Arkansas Anime Festival

StatusActive

GenreAnime^[1]^[2]

VenueHoliday Inn Springdale/Fayetteville Area

Arkansas Anime Festival
Status	Active
Genre	Anime^[1]^[2]
Venue	Holiday Inn Springdale/Fayetteville Area
Location(s)	Springdale, Arkansas
Country	United States
Inaugurated	2007^[1]
Attendance	1,208 in March 2012^[3]
Website	http://arkansasanimefestival.com/

Arkansas Anime Festival (A2F) is an annual three-day anime convention held in June/July at the Holiday Inn Springdale/Fayetteville Area in Springdale, Arkansas. It is the largest anime convention in the state of Arkansas and is family friendly.^[4]^[5]^[6]

The convention typically offers an artists alley, a dance, live action role-playing game, masquerade, panels, tabletop gaming, a vendor room, video games.^[5]^[6]

History

For several years the convention happened two times per year.^[4]^[6] The March 2010 event had a free party before the convention.^[5] Arkansas Anime Festival 2020 was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[7]^[8]

Event history

Dates	Location	Atten.	Guests
November 17, 2007	Cosmopolitan Hotel Fayetteville, Arkansas		Samantha Inoue-Harte^[9]
May 24, 2008	Holiday Inn Northwest Arkansas Springdale, Arkansas	1,121	Tiffany Grant, Samantha Inoue-Harte, and Dominic Vitucci.^[10]
November 8–9, 2008	Holiday Inn Springdale, Arkansas	1,056	Johnny Yong Bosch, Samantha Inoue-Harte, and Dominic Vitucci.^[11]
April 25, 2009	Cosmopolitan Hotel Fayetteville, Arkansas		Kyle Hebert, Samantha Inoue-Harte, and Dominic Vitucci.^[12]
November 20–22, 2009	Cosmopolitan Hotel Fayetteville, Arkansas		Juli Erickson, Samantha Inoue-Harte, and Grant James.^[13]
March 6–7, 2010	Clarion Hotel & Conference Center Bentonville, Arkansas		Christopher Ayres, Todd Haberkorn, Vic Mignogna, Wendy Powell, and Maria Vu.^[14]
November 20–21, 2010	Clarion Hotel & Conference Center Bentonville, Arkansas	900^[6]	Robert Axelrod, Richard Epcar, Samantha Inoue-Harte, and Dominic Vitucci.^[15]
March 5–6, 2011	Clarion Hotel & Conference Center Bentonville, Arkansas		DJ Azrael, Eric Benton, Eric Burton, Spike Spencer, and John Swasey.^[16]
December 2–4, 2011	Holiday Inn Springdale / Fayetteville Area Springdale, Arkansas		Jillian Coglan, Samurai Dan Coglan, and Mike McFarland.^[17]
March 16–18, 2012	Holiday Inn Springdale / Fayetteville Area Springdale, Arkansas	1,208	DJ Azrael, Eric Benton, Eric Burton, and Sonny Strait.^[3]
November 16–18, 2012	Holiday Inn Springdale / Fayetteville Area Springdale, Arkansas		Jillian Coglan, Samurai Dan Coglan, Samantha Inoue-Harte, Greg Wicker, and Tom Wyner.^[18]
April 5–7, 2013^[19]	Holiday Inn Springdale / Fayetteville Area Springdale, Arkansas
March 14–16, 2014	Holiday Inn Springdale / Fayetteville Area Springdale, Arkansas		Chris Bevins, Samantha Inoue-Harte, Rachel Robinson, and J. Michael Tatum.^[20]
December 12–14, 2014	Holiday Inn Springdale / Fayetteville Area Springdale, Arkansas		Leah Clark, Samantha Inoue-Harte, Kazha, Jad Saxton,^[21] and Jessica Calvello.^[22]
May 29–31, 2015	Holiday Inn Springdale / Fayetteville Area Springdale, Arkansas		Darrel Guilbeau, David Vincent, and Lisle Wilkerson.^[23]
May 27–29, 2016	Holiday Inn Springdale / Fayetteville Area Springdale, Arkansas		Rachael Messer and Austin Tindle.^[24]
November 18–20, 2016	Holiday Inn Springdale / Fayetteville Area Springdale, Arkansas		Samantha Inoue-Hart, Guy Michel, Phil Parsons, and Chris Patton.^[25]
May 26–28, 2017	Fort Smith Convention Center Fort Smith, Arkansas		Leah Clark and Kazha.^[26]
November 10–12, 2017	DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Hotel Bentonville Four Points by Sheraton Bentonville Bentonville, Arkansas		Samantha Inoue-Hart^[27]
June 29 - July 1, 2018	DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Hotel Bentonville Four Points by Sheraton Bentonville Bentonville, Arkansas		DJ Azrael, Fighting Dreamers Productions, Jeremy Inman, and Kazha.^[28]
June 21-23, 2019	DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Hotel Bentonville Four Points by Sheraton Bentonville Bentonville, Arkansas		Aaron Roberts^[29]
June 17-19, 2022	Four Points by Sheraton Bentonville Bentonville, Arkansas		Kyle Jones, John Swasey, and Barry Yandell.^[30]
July 14-16, 2023	Four Points by Sheraton Bentonville Bentonville, Arkansas		Josh Martin, Phil Parsons, and Chris Rager.^[31]
June 7-9, 2024	Four Points by Sheraton Bentonville Bentonville, Arkansas		Tiffany Grant, Krystal LaPorte, Patrick Pedraza, and Aaron Roberts.^[32]
June 27-29, 2025	Holiday Inn Springdale/Fayetteville Area Springdale, Arkansas		Shawn Gann, Amanda Gish, Marissa Lenti, and Bryan Massey.^[33]

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