{"id":20559,"date":"2015-06-21T01:53:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T08:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=20559"},"modified":"2015-06-21T01:53:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T08:53:54","slug":"california-anime-craze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-anime-craze\/","title":{"rendered":"California Anime Craze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/cozple.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pictured: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/los-angeles-anime-expo.html\">Los Angeles Anime Festival<\/a>\u00a0July 2-5, 2015 includes Maid Cafe and Butler Cafe, interactive experiences inspired by the maid cafes of Akihabara. &#8220;Cute and courteous maids cater to your every need&#8221; then break out into dance and song\u00a0with special\u00a018+ shows featuring a bunny theme &#8212; Butler Cafe features a sports theme. Other musical entertainment at the festival includes\u00a0Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of KISS appearing in concert with the popular Japanese \u00a0band, Momoiro Clover Z, which\u00a0KISS members\u00a0partnered with to create hit songs.<\/p>\n<p>If you wonder why Los Angeles Anime Festival is the biggest such\u00a0convention in North America it&#8217;s partially because Southern California has the largest Japanese population in the U.S. Combine that with the creative talent at animation studios such as Disney which anime in Japan got its inspiration from. Then there&#8217;s California&#8217;s entertainment and film industries helping\u00a0bring acceptance to unconventional\u00a0cosplay. \u00a0With more than 15\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-anime-festivals.html\">animation festivals\u00a0in California<\/a> this year, the anime craze continues grow &amp; spread faster than Godzilla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured: \u00a0Los Angeles Anime Festival\u00a0July 2-5, 2015 includes Maid Cafe and Butler Cafe, interactive experiences inspired by the maid cafes of Akihabara. &#8220;Cute and courteous maids cater to your every need&#8221; then break out into dance and song\u00a0with special\u00a018+ shows featuring a bunny theme &#8212; Butler Cafe features a sports theme. Other musical entertainment at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20559"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}