Anime Expo 2026 — Day 2

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Anime Expo 2026 — Day 2

Name: Anime Expo 2026 — Day 2
Start: 2026-07-03T10:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-07-03T21:00:00-07:00
Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015

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The biggest panels, the autograph lines worth standing in, artist alley at full capacity. Day 2 is when the convention hits its stride.

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Friday, July 3, 2026

10:00 AM PDT – 9:00 PM PDT

Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015

From $65

“The biggest panels, the autograph lines worth standing in, artist…”

— @falkorcommunity

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Anime Expo 2026 — Day 3

Today · Jul 4 From $65 Los Angeles Convention Center, 120…

Day 3 at Anime Expo is when the convention becomes itself. Saturday, July 4, 2026 at the Los Angeles Convention Center — the highest-attendance day of the largest anime convention in North America. Over 100,000 fans across the floor, programming running in every corner of the building, the cosplay competition at full force. This year, Day 3 carries weight for two fandoms simultaneously. The BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War — The Calamity panel takes place Saturday morning at Crypto.com Arena, with Japanese VA Masakazu Morita and English voice director Johnny Yong Bosch present. And in the afternoon (2:45–4:05 PM, JW Diamond room), Science SARU presents the North American premiere panel for Ghost in the Shell 2026 — the first new entry in the franchise in over a decade, premiering on streaming July 7. This is a rare convergence: two landmark franchise events, one day, one convention. Beyond the main panels: the Artist Alley is at its most densely packed, exclusives sell out by early afternoon, and the spontaneous meetups — people who found each other because of a shared series, a specific cosplay, a niche fandom — run into the night. Plan for crowds at the main entrances by midmorning. General admission and day badges available. The Saturday ticket moves fastest.

RAVEKAWA — Chiikawa Anime Rave at Catch One Los Angeles

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RAVEKAWA — Chiikawa Anime Rave at Catch One Los Angeles

Today · Jul 4 – Jul 5 Catch One, 4067 W Pico Blvd, Los A…

The Chiikawa fandom understood something about those characters before the merch got everywhere — the anxious, striving energy of three tiny creatures trying to be brave is the same emotional register you feel walking into a club for the first time at 22. A rave built around that energy is not an anime tie-in. It is the right room. Catch One has been the Black-owned Pico Union venue at the center of Los Angeles club culture since 1973. Holding a Chiikawa rave there on July 4 weekend means the people who knew about this before the announcement are showing up to a place that has been holding rooms like this for half a century. Kawaii aesthetics, club music, decade-deep house lineage — the convergence is intentional. You will recognize the people there because they read the same threads as you. They cried when Chiikawa cried. They are not here to be ironic about it. The room is for the fans who carried this fandom when it was still small. Catch One Los Angeles, July 4 weekend. Doors and lineup details on the organizer page.

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Little Tokyo Anime and Culture Night -- Los Angeles July 2026

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Little Tokyo in downtown Los Angeles is the oldest Japanese American community in the country and on weekend evenings it functions as the unofficial gathering point for LA-area anime and Japanese culture fans. The stretch of 1st and 2nd Street between Central and Alameda runs izakayas, ramen shops, Anime Jungle with dedicated anime merchandise, Kinokuniya Books, and coffee shops where people sit for hours discussing shows. The monthly Anime and Culture Night draws the community that lives here year-round, not just the convention crowd that shows up twice a year. Street performers, pop-up cosplay groups, and informal meetups fill the sidewalks from early evening into the night. Browse Anime Jungle for figures, tapestries, and limited releases. Kinokuniya carries Japanese-language manga, artbooks, and music releases alongside English-language anime. The ramen spots fill up fast. Arriving by 6:30pm avoids the longest waits at Ichiran, Daikokuya, and Shin-Sen-Gumi. The Metro Gold Line stops at Little Tokyo/Arts District station. Street parking is available on surrounding blocks. No ticket or registration required. Monthly on the second Saturday.

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Waku Waku Anime Rave Los Angeles — July 4, 2026

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The Moroccan Lounge in Downtown LA, July 4th, doors at 9pm. The SoCal anime rave circuit has adopted Waku Waku as its own, and this is the one that keeps coming back. The format is earned simplicity. No panels, no cosplay contest, no vendor hall. Just the music, the crowd, the visuals, and the shared recognition of hearing a song you know from a show that meant something to you at a specific moment in your life. The anime rave format produces a specific emotional register: nostalgia and presence simultaneously. You are in a room of strangers who had the same childhood, and you are all finding that out at exactly the same time. Waku Waku is worth attending for anyone in the SoCal anime community who has wanted to dance to anime music in a room that takes both seriously. The Moroccan Lounge is an ideal-size venue: large enough to feel like an event, small enough to feel like a community. Past editions have sold out. This one will too. What to know: 21+ event. Arrive early; the venue does not have much room to absorb late arrivals once capacity is reached. The Moroccan Lounge is in Downtown LA accessible by Metro. Uber/Lyft drop-off is on Spring St. Dress is casual to cosplay. The setlist will hit the obvious choices and the deep cuts. Both kinds of recognition produce the same reaction. July 4 is a calculated date: the holiday gives attendees a reason to be out late, and Los Angeles clears out enough on Independence Day that parking and transit are easier than usual. This is not an accident. The Waku Waku team knows their crowd. The anime rave circuit is one of the most consistent dark social signals on Falkor: tight community, recurring format, word-of-mouth distribution, no traditional marketing. People who find this event find it because someone in their group already knew about it. That is what a Falkor event looks like.

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Sonicboombox Anime XP Afterparty 2026 — Anime Expo Weekend

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Anime Expo weekend doesn't end when the convention floor closes. Sonicboombox throws the biggest AX afterparty of the year on July 4 at Catch One — and you don't need an Anime Expo badge to get in. Five rooms. Two floors. A massive outdoor patio. DJs spinning anime-adjacent music across hip-hop, trap, pop, EDM, and emo — Anime Nightclub 3, DJ Taylor Senpai, and a full lineup that treats anime soundtracks like the bangers they are. There's also a game room with Beyblades, a photobooth with printed photos, and the kind of crowd that has the right opinion about the Chainsaw Man opening. Presented by Girltaku, Newtown HQ, and Kaiju Jukebox — organizers who have run Anime Expo adjacent events for years and know exactly what this crowd wants on a Saturday night in July. Catch One is one of the best venues in Los Angeles: legendary sound system, multiple rooms, and enough space that it never feels like a sweaty anime convention overflow. It's more like the after-party that's actually better than the main event. July 4 also happens to be Independence Day. The Anime Expo crowd treats this as its own national holiday — cosplay optional, enthusiasm mandatory. Doors open at 8:30 PM and the night runs until 2 AM. 21+ only. Rideshare recommended. Located on West Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles. This is the Anime Expo afterparty the community has been running to for years. If you're in LA for AX weekend, this is the Saturday night plan.

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The convention floor closes. The night doesn’t. Every year, Sonicboombox has turned what should be the last night of Anime Expo into something the official schedule doesn’t list — a proper nightclub night for the people who stayed too long and still aren’t done. Anime XP Afterparty 2026 returns to Catch One, a two-floor, three-stage venue on West Pico Blvd in Los Angeles. Seven bars. A full game room that takes Beyblades seriously. Outdoor patio. And six anime DJs who treat the playlist like it matters, because it does. The lineup: Taylor Senpai, Dimi, Johnny Romer, DJ French, Beari, Foureyes. From 8:30 PM to 2:00 AM, the music runs through anime OSTs, J-pop, and electronic — whatever connects to the cultural moment that just spent four days filling the convention center. This is the exhale at the end of AX weekend. Catch One, 4067 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles. 21+ with valid ID. July 4, 2026. Doors at 8:30 PM. $25 in advance, $40 at the door.

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The second SoCal date for the RAVEKAWA circuit — The Compound by Dirt Dog in Commerce, July 17. Same Chiikawa energy, different venue, different crowd. The Compound Commerce is an emerging South LA venue that has been hosting a run of anime-adjacent nightlife events, establishing itself as a hub for the rave-anime crossover circuit. This is distinct from the mainstream EDM scene — these nights attract cosplayers, collectors, and fans who want to spend a night inside the IP they love rather than watching it on a screen. Chiikawa's fandom is both enormous and underserved. The characters appear everywhere in fashion, merchandise, and social media — but dedicated IRL events remain rare. RAVEKAWA fills that gap. Two dates in July means two different communities, two different atmospheres, both anchored in the same kawaii underground that has been growing steadily across SoCal. Catch the second wave. The Compound date is the closing night of the SoCal RAVEKAWA run — the July 5 Catch One show was the opener. Two venues, two crowds, one month.

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Anime Expo 2026 — Day 4

Tomorrow · Jul 5 From $45 Los Angeles Convention Center, 120…

Anime Expo 2026 — Day 4 closes the convention on Sunday, July 5 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Anime Expo is the largest anime convention in North America, drawing over 100,000 fans to the Los Angeles Convention Center each summer. The 2026 edition runs July 2-5 across all four days, with a massive 340,000-square-foot Exhibit Hall, Artist Alley, J-Pop and ani-song concerts, industry panels, anime premieres, cosplay competitions, autograph sessions, and gaming areas. The convention is organized by the Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation and runs continuously across all four days. Each day brings different programming, exclusive announcements, and guests from across the anime, manga, and J-Pop industries. Saturday and Sunday draw the largest crowds; Thursday and Friday move at a more manageable pace for exhibit hall access. The Los Angeles Convention Center is located at 1201 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015, steps from the EXPO/Convention Center Metro station. Badge pickup opens before the convention; pick yours up early to avoid lines. Tickets are available at anime-expo.org. Single-day and four-day badges are offered, with four-day badges providing the best value for full-weekend attendees.

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Anime Expo 2026 — Day 2 continues Friday, July 3 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Anime Expo is the largest anime convention in North America, drawing over 100,000 fans to the Los Angeles Convention Center each summer. The 2026 edition runs July 2-5 across all four days, with a massive 340,000-square-foot Exhibit Hall, Artist Alley, J-Pop and ani-song concerts, industry panels, anime premieres, cosplay competitions, autograph sessions, and gaming areas.

The convention is organized by the Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation and runs continuously across all four days. Each day brings different programming, exclusive announcements, and guests from across the anime, manga, and J-Pop industries. Saturday and Sunday draw the largest crowds; Thursday and Friday move at a more manageable pace for exhibit hall access.

The Los Angeles Convention Center is located at 1201 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015, steps from the EXPO/Convention Center Metro station. Badge pickup opens before the convention; pick yours up early to avoid lines. Tickets are available at anime-expo.org. Single-day and four-day badges are offered, with four-day badges providing the best value for full-weekend attendees.

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RAVEKAWA — Chiikawa Anime Rave at Catch One Los Angeles

Little Tokyo Anime and Culture Night -- Los Angeles July 2026

Waku Waku Anime Rave Los Angeles — July 4, 2026

Sonicboombox Anime XP Afterparty 2026 — Anime Expo Weekend

Anime XP 2026 Afterparty — Los Angeles

RAVEKAWA — Chiikawa Anime Rave at The Compound Commerce

Anime Expo 2026 — Day 4

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