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RISE of the Jack O'Lanterns — Los Angeles

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RISE of the Jack O'Lanterns — Los Angeles

In 5 days · Oct 13 Los Angeles Convention Center, 120…

Somewhere between the pumpkin you carved as a kid and actual sculpture sits this thing, and it lands much closer to sculpture than you are ready for. More than five thousand hand-carved, illuminated pumpkins line a timed walking path — not triangle faces but full portraits, scenes and figures glowing in the dark, set to an ambient score. Nothing jumps out at you. No roaming monsters. It is Halloween for people who love the craft and the glow more than the fear: couples on a date, families with small kids, anyone who wants October to feel like wonder instead of adrenaline. Entry runs in fifteen-minute intervals so the path never bunches up. Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 S Figueroa St. October 13. It is gone in four nights, and it is the rare seasonal thing that is genuinely worth the drive.

Comic Con Los Angeles 2026 — Stan Lee's LACC

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Comic Con Los Angeles 2026 — Stan Lee's LACC

Oct 30 – Nov 1, 2026 Los Angeles Convention Center, 120…

The big one down the coast takes all the attention. The people who come to this one prefer it that way, and they are quietly glad you have not worked it out yet. Three days at the Convention Center — celebrity signings, panels, and an exhibitor floor that runs independent publishers alongside the major houses. Fifty thousand people who grew up on the same stories, turning a hall into a reunion. The character is different on purpose. This is the industry's own convention, the one people attend in costume because they want to rather than because the press is watching. Comics, sci-fi, gaming, horror, anime, fantasy, across all three days. Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 S Figueroa St. October 30 through November 1. The mythology is still being made in that room, and some of the people making it are sitting at a table waiting for someone to say hello.

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LA Auto Show 2026 — Los Angeles, CA

Nov 21 – Dec 6, 2026 0 Los Angeles Convention Center, 120…

In the most car-dependent city in America, the future of the thing everyone drives arrives for two weeks in a single hall - concept cars that may never be built, standing at full scale, glowing under dramatic light. The LA Auto Show opens at the LA Convention Center in late November, the world's automakers presenting their current thinking to the people who will actually drive it. Walking the floor is an exercise in cultural prediction. The main hall holds every major manufacturer's flagship display, vehicles you have only read about suddenly appearing at full scale, and the concept cars are the centerpiece every year - designed to show capability rather than sell product. Adjacent to the main floor, the Connected Car Expo runs at the same time, showing the technology that will eventually be embedded in every vehicle, while the Dream Drive pavilion offers test drives at select activations. AutoMobility LA, the industry media days the preceding week, produces most of the announcement news; the public show is where those announcements become tangible. Is it worth attending? For car enthusiasts, straightforwardly yes - the density of new vehicles in one place, with full access and no appointment, is rare. For casual visitors, the show rewards curiosity: the concept cars are genuinely strange and beautiful in ways photographs never capture, and the electric vehicle pavilion gives most major manufacturers' EV lineups the same room, the clearest possible illustration of where the industry is in its transition. Tickets are available online and at the door - online saves time at entry. The Convention Center is reachable by Metro (Pico or Convention Center stations), and weekday mornings are the least crowded windows if you have flexibility. The show runs from late November into early December, coinciding with the opening of the holiday retail season downtown, so the area is busy beyond the show itself. It has historically allowed children under 12 free with an adult - check the official site for 2026 pricing and hours. What makes it worth the trip is simple: it is one of the few annual events in any industry where the most powerful companies in the world put their most ambitious work in one room and ask the public to react. The automotive industry employs more people than any sector in the United States, and the LA show is its most public annual report. Even without buying a car, walking it is a way of reading the industry's intentions for the next decade.

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Los Angeles Auto Show 2026

Every day · Next Nov 20 Paid — see laautoshow.com Los Angeles Convention Center, 120…

You are allowed to open the door and sit in a car that has not gone on sale and may never go on sale. Nobody stops you. That is the whole appeal, and it is a strange kind of privilege. For over a century this has been where automakers make the announcements that decide the next few years. Concepts still months away from a yes or no. Battery platforms shown in public for the first time. Model years kept secret until somebody pulls a sheet off. The trade days come first and take most of the reveals, and the public days that follow add ride-alongs, driving demos and enough floor space to lose an afternoon in. Performance, luxury, trucks and the electrified stuff each get their own territory. Downtown at the convention center in November, Metro to Pico Station. Take the kid who draws cars in the margins of their homework. Then watch what happens to their face.

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Collect-A-Con Los Angeles

Dec 19, 2026 Los Angeles Convention Center, 120…

Everyone who collected anything as a kid still has the box they never threw out. This is a thousand dealer tables of other people's boxes. What separates Collect-A-Con from an ordinary card show is that it refuses to treat anime as a side room — graded Pokémon slabs, One Piece singles, vintage Yu-Gi-Oh and a full cosplay crowd all move through the same hall at the same volume, and the organizers bill it as the largest trading card, anime and pop culture convention in the country. The December edition changes the character of the room in a way the summer dates never do: it lands in the dead week before Christmas, so a real share of the floor is people hunting a gift for the one person on their list who is impossible to buy for, and the rest are people spending gift money a few days early and not pretending otherwise. Two days, ten to five, at the Convention Center downtown. Saturday and Sunday, December 19 and 20.

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.

LA Art Show 2027 — Los Angeles Convention Center

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LA Art Show 2027 — Los Angeles Convention Center

Jan 6, 2027 $40 general / $250 opening night Los Angeles Convention Center, 120…

Galleries can make you feel like you walked into someone else's dinner party. The hush, the person at the desk who does not look up, the price list nobody offers you. So you learn to admire things from the sidewalk and keep walking. A convention hall is the opposite problem, and the better one. Dealers from everywhere, no hush, no correct route through any of it — you wander, you stare, you walk away from things that do not land. Nobody is tracking whether you belong. Worth knowing: Wednesday is not really the opening. Wednesday is the benefit night at two hundred fifty dollars a head, a different crowd entirely. Thursday at noon is when the doors open for everybody else, at forty. Five days across West Hall and Petree Hall downtown, and more of it than one visit holds. Everyone walks out arguing about one painting.

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 walk-through 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. The anniversary year has screenings and smaller gatherings running all through it, and the people in this room will be at those too.

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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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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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ComplexCon 2026

Oct 4, 2026 $100+ Los Angeles Convention Center, 120…

For anyone who grew up treating a sneaker release like a holiday and a hoodie drop like a lottery, ComplexCon is the mothership: two days where streetwear, hip-hop, art, and hype culture collapse into one roaring convention floor of limited drops, exclusive collabs, surprise performances, and lines you will happily stand in. The tenth-anniversary edition lands in Long Beach with artistic direction from Playboi Carti and Hiroshi Fujiwara, which tells you exactly how seriously the culture takes it. October 3 and 4, 2026, at the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center. Come with a plan for the drops you want and comfortable shoes, or just come to people-watch the best-dressed crowd in Southern California. This is where the streetwear world gathers in person, once a year, to see and be seen. If it's cool, it's here first.

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Lowrider Super Show Los Angeles 2026

Sep 5, 2026 Varies Los Angeles Convention Center, 120…

Ask the man standing next to the car who started the build and you will get an uncle, a garage, and a decade. That is what outsiders miss walking this floor: every candy panel, every airbrushed hood, every set of wire wheels is a household's worth of patience handed down through a neighborhood. Hundreds of them come here to be seen, indoors, so weather never gets a vote. It is not a static show either. The hoppers bounce on a schedule, the systems hit hard enough to feel in your sternum, and the culture is switched on from open to close. Custom trucks, motorcycles, bicycles built to the same obsessive standard. Trophies handed out all day for everything from paint to hydraulics. Downtown at the convention center, a full day, parking in the structures on Pico and Figueroa. Come early. The floor is deep, and the best conversations happen standing next to the cars.

Lowrider Magazine Car Show 2026 — Los Angeles Convention Center

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Lowrider Magazine Car Show 2026 — Los Angeles Convention Center

Sep 5, 2026 Los Angeles Convention Center, 120…

Hydraulics are not a modification. They are a sentence. Every bounce says the same thing: I built this with my hands, it moves when I tell it to, and nothing on a dealership floor is ever getting close. This one closes out the year's tour, which means the builds arriving downtown have been chased all season. Candy paint that took six months to lay down. Interiors stitched by somebody's uncle who learned it from somebody's grandfather. Chrome polished until it reflects an entire aesthetic philosophy back at the room. The competition is real and the trophies matter, but the feeling on the floor is closer to a homecoming, a whole culture showing up in one building to look at itself. The convention center on Figueroa, a full day in September. If you have ever wondered what it looks like when craftsmanship becomes identity, the answer is here in metalflake, and it will talk to you if you ask.

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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Collect-A-Con Los Angeles 2026

Aug 1 – Aug 2, 2026 Los Angeles Convention Center, 120…

Somewhere in that hall is a holographic Charizard, and the only way to know if today is the day you find it is to walk the walls of long boxes yourself. With over 900 dealer tables across West Hall A, this is the trading card, anime, and pop culture floor experience that turns casual fans into lifelong collectors: Pokemon, Magic: The Gathering, One Piece, and sports cards alongside anime merchandise, Funko POPs, vintage toys, comics, and rare video games. Whether you're hunting that Charizard, completing a One Piece set, or just browsing walls of nostalgia, the day is built for the hunt - live box break events, trading sessions, celebrity guest appearances, and convention-only merchandise drops. The Los Angeles Convention Center West Hall A offers easy parking and sits centrally for collectors from across Southern California - LA, Orange County, the Inland Empire, and San Diego all have strong collector communities that converge here. Collect-A-Con Los Angeles 2026, August 1-2, doors at 10am both days. Two-day passes and general admission via Ticketmaster, with VIP early entry options. Come ready to trade, hunt, and discover.

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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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Anime Expo 2026 — Day 3

Jul 4, 2026 From $65 Los Angeles Convention Center, 120…

Day 3 at Anime Expo is when the convention becomes itself. Saturday, July 4, 2026 at the Los Angeles Convention Center — the highest-attendance day of the largest anime convention in North America. Over 100,000 fans across the floor, programming running in every corner of the building, the cosplay competition at full force. This year, Day 3 carries weight for two fandoms simultaneously. The BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War — The Calamity panel takes place Saturday morning at Crypto.com Arena, with Japanese VA Masakazu Morita and English voice director Johnny Yong Bosch present. And in the afternoon (2:45–4:05 PM, JW Diamond room), Science SARU presents the North American premiere panel for Ghost in the Shell 2026 — the first new entry in the franchise in over a decade, premiering on streaming July 7. This is a rare convergence: two landmark franchise events, one day, one convention. Beyond the main panels: the Artist Alley is at its most densely packed, exclusives sell out by early afternoon, and the spontaneous meetups — people who found each other because of a shared series, a specific cosplay, a niche fandom — run into the night. Plan for crowds at the main entrances by midmorning. General admission and day badges available. The Saturday ticket moves fastest.

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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

Jul 2 – Jul 5, 2026 Los Angeles Convention Center, 120…

Anime Expo runs July 2nd through 5th at the Los Angeles Convention Center — badges at AXS — and the West Hall, South Hall, Petree, and Concourse are all cleared for four days and given over to the largest anime convention in North America. A hundred thousand people. Some in costumes that took six months to build. All in the same building at the same time. The AX floor rewards knowing what you're looking for and punishes aimlessness — the Exhibit Hall has premiere merchandise, Japanese publishers, indie creators, and industry names in a space that takes three hours to cover once at a casual pace. The panels fill the big rooms with standing ovations for announcements that hit the internet seconds later. The Artist Alley is where the convention finds its actual soul: original work, fan work, artists who drove thirteen hours and set up at 6 AM because this is the room where their work finds its people. Outside the hall, the cosplay density on Day 2 turns the Convention Center plaza into its own event. Four days is not enough time. Pick your anchors — panels, signings, morning Exhibit Hall, night events — and let the rest happen around them. Badges sell out. Lock yours in.

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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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Anime Expo 2026 — Day 4

Jul 5, 2026 From $45 Los Angeles Convention Center, 120…

Anime Expo 2026 — Day 4 closes the convention on Sunday, July 5 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Anime Expo is the largest anime convention in North America, drawing over 100,000 fans to the Los Angeles Convention Center each summer. The 2026 edition runs July 2-5 across all four days, with a massive 340,000-square-foot Exhibit Hall, Artist Alley, J-Pop and ani-song concerts, industry panels, anime premieres, cosplay competitions, autograph sessions, and gaming areas. The convention is organized by the Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation and runs continuously across all four days. Each day brings different programming, exclusive announcements, and guests from across the anime, manga, and J-Pop industries. Saturday and Sunday draw the largest crowds; Thursday and Friday move at a more manageable pace for exhibit hall access. The Los Angeles Convention Center is located at 1201 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015, steps from the EXPO/Convention Center Metro station. Badge pickup opens before the convention; pick yours up early to avoid lines. Tickets are available at anime-expo.org. Single-day and four-day badges are offered, with four-day badges providing the best value for full-weekend attendees.

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Anime Expo 2026 — Los Angeles, CA

Jul 2 – Jul 5, 2026 From $87 (1-day) / $175 (4-day) Los Angeles Convention Center, 120…

Every July 4th weekend, the Los Angeles Convention Center stops being a convention center and becomes the largest gathering of anime fans in North America. The four-day span draws 100,000 attendees and turns downtown LA into the axis of the anime world for the summer. The scale hits you immediately. The Exhibit Hall spans over 340,000 square feet of merchandise, artist booths, publisher displays, and licensed collectibles. Artist Alley is a separate destination — hundreds of independent creators selling original art, prints, and handmade goods, the kind of work you will not find on any streaming platform or official retail channel. The Industry Panels are where announcements happen: English dub cast reveals, new season confirmations, licensing news that fans will screenshot and share for weeks. Voice actor autograph sessions routinely have lines forming before sunrise. Is Anime Expo worth it? If you are even moderately embedded in anime culture — yes, emphatically. The density of what you can see and do in four days at the LACC is unmatched. There is no equivalent event in North America for scope, for industry access, for the sheer number of people who look exactly as excited about the same things you are. The cosplay alone — tens of thousands of costumes across every franchise — is worth the badge price for someone who has never seen it at this scale. Before you go: buy your badge early; prices increase and popular event tickets (Masquerade, concerts) require separate purchase and sell out fast. The convention floor opens at 9am but autograph lottery lines form before 7. Wear comfortable shoes — you will walk six miles without trying. The 4th of July weekend means Downtown LA is also hosting holiday events; plan transit accordingly. Metro is faster than driving. Bring cash for Artist Alley. Anime Expo earns its Nation's Best position because it is the single largest public expression of a cultural moment that has been building for thirty years and shows no sign of slowing. The mainstream discovered anime. AX is where the culture that built it celebrates on its own terms. Los Angeles Convention Center. July 2–5, 2026. The concert programming — separate ticketed events within AX — brings J-pop and ani-song artists to Los Angeles who rarely perform in North America outside of this weekend. If you follow any Japanese artist, check the concert schedule before finalizing your badge type. These shows sell out independently of the main badge and often represent the single best live music opportunity of any anime fan's year.

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Anime Expo 2024

Jul 4 – Jul 7, 2024 Los Angeles Convention Center, Los…

Anime Expo is one of the largest anime conventions in North America, featuring cosplay, industry panels, exclusive premieres, and a massive exhibitor hall. The event attracts tens of thousands of attendees from around the world.

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Anime Expo 2025

Jul 3 – Jul 6, 2025 Los Angeles Convention Center, Los…

Experience the biggest anime convention in North America at Anime Expo 2025! With celebrity guests, panels, screenings, and an extensive marketplace, this event is a must for anime fans.

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L.A. Comic Con 2025

Sep 26 – Sep 28, 2025 Los Angeles Convention Center

Downtown gets strange for one weekend. People in full armor waiting at a crosswalk. A Sailor Scout eating a hot dog on the steps. Nobody looks twice, because for those few days the Convention Center holds the largest gathering in this city of people who are unembarrassed about what they love. That is the actual draw. The celebrity panels are good, the sneak peeks are good, the artist tables are where you find the thing you did not know you wanted, and the gaming tournaments run hot — but the reason people keep coming back is the walk from the parking structure to the doors, where you stop being the person at work with a shelf of figures and start being one of thousands. Comics, film, television, anime, horror, and cosplay, all of it under one roof at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Bring the coworker who mentioned once, quietly, that they used to collect. Watch what happens to their face in the first hour.

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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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Comic Con Revolution 2027

May 22 – May 23, 2027 Ontario Convention Center, Ontario…

Somewhere in the artist alley there is a table with your favorite book on it, and the person who drew it is sitting behind it, waiting for someone to say the right thing. That is the whole reason to go. The Inland Empire's comic weekend stays small enough that you can actually reach that table — no wristband lottery, no line that eats your morning, no security walking the queue with a clipboard. Panels run all day for the people who want to hear how the work actually gets made. The exclusive merchandise moves early, which the regulars know, which is why they walk the floor before they do anything else. Pop culture at large is here too, but comics are still the spine of it. Ontario Convention Center, in Ontario. Bring the friend who has been quietly drawing in the margins since middle school and has never shown anyone.

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.

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Super Bowl LXI 2027 — Inglewood, CA

Feb 14, 2027 0 SoFi Stadium, 1001 Stadium Drive, …

The Super Bowl has come to Los Angeles before. It has never come to SoFi. That changes February 7, 2027 — at the half-billion-dollar stadium that opened in 2020 and changed what a modern NFL venue can look like: translucent canopy, open-air California design, Hollywood Park campus surrounding it. What Super Bowl week in Los Angeles looks and feels like is unlike any other sporting event on the calendar. The week before the game, Radio Row draws every media personality with a microphone. The NFL Experience fan festival opens to the public at the Convention Center. Celebrity parties are announced and cancelled and announced again. The halftime show rehearsals happen under tight security at the stadium while the surrounding streets fill with brand activations, pop-ups, and spontaneous gatherings of fans who couldn't get tickets but wanted to be near the thing. Los Angeles absorbs the Super Bowl differently than Nashville or Minneapolis — the entertainment industry and sports culture overlap here in a way that produces genuine energy rather than manufactured excitement. Is the Super Bowl worth attending in person? If you have the means and the access, the answer is yes, but the experience is as much about the week as the game. Super Bowl tickets are among the most expensive in sports, and the seat you occupy at game time may matter less than the four days of surrounding events, parties, and city energy that build toward kickoff. For the majority of people who will experience Super Bowl LXI from Los Angeles without attending the game, the city itself becomes a venue. Watch parties at venues across SoCal will be among the most concentrated social events of the year. What to know: Tickets sell through the NFL and Ticketmaster — secondary market prices will be extreme. The SoFi Stadium campus includes a performance venue (YouTube Theater), a casino (Inglewood), and hotel development in progress; the entertainment zone around the stadium is walkable and dense. Metro's C Line (Green) stops at Hawthorne/Lennox, about a 20-minute walk from SoFi. Parking is limited and expensive; transit from LAX is the recommended option for most attendees. The week's best experiences are often free — Radio Row, fan zones, and the energy of the city. Super Bowl LXI matters for one reason beyond the game itself: it is the largest single-day American cultural event, and in 2027 it comes to Los Angeles. The convergence of the NFL, Hollywood, the music industry (halftime show), and the national media in one city for one weekend creates a cultural moment that extends far beyond the game. Knowing about it, knowing what week to plan around it, knowing the venue and the city — that is the preparation that turns an ordinary February into the right February.

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LFG CON San Diego 2027

Feb 19 – Feb 21, 2027 San Diego Convention Center, 111 W…

The hardest part of this hobby was never the rules. It is finding four other people who are free the same night and will actually see the game through to the end. That is what the Find a Game board solves, and it is the best thing in the building: you write down what you want to play, somebody writes their name under it, and an hour later you are three turns deep with strangers. The open library holds thousands of titles you can check out and carry to a table — first-come, a couple of hours at a time, so the popular boxes circulate all day. Around it run organized play, publisher demos of things not out yet, miniature wargames, and RPG slots going from morning until the hall closes. It takes a full weekend of the San Diego Convention Center, trolley-accessible, with the Gaslamp right there for when the hall shuts and nobody is ready to stop. Send it to the friend with the shelf of boxes still in shrink wrap.

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Pacific Media Expo 2026 (PMX)

Nov 6 – Nov 8, 2026 Los Angeles Airport Marriott, 5855…

The best moment at a small convention is never on the schedule. It is the twenty minutes after a panel ends when the voice actor stays in the room and just keeps talking, because it is a small room and nobody is rushing them out. Pacific Media Expo has run on that for two decades, built by and around the people who make the work: voice actors, anime producers, manga artists, and the Southern California fans who kept the lights on. The panels put you close. The dealer room runs mainstream to deep-cut. The AMV contest is where the real showing-off happens, and the hallway gatherings between official programming are half the reason people come back year after year. It lands at the Los Angeles Airport Marriott on Century Boulevard, with the full schedule at pacificmediaexpo.com. If you would rather hear how a show got made than wait in a line for a photo, this is your convention. Send it to the one person who will understand why.

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