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Midlands Largest Anime Con!<\/h2>\n

Enjoy an entire room dedicated to anime viewing and chill-out where you can watch your favourite titles. Expect a wide range of anime and gaming merchandise, DVDs, manga and more, as well as some of the UKs most well known manga and comic artists in attendance selling items that you can not find elsewhere.<\/p>\n

The event will feature many gaming setups and 100s of gaming titles available to sit back and play with. Gaming will consist of Tournaments and casual setups as well including PC and Indie Gaming and Modern Consoles and an entire Retro Lounge!<\/p>\n

Feel free to partake in the cosplay events, including two cosplay masquerades with a cash prize for Sunday’s winner. And with two standard stages and a talks room, there will be a huge range of events, panels and talks.<\/p>\n

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