The staff for the AnimeJapan convention has announced that AnimeJapan 2027 will take place from March 26 to March 28. The event will be held at the at the Intex Osaka convention center in Osaka.
The event takes place on business days and one public day, which overlap. Specifically, the business days will be held first, taking place on March 26 and 27, followed by the public days on March 27 and 28, with March 27 being an overlapping business and public day. This will mark the first time the annual event has been held outside of Tokyo in its 13-year history. The 2028 iteration of the event will also take place in Osaka.
“‘AnimeJapan,’ which has been held in Tokyo for the past 13 years as ‘one of the world’s largest anime festivals,’ will be held in 2027 in Osaka—a city that has long flourished as a gateway for international trade and will welcome visitors from around the world for the Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan,” the AnimeJapan committee said on the official website. “With the support of the Osaka Convention & Tourism Bureau, AnimeJapan will showcase the appeal of animation to the world from Osaka and strengthen Japan’s content industry, with the anime industry at its core.”
AnimeJapan 2026 was held from March 28 to 29 at the Tokyo Big Sight. The event hosted various stage programs that highlighted some of the year’s biggest anime releases, including One Piece, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Steel Ball Run, and Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 3, to name a few. More than 120 exhibitors participated in AnimeJapan 2026, including Good Smile Company, TBS, Netflix, Fate/Grand Order, Marvelous, MAPPA, Bandai Namco, Square Enix, Kadokawa, Toei Animation, Bushiroad, and much more.
