ReedPOP and The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation (SPJA) announced on Saturday that New York Comic Con (NYCC) and Anime Expo are partnering to launch the “Anime Fest @ NYCC x Anime Expo” event.
The event is taking place at Pier 94 in New York on October 4-7, the same days as New York Comic Con.
The event will feature artists, Japanese guests, and “other New York Otaku,” and will also have autograph signings, an Artist Alley, live music, and Japanese pop culture classes.
The now-defunct New York Anime Festival (NYAF) event launched as a standalone event in December 2007, and it eventually began sharing the same weekend and location — Jacob K. Javits Center in midtown Manhattan — with NYCC in 2010.