Anime Expo (AX)

Anime Expo (also known as AX) is the largest Northern American Anime convention that is annually held in Southern California’s Los Angeles Convention Center. This is the Mecca of Anime conventions in North America. Drawing in 44,000+ people from all around the U.S. and the world for the three-day event, and like Disney World, there is just way too much to do, too much to see and too many people to meet.

Each year, Anime Expo brings not just anime and manga, but musical performances, crazy (and I mean crazy-good!) cosplay costumes, and so many fantastic opportunities to enrich our knowledge of Japanese pop culture. This year proves to be another great Fourth of July weekend at the Los Angeles Convention Center with Guests of Honor including:

    * Japanese Musical Artist MELL
    * Japanese Musical Group AKB48
    * Voice Actor Kyle Hebert
    * Animation Director Toshihiro Kawamoto
    * Seiyuu Yuu Asakawa
    * J-rock Band SOPHIA
    * Anime Director Shinichi "Nabeshin" Watanabe

On the other hand, groups from Spain and American also did a great job in this show. The Spain group played characters from < Candy Candy>, with their lovely face and beautiful cosplay sale, the group won great recognition form the judging panel and finally got the winning prize. The USA groups brought us a fabulous cosplay originated from Cardcaptor Sakura, with their unique mould and professional performance, they won the Special Recognition Award. What’s more, all the details and pictures of this summit had been placed on the 2009 World Cosplay Summit official website. If you are interested to know more, please log in and try to find more things that excited you.