For the second consecutive year, the New England Anime Society, the organizers of Anime Boston, will be presenting anime programming at First Night Boston. The day's programming schedule has been posted.
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Robotech at Anime Expo 2005, Harmony Gold has secured specially discounted hotel room rates for Robotech.com members as part of "Robocon 20".
AyaCon Five, the largest anime convention in the UK, has announced that it will be held at the Warwick Arts Centre at Warwick University from August 19th to 21st, 2005.
East Meets South, which lost its function space last week, has announced a new venue. The convention will be held at the Historic Caldwell Building, six blocks from the original site. They are making arrangements with the Howard Johnson and Best Western.
According to the web site for East Meets South, a new convention in Alabama, the hotel has rented the function space out from under them. They are looking for a new venue and expect to be able to make an announcement on Monday afternoon.
AnimeCons.com has been given ten free passes to eNerGy Anime & Game Festival at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center @ BMCC in New York City this Friday through Sunday. We have to give these out quick, so we'll be giving them out to the first ten people who contact us and provide a name and e-mail address. Please only request a pass if you plan to attend! In order to submit the names to the event in time, our deadline for requests is noon EST on Thursday, November 18th.
Wizard Entertainment has announced on its web site that it will add Wizard World Boston to its line-up of "pop culture conventions" held annually across the country.
The Tokyo International Anime Fair has changed its dates to one week later than originally planned. The change is due to a mix-up in booking the facility.
Due to a double-booking at the Holiday Inn, Chibi-Con in Winnipeg, Manitoba has moved to the Clarion Hotel & Suites and will now be held from October 29th through the 31st.
AyaCon and AmeCon, two popular anime conventions in the UK, have announced plans for future conventions. AyaCon will return in 2005 and AmeCon will be held again in 2006.
Shoujocon 2005 has been cancelled. This announcement comes five months after the cancellation of Shoujocon 2004. No future Shoujocon conventions are planned.
News that is sure to make the hearts of J-rock fans flutter with excitement, Otakon has announced that L'Arc~en~Ciel will be performing at their convention on Satruday, July 31st at 5pm.
Otakon has announced that all ten of their official convention hotels have sold out. Rooms may still be available at other Baltimore area hotels, but attendees are unlikely to find any with reasonable rates within walking distance.
AnimeNext has announced that up-and-coming voice actors Lauren Goodnight and Kenneth Robert Marlo will be attending next weekend's convention in addition to the previously announced guests. The convention will also feature a casting call for MTV's Made and ADR director Tom Wayland will be offering on-the-spot critiques of voice acting demo tapes.
Metrocon, an anime convention scheduled for July 9-11 in Tampa, has announced that their host hotel has sold out of rooms. Two nearby overflow hotels are now available and details should be posted on the convention's site soon. Also, due to professional obligations, Chris Patton will be unable to attend.
We knew it would happen sooner or later, but there is finally an anime convention announced in Las Vegas. Anime Vegas is scheduled for Labor Day weekend 2004 at the Cashman Center. Admission is free.
The San Jose Convention and Visitors Bureau has announced that FanimeCon drew in "more than 7,000" anime fans. It is estimated that the convention generated more than $5 million in business for the local economy.
Anime-Cons.com has launched a new search feature which will enable users to search through its convention database. Users can search by keyword, event type, date, location, attendance, and events offered. The new search form is available in the Events section by selecting Search Events in the navigation.
In response to delays caused by the resignation of their Exhibit Hall department head, Anime Expo will extend the lower booth rates to exhibitors who had expressed interest before the original Febrary 1st deadline. It is reported that the new department head is responding to e-mails within 3 business days.
Anime Boston has posted the following on their web site:
"We regret to announce that due to unforseen circumstances, Nobuteru Yuuki is unable to attend Anime Boston 2004. Mr. Yuuki has expressed interest in attending Anime Boston 2005."
Today, Big Apple Anime Fest posted a long-awaited announcement about the cancellation of Big Apple Anime Fest 2004. Due to a conflict with the Republican National Convention, BAAF plans to skip 2004 and focus on planning their 2005 event.
Angela Washington posted an announcement on the Shoujocon forums that Shoujocon would not be held in 2004 and their fifth convention will be held in 2005.
Twenty-four hours after bringing pre-registration back online, Anime Boston 2004 has sold out of memberships. According to the convention, they are no longer accepting pre-registrations and no memberships will be sold at the door. For full details, refer to Anime Boston's web site at www.animeboston.com.
Anime Boston reports that they have received twice as many pre-registrations as last year and have caught up with their backlog. Pre-registration is available once again, but not expected to last long. There are only a few hundred spaces left and they're being filled very quickly.
Big Apple Anime Fest has updated the main page of their web site to explain what's going on with BAAF 2004. A decision on how the event will proceed is not expected until after April 1st.
With just over two months to go before the convention, Anime Boston 2004 has closed its registration early. The registration cut-off was implemented in order to determine how close the convention is to its attendance cap. Registration may once again be turned on if there is still space available.
Under17, the Japanese group featuring Momoi Haruko as singer, announced at Anime Expo Tokyo that they would be performing a live concert at Anime Expo 2004.
AnimeCons.com sat down with Julie McCubrey, the founder and chair of PortConMaine, to talk about what makes New England's longest-running anime convention appeal to otaku.
