{"id":115327,"date":"2018-11-07T11:11:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T02:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=115327&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2018-11-07T11:11:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T02:11:11","slug":"kitakyushu-pop-culture-festival-2018","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/kitakyushu-pop-culture-festival-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitakyushu Pop Culture Festival 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now in its fifth year! This is one of Kyushu\u2019s biggest and most exciting pop culture festivals. Both West Japan General Exhibition Center Annex and Aruaru City will play host to a celebration of manga, anime, and computer games. Enjoy performances of anime songs and more by groups including Guildrops, Bless4, and AOP. There will also be special talks by voice actors such as Asami Imai as well as animators of \u2018Legend of the Galactic Heroes Die Neue These\u2019 and the main cast of \u2018Sword Art Online: Alicization\u2019 Yoshitsugu Matsuoka and Ai Kayano. Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/event\/international-comic-festival-kitakyushu\/\">International Comic Festival Kitakyushu<\/a> too, which will be held at the same time. <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/kpf2018-coll.jpg?resize=1400%2C1050&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-115357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/kpf2018-coll.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/kpf2018-coll.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/kpf2018-coll.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/kpf2018-coll.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 11\/10 (Sat.), 11\/11 (Sun.)<br \/>\n\u2022 Sat.: 10:00~18:00, Sun.: 10:00~17:00<br \/>\n\u2022 Free entry<br \/>\n\u2022 West Japan General Exhibition Center Annex (main venue), Aruaru City<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/L2cJ4RAWizz\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3-8-1 Asano, Kokurakita-ku, Kitakyushu City<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktqpopfes.jp\/2018\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.ktqpopfes.jp\/2018\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now in its fifth year! This is one of Kyushu\u2019s biggest and most exciting pop culture festivals. Both West Japan General Exhibition Center Annex and Aruaru City will play host to a celebration of manga, anime, and computer games. Enjoy performances of anime songs and more by groups including Guildrops, Bless4, and AOP. There will also be special talks by voice actors&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27918,"featured_media":115357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-115327","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kitakyushu","event-type-festival","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/115327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27918"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}