Cosplayers pose for a photo during the 12th Shenzhen Cartoon and Animation Festival, which opened at the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center in Futian District  yesterday. The festival, which will run through Sunday, returns to the city three years after it was put on pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Known as one of China’s four major animation festivals, it has been held in Shenzhen every summer since 2009 as the city’s biggest animation-themed event that attracted cartoon and animation companies and fans alike.  Sun Yuchen