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March 25, 2024 at 12:38 PM The Grimm Variations girl running AnimeJapan, a big anime consumer show in Tokyo, took place over the weekend, and was packed with announcements.
This is a list of noteworthy [a] anime conventions from around the world, as distinct from comic book conventions, furry conventions, gaming conventions, horror conventions, multigenre conventions, and science fiction conventions. This list is sectioned by location, and included with the list is the year the convention was established, as well ...
AnimeJapan is a Japanese anime consumer show held annually at the Tokyo Big Sight exhibition center in Tokyo since March 2014. It was created from the merger of the Tokyo International Anime Fair with the Anime Contents Expo.
Comic World, an anime and doujin festival with events in South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan; Comifuro, a doujin convention in Indonesia. Anime Expo, an anime convention in Los Angeles, California; Japan Expo, a Japanese pop culture convention in France; Overload, a doujin festival in New Zealand
In addition to Japan, convention officials at venues such as AnimeJapan have been trying to reach out to overseas manga fans. [2] Anime conventions started showing up in the United States in the early 1980s. [3] Project A-Kon first started in 1990, and is considered to be the first anime convention in the country, but this is disputed. [4]
Jump Festa (Japanese: ジャンプフェスタ, Hepburn: Janpu Fesuta) is an annual manga and anime fan convention in Tokyo, Japan. it is organized by Shueisha, publisher of the various Jump anthologies, with Jump Festa focusing specifically on the Shōnen manga magazines such as Weekly Shōnen Jump, Jump Square, V Jump, Saikyō Jump and Shōnen Jump+.
January 2 – 2024 Haneda Airport runway collision: A Japan Airlines Airbus A350-900 collides with a Japan Coast Guard DHC-8 aircraft and bursts into flames at Tokyo's Haneda Airport. The Coast guard plane was going to deliver aid to those affected by the earthquake in Ishikawa Prefecture the day before.
July 12: Noriko Ohara, Japanese voice actress (voice of Nobita Nobi in the Doraemon (1979) franchise, Conan in Future Boy Conan, Doronjo in the Yatterman franchise, Peter in Heidi, Girl of the Alps, Hiyoshi Goh and Ri Katherine in Voltes V, Claudia LaSalle in the Macross franchise, Oyuki in Urusei Yatsura (1981)), dies at age 88 from an illness.