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Anime Weekend Atlanta 2026 — Atlanta, GA

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Anime Weekend Atlanta 2026 — Atlanta, GA

Nov 19 – Nov 22, 2026 Georgia World Congress Center, Bui…

The American South's longest-running anime convention has been meeting in Atlanta every September since 1997. Anime Weekend Atlanta is where the Southeast's anime fandom comes to recognize itself. Walk the AWA floor on a Thursday night and the energy hits immediately: cosplayers in elaborate handmade builds line the escalators, artist alley tables overflow with original prints and fan art, and the programming halls pulse with AMVs, panel debates, and late-night gaming tournaments that run until 3 AM. The dealers room is legitimately staggering — vintage merchandise, imports, rare figures, and indie creators all packed into a space where you could spend a full day and still miss things. The masquerade on Saturday night is one of the most theatrical cosplay competitions in the country, drawing contestants who have spent months on a single build. AWA moves differently than the mega-cons: it feels less like a trade show and more like a reunion — because for thousands of attendees, it genuinely is. If you grew up watching anime in the South and never found your people, AWA is the answer. This is not for casual fans who think anime is just Naruto and Dragon Ball. It is for people who obsess over seasonal charts, debate subculture lore, and have a hard drive full of unfinished cosplay plans. First-timers frequently describe AWA as the con that finally felt like home. If you are that person — the one who learned Japanese from subtitles and named a pet after a character — this is worth every flight mile. Book your hotel at the World Congress Center Marriott before August or it will sell out — AWA attendees treat the hotel block as sacred and it fills months in advance. Badge pickup lines on Thursday afternoon are brutal; opt for pre-registration and arrive before noon. The dealers room has no ATMs inside — bring cash, bring more than you think you need, and budget for at least one impulse figure you did not plan for. The programming schedule releases about six weeks before the event and fills fast; panel rooms cap out, so plan your must-see events 30 minutes early. The loading dock area outside Building C is where the best spontaneous cosplay photo shoots happen after dark. It is the convention that proved the South has always had its own thriving fan culture — it just needed a room big enough to hold it. AWA 2026 runs November 19-22 at the Georgia World Congress Center, Building C, Atlanta. Tickets available at eventeny.com.

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AX Chibi 2026

Nov 21 – Nov 22, 2026 Ontario Convention Center, 2000 E …

If you've done Anaheim in July, you know both halves of Anime Expo: the parts you loved and the parts that quietly broke you by day three — the two-hour artist-alley crawl, the panic of a panel line, the heat. This is the version that keeps the first half and throws out the second. Same AX in miniature, in November, when the whole thing finally fits in your hands. At this scale you can actually cover the floor. The creator whose print you've had pinned up since last summer is at a table you can reach; the panels run smaller and longer, so they breathe; the cosplay stays excellent because the AX crowd takes it seriously no matter the size of the room. It's the convention experience with the logistical weight lifted off — the parts that made you fall for AX, minus the parts that sent you home needing a recovery day. Anaheim Convention Center — November 21–22, 2026, badges at anime-expo.org/axchibi. Anaheim in November means no summer heat and no parking line to the street. Two days is exactly the right amount.

Fear Factory with Darkest Hour and Brotality

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Fear Factory with Darkest Hour and Brotality

Nov 27, 2026 $33 The Glass House, 200 W 2nd St, Pom…

Machines were going to take over long before the headlines caught up, and Fear Factory has been scoring that dread since 1989 — industrial metal built like an assembly line, riffs that chug like pistons, clean-sung choruses fighting through a wall of mechanized rage. Their whole catalog is a warning about man versus machine, and three decades on it lands harder than ever, which is its own bleak joke. This is a night for the metal faithful who like their heaviness with a concept and a spine, with modern metalcore crew Darkest Hour and openers Brotality bringing the newer blood. The Glass House in Pomona gets loud enough to rattle fillings. Friday, November 27, 2026, doors 7pm, all ages. Come let a wall of industrial precision pummel the holiday stress out of you, with a crowd that has been showing up for this sound since before half the room was born. Wear the black shirt you save for the heavy ones; tonight earns it.

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Anime Frontier 2026 — Fort Worth, TX

Dec 4, 2026 Fort Worth Convention Center, 1201…

There is a convention center in Fort Worth where, for three days every December, the cowboys and the cosplayers share the same sidewalk — and nobody blinks, because Texas has always been bigger than any one identity. Anime Frontier returns to the Fort Worth Convention Center December 4–6, 2026, for three days of premieres, panels, and special appearances from some of the biggest names in anime and manga. Presented by Crunchyroll, Anime Frontier has carved out a space that the East Coast cons like Anime NYC and Otakon and West Coast cons like Anime Expo do not cover — the entire middle of the country, where anime fandom runs just as deep but the nearest major convention used to be a 12-hour drive. The convention has grown rapidly since its launch, filling a geographic gap that the anime community had been complaining about for years. The exhibitor hall and artist alley bring together hundreds of vendors, from official merch drops to independent artists whose work you will only find at cons like this. The programming runs from industry panels and world premieres to cosplay showcases and community meetups, and the scale is big enough to feel like a real convention without the crushing density of a 100K-attendance mega-con. New for 2026 is a Kids Sunday ticket and a dedicated Family Zone presented by Scholastic — a signal that Anime Frontier is building for the next generation of fans, not just serving the current one. If you are an anime fan in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, or anywhere in the central United States, Anime Frontier is the con that finally means you do not have to fly to a coast. If you are a veteran con-goer from either coast, Fort Worth offers something the big cons cannot — a manageable size, walkable downtown hotels and restaurants, and the Texas hospitality that makes out-of-towners want to come back every year. Tickets include single-day and 3-day badges, with Premium AF passes for extra access and perks. Ordering by October 23 gets your badge shipped before the event. Fort Worth in December is mild enough for outdoor cosplay without the summer heat that plagues most anime cons. The convention center is downtown, walkable to dozens of restaurants and bars, and the whole experience feels like a community gathering rather than a corporate expo. For the anime community in the middle of America, Anime Frontier is no longer the new con — it is the home con.

Pasadena Holiday Tournament of Roses House Tour 2026

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Pasadena Holiday Tournament of Roses House Tour 2026

Dec 26 – Dec 30, 2026 Pasadena, CA 91103

Everyone watches the floats roll down Colorado Boulevard on New Year's morning. Almost nobody sees the wire skeleton underneath, or the volunteers on scaffolding placing individual flowers by hand in the cold days beforehand. The Decorating Facilities Walk gets you into the barns while the floats are half-finished, which is the only state in which you truly understand them. Every surface is organic material, seeds and petals and bark, glued on one piece at a time until an image resolves out of it, and the more of that process you watch the more absurd and moving the finished parade becomes. The association behind all of it has been running the parade since the eighteen-nineties, and its house on Orange Grove opens for tours as well. Pasadena in December, in the last weeks before the first, tickets through the association. Go once and you will never watch the parade the same way again. Take whoever watches it with you every year.

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Anime Los Angeles 2027

Jan 7 – Jan 10, 2027 Long Beach Convention Center, 300 …

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.

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Anime Pasadena 2027

Mar 13 – Mar 14, 2027 Pasadena Convention Center, 300 E …

The panels are the reason to go, which is not a sentence anyone gets to say honestly about most conventions. Blame the geography. This corner of the city sits within a few miles of Caltech, JPL, and the studios, which produces a fan base that reads closely, argues in specifics, and will not let a guest coast through a Q and A. The questions are better here. Everybody notices it eventually. The rest is the good stuff done properly: voice actor panels and signings, a cosplay competition judged on actual craftsmanship, an artist alley of independent creators selling original work, a vendor hall, and a game room running open play all weekend. Old Town is the other half of the argument — you walk out for real dinner instead of eating a pretzel over a trash can, and the Gold Line puts you a few blocks off. Bring the friend who takes the craftsmanship judging personally. They will find their people inside of an hour.

Star Wars Celebration 2027 — Los Angeles Convention Center

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Star Wars Celebration 2027 — Los Angeles Convention Center

Every day · Next Apr 1 Los Angeles Convention Center, 120…

Fifty years ago a farm boy looked up at twin suns and a generation learned what longing sounds like. Star Wars Celebration returns to Los Angeles on April 1–4, 2027, to mark the 50th anniversary of the film that changed everything. This is the gathering where Lucasfilm pulls back the curtain — world premieres of upcoming projects, panels with the creators who are building the next chapters, first looks at footage that won't exist anywhere else for months. The show floor spans the LA Convention Center with immersive exhibits, a cosplay showcase that draws the most ambitious builders on the planet, exclusive merchandise that sells out before lunch, and the collective energy of tens of thousands of people who all trace something essential about who they are back to that same opening crawl. The 50th anniversary makes this one different. Half a century of stories, characters, music, and moments that shaped how an entire culture thinks about heroism, redemption, and the distance between who you are and who you could be. Whether you've been here since 1977 or discovered it last year, Celebration is the room where every version of that journey is valid. What makes Star Wars Celebration unlike any other fan convention is that it is the only place where the future of the franchise is revealed first. Every major announcement — from The Mandalorian's debut trailer to Ahsoka's first footage to the reveal of new theatrical films — happened at Celebration before it happened anywhere else. The industry comes because Lucasfilm treats this room as the premiere venue. The fans come because they've been part of this story longer than most relationships in their lives. Expect four full days of programming: the headline showcase at the Honda Center (separate ticket tier), hundreds of panels across multiple stages, the Fan Stage where cosplayers and community creators take the spotlight, interactive experiences that put you inside the worlds of the saga, and the Artist Alley where illustrators who shaped the visual language of Star Wars sell original work. Four-day adult passes from $260.99. Children 4–12 from $105.99. Los Angeles Convention Center. April 1–4, 2027. Tickets via starwarscelebration.com.

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Attack on Titan - Symphony from Paradis

Apr 17, 2027 6801 Hollywood Blvd., Dolby Theatr…

Shinzo wo Sasageyo. If reading that raised something in your chest, you already know why this matters, and you can stop reading right here. For everyone else: this score did an enormous amount of the emotional work in a story about impossible choices, and until now there has never been an officially licensed orchestral performance of it anywhere on earth. Hiroyuki Sawano and Kohta Yamamoto curated new symphonic arrangements for more than a hundred musicians and a full choir, with the series projected on a giant screen behind them, so the whole arc runs while the music that scored it fills a real room instead of your headphones. There is a particular thing that happens when a live choir comes in on music you have only ever heard compressed through earbuds at one in the morning. It is not subtle. Hollywood, a proper theater, one night only. Dedicated to the hearts. Bring the person you watched the last season with — the one who still refuses to discuss the ending.

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Attack on Titan - Symphony from Paradis

Apr 18, 2027 6801 Hollywood Blvd., Dolby Theatr…

The first piano notes land and a theater full of strangers stops breathing at the same instant, because every one of them carried this story home years ago and never quite put it down. This is the officially licensed orchestral concert, with new symphonic arrangements curated by the original composers, Hiroyuki Sawano and Kohta Yamamoto, played by more than a hundred musicians and a choir while projection scales the series up to the size it always deserved. Shinzo wo Sasageyo in a room like that stops being a song. It is a full theater offering up its hearts for a freedom none of them were ever sure existed, out loud, most of them in a language they do not speak. The Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, with tickets through Ticketmaster. If you have been waiting for the day this music became something you could stand inside, it is finally on a calendar.

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Saiyan Paint Night 2027 — Long Beach

May 28, 2027 Ambitious Ales, Long Beach, CA

Everyone at your table is painting the same scene and every canvas is going to come out different, and at some point somebody will say it's over nine thousand and the whole room will groan and not one person will actually be annoyed. That is the appeal. A fan-organized paint night with an instructor walking the room, a predetermined anime subject, and every material handed to you, so the barrier is zero — you do not need to be able to draw, and nobody is judging the proportions on your Goku. What you leave with is a thing you made and a table of people who needed none of it explained. The brewery in Long Beach keeps the beer and the food coming, cosplay is fair game, and these sell through ahead of time. Bring the friend who insists they cannot draw. That is precisely the person this was built for.

Anime Riverside 2027 — Inland Empire Convention

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Anime Riverside 2027 — Inland Empire Convention

May 29 – May 31, 2027 Riverside Convention Center, 3637 …

An hour to Los Angeles for the big convention, an hour back at one in the morning — that is what being an anime fan out here has always meant. This is the year that stopped. There is a real pride in a room full of people from Riverside, San Bernardino, Temecula and Redlands who finally did not have to leave home to find each other. It is the whole format at a scale you can actually walk: panels, an exhibit hall, artist alley, gaming rooms, and a cosplay contest judged by a crowd that recognizes the characters without being told. No airport-terminal sprawl. That trade was made on purpose — less distance between you and the thing you came for. The convention takes over the Riverside Convention Center downtown, with dates confirming at animeriverside.com. Bring the friends who made that drive with you one too many times.

Anime Expo 2027 — Los Angeles Convention Center

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Anime Expo 2027 — Los Angeles Convention Center

Jul 1 – Jul 4, 2027 Los Angeles Convention Center, 120…

You will be tired in a way that feels earned. Four days, a hundred thousand people, and not one of them needs you to explain what you are talking about. The largest anime convention in North America takes the Los Angeles Convention Center over Fourth of July weekend and spills into the JW Marriott and the Ritz-Carlton beside it. Industry panels, screening rooms, autograph sessions with voice actors and composers, concerts that sell out weeks ahead. Studios from Japan use this as their main North American announcement stage — if a sequel or adaptation is being revealed, it often happens in a room you could be standing in. The exhibit hall carries imported merchandise and collaboration exclusives that surface nowhere else on the continent. Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 S Figueroa St. Thursday through Sunday. Badges run from top-tier early-access down to single-day passes. Book the connected hotel corridor months out. Everyone who tells you that learned it the hard way.

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Anime Expo 2027 — Day 1 (Thursday)

Jul 1, 2027 Los Angeles Convention Center, 120…

Everyone plans for the weekend, which is exactly why the people who have done this before block out Thursday. Opening day of the largest Japanese animation gathering in the world is the quiet one — quiet being relative when a hundred thousand people move through a convention center across four days. Artist Alley has lines you can actually stand in. The exclusive merch booths still have stock. The top-tier badge lanes clear in minutes instead of swallowing your morning. You pick up your badge, walk a floor nobody has picked over yet, and set up the rest of your weekend while everyone else is still at work. Thursday carries real weight anyway: the Anisong concert, studio panels, cosplay gathering coordination, and a marketplace where licensed goods sit a table away from things you will never find again. The Convention Center downtown, off the Metro at Pico Station. Badges go on sale well in advance and the good tiers vanish fast. Find the friend who says every year that they will go next year.

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Anime Expo 2027 — Day 2 (Friday)

Jul 2, 2027 Los Angeles Convention Center, 120…

The announcement you will see trending worldwide by dinner happens in a room you could be standing in at lunch. That is the entire case for showing up on the first full public day instead of easing in over the weekend. This is when the building finally hits capacity and the studio panels start dropping licensing reveals and surprise first episodes. Anisong sets bring Japanese recording artists who almost never play the States. Voice actors and creators sign all afternoon. The floor and Artist Alley run flat out from open to close — hundreds of independent artists selling prints, charms, and original work — and the sweet spot for actually shopping it is early afternoon, before the prime-time panels pull the crowd away. The Metro drops you a short walk from the doors. A main badge covers daytime programming, panels, the floor, and the alley; the big concerts ticket separately. Send it to the friend with a simulcast tab open right now. They will not need convincing.

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Anime Expo 2027 — Day 3 (Saturday)

Jul 3, 2027 Los Angeles Convention Center, 120…

The Masquerade streams live every year, and watching the stream is a completely different event from sitting in that hall. On a screen you see a costume. In the room you see the seams — the thermoplastic, the wiring, the months somebody spent on a shoulder piece nobody was ever supposed to notice. Hundreds of competitors, judged on craft and on performance, and the noise when a build lands is unlike anything else all weekend. Saturday is the peak of the whole convention. The biggest announcements come out on Saturday. The panel halls hit capacity on Saturday. Artist Alley lines wrap around entire wings, English voice actors do live readings, and Japanese creators appear in person or beamed in from across the ocean. Come early for the exclusives, then return to the exhibit floor after the main panels, when it briefly calms down. The Expo Line lets you out right there. Badges go first for this day. Ask the friend you always lose in Artist Alley.

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Anime Expo 2027 — Day 4 (Sunday)

Jul 4, 2027 Los Angeles Convention Center, 120…

Everyone chases the opening days — the announcements, the premieres, the Hall H-sized adrenaline. The people who know AX chase the last one. Sunday is when the world's largest anime convention exhales: the lines go short, the floor slows down, and the conversations finally stop being shouted between panels and start being real. It's also the day the floor gets generous. Artist Alley cuts prices to clear the table, exhibitors let exclusive merch go at a discount, and the Closing Ceremonies — the weekend cosplay recap, the Masquerade awards, the official goodbye — mark the moment four days of strangers become the community that'll wait a whole year to reassemble. Day 4 badges are the easiest to find on resale and the most underrated ticket of the convention. And in 2027 the finale lands on the Fourth of July, with fireworks visible from parts of the LACC plaza depending on which way they launch. Anime Expo 2027, Sunday July 4, Los Angeles Convention Center. Take Metro or rideshare — downtown parking and traffic are brutal on the Fourth. Come for the goodbye; it's the part that stays with you.

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