{"id":8435,"date":"2020-04-24T04:45:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T11:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=8435"},"modified":"2024-09-13T23:43:33","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T06:43:33","slug":"anime-festival-asia-streams-special-online-event-afa-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2020\/04\/24\/anime-festival-asia-streams-special-online-event-afa-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Anime Festival Asia Streams Special Online Event &#8220;AFA UNITED&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Anime Festival Asia is Southeast Asia\u2019s biggest Japanese pop culture event. It received 1.8 million visitors across 30 events and nine major cities over the past 11 years. AFA has been a highly anticipated event every year, but the pandemic has affected AFA\u2019s ability to organize such events, leading to a new initiative called AFA UNITED.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">SOZO, the organizer of AFA UNITED, describes the event as:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Created to represent a new series of online events, \u2018AFA UNITED\u2019 hopes to bring together J-Culture fans online, united in their love for Japanese Pop culture. \u2018AFA UNITED\u2019 looks forward to recapturing the joy and excitement of fans who regularly attend AFA events across the region, not just today but also in the near future.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AFA UNITED<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is bringing together several well-known Anisong performers, such as fh\u00e1na (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Haruchika<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Miss Kobayashi\u2019s Dragon Maid<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) and TRUE (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Violet Evergarden,<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), for the event. Other well-known figures such as voice actress Azusa Tadokoro (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, BanG Dream!<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) and local cosplayer Rithe are part of the event\u2019s lineup as well.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first-ever AFA UNITED can be <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/animefestival.asia\/afaunited\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">viewed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on 26 April 2020 starting at 8:00 PM (GMT +8).\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Source: SOZO<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anime Festival Asia is Southeast Asia\u2019s biggest Japanese pop culture event. It received 1.8 million visitors across 30 events and nine major cities over the past 11 years. AFA has been a highly anticipated event every year, but the pandemic has affected AFA\u2019s ability to organize such events, leading to a new initiative called AFA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/unnamed.jpg?fit=820%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-2c3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8435"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8435"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8440,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8435\/revisions\/8440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}