Market
10:00am - 8:00pm
Stamp Rally
10:00am - 7:00pm
Bey Blade Tournament
10:00am - 1:00pm
Scavenger Hunt
11:00am - 5:00pm
Anime Trivia
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Live your Craft Class
2:00pm - 2:30pm
Game Making 101
2:30pm - 3:00pm
Summer Idol Fest
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Cosplay Contest
4:30pm - 6:00pm
One Piece TCG Tournament
6:00pm - 9:00pm
Raffle Announcements
7:00pm - 7:30pm
Cold Brew Coffee and Boba
10:00am - 8:00pm
Dunkin' Donuts
10:00am - Until Gone
Isekai Japanese Food Taste Test
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Isekai Japanese Food Taste Test
4:30pm - 5:30pm
Little Caesars
11:00am - 8:00pm
Vital Bracelet DIM swap
10:00am - 9:00pm
Rune Factory Fans
11:00am - 11:30am
Boku No Hero (My Hero Academia)
1:00pm - 1:30pm
Bungo Stray Dogs
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Cosplay Crafters
2:00pm - 2:30pm
Idol Meet n Greet
4:30pm - 5:00pm
The Anime Market, our gathering of Vendors and Crafters of all kinds who have joined together to bring all types of anime merchandise to Maryville. Whether you're looking for Statues, Gachapon, Handmade Items, Fanart, Original Manga Authors, Random Trinkets and everything in-between, this is the place to get it.
Its been a growing concern that the Foothills Mall has no food court. Not to worry! We've gone an hunted down the food! We've got vendors with food and snacks straight from Japan! We've got Boba vendors, fresh food, and free doughnuts sponsored by Dunkin Donuts! Because we couldn't think of a more iconic pair then Anime and Donuts! So when you get hungry, someone will be there to make sure you get what you crave.
With your badge, every attendee will receive an activity booklet. Inside your activity booklet, there are pages for stamps. Visit participating vendors and sponsors to have them stamp your booklet. They may require participation in trade for the stamp. Collect enough stamps to join the raffle for prizes!
Ribbon Collecting has taken the larger conventions by storm. Trading and collecting has been a fun way to get keepsakes from your time at the convention. Whether your a seasoned collector or new to the game everyone's welcome to play and collect. Keep and eye out; as not only vendors participate in the Ribbon trade, attendees often, and are welcome, to bring their own ribbons to give out. Currently we've confirmed 4 ribbon distributors will be at Anime Maryville. If you want to distribute ribbons, you don't have to tell us you're welcome to just show up and have fun, but if you like you can let us know by emailing contact@animemaryville.com and we'll add you to the confirmation list.
Join Wano Artifacts for an official One Piece TCG Tournament. $5 Entry and it comes with an OP-10 pack of cards. Starts at 6pm and runs until 9pm. Lots of prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd.
Join BBAX for an exciting Bey Blade Tournament! More details coming soon~
We've got Trivia Games to participate in. The first is Anime Trivia, brought to you by Wano Artifacts. Test your anime knowledge to win some awesome prizes.
Our second trivia game is a blindfolded Japanese food taste test. Find out how refined your taste buds are - but beware, Japan also likes corn and mayo on pizza. Some things may not be as tasty as you expect! If you have food allergies please let us know before participating.
A blindfolded Japanese food taste test brought to you by Isekai Enterprise. Find out how refined your taste buds are - but beware, Japan also likes corn and mayo on pizza. Some things may not be as tasty as you expect! If you have food allergies please let them know before participating.
Meet Up location and times will be announced closer to the event.
Confirmed Meet Ups:
Cosplay Meet Up
Rune Factory Meet Up - Bring your game!
Vital Bracelet DiM Swap
Idol Fest Meet Up
If you would like to suggest or host a meetup please send an email to contact@animemaryville.com.
Register when you pick up your badge to enter the costume contest. You will have to be present at the time of judging to be eligible. There is no cost to enter. Some prizes are sponsored - in these cases the sponsor will be picking their favorite costume and awarding their prize. Please remember to check the Costume Rules before choosing your entry.
Our Scavenger Hunt is Sponsored by Wooacry. Search the mall for the Acrylic Characters shown in your Activity booklet. Turn in your completed scavenger hunt for Raffle Tickets. Double up your prize winnings by posting photos of the characters as you find them to Instagram or Tiktok with the hashtag shown in the activity booklet and be entered to win prizes directly from Wooacry! To win the raffle prizes you must be present when the tickets are announced to pick up the prize. You do not need to be present to win prizes from Instagram or Tiktok; they are delivered by
Wooacry remotely. More Details of what to find and how to play are in the Activity Booklet.
Isekai your social media by hopping in front of one of our Photo Backdrops! Or if horrors more your thing make sure to check out East Tennessee Umbrella Corp. They'll be bringing their Umbrella Corp Replica Car and gear for some fun horror inspired photo shoots!
The fun doesn't stop there, check out the Chalk Twins as they bring your favorite anime to life. Get Unique and memorable photos with their 3D photo Op and Chalk Wall.
We've also got Anime characters to pose with courtesy of Wano Artifacts.
Join Space Jester Idol - Zero Gravity and local Idol performers: Blossom Bouquet, Party Lives On!, SakuraMIST, and MariMopo Pom with @Uniipuniip and @Elisity.cos; as they dance to your favorite anime and JPop Songs! Bring your Penlight, light stick and support sticks to cheer them on. Wotage dancers welcome; come support your Oshi!
Show time TBD.
Ever wonder what it's like to work the convention circuit? Or how about working for a gaming company? Did you know there's a ton of overlap between the two? Join us for 2 classes on how to 'make it' as an artist - and yes, developers and writers are also artists. We're not here to teach you how to create, what to create, what to make, or how to make that thing you want to make. This is for branding, soliciting jobs, creating merch, and how to make sure you're not a STARVING artist. Everyone likes to eat, let's make sure you can. Whether you're baking cookies or making games and all the artistic endeavors in between, you can succeed.
Space is limited, no purchase is necessary and nothing will be sold. This is not some loaded seminar, we're veterans of the gaming industry who now do our own thing and feel there's room for everyone. Find out if the gaming industry or convention circuit is right for you, how to live off your craft without it - or you might decide its not the route for your life at all. The lifestyle isn't easy after all!
Because this is 100% free and we've got to reserve space please let us know if you are interested ahead of time by using the contact form on the front page. Exact time for the class TBD.
UPDATE: Due to the amount of interest. This had now been separated into 2 classes Live your Craft and Live your Game so you can get the targeted information you're after.
Inside you activity booklet you'll find a directory both for our vendors, and the mall. All activities can be found within the booklet as well as the time it will happen when applicable. Some activities such as the Stamp Rally and Scavenger Hunts instructions can be found here as well as other fun stuff such as coloring pages. They're free so make sure you get one when you get your badge!
We've got lots of goodies to give away. But all of our sponsors gave us different amounts - from as little as 30 to as many as 600 so while we've got 1,000 bags, not every bag is the same. Earlier bags have more stuff, so ensure you get the most goodies, by buying your ticket now.
We've got giveaways can sign up for at the event, you cannot sign up early for any giveaway.
Some activities also reward raffle tickets for participation. For example for each stamp earned in the Stamp Rally you get a raffle ticket, however if you get all the stamps you also get a special prize. So you can win twice!