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Anime Expo Lite 2021

Posted on by Jeanine Yamanaka
Anime Expo, the largest celebration of anime pop culture in North America, typically takes place over the Fourth of July weekend at the Los Angeles Convention Center.  Because of ongoing concerns revolving around the still-problematic global pandemic, AX has once again taken their show to the internet and presented their offerings in a virtual format. … Continue reading "Anime Expo Lite 2021"
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Build Your Own Convention: All the Virtual Conventions You Can Enjoy from Home!

Posted on by Jeanine Yamanaka
It’s been a long and strange Spring, and Summer looks to be much of the same. Among the fallout from the global health crisis this year was pretty much the entire convention circuit from E3, that would have been in the beginning of June, through Star Wars Celebration and Anime Expo, down to San Diego … Continue reading "Build Your Own Convention: All the Virtual Conventions You Can Enjoy from Home!"
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Anime Expo 2018 Serves up Pop Culture, Part Two

Posted on by Jeanine Yamanaka
Anime Expo, the largest celebration of anime pop culture in North America, once again took place at the Los Angeles Convention Center this month. Virtually every facet of Japanese popular culture was represented with gusto as 110,000 fans devoured content for five days on video games, film, tv, cosplay, animation, music, and traditional arts. Heading … Continue reading "Anime Expo 2018 Serves up Pop Culture, Part Two"
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Anime Expo 2018 Serves Up Pop Culture, Part One

Posted on by Jeanine Yamanaka
Anime Expo, the largest celebration of anime pop culture in North America, once again took place at the Los Angeles Convention Center this month. Virtually every facet of Japanese popular culture was represented with gusto as 110,000 fans devoured content for five days on video games, film, tv, cosplay, animation, music, and traditional arts. Industry … Continue reading "Anime Expo 2018 Serves Up Pop Culture, Part One"
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Anime Los Angeles 2018

Posted on by Jeanine Yamanaka
For those interested in getting an early start on convention season this year, Anime Los Angeles headed things off last month, oddly enough in Ontario. While kind of a drive from the LA/OC locations major conventions are usually held, the relative remoteness made it a breeze to find and access parking which was pretty cheap … Continue reading "Anime Los Angeles 2018"
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Anime Expo 2017

Posted on by Jeanine Yamanaka
So a convention that was new to me for this year was Anime Expo–a celebration of Japanese pop culture and the largest North American anime convention. Organized by the non-profit Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation, it has a variety of events, performances, and panels dealing with anime, manga, video games, and virtually every … Continue reading "Anime Expo 2017"
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