It also offers room for something like the Music Fest, and the chance for enthusiastic fans (‘otaku’, to some) to see bands such as SiM without getting on an international flight. The Expo itself, like other conventions of its kind, hosts preview screenings and panels about upcoming anime, all surrounding a gigantic exhibition hall for merch and books to buy, and cosplayers to marvel at. Taking place at the New Crunchy City Music Fest, a series of gigs at this year’s Crunchyroll Expo in San Jose, it’s a crystallising moment, bridging the role anime serves between Western audiences and Japanese bands indefinitely. It was a low point in my life.” He trails off as the crowd starts chanting the band’s name, before he cheekily tells them to shut up. Midway through a set of ferocious riffs, screaming and headbanging, the band SiM’s vocalist, known as MAH, all clad in black, reflects on the last time the band played a show in the US.
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