-related content for his channel, KB released East Timor in a nutshell on December 15, 2019, which is a 3-minute short meme video of East Timor getting triggered about the 2019 Southeast Asian Games for not winning a single gold-medal.

With the video's seemingly "successful" release, KB decided to take a next step further and modified the map and countryballs used for that video to create *AFOSEA*, a mapping series dedicated specifically for Southeast Asia. The first episode of AFOSEA was released 3 days after the East Timor video, on December 18, 2019. The pilot episode was heavily inspired from what was then Ken Mapper *(channel no longer exists)* and his own AFOSEA series, and the episode's plot revolved about the Southeast Asian countries' suspicions towards the People's Republic of China.

The pilot episode recieved very poor views for the rest of December, but the view count started to skyrocket in January and February the following year, and seeing this a new start for his channel, KB made an Episode 2, something which he hasn't done before in his other non-mapping series which were all one-off videos.

The issue with making the second Episode though was that KB had no script - He had to make an episode from scratch, with very poor equipment at the time to make it. So he thought about the mapping series he had watch a few years before, one of them being the Alternate Future of The World series by Zealandia Mapping. This series heavily (and mostly) inspired KB's future episodes and the Season itself, something which he got constant criticism about. He did not expect that AFOSEA would turn out to be a fantasy mapping series, a genre of mapping which is rarely used by other mappers, usually hated and called as "edgy", but KB decided to go on with the flow of the theme and continue making it.

A few episodes after Episode 2, Episodes 1-5 had recieved many views which revived KB's channel. With the massive success of the series and it's gaining momentum, KB had went on and make 20 full episodes of AFOSEA, some of which had multiple parts *(The parts are to be renamed into it's very own separate episodes in the New Version, increasing the number of episodes of the series as a result)*

## Episodes

**List of Episodes of AFOSEA**
 2 | *Neo Society* | December 18, 2020
5 *(second chapter)*
5 *(final chapter)*
 3 | *MERGED* | December 18, 2023