Sheraton Mission Valley, 1433 Camino Del Rio S. IchibanCon returns to San Diego for 2026 — an anime convention built at the scale where it still feels like a community event: the artist alley is reachable, the panels have real discussion, and the cosplay competition runs in a room where the audience knows the characters. The hotel convention setting is the right format for this. You're not navigating a convention center the size of an airport — you're moving through connected ballrooms and corridors where the density is right, the programming overlaps in ways you can manage, and the event has the feel of a gathering rather than a production. …