Otakon
Annual anime convention in Washington, D.C., US
About
Otakon ( OH-tə-kon) is an annual three-day anime convention held during July/August. From 1994 to 2016, it took place at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland's Inner Harbor district; in 2017, it moved to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. The convention focuses on East Asian popular culture (primarily anime, manga, music, and cinema) and its fandom. The name is a portmanteau derived from convention and the Japanese word otaku.
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