Anime Los Angeles 2027

“It returns January 2027 — the New Year con that…”

Some knowledge you cannot buy: which panels are worth lining up an hour early for, which guest signings empty out fast, which late-night rooms never make it onto the printed schedule. Regulars hand that down to each other here, and it is the real inheritance of a convention that has been meeting for over two decades.

The tradeoff for running smaller than Anime Expo is access. To the guests, who trend toward voice actors and fan creators who build their year around Southern California cons. To the programming, which you can actually get into. To each other — the dealer room and artist alley run at a scale where you can move without turning sideways.

Four days at the Long Beach Convention Center, January 7-10, 2027, and they open the convention calendar for the whole region.

Send this to whoever you stood next to in line last year. They are already planning.