You know Crispin Freeman the voice actor, director and script writer, but do you know Crispin Freeman the mythology scholar and voice acting teacher? This is a man who wears many hats, and when I caught up with him at Anime Central outside of Chicago, …Read more »
Anime Central is the largest anime convention in the Midwest, and it’s always great to be able to go back there! The con is located right outside of Chicago, and as with any con, it’s great to see all the neat costumes and how enthusiastic …Read more »
Anime Expo is officially a Kill la Kill party. I mean, the Los Angeles-based convention – the biggest in the States – is practically bringing the entire cast and crew of the thing over. You’ve got, in no particular order, scriptwriter Kazuki Nakashima, character designer/animation …Read more »
The former Tokyo International Anime convention teamed up with Anime Contents Expo this year to put on what is arguably the world’s biggest anime exhibition, Anime Japan 2014. On Sunday, March 23rd, Tokyo Big Site in Odaiba hosted thousands of visitors, all eager to see …Read more »
Con-nichiwa is an annual convention held in Tucson, AZ in March. This year they relocated to the Tucson Convention Center and featured guests like God Save the Queen! There were many cosplayers roaming the halls and posing for photos, and here is a collection of …Read more »
A lot of people screamed bloody murder when they first saw the audacious costume worn by the heroine in this season's hit Kill La Kill . Part super-robot and mostly Cutey Honey , Ryuko Matoi's costume puts her on full display. The skirt and top …Read more »
The Vietnamese can do it too, y’all. That’s what we discovered in our last issue of Otaku USA e-News with Fernando’s report from the Ho Chi Minh City Manga Festival, where anime fans in Vietnam assembled en masse to celebrate their love of Japanese cartoons …Read more »
Anaheim’s AX. Atlanta’s AWA. Baltimore’s Otakon. Tokyo’s Comiket. Ho Chi Minh City’s Manga Festival. Wait, what? Vietnam is an unlikely (but not altogether surprising) hotbed of anime fandom and even production. Despite the Vietnamese economy’s rapid growth of the past decade leveling off compared to …Read more »
Plenty of folks can tell you where the impulse to cosplay comes from—even though it varies from person to person, there's still that difficult to define, fan-driven urge that's impossible to shake. But what about the actual history of cosplay? Who were the first people …Read more »
1) The very first Otakon in 1994 attracted around 300 anime fans. Otakon 2012's attendance number of 30,785 is nearly 88 times that. 2) Otakon's 2012 attendance makes it the 2nd largest American anime convention in the United States. 3) If you learned something at …Read more »
I’m standing in the sweltering heat at Otakon 20, but my mind keeps wandering back to Otakon 13. I was 19 years old, bewildered, and attending the first convention of my life. Do you remember your earliest anime convention? If you’re in your ‘20s, it …Read more »
Anime conventions are vast, singular, beautiful, and incomprehensible, a riotous, amorphous celebration of what it is to be a fan of Japanese cartoons and comics. And across North America, from sea to shining sea, there’s no anime convention as vast as Anime Expo, the longest-surviving …Read more »
Anime Expo is always something of a spectacle. By its very nature of being the biggest anime convention in the United States, held in one of the world’s greatest cities, it creates an environment rarely seen in such fannish gatherings. Approaching the Los Angeles Convention …Read more »
Hi, everybody! Yunmao here with another convention cosplay report. This time my spies went to Awesome Con D.C. in Washington, DC! Awesome Con D.C. is Washington, DC’s newest comic book convention and is put on by Awesome Conventions LLC in association with Third Eye Comics, …Read more »
Hello, Otaku USA readers. Con Season 2013 is in full blast and on the weekend of February 15-17, Katsucon had its 19th annual celebration of everything otaku! Each President’s Day weekend, Katsucon attracts an average of 10-12 thousand loyal fans and curious first timers to …Read more »
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