Browsing: Otakon

This past February, my friend Stari asked me two questions: “Do you like Umamusume?” followed immediately by “Would you go see a movie with me?” My answers were “I only know that it exists lol” and, after a couple follow-up questions, “Putting it on my calendar now!!” At the time, I had no idea what…

D.C.— For three days, the Walter E. Washington Convention Center became a place where superheroes, anime characters and video game legends could walk the same crowded hallways

This Friday, the Walter E. Washington Convention Center will become one of the most densely packed nodes of anime fandom on the East Coast. Otakon 2026 opens July 31 and runs through August 2, bringing as many as 46,000 attendees to downtown Washington for three days of concerts, cosplay, panels, and industry programming organized under…

Otakon, one of the longest-running celebrations of East Asian media and fandom in the United States, is back in Washington, D.C. this weekend, ready to fill the Walter E. Washington Convention Center with costumes, music and wall-to-wall fandom. The three-day event runs Friday, July 31 through Sunday, August 2 and brings cosplay contests, panels, concerts…