What does it take to run a multi-million dollar event with more than 20,000 attendees and no professional involvement? Lots of volunteers—some 700—in the case of Anime North, Toronto’s annual celebration of those twin pillars of Japanese pop culture, anime and ...

Anime North, Canada's largest anime convention and one of the top ten in attendance in North America turned sweet 16 this past weekend. I used to attend the convention in high school and decided to check out the action for the first time in a decade--from the costumes ...