My son and his fiance visited from Michigan and we spent two days at Anime Expo. I must admit it’s a pretty wild ride.

The banner for Anime Expo

There were a lot of people there:

The floor of the main exhibition hall

A very short video of the Taiko drumming at the start – they had drummers set up on both sides of the entry:

You only get this at a convention like this one:

A weapons check

Lots of interesting costumes:

Wonder Woman

I hope that’s a bodysuit

Dan Board

Cool costumes

Cool costumes

Cool costumes

The headpiece was amazing

Even a cosplayer needs to phone home

Da Bear

The cosplay corgi

Rilakkuma

Cool costumes

Some cool costumes

Some cool costumes

Bunny costumes

Wheelchair Costume

On Saturday we went to the concert – IA performed. She’s an animation, the voice is called a vocaloid, a synthetic voice that can be edited and used with music. She ‘performs’ on a transparent screen in front of the band. I had to laugh a few times, it seemed odd to have that animation in front of the band. The music was interesting and good:

The line, from above, waiting to get into the theater

A shot of IA

A couple short videos of the IA concert: