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San Diego Comic-Con 2026 — Sunday

Jul 26, 2026 From $50 San Diego Convention Center, 111 W…

By the fourth day everyone is running on no sleep and pure generosity, and it makes the crowd better rather than worse — looser, kinder, glad to tell you where they got that. Sunday is when the cosplay hits full intensity, because it is the last chance to wear the thing you spent all year building. The announcements have already happened. What is left is the floor: publishers moving stock they do not want to ship home, creators selling the last of their limited prints, deals that did not exist on Thursday. Late July in that building, harbor visible through the glass, fifty thousand people who flew in from everywhere — nothing else replicates it. San Diego Convention Center, July 26th, badges from $50 for the final day, and they do not linger. If Sunday is your way in, take it, and go find the artist whose work has been your phone background for years.

KAYOU Walls of Fandom — SDCC 2026 at Petco Park

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KAYOU Walls of Fandom — SDCC 2026 at Petco Park

Jul 23 – Jul 26, 2026 Petco Park Interactive Zone, 100 P…

The walls are ten feet tall and covered in trading card art you have been staring at on your phone screen for months — except now the colors are the size of your entire body and you are standing inside the frame. KAYOU makes its San Diego Comic-Con debut in 2026 with the Walls of Fandom, a free immersive walkthrough experience at the Interactive Zone at Petco Park. This is KAYOU's first convention appearance, and they brought everything: larger-than-life installations inspired by their trading card lines spanning Naruto, My Little Pony, Demon Slayer, and K-pop collectibles. The experience is a love letter to the artwork behind the cards — the craftsmanship that usually lives behind a plastic sleeve, blown up to a scale where you can finally see the brushstrokes. Beyond the walls: on-site card purchasing, a fan meetup at Tito Rick's Garage (2918 Imperial Ave) on Friday July 24 from 5-9pm with trading sessions and casual My Little Pony TCG play, and the SDCC-exclusive Superfan Passport — collect stamps across KAYOU's three locations and unlock rewards. July 23-26, 10am-5pm daily (Sunday until 4pm). Free admission, no badge required.

We Touch Grass: Anime Rave Convention After Party — San Diego

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We Touch Grass: Anime Rave Convention After Party — San Diego

Jul 25 – Jul 26, 2026 Spin Night Club, 2028 Hancock St, …

We Touch Grass brings the anime rave to San Diego during Comic-Con weekend. Spin Night Club becomes the room where the convention crowd goes to let the cosplay breathe and the bass hit different. Touch Grass Entertainment has been running anime raves across the country, building a circuit where the soundtrack is J-pop remixes, anime OSTs turned club bangers, and the energy of a crowd that spent all day at panels and needs the night to match. This is the after-party the anime community shares in group chats before the official schedule drops. Saturday night of SDCC week. 9 PM until late. Spin Night Club, 2028 Hancock St, San Diego, CA 92110.

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San Diego Anime Rave (WeTouchGrass)

Jul 25 – Jul 26, 2026 2028 Hancock Street, San Diego, CA…

Somebody decided that the songs you only ever felt alone — the openings, the OSTs, the themes that hit a nerve no one around you understood — deserved a thousand people and a wall of sound. So they built a dance floor for them. This is the night your most private obsession becomes the loudest thing in the room. The DJ drops an opening you'd know in two notes and the whole floor loses it at once, because everyone here loves the same thing you do at the same embarrassing volume. Cosplay or street clothes, it doesn't matter — the only dress code is "you already know why you're here." It lands on the Saturday of the biggest fandom week of the year, when the city is full of people who came a long way to be among their own. For one night the thing you usually keep to yourself is the reason a roomful of strangers feel like home. Saturday, July 25, 2026, doors 9PM at Spin Nightclub, 2028 Hancock Street, San Diego, CA 92110. 21+.

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Comic Tron - Comic Con After Party

Jul 25 – Jul 26, 2026 1337 India Street, San Diego, CA 9…

The convention center goes dark at six, but the people inside it don't power down — they just need somewhere to put the charge. That's the whole reason a tribute act spent years building replica chromed helmets, a full-scale pyramid stage, and electro-luminescent suits that glow like the inside of a game grid. They believe the best hours of Comic-Con week aren't on the floor at all — they're after, when the badge comes off and the costume stays on and a room full of strangers turns out to be exactly your people. Little Italy's Music Box becomes a Tron sequence for one night: futuristic beats, glowing everything, an "Alive 2007"-style spectacle that treats Daft Punk like scripture. Cosplayers, ravers, and the SDCC crowd who refuse to call it a night all end up under the same lights. You do not need a Comic-Con badge to walk in. Doors at 8PM, the night ignites at 9PM, Saturday, July 25, 2026, at Music Box, 1337 India Street, San Diego, CA 92101. Tickets through Belly Up.

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Lumpia Con 5

Jul 23 – Jul 25, 2026 Free 423 F St, San Diego, CA 92101

Somebody decided that the biggest pop-culture week in the country shouldn't make you choose between where you're from and what you love. So for the fifth year running, a Filipino kitchen in the Gaslamp becomes a fandom headquarters — three nights where the artists' tables, the music, and the food all belong to the same people. You walk in and the room already knows you: FilAm illustrators selling original work off the table, fans who grew up on both anime and adobo, a crowd that doesn't need anything explained. Thursday is Sketch & Scratch — live drawing and music, with original pieces you can buy on the spot. Friday is a meet-and-greet with a free signing. Saturday is the mixer, special guests, the night everyone stays late. No badge required. Nothing to buy at the door. Just a place that decided this community deserved a center during the week the whole world is watching San Diego. Lumpia Con 5 runs Thursday July 23 through Saturday July 25, 2026, nightly from 7pm at Gaslamp Lumpia Factory, 423 F St, San Diego, CA 92101. Free to attend all three nights.

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San Diego Comic-Con 2026 — Saturday

Jul 25, 2026 From $65 San Diego Convention Center, 111 W…

Saturday is the day the whole thing stops pretending to be a convention and becomes whatever it actually is. The floor hits full density. The cosplay reaches an intensity that pulls photographers in from other cities. Hall H holds the panels people slept on concrete for, and the exhibit hall is the fullest it will get all week, every booth running, every exclusive either in somebody's hands or already gone, every aisle moving at the speed of a hundred and thirty thousand people who all made plans. The Saturday afternoon cosplay density is its own documented phenomenon, and by evening the Gaslamp reaches a pitch the rest of the year never approaches. Saturday badges are the hardest to get for exactly this reason. If you have one you already know the assignment: reach the halls you care about early, then leave a hole in the day big enough for the thing you could not have planned. That is the part you will still be telling people about. Comic-Con finds you on Saturday. Let it.

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WeTouchGrass San Diego Anime Rave 2026

Jul 25, 2026 San Diego, CA (venue TBA)

No corporate backing, no major label - just fans building the scene they wanted to exist, and it is one of the most organic community formations happening in SoCal nightlife right now. This is not a watch party or a convention panel. It is a club night built entirely around anime culture: DJ sets spanning J-pop, anime OSTs, city pop edits, and hyperpop, a crowd that shows up in cosplay and stays on the dance floor. The anime rave format has been spreading across multiple cities under the Touch Grass Entertainment banner, and the San Diego edition is part of that expanding circuit - consistent shape every time: a 21+ venue, DJ sets from 9 PM to 2 AM, cosplay-friendly, community-forward. Venue and exact address get announced via the Touch Grass Entertainment social channels closer to the date; check touchgrassent.live for updates and advance ticket links, because capacity is limited and these sell out. If the anime rave circuit filling in across SoCal is your kind of scene, WeTouchGrass San Diego is the door in.

2026 Los Angeles Jiu-Jitsu Open — NABJJF at Cerritos College

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2026 Los Angeles Jiu-Jitsu Open — NABJJF at Cerritos College

Jul 25, 2026 11110 Alondra Blvd, Norwalk, CA 90…

Nobody who has crammed into two cars with their whole gym because somebody had a match forgets that feeling — the hard bleacher, the voice going out, the bracket sheet folded into a pocket. That is who this competition is built for, not the solo grinder chasing federation points. The NABJJF format differs from IBJJF in two ways that matter to a hobbyist: smaller entry fees and a regional registration pool, which is why white belts warm up in the same building as brown belts. Cerritos College helps too — real bleachers and gymnasium space, so you can watch several mats at once instead of losing the one match you drove out for. Gi and No-Gi, every belt, every age, every weight class, one day. Competitors sign up through nabjjf.com in Norwalk; spectators just walk in. Go be the loudest person in the building for someone who will never admit they needed it.

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Mosh Eisley: Best Party In The Galaxy

Jul 24 – Jul 25, 2026 $62 1337 India Street, San Diego, CA 9…

Somebody looked at a galaxy far, far away and at a room full of people screaming the bridge of a song they cried to in high school, and decided those were the same people. They were right. This is the night the Star Wars obsessives and the emo kids stop pretending they're different crowds. The band plays the songs you'd never admit you have memorized. Strangers in Jedi robes and band tees scream every word back at each other like a pew of believers. Cosplay isn't a costume contest here — it's just what you wear to church. The floor is standing-room, the lights go galactic, and for one night the most uncool thing about you becomes the reason a roomful of people love you. Come in costume or come in the shirt you've owned for fifteen years. Both belong. Doors open at 8PM (Cantina Hour early access for the bundle crowd); the party runs Friday, July 24, 2026, 9PM–1:30AM at Music Box, 1337 India Street, San Diego, CA 92101. 21+. Tickets $62 advance.

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San Diego Comic-Con 2026 — Friday

Jul 24, 2026 From $65 San Diego Convention Center, 111 W…

By Friday the nerves are gone. Thursday's opening-day disbelief has burned off, everyone knows which escalator is a trap, and the convention finally becomes the thing it actually is. Hall H has fired its first reveals, so the room now has proof it was worth the line. The exhibit hall is running at capacity. Cosplay density peaks — this is the day the costumes that took a year to build come out, because the people who built them also know what Friday is. Studios schedule their biggest panels for it on purpose, which is why single-day Friday badges are the first to disappear every year. If you are chasing one specific Hall H moment, this is the day you commit to the line. If you are here for the floor, the artist alley, and the way the Gaslamp keeps going long after the halls close, all of it runs at once and none of it lets up until the lights go down. Send it to the friend who has been entering the badge lottery since the year you met.

Audible Level Up Lounge — Dungeon Crawler Carl SDCC 2026

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Audible Level Up Lounge — Dungeon Crawler Carl SDCC 2026

Jul 24, 2026 Swing Social, 527 Fifth Ave, San D…

There is a hallway you have only ever walked in your headphones, and now it has a door. Audible is taking over Swing Social at 527 Fifth Avenue in San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter on July 24-25 for the Level Up Lounge — a free, no-badge-required offsite during San Diego Comic-Con. The activation is built around Dungeon Crawler Carl, the LitRPG phenomenon that turned a man and his cat into the most-listened audiobook series on the platform. Fans can complete themed activities to earn XP redeemable for exclusive loot and prizes. The experience includes a Bobiverse-inspired BobNet zone, a Dungeon Crawler Carl survival station where you can record your own Crawler Incident Report, cosplay touch-up stations, phone charging lounges, photo ops, and more. On Friday July 24 from noon to 6 PM, a fully wrapped Princess Donut Food Truck parks at 502 7th Avenue serving free donut holes — including the Goddamnit Donut (cinnamon), Samantha's Head (powdered sugar), and The Desperado Glaze (vanilla). Saturday features creator panels with bestselling author Matt Dinniman and narrator Jeff Hays from 1-4 PM. Free entry, first come first served.

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8th Annual Comic Con Bar Crawl

Jul 22 – Jul 24, 2026 TORO, 672 Fifth Ave, Gaslamp Quart…

Comic-Con doesn't stop when the convention center closes on Preview Night — it just pours into the Gaslamp. The costumes come out, the bars run themed specials, and for one night the streets fill with people in full character and nowhere to be until tomorrow. This is the after-hours version, and it's a spectacle the show floor can't match. The crawl lives right where convention culture and bar culture overlap, so the crowd is the one fluent in both. The builds range from foam armor somebody worked on for six months to a printed badge and a good attitude, and both are equally welcome — the density of cosplay on Fifth and Sixth during SDCC week is unmatched anywhere in the city. You don't need a Preview Night badge to be part of it; you just need a character you can commit to and a willingness to keep moving. Start at TORO, 672 Fifth Ave in the Gaslamp, on July 23 and follow the route through the participating venues. Wristband options and the full stop list at barcrawls.com/san-diego. Show up as whoever you can commit to being and find your people.

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Party Plus Ultra — Anime Party at Parq Nightclub (SDCC 2026)

Jul 23 – Jul 24, 2026 $30-$125 Parq Nightclub, 615 Broadway, San …

You spend all day on the convention floor, and by night you need a room that matches the energy. Party Plus Ultra is the one the anime community circles on the SDCC schedule before badges even ship -- XLE Productions turning Parq Nightclub, one of the Gaslamp's premier venues, into a full anime experience: cosplay, themed activations, and photo ops for a crowd that earned the night out. Live anime cover band Isekai Stage opens with fan-favorite openings and anthems before DJs Chuck None, DJ Overkill, and Kahn Artest take over until 1:30 AM. XLE has been running SDCC after-parties for years, and this is their signature one. Thursday night of SDCC week at Parq Nightclub, 615 Broadway, San Diego, CA 92101. General admission starts at $30 early bird; VIP available. 21+.

Petco Park Interactive Zone — Free SDCC Offsite Experience 2026

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Petco Park Interactive Zone — Free SDCC Offsite Experience 2026

Jul 23, 2026 Lexus Premier Lot, 100 Park Blvd, …

You do not need a badge to feel like Comic-Con found you. The Interactive Zone at Petco Park is the largest free Comic-Con experience in San Diego — a sprawling lot of brand activations, pop-up shops, food vendors, and cosplay photo ops that turns the Lexus Premier Lot into a theme park for anyone who has ever loved a fictional world more than they can explain. This year's lineup includes MaruMart, an immersive walk-through of a Japanese convenience store from Maruchan with SDCC-exclusive merchandise and surprise giveaways. The Hello Kitty Cafe Truck rolls in with macarons, madeleines, and custom quarter-zips. KAYOU's Walls of Fandom celebrates trading card culture with large-format displays. The Labu'Tique Farmers Market brings Labubus, Squishy Toys, Jelly Cats, and Needohs — the kind of plush haul your inner child has been waiting for. Open Thursday July 23 through Sunday July 26, 10am to 5pm daily (4pm on Sunday). Located in the Lexus Premier Lot next to Petco Park, just across the Harbor Drive pedestrian bridge from the convention center. Free entry. No badge required. Bring the kids, bring the cosplay, bring the energy.

Ready Party One: The Final Level — 2026 SDCC Kick-Off Party

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Ready Party One: The Final Level — 2026 SDCC Kick-Off Party

Jul 22 – Jul 23, 2026 Parq Nightclub, 615 Broadway, San …

The week of San Diego Comic-Con starts before you ever enter the convention center. Ready Party One: The Final Level is how it begins right. Parq Nightclub hosts the SDCC Kick-Off Party on Wednesday July 22 — the night before badge pickup begins, when the city is already filling with fans who flew in from everywhere. Neon-lit gaming and arcade atmosphere, DJs across two floors, a live cosplay showcase, and a set from The Flux Capacitors, one of the most committed Back to the Future tribute acts in the country. No SDCC badge required. Parq is a short walk from the convention center on Broadway. VIP tables and elevated tiers available. Price: $33.85-$321.96. Organized by Experience Level Entertainment. July 22, 2026 | 8 PM - 2 AM.

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Ready Party One: The Final Level

Jul 22 – Jul 23, 2026 $30–$75 615 Broadway, San Diego, CA 92101

Someone decided years ago that the night before the badges go live shouldn't be spent packing a bag in a hotel room. They believed the people who fly in early — the cosplayers, the arcade diehards, the friends who only see each other once a year on this one downtown block — needed a room of their own before the show floor ever opened. So they built one, and they've rebuilt it every summer since 2018. This year it's a neon-lit digital battlefield: arcade legends and fighting-game champions, console warriors, the golden age of gaming rendered in light and bass. There's an 80s tribute band that has been part of this since the beginning, a 90s band, DJs scratching records, and a few thousand people who all got the same text from the same friend that said "this is us, we're going." It is the unofficial opening ceremony of the week — the moment the city stops being a place you visit and starts being a place you belong to. Logistics: Wednesday, July 22, 2026, 8:00 PM to 2:00 AM at Parq Nightclub, 615 Broadway, San Diego, CA 92101 (Preview Night, the night before Comic-Con officially opens). General admission and VIP tickets available through XLE Productions on Tixr.

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PAWmicon 2026 — Comic-Con Pet Cosplay at Balboa Park

Jul 21, 2026 Presidents Way Lawn, Balboa Park, …

Somewhere in your house there is an animal who has been waiting for this. Not for the walk, not for the treat jar — for the moment someone finally sees what you have always known: that your dog was born to be a superhero. PAWmicon is Helen Woodward Animal Center's annual pre-Comic-Con costume contest, and it turns the Presidents Way Lawn at Balboa Park into the most wholesome red carpet San Diego will see all week. Three categories — Flying Solo, Duos and Trios, and Fantastic Floats (for pets with a ride) — and every entry gets a crowd that screams like it is Hall H. The difference is that here, nobody is pretending to be excited. The golden retriever in the Spider-Man suit genuinely believes he is saving the city, and honestly, he might be right. The event is free to watch. Entry is $20 in advance, $30 at the door. It launches on Tuesday, July 21 at 4 PM, two days before Comic-Con opens — which means it is the first cosplay competition of the week, and the only one where the contestants will love you unconditionally afterward. Presidents Way Lawn, Balboa Park, near the Air and Space Museum. Bring a blanket. Bring your phone. Bring the dog who has been rehearsing.

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