At the 54th Asahikawa Winter Festival, held Feb. 6-11, 2013, Top Tour was offering tours of the festival, which included experiencing the massive Transformer snow sculpture made for the event.
On Jan. 1-2, T.M.Revolution himself, Takanori Nishikawa, performed at the New Year’s Eve event “T.M.R. New Year Party ‘13 Live Revolution”.
At the end of last year, a collaboration spin off manga between Weekly Shonen Jump’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure and the fashion brand Gucci, called “Jolyne, Fly High with Gucci”, made big waves.
The first part of the list of exhibitors and display works for Anime Contents Expo 2013 (ACE 2013), which will be held from Mar. 30-31 at the Makuhari Messe convention center, has been announced.
Presently, online games are at the forefront of gaming and are helping the spread of game culture, with many people having played at least one of them.
On Dec. 26, 2012, the “Eva Unit 01 Reinforcement Project”, a promotional tour for the new Evangelion movie, came to a close with the building and dedication of an Eva Shrine in Tokyo Skytree Town.
On Jan. 19, an event was held to commemorate the final chapter in the *Berserk* movie trilogy, *Berserk Golden Age Arc III: Descent*, which will be released on Feb. 1.
In commemoration of the 30th anniversary of Macross, an event called Super Dimensional Exhibition in Osaka was held in Hirakata Park in Osaka from Dec. 22, 2012 to Jan. 14, 2013.
The participants for Creator’s World, which will take place from Mar. 21-24 at Tokyo International Anime Fair 2013 (TIAF 2013), have been announced.