{"id":257624,"date":"2026-04-20T06:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/257624\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T06:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:04:12","slug":"second-annual-anime-tyler-offers-east-texas-fans-alternative-to-big-city-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/257624\/","title":{"rendered":"Second annual Anime Tyler offers East Texas fans alternative to big city events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; Anime Tyler returned for its second year over the weekend, featuring panels, vendors, and a place to build connections away from Texas\u2019 major urban centers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThere\u2019s stuff always happening in Dallas but most people don\u2019t want to make that drive but it\u2019s great to have it local,\u201d said Brayden Tyler.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThere\u2019s something about smaller cons, there\u2019s a lot more soul in these,\u201d said Isaiah Hague, an eventgoer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Event showrunner Seth Jones said the event, held at the Holiday Inn in Tyler, is about bringing people together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe wanted to bring the event to you guys out in East Texas,\u201d Jones said. \u201cThat\u2019s my passion is if I can help create a space to bring like-minded people together to where they can celebrate safety and celebrate IPs and animes they love and cherish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jones said over 600 people attended this year, up from around 500 last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI love meeting everyone and collecting their stories,\u201d said Kimberley Bailey, a vendor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cJust having a community to talk to, common interests, it\u2019s awesome,\u201d Hague said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anime Tyler is expected to return next year.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KLTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; Anime Tyler returned for its second year over the weekend, featuring panels, vendors, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96822,96820,96823,96824,27,29,28,96821],"class_list":{"0":"post-257624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-anime-convention-east-texas","9":"tag-anime-tyler","10":"tag-cosplay-event-tyler","11":"tag-seth-jones-anime-tyler","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-texas-headlines","14":"tag-texas-news","15":"tag-tyler-texas-convention"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}