Anime Magic 2025: All Things Gaming and Cosplay: Event Preview
Headed to Anime Magic 2025 in Rosemont Illinois? Curious what is going on gaming and cosplay wise at the con? You are in the right place.
Anime Magic returns to the greater Chicago area on August 22nd-24th at the Donald E Stephens Convention Center and Hyatt Regency O'Hare in Rosemont. Fans can expect three full days of anime voice actor meet and greets, panels, cosplay, and more! Tickets are still available here.
HeartAsArt will be on location for the entire weekend with interviews from the media room, show floor, and more. Let’s take a dive into some of the content you can expect from the show in the gaming and cosplay worlds.
Anime Magic 2025: All Things Gaming and Wrestling
Gaming
Meetups
Fans can hang out with fellow cosplayers and fans at the Pokémon, Sonic the Hedgehog, Five Nights at Freddy’s, Persona, Fallout, and Resident Evil cosplay gaming meetups. All meetups are taking place in the lobby of the convention center behind the registration desk.
Panels
There are multiple gaming panels taking place over the weekend including panels about the Persona, obscure JRPS, the final releases for gaming consoles in different eras, creating a TTRPG character, and more! There are also table top and video game setups in the Hyatt Regency for fans to interact with all weekend!
Vendors
Brava Games will be on site to exhibit their Guilds of Greybrook game along with merchandise and art visuals from the game.
Other vendors selling role-playing and board game materials include Everything Games and Japanime Games.
Voice Actors
Anime Magic is bringing a cast of voice actors to the event from franchises such as Final Fantasy, Dragon Ball, Persona, Fire Emblem, Zenless Zone Zero and more. All 10 voice actors will be at the convention for the weekend
Cosplay
Meetups
Other meetups over the weekend include Gundam, Identity V, Homestuck, Date Everything, Love and Deep Space, Love Live, Project Sekai, Soul Eater, Bungou Stray Dogs, and K-Pop Demon Hunters
Panels
Many cosplay events and panels around cosplay will be such as the cosplay masquerade, prosthetics for cosplay, location scouting and posing, creating an anime character cosplay head, Kigurumi cosplay, and more!
Cosplay Guests
Anime Magic’s 2025 guest cosplayers include Vampybitme, Thames Malerose, Starbuxx, Little Evie Cosplay, MangoeCos, and Sapphire Ink. The cosplayers will have a table on the show floor for you to come and say hello. Be sure to check out the many cosplay vendors on the show floor as well!
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