Anime Festival Orlando
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Anime Festival Orlando is an annual three-day anime convention
held at the Wyndham Orlando Resort in Orlando, Florida
in early August. AFO has a variety of anime events and programming, guests, and many of the things to be expected at an anime convention. Anime Festival Orlando 11 will be held at the same location, from August 5 through August 8, 2010.
, dances, panels, workshops, game shows, karaoke, video games, artist alley, and dealers room.
Anime convention
An anime convention is an event or gathering with a primary focus on anime, manga and Japanese culture. Commonly, anime conventions are multi-day events hosted at convention centers, hotels or college campuses. They feature a wide variety of activities and panels...
held at the Wyndham Orlando Resort in Orlando, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Orlando is a city in the central region of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat of Orange County, and the center of the Greater Orlando metropolitan area. According to the 2010 US Census, the city had a population of 238,300, making Orlando the 79th largest city in the United States...
in early August. AFO has a variety of anime events and programming, guests, and many of the things to be expected at an anime convention. Anime Festival Orlando 11 will be held at the same location, from August 5 through August 8, 2010.
Programming
Anime Festival Orlando holds many events that are typical of anime conventions, including cosplayCosplay
, short for "costume play", is a type of performance art in which participants don costumes and accessories to represent a specific character or idea. Characters are often drawn from popular fiction in Japan, but recent trends have included American cartoons and science fiction...
, dances, panels, workshops, game shows, karaoke, video games, artist alley, and dealers room.
Event history
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