Status Active Inaugurated 2008 Location Columbia | Country United States Attendance 2,334 in 2015 | |
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Venue Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center | ||
NashiCon is an annual three-day anime convention held during April at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center in Columbia, South Carolina. It was the first anime convention in South Carolina and Nashi stands for Nippon Anime Society of Heavenly Imagery.
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Convention haul 1 nashicon 2015
Programming
The convention typically offers an anime viewing room, artists alley, cosplay ball, dance, human board game (OTAKU - Oversized Tangential All-Consuming Kaleidoscopic Universe), panels, table top gaming, and video gaming. The Carolina Manga Library evolved out of NashiCon 2013 and provided the conventions manga library in 2014.
History
The first convention held in 2008 attracted 200+ attendees. They relocated venues to the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center in 2012. NashiCon became a three-day convention in 2015.