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Kansai Kemoket 2027 has upcoming dates to be announced at INTEX Osaka Hall 4.
Kansai Kemoket is the Osaka branch of the broader Kemoket event family, which gives it immediate name recognition in the Japanese kemono scene even though the format is only a single day.
The official Kemoket site lists Kansai Kemoket 11 for April 19, 2026 at INTEX Osaka Hall 4. That is enough to treat it as more than a stray calendar row. The Kemoket label already carries weight, and the Kansai edition gives Osaka its own dedicated stop in that series.
This is not the same sort of trip as a hotel convention. Kansai Kemoket is much closer to a dense artist-and-community event day, with the main value coming from the Kemoket crowd, the creator presence, and the Osaka accessibility rather than a long-stay convention package.
Unlike furry conventions in North America or Europe, Kemoket events do not have annual themes, charity beneficiaries, or guests of honor. The format is a one-day kemono doujinshi marketplace, closer in spirit to Comiket, where participating circles sell self-published kemono art, manga, and merchandise.
The nearest international airport is Kansai International Airport (KIX), which offers a direct limousine bus to the INTEX Osaka area. INTEX Osaka is a 6-minute walk from Nakafuto Station on the Osaka Metro New Tram line, or about 10 minutes from Cosmosquare Station on the Chuo Line. From central Osaka, take the Chuo Line to Cosmosquare and transfer to the New Tram.
Curated stays near INTEX Osaka Hall 4, Osaka, Japan.
Since this is a single-day event, most attendees stay in central Osaka and commute to the venue via metro. The Namba and Shinsaibashi areas offer a wide selection of hotels and are well connected to the Chuo Line. Budget hostels near Osaka Station or Namba are practical choices, and the metro ride to INTEX Osaka takes around 30 minutes from either area.
Kansai Kemoket 11 ran April 19, 2026 at INTEX Osaka Hall 4. The official site published catalog, circle-list, and kigurumi participation updates for the event, but no final attendance count has been published yet.
Kansai Kemoket launched on September 16, 2012, at the Kyocera Dome Sky Hall in Osaka with 114 dealer circles. It was the Kansai branch of the broader Kemoket series, which had started in the Kanto region earlier that year. The event grew steadily: 219 circles by 2013, 278 by 2014, 300 by 2015, and 402 by 2016. Every edition was held at Kyocera Dome.
Kansai Kemoket 6 in October 2017 moved to the Kobe Convention Center, the only edition held outside Osaka. The event returned to Kyocera Dome for editions 7 and 8, with Kemoket 7 hosting 500 dealer circles and 58 registered costume characters. The broader Kemoket organization raised over 2 million yen through crowdfunding in 2022 to support operations.
Kansai Kemoket 10 ran in 2025 as the second post-pandemic Kansai edition. As with the rest of the Kemoket series, no attendee headcount was published; consult the official Kemoket site or Otaku Republic for per-edition circle and space totals.
After a gap covering the 2020-2023 period, the Kansai Kemoket series resumed with Kansai Kemoket 9 in 2024. The marketplace format returned with its usual circle-and-space layout and bilingual participant guidelines, without published attendee numbers.
Historical data and growth track record
| Year | Dates | Theme | Attendance | Charity Raised | Guest(s) of Honor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2027 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | None Announced |
2026 | Apr 19-19 | TBA | TBA | TBA | None Announced |
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A four-hour Comiket-lineage market, not a weekend convention
Kansai Kemoket isn''t a weekend furry convention. It''s a doujin sokubaikai (即売会), a one-day art-and-zine marketplace in the direct lineage of Comic Market (Comiket). Doors open at 12:00 and close at 16:00, a four-hour window.
SkyPalette, a niche-only-event publisher running four separate markets
Kansai Kemoket''s parent org is SkyPalette (スカイパレット, run by "Garone"), but SkyPalette isn''t a furry-convention organisation. It''s a publisher of single-niche doujin-only events: the skypalette.jp landing page links four sibling properties, Kemoket (kemono), DotAge (retro and minor video games), Ishu-Love (異種ラブ) (interspecies-romance fiction), and CHANGE! (a relaxed kigurumi-and-fursuit social).
Catalog-as-ticket, no staff age check, no cosplay
Two Comiket-model rules govern entry. First: general attendees must present the official catalog (パンフレット), sold via Alice Books pre-order or at the door, as their admission token. Lose it or forget it and you re-buy on site; refunds are explicitly not offered.
