Hololive’s English speaking VTubers Watson Amelia, Gawr Gura, Mori Calliope, Ninomae Ina’nis, and Takanashi Kiara are coming to North America with the 2021 FAN EXPO x Hololive EN North American Tour. “Already a massive industry in Japan, this tour marks the first time VTubers have …Read more »
Anime Expo Lite, which will take place virtually on July 3-4, has announced several new panels in addition to the recently revealed Star Wars: Visions panel. One panel will be hosted by VTuber talent agency VShojo and star their VTubers Ironmouse, Projekt Melody, Nyanners, Silvervale, Zentreya, and …Read more »
Anime Expo Lite 2021 will take place July 3-4, and it’s just announced that it will have a J-Novel Club panel. According to the press release, the panel will consist of the team at J-Novel Club, and it will have a segment where they’ll share …Read more »
The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation has announced that this year’s Anime Expo will be “Anime Expo Lite” and take place digitally on July 3-4. This is Anime Expo’s thirtieth year. The event is supposed to include “exclusive streamed content” from industry partners …Read more »
The event Animage and Ghibli Exhibition – Ghibli Began from the Pages of One Magazine has opened and will be around until May 5. It’s located in Tokyo’s Matsuya Ginza department store. Miyazaki’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind manga was initially serialized in …Read more »
The Devilman franchise is receiving a special virtual reality exhibit lasting from April 28 until May 31. The exhibit will celebrate everything from Go Nagai’s original manga to the anime that followed it to 2018’s DEVILMAN crybaby anime. A trailer has been released to give …Read more »
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival is offering a virtual event this year, and they’re excited to announce that mangaka Nagata Kabi will be joining them. Kabi is the creator of My Alcoholic Escape from Reality, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness and My Solo Exchange Diary. …Read more »
If you want to get in some virtual otaku time this weekend, the Penn State Anime Organization is offering Setsucon as a virtual convention. “Setsucon Community – the upcoming 2021 edition of our annual convention will be transitioning to an online-only event occurring April 10th-11th, …Read more »
The North Carolina anime convention Animazement is cancelling its 2021 event, and says it will be back late May 2022. “The health and safety of our Animazement family is of the utmost importance to us,” the con wrote on its website. “Along with our attendees, …Read more »
SacAnime in Sacramento is having a swap meet April 2-4 and requires face masks. The Sacramento Bee reports that the location of the event is the same as where the “main county-run vaccination center” is located. Vaccines are not being offered there Thursday or Friday …Read more »
Because of COVID-19, this summer’s San Diego Comic-Con Will be a virtual event. Earlier, Comic-Con had mentioned trying to do an in-person event later in 2021, and now they’ve started releasing those details. The plan is for the in-person event to take place on the …Read more »
Dallas’ anime convention A-Kon will not be holding an event this year, virtual or otherwise. “One year ago, we wrote to you all that the developing situation with COVID-19 meant that we needed to take precautions and postpone A-Kon 31 until we felt that it …Read more »
With the pandemic still ongoing and social distancing still in effect, it’s no surprise that the huge event San Diego Comic-Con has called off its in-person con scheduled for this July. Like last year, it will hold a Comic-Con@Home virtual event in its stead. This …Read more »
The Washington, D.C.-based anime convention Otakon revealed its struggles in January, saying, “We use the proceeds from each year to plan the next Otakon and make sure we survive until then. So without the income from Otakon 2020, and the early pre-registrations we would normally …Read more »
With COVID-19 still a major issue, many anime conventions are struggling. Some are choosing to cancel their events this year, while others are trying virtual cons. FanimeCon, an anime convention taking place in San Jose, California with more than 30,000 attendants in the past, has …Read more »
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