Anime Boston
| Anime Boston | |
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| Status | Active |
| Venue | Hynes Convention Center and Sheraton Boston Hotel |
| Location(s) | Boston, Massachusetts |
| Country | United States |
| Inaugurated | 2003 |
| Attendance | 26,975 registered; 78,661 (person-days) in 2016 |
| Organized by | New England Anime Society |
| Website | |
| www.animeboston.com | |
Anime Boston is an annual three-day anime fan convention held in the spring in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The convention is the 8th largest North American anime convention as of 2016. Anime Boston was created and is run by the New England Anime Society, Inc., a Massachusetts-based non-profit organization.
The convention features a number of events which include a masquerade, an anime music video contest, video programming rooms, an artists' alley and art show, karaoke, game shows, video games, RPGs, and a LARP.
The first Anime Boston was held in 2003 at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel, as was the 2004 convention. By Anime Boston 2005, the convention had moved to the Hynes Convention Center and Sheraton Boston Hotel. Since then, the convention has continued to be held at the convention center and adjoining hotels with attendance seeing steady growth to 14,339 people (or 35,224 turnstile) in 2008. That year also saw Japanese rock stars The Pillows finish up the east coast leg of their American tour at Anime Boston. In 2009, the convention saw the attendance rise to over 15,000 people for the first time, and the attendees who got tickets at the convention for the concert got to see Kalafina for their first-ever North American performance. Attendance jumped again to over 17,000 attendants in 2010. Nobuo Uematsu made an appearance at the convention, with the Video Game Orchestra, a Boston-based 90-piece orchestra that performs video game music with an orchestra, choir, and rock band.
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