Anime Washington held their first show January 27-28 at the Greater Tacoma Convention Center. They are an event geared to bring the everyone together to celebrate anime, manga, and Asian Pop Culture. This Anime con had a large vendor floor and offered several entertaining panels on everything Anime, as well cosplay photo shoots and various gaming opportunities. They brought in a lot of Anime voice actors for this event including Dameon Clarke, Brittney Karbowski, and Justin Cooke. The voice actors represented close to 100 popular Animes. Growing pains are expected from a first year convention. This year seems to have

UChi-Con is a free, one-day anime convention held in Ida Noyes Hall at the University of Chicago. This cosplay focused event is organized and run by the UChicago Japanese Animation Society. This is event may be small, but it is popular due to its historically unique locations. The event is held in the Ida Noyes Hall. This 1916, three-story, Neo-Gothic building was designed by Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge. The gorgeous building features fireplaces, a limestone exterior, intricately plastered ceilings, and elaborate wood paneling, which make for some fantastic cosplay photo shoots. The Harper Memorial Building is reminiscent of a castle and