Shinboku-con is a convention focusing on Japanese pop culture and Role-playing game

Role-playing game

A role-playing game is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting, or through a process of structured decision-making or character development...

, such as anime

Anime

is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

, manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

, and LARP. Shinboku-con is run by the Lorain County Community College

Lorain County Community College

Lorain County Community College is a community college located in the city of Elyria in Lorain County, Ohio, which is part of the Northeast Ohio region. It was visited by Barack Obama, the President of the United States, in January 2010....

 Anime Society and Role-Player Association. Shinboku-con started in 2007 as a one day event, and in 2010 the convention became a three day event, and had its first industry guest, Tiffany Grant

Tiffany Grant

Tiffany Lynn Grant is an American voice actress and script writer who is known for her English-dubbing work with the former ADV Films on such anime films and television series as Neon Genesis Evangelion, in which she voiced the character Asuka Langley Soryu...

. Shinboku-con derives its name from the Japanese word Shinboku, which means friendship as the convention was started to promote friendship between the members of the two organizations running the event.

Event history

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