Now in its seventh year, the Tales of Festival is the ultimate celebration of one of Japan's most popular RPG series. Drawing 22,000 fans over two days to Yokohama Arena just outside Tokyo, the festival is a chance to see voice actors from the games - all the way back to 1995's Tales of Phantasia - interact on stage and act out skits, along with live music and exclusive updates on new Tales of games. It's fan service on an epic scale.
While it's fairly surprising that a single franchise could gather an arena’s worth of fans for two days running - despite an eye-watering ticket price of 7,000-13,000 yen ($69-127.50) - what is all the more impressive is the gender split. Far from the stereotype of a game otaku sausage party, the crowd at the 2014 event is almost exclusively female.
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