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AnimeCons TV - Beau Billingslea Interview

Actor Beau Billingslea, best known as Jet Black in Cowboy Bebop, shares his thoughts on being recognized for his voice, interacting with fans, and making a difference in lives through the characters he plays.

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FanCons.com Database Passes 20,000 Conventions

Today, the FanCons.com convention database has passed the 20,000 convention milestone. The database began in October 2003 to power AnimeCons.com, but expanded beyond anime conventions with the creation of FanCons.com in early 2012. The 10,000th convention was added in December 2017.

The 20,000th convention to be added was LumaCon 2023 which is scheduled to take place in January 2023 in Petaluma, California. LumaCon is a small, free one-day comic convention organized by librarians in Petaluma. The convention is targeted toward kids and features an artists' alley with professional artists mixed in among local student artists. 2023 will be LumaCon's eighth year of in-person events (in addition to two online-only events during the COVID-19 pandemic).

The FanCons.com site also has a database of guests which passed 7,500 guests just over a month ago and has recently added such notable guests as actor Oscar Isaac and horror movie host Svengoolie.

We plan to continue cataloging information on the next 20,000 conventions around the world and adding historical information on past conventions going as far back as the first known fan convention back in 1889. There are still many, many more conventions out there. Any convention organizers who don't see their conventions listed can submit them. ...

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AnimeCons TV - Otakon 2022 Report

Otakon 2022 was held in Washington, DC and Doug returned to learn how they dealt with the pandemic, check out the maker space, watch some sake tasting, and play some video games.

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AnimeCons TV - Anne Yatco Interview

Voice actor Anne Yatco sat down with Doug at Otakon 2021 to talk about attending her first convention as a fan as well as some work experience.

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AnimeCons TV - Anime Boston Returns After COVID

Anime Boston's chair, Kristen Leiding, returns to AnimeCons TV to talk about bringing back the convention after a three-year hiatus due to COVID-19.

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AnimeCons TV - Katy Hunt of Convention Confessional

Host of the Convention Confessional podcast, Katy Hunt, gets the podcasting table flipped and is a guest on AnimeCons TV after all our hosts have been on her podcast.

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AnimeCons TV Extras - Lisa Furukawa Concert

The full concert from Lisa Furukawa as seen at Tsubasacon...

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AnimeCons TV - 2021 & 2022 Predictions

We review predictions for 2021 as vaccination rates were on the rise. Then we make new predictions for 2022.

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AnimeCons TV - 2021 Year in Review

At the end of 2021, the hosts got together virtually to discuss the smoldering remains of the 2021 convention season and what may lay ahead.

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AnimeCons TV - Robert Woodhead Interview

AnimEigo founder Robert Woodhead sat down with Doug to talk conventions, fans, and how things have changed over the years.

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