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Tokyo Big Sight
Otaku from across the nation pack the halls of Tokyo Big Sight for Japan’s biggest independent manga/anime art festival.
Meet characters from some of the hottest anime, games, manga and virtual units in Japan right now.
Continuing outbreak causes organizers to call off dojinshi event for the first time in its 45-year-history.
With hundreds of banners and posters already set up, everyone’s pitching in to help with the biggest anime convention in the world.
Discovered in an otaku mecca and seemingly protected by the Nintendo franchise’s legendary Triforce.
Despite the Tokyo chill, things are heating up at one of the city’s most popular comic conventions.
Twice a year, mother nature treats us to one of her most spectacular phenomenon: the mass migration of otaku through Kokusai-Tenjijō Station in Tokyo.
Hardcore fans brave the elements and the crowds by lining up hours before start of dojinshi comic event.
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