Crunchyroll Anime FanFest 2026 — San Diego

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Crunchyroll Anime FanFest 2026 — San Diego

Name: Crunchyroll Anime FanFest 2026 — San Diego
Start: 2026-07-25T13:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-07-27T00:00:00-07:00
Location: 222 Marina Park Way, San Diego, CA 92101

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Two days, an outdoor amphitheater on the bay, every artist on the stage shaped by the same soundtracks you have been listening to alone. Free. No badge. Just show up.

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Sat, Jul 25 – Mon, Jul 27, 2026

Sat 1:00 PM PDT – Mon 12:00 AM PDT

222 Marina Park Way, San Diego, CA 92101

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“Two days, an outdoor amphitheater on the bay, every artist…”

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ONE PIECE Fest 2026 — Los Angeles (COSM LA)

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ONE PIECE Fest 2026 — Los Angeles (COSM LA)

Aug 25 – Aug 26, 2026 COSM Los Angeles, Inglewood, CA

If you have been watching One Piece long enough to know what Elbaph means, this event was built for you. ONE PIECE Fest 2026 is the first official Toei Animation production of its kind in North America — two days inside COSM Los Angeles, an 87-foot LED dome in Inglewood that wraps the entire room in continuous animated One Piece visuals. Floor. Ceiling. Walls. All of it moving. The experience is themed around the Elbaph arc — the land of giants at the center of the current manga storyline — which means attending this in 2026 puts you inside the story as it is happening, not in a museum of what already ended. Attendees from the Tokyo edition describe it as the closest thing to actually stepping onto the Grand Line. That is not marketing copy. That is fans trying to explain something a photo cannot capture. The festival runs August 25–26, 2026 at COSM LA (777 Prairie Ave, Inglewood, CA 90301). Doors open at 10:00 AM each day. Day one is the high-demand session — exclusive merchandise goes fast, often before noon on the first day. Day two typically has more breathing room for the dome immersion and interactive installations. If you have access to both days, prioritize merch on the morning of day one and save the dome experience for day two when crowds thin. Capacity is approximately 7,000 across both days and access is lottery-based. Fan communities on Discord have been organizing group registrations since the announcement. The lottery is not a suggestion — register before it closes. After lottery notification, tickets move through Ticketmaster for official purchase. COSM LA is in Inglewood adjacent to SoFi Stadium. Transit: Metro K Line (Crenshaw/LAX line) to Inglewood Station, approximately a 10-minute walk. Parking: SoFi Stadium campus lots are the closest option. Arrive before doors — entry is timed and lines form early. Merch is exclusive to the event and does not ship. Cosplay is strongly encouraged. The crowd spans all ages and all factions of One Piece fandom. One Piece has been running for 27 years. The Elbaph arc is the payoff fans have waited a decade for. ONE PIECE Fest 2026 is where you experience that payoff inside a room engineered specifically for it. Events like this do not happen twice in the same city. This is the one. What to know before you go: tickets are sold in timed entry windows — selecting your session matters more than most events. The dome experience runs approximately 45-60 minutes and is designed for repeat entry across both days if you purchase a weekend pass. COSM is located in Inglewood near SoFi Stadium with parking available on-site and rideshare reliable from the Inglewood transit hub. The event runs August 25 and 26 only, with two sessions each day (10am–2pm and 4pm–8pm). Plan around your preferred arc moments — the Elbaph-themed visual sequences hit differently when the dome runs at full darkness. The cultural moment: ONE PIECE Fest at COSM is not a convention and not a screening. It is the first time Toei Animation has built a complete immersive environment around an active manga storyline in the United States. If you have followed the Elbaph arc in real time, this event is a live entry in a story you are already inside. Tickets are sold in pairs at $109 per pair and are non-transferrable — the name on the order stays with the ticket. Sessions run 10am–2pm or 4pm–8pm; book the session that works for your crew before the other fills. If you discovered One Piece through the Netflix live-action adaptation, this is where you understand why 500 million people have followed Luffy across 25 years. Either way, the dome is the room where it becomes three-dimensional.

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Somewhere in that hall is a holographic Charizard, and the only way to know if today is the day you find it is to walk the walls of long boxes yourself. With over 900 dealer tables across West Hall A, this is the trading card, anime, and pop culture floor experience that turns casual fans into lifelong collectors: Pokemon, Magic: The Gathering, One Piece, and sports cards alongside anime merchandise, Funko POPs, vintage toys, comics, and rare video games. Whether you're hunting that Charizard, completing a One Piece set, or just browsing walls of nostalgia, the day is built for the hunt - live box break events, trading sessions, celebrity guest appearances, and convention-only merchandise drops. The Los Angeles Convention Center West Hall A offers easy parking and sits centrally for collectors from across Southern California - LA, Orange County, the Inland Empire, and San Diego all have strong collector communities that converge here. Collect-A-Con Los Angeles 2026, August 1-2, doors at 10am both days. Two-day passes and general admission via Ticketmaster, with VIP early entry options. Come ready to trade, hunt, and discover.

Crunchyroll The Loop — Immersive Anime Pop-Up at Westfield Topanga

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You've watched the fight scenes on your phone in bed. You've paused on the frame where the animation budget clearly tripled. Now imagine walking into that frame — not a poster of it, not a gift shop version, but the room itself, rebuilt at full scale, waiting for you to stand where the character stood. Crunchyroll's The Loop is a free immersive pop-up experience at Westfield Topanga in Canoga Park, and it's built for the people who don't just watch anime — they live inside it. The current rotation features Solo Leveling, Sentenced to Be a Hero, and Bananya, each with its own themed room complete with photo opportunities, audio and visual installations, and replica props that exist specifically so you can hold them. General admission is free, with a standby line when the space reaches capacity. A fifteen-dollar limited-edition pin pack buys fast-pass access to skip the wait. The space rotates its featured series, so the rooms you visit this month won't be the same ones that open next. Follow @discovertheloop for schedule updates. Open now through late August 2026. Westfield Topanga, first floor near The Village food court, below the AMC. Canoga Park, CA.

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If you grew up on kung fu films, on anime with real fight choreography, on any corner of Asian pop culture that taught you a body could move like that, this is the room where all of it lives in one place - and this year it turns twenty. The Martial Arts History Museum's flagship celebration returns August 1, 2026 at the Glendale Civic Auditorium for the 20th Annual Dragonfest Expo, its biggest milestone yet. It calls itself the greatest cultural and martial arts expo in the world, and the twenty-year mark brings the full scale of that claim to Glendale: meet-and-greets, Q&A sessions, and photo opportunities with the martial arts celebrities and icons who defined the art on film and in competition, a six-part Q&A lecture series with guest speakers, Asian cultural performances, and a full cosplay photo experience for the anime and gaming crowd that has always overlapped with martial arts fandom. The Martial Arts History Museum is a nonprofit dedicated to preserving martial arts history and culture, and it runs this as its annual showcase - all proceeds fund the museum directly. All ages welcome. Six hours of programming from 11 AM to 5 PM, with paid parking at the Glendale Civic Auditorium, accessible by Metro and public transit from across LA County. If you have been to Dragonfest before, this is the year you don't skip. If you haven't, this is the year to start. August 1, 2026 - Glendale Civic Auditorium.

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There are rooms in the comics and gaming world where the art on the walls and the people running the tables look different from every other convention. SheroCon exists because someone decided to build one. Organized by Shero Comics, SheroCon is a half-day convention celebrating women, non-binary, and femme-presenting creators across comics, anime, gaming, and creative tech. Not a panel about inclusion. Not a track added to a larger convention. A room that is entirely theirs — with artists, cosplayers, tabletop players, and workshops oriented around the communities that are underrepresented at every other show. The venue is part of the experience: Valley Relics Museum in Van Nuys houses decades of Southern California neon, vintage signage, and pop culture ephemera. The backdrop alone makes SheroCon unlike anything you have seen at a hotel ballroom convention. Whether you are a creator looking for your people, a cosplayer looking for a stage, or someone who has walked into convention dealer halls and felt like a tourist — this is the room that was built for you. Saturday, August 1, 2026 · 12PM–6PM · Valley Relics Museum, Van Nuys · All ages · Free entry (premium tiers available)

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Anime SD: Summer Cosplay Social

Tomorrow · Aug 1 Free Balboa Park, San Diego, CA 92101

No ticket, no badge, no schedule - just a character and the willingness to show up in the park where the architecture hands every costume the backdrop it deserves. Balboa Park in August turns outdoor cosplay photography into production work with no production behind it. The Spanish Colonial Revival buildings, the fountain plazas, the museum facades all read as fantasy environments no matter what you are cosplaying. An armor build catches the afternoon light against the Botanical Building in a way photographers plan shoots around; a soft character design photographs against the garden with no post-processing needed. The social runs as an open community gathering - no formal schedule, no judging, no hierarchy between the group who spent six months on a build and the group in store-bought costumes who came because it looked fun. Both are welcome. Photographers with real cameras show up alongside phone cameras. The park provides the setting; the people provide the energy. Follow Anime SD on Meetup for the exact gather location: meetup.com/anime-watch-san-diego. Balboa Park, August 1st, 2026. Free. Show up in costume and find your people.

What it was like

This is what it sounds like when 10,000 anime fans hear the opening notes of something they have been listening to alone for years.

Crunchyroll Anime FanFest returns to San Diego Comic-Con, taking over the Rady Shell at Jacobs Park for a two-day music festival built entirely around the genres that anime made famous. The venue sits on San Diego Bay, directly behind the Convention Center, free and open to anyone — no badge, no wristband, no cost.

The format: two days, multiple stages, a lineup mixing Japanese artists with Western producers shaped by anime culture. The inaugural 2025 edition featured SPYAIR, yama, ASH DA HERO, and Denzel Curry sharing the same stage — not as a novelty but as a coherent playlist. The 2026 lineup will be announced closer to the event.

Gates open Saturday July 25 at 1 PM. Sunday July 26 continues the format. The convention badge crowd mixes with fans who came specifically for this and nothing else. Two days at one of San Diego's best outdoor amphitheaters, surrounded by the bay, and it costs nothing.

The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, 222 Marina Park Way, San Diego. Free admission.

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