BOSTON, 26th March 2016: (from left to right) Tasha Blanchard, Madison Quinn and Jess Bridges, western Massachusetts residents, display their handcrafted costumes during Anime Boston at Hynes Convention Center Saturday afternoon. Anime Boston, New England’s largest Anime convention, has over 20,000 visitors from around the country annually. (Photo by: Kyra Louie/BUNS)
BOSTON, 26th March 2016: Anime Boston visitors descend an escalator in Hynes Convention Center Saturday afternoon. Anime Boston, New England’s largest Anime convention, has over 20,000 visitors anuually from around the country. (Photo by: Kyra Louie/BUNS)
BOSTON, 26th March 2016: Olivia Sharkey, 25, from Lincoln, Rhode Island, reacts in conversation Anime Boston at Hynes Convention Center Saturday afternoon. Sharkey has been making her own cosplay for 10 years. Anime Boston, New England’s largest Anime convention, has over 20,000 visitors annually. (Photo by: Kyra Louie/BUNS)
BOSTON, 26th March 2016: Jamie “StoneDead” (left) and Garrett Kelly, 25, display their “Pacific Rim” costumes during Anime Boston at Hynes Convention Center Saturday afternoon. “StoneDead” and Kelly, Quincy residents, made their costumes by hand. “It was a lot of tears,” Kelly said. Anime Boston, New England’s largest Anime convention, has over 20,000 visitors annually. (Photo by: Kyra Louie/BUNS)
BOSTON, 26th March 2016: Kyle Akers, 24, a Massachusetts resident, reacts to photographers during Anime Boston at Hynes Convention Center Saturday afternoon. Akers made most of his cosplay by hand. Anime Boston, New England’s largest Anime convention, annually has over 20,000 visitors from around the country. (Photo by: Kyra Louie/BUNS)
BOSTON, 26th March 2016: Boston University student Lindsay Chan,22, holds her handcrafted hammer during Anime Boston in Hynes Convention Center Saturday. More than 20,000 people attend this annual event. (Photo by: Kyra Louie/BUNS)
BOSTON, 26th March 2016: Boston University students Sarah Franzblau (left) and Phoebe Horgan (right) react to photographers during Anime Boston at Hynes Convention Center Saturday. Anime Boston annually has over 20,000 visitors from different parts of the country. (Photo by: Kyra Louie/BUNS)
BOSTON, 26th March 2016: (from left to right) Melanie Hoermann, Hugo McCarthy, unidentified cosplayer, Erica Kleinman and Danielle Gaboriault react to photographers during Anime Boston at Hynes Convention Center Saturday afternoon. Anime Boston, New England’s largest Anime convention, has over 20,000 visitors annually. (Photo by: Kyra Louie/BUNS)
BOSTON 4March 27th, 2016- Participants of the Boston Anime Convention walk around the Prudential mall. (Photo by: Marwa Morgan/BUNS)
BOSTON March 27th, 2016: Participants of the Boston Anime Convention sit at the Prudential mall. (Photo by: Marwa Morgan/BUNS)
BOSTON, March 27th, 2016- Participants of the Boston Anime Convention sit at the Prudential mall. (Photo by: Marwa Morgan/BUNS)
BOSTON March 27th, 2016: Participants of the Boston Anime Convention smoke in front of the Sheraton Hotel in Back Bay. (Photo by: Marwa Morgan/BUNS)
BOSTON, 27th March 2016: Rebecca Lee (L) dressed in a dual cosplay of Natsume Takashi and Gin from Hotarubi no Mori e, and Alison Jaskela (R) dressed as Kuroko from Kuroko No Basuke wait for the Green line after the Anime Boston Convention ended Sunday. (Photo by: Nikita Sampath/BUNS)
BOSTON, 27th March 2016: Jon Patrick dressed as a cat from the game Monster Under and Cassie Hebert (R) dressed as a tiger wait at Copley station after Anime Boston 2016 ended Sunday (Photo by: Nikita Sampath/BUNS)
BOSTON, 27th March 2016: Austin Baacke of Springfield, MA, dressed as Big Hero 6 boards the Green line after Anime Boston ended Sunday. (Photo by: Nikita Sampath/BUNS)