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Jan 19, 2026, 3:50 AM CUT

Con Con Hong Kong Merges Comic Con and Music Festival in a Thrilling First Outing for Anime and J-Pop Stars

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From anime pipelines and licensing power plays to streaming hubs, merchandise, and films, Medialink Group has shaped how pop culture travels across screens and borders. Decades of deals, fandom, and creative bets have naturally led to the next step, as it is now launching its first-ever comprehensive Asian intellectual property extravaganza.

Medialink Group Limited is launching Con Con Hong Kong 2026 as Asia’s boldest intellectual playground event. Set for April 4-5 at AsiaWorld-Expo, the debut blends Comic Con energy with music festival spectacle (via Variety).

Anime premieres, J-Pop stars, immersive theater, and IP showcases collide across stages, screens, and shared spaces. Organizers frame it as a cultural platform spotlighting Hong Kong creativity alongside Japanese and global properties. Collectibles, fashion, art, design, and sound build toward something bigger.

Guiding that ambition is Artist Coin Parking Delivery as creative director, shaping tone and texture globally. The studio brings crossover muscle from animation, cosmetics, watches, sports apparel, and K-pop collaborations worldwide. 

Their fingerprints promise visuals that feel alive, immersive, playful, rather than corporate or stiff branding. From branding to floor design, experiences are built to surprise, delight, and pull audiences deeper, into the moment, while extending the festival energy promised earlier.

The spotlight naturally widens to Medialink Group Limited, the force steering the vision forward. Its influence keeps showing up everywhere, threading through anime, music, licensing, and screens across Asia, shaping what audiences watch, collect, and obsess over, long before most people notice the name behind it.

Medialink Group Limited's evergreen footprint

Medialink Group Limited operates as a behind-the-scenes force moving anime across Asian markets. From Kowloon headquarters, it acquires licenses, brokers, and partnerships and decides what fans watch across regions. The company feeds television platforms, theaters, and merchandise pipelines without chasing celebrity spotlight or noise. 

Through Ani One and regional deals, its selections shape tastes across multiple generations. Years before trends explode, Medialink positions stories so culture arrives already inevitable across Asian screens. That is the engine now stepping into the spotlight.

Beyond screens, Medialink expanded into licensing, retail, education, streaming, and film, shaping culture holistically regionally. Iconic brands like Garfield, Popeye, Betty Boop, Little Prince, and My Hero Academia are followed worldwide. 

Ani Mall, Ani Kids, and Ani Mi widened touchpoints from commerce classrooms to donghua fandoms. Film ventures, including One Second Champion Drifting and Haikyu releases, pushed ambitions further across Asia. That reach goes further in 2026 with its first comprehensive IP extravaganza debuting April AsiaWorld-Expo.

Are you excited for Hong Kong’s new Con-Con festival? Let us know in the comments below.

Written by

Yusra Miraj Khan

Edited by

Itti Mahajan