AnimeKon is back! After teasing fans with a throwback photo yesterday and a meme this morning, they officially announced their return. Further, they revealed that not only will there be new events, but also that they’ll be switching to a new location. And that’s not all that’s new: year eleven’s name has changed.
Initially, it was dubbed “The Invasion” – the first part of its TerraNautica Saga. Because AnimeKon was paused for two years, it was changed to “Return of the Kon”. That doesn’t mean that they’ve abandoned their plans for TerraNautica, however. As co-founder Omar Kennedy explained:
“The Terranautica Saga will return. It is too audacious a project to ever be contained. Seriously though, due to the Covid 19 pandemic, Team AnimeKon had to pivot its philosophies and direction. As such, we are changing direction for our return. AnimeKon X-I is basically our tenth outing; ‘the X’ , a dash ‘-‘ indicating the global pause and [‘I’], our first year back.
The Return of the Kon is more or less a return to normalcy – there is no normal year without AnimeKon and we are having a grand coming back celebration! This is just the beginning.”
The TerraNautica Saga was conceived of as a storyline spanning five years of AnimeKon. As such, each year told a different part of the story. It follows three main characters “as they face off against the forces of darkness [that] try to overwhelm their continent of TerraNautica.” The themes for each year were “Invasion”, “Clash of the Titans”, “League of Champions”, “Ascension” and “Resurgence”.
This is the first AnimeKon since 2019. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was cancelled in 2020.
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