AnimeFest

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AnimeFest
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AnimeFest 2008
StatusActive
VenueLoews Arlington Hotel
Location(s) Arlington, Texas
CountryUnited States
Inaugurated1992
Attendance10,751 [1]
Organized byWorld Fandom [2]
Website www.animefest.org

AnimeFest is an annual four-day anime convention held during August at the Loews Arlington Hotel in Arlington, Texas.

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Programming

The convention typically offers an art show, autograph sessions, cosplay contests, dealers room, gaming, and a masquerade. [3] [2]

History

In 2012, the convention moved from the Hyatt Regency Dallas to the Sheraton Dallas Downtown Hotel. [3] A-Kon also used the same hotel in 2012. [4] AnimeFest in 2017 had issues with its autograph lines. [5] AnimeFest 2020 was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [6] [7] [8] AnimeFest 2021 was initially cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and an online event held in its place. [9] [10] [11] The convention would later hold an event in December 2021. [12] [13] AnimeFest held its last full event in 2024, with future planned events being smaller. [2]

Event history

DatesLocationAtten.Guests
October 5, 1992Richardson Courtyard by Marriott Hotel
Dallas, Texas 		105 [14]
February 5–7, 1993Holiday Inn North Park Plaza Hotel
Dallas, Texas		450Ichiro Arakaki, Matt Greenfield, Dwayne Jones, John Ledford, and Kevin Winkler. [15]
November 6, 1993Richardson Courtyard by Marriott Hotel
Dallas, Texas		140 Fred Patten. [16]
November 4–6, 1994Holiday Inn North Park Plaza Hotel
Dallas, Texas		500 [17]
September 1–3, 1995Doubletree Hotel at Park West
Dallas, Texas		600 [18]
November 1–3, 1996Clarion Hotel Dallas
Dallas, Texas		650 [19]
September 4–7, 1998Omni Dallas - Park West
Dallas, Texas		650 [20]
September 3–6, 1999Holiday Inn DFW Airport North
Dallas, Texas		750 Gilles Poitras. [21]
August 31 - September 3, 2001InterContinental Hotel Dallas
Dallas, Texas		1,300 Bôa, Steve Bennett, Bonsai Society of Dallas, Austell "DJ Asu" Callwood, Rodney "Largo" Caston, Scott Kurtz, Bruce Lewis, Mark Mandolia, Scott McNeil, Dan Minut, Kirby Morrow, Krista Perry, and Doug Smith. [22]
August 30 - September 2, 2002Hotel Inter-Continental Dallas
Dallas, Texas		1,800Arik Renee Avila, Rodney "Largo" Caston, Michael Coleman, Dallas Kiyari Daiko, Kyle Hebert, Bruce Lewis, Kitaki Mayu, Scott McNeil, Kirby Morrow, Stephanie Nadolny, Chris Patton, Krista Perry, Monica Rial, Kristine Sa, Jan Scott-Frazier, and Serdar Yegulalp. [23]
August 29 - September 1, 2003Hotel Inter-Continental
Dallas, Texas		2,350Arik Renee Avila, Greg Ayres, Emily DeJesus, Robert DeJesus, Michael Dobson, Tiffany Grant, Kyle Hebert, Kato Kazuhiko, Bruce Lewis, Mike McFarland, Scott McNeil, Vic Mignogna, Chris Moujaes, Move, Stephanie Nadolny, Dr. Susan Napier, Chris Patton, Krista Perry, Ramen and Rice, Xero Reynolds, Monica Rial, Aaron Romo, and Doug Smith. [24]
September 3–6, 2004Hyatt Regency Dallas - At Reunion Tower
Dallas, Texas		2,725Greg Ayres, Beau Billingslea, Steve Blum, Johnny Yong Bosch, Kyle Hebert, Kumiko Kato, MAX, Mike McFarland, Jamie McGonnigal, Vic Mignogna, Chris Moujaes, Chris Patton, Krista Perry, Xero Reynolds, Monica Rial, Aaron Romo, Brianne Siddall, and Sean Teague. [25]
September 2–5, 2005Hyatt Regency at Reunion Tower
Dallas, Texas		3,301Greg Ayres, Johnny Yong Bosch, Emily DeJesus, Robert DeJesus, Caitlin Glass, Kyle Hebert, Jonathan Klein, Bruce Lewis, Mike McFarland, Jamie McGonnigal, Scott McNeil, Randy Milholland, Krista Perry, Ramen and Rice, Xero Reynolds, Monica Rial, Maaya Sakamoto, Carrie Savage, Stephanie Sheh, Doug Smith, and Shinichirō Watanabe. [26]
September 1–4, 2006 Hyatt Regency Dallas
Dallas, Texas		4,127 Yoshitoshi ABe, Greg Ayres, Chris Cason, Lindsay Cibos, Emily DeJesus, Robert DeJesus, Flow, Rivkah Greulich, Kyle Hebert, Jared Hodges, Taliesin Jaffe, Bruce Lewis, Jamie McGonnigal, Randy Milholland, Ramen and Rice, Monica Rial, Carrie Savage, Doug Smith, and Yasuyuki Ueda. [27]
August 31 - September 3, 2007Hyatt Regency Dallas
Dallas, Texas		4,629 Chris Ayres, Greg Ayres, Amelie Belcher, Beau Billingslea, Greg Dean, Emily DeJesus, Robert DeJesus, Quinton Flynn, Shukou Murase, Jeff Nimoy, Monica Rial, Dai Sato, and United Fellas. [28]
August 29 - September 1, 2008Hyatt Regency Dallas
Dallas, Texas		 Hannah Alcorn, Christopher Ayres, Greg Ayres, Amelie Belcher, Emily DeJesus, Robert DeJesus, Jessie James Grelle, Matt Herms, Ross Hines, Steve Horton, Chuck Huber, Akiharu Ishii, Bruce Lewis, Jamie McGonnigal, Scott McNeil, Shuhei Morita, Carli Mosier, Dai Sato, J. Michael Tatum, and Jeong Mo Yang. [29]
September 4–7, 2009Hyatt Regency Dallas
Dallas, Texas		 Troy Baker, David Doub, Chuck Huber, Shinji Kimura, Ramen and Rice, Dai Sato, Junichi Taniguchi, and Tsutchie. [30]
September 3–6, 2010Hyatt Regency Dallas
Dallas, Texas		Greg Ayres, David Doub, Kazuyoshi Katayama, Bruce Lewis, Nirgilis, Dai Sato, and J. Michael Tatum. [31]
September 2–5, 2011Hyatt Regency Dallas
Dallas, Texas		Greg Ayres, Amelie Belcher, Bowling for Soup, Leah Clark, Terri Doty, David Doub, J. Grant, Mel Hynes, Carrie Keranen, Cherami Leigh, Bruce Lewis, Dai Sato, Jan Scott-Frazier, Spike Spencer, J. Michael Tatum, and Cristina Vee. [32]
August 31–September 3, 2012 Sheraton Dallas Downtown Hotel
Dallas, Texas		 Robert Axelrod, Amelie Belcher, Mark Crilley, J. Grant, Mel Hynes, Mike Iverson, L33tStr33t Boys, Cherami Leigh, Bruce Lewis, Bryan Massey, Kristen McGuire, Koji Morimoto, Ramen and Rice, Dai Sato, Mark Stoddard, Tatsuyuki Tanaka, Greg Wicker, Sayo Yamamoto, and Yoshimitsu Yamashita. [33]
August 30–September 2, 2013Sheraton Dallas Downtown Hotel
Dallas, Texas		DJ Blade, Terri Doty, Tomohiko Ishii, Kenji Kamiyama, and Greg Wicker. [34]
August 15–18, 2014Sheraton Dallas Downtown Hotel
Dallas, Texas		10,297Hiroyuki Aoyama, Amelie Belcher, Flow, Kazuhiro Furuhashi, Todd Haberkorn, Reuben Langdon, Yuri Lowenthal, Kristen McGuire, Shingo Natsume, Tara Platt, Dai Sato, Hiroshi Shimizu, Ian Sinclair, Alexis Tipton, Kimiko Ueno, and Eric Wile. [35]
September 4–7, 2015Sheraton Dallas Downtown Hotel
Dallas, Texas		10,090Akai SKY, Hiroyuki Aoyama, Amelie Belcher, Jessica Gee-George, Grant George, Kristen McGuire, Ramen and Rice, Monica Rial, Jad Saxton, Hiroshi Shimizu, Ian Sinclair, Arina Tanemura, and Stephanie Young. [36]
August 12–15, 2016Sheraton Dallas Downtown Hotel
Dallas, Texas		10,751Amelie Belcher, Mark Crilley, Toshio Furukawa, Fumi Hirano, Shino Kakinuma, Chikashi Kubota, Kristen McGuire, Erica Mendez, Kazuhiro Miwa, Shuhei Morita, Shingo Natsume, Melissa Ng, Gilles Poitras, Lindsay Seidel, Micah Solusod, Akemi Takada, Austin Tindle, Greg Wicker, Lisle Wilkerson, Robert Woodhead, and Apphia Yu (Ayu Sakata). [1]
August 17–20, 2017Sheraton Dallas Downtown Hotel
Dallas, Texas		Amelie Belcher, Morgan Berry, Eunyoung Choi, Christophe Ferreira, Jessie James Grelle, Tadashi Hiramatsu, Motonobu Hori, Caleb Hyles, Jeremy Inman, Jerry Jewell, Kenji Kamiyama, Shigeto Koyama, Mitsurou Kubo, LM.C, Daman Mills, Dr. Susan Napier, Monica Rial, Yoshiki Sakurai, Dai Sato, Ian Sinclair, Micah Solusod, Sonny Strait, Atsuko Tanaka, Arina Tanemura, Atsumi Tanezaki, Tsutchie, Eric Vale, Greg Wicker, Sayo Yamamoto, Apphia Yu (Ayu Sakata), and Masaaki Yuasa. [37]
August 17–20, 2018Sheraton Dallas Hotel
Dallas, Texas		 Mai Aizawa, Tia Ballard, Dawn M. Bennett, Jacob Browning, Ricco Fajardo, Naoya Fukushi, Erika Harlacher, Natalie Hoover, Caleb Hyles, Roland Kelts, Helen McCarthy, Margaret McDonald, Tomotaka Misawa, Whitney Rodgers, J. Michael Tatum, Christopher Wehkamp, Bennett White, Greg Wicker, Lisle Wilkerson, Takanori Yamamura, and Apphia Yu (Ayu Sakata). [38]
August 16–19, 2019Sheraton Dallas Hotel
Dallas, Texas		Yoshitoshi ABe, Hiroyuki Aoyama, Amelie Belcher, Leon Chiro, and Shingo Natsume. [39]
July 31, 2021 [10] [11] Online convention
December 17-19, 2021Sheraton Dallas Hotel
Dallas, Texas		 Bryn Apprill, Amelie Belcher, Kyle Hebert, Robert McCollum, Kyle Phillips, and Christopher Wehkamp. [12]
July 29 - August 1, 2022Sheraton Dallas Hotel
Dallas, Texas		Katelyn Barr, Amelie Belcher, Dani Chambers, Ray Chase, Robbie Daymond, Marissa Lenti, Joel McDonald, Ry McKeand, Max Mittelman, Molly Searcy, Micah Solusod, and Apphia Yu (Ayu Sakata). [40]
July 28-31, 2023Sheraton Dallas Hotel
Dallas, Texas		Amelie Belcher, Beau Billingslea, Melissa Fahn, The Geeky Seamstress, and Bryan Massey. [41]
July 25-28, 2024Loews Arlington Hotel
Arlington, Texas 		Greg Ayres, Bryson Baugus, Amelie Belcher, Drew Breedlove, Kamen Casey, James Cheek, Aaron Dismuke, Ricco Fajardo, Cole Feuchter, Caleb Hyles, Corinne Sudberg, Kiba Walker, and Howard Wang. [42]

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