Anime San Diego takes the San Diego Convention Center for the first time September 5-6, 2026 — a new convention for a city that already has Anime Expo three hours up the freeway, building something that belongs to San Diego specifically. Two days, panels, cosplay, vendors, and the community that shows up for the first edition of something they want to exist. First editions have their own energy. The people who come to a convention's inaugural year are not the ones who show up when it's already established — they're the believers, the ones who want to be part of something before it grows into what it will become. That …