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D-Con Status Active Genre Multi-genre Venue Dundee University Students Association Location Dundee Country United Kingdom First held 2009 Organizer D-CON Organisation Team Attendance Over 2000 Official website http://www.D-CON.org/ D-Con is UK's highest attended free anime convention held in Dundee.[1] D-Con is an annual event run in around the end of February/beginning of March. D-Con showcases events for fans of anime, art and video game culture.
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History
Poster by Yibao Gao outside of D-CON 2010
D-CON first ran on the 28th of February 2009 and attracted 350 guests. This made it the highest attended anime convention in Scotland. Followed closely in numbers by another Scottish convention, "Auchinawa". On the 6th and 7th of March 2010, D-CON reopened its doors to welcome in over 2000 guests in the course of the weekend - over five times the number of visitors to the inaugural event.[2] This pushed it into a higher league making it one of the largest, free, anime conventions in the United Kingdom.
Video-gaming companies, Gamestation and Realtime Worlds, sent representatives to the event to give talks. An early showing of Final Fantasy XIII was also given in the gaming room.
D-CON 2011 saw a higher attendance again. A preview of the Nintendo 3DS was given as well as Kendo demonstrations along with many other events similar to the previous 2010 event.
Upcoming conventions
D-CON 2012 - Dates TBA
Programming
The D-CON's list of events includes...[3]
- Artists Alley
- Gaming Room
- Live Chiptune Music
- Letraset Drawing Area
- MVM Films Cinema Room
- Guitar Hero Free Play
- Dance Dance Revolution Free Play
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game tournament
- Wii tournaments
- PlayStation tournaments
- Xbox 360 tournaments
- Handmade Cosplay Contest
- Kendo Demonstrations
- 501st Legion UK Garrison photoshoot
- Digital Art Tutorials
Notes
- ^ Cox, Gemma (February 2010), NEO Magazine (82 ed.), United Kingdom: Uncooked Media, pp. 25
- ^ "D-Con Press and Journal". http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1635940. Retrieved 2010-03-08.
- ^ Keddie, Jamie. "D-Con 2011". http://www.d-con.org. Retrieved 2011-03-04.
References
- The Dundee Courier Newspaper - Article: Anime event draws crowds March 2010 (offline)
- ImagineFX magazine issue 52 - Article: Free manga con January 2010 (offline)
- Neo (magazine) issue 82 - Article: Events February 2011 (offline)
- News Article on D-CON.
- News Article on D-CON
External links
List of anime conventions in Europe AmeCon (United Kingdom) • Animefest (Czech Republic) • AnimagiC (Germany) • Animecon (Finland) • Connichi (Germany) • D-Con (United Kingdom) • Japan Expo (France) • J-Popcon (Denmark) • Tomo-Dachi (United Kingdom) • UppCon (Sweden)Categories:- Anime conventions
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