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Sakura-Con '09 Reminder

We're one week away from Sakura-Con in Seattle, Washington!

So far confirmed for the meet-up are myself, Anomaly, chibimaster, red:leaf, serenitytsu, thinkantii, and pretty much as many people as I can harness from the OSCgumi cosplay group.

Batou the podcaster has yet to be confirmed, but I'm sure he'll be there too.

That said, preliminary plans are finally falling into place with a possible meet-up on Saturday, April 11th at 3:00pm.

Once again, if anyone else is coming out to Sakura-Con 2009, be sure to swing by the Conventionist World and let it be known so we can watch for you!

theOtaku.com @ Sakura-Con 2009 in Seattle, WA

I feel it is in the best interests of the American Northwesters and Canadian Southwesters of this website to meet up at Sakura-Con in Seattle.

Yes. Let's do that.

This year's Sakura-Con features a multitude of guests. Voice actors range from domestic favourites like Todd Haberkorn (xxxHolic) and Wendy Powell (FMA) to overseas stars like Kappei Yamaguchi (Death Note) and the prolific Sasaki Nozomu (Akira, Monster). Musical guests include The Slants, SMiLE.dk, and Girugamesh. And of course, once again, the creators of Penny Arcade will also be there.

Though we won't have the usual massive lottery give-aways for free stuff like before, I can promise we'll have at least one or two ultra-embarrassing contests for those of you who missed out on that last ridiculous thing for one reason or another. Beyond that, it'll just be an excuse to hang out, have fun, and trash-talk all the people on the site you hate and think about how wonderful it is to be a part of such a large and amazing community of fans!

And of course, our good ol' podcaster Batou of Anime Pulse will be there. Not getting lost, even. Come meet him too!

So who's going? Be sure to check out our post over at the Conventionist World to say anything about the con', what you're looking forward to, and when it would be convenient to meet up!

And as always, check back at The Conventionist World for updates.

Hope to see a whole lot of you there!

theOtaku.com Anime Expo Meet-Up

So y'know how Anime Expo (in Los Angeles, California) is the largest anime convention in North America? Well, it'd be quite a shame if we didn't make some sort of presence, wouldn't it?

Thankfully, fallenangel8 was gracious enough to take control of planning for this year's AX meet-up! As a bonus treat, fallenangel8 is also planning this meet-up in tandem with the Anime Pulse guys, so this should make for a nice, big otaku meet!

If you are going to be at Anime Expo next week, pop on over to the Conventionist World to give a shout-out, find out where to go and what you're going to do, and get to the planning!

A link to fallenangel8's first meet-up post can be found here.

I'm expecting to see a whole slew of pictures and videos, guys! Help make this meet-up something of legend!

theOtaku.com's Convention Page Is Back Online!

I'm pleased to announce that theOtaku.com's Convention Gathering Blog has officially made the jump to Version Vibrant!

Both Gail and I will be at Sakura-Con (March 28-30) in Seattle, Washington, and we want you to be there too!

It's not just us, though... Ichigo and Batou, our podcasters, are coming to Seattle as well! And trust us, they too want you to be there.

If you're coming, we wholeheartedly encourage you to visit our Convention Meetups World so we can start planning this thing out.