Welcome to the anime convention post for people who feel a vague yet exceptional sense of duty to see each other at expensive cities and dress up like disproportionately illustrated characters!
All dates are approximate based on the historical dates of the conventions. Some are more consistent than others, so please mind date gaps and time zones when spending double your entire paycheque on bookings.
All members associated with this group, and by extension, friends of friends of this group, are statistically less likely to murder you than people who do not read fanfic or stare at shirtless anime figurines for collective hours on end. But it is the responsibility of all people in a room to establish ground rules, boundaries, and financial obligations.
If you knowingly diminish any ones convention or travel experience, or leave financial dues unpaid, you will be permanently removed from the group and you may be pursued by individuals for any amounts own to the fullest extent of their country’s law. We are too old for harmful stupid shit, only fun stupid shit is permitted. If you fuck up - fess up, and make it right. Things will inevitably go wrong, but most problems and relationships can be saved with honest effort. Talk it out, and most importantly, listen.
Members of this group do not share the same citizenship and it is also each members’ responsibility to understand their rights and limitations when crossing political and cultural borders. You will very rarely when traveling have equal rights and it is your problem - Be prepared, behave, and don’t be a cunt.
Questions, comments, and modifications may be made to this post by commenting, discord, phone, chanting quietly in long dead languages while waiting in queue the DMV, or shouting into your nearest ear of corn.
Current Cons with members attending:
- Otakuthon – Montreal, CA
August
2 members
- Sakuracon – Seattle, US
April
5+ members
- Emerald City Comic Con – Seattle, US
February
3 members
- Anime Expo, – L.A, US
June/July
yes.
- MomoCon – Atlanta, US
May
4+ members
Additional large cons available for group bookings:
Each of these is listed as being a large (~20,000+) con by attendance and convention space – we all still love our local and sentimental cons, but it is unreasonable to expect others to arrange travel for less accessible events and areas.
- Japan Expo – Paris, FR
August
largest in EU and one of the largest in the world
- Animangapop – Cardiff/Plymouth/Brighton, UK
Various – check individual sites
this con has very odd attendance numbers at ~500,000, but is split between 4+ months and cities -- the largest seem to be Brighton and Cardiff
- AnimeConNL – Rijswijk, NL
Various/summer and fall
largest in Nederland
- Elfia Arcen – Utrecht/Limburg, NL
September and February
not explicitly an animecon, but massive and hosted exclusively in castles
- Polymanga – Montreux, CH (sw)
April
- AnimeCon UK – Birmingham, UK
June
largest in UK
- Anime Toronto – Toronto, CA
September
- Anime & Gaming Con – Sheffield/Glasgow/Newcastle/London, UK
Various – check individual sites
these four cons have the same organisers
- AnimeThon – Edmonton, CA
July
- AniNite – Vienna, AT
August
largest in Österreich, one of largest in EU
- Abunai – Veldhoven, NL
August
- Animesse – Potsdam, DE
July
not the largest, but held in a movie set park
- AnimagiC – Mannheim, DE
August
- Dokomi – Düsseldorf, DE
June
largest in Deutschland, one of largest in EU
- Anime Focal – Kirchberg, LU
June
slightly smaller than the others, but centrally located
- AtsusaCon – Ghent, BE
July
- AnimeJapan - Odaiba, JP
March
largest in Japan and one of the largest in the world, twice the size of Anime Expo.
- Fan Expo Canada – Toronto, CA
August
this convention has changed locations, please verify before planning
Cons we have decided, after discussion, to not attend at the present time:
- Anime Central – Rosemont, US
- Colossal Con – Sandusky, US
- Anime Expo – Los Angeles, US
- Anime NYC – NYC, US
- Hikari – Poznań, PL
- A-kon – Dallas, US
- Anime Matsuri – Houston, US
- Comiket — Tokyo, JP
- Anime Weekend Atlanta – Atlanta, US
Cosplay groups and planned groups - current cosplayers and sought cosplayers:
One Piece
Zoro (2) – east blue, shinsekai
Sanji (2) –east blue, water 7, thriller bark
Usopp – shinsekai
Brook – shinsekai
Mihawk
Doflamingo (2)
Monet
Law – punk hazard, zou
Buggy – yonkou
Yamato
Seeking: Nami, Robin, Franky, Chopper, Strong World/Z/Gold versions, Shichibukai, Corazon, Perona, Vivi
Bungou Stray Dogs
Akutagawa (2)
Gin
Poe
Seeking: Any – our Chuuya and Dazai have retired, please we need the gays
Avatar
Adult Aang
Katara
Zuko
Sokka
Swampbenders (several)
Seeking: Toph, Azula, Suki, Mae, Ty Lee, Cabbage Merchant, my honour
Drrr!!
Izaya
Shizuo
Seeking: Celty, Shinra, Simon, Anri/Saika, Masaomi
Welcome To Night Vale
Cecil
Kevin
Seeking: Carlos, Mayor Pamela Winchell, John Peters you know the farmer, The Man in the Tan Suit, Apache Tracker, Sheriff Sam, Hiram McDaniels (4 or 5 heads), Faceless Old Woman
Hazbin Hotel ・ Helluva Boss
Alastor
Blitzø
Angel Dust
Fizarolli – robo-fizz
Seeking: Charlie, Moxie, Millie, Sir Pentious, Stolas (demon or human)
Groups we would like to create if enough people are interested:
Naruto (Akatsuki)
Bleach (Espada)
Hunter x Hunter (need Hisoka and Illumi, any Genei Ryoudan minus Chrollo)
Legend Of Zelda (need Sheik, Ganondorf, gerudo link because of course we do)
Hetalia (need Austria, Hungary, Doitsu/Germany, Axis powers)
Yuri On Ice (any minus Viktor)
Kuroko No Basuke (Daiki, Murasakibara, Midorima, Kise)
Haikyuu!! (any Karasuno minus Kageyama)
Kim Possible (any minus Kim and Shego)
Touhou (Gensoukai/EOSD, Youyoumu/PCB)
Trigun (will probably never happen because that shits tough)
One Punch Man (Sonic, Saitama, Fubuki, Tatsumaki, King, Puri-Puri)
Let's communicate and travel well! Here is a reward since you've reached the end of this post!
Fun game. Say "toy boat" over and over. Do it for the rest of your life. Retreat from society and live on alms. Whisper "toy boat' as you die.