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SOUL COMIX CON 2026 — Leimert Park Los Angeles

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SOUL COMIX CON 2026 — Leimert Park Los Angeles

Jun 27, 2026 Barbara Morrison Performing Arts C…

SOUL COMIX CON is a comics festival dedicated to celebrating Black creators, Black characters, and Black storytelling across the comics medium. Organized by DP COMIX and held at the Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center in Leimert Park, one of Los Angeles's most important African American cultural neighborhoods, SOUL COMIX CON brings together indie comics, superhero comics, and graphic novels by Black artists and writers. Attendees can meet Black comic book creators in person, purchase original artwork and limited-edition prints directly from the artists who made them, and discover independent comics that are not available at any chain retailer. A cosplay party is included in the programming, with a focus on characters from Black-created and Black-led comics properties. Family-friendly and all ages. Saturday June 27, 11am to 5pm. Free or low-cost admission. Leimert Park is accessible by Metro and is one of the city's premier destinations for Black art, culture, and community. SOUL COMIX CON represents the kind of niche community gathering that is the reason Falkor exists — a room full of people who care deeply about the same thing, assembled for one afternoon.

MTG Marvel Super Heroes — Tabletop Release Day

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MTG Marvel Super Heroes — Tabletop Release Day

Jun 26, 2026 Local Game Shops — SoCal

Local game shops across SoCal. June 26th. The Magic: The Gathering Marvel Super Heroes Tabletop Release Day is the day the set is officially live at retail — the Friday when the shelves open, the sealed product hits the counters, and the set that everyone has been previewing for weeks is finally available to crack open. Release Day is not a tournament — it's the celebration of a new set arriving. The local game store events on release day vary by store: some run draft pods, some run sealed, some open the day with casual play and prize support for the first players in. The Marvel set brings the full IP catalog into Magic's card frame for the first time, which means every card is legible at two levels — the Magic mechanic and the character it's built around. Find your local SoCal game store at magic.wizards.com and check their release day events for June 26th. The first weekend of a new set is when the community gathers to figure out what everything does — the theory meets the card for the first time. Bring your deck-building instincts and expect to be surprised by how the set actually plays versus how it read in spoiler season.

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Anime Temecula Valley — Monthly Meetup June 2026

Every 3rd Sunday · Next Oct 18 Promenade Temecula, 40820 Winchest…

The conventions are the easy part. Everyone shows up for those. The harder thing is finding people who watch what you watch on an ordinary month with nothing on the calendar. That is what this is. A rotating cast of regulars who know each other by username, arguing about which episode of Frieren or Re:Zero actually landed this season and trading watch lists the way baseball fans once traded cards. Nobody is wearing their best cosplay to impress strangers — cosplay is welcome and never expected. The conversation is the draw. The mid-month timing is deliberate. It was built to not compete with weekend conventions, so it serves the person who already goes to AX in July but wants something closer to home the rest of the year. Promenade Temecula, 40820 Winchester Rd. No fee, no signup. The Meetup group carries the dates. Show up, say what you are watching, stay as long as you want.

One Piece Card Game: Pirates Party — Los Angeles

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One Piece Card Game: Pirates Party — Los Angeles

Jun 20, 2026 Entry fee required; varies by event TBD — Greater Los Angeles Area, CA

The One Piece Card Game Pirates Party 2026 regional event lands in the greater Los Angeles area — and the timing could not be more deliberate. With ONE PIECE Fest set for COSM LA in August, the TCG scene is reaching crystallization phase in SoCal: the anime is at peak cultural moment, the card game is in its most competitive window, and the regional tournament format brings competitive players face to face with the community that texts each other about pulls at 11pm. Pirates Party is Bandai Namco's signature regional event format: competitive main events, side tournaments, exclusive promo card distribution, community meetups, and the kind of trading floor energy that doesn't happen on Discord. SoCal has one of the most active One Piece Card Game communities in North America — the competitive circuit here runs through multiple stores in LA, Orange County, and San Diego year-round. Whether you are grinding ranked play or showing up to trade and watch, this is the room where the SoCal One Piece TCG community will be in May-June 2026. Registration through the official One Piece Card Game website. Exact venue to be announced — follow the official channels for confirmation. Promo cards distributed to all registered participants. Show up with your best deck and an empty binder.

MTG Marvel Super Heroes Prerelease — TCS Rockets

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MTG Marvel Super Heroes Prerelease — TCS Rockets

Jun 19, 2026 7626 Miramar Rd Suite 3900, San Di…

For one morning, everyone in the room is a beginner again. New-card day has a texture you can feel the second you walk into the shop -- forty people hunched over six packs each, sleeving creatures that didn't exist yesterday, doing math on abilities nobody has tested. On the day a Magic set becomes legal, the playing field is as level as it will ever be: no solved format, no one who's already cracked it, just a room full of players figuring it out at the same time. That's the Prerelease, and it's the weekend that belongs to the whole Magic community rather than the grinders. Sealed means you open six packs and build from exactly what you get -- you can't show up with an optimized list, only show up and work it out. The Marvel Super Heroes set brings an IP that Magic players already recognize, which makes it a genuinely good entry point: the characters are familiar even when the mechanics aren't legible yet. TCS Rockets runs its prereleases with everything the format needs -- organized pods, experienced judges, prize support, and the specific charge of a game store the morning a set drops. Playing well here means playing well under uncertainty, and on a brand-new set, everyone in the building is under it together. TCS Rockets, 7626 Miramar Rd, San Diego. June 19th. Arrive early for your pack allocation. Set details at magic.wizards.com.

MTG Marvel Super Heroes Prerelease — GameStar Hobbies

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MTG Marvel Super Heroes Prerelease — GameStar Hobbies

Jun 19, 2026 27380 Jefferson Ave Ste 101, Temec…

Nobody in the pod has solved it yet -- and for one weekend, nobody can. There's a specific thrill to the first day a Magic set is legal: the format is a blank map, there are no netdecks to copy, no one at the table has already figured out which cards win. Everyone is reading the new Marvel Super Heroes cards for the first time, discovering at the table what they actually do. The player across from you cracked the same six packs of uncertainty you did. That's what a Prerelease is, and it's the rare Magic weekend that belongs to the whole community and not just the grinders. Sealed format means you show up with nothing and build from what you open -- no optimized list, just forty-five minutes and whatever the packs gave you. The Marvel set folds an IP everyone already knows into Magic's frame, so every card reads twice: the mechanic it performs and the character it embodies. It's a good place to start if you've been curious. GameStar Hobbies is the Temecula shop that runs Magic with real infrastructure -- organized pods, experienced judges, prize support, and the particular electricity of a local game store on new-card day. It's the Inland Empire's Prerelease for players who've been waiting on this set and want to play it the day it's legal. GameStar Hobbies, 27380 Jefferson Ave, Temecula. June 19th. Show up early for your pack allocation. Full spoilers and set details at magic.wizards.com.

One Piece Card Game Regional Championship -- Los Angeles 2026

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One Piece Card Game Regional Championship -- Los Angeles 2026

Jun 13 – Jun 14, 2026 1201 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, C…

You've been shuffling the same sixty cards against yourself for three weeks. You know the matchup spread, the mulligan lines, the exact turn the deck either wins or falls apart. What you can't know -- not until you're across the table from someone who did the same thing with a different list -- is whether you were right. That's what a Regional is for. The One Piece Card Game barely landed in North America and the competitive scene already plays like it's been here a decade. On June 13 and 14, CoreTCG runs the Regional Championship at the Los Angeles Convention Center -- the biggest organized-play weekend on the Southern California OPTCG calendar, the one people rearrange their month around. CoreTCG is the organizer the serious players trust to run a clean bracket, which is why the room fills with people who didn't drive in to have fun so much as to find out where they actually stand. Open bracket, two days -- the kind of tournament where the metagame for the next month gets decided in real time, and you get to watch it happen or be the one who decides it. Entry is $37, registration runs through rk9.gg (the platform every OPTCG player already lives on for standings and pairings), and the deadline is June 12 at 7 p.m. -- miss it and you're spectating. Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 S Figueroa St, right off the Metro Expo Line.

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Hentai Matsuri 2026 — San Diego

Jun 12 – Jun 14, 2026 Varies — see Eventbrite for badge options 950 Hotel Circle North, Mission Va…

Three days of programming the mainstream anime circuit won't run. Hentai Matsuri returns to the Handlery Hotel in San Diego's Mission Valley for panels, cosplay, a vendor hall, and more — June 12–14, 2026. Hentai Matsuri is a deliberately adult-oriented anime and pop culture convention that leans into the parts of anime fandom that other conventions treat as secondary — mature art, doujinshi culture, cosplay without content restrictions, and creator-forward panel programming. The convention has built a loyal following in the Southern California anime community over multiple editions: repeat attendees recognize the crowd, and the crowd recognizes itself. Panels cover creator meetups, figure collecting, the adult animation industry, fan art culture and cosplay-adjacent programming. The vendor hall leans toward independent artists, doujinshi creators and specialty merchandise you won't find at a larger general-audience con. The convention floor operates on a schedule; the hotel lobby runs on a different clock. If you've maxed out Anime Expo and want something smaller, more focused and unfiltered, this is the room. Handlery Hotel, Mission Valley. 18+ with government ID.

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

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

Every 2nd Saturday · Next Oct 10 327 E 2nd St, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Everyone plans for convention season. Nobody plans for the ordinary Thursday months later, when you still want to be in a room with people who watch what you watch. This is that Thursday. It rotates between Little Tokyo restaurants and lounges that have their own lives outside of event night, run by people who live in the neighborhood rather than activate it. The crowd runs from casual watchers to people who quote chapter numbers, and both are fine. Vendor tables carry fan art, acrylic standees and buttons from local artists. Themed nights track the seasonal lineup. You come for one show and leave with three on your watchlist because a stranger would not stop talking about theirs. 327 E 2nd St, Los Angeles 90012. A Line to Little Tokyo/Arts District. Free street parking in most lots after 8pm. It does not peak. That is the rarer thing.

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The Real Escape Game — Anime Edition SD

Jun 13, 2026 From $38 The Real Escape Game, 550 W B St, …

For once, all those hours count for something. The seasons you burned through, the lore you absorbed without trying, the throwaway reference nobody else in your life gets — in this room that is not a hobby, it is an advantage. The puzzles were built by people who assumed you had been paying attention. This does not slap stickers on a generic puzzle set. The logic itself runs on anime logic. A reference you catch in the first two minutes shaves time off the clock; the one you miss costs you, and you find out fast which kind of fan you brought with you. Your group gets the room to itself — a real venue, no strangers folded in, no pop-up. Two to six people. Birthdays, friend nights, even a first date all work on one condition: somebody has to take anime seriously enough to recognize what the room is asking. 550 W B Street, San Diego. Tickets from $38 at therealescapegame.com. The clock starts, and you either watched enough or you didn't.

DESERT SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S

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DESERT SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL - A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S

Jun 13, 2026 128 S. Palm Canyon Dr., Plaza Thea…

The Desert Shakespeare Festival brings A Midsummer Night's Dream to Palm Springs in June — and the coincidence of Shakespeare's most enchanted play landing in a desert city at the peak of its warmest season is not lost on anyone in the room. The Plaza Theatre is a 1936 Spanish Colonial Revival venue that handles theatrical productions with the weight of a building built for exactly this. The acoustics work. The sightlines earn the architecture. A Midsummer Night's Dream in this room — the fairies, the lovers, the donkey, the mechanicals and their play within a play — reads as the kind of theatrical experience that reminds you why live performance exists when a screen approximation doesn't. Shakespeare in June in Palm Springs means the Plaza handles the climate so you don't have to think about it. The play is funny, and it is funnier in a room of people laughing together than it is on any page. Tickets at ticketmaster.com — the Festival brings professional production values to one of the most frequently performed plays in the Western canon, which means the baseline is high before the curtain goes up. Lock your seats before the summer dates fill.

Magic: The Gathering — Final Fantasy Prerelease at Game Empire

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Magic: The Gathering — Final Fantasy Prerelease at Game Empire

Jun 6 – Jun 13, 2026 Game Empire, 5037 Shawline St, San…

Game Empire San Diego, 5037 Shawline St. June 6th. The Magic: The Gathering Final Fantasy Prerelease at Game Empire — the set that the overlap between Magic players and JRPG fans has been waiting for, on the day it's first legal, with the sealed format that makes every player's experience equally unpredictable. The Final Fantasy set is the kind of Magic release where the IP does extra work. The card names, the mechanics built around specific game moments, the art that references thirty years of the franchise — these land differently for players who grew up with the games. The Prerelease sealed format means you're building your deck from what you open, which means the sorceries and creatures and enchantments you pull aren't guaranteed. You build with what you get and play what you built. magic.wizards.com for the full Final Fantasy set spoiler and mechanic previews. June 6th at Game Empire San Diego. The prerelease pod runs through the day — show up early for your allocation. The Final Fantasy set is one of those release events where the whole store is excited before the first pack opens. Be in the room when the packs do.

Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc — Fan Screening Community Event San Diego

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Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc — Fan Screening Community Event San Diego

Jun 7, 2026 AMC Mission Valley, 1640 Camino de…

Chainsaw Man: The Movie — Reze Arc is in theaters now across San Diego, and the local anime fan community is gathering. The film adapts the Reze Arc from Tatsuki Fujimoto manga — a self-contained story with Reze as one of the most complex characters in the Chainsaw Man universe. Whether you are a manga reader who has waited for this or an anime-only fan, this is the recommended community theater experience. AMC theaters in San Diego are showing the film — check AMC Mission Valley, AMC La Jolla, and AMC Chula Vista for current showtimes. Subbed and dubbed versions available. Crunchyroll Fan subscribers may have early access screening access at participating theaters. Running time approximately 1 hour 45 minutes. Post-credits scene worth staying for. This community event page is for SD-area fans who want to watch together and meet other fans. Check r/ChainsawMan Reddit for local fan coordination. Bring a friend who has not seen the series — the Reze arc works as a standalone entry point.

MTG Final Fantasy Prerelease: Moogle Madness — Bards & Cards

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MTG Final Fantasy Prerelease: Moogle Madness — Bards & Cards

Jun 6, 2026 $30 936 5th Ave, San Diego, CA 92101

The evening edition of Bards and Cards Final Fantasy Prerelease runs a different temperature. When the afternoon crowd clears out, Moogle Madness opens — same six-booster sealed format, same pack-per-win prizing, but with Gaslamp Quarter Saturday night energy behind it. Limited to 16 players. Magic: The Gathering's Final Fantasy crossover is the most ambitious IP collaboration the game has ever produced, pulling characters and summons from VII through XVI into a fully playable set. The design team spent years making card mechanics match the source material — this reads as authentic rather than cosmetic. If you missed the afternoon session or prefer playing at night, this is your shot before the set hits stores anywhere else. Cards in hand on Saturday evening before they are available in retail. Gaslamp Quarter, Downtown San Diego. Doors open at 5:30 PM, packs crack at 6. Register ahead — 16 spots total. Sealed format means no existing collection required — all six booster packs are opened at the table on the night.

Dandadan: First Encounter — U.S. Theatrical Screening

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Dandadan: First Encounter — U.S. Theatrical Screening

Jun 6, 2026 AMC Theatres and Cinemark location…

Dandadan: First Encounter brings the wildest anime of 2025 to U.S. theaters on June 6, 2026 — a limited theatrical run from GKIDS and Fathom Events that packages the first arc of the beloved series for the big screen experience it deserves. The series follows Momo Ayase, who believes in ghosts but not aliens, and Ken Okarun, who believes in aliens but not ghosts — until the day they both turn out to be right. What follows is a supernatural action comedy that mixes paranormal investigator energy with shounen battle sequences and genuine emotional depth. The theatrical presentation brings the animation's kinetic visual style — OLM's dynamic direction, Eunyoung Choi's fluid action choreography — to a format where the scale actually registers. GKIDS theatrical screenings typically run at AMC, Regal, and Cinemark locations with subtitled and dubbed options. Check your local listings for exact showtimes and theater availability in Los Angeles and San Diego. This is not a watch-at-home event. The theatrical window is limited. If you've already watched the series on Netflix, this is the original Japanese broadcast presentation — the one that made the animation community stop what it was doing when it premiered. Tickets available through Fandango and the AMC app. Limited dates, limited theaters.

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AniFest 2026

Jun 6, 2026 Torrance Cultural Arts Center, 333…

AniFest is the convention that remembers what conventions were supposed to feel like. One day at the Torrance Cultural Arts Center, and the whole floor hums with the particular energy of people who found each other through the same shows, the same characters, the same late-night rabbit holes. Over a hundred vendors line the hall — artist prints, plushies, handmade cosplay accessories, imports you cannot find anywhere near here. Twenty-plus celebrity guests rotate through the signing area, close enough to actually talk to. The V-Stage runs an idol performance set. Cosplay showcases. LAN Hero gaming tournaments if you want to compete. A maid cafe if you want to sit down and feel like you are in an episode. Small enough that you do not lose your friends in a crowd of sixty thousand. Large enough to fill the day twice over if you are the kind of person who stops at every table. Twenty dollars at the door. Children under 12 free with a paid adult. This is the convention where people make their first cosplay because the room is safe enough to try. Where the vendor who sells hand-painted Jujutsu Kaisen prints remembers you from last year. Where the community is not performing fandom — it just is fandom, in the same room, for one afternoon in Torrance.

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Dungeon Meshi — Special Screening SD

Jun 6, 2026 $12 Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, 5665 Balb…

Alamo Drafthouse, 5665 Balboa Ave, San Diego. June 6th. $12. Dungeon Meshi — Delicious in Dungeon — gets a special screening at Alamo Drafthouse, which is the venue that understands exactly what a themed anime screening should be and builds the entire experience around it. Dungeon Meshi is the anime that took the isekai genre's premise and asked what happens when the adventurers eat the monsters. It's funny and it's genuinely well-crafted and it's the kind of show that makes you want to watch it with people who will react to the food writing the way it deserves. Alamo Drafthouse serves food during screenings, which at a Dungeon Meshi event is not a logistical detail — it's the point. $12. June 6th. Reserve your seat at drafthouse.com/san-diego. The pre-show programming at Drafthouse is curated, not filler — at a themed screening like this, it's part of the event. Come with a sense of humor and an appetite. The show rewards both.

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Anime Conji 2026 San Diego

May 30 – Jun 1, 2026 From $40 Town and Country Hotel, 500 Hotel …

San Diego anime and Japanese pop culture convention celebrating its 16th year in 2026. Anime Conji draws the dedicated San Diego anime community for panels, cosplay contests, a dealers room, and industry guests. Unlike Anime Expo, Conji is intimate enough to actually meet the guests. The cosplay contest Saturday evening is competitive. Badges available at the door. May 30 through June 1. All ages welcome. One of the best fan-run conventions in Southern California.

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