Merger of Tokyo International Anime Fair and Anime Contents Expo Announced

According to a press release from AnimeJapan, it has been decided that the Tokyo International Anime Fair (TAF) and the Anime Contents Expo (ACE) will be merged into a new fair which will be held on the 22nd and 23rd of March 2014. This decision was made at a meeting held on October 9th. The new event will be held at the Tokyo Big Sight. Accordingly, TAF and ACE, which were planned to be held in early 2014, were cancelled. The Tokyo city government, which played a major role in the Tokyo International Anime Fair, will not be participating in the new event.
An in-exhaustive list of companies and association which in part of organizing in AnimeJapan are as follows:
Aniplex
Animate
Kadokawa Shoten
King Records (Starchild Records)
Satelight
Sunrise
Geneon Universal Entertainment
Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions Co. (ShoPro)
Tezuka Productions
Toei Animation
TMS Entertainment
NAS
Nippon Animation
Bandai Visual
Studio Pierrot
Production IG
Frontier Works
Pony Canyon
Marvelous AQL
The Association of Japanese Animations (AJA)
Official site and official Twitter account for AnimeJapan 2014.
Sources: Anime!Anime!, ITMedia
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Oct 10, 2013 4:36 PM by Dunois
Edit Topic: I now remember what the thread was. If you typed in K-ON!! under the Anime tag, go on the page and click on one of the discussion threads seen on the News section titled "Father of KyoAni's Animator Horiguchi Yukiko Wins Election For Mayor".
http://www.city.yawata.kyoto.jp/outline/yokososhicho/mayor
Oct 10, 2013 8:42 AM by symbv
hmm I really want to go to another anime festival like this :3
Oct 9, 2013 11:37 PM by Yokamota
Ok done rambling.
Oct 9, 2013 8:47 PM by SkyFullOfStars
Hmmmm.......He is not the one I was thinking off. The mayor I was thinking about was the one who became elected for Kyo Ani's presumed most "best-selling anime" K-ON.
I suppose I have to find it somewhere as I remembered there was a thread about it but I do not know what tag or page it came under.
Edit Topic: I now remember what the thread was. If you typed in K-ON!! under the Anime tag, go on the page and click on one of the discussion threads seen on the News section titled "Father of KyoAni's Animator Horiguchi Yukiko Wins Election For Mayor".
Oct 9, 2013 2:02 PM by kandiiyuutaamu
Hmmmm.......He is not the one I was thinking off. The mayor I was thinking about was the one who became elected for Kyo Ani's presumed most "best-selling anime" K-ON.
Oct 9, 2013 11:17 AM by symbv
I kinda figured it was him at first but I was thinking of another mayor that is also from Japan but cannot remember the exact location.
Hmmmm.......He is not the one I was thinking off. The mayor I was thinking about was the one who became elected for Kyo Ani's presumed most "best-selling anime" K-ON.
Oct 9, 2013 11:08 AM by kandiiyuutaamu
I kinda figured it was him at first but I was thinking of another mayor that is also from Japan but cannot remember the exact location.
Oct 9, 2013 8:17 AM by symbv
basically a f-you to Tokyo's mayor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shintaro_Ishihara
I kinda figured it was him at first but I was thinking of another mayor that is also from Japan but cannot remember the exact location.
Oct 9, 2013 8:11 AM by kandiiyuutaamu
basically a f-you to Tokyo's mayor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shintaro_Ishihara
Oct 9, 2013 8:08 AM by symbv
Oct 9, 2013 8:07 AM by Hoppy
basically a f-you to Tokyo's mayor.
And who would that be???
P.S. This is interesting news, too bad I can't go there and be able to see it when that happens. I wonder what type of new anime they are gonna come out with (even though I don't mind the ones coming out at the moment)?
Oct 9, 2013 8:05 AM by kandiiyuutaamu
basically a f-you to Tokyo's mayor.
Oct 9, 2013 7:43 AM by symbv
Oct 9, 2013 7:42 AM by komic
Oct 9, 2013 7:35 AM by symbv
Oct 9, 2013 7:30 AM by Chibi-Alice
As for the actual event itself this is some pretty awesome news. Hopefully when the time comes we can get some good anime announcements or some really informative industry panels and judging by the companies attending it looks like we will get just that.
Oct 9, 2013 6:34 AM by Wind_Sr
Oct 9, 2013 5:37 AM by Stark700
Oct 9, 2013 5:34 AM by Mr_Gutts
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