Southeast Asia’s largest Japanese pop culture event, Anime Festival Asia (AFA) 2013, will held from Nov. 8-10 at the Suntec International Convention and Exhibition Centre in Singapore.
Are you familiar with the term *seichi junrei*? It’s a kind of tourism that involves visiting the actual locations that anime series are set in and is currently enjoying a good deal of popularity among anime fans in Japan.
From Oct. 10-13 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York, U.S., the American comic, manga, and game convention New York Comic Con (NYCC) was held.
On Oct. 12, a celebratory event was held for the release of collaborative cases and clear file folders of Tanamiclas, which was created as part of Tsuburaya Productions’ “Monster Personification Project.”
Recently, interest in industries associated with Japanese pop culture––such as anime, manga, movies, and music––has increased in Southeast Asia. Announcements of new projects to promote such industries in this region are no longer a rare thing.
“Kamiesai -Miyabi-,” an event that gathered the works of famous illustrators, was held at Ikebukuro Sunshine City for three days from Sept. 21 to 23.
The anime *Robot Girls Z* will begin broadcasting in January 2014 on Toei Channel. This unique work will show Go Nagai’s original works *Mazinger Z* (which began broadcasting 41 years ago), *Great Mazinger*, and *UFO Robot Grendizer* as bishoujo characters.
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