It’s 85 degrees on a sunny Memorial Day weekend, and I’m in an elevator with Princess Zelda and a ninja whose kendo sword’s hilt is bumping into my left nostril. We’re at the Raleigh Convention Center ...

“I don’t know why I didn’t think that existed, but I didn’t think that existed,” I overheard someone say as I sat with a few friends at the Raleigh Convention Center, noshing on little snack cakes ...

May 26-28: Animazement -Animazement is a volunteer, fan-run anime convention at the Raleigh Convention Center (Memorial Day weekend), celebrating popular Japanese visual culture in all of its forms.

If you come to downtown Raleigh this weekend, you are going to see people dressed up in all sorts of wild, colorful costumes. (WTVD photo/Jon Camp) Around 13,000 people are in town for Raleigh's Anime ...

ABC11 Photographer/Shawn Replogle RALEIGH, North Carolina (WTVD) -- If you come to downtown Raleigh this weekend, you are going to see people dressed up in all sorts of wild, colorful costumes. Around ...

Twenty years ago, in 1997, Animazement started out as a 36-hour anime marathon with 200 attendees. Today, it’s a major downtown Raleigh festival, one that draws thousands to the Raleigh Convention ...