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Organizers Provide Post-Convention Wrap-Up for Anime NYC 2025

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The Note To Press:
A huge thank you to all of those who were able to attend this year’s Anime NYC. We truly appreciate you choosing to join us and cover this exciting show. We feel it was the best show yet and are very proud of what the LeftField Media team has built. Our team enjoyed meeting you and spending time with you this year. We absolutely loved that you spent time in the press office with us. Also a big thank you to those of you who read our emails and actually came by to just say hi.

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Anime NYC 2025 Takes Over The PiercingMetal Instagram

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It was just this past weekend that the PiercingMetal High Command was once again in attendance for the continually expanding Anime NYC convention at the Javits Center. While this is their ninth year of operating the exciting convention, its technically the eighth in-person event as 2020 was forced into being a virtual one due to the pandemic. I’m posting this alert a couple of days post-convention since I needed to use one day to recharge and recalibrate not only the gear but myself. Having attended all four days and covering some serious ground I was completely exhausted. This post is being done to direct you all over to the Official PiercingMetal Instagram which will be taken over by the visuals that we found at the con. Once again I paid a heavy emphasis on the cosplayers since they were so awesome and had some incredible costumes. My Instagram takeover begins with the visual that you see down below but if you also want to see all of the coverage posts and features that have been done you can click HERE as that will open up a new browser tab with the content that’s been dedicated to the 2025 convention. I should mention that while this post presents you with the first Gram post from the event, I’ve been posting since Thursday so there are dozens of visuals to enjoy and comment on from the 2025 Anime NYC. I’m not the biggest study of Anime so if you know a cosplayer who is in a photo or the character that they were bringing to life I encourage you to engage with us and chime in with that information so I can make the proper edits.


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Crunchyroll Shares Anime NYC 2025 Panel Recap and Trailers

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The Press Release:
Crunchyroll, the ultimate lifestyle brand for anime fandom, held its Crunchyroll Showcase panel at Anime NYC 2025 on Saturday, August 23, at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City.

In anticipation of the epic series finale, Crunchyroll shared the first teaser visual for Fire Force Season 3 Part 2. Produced by david production, the conclusion of the red-hot animated series will begin in January 2026, streaming only on Crunchyroll.

Also shared at the Crunchyroll Showcase panel was the world premiere of the main trailer and new key visual for Let’s Play. The trailer reveals the opening theme song, “1, 2, Play,” and ending theme song “Left & Right,” will both be performed by musical artist Toshinobu Kubota. Based on the widely popular webcomic created by Leeanne Krecic (Mongie), with over 700 million views and seven million global subscribers across various platforms, the romantic comedy series is produced by OLM (Pokémon; The Apothecary Diaries) and will begin streaming on Crunchyroll on October 1.

Additionally, several acquisitions of Japanese animated series were announced, including a world premiere trailer for There was a Cute Girl in the Hero’s Party, so I Tried Confessing to Her, which fans can look forward to on Crunchyroll in the future:
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Anime NYC and Japan Society Announce Winners of the Second Annual American Manga Awards

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The Press Release:
Anime NYC and Japan Society are excited to announce the winners of the 2nd annual American Manga Awards. The awards ceremony was held on August 21, 2025 at the historic Japan Society in New York City and honored outstanding achievements in the world of Japanese comics, celebrating the best manga published in North America in the past year. Voted on by professionals in the American manga publishing world, it recognized manga creators, translators, letterers, and publication designers who have made significant contributions to manga’s popularity in North America.

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This prestigious event took place on Japan Society’s stage, a stage which has previously welcomed US Presidents and Japanese Prime Ministers, and it was positioned on the eve of Anime NYC, the largest Japanese pop culture convention on the East Coast, which will welcome over 100,000 fans from around the globe to the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York City from August 21-24, 2025.

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The 2025 American Manga Awards was hosted by Matt Alt, translator and author of Pure Invention: How Japan’s Pop Culture Conquered the World (Crown Books – Penguin Random House).
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Today: Anime NYC 2025 Begins @ Javits Center (8/21/2025)

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Greetings and Felicitations to all of the Anime and Manga fans out there in the readership. Today is the start of the always awesome Anime NYC Convention at the Javits Center and is celebrating its eighth annual in-person event. As longer tenured readers know, this event is organized and curated by the fine folks from Leftfield Media and a major sponsor is Crunchyroll. Once again the event has been scheduled for the summer months as opposed to being held in November and I think that it is here to stay at this time of the year. Truth be told I don’t mind this at all since there aren’t too many conventions that I attend during this part of the summer. They’ve announced that they are going to take over even more space on the expanded Javits Center floor and to entice you just a little bit more, the event is now four days over its traditional three. The Play NYC convention will also be integrated into the mix as it was last year and if you missed the ANNOUNCEMENT back in May, PiercingMetal will once again be one of the accredited press exploring the floor, meeting the exhibitors and snapping photos of the amazing cosplayers that we encounter. I am looking forward to this for sure.

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