Southern California Anime Club

The conclusion of our Cosplay Photography Contest is here!

(Aplogies for the delay. AX had all of us on a hold)

I want to thank our sponsors The AMP Organization & Saga for helping us with this project. We couldn't do stuff like this without them.

In addition thank you to everyone who competed! Every single entry was talented and had beautiful work. I could not belive just how much talent we have in SoCal. You should be very proud of your craft!

Also thank you to everyone who took the time to vote. Truly thank you 🙏

Grand Winners Marin4EVA

1.) Hanako
2.) Alvin 📸

Judges Choice Donkiekon

1.) Cookierin✨
2.) Kon

I really am happy I get to live out my projects that were one day just ideas. Today they are a sign that SoCal Anime Events is evolving into truly a community project.

What type of contest or project should we host next? Let me know in the comments.

📰 Southern Anime News

▶️ Local News - Anime - Gaming

1.) Anime Expo broke records this year with a huge attendance record!

2.) You can find a PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS
and Naruto collab here in Lil Tokyo!

3.) Sad to report Fiesta Village Family Fun Fiesta Village Family Fun Park.

4.) Northern California is experiencing huge fire. Beware for those nearby for updates.

5.) Mario Kart tour a mobile game is officially shutting down later this year

6.) Anibiz is a newly launched project opened up by former crunchyroll ceo to help companies get licenses to produce official merch.

7.) Emaqi Official has just laEmaqi Officialonthly plan that will let you read unlimited manga on their app for only 6.99. This also includes other benefits too!

8.) Xbox has reported they aim to layoff 3200 workers in the future.

9.) Your name will be returning to tneaters in August for its 10 year anniversary.

10. Sword art online is getting a original moving coming 2028!

Anime Events coming to Southern California [July 6th to 12th]

📍 Los Angeles - Riverside - Orange County

💎 Cosplayer 🌸 Carly ~ 🌸

1.) Black Myth: Wukong Global Concert San Gabriel Valley Symphony Peacock Theater

2.) Attack On Tea attackontea_oc

3.) Big Z Fabric Cosplay Contest Nessa Big Z Wholesale Fabric Store

4.) Spill The Tea MahouCha Cafe

5.) Opening Arc OCAnimeClub

6.) Weebfest X Sanrio Weeb Fest Night Market

7.) Mario Calliope Anime Jungle Alamo Drafthouse LA

8.) My Neighbor Todoro GKIDS

9.) Spill the tea Anime Manga Lounge

🎉 List of Anime Expo Afterparties you can visit!

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📢 This is not a full list. You can find the full list of AX on Google Docs online.

⚠️ Events posted here are after parties that have history or organizers have history in making these type of events for the community.

▶️ Thursday

1.) Obey Me Official Afterparty Obey_Me_official

2.) J-pop Sound Capsule hosted by Anime Expo July 2 - 5, 2026

3.) Fantastic Reality Fantastic Reality

▶️ Friday

4.) Magick An Anime Fantasy afterparty Saga Prism Power 💫 Digital Circus & Anime in Wonderland 6/26 + 27! INITIAL RHI X_Domain｜All-Girls Anime Event ✨Fantasy KNights✨

5.) Trap Sushi TRAP SUSHI®

6.) Anibash ASAHI CREW

7.) Sukeban Wrestling Anime Expo July 2 - 5, 2026

8.) Heart Throbs Darling St. Maria

▶️ Saturday

9.) Anime XP Afterparty Sonicboombox

10.) Dreamer X Dreamer DREAMBASH

11.) Senpai Squad Senpai Squad

▶️ Thurs-Sat

12.) AX dance will have late night parties at the convention itself!

⚠️ Making on this list does not a mean we can vouch the party is high quality or safety.

That being said we ask you do yourself own research before attending.

Practice safe party etiquette and don't over drink.

🔔 The Cosplay Photography contest finals are here!

⚔️ We started with 20 duos and now we are down to 3.

💪 The three duos here have survived 3 round of various challenges.

They aren't here because of a popularity. They aren't here by luck.

They are here because the SoCal people loved their Cosplay and Photography!

Thank you to our sponsors The AMP Organization & Saga

Our duos

Marin4EVA
[.photgenics - Hanako]

Tenki Gen
[🤍Taiyouno🤍 - Joel Pulido]

DonkieKon
[Kon - Cookierin✨]