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(Archive May 2017) MWCC’s Anime Club Attends Anime Boston

By Micah Clark | Observer Contributor

A group of costumed people gathered for a photo.

Taking place at the Hynes Convention Center adjacent to the Prudential Center near Back Bay station in Boston, Anime Boston is an annual spring event that members of MWCC’s Anime Club attend. According to its website, Anime Boston is the largest anime convention in Northeast America and in 2016 this convention attracted 26,975 people. 

An advertisement sign for Anime Boston above the entrance to the Hynes Convention center.

Multiple stories tall, this convention site each year houses many discussion panels where relevant topics are discussed, as well as several vendors halls where people purchase goods ranging from Japanese animation shows and movies known as ‘Anime’, Japanese comic books called ‘Manga,’ costume supplies, and various other assorted merchandise, like art and clothing.

A cosplayer dressed as Misty from ‘Pokémon’ with her Pokémon ‘Togepi’ as an egg.

Amidst the thousands of people in attending crowds, many come dressed in costume as characters from anime, videogames, and various other things; these people are called ‘Cosplayers’ and many of these costumes are intricate and time-consuming to create.

Some people cosplay in groups, with costumes in the same style or from the same show.
‘Terry Bogard’ from ‘King of fighters’ (left) and Lord Akuma from ‘Street Fighter’ (right).
Here is a man dressed as Bob Ross, because not everybody who cosplays dresses as an anime character.
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