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Sukeban World Championship Fight Night — Anime Expo 2026

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Sukeban World Championship Fight Night — Anime Expo 2026

Jul 3, 2026 51.6 Los Angeles Convention Center, 120…

This is not a wrestling show with an anime theme. It is a convergence: Harajuku fashion aesthetics, anime character energy, live music, and genuine athletic competition fused into one arena experience. Sukeban is Japan's premier female pro wrestling league — and its first-ever World Championship Fight arrives at Anime Expo 2026 on July 3rd at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The league brings rival girl gangs from Tokyo — the Harajuku Stars, Cherry Bomb Girls, and Vandals stables — fighting for a championship belt on the biggest stage in the league's history. Special appearances confirmed. Every match is a story arc. Every outfit is a character declaration. The room this fills: anime fans who also watch wrestling. Sneakerheads who follow Harajuku drops. AEW and WWE fans who've been waiting for something that hits different — aesthetically, athletically, culturally. Sukeban occupies an intersection no other event touches: J-fashion, pro wrestling, anime convention, live performance. Ticketed separately from AX general admission to keep the room committed. Entry requirements: valid Anime Expo credential (4-day or any 1-day pass) plus a separate Sukeban event ticket. GA Floor (standing): $51.60. Balcony A (seated): $101.60. VIP Ringside: $151.60. Tickets at leapevents.com — limited capacity.

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Anime Expo 2026 — Day 2

Jul 3, 2026 From $65 Los Angeles Convention Center, 120…

Anime Expo 2026 — Day 2 continues Friday, July 3 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.

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Anime Expo 2026 — Day 1

Jul 2, 2026 From $65 Los Angeles Convention Center, 120…

Anime Expo 2026 — Day 1 opens Thursday, July 2 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.

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VidCon 2026

Jun 25 – Jun 29, 2026 Anaheim Convention Center, 800 W K…

VidCon 2026 returns to the Anaheim Convention Center June 25-28 — the original convention for internet creators and the communities they built. Community Track is where fans meet their favorite creators in person for the first time. Creator Track is where full-time creators learn from the people who figured it out. Industry Track is where brands, platforms, and deal-makers find the next generation. The Anaheim venue is massive — Disney across the street, creator booths everywhere, and meet-and-greet lines that start at 6am. Why go: VidCon is where parasocial becomes real. Passes at vidcon.com.

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Into the Horizon Music Festival 2026

Jun 27 – Jun 28, 2026 Varies Waterfront Park, 1600 Pacific Hwy,…

Into the Horizon brings two days of world-class electronic music to Waterfront Park along the San Diego Bay, produced by Insomniac Events — the team behind Electric Daisy Carnival and Beyond Wonderland. Headliners Martin Garrix and Tiësto anchor a lineup spanning house, techno, trance, and bass music across multiple stages. Waterfront Park sits directly on the bay in downtown San Diego, giving this festival one of the most spectacular urban festival settings in California. The stage configurations take advantage of the open waterfront, with the San Diego Bay as the backdrop for the main stage. Daytime programming runs through sunset, and the evening sets are designed around the bay lighting and skyline. Insomniac festivals are known for production quality — LED rigs, full stage decor, and the infrastructure that distinguishes a produced event from a promoter show. Food and beverage vendors are spread throughout the grounds. The venue is walkable from the downtown core, the Convention Center, and the Little Italy and Gaslamp neighborhoods. Two-day passes and single-day tickets are available. Age 18+. Rideshare drop-off on Pacific Highway. This is a marquee summer festival weekend for San Diego — whether you are a longtime EDM fan or just discovering the scene, Into the Horizon is the summer anchor event for the city.

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VidCon 2026 — Anaheim, CA

Jun 25 – Jun 27, 2026 Anaheim Convention Center, 800 W K…

Millions of subscribers, thousands of fans, several days in Anaheim — the moment the people on the other side of the screen become real. VidCon is where the parasocial relationship finds its physical address. What it feels like to be there: VidCon operates on a different logic than most entertainment conventions. The celebrities here are creators who built their audience one subscriber at a time — the recognition runs both ways in a way it rarely does at traditional fan events. A creator who makes videos for 2 million subscribers genuinely knows the specific language and inside jokes of their audience, and the interactions in hallways and signing lines reflect that. The energy is different from comic conventions: less cosplay, more collaboration and mutual recognition between people who have been watching each other's content for years. Is it worth it? VidCon is for people who consume content online and want to experience its creators in person, or for people building a creator career who want access to industry conversations that do not exist elsewhere. Community Track provides the fan-meeting experience. Creator Track has panels and workshops taught by people who figured out what you are still trying to figure out. Featured Creator panels are the highest-demand events and require early arrival. What to know before you go: The Anaheim Convention Center is large, and VidCon fills all of it — reviewing the schedule the night before and planning your route through the building is essential, not optional. Lines form early for Featured Creator events; arrive 30-60 minutes ahead for the creators you most want to see. The Anaheim Resort Transit or a nearby hotel within walking distance are practical alternatives to convention center parking. Programming emphasis shifts between days, with Creator and Industry days having different energy from Community days. VidCon sits on Falkor's Nation's Best list because it documents a cultural shift that happened faster than most institutions could track. The most-watched content on Earth in 2026 was made by individuals in their homes, not studios — and VidCon is where the people who made that happen gather to meet the communities that chose them. That is a historically unusual thing, and watching it in person is worth understanding even if you never attend. 2026 specifics: This is VidCon Anaheim 15th anniversary edition. The biggest new addition is a dedicated AI and Innovation Track -- the first VidCon to formally address AI tools as a creator discipline. For anyone building a content business in 2026, this track will be the most talked-about room at the convention. Honest split: Creator Pass holders consistently rate VidCon as worth it for education and networking. Community track holders are increasingly mixed -- the fan experience peaked around 2018-2019 as brand activations thinned. The value depends entirely on which track you buy. 55,000 attendees expected.

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Kid Cudi: Rebel Ragers Tour

Jun 26, 2026 From $55 1111 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, C…

Kid Cudi brings his Rebel Ragers Tour to Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles for one of the most anticipated hip-hop shows of the summer. Cudi is one of the most influential figures in modern hip-hop — his albums Man on the Moon and Speedin Bullet 2 Heaven helped define introspective, psychedelic rap and influenced an entire generation of artists. The Rebel Ragers Tour spans his full catalog, from early fan favorites to recent material, with production designed to match the cosmic, otherworldly quality of his music. Crypto.com Arena in downtown Los Angeles holds 20,000 and is one of the premier indoor concert venues in the country. Doors open at 5:00 PM. Public transit is available via the Metro A Line (Blue), with Pico Station adjacent to the arena. Parking is available in multiple structures around Staples Place and Convention Center. VIP packages include early entry and exclusive merchandise. A full supporting act is expected — check the event page for lineup updates. This is a rare headlining arena date for one of hip-hop's most beloved artists.

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South Pacificon Game Fest

Jun 19 – Jun 21, 2026 East San Diego Masonic Lodge, 7849…

East San Diego Masonic Lodge, 7849 Tommy Dr. South Pacificon Game Fest is the tabletop and board game convention that belongs to San Diego specifically — a community-run event that doesn't try to be PAX West and doesn't need to. June 19th, in a real venue, with the game library and the people who know how to use it. Pacificon is built by gamers for gamers, which means the priorities are right: tables big enough for the game that needs them, organizers who know the titles and can teach them, a schedule of demos and freeplay that covers both the classics and the games that just came out this year. The dealer area runs titles from publishers who are present specifically to talk about them, not just sell them. South Pacificon is smaller than the Bay Area original, which makes it more navigable — you can cover the floor, meet the people who run the events, and get into a game the same day you arrive. pacificonquest.com for the full schedule and registration. June in San Diego means heading inside from pleasant weather, which is the right reason to spend a day at a table playing games with people who showed up for the same reason.

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DesignerCon 2026 — Pasadena

Jun 20 – Jun 21, 2026 Paid - $25-$45 Pasadena Convention Center, 300 E …

Somewhere in your house is an object nobody else in your family understands the price of. A resin figure. A vinyl piece in a colorway that existed for one weekend. You have explained it before and you stopped bothering. This is the room where you do not have to explain it. Three hundred-plus exhibitors, all independent artists selling one-of-a-kind resin figures, limited-run vinyl, art prints, custom sneakers, and objects sitting somewhere between sculpture and collectible. No mass-market toy companies. The culture is small-batch and artist-direct and expensive for reasons everyone here can articulate. Exclusive colorways of formats you already collect. Signature pieces from artists you follow. And the secondary-market buyers hunting grails, who you recognize instantly because they move differently. Pasadena Convention Center, 300 E Green St. Lines form early for exclusive drops and day-one badges sell out. This is the same crowd that camps for drops. Plan accordingly.

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Anime Temecula Valley — Monthly Meetup June 2026

Every 3rd Sunday · Next Sep 20 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.

FIFA Fan Festival Los Angeles — Memorial Coliseum

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FIFA Fan Festival Los Angeles — Memorial Coliseum

Jun 11 – Jun 14, 2026 3911 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, C…

The World Cup is coming to the United States for the first time since 1994, and Los Angeles got one of the anchor venues. The FIFA Fan Festival opens at the Memorial Coliseum on June 11th, 2026 — free to enter — and it is the public face of a tournament that has been building toward this moment for thirty-two years. The Fan Festival is what the World Cup looks like from the outside: giant screens broadcasting every match, fan zones organized by country, food and culture from the nations competing, and the particular atmosphere of tens of thousands of people who are all in it together even if their flags say different things. The Coliseum, which has hosted two Olympics and a Super Bowl, has the infrastructure to handle this. The experience it produces is not a watch party. It is a civic event. June 11th is the opening day. Come for the tournament's beginning — when every country still believes and the energy is at its highest before any heartbreak has happened. Free admission. 3911 S Figueroa St. The matches start in the morning and run through the afternoon. Arrive early enough to find your people before the first whistle.

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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LA Comic Book Convention June 2026

Monthly · Next Sep 14 $4-$8 Shrine Auditorium, 665 W Jefferson…

The regulars know each other. That is the first thing you notice — you have walked into a room with a history. The longest-running monthly pop culture convention in Los Angeles, and the floor shows it. Dealer tables with original comic art, golden and silver age books, horror movie posters, vintage paperbacks, and people who have been collecting long enough to know exactly what they are holding. The range is the pleasure of it. A box of beat-up Bronze Age books next to a signed original piece next to a stack of sci-fi paperbacks somebody clearly loved and somebody clearly let go of. If you bring a want list the dealers will dig for you. If you do not bring one, you leave with one. Sunday morning is the quietest session and the right entry point if you are new — dealers dealing, collectors talking to collectors, the whole floor laid out in front of you. Shrine Auditorium, 665 W Jefferson Blvd, Los Angeles. No activation booths, no photo-op queues. Just the floor.

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Sneaker Con Los Angeles 2026

Jun 13 – Jun 14, 2026 Los Angeles Convention Center, 120…

The pair you have been tracking exists. It is on a table somewhere at the Convention Center this weekend, and the price is negotiable. SneakerCon Los Angeles runs June 13 and 14, 2026 at the Los Angeles Convention Center — two days, one address, thousands of pairs you will not find at retail. Doors open at 10 AM both days. The floor runs collector-to-collector: no bots, no lottery, no retail markup. You are buying directly from the person across the table. Authentication desk runs all day. If you are buying something significant, get it checked before you walk out. Day one is the high-demand session — inventory is freshest, the pairs everyone came for are still available in the morning. Day two is when the deals happen. Sellers who did not move what they came with are ready to negotiate by Sunday afternoon. Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 S Figueroa St. Metro Blue/Expo lines to Pico Station, five-minute walk. South Hall parking garages. General admission and VIP at sneakercon.com. The floor exists. You just have to get there first.

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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. Date: Friday June 12 – Sunday June 14, 2026 Venue: Handlery Hotel San Diego, 950 Hotel Circle North, Mission Valley, San Diego, CA 92108 Age Restriction: 18+ (valid government ID required for entry) Tickets: Available at eventbrite.com — three-day passes and individual day badges. Panels cover: creator meetups, figure collecting, 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 larger general-audience cons. 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 — Hentai Matsuri is the room. Adults only; expect the crowd to know exactly why they're there.

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 Sep 12 327 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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Wing Fest San Diego 2026 — 9th Annual

Jun 13, 2026 Broadway Pier / Port Pavilion, 100…

Everyone shows up believing they already know what a good wing is. Then somebody hands you one off a table run by a person who quit a real job to chase this, and the argument you have been having with your friends for years finally has stakes. That is the engine of the whole thing. Professional chefs, neighborhood restaurants, and independent sauce makers all enter the same ring, and the crowd votes. Not a panel of judges. You. The vendors who show up for their first year here often come back with a storefront, and watching for that is what the regulars actually do. It sprawls out across Broadway Pier on the waterfront — DJs, lawn games, beer and spirits pours, and a few hundred strangers striking up conversations about whatever is currently in their hand. Trolley to the Convention Center stop and walk north. Dress for the bay breeze. Bring the friend who insists their homemade sauce is better than anything sold. Let them find out.

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SoCal Gaming Expo 2026

Jun 6 – Jun 7, 2026 Pasadena Convention Center, 300 E …

The cartridge is in a bin. The person selling it doesn't know what you paid for it, and doesn't care — they're looking for something too. That moment of physical contact with hardware from your childhood, at a table run by someone who shares the same obsession, is what the SoCal Gaming Expo is built on. Pasadena Convention Center, June 6-7, 2026: free-play arcade, 200-plus vendor tables, competitive gaming, and the specific joy of a room where everything is for sale and everyone is looking. Retro gaming at its core, which undersells it — this is the show for people who never stopped. The free-play arcade runs throughout both days: you don't have to buy anything to justify the ticket. But the vendor floor is the reason most people come back. NES, SNES, Genesis, N64, Game Boy, arcade cabinets — the full range. Free-play stations running throughout. Competitive tournaments on both days. General admission.

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