ICv2.com reports that Anime Expo, which wraps up today, has drawn more than 35,000 attendees, down from the 41,000 at last year’s convention — perhaps because of the move to Long Beach, Calif., because of a scheduling conflict with the Anaheim Convention Center.
ComiPress has an exhaustive collection of links to Anime Expo coverage, from panel reports to photo galleries. I’d planned to gather links myself, but at this point it would just be reinventing the wheel.
At MangaBlog, Brigid Alverson highlights some of the manga-licensing announcements in these two posts.