LOS ANGELES, CA. Anime.Music.Manga- also known as AM2 (read “A-M-squared”)- announced on July 24th that it will be postponing its event until an indefinite future date.
“It is with great regret that we are postponing this event”, states Chase Wang, “all exhibitors, Artist Alley participants and attendees have either received FULL refunds or are in process of receiving their FULL refunds-this is due to inaccurate mailing/email addresses, if there are any issues individuals can contact us at [email protected]”.
Visitors are still encouraged to visit the AM2 facebook page and follow its twitter account at @am2con.
CONVENTION TIP #4: When you’re at a convention, be sure to bring spending money with you. You’ll never know when you might find that hard-to-find item you’ve always wanted, and it’s always a good idea to have money to spend for food or to pay back those friends of yours that you owe money to for convention traveling expenses. Another advantage to having cash on hand is for bargaining with a vendor, where you could get a low cash price on an item that you want to buy.
There are some dealer’s room vendors that accept credit cards and check cards, but not all of them are set to accept those as a form of payment. Convention locations may or may not have a nearby ATM machine and those that do also carry a heavy transaction fee or they might run out of money. It is always good to research the convention’s local area in advance to see if your bank is nearby and to give yourself some time that you could be spending on enjoying the convention itself. Just like with all valuables, remember to keep money in a secure place at all times.
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LOS ANGELES, CA (Jul 4-7, 2013). Anime Expo took place at the Los Angeles Convention Center from July 4-7, 2013. Guests in appearance included Good Smile Company founder Danny Choo, cosplay ambassador Alodia Gosiengfiao, and musical guest Pornograffiti.
For more photos that are not shown here, please visit our World of Anime 760 Facebook Page.
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LOS ANGELES, CA. Agit Gallery will be hosting “Anime Explode!!”, a celebration of anime, manga, cosplay and art. The six hour event will take place at the Agit Gallery, located at 3974 West 6th Street in the Koreatown area of Los Angeles starting at 6:00 PM.
“We’ve already confirmed a bunch of amazing artists doing their style of an [sic] anime or manga that inspired them,” according to Agit Gallery’s event description on Facebook. "If you love anime, manga, video games, or if youre [sic] just a hentai maid lover, come on!“
Scheduled events will feature event giveaways and performances by Momotama, Paparika Mari and Midnight Shinigami, as well as a comedy showcase hosted by Danny "D-Boy” Gonzales.
Anime Explode is free to the public and cosplay is encouraged. For more information, please contact Agit Gallery’s event organizer at [email protected] or visit the Anime Explode event page on Facebook.
CONVENTION TIP #7: Maintaining proper hygiene is essential to all social interactions at any convention. Good oral hygiene (e.g., brushing and flossing teeth, using mouthwash) is recommended for maintaining spoken communication with people and even better personal hygiene (e.g., properly groomed hair, deodorant use and bathing regularly) will increase your chances at making more friends and decreasing the appearance of looking like a homeless urban dweller outside of the convention area. For best results, perform these hygiene checks daily.
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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA. A new multi-genre single-day convention focusing on anime, cartoons and comics will be taking place in the San Francisco Bay Area. Kraken Con will be taking place on Saturday, October 5th at the South San Francisco Conference Center located at 255 South Airport Boulevard.
“We have high aspirations to create a friendly, fun convention that fosters community,” says Kraken Con Director and Mastermind Lindsey Daugherty. "We really hope to provide interesting, fun content to attendees that will entertain and maybe even educate.“
Current program offerings include exhibit hall, panels, interactive events including a cardboard robot building competition and a photo scavenger hunt. Guests of Honor will be announced shortly.
”We aim to bring fans from all backgrounds together to just enjoy the characters and stories- whether they are on paper, in Japanese or Saturday morning cartoons,“ says Daugherty.
Pre-registration for Kraken Con attendees is $12 until September 1st. Vendor and artist pre-registrations are also available. For more information, visit the Kraken Con website at http://www.krakencon.com.
CONVENTION TIP #9:Don’t look like a mooch to friends and people that you meet at conventions by having some money saved up before heading to a convention. Attendees generally carry enough money to buy the things they need and do not always have enough money to pay for other people. As a general rule, carry enough money for meals, registration fees and lodging for each day that you are planning to attend. For items that you wish to purchase in a convention’s vendor’s area, carry a minimum of $25 and for bigger ticket items, research the item online in advance and be prepared to pay the actual retail price in case you see it.
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Ninja-Con 2013 took place on June 8th at the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, Miyako Hotel and Anime Jungle in the heart of Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo district. A grassroots effort in the true sense that also included the shopping areas of LA’s Japanese cultural area, Ninja-Con focused on the artists and performers inspired by anime and the anime, video game & cosplay convention culture, replacing the dealer’s room with Swap Meet and provided enough areas for cosplay photography and for fans to be themselves without the pressures and limitations of large-scale conventions. Little Tokyo retailers also participated in making the single day convention experience an enjoyable one by providing discounts to Ninja-Con attendees who presented their badges or wrist bands.
Additional events included the Tokari Maid Lounge, comedy showcases featuring Jon Allen and voice actor appearances including Cristina Vee and Danielle McRae. California-grown talents in the convention and cosplay community that were in appearance included The Shogunate, Takeriya Samurai and Chocolate Covered Cosplay. The convention concluded with an after-hours event hosted at Jungle.
To see what you might have missed at this year’s Ninja-Con, visit their website at http://www.ninja-conla.org. Plans for additional events throughout 2013 and its 2014 convention are in the works, so visit their website often.
HONOLULU, HI. Texas-based Oni-Con announced on April 11th that its first convention in Hawaii will take place on November 1st-3rd at the Hawaii Convention Center on 1801 Kalakaua Avenue in Honolulu, on the island of O'ahu. This will be Hawaii’s new convention on anime and Japanese pop culture, replacing HEX-XP which announced on February 8th that it will be closing its doors and will not be doing a 2013 show.
Partnering with Oni-Con for its inaugural event is Babel Entertainment. The California-based company managed the live entertainment at HEX-XP, including video game composer Nobuo Uematsu and singer/voice actress Megumi Nakajima.
More information about Oni-Con Hawaii will be coming soon. Current guest information, registration and program offerings can be found on their website at http://www.oniconhawaii.com.
LOS ANGELES, CA. D-Boy Productions, the creators of Ninja-Con has updated its website to make it a little more obvious that their date has changed from April 6th to June 8th. The location for the event, originally announced to be at the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo district remains the same.
Ninja-Con’s original website information was not clear enough for its web visitors when the event would take place, except for a posting on January 7, 2013 that the event was scheduled to take place on April 6, 2013. Visitors would have to dig through the website’s additional information (mostly listed as ‘Coming Soon’ under most tabs as of April 1, 2013) except for the “Convention” tab nestled under the “Location & Page” sub-tab. The masthead on the Ninja-Con website now features the updated date and location information as of April 1st.
Whether or not it was an April Fool’s joke to put the updated information on the website on April 1st or not, I’m pretty sure that there are a number of attendees that are not amused by this last minute update, especially since it was revealed that the organizers had been aware of this date change in February, according to sources close to the Ninja-Con staff.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA. Japan Video & Media- the organizers of the first Anime Costume Parade in the United States in 1999- presents the 15th Annual Anime Costume Parade on Sunday, April 21st at the start of the Cherry Blossom Festival Parade route located in front of San Francisco’s City Hall on Polk and McAllister Streets. The Anime Costume Parade is part of the Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival’s Grand Parade, a 1.3 mile parade route that starts at City Hall and terminates at Post and Fillmore Streets near San Francisco’s Japantown.
“More than 200 participants with their favorite anime costume will march through the streets of San Francisco in the Grand Parade,” according to a flyer released by Japan Video & Media. "This is your opportunity.“
A major difference to this year’s parade is the absence of the annual costume contest. To replace the contest, there will be a raffle drawing that is open to participants of the costume parade upon check-in at City Hall.
"Please note that there will be no costume contest this year,” according to Japan Video & Media. "Instead, we will choose some participants for [the] Anime Fashion Show, which takes place after the parade.“
Following the Grand Parade at approximately 4:00 PM, Japan Video & Media presents its first "Dream Show” on the Peace Plaza Stage at Japantown Peace Plaza, featuring the Anime Fashion Show as well as musical and dance performances.
Pre-Registration for the Anime Costume Parade is required for all participants. Pre-Registrations must be received by Japan Video & Media, located at 1737 Post Street in San Francisco in Japan Center’s West Mall. Any further information can be requested by contacting Japan Video & Media at (415) 563-5220.
CONVENTION TIP #1: Are you traveling out of town for the convention weekend? Make sure to plan out the travel details of your trip beforehand. Some of the most important things to work out before going to a convention are accommodations, transportation, dining arrangements and money for the bare convention necessities. The more you plan before the convention, the less drama you have to deal with when you’re there.
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When anime conventions were originally created, they were made for college student age and up. In recent years anime and cosplay have become a haven for high school students, but very few have been organized by young adults. Here are two anime conventions organized by high school students and supervised by teachers and staff at their high schools:
CHIBICON SAN JOSE, CA. Branham Anime Club presents its fifth Chibicon on Saturday, March 23rd at Branham High School, located at 1570 Branham Lane in San Jose, California. On-site admission is $8 with ASB and $10 without. Its 2012 convention has an age restriction for adults not accompanied by a minor as 25 years of age, but there is no information on whether or not this age restriction will be continued for the 2013 event. More information can be found on the Branham Anime Club page on Facebook or by contacting Branham High School at (408) 626-3407.
ASAHiCON ANTIOCH, CA. Anime Society of Antioch High presents its 2013 ASAHiCon event on Saturday, April 13th at Antioch High School, located at 700 West 18th Street in Antioch, California. On-site admission is $5 with student ID and $7 without. Further information can be found on the ASAHiCon website or by contacting Antioch High School at (925) 706-5300.
CONVENTION TIP #10: PARENTS! If you were an anime fan or have a child that is into anime, take the opportunity to learn or continue to learn what the fandom is all about. Mainstream media point out the negative and the freakish side of anime fandom, but there are two sides to everything. Instead of giving your children some money to spend and dropping them off at the convention like it’s daycare (or weekend-care in some cases), take an interest in your child’s hobby and be a fan together. Some conventions encourage parents to attend with their children and provide “parent-in-tow” badges at a discounted rate. Keep in mind that some subject matters and activities at conventions may not be suitable for younger audiences, so do your research and use your own discretion.
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LOS ANGELES, CA. (Jan. 24, 2013). DBoy Productions, in association with Azure Lorica Productions and Raging Nerds, will be hosting its first Ninja-Con event on Saturday, April 6th at the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center located at 244 South San Pedro Street in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo district. Confirmed Guests include voice actress Cristina Vee, vocalist/actress Xio and anime convention celebrities Chocolate Covered Cosplay group and San Francisco Bay Area based musical group The Shogunate.
Registration until March 23rd are $20 and will include a free t-shirt with pre-registration. Vendor Registrations and Event Hours have not been announced on the Ninja-Con Website as of this article, but will be updated in the coming months before the convention. A portion of the registration proceeds will benefit the Wildlife Waystation.
CONVENTION TIP #9: Don’t look like a mooch to friends and people that you meet at conventions by having some money saved up before heading to a convention. Attendees generally carry enough money to buy the things they need and do not always have enough money to pay for other people. As a general rule, carry enough money for meals, registration fees and lodging for each day that you are planning to attend. For items that you wish to purchase in a convention’s vendor’s area, carry a minimum of $25 and for bigger ticket items, research the item online in advance and be prepared to pay the actual retail price in case you see it.
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