AnimeJapan

AnimeJapan is a Japanese anime consumer show held annually at the Tokyo Big Sight exhibition center in Tokyo since March 2014. It was created from the merger of the Tokyo International Anime Fair with the Anime Contents Expo.^[1]

AnimeJapan
Status	Active
Venue	Tokyo Big Sight (2014-2019, 2022-2025) Online (2021)
Location(s)	Tokyo
Country	Japan
Inaugurated	2014
Website	www.anime-japan.jp/en

It is organized by the AnimeJapan Executive Committee with support from The Association of Japanese Animations and The Association of Manga Publishers.^[2][3] The 2020 AnimeJapan event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the event the following year took place online. The event returned to Tokyo Big Sight in 2022.^[4]

In 2023, the event re-adopted a split format for the first time since 2019, in which the first two days of the show are open to the public (deemed "Public Days") and the final two are "Business Days" limited toward those in the anime industry.^[5]

AnimeJapan Executive Committee

The AnimeJapan Executive Committee is made up of the following 19 companies:

• Animate
• Aniplex
• Bandai Namco Arts
• Bandai Namco Filmworks (Sunrise)
• Frontier Works
• Kadokawa Corporation
• King Records
• Marvelous
• NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan
• Nihon Ad Systems
• Nippon Animation
• Pierrot
• Pony Canyon
• Production I.G
• Satelight
• Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions
• Tezuka Productions
• Toei Animation
• TMS Entertainment

Events history

Date	Attendance	Exhibitors	Location
22–23 March 2014	111,252	100+	Tokyo Big Sight[6]
20–22 March 2015	121,540
25–27 March 2016	135,323
23–26 March 2017	145,453
22–25 March 2018	152,331[7]
23–26 March 2019	146,616
21-24 March 2020			Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic[8]
27–30 March 2021	Online	?	Tokyo Big Sight[9][10]
26–29 March 2022	N/A	100+
25-28 March 2023	N/A
23-24 March 2024	132,557[11]		Tokyo Big Sight[12]
22-23 March 2025			Tokyo Big Sight[13]