Last year my friends and I attended the Anime Central(ACEN) Annual Convention. It was one if not the best weekends of my life. Me and my friends love anime and the convention was a celebration of anime and "digital culture" as I like 2 call it. They had a huge vender space where I spent a shitload of money, they sell swag from every anime and other stuff like swords and airsoft guns. I myself am not an otaku but I did think it was cool to see all the cosplayers and see normaly dressed people toating airsoft guns in the con and hotel.And there was a guy who customized a real Tureno AE86 to look like the one Tak drives in Initial D. I will admit that 80% of the girls there were "not that good looking" but the 20% that were were the hottest girls Ive ever seen!!! They also had a bigass RAVE that went till 4am everyday,pretty awsome. And they even had a 24 HOUR GAME ROOM! Sadly the arcade sponcering it dos'nt have Wangan....But they did have Initial D,DDR,BEATMANIA,and a bunch of other badass games. They also had a bunch of console tourneys like HALO and Super Smash Bros. My friend and I even won both the FFA and Team tourneys for HALO 2. I rented a room there last year and I will definately get a room again this year. If you like anime,manga,danceing,arcadegameing,drifting,asiangirls(like me..), then u will definately love this con. It was $40 for a 3-Day pass last year, I don't know what it will be like this year.
http://acen.org/