1000’s of cosplayers and anime followers flocked to the annual Anime Pageant Asia (AFA) in Singapore over the weekend, held for the primary time because the COVID-19 pandemic started greater than two years in the past.
The three-day conference celebrates all issues Japanese popular culture.
Anime, a sub-culture originating from Japan, has continued to thrive and develop internationally in recent times regardless of the pandemic, largely as a consequence of its huge on-line presence and supportive contributors.
AFA attracted 120,000 attendees the final time it was held in 2019.
Though precise ticket gross sales is not going to be out there till a later date, pageant director Shawn Chin instructed Reuters that he expects the Singapore occasion to succeed in the identical quantity, if not surpass it.
“Now that I’m in Singapore it looks like a meetup of previous mates, as a result of I used to be in fixed on-line contact with individuals right here,” stated a featured Taiwanese cosplayer, Hiko, from her sales space on the exhibition corridor.
Singapore eased most of its COVID-19 curbs this yr, and had seen numerous worldwide occasions returning to the city-state in latest months.
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