Anime NebrasKon

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Anime NebrasKon
Status	Active
Venue	University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Location	Lincoln, Nebraska
Country	United States
First held	2004
Organizer	Otaku Jinrui
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Anime NebrasKon is an anime convention focusing on anime, manga, and East Asian culture. It is held in Lincoln, Nebraska at the city campus Student Union and run by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln's anime club Otaku Jinrui.^[1]

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

[edit] Programming

Anime NebrasKon programming is similar to other anime conventions with cosplay events, game shows, anime music video contests, and video game contests, along with a ramen noodle eating contest.

[edit] History

Anime NebrasKon was founded by the members of University of Nebraska-Lincoln's anime club, Otaku Jinrui, in 2004. The idea initially began as a fund-raising project for the club treasury but the members also realized that many anime and manga fans in Nebraska had never been to a convention due to transportation and expenses. The convention was first launched in 2004 as a successful one-day event with 300 attendees.

The convention would return the following year as a much larger convention and included industry guests for the first time. It also expanded from a one-day event to a three-day event. Many of the old, traditional anime convention events remained but the club also introduced new and unique events as well, such as a Science of Anime lecture and the Awesome Rangers (a spoof on the popular sentai Power Rangers).

[edit] Event history

Dates	Location	Guests
October 9, 2004	University of Nebraska - Lincoln Lincoln, Nebraska^[2]
November 4–6, 2005	University of Nebraska - Lincoln Lincoln, Nebraska	Matt Burke, Tiffany Grant, Jan Scott-Frazier, and Shannon Townsend.^[3]
November 17–19, 2006	University of Nebraska - Lincoln Lincoln, Nebraska	Steve Bennett, Tiffany Grant, Kyle Hebert, Jan Scott-Frazier, Richard Townsend, and Shannon Townsend.^[4]
November 16–18, 2007	University of Nebraska - Lincoln Lincoln, Nebraska	Steve Bennett, Tiffany Grant, Matt Greenfield, Richard Townsend, and Shannon Townsend.^[5]
November 14–16, 2008	University of Nebraska - Lincoln Lincoln, Nebraska	Tiffany Grant and Matt Greenfield.^[6]