The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) will hold their E3 gaming event virtually this year on June 12-15. The event will be free, and it was just revealed that Sega, Square Enix, XSEED Games/Marvelous USA and Bandai Namco Entertainment will be involved. Before this, it had …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 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 »
Originally set for May 2-4 at Tokyo Big Sight, plans for Comiket 99 have changed due to the recently extended State of Emergency in the Greater Tokyo area. While they’re still aiming to hold the event under the same name, preparations have shifted to Winter …Read more »
Anime Expo, the largest anime convention in North America, will not have an in-person event this year. Instead, they’re opting for a virtual con. “We will miss gearing up for a full weekend of parading around the LACC [Los Angeles Convention Center] and reuniting with …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 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 »
This March’s AnimeJapan 2021 was previously set to be held at Tokyo Big Sight, but the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has put a halt to those plans. The latest update from the organizing committee behind the event has it moving to an online only affair, but …Read more »
Anime Boston cannot catch a break, man. It was about 11 months ago that we reported the 2020 edition of the convention had been canceled. Now, unfortunately, we’re doing it all over again. The con has made the difficult but inevitable decision to cancel for …Read more »
The opening of Super Nintendo World, initially set for February 4, was delayed by the global pandemic. However, they have been running preview events and dry rehearsals for six weeks now, asking visitors to hold back sharing anything on social media until February 4. I …Read more »
Otakon, a Washington, D.C.-based anime convention that boasts in or around 30,000 attendants a year, is struggling because of COVID-19. Brooke Zerrlaut, who is the president of Otakorp, the organization that puts on Otakon, said this in a newsletter: “We use the proceeds from each …Read more »
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