[4] Scotland Loves Animation is a charity that promotes anime in Scotland, through hosting an annual film festival October and partnering with film festivals and other independent cinemas to screen anime-related content during the rest of the year.
The main festival is based across of Scotland's two biggest cities: Glasgow and Edinburgh.
The festival also regularly invites directors to host Q&A sessions after their films have been screened.
[citation needed] The "Scotland Loves Anime" film festival takes place every October in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
[12] The latter was brought back in 2021 and saw various Picturehouse locations around the country screen the most popular films of the 2021 festival.
In 2024, the festival expanded to London, with a weekend of screenings held at Picturehouse Central.
Two-thirds of the funds raised from the online festival were donated to the Glasgow Film Theatre and Edinburgh Filmhouse.
The films that screened as part of Scotland Loves Anime on Screen Anime were: The digital festival also featured two in progress films, Inu-Oh (Science SARU) and Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (Bones).