{"id":22796,"date":"2016-06-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=22796"},"modified":"2016-06-28T00:01:11","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T07:01:11","slug":"anime-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/anime-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"4th of July  Anime Expo Returns to L.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/animee.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Patriotic Californians wave American flags, watch fireworks and march in parades on the 4th of July while a\u00a0different tradition celebrates Japanese culture and animation during the holiday. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/los-angeles-anime-expo.html\">Anime Expo<\/a> in Los Angeles July 1-4, 2016 features\u00a0far-out costumes, cosplay, k-pop bands, and &#8216;direct from Japan&#8217; three of the top maids of maidreamin, the largest Japanese maid cafe chain\u00a0(with\u00a017 locations and over 400 servants.)\u00a0The talented ladies plan to put on a\u00a0special show for\u00a0Anime Expo\u2019s Maid Cafe. \u00a0Anime, the Japanese word for animation,\u00a0is wildy poular in California where the four day festival anticipates close to 100,000 people. \u00a0Here are some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-anime-festivals.html\">anime &amp; comic cons<\/a> coming to California!<\/p>\n<h2>2016 Highlights:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Butler Cafe |\u00a0Maid Cafe |\u00a0Night Cafe adult oriented shows<\/li>\n<li>AMV (Anime Music Videos) Competition<\/li>\n<li>Fashion Shows<\/li>\n<li>Industry Panels<\/li>\n<li>Late Comedy Showdown<\/li>\n<li>Game Shows<\/li>\n<li>Tabletop Gaming<\/li>\n<li>Masquerade<\/li>\n<li>Photo Sets<\/li>\n<li>Bands<\/li>\n<li>Art Show<\/li>\n<li>Repair Station where you can fix your costume<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patriotic Californians wave American flags, watch fireworks and march in parades on the 4th of July while a\u00a0different tradition celebrates Japanese culture and animation during the holiday. Anime Expo in Los Angeles July 1-4, 2016 features\u00a0far-out costumes, cosplay, k-pop bands, and &#8216;direct from Japan&#8217; three of the top maids of maidreamin, the largest Japanese maid [&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\/22796"}],"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=22796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}