What's occurring at the Tokyo ComiCon
0 Comments Published by Avi Green on Saturday, December 06, 2025 at 8:06 AM.
Tokyo Weekender's announcing the 2025 Comicon festival to round out the year, and what'll take place there, along with what professionals are visiting:
I will say it's interesting they have at least a few participants in notable movies like Back to the Future attending, including veteran Lloyd. But there's doubtless only so many independent creators who could possibly attend conventions like these too, yet it definitely can't be told from this article if and who they'll be. And that's surely the problem. Either they don't actually say, or the indie creators aren't even invited, and no attendance arranged for them. And I guess figures like Chuck Dixon, Mike Baron and even Art Thibert aren't good enough for them either. So what good is a festival like this, even in Japan? If they can't offer a more challenging lineup of guests from the comics industry itself, then it remains a most unfortunate farce, based on how it got taken over by movie-based mishmash. What should matter foremost are the comics, not the movies.
One of the biggest pop culture conventions in the world, Tokyo Comic Convention (abbreviated as Tokyo Comic Con) returns for its 9th year, hosted at Makuhari Messe events center from December 5 to December 7. This year will host a record number of celebrity guests, including Sebastian Stan, Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelsen, Christopher Lloyd, Christina Ricci and many more.I guess that could explain why it looks more about movies than comics, much like the SDCC's long become to boot. The majority of showbiz guests are mainly film and TV performers, and only 3 guests appear to be from the comics industry. Those 3 listed are none other than Jim Lee, C.B. Cebulski and Frank Miller. And considering where he went of recent, that's why I don't see him somebody for Japanese pop culture enthusiasts to get excited about. There may be mangakas attending, but it's not clear from the article who they'll be.
The convention’s roots can be traced back to the United States in 1970, where the very first San Diego Comic-Con (then known as the Golden State Comic-Con) took place in the basement of the U.S. Grant Hotel. Comic book fans organized the event as a way to meet other comic book fans, and 300 people attended the first “comic con.” Since then, the convention has grown on a massive scale with 135,000 people from 80 countries attending in San Diego in 2019, and inspiring conventions to sprout up all across the globe.
I will say it's interesting they have at least a few participants in notable movies like Back to the Future attending, including veteran Lloyd. But there's doubtless only so many independent creators who could possibly attend conventions like these too, yet it definitely can't be told from this article if and who they'll be. And that's surely the problem. Either they don't actually say, or the indie creators aren't even invited, and no attendance arranged for them. And I guess figures like Chuck Dixon, Mike Baron and even Art Thibert aren't good enough for them either. So what good is a festival like this, even in Japan? If they can't offer a more challenging lineup of guests from the comics industry itself, then it remains a most unfortunate farce, based on how it got taken over by movie-based mishmash. What should matter foremost are the comics, not the movies.
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