{"id":43872,"date":"2022-08-11T21:35:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T04:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=43872"},"modified":"2024-10-17T00:41:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T07:41:33","slug":"smash-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2022\/08\/11\/smash-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"SMASH! ICC Sydney 2022 in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On the weekend of July 16th, Anime Trending attended SMASH!<\/strong>, an annual convention held in Sydney, Australia. This marked the return of the popular anime convention since the start of the pandemic. With such a long awaited come back, there was a lot to look forward to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The event hosted many guests, including hololive\u2019s<\/strong> Hakos Baelz and alum Tsukumo Sana, composer Kevin Penkin, cosplayers Hikarin and Yosuke Sora, and Trash Taste\u2019s<\/strong> The Anime Man, CDawgVA, Gigguk, alongside Sydsnap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The halls of the ICC Syndey were crowded by cosplayers. With Spy X Family\u2019s<\/em> Yor Forger dominating the floor, there was also an equal share of hololive<\/strong> and Nijisanji<\/strong> VTubers, <\/strong>Genshin Impact <\/em>characters, and various members of <\/strong>Naruto\u2019s <\/em>Akatsuki on display. There were even a few transformed Denji from Chainsaw Man<\/em> roaming the convention center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The itasha display was eyecatching, with cars decorated after Violet Evergarden<\/em>, Princes Connect! Re:Dive <\/em>and Konosuba\u2019s<\/em> Megumin <\/em>among others!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The doodling art competition was also quite striking. With an entire wall full of anime sketches and even a few prizes on the line, the art competition proved to be a fun place to check back in throughout the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SMASH! also hosted a screening for Fruits Basket -prelude-<\/em>, which was the only time the film was viewable in cinemas in Sydney. As the name suggests, the film is a canon prequel to the original series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fans of hololive even planted a large cardboard cut out of Tsukumo Sana publicly in the surrounding area of Darling Harbor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The artist alley hosted artists from all corners of the earth. There was more variety than ever, featuring fanart and merchandise of anime, videogames, and both independent and corporate VTubers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the weekend of July 16th, Anime Trending attended SMASH! The event hosted guests such as hololive, Kevin Penkin, and Trash Taste podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":43876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1249,10,1248],"tags":[10046,6615,10045,1250,7953,1252],"class_list":["post-43872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hololive","category-anime","category-vtuber","tag-anime-conventions","tag-convention","tag-events","tag-hololive","tag-hololive-production","tag-vtuber"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DSC00367-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-bpC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43872"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43915,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43872\/revisions\/43915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}