Welcome to the official convention gathering blog for theOtaku.com. This is a place where theOtaku.com members can read con press releases, make plans and discuss the conventions we are attending.

Current Conventions:

Sakura-Con 2013

  • Date: March 29-31
  • Location: Washington State Convention and Trade Center

Sakura-Con's programming can be found here.

Someone did some Research, eh?

Markus wolfe did some research of his own in terms of upcoming conventions, and put together a list of all the Canadian anime cons taking place through the rest of the summer.

Check out his list here if you're wondering about any of those:

http://www.theotaku.com/worlds/markuswolfe/view/15725/cons_in_canada%21/

And that's a wrap!

ACen's done and over with, and now your con focus can shift to whatever the Canadians have cooking up for this weekend. Enjoy yourselves guys, and here's hoping your meet-up goes better than ours. Speaking of ours...nevermind. Not going to ...

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It's time

Alright folks. ACen kicks off tomorrow morning, which means our meet-up is a mere day away! Whether this lasts five minutes or five hours [err, I hope not], we still must try. ...And get a group-shot. That is a must. Schultzie is br...

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Anime North! Because North East Anime Fans Need Some Lovin Too!

SO. This is going to be quite the legendary meetup. I myself (Red Tigress) have never attended a convention outside of Virginia. Durocks17, my partner in crime, has never attended a con. She is going to fly from Kansas to DC, my area of residence, and together we will be making the journey up to Toronto. MEANWHILE, Schultzie (that man loves his cons) will be driving from Chicago to Toronto, and we will all meet Enin, that crazy kid. So yes, rounding up quite the cast already.

How would YOU like to be a part of it?

Well, now you can be! We will be having a meetup on Saturday, time and place still undecided, because we want to know what you want to do. Just have a cozy chat? Perhaps visit the Anime Family Feud Game? Go out and get drunk Watch the cosplay parade?

We will all be in the area for the 3 days of the con. Post here, if you think you will be attending!

Oh my, tickets

Thirteen days left! I'm going to look over the list again and start getting a finalization on who's coming and not. Until the schedule is officially officially released, I'm going to hold off on a time. However, as the days dwindle down, we might ...

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