AnimeFest

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AnimeFest
Status	Active
Venue	Hyatt Regency Dallas at Reunion Tower
Location	Dallas, Texas
Country	United States
Years in existence	1992-1996; 1998-1999; 2001 to present
Attendance	3,301 members
List of events	Cosplay, Anime Music Video Contest, Video Console Gaming
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AnimeFest is an anime convention started in 1992. It is an annual four-day event held over Labor Day weekend in Dallas, Texas.

The convention features cosplay, American voice actors from anime, artists, vendors and exhibits, panels, workshops, and gaming. AnimeFest's events focus on aspects of anime, manga, video games, and Japanese culture. AnimeFest is one of the oldest conventions in the country, although 1997 and 2000 were skipped. It has gone through a minor change in its name, due to capitalization, and the loss of capitalization of part of its name and the addition, and then the loss, of an exclamation point (Fest to FEST! to Fest once again). At AnimeFest 2006, the convention held the first live concert in America for the J-Pop/J-Rock band, FLOW, whose songs were used as openings for series such as Naruto(Fighting Dreamers, Go!!!! and Re:member) and Eureka 7(Days).

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