Anime Mid-Atlantic

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Anime Mid-Atlantic
Venue	Holiday Inn Executive Center
Location	Virginia Beach, Virginia
Country	United States
First held	2001
Attendance	3,017 in 2006
Official website

Anime Mid-Atlantic is an anime convention held in Virginia, USA, normally Fathers Day Weekend every June. Founded in 2000, Anime Mid-Atlantic's goal is to provide a place where anime and manga fans can gather together and share in their common interest in a festive and fun atmosphere. Those familiar with the convention often refer to it as AMA, for short.

1 Programming
2 History
- 2.1 Event history
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Programming

Typical AMA programming includes:

Several video rooms in which live action Japanese films and anime are shown in various rooms on big screens throughout the convention. Fan-produced anime music videos, in which anime film clips are set against the background of a particular song, are also shown.
Panels and Workshops on subjects such as voice acting or how to draw manga. Expert guests discuss or show tricks of their trade and field questions from the audience.
A Dealers' Room in which commercial vendors such as publishers and retailers set up booths and sell their merchandise.
The Artist's Alley in which amateur and professional artists may sign up for a table and display, advertise, sell, and auction their artwork.
A video game room in which attendees may play a variety of console, arcade, and computer games, and participate in tournaments.
Cosplay and live-action role-playing. Many attendees spend most of the convention in costume as their favorite anime, manga, or video game character. Those seeking recognition for their costumes may enter the more private Hall Costume Contest, or may opt for the "big stage" in the formal Cosplay event, held on Saturday night.
Musical guests, Concerts, a mock-rave-style dance and a karaoke competition.
Asian Cultural Events have also become a staple of the convention.

[edit] History

[edit] Event history

Dates	Location	Atten.	Guests
June 15–17, 2001	Richmond, Virginia	657	Steve Bennett, Austell Callwood, Kara Dennison, Colleen Doran, Nickey Froberg, Mike Hayes, Steve Pearl, Doug Smith, and Brett Weaver.^[1]
June 14–16, 2002	Richmond, Virginia	968	Steve Bennett, Austell Callwood, Kara Dennison, Nickey Froberg, Mike Hayes, Humouring the Fates, Carl Macek, Jan Scott-Frazier, Doug Smith, Terry Tymczyna, Jason Waltrip, and John Waltrip.^[2]
June 13–15, 2003	Sheraton Richmond West Richmond, Virginia	1,150	Robert V. Aldrich, Greg Ayres, Austell Callwood, T. Campbell, Robert DeJesus, Kara Dennison, Greg Eatroff, Newton Ewell, Tiffany Grant, Humouring the Fates, Jan Scott-Frazier, Shawn the Touched, and Terry Tymczyna.^[3]
May 28–30, 2004	Holiday Inn Select Koger Center Richmond, Virginia	1,729	Robert V. Aldrich, Greg Ayres, Steve Bennett, Austell Callwood, Robert DeJesus, Amy Howard-Wilson, Monica Rial, Doug Smith, and Terry Tymczyna.^[4]
June 17–19, 2005	Holiday Inn Select Koger Center Richmond, Virginia	2,000	Robert V. Aldrich, Greg Ayres, Eirik Blackwolf, Keith Burgess, Austell Callwood, Robert DeJesus, Mark E. Rogers, and Doug Smith.^[5]
June 16–18, 2006	Greater Richmond Convention Center Richmond, Virginia	3,017	Robert V. Aldrich, Yunmao Ayakawa, Greg Ayres, Steve Bennett, Eirik Blackwolf, Johnny Yong Bosch, Jonathan Brands, Keith Burgess, Austell Callwood, Ron Chiu, Michael Coleman, Jason Cumberledge, Emily DeJesus, Robert DeJesus, Mari Iijima, Yasuhiro Koshi, Piano Squall, Kay Reynolds, Mark E. Rogers, Kristine Sa, Leo Saunders, Joe Silver, Doug Smith, Jen Starling, Renee Starling, Donnie Sturges, Danny Valentini, Jason Waltrip, John Waltrip, Koshi Yasuhiro, Steve Yun, and Tommy Yune.^[6]
June 15–17, 2007	Greater Richmond Convention Center Richmond, Virginia		Robert V. Aldrich, Yunmao Ayakawa, Greg Ayres, Eirik Blackwolf, Johnny Yong Bosch, Austell Callwood, Ron Chiu, Robert DeJesus, Mike Hayes, Yasuhiro Koshi, Piano Squall, Mark E. Rogers, Leo Saunders, Joe Silver, Doug Smith, Swinging Popsicle, and X-Strike Studios.^[7]
June 13–15, 2008	Holiday Inn Executive Center Virginia Beach, Virginia		Robert V. Aldrich, Chris Ayres, Greg Ayres, Eirik Blackwolf, Jonathan Brands, Ron Chiu, Emily DeJesus, Robert DeJesus, Mike Hayes, Chuck Huber, Chris "Kilika" Malone, Vic Mignogna, Leo Saunders, Joe Silver, Doug Smith, X-Strike Studios, and Steve Yun.^[8]