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This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at RIT chapter.

Every year RIT’s Anime Club puts together its annual anime convention, Tora-Con. Tora-Con is a two-day long event dedicated to all that is anime. This year’s Tora-Con took over the campus this past weekend. Everywhere you looked you saw hoards of people dressed in their finest anime attire.
 
There was a bevy of special guests from all throughout the industry who came to speak at over 30 different panels on anime. One of the special guests, Uncle Yo helped with the Cosplay Contest (an anime costume contest), helping with the set-up of the event as well as emceeing. There were about 100 participants in the Cosplay Contest. Participants compiled everything they could to create the best and most realistic costumes they could. One participant even came out as a giant Pokémon character.
 
Tora-Con also featured an Anime Music Video contest in which participants competed in a challenge to create their own music videos featuring clips from anime shows and movies. There was also a dance and a larger concert as well.

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Olivia is a sophomore Advertising and Public Relations major at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She works for RIT SportsZone as a reporter and in the marketing department. She is now also a co-founder of the RIT HerCampus branch which she can't wait to get started! Her biggest dream is to have her own talk show or to work as a reporter for ESPN. Her hobbies include acting and singing and she is almost always performing. She also has an unhealthy addiction to peanut butter and feels the need to put it on everything she eats! After RIT she hopes to attend performing school in New York City where she plans to live for the rest of her life and fullfill her dreams.