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RAVEKAWA — Chiikawa Anime Rave at Catch One Los Angeles

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RAVEKAWA — Chiikawa Anime Rave at Catch One Los Angeles

In 2 days · 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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Anime XP 2026 Afterparty — Los Angeles

In 2 days · Jul 4 – Jul 5 Catch One, 4067 W Pico Blvd, Los A…

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.

Waku Waku Anime Rave Los Angeles 2026 - Los Angeles, CA

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Waku Waku Anime Rave Los Angeles 2026 - Los Angeles, CA

In 2 days · Jul 4 – Jul 5 Moroccan Lounge, 901 E 1st St, Los…

Waku Waku Anime Rave makes its Los Angeles debut on July 4, 2026, at the Moroccan Lounge in the Arts District -- an anime-themed dance party that has been building its reputation on the circuit and is now bringing the energy to LA for the first time. The format is exactly what the name suggests: a rave built around anime music, J-pop, and the kind of night that only makes sense if you have ever watched an episode and felt something move. The crowd brings cosplay energy even without a costume requirement. The Moroccan Lounge is a mid-size venue that gets the density right -- close enough to feel it, not so big that it loses the community feeling that makes anime raves different from a standard club night. July 4th weekend in the Arts District adds its own layer -- the neighborhood is active, Little Tokyo is walking distance, and the timing lands in the middle of Anime Expo week at the Convention Center. If you are in LA for AX and looking for what happens after the exhibit hall closes, this is the answer. LA debut means this is the first time Waku Waku is building its local community here. Demand signal was strong on Eventbrite ('going fast' at listing). Get tickets early -- anime rave crowds are loyal and these events are hard to get into once word spreads. 21+. Check the event listing for exact ticket links and door time.

Waku Waku Anime Rave Los Angeles — July 4, 2026

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Waku Waku Anime Rave Los Angeles — July 4, 2026

In 2 days · Jul 4 – Jul 5 Moroccan Lounge, 901 E 1st St, Los…

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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Waku Waku Anime Rave Los Angeles — July 4, 2026

In 2 days · Jul 4 – Jul 5 Moroccan Lounge, 901 E 1st St, Los…

Waku Waku Anime Rave returns to Los Angeles on July 4, 2026 at the Moroccan Lounge in Downtown LA. Doors open at 9pm. This is the anime rave circuit event the SoCal community has been waiting for: anime openings and OST remixes performed by DJs who grew up watching the same shows as the crowd, in a venue that fits everyone who needs to be there and no one who does not. 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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Anime Expo 2026 — Day 4

In 3 days · 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.

Macross: Do You Remember Love? -- First Official U.S. Theatrical Screening

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Macross: Do You Remember Love? -- First Official U.S. Theatrical Screening

In 3 days · Jul 5 800 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, C…

The film that defined the Macross franchise gets its first official US theatrical run since its original release. Not the streaming version. A theater, the original print, and an audience that knows every frame. The film itself is a theatrical retelling of the original Super Dimension Fortress Macross television series, condensed into a feature-length experience that blends mecha warfare, a love triangle, and the premise that music can end a galactic war. Directed by Noboru Ishiguro and Shoji Kawamori, the film is considered a benchmark of 1980s anime production. Its space battle sequences and character animation set standards that influenced a generation of animators. The soundtrack -- particularly Mari Iijima's original performances of Do You Remember Love? and My Boyfriend Is a Pilot -- became foundational texts of anime music culture. Worth it? Who it's for: If you have watched any Macross series, listened to Mari Iijima, or know what Valkyrie fighters are, this screening is for you -- and for the next 40 years, it will be one of those events you either attended or missed. Classic anime collector culture prizes theatrical screenings of foundational films above almost any contemporary release because of the rarity. This is a once-in-a-lifetime screening, not a revival. It is the first official time. The Novo is a 2,300-seat venue; tickets are limited. What to know before you go: The screening is Sunday July 5, 2026 at noon at The Novo by Microsoft, 800 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles. This is adjacent to Anime Expo 2026 (July 2-5 at LACC), making it a natural anchor for AX attendees. A BIGWEST Macross panel precedes the screening at Anime Expo (July 2, 1 PM, Room 511ABC at LACC). The Novo is walkable from the Convention Center. Buy tickets well in advance -- the collector community for this film is global, not local, and demand will exceed venue capacity. The Macross: Do You Remember Love? theatrical screening is the kind of event the anime community has waited for longer than most of its members have been alive. When licensing barriers fall, they sometimes fall for a single moment. This is that moment. July 5, 2026, The Novo, Los Angeles.

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D&D Adventurers League — Game Empire SD

In 7 days · Jul 9 Free / $5 suggested 7052 Miramar Rd, San Diego, CA 921…

D&D Adventurers League at Game Empire in San Diego runs organized play every week — open table, drop-in format, no ongoing campaign commitment required. Pick up a character or bring your own, and the adventure is self-contained within the session. Good for new players learning the mechanics in a low-stakes environment. Good for experienced players who want to play without the scheduling overhead of a home campaign. The shop provides the space; the AL module provides the structure. Just show up.

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OC Night Market 2026 — Orange County

In 8 days · Jul 10 – Jul 12 Paid admission — see ocnightmarket.com 88 Fair Dr, Costa Mesa, CA 92626

The OC Night Market returns to OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa for multiple weekends throughout summer and fall 2026, one of the most popular Asian night market experiences in Southern California. The market brings together over 200 food vendors, artisan sellers, performers, and entertainment across a sprawling outdoor festival ground that comes alive after dark. Food is the draw. Vendors span all of Southeast Asia, East Asia, and fusion concepts: Korean corn dogs, Taiwanese popcorn chicken, Vietnamese banh mi, Japanese takoyaki, Filipino bibingka, Hong Kong egg waffles, Thai rolled ice cream, and dozens of innovative hybrids that exist nowhere else. Lines form early for the most popular stalls — arrive by 6 PM for best access before the crowds peak. Beyond food, the market features live K-pop performances, a DJ stage, merchandise vendors with streetwear, phone cases, plushies, and art prints, and an activity zone with carnival-style games. The atmosphere is dense, loud, and celebratory — a distinct cultural experience that captures the energy of Asian night markets at a SoCal scale. OC Fair & Event Center is located at 88 Fair Drive in Costa Mesa. Paid parking on-site. Admission is charged at the gate — see ocnightmarket.com for dates, hours, and pricing. Multiple weekends run throughout the season; check for specific event dates.

OCLA Night Market: Natsu Summer Festival 2026 - Rowland Heights

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OCLA Night Market: Natsu Summer Festival 2026 - Rowland Heights

In 8 days · Jul 10 – Jul 12 STC Rowland Legacy, 18991 Colima R…

The Japanese summer festival comes to the heart of Rowland Heights. STC Rowland Legacy transforms into a matsuri for three days in July 2026: takoyaki, yakitori, wagyu skewers, matcha soft-serve, and a vendor alley where everything is worth slowing down for. The OCLA Night Market Natsu Festival runs July 10 through 12. Free admission. This is not a themed experience staged for outsiders. The SGV Japanese-American community has roots here that go back generations. The Natsu Festival is the annual moment when those roots surface publicly in food, cosplay competition, live entertainment, and the density of people who come back every year because it feels like home. The cosplay competition draws the anime fan community from across the region. The food vendor rows serve the neighborhood. Both groups share the same space, producing the cross-pollination that makes SGV events distinct: cultural authenticity and fandom culture occupying the same parking lot. Rowland Heights is the kind of place where you find something you did not know you were looking for. The Natsu Festival is that feeling in summer form. Friday July 10 (5-11pm) Saturday July 11 (3-11pm) Sunday July 12 (3-9pm). STC Rowland Legacy, 18991 Colima Road, Rowland Heights CA 91748.

Jujutsu Kaisen — New Season Watch Party SD

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Jujutsu Kaisen — New Season Watch Party SD

In 8 days · Jul 10 Animé Café, 3671 30th St, San Dieg…

Animé Café, 3671 30th St, San Diego. July 11th. Jujutsu Kaisen's new season arrives on Crunchyroll and Animé Café opens for the watch party — the right room for the right show, where the community that has been waiting for the next arc gets to see it together. The watch party format changes how anime lands. The episode plays in a room where everyone knows the characters, remembers the last season's ending, and has been speculating about what comes next. The moment a favorite character appears: the room reacts. The moment something goes wrong: the room reacts. That collective experience — the gasp, the cheer, the silence that lands before the crowd processes what just happened — is part of the story. You can watch alone. You can also be in the room where it happens. Animé Café is the right setting for the San Diego Jujutsu Kaisen community: a dedicated anime café that understands the material and the people who come for it. July 11th. Check Crunchyroll for the premiere date and crunchyroll.com for stream details. Come before the episode starts to get a seat and a drink ordered. The opening sequence lands differently when sixty people are watching it at the same time.

Synchronicity — FGC Friday Night @ GameSync San Diego (July)

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Synchronicity — FGC Friday Night @ GameSync San Diego (July)

In 8 days · Jul 10 $10 GameSync San Diego, 2860 Main St, …

Synchronicity is GameSync's Friday night fighting game weekly — the longest-running FGC event in San Diego and one of the most established in SoCal. Every Friday at 7 PM: Street Fighter 6, Tekken 8, Guilty Gear Strive, Mortal Kombat 1, Dragon Ball FighterZ, and more. The format is a standard open bracket with a $10 entry fee split between venue and prize pool. Casuals start at 5 PM if you want to warm up before the bracket. Synchronicity draws a range from complete beginners trying their first tournament to seasoned regional players who use the weekly as maintenance practice. The atmosphere is competitive but not hostile — the San Diego FGC has built its reputation on being one of the more welcoming scenes in the country. GameSync is a dedicated esports facility with proper setups and a staff that runs the events cleanly. If you play any of the major titles competitively and live in San Diego, this is your weekly. No appointment needed. Show up, sign up, play. Main Street, Logan Heights, San Diego.

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

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

In 9 days · Jul 11 327 E 2nd St, Los Angeles, CA 90012

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.

Made in Abyss Season 3 — Premiere Watch Party San Diego

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Made in Abyss Season 3 — Premiere Watch Party San Diego

In 10 days · Jul 12 Nerd Bar San Diego, 2847 Universit…

Nerd Bar San Diego, 2847 University Ave, San Diego. July 12th. Made in Abyss Season 3 premieres and Nerd Bar opens for the watch party — the gathering for the community that has been in the Abyss since Season 1 and has spent the intervening years in a specific combination of anticipation and dread for what comes next. Made in Abyss is the anime that builds its audience's trust only to use it against them. The world is beautiful. The characters are beloved. The show understands exactly what it is doing with both. Season 3 arrives with all of that understanding loaded into the room — which means the watch party at Nerd Bar is the place to be when it starts, because the moments this show produces are better witnessed collectively than alone in front of a screen. nerdbarsd.com for event details and reservation. July 12th in North Park. Come before the premiere — the conversation about what happened in Season 2, what's been theorized since, and what the community is quietly terrified of seeing resolved is part of the evening. The bar is there. The show is coming. Be in the room when the Abyss gets deeper.

Anime Cake Picnic 2026 — San Diego Otaku and Foodie Outdoor Event

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Anime Cake Picnic 2026 — San Diego Otaku and Foodie Outdoor Event

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Chula Vista has not had this event before. A picnic for people who care about two things: anime and what they eat. The Anime Cake Picnic is exactly what it sounds like — an outdoor gathering at Escaya Park for San Diego fans who want to spend a summer afternoon with people who share the same two obsessions. The format is a community picnic, which means lawn space, food, and the kind of afternoon that does not have a formal end time. The "Foodies and Otakus of San Diego" framing in the marketing is not accidental — this event assumes that these communities overlap, and invites people who know that is true about themselves. Escaya Park is in the Otay Ranch area of Chula Vista, accessible by car. July 15, 2026 | 12 PM - 8 PM | Escaya Park, 1075 Camino Prado, Chula Vista, CA 91913. Tickets: $12.51. First-year event.

West Coast Card Show — Anaheim Convention Center 2026

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West Coast Card Show — Anaheim Convention Center 2026

In 14 days · Jul 16 – Jul 19 Anaheim Convention Center, Hall D,…

The West Coast Card Show returns to the Anaheim Convention Center for a four-day collectibles extravaganza that has become one of the premier TCG and trading card events on the West Coast. Vendor applications were paused due to overwhelming demand — a strong signal that the collecting and gaming community is showing up in force. Pokémon, One Piece TCG, Magic: The Gathering, and sports cards all have dedicated areas on the floor. Live grading services operate throughout the weekend. The Anaheim Convention Center location puts it minutes from Disneyland and easily accessible from across Orange County, LA, and the Inland Empire. Whether you are a competitive player hunting specific tournament staples, a collector looking for graded slabs from specific eras, or just someone who wants to walk through the largest card show on the West Coast — this is the event. Hall D at the Anaheim Convention Center, July 16-19. Information at westcoastcardshow.com.

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Anime Matsuri San Diego 2026

Jul 17 – Jul 19, 2026 Day pass or weekend badge San Diego Convention Center, 111 W…

Anime Matsuri brings its signature mix of celebrity guests, industry panels, cosplay culture, and vendor hall energy to San Diego — and if the Houston original is any indication, the room temperature will be somewhere between charged and electric from the first hour. Anime Matsuri 2026 at the San Diego Convention Center delivers the experience that serious anime fans cross states for: exclusive premieres, voice actor Q&As, cosplay contests with real prize weight, and a dealer's room stacked with merchandise that doesn't exist on Amazon. What makes Matsuri feel different from other anime cons is the curation. The guests are not afterthoughts — they are the event. When a dub actor or a Japanese seiyuu takes the stage, the crowd in the room has been planning this moment for months. That energy is contagious in a way that convention descriptions always understate and convention attendees always overstate when they're describing it afterward. This is a convention for the person who knows exactly which character's voice they want to say hi to in a hallway. Panel rooms fill fast. Autograph lines form early. The cosplay competition on Saturday night draws competitors who have been working on their costumes since January. San Diego Convention Center, July 2026. Multi-day badges and day passes available at animematsuri.com.

California Extreme Pinball & Arcade Show 2026

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California Extreme Pinball & Arcade Show 2026

Jul 17 – Jul 19, 2026 Santa Clara Convention Center, 500…

You've been in rooms full of pinball machines before. Not like this. Every July, collectors and operators bring their machines to Santa Clara — not for display, not behind velvet rope — but set up on free play for the entire weekend. Five hundred of them. The 1970s electromechanical tables that require a different kind of patience. The golden-age arcade cabinets. The obscure things from the late eighties that haven't been in a room together since the mall they lived in closed down. You pay once to get in, and then you just play. This is California Extreme, July 17-19, 2026 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. The people who go every year describe it the same way: they expected to spend an hour and stayed the whole weekend. The machines are part of it. The other people who showed up knowing exactly where they were going — those people are the rest of it. All-weekend pass recommended. You cannot see five hundred machines in a day. Advance tickets at caextreme.org. Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, CA.

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