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Events, festivals, and venues: Anime, Vocaloid, game, and doujin music

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Anime Friends

Anime Friends is an anime and Asian pop-culture convention founded in 2003, held every July in São Paulo, Brazil, and described as the largest of its kind in Latin America.

Animelo Summer Live

Animelo Summer Live (アニメロサマーライブ), nicknamed Anisama, is an annual anime-song concert held in Japan every summer since 2005 and billed as the world's largest anime-song live event.

Anisong World Matsuri

Anisong World Matsuri (アニソンワールドマツリ) is an anime-song concert series created by six Japanese entertainment companies, first held at Anime Expo in Los Angeles in 2016 and revived in 2025 as J-POP Sound Capsule.

Hatsune Miku Symphony 2025 (festival)

Hatsune Miku Symphony 2025 (初音ミクシンフォニー2025) was the 10th-anniversary edition of a Japanese orchestral concert series performing Vocaloid songs, with five concerts from Sapporo to Kobe in 2025.

LisAni! Live

LisAni! Live (リスアニ!ライブ) is a Japanese anime-song concert event produced by the media brand LisAni!, held every winter since 2010, mostly at Nippon Budokan, with every act performing with a live band.

Makuhari Messe

Makuhari Messe (幕張メッセ) is a convention complex in Mihama-ku, Chiba City, Japan, opened in 1989 with about 72,000 m² of exhibition space; it hosts Tokyo Game Show and Hatsune Miku Magical Mirai.

Melonbooks

Melonbooks (メロンブックス) is a Japanese retail chain specializing in doujinshi, doujin music, games, and character goods, founded in 1991 and headquartered in Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo.

Miku Symphony

Miku Symphony, formally Hatsune Miku Symphony (初音ミクシンフォニー), is a Japanese orchestral concert series performing Hatsune Miku songs, first held with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra in 2016.

Nico Nico Chokaigi

Nico Nico Chokaigi (ニコニコ超会議) is an annual fan and creator festival for the Japanese video platform Niconico, held each late April at Makuhari Messe in Chiba since 2012.

Snow Miku

Snow Miku is an annual winter festival in Hokkaido, Japan, built around the Vocaloid character Hatsune Miku and held every year since 2010 alongside the Sapporo Snow Festival.

The VOCALOID Collection (RVC)

The VOCALOID Collection (ボカコレ, Bokakore) is an online Vocaloid festival on Niconico, organized by Dwango, where creators post new voice-synthesis songs and compete in rankings, held twice yearly since 2020.

Zepp DiverCity

Zepp DiverCity is a live music venue in the DiverCity Tokyo Plaza shopping complex in Odaiba, Tokyo, opened in 2012 as part of the Zepp concert hall chain.