Umicon Daytona 2016

Umicon Daytona is an anime, gaming and comics convention right on beautiful Daytona Beach.The main purpose of Umicon is to celebrate and promote American and Japanese video gaming, Japanese animation also known as anime, manga which are Japanese graphic novels, cosplay which is the act of creating and modeling costumes based on characters from Japanese and American media, and the melding of Japanese and American pop-culture. The staff of Umicon Daytona attend and volunteer at many conventions around Florida. We realized one day that there is a need for a convention for this culture in the eastern part of central Florida, and what place is better than Daytona Beach? We decided that it was time to combine the beauty of this art-based culture with the beauty of the beach!