Kami-Con is an annual three-day anime convention held during January or February in Birmingham, Alabama at the Birmingham–Jefferson Convention Complex by the Bama SOS Brigade, a student organization from the University of Alabama.[6]
The convention typically offers anime screenings, concerts, cosplay contests, dodgeball tournaments, a Pokecenter, rave, tabletop games, vendors, and video game tournaments.[5][6][7][8] The convention contains a storyline/plot, which allows attendees to pick sides, and affect the outcome of the story by participating in various contests.[7]
Kami-Con is organized by the Bama SOS Brigade, which was started by Raymond Lenzner and a handful of students at the University of Alabama.[8] Construction in the Ferguson Center during the 2010 convention caused some events such as video gaming to change locations.[4] The convention moved to the Birmingham–Jefferson Convention Complex in 2013.[5] Kami-Con 2021 was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[9][10] The 2022 convention had COVID-19 policies that required masks and either vaccination or a negative test.[11]
The official mascots of Kami-Con are Shio-chan (light/shiny) and Kosho (dark), who battled with the help of convention attendees choosing sides and participating in contests, to decide 2011's mascot.[4] In 2013, Shio and Kosho battled with the new turtle mascot, Shoyu, and its previous evil owners.[5]
The Mississippi Anime Invasion was a two-day anime convention held during October at the Oxford Conference Center in Oxford, Mississippi. It was created by Kami-Con and students from the University of Mississippi.[30]
Kami-Con HAI is a three-day anime convention held during September/October at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
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