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It is one year away from legal drinking age and can’t quite rent a car, but MomoCon is all grown up.
The convention, which focuses on animation, gaming and comics, celebrated its 20th anniversary over Memorial Day weekend and hit another milestone — nearly 60,000 visitors, up by more than 10,000 from two years ago.
As the convention inches toward its 21st “birthday” and beyond, it’s expanding. Next year, organizers will increase the amount of gaming and exhibit space it occupies at the Georgia World Congress Center by 30% to more than 1 million square feet.
By comparison, the country’s largest anime convention, the Anime Expo in Los Angeles, occupies about 800,000 square feet of space for its 100,000-plus attendees.
MomoCon is one of the largest fan conventions held in the Southeast. I
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