For a chance of pace, we’ve written a special edition of the Interesting Find series highlighting recent Atlanta fandom events held in the past year between 2024 and 2025! We’re overdue of showcasing of our efforts on the video side of things as we’ve been pumping out video content in the form of shortforms on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. With that opportunity, we’ve expanded on our long-running Interesting Find series where we highlight finds of interests to those who are like-minded in Otaku interests.

As we’ve built a decent collection of videos of a certain variety within our video adaptation of Interesting Finds, we’re compiled a Top 3 of our favorite Atlanta fandom events that were held in Atlanta and in the surrounding metro area between 2024 and 2025. We hope that recapping these events to our readers will spread awareness of similar events in the future, especially in being more efficient to writing about them to those who follow Centaku Media!

Let’s take a brief look as our Top 3 Atlanta Fandom Events held in the city and in the surrounding Metro Atlanta region!

Hello82: LE SSERAFIM’s “HOT” Pop-Up Event (March 2025)

We went to the Hello82 K-Pop store in Atlanta’s Midtown for one of their many exclusive pop-up events. Last year we went to ATEEZ’s pop-up event for their Work mini-album following their world tour stop in Atlanta in Summer 2024. For 2025, we went back for LE SSERAFIM’s pop-up event for their HOT mini-album.

Sonic The Hedgehog Pop-Up Cafe (February 2025)

We got the chance to go to a Sonic The Hedgehog-themed cafe that was on tour in the US during the promotion blitz for the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 movie in December 2024. One of the stops was in Atlanta where it stayed from 60 days—although it looked like it was extended by an extra two weeks going into March due to popular demand. It was worth the trip and the wait in line; the earlier weeks of the events, based on attendee feedback, had much longer wait times, and even an unexpected celebrity appearance.

Gundam Base Mobile USA Tour 2024 [“Detour” Version] (September 2024)

On the way to JapanFest in September 2024, we heard at the last minute of an official pop-up Gundam event in Kennesaw. We went to check it out, but it was not idea due to the excessive heat as it was outdoors (late-summer Atlanta weather, for the lose); and it appeared that there was a lack of organization of the events, as many people complained of waiting 2+ hours to find out that most of the exclusives were no longer available. However, we went inside on a detour to the adjacent HobbyTown USA for the true Gundam experience—replica RX-78-2 statue and air conditioning!

Those were our Top 3 Atlanta fandom events between 2024 and 2025! There is a lot in our video backlog that have yet to be edited, so there is likely to be a Part 2 in the future! Be also on the lookout for another entry of our Interesting Find video series roundup of other places ranging from cafes and specialty shops for those with interests in anime and gaming culture!

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