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.

Hotel overflow update

For those folks caught in the state of "overflow dependent", here's another chance to snag a hotel at the ACen discount! Lifted from the site: --------- Overflow Update...

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Get your shop on

The dealer's room is one of the most wondrous parts of any con. For any anime fan, standing in an aisle of stores upon stores of anime merchandise is like heaven - if heaven was in a warehouse. Curious to see what the retailors have? Here's...

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Crunchy nuggets of knowledge and ideas

Interest in this meet-up has been more than I thought (which was, like, three), so that's good news. Keep on commenting and we'll see what happens! To keep the ball rolling and perhaps create a little water hole of information, here are som...

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AnimeCentral 2008: Let's Get Started!

Ahoy folks, this is your friendly neighborhood Katana speaking. As SomeGuy was gracious enough to give me some posting privileges here, I hereby bequeath that you all bow down to me. ...Fine, that's not going to work. Anyways, it's t...

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Post-Con Landing Pad

Hey all, hope you're all healing up and getting back into your normal routines again (which sucks for me, 'cause my normal routine isn't very interesting).

Until we can start getting some better pages up, I'll use this post as a means for us all to share pictures, videos, and our reviews/reports of the convention.

Link them in the comments below, and later I'll make a more definitive post with all the links for this stuff in it. So yeah, if you've got 'em, let's see 'em!