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An anime and manga convention (often called just anime convention) is a fan convention with a primary focus on anime, manga and Japanese culture. Anime conventions are commonly multi-day events hosted at convention centers , hotels or college campuses.
Comic Frontier, a doujinshi convention held in Jakarta, Indonesia Two young women cosplaying as anime characters during the 2007 Animecon in Jyväskylä, Finland. A fan convention (also known as a con or fan meeting) is an event in which fans of a particular topic gather to participate and hold programs and other events, and to meet experts, famous personalities, and each other.
Approximately 35,000 circles (a term for groups or individuals who create doujin) participate in each edition of Comiket. [4] Different circles exhibit on each day of Comiket; circles producing works on a common subject, such as a particular media franchise or manga genre , are typically grouped on the same day. [ 5 ]
The first World Cosplay Summit was held in 2003 to highlight the international popularity of Japanese anime and manga through cosplay (costume play). [4] It was subsequently held as part of Expo 2005 in Nagoya, where it gathered considerable media attention. [5]
An anime club is an organization that meets to discuss, show, and promote anime in a local community setting and can also focus on broadening Japanese cultural understanding. [1] Anime clubs are increasingly found at universities and high schools.
Otakuthon is a Canadian anime convention promoting Japanese animation (), Japanese graphic novels (), related gaming and Japanese pop-culture (music, cinema, television). [5] It is held annually for 3 days in downtown Montreal during a weekend in August.
Picking from over 300-400 titles from television and films, anime fans vote from the candidate pool to pick the best 100 from those titles, with 20 of these titles being films and 80 being television titles. Fans then participate in a runoff vote in order to determine a recipient amongst the 100 chosen titles for the Anime Fan Award.
An ōendan. An ōendan (応援団), literally "cheering squad" or "cheering section", [1] is a Japanese sports rallying team similar in purpose and allegedly inspirated by the cheerleading squad ins the United States, [2] [3] but relies more on making a lot of noise with brass drums or taiko drums, blowing horns and other items, waving flags and banners, and yelling through plastic megaphones ...