Anime festival

Thousands of cosplayers and anime fans gathered at the annual Anime Festival Asia (AFA) in Singapore. The festival was held for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

AFA began in 2008, and it’s the largest and most followed Japanese pop culture event in Southeast Asia. Anime is a sub-culture from Japan, which has continued to thrive and grow internationally in recent years, due to its vast online presence and supportive participants. In 2019, the three-day convention attracted 120,000 attendees, and organizers expect to reach at least the same numbers for this year.

For many cosplayers, the event feels like a meeting of old friends because they are in constant online contact with each other.

Are you an anime fan?

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Would you like to attend the AFA one day?