Middle Tennessee Anime Convention

The Middle Tennessee Anime Convention (MTAC) is the first anime convention in Tennessee. Based in Nashville, TN, MTAC is also known as Music City's Anime Convention.

Programming
MTAC has many popular recurring events, including a cosplay contest, a risque cosplay contest, a ramen eating contest, an AMV contest, and a rave. Other popular panels and events include concerts, martial arts lessons and demonstrations, ParaPara lessons and performances, art workshops and yaoi and yuri panels.

History
Founded in 1999, MTAC set forth to deliver rich anime and Japanese related content to fans in Tennessee and the southeast US on an annual basis. A small event was held with great success and an attempt was made a second event the following year. However, difficulties forced the convention into a temporary stasis that was relieved in 2001 when "MTAC 2.5" was held. 2002 saw MTAC continue its course with "MTAC Pi" (drawing from the mathematical statement of Pi being equal to 3.14159265).

2004 saw a rebirth of the convention after a year long hiatus in 2003. With record setting attendance, the 2004 event dubbed "MTAC 4.01beta" was a celebration not only of anime fandom, but of MTAC's establishment in the anime community and development of its own identity. In 2005 the convention returned dubbing itself "MTAC GO" (references being drawn from the Japanese term for the number 5 as well as the board game originating in China also known as Go). This event again saw record highs in attendance as well as business success.