According to a press release from AnimeJapan, it has been decided that the Tokyo International Anime Fair (TAF) and the Anime Contents Expo (ACE) will be merged into a new fair which will be held on the 22nd and 23rd of March 2014. This decision was made at a meeting held on October 9th. The new event will be held at the Tokyo Big Sight. Accordingly, TAF and ACE, which were planned to be held in early 2014, were cancelled. The Tokyo city government, which played a major role in the Tokyo International Anime Fair, will not be participating in the new event.
An in-exhaustive list of companies and association which in part of organizing in AnimeJapan are as follows:
Aniplex
Animate
Kadokawa Shoten
King Records (Starchild Records)
Satelight
Sunrise
Geneon Universal Entertainment
Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions Co. (ShoPro)
Tezuka Productions
Toei Animation
TMS Entertainment
NAS
Nippon Animation
Bandai Visual
Studio Pierrot
Production IG
Frontier Works
Pony Canyon
Marvelous AQL
The Association of Japanese Animations (AJA)
Official site and official Twitter account for AnimeJapan 2014.
Sources: Anime!Anime!, ITMedia
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