Entertainment

San Diego Anime Con will have THREE days of performances that will include cultural acts, contemporary performances, nerd culture acts, and a much more fun stuff just to entertain you!

All entertainment below will take place in the Tower Room, on the SECOND FLOOR of the Handlery Hotel!

More details, including panel descriptions, presenters, photos, and more coming soon!

Friday, November 21 Entertainment Schedule

Tower Room Entertainment Schedule – Friday

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM – Idol Hour

Friday’s IDOL HOUR will include Ageha, Freyja, and Jyuke

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM – Nicole & Scotty

Nicole & Scotty are a musical sibling duo based in Southern California. The dynamic pair are recording/performing artists, songwriters, musicians, audio engineers, and producers. Starting a YouTube channel in August of 2013, and making their debut as Elvis Presley’s daughter Lisa Marie Presley’s supporting act that same year, together they have since begun to take the music industry by storm.

Their first single (an out-and-proud Trip Hop song titled “#Queen” has achieved over 100k streams on Spotify. Their follow up single “Can Be Beautiful” has been featured on Billboard Sound and AXS. In 2022, the sibling duo released a project titled 12 x 12 – a collection of 12 songs released over the course of 12 months.

7:30 PM – 8:00 PM – Susan Starr

Known as “The Glampire of the West Coast,” Susan Starr has been raising hell all over North America by combining the powers of drag and burlesque performing. While she lives to seduce and haunt with all things horror and glamour, delivering fun and powerful entertainment with cosplay based looks and performance numbers are always her favorite go tos! Get ready to enjoy unique renditions of her favorite characters and give it up for Susan Starr!

Saturday, November 22 Entertainment Schedule

Tower Room Entertainment Schedule – Saturday

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM – SuperTonic

Super Tonic is a 9 piece rock/pop band (with horns!) that covers a wide range of music from Anime and Japanese video games. We’re focused 100% on delivering energetic live shows that bring anime (and video game) music to life. We’re a big group, so our arrangements leverage our flexible instrumentation (vocal harmonies! horns! aux percussion!) to specifically adapt songs to be played live while still remaining faithful to the originals.

1:30 PM to 3:30 PM – Idol Hour

Saturday’s IDOL HOUR will feature Jellie, Selkie, and Polaris Idols

4:00 PM to 5:00 PM – BunnieStars

Description coming soon!

5:30 PM – 6:00 PM – KABA

Subete o misete, subete o tsunage. Connect everything by showing everything.

A dimensional rider has arrived in your world and will present to you a captivating performance that he has prepared during their travels. Combining powerful song covers and mesmerizing dance covers, he hopes for you to feel his intensity and engrave his passion into your hearts.

We are all dreamers. We are all travelers. His name is KABA and he’s just an idol passing by. Remember well.

6:30 PM to 7:30 PM – 33 Strings

Being active for 10 years, LA’s 33 Strings is a local Japanese ensemble that showcases various music with Japanese instruments: koto (13 string), bass koto (17 string), and shamisen (3 string). The ensemble recently collaborated with Silent Hill f for its launch event at Little Tokyo. Under the tutelage of Kozue Matsumoto, the ensemble members have a passion for learning traditional and contemporary Japanese music, arts, and culture and sharing them in the community. Their goal is to engage with the community through music and cultural appreciation. For more information, please visit our website: www.33strings.org and follow our Instagram at @33strings_

8:30 PM – 9:00 PM – Alan Z

With an audience of over 100,000 cumulative followers, Alan Z surpasses the confines of genres and racial barriers with his signature concoction of hip-hop aggression, R&B melodies, and pop sensibilities. His music has been featured on Netflix, HBO Max and The CW, and he has worked with Ruby Ibarra, King Los, Raphael Saadiq, AJ Rafael, Chow Mane, and Full Force.

Alan headlined a US tour in 2022, and he has performed in festivals and conventions like TAN Asia Festival, Atlanta Korean Festival, MomoCon, BlerdCon, KORUS, Korean BBQ Festival, VietFest and K-Pop All Night.

Catch him OPEN up the gates to PANDAMONIUM, our Saturday night after party!