Students and anime lovers donned their flashiest cosplay Sunday — dressing up as their favorite characters from popular shows and movies, like Pokémon and Attack on Titan — and enjoyed some competitive rounds of anime “Jeopardy!” or browsed a collection of anime merchandise made by local artists.
The occasion for such Japanese cartoon-inspired fandemonium, which drew a crowd of nearly 500, was Anime Destiny, an annual convention that celebrates all things anime, put on by Cal’s anime club, Cal Animage Alpha.
Berkeley News photographer Josephine Wu stopped by the daylong event and captured these moments: