Tora-Con 2026 AMV Contest NOW OPEN

[Tora-Con AMV Contest]

The Tora-Con 2026 AMV Contest is now accepting submission!

Links:
The 2026 contest rules can be viewed here, and the entry form is available here. After you submit the entry form, you will see a link to the video file upload page. Please be sure to select AMV Contest from the available uploaders.

About Tora-Con:
Tora-Con is a college-based anime and Japanese culture convention located at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. Our convention is hosted by the RIT Anime Club and the staff is comprised mostly of students (but some alumni also help). Tora-Con usually draws close to 3,000 attendees per year and has be held annually since 2005 (excepting 2020, of course).

Please Note:
RIT takes Tora-Con's status as a "family-friendly" event very seriously. Our contest rules are, as a result, some of the most draconian that I have personally come across when it comes to "objectionable content". This tends to spark irritation among editors who subsequently have their videos rejected from the contest. Any outright nudity is completely off limits, and in many cases implied nudity may also be inadmissible depending on the context. Any sexual or risqué depictions of minors, or characters who can reasonably be assumed to be minors (I am looking at you, 500-year-old loli vampires), will also result in disqualification. If the video you were thinking of sending in has these elements, please consider submitting a different qualifying video OR censoring your video a bit (either by literally adding censor elements to the video, or by replacing specific clips with something else).

Additionally, our rules specify that entries should not have won more than one other contest at the time of entry. The purpose of this is two-fold: Historically, Tora-Con has attempted to promote lesser-known editors. But also, this helps differentiate our contest finalist lineup from those of other conventions held in the Northeast USA.

Contest Deadline:
February 7th, 2026
The contest deadline is coming up fast! I know this is less than a month away. We were initially going to open the contest much earlier--at least a month ago--but there were some internal Tora-Con issues that led to the contest opening being pushed back. The reason we close the contest so early is so that our staff have plenty of time to review submissions for eligibility, vote on finalists, subtitle all finalist videos (this is a requirement of RIT, as RIT also comprises the National Technical Institute of the Deaf), and then assemble the final compilation video that is played during the convention.

I know that is a lot to read through, so if you made it to the end here, thank you for your time, and I hope to see a video from you soon!
-Jessie (Tora-Con 2026 AMV Contest Coordinator)