Otakon 2023 announced a very special guest for this year’s event with the reveal of legendary director and designer Shoji Kawamori. In addition to being one of the key figures behind the Macross series, Kawamori handled mechanical designs and directed anime like Aquarion and is …Read more »
The World Cosplay Summit, billed as the world’s largest cosplay competition and event, takes place every summer in Nagoya. Various world events have made the last few years tough — 2020 took place entirely online, while the last two years were held in person but …Read more »
MEGACON Orlando, which boasts being the biggest comics, sci-fi and anime convention in the southeastern part of the country, will be back March 30 to April 2. In addition to things related to American pop culture, it will have specific otaku interests, like a maid …Read more »
The anime Dropkick on My Devil! (original title: Jashin-chan Dropkick) is holding an event called “Jashin-chan Fes” on May 4, and is currently welcoming doujinshi group applications. There are some requirements for people who want to bring their doujin: the doujinshi must be something all …Read more »
General registration for Anime Expo 2023 gets started on January 24. But things will be a little different at this year’s anime con: Premier Fan badges are now a thing of the past. Previously, a Premier Fan badge could get you a lot of extra …Read more »
Shueisha Inc.’s JUMP FESTA 2023 will take place on December 17-18 at the Makuhari Messe convention center near Tokyo. But even if you can’t be there in person, Shueisha has some good news for you: they’re offering their first-ever livestream of stage performances on their …Read more »
One of the big events at Anime Frontier 2022 was a planned concert featuring Yoko Takahashi, best known for singing the iconic Neon Genesis Evangelion theme song, “A Cruel Angel’s Thesis.” Unfortunately—due to visa issues outside of both the performer’s and the convention’s control—Takahashi will …Read more »
The year may be winding down, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t more unforgettable conventions to attend before 2022 comes to an end. The next event on the horizon is Anime Frontier Powered by Crunchyroll, which is being held December 2-4 at the Fort Worth …Read more »
Attack on Titan is a popular franchise around the world, but mangaka Hajime Isayama has never been to the United States for an event. That’s about to change. Anime NYC, which will occur November 18-20 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City, will …Read more »
Get over here, friends! Japan will finally be lifting its restrictions on tourist travel starting October 11, said Prime Minister Fumio Kishida while visiting the UN in New York this week. Visitors from countries that were previously exempted from visas for travel, such as the …Read more »
Are you counting down the days to the new (and final) season of Attack on Titan? The concluding season of an anime franchise this big is going to have big celebrations about it in Japan, and that includes the upcoming Attack on Titan Final Season …Read more »
Mathew Klickstein calls himself a Multi-Platform Storyteller, and his newest book, See You At San Diego: An Oral History of Comic-Con, Fandom, and the Triumph of Geek Culture, is being released on September 6 by Fantagraphics. The 500-page book has all sorts of information and …Read more »
The annual Pokémon World Championships got called off the last two years because of COVID, but now that it’s 2022, they’re back on. The event runs August 18-21, and for the first time it’s taking place in London. That means the event is playing up …Read more »
In the past two years the COVID pandemic has had a major effect on all of our lives, and for all the otaku out there, that’s included anime conventions. Anime conventions in America have been cancelled or scaled back, and as Anime NYC has shown …Read more »
This past weekend was a big one for Comic Market, AKA Comiket. Its 100th show went down, and even with a typhoon on day one it managed to record 170,000 visitors over the course of its two-day showing. Comiket 100’s daily numbers were shared via …Read more »
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