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5th AnimeJapan Event Attracts 152,331 Visitors Across 4 Days
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The fifth AnimeJapan event at the Tokyo Big Sight complex drew 152,331 people over four days. The event featured industry-only days on March 22-23, and public days on March 24-25. The event exceeds last year's attendance of 145,453 people, and 2016's attendance of 135,323 people. 2016's event was held over three days.
At this year's event, about 3,385 visitors were business-related, which was down from 4,051 last year. 1,309 industry press members attended from 692 press companies. Of these, 1,152 people from 589 companies were from Japan, and 157 people from 103 companies were foreign.
14,304 people attended the separately but simultaneously held Family Anime Festa event, up from 11,770 last year. The event took place in Tokyo Big Sight's East Hall 7.
AnimeJapan's sixth convention will return to Tokyo Big Sight and run from March 21 to March 24, 2019. The event will again have two business days and two public days. The Family Anime Festa event will run from March 23 to March 24, 2019.
The AnimeJapan event debuted in 2014 as the merger of two previous events — Tokyo International Anime Fair (TAF) and Anime Contents Expo (ACE).
