Anime Mid-Atlantic has announced on their web site that the Hyatt Regency Crystal City double-booked the hotel on that weekend and has decided to cancel their contract. As a result, the convention will be held at the Holiday Inn Executive Center in Virginia Beach.
AniZona has announced that their 2008 convention has been canceled, but they hope to return in 2009. The cancellation is a result of not being able to get a minimum of 75 hotel rooms booked at the hotel by a December 16th deadline.
Over the weekend, the Pennsylvania Convention Center had posted on their web site that TandokuCon was canceled. The notice has since been removed. A notice clarifying that the convention is not canceled has been posted on TandokuCon's web site. We will keep everyone posted if we hear any other news. Updates within...
Another Anime Convention in Nashua, New Hampshire has stated that several previously announced guests are unable to attend. However, the con has announced that voice actors Christine Auten, Daniel Kevin Harrison, and Spike Spencer will be in attendance in addition to several web comic guests.
Otakon has announced that 22,852 paid attendees were at this year's convention. This is up just 550 from Otakon 2006's paid attendance count of 22,302.
AnimeCons.com has a special forum dedicated to posting of open staff positions at various conventions. If your convention is looking for new staff, post some job descriptions. If you want to join staff at a con, go apply! All the details are in our Staff Recruitment forum.
AnimeCons.com is conducting a poll about hotel rooms. What is the largest number of people you would ever consider having in a standard size hotel room? You can join our forums and vote in the poll.
The CUE Center for Missing Persons and the McKeathan family are requesting the public's help in the search for Michael McKeithan, a North Carolina teen who disappeared Sunday night following Animazement in Durham, NC.
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MomoCon in Atlanta, Georgia reportedly shut down nine hours early on Sunday morning. Multiple unconfirmed reports state some people attempted to set off fireworks inside the building where the convention was being held.
AnimeCons.com is proud to announce the release of its new advertising program. Interested advertisers are welcome to review our advertising information. Anime convention organizers may be especially interested in our ad swap program in which we will run your convention's banner advertising for up to three months in exchange for advertising AnimeCons.com at your convention.
The Anime Central 2007 web site, which had been replaced with a splash page since last year's convention, is now back online with 2007 information such as a guest list and online registration.
The American Anime Awards, an event to be held at New York Comic Con, have added two manga titles to their ballot. "The nominations were submitted prior to when the ballot went live but were inadvertently left off, an error which we deeply regret."
Now a yearly tradition, AnimeCons.com has assembled a list of the ten largest anime conventions in North America during 2006. The article features a look back on 2006 as well as a look ahead to 2007.
