UPCOMING EVENTS:Michigan Anime Convention - August 2 to 3 @ Suburban Collection Showplace (Novi)Kogan Con 2025 - August 9 @ Central Park Place (Grand Haven)Superior Fan Fest 2025 - August 22 to 24 @ Westwood Mall (Marquette)OzokuCon - August 29 to 31 @ Blue Water Convention Center (Port Huron) GrandCon 2025 - August 29 to 31 @ DeVos Place (Grand Rapids)Monroe Comic Con 2025 - September 12 to 13 @ Monroe County Fairgrounds (Monroe)FantastiCon: Metro Detroit 2025 - September 27 to September 28 @ Oakland Expo Center (Waterford Township)Great Lakes Fall Expo 2025 - October 11 @ Trinity Lutheran Church (Clinton Charter Township)Youmacon 2025 - October 31 to November 2 @ Huntington Place (Detroit)Motor City Comic Con 2025: Fall Edition - November 14 to 16 @ Suburban Collection Showplace (Novi)Grand Rapids Comic-Con - November 14 to 16 @ DeVos Place (Grand Rapids)Otaku U IV - November 22 @ VistaTech Center (Livonia)Bluewater International Comic-Con - November 22 @ Blue Water Convention Center (Port Huron)CON WEBSITES:Michigan Anime Convention - https://michigananime.com/Kogan Con 2025 - https://kogancon.com/Superior Fan Fest 2025 - https://superiorfanfest.com/OzokuCon - https://www.ozokucon.com/GrandCon 2025 - https://www.grand-con.com/Monroe Comic Con 2025 - https://www.monroecomic-con.com/FantastiCon: Metro Detroit 2025 - https://fantasticon.net/fantasticon-metro-detroit/Great Lakes Fall Expo 2025 - https://greatlakescomicexpo.com/fallexpo.htmlYoumacon - https://www.youmacon.com/Motor City Comic Con 2025: Fall Edition - https://motorcitycomiccon.com/Grand Rapids Comic Con - https://www.grcomiccon.com/Otaku U IV - https://otakuu.org/Bluewater International Comic-Con - https://fantasticon.net/bluewater-comic-con-2025-show-information/Feel free to discuss upcoming cons in Michigan
What cons are actually worth going to?
>>10957992Would say Michigan Anime Con since that's possibly the closest that an anime con in the state is getting to AX levels of activity without the bad parts. Sure the guest list is just English dub voice actors but they plan on getting international guests next year.
Issho con in January is a nice little con and so was their summer bash con.
>>10958078oh sorry forgot to put it up. I only had the ones for this year unfortunately since the full schedule for 2026 has yet to be fully revealed.
Stop sleeping on Doki.
I might poop at ozoku con for a day
>>10958395Try doing it in the pool (just kidding)
Well OzokuCon is coming up soon. Certainly going to be interesting for a first time con.
Thought I'd bring this up. Superior Fan Fest is reportedly scamming vendors according to WLUC-TV. Vendors are currently working to file a police report against the organizer of the con (Steven Van Beckum)
Youma not having the ren cen makes it 10x less fun
>>10960493Yep definitely a big let down.
>>10960493for real. the time slots are much earlier too which makes 18+ content fucking impossible. i shill atleast 800 dollars to travel and you dont even give me the good yaoi panels for fucks sake.
As a troll who's never been to a con in his fucking life, are any of the upcoming Michigan cons any good? How expensive are they, and are they worth the money? A couple people keep bugging me to go to some but I've never gotten around to even looking into it.
>>10961172Youmacon may be a shell of it's former self but I'd still go at least for a day. Even if you don't get a ticket the venue and area is very nice so if you still want to meet people, get pics or just people watch it's perfect for it.Motor City Comic Con is pretty good starter con. Not that big and it's more of a trade show but it always has cool stuff to see, great guests and not too expensive.
Issho con is worth getting a hotel and going to. Youmacon isn't as great as it use to be but could be worth going for a day if you live close by.
>>10961498Good news is that Youmacon is under new ownership.
>>10960493Lack of late night and 24 hour stuff is less fun yes, but it's not the worst trade-off for no more OOPS FAT WEEBS BROKE THE ESCELATORS AGAIN YOU NEED TO GO BACK DOWN TO TAKE AN ELEVATOR NO WAIT OOPS THOSE ARE BROKE NOW TOO But yes I do really, really miss the good ol' days of being able to wake up at 6am and have my pick of anything and everything in the game room, or seeing real weird shit at 2am
>>10961204>Motor City Comic Con is pretty good starter conHonestly not a bad con if you're really just there to look at cosplays and buy stuff. It definitely is a "Pay to do anything" kind of con but it's at least semi well run and for the semi-geeky normies out there, it's usually good enough.
>>10962263He lost a lot of weight. Good for him.
No rencen AND everything ends at 9pm each day? Skipping this year, hopefully it changes for next
>>10963092we havent had rencen for almost 2 years??? also some of the rooms end around 1am sunday (like the video game rooms). we wont know for sure until the panel descriptions come out (they still aren't out, surprisingly.)
>>10963092>>10963120panel descriptions are out, latest panels end at12:30 am, so dont know where this info came from, LMFAO
>>10963092There are at least 3 after parties around Detroit that are anime themed at High dive, Detroit shipping company, and Harpo's. I agree that the early dismissal and it not being 24 hours kills it for me.Falling asleep on the floor with 2 random people at the rencen in 2011 is such a core memory for me.
