Anime Los Angeles facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Anime Los Angeles
Status	Active
Venue	Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center
Location	Long Beach, California
Country	United States
First held	2005
Attendance	12,961 total in 2020

Anime Los Angeles (stylized as Animé Los Angeles) is an annual four-day anime convention held during January at the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center in Long Beach, California.

Programming

The convention typically offers an AMV contest, artists' alley, con suite, cosplay chess, dealers room, and a gaming room.

History

The convention moved from the Los Angeles Airport Marriott to the Ontario Convention Center in 2016. This move was made to accommodate the conventions growth. Anime Los Angeles 2021 was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, the convention will move to the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center.

Event history

Dates	Location	Atten.	Guests
January 28-30, 2005	Airtel Plaza Hotel Van Nuys, California	616	Caroline "Carmen" Curtis, Jerry Koudelik, and Tadao Tomomatsu.
January 27-29, 2006	Airtel Plaza Hotel Van Nuys, California	1,346	Phuong-Mai Blasich (PMBQ), Hiroaki Inoue, Karisu-sama, Richard Man, and Tadao Tomomatsu.
January 26-28, 2007	Airtel Plaza Hotel Van Nuys, California	1,875	Svetlana Chmakova, J Dee DuPuy, and Tadao Tomomatsu.
January 4-6, 2008	Burbank Airport Marriott Hotel & Convention Center Burbank, California	2,509	Darrel Guilbeau, Vic Mignogna, Tadao Tomomatsu, and Bryan Wong.
January 2-4, 2009	Los Angeles Airport Marriott Burbank, California	2,851	Zac Bertschy, Johnny Yong Bosch, Darrel Guilbeau, Kevin Lillard, Scott Ramsoomair, Tadao Tomomatsu, and Cristina Valenzuela.
January 8-10, 2010	Los Angeles Airport Marriott Burbank, California	3,207	Bekka the Alice, Jessica Gaona, Kyle Hebert, The Spoony Bards, and Tadao Tomomatsu.
January 29-30, 2011	Los Angeles Airport Marriott Burbank, California	3,598	Gina Biggs, Taliesin Jaffe, Helen McCarthy, Jason Charles Miller, Patrick Seitz, and Tadao Tomomatsu.
January 6-8, 2012	Los Angeles Airport Marriott Burbank, California	4,211	Jon Allen, Mark Allen, Jr., Chris Cason, Julie Rei Goldstein, Kyle Hebert, Lauren Landa, Danielle McRae, Dave Merrill, Craig Miller, Panda Cubed, Derek Stephen Prince, Stan Sakai, Jessica Straus, Kaiji Tang, Jonathan Tarbox, Tadao Tomomatsu, and Stephen Weese.
January 4-6, 2013	Los Angeles Airport Marriott Burbank, California	5,001	Zac Bertschy, Johnny Yong Bosch, Edward Bosco, Kira Buckland, Eunyoung Choi, Meri Davis, Lucien Dodge, Tim Eldred, Richard Epcar, M. Alice LeGrow, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, Danielle McRae, Panda Cubed, Laura Post, David Keith Riddick, Matt Schley, Patrick Seitz, Justin Sevakis, Kaiji Tang, Tadao Tomomatsu, Kimlinh Tran, Stephen Weese, Ezra Weisz, Sarah Anne Williams, and Masaaki Yuasa.
January 10-12, 2014	Los Angeles Airport Marriott Burbank, California	4,583	Edward Bosco, Kira Buckland, Lucien Dodge, Erin Fitzgerald, Kyle Hebert, Natalie Hoover, Rai Kamishiro, Lolita Dark, Danielle McRae, Neil Nadelman, Panda Cubed, Parlé Productions, Laura Post, David Keith Riddick, Patrick Seitz, Christopher Smith, Aimee Major Steinberger, Kaiji Tang, Jonathan Tarbox, Tadao Tomomatsu, Kimlinh Tran, Ezra Weisz, Lisle Wilkerson, and Sarah Anne Williams.
January 9-11, 2015	Los Angeles Airport Marriott Burbank, California	4,702	Edward Bosco, Kira Buckland, Christine Marie Cabanos, Jacob Grady, Natalie Hoover, Carl Gustav Horn, Taliesin Jaffe, Carrie Keranen, Erik Scott Kimerer, Danielle McRae, Erica Mendez, Matthew Mercer, Marianne Miller, Panda Cubed, Laura Post, Kaiji Tang, Jonathan Tarbox, Tadao Tomomatsu, David Vincent, Ezra Weisz, and Sarah Anne Williams.
January 29-31, 2016	Ontario Convention Center Ontario, California	8,098	Edward Bosco, Chocolate Covered Cosplay, Les E. Claypool III, Lucien Dodge, Victor Frost, Caitlin Glass, Todd Haberkorn, Kyle Hebert, Erica Lindbeck, Lionel Lum, Danielle McRae, Erica Mendez, Cassandra Lee Morris, Panda Cubed, David Keith Riddick, Stephanie Sheh, Tadao Tomomatsu, Ezra Weisz, Lisle Wilkerson, and Sarah Anne Williams.
January 27-29, 2017	Ontario Convention Center Ontario, California	8,954	Brian Beacock, Pierre Bernard Jr., Edward Bosco, Jeff Burns, Chocolate Covered Cosplay, Mary Claypool, Les E. Claypool III, Richard Epcar, Victor Frost, Darrel Guilbeau, Hiroaki Inoue, Lauren Landa, Mela Lee, Erica Lindbeck, Jason Charles Miller, Sean O'Mara, Cindy Robinson, Tara Sands, Christopher Smith, Ellyn Stern, Cristina Valenzuela, Stephen Weese, Ezra Weisz, and Jason Wishnov.
January 25-28, 2018	Ontario Convention Center Ontario, California	11,360	Pierre Bernard Jr., Beau Billingslea, Steve Blum, Zach Callison, Chocolate Covered Cosplay, Mary Claypool, Les E. Claypool III, Fon Davis, Dustbunny, Melissa Fahn, Victor Frost, Bonnie Gordon, Jacob Grady, Marc Handler, Grant Imahara, Xander Jeanneret, Karisu-sama, Wendee Lee, Lolita Dark, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, Danielle McRae, Midnight Shinigami, Jeff Nimoy, Derek Stephen Prince, Raj Ramayya, Lia Sargent, Paul St. Peter, Skip Stellrecht, Ezra Weisz, and Stephanie Yanez.
January 10-13, 2019	Ontario Convention Center Ontario, California	11,760	Pierre Bernard Jr., Morgan Berry, Justin Briner, Leo Camacho, Clifford Chapin, Chocolate Covered Cosplay, Mary Claypool, Les E. Claypool III, Colleen Clinkenbeard, Fon Davis, Dorothy Fahn, Melissa Fahn, Bryan Forrest, Victor Frost, Todd Haberkorn, Roland Kelts, David Matranga, Kyle McCarley, Kristen McGuire, Joe Ochman, Skip Stellrecht, Chris Tergliafera, Eric Vale, Christopher Wehkamp, and Ezra Weisz.
January 9-12, 2020	Ontario Convention Center DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Ontario Airport Ontario, California	12,961	Steve Bennett, Pierre Bernard Jr., Mary Claypool, Les E. Claypool III, Zack Davisson, FEMM, Dorah Fine, Lauren Landa, Jason Charles Miller, Hiroshi Nagahama, Tony Oliver, Evil Ted Smith, Skip Stellrecht, Chris Tergliafera, Ezra Weisz, and Robert Woodhead.
January 6-9, 2022	Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center Long Beach, California