More than 25,000 dressed-up anime lovers packed the Baltimore Convention Center over the weekend for Otakon 2009, the 10th year the gathering has been held in Baltimore. The event typically draws more visitors to the Convention Center than any other and this year is likely to be no exception, officials said.

Attendees, we loved what you were wearing and, at numbers like that, what you were spending. In the words of our favorite Kwik-E-Mart manager, we can only say a hearty: ‘Thank-you, come again!’