Do you dream of going to Japan? Well, how'd you like to make that dream come true -- as that's exactly what NYAF is doing with the Yume Cosplay Prize (www.YumeCosplay.com). A cosplay masquerade unlike any other, its winners take home a week-long trip to Japan and VIP tickets to the Tokyo Anime Fair.

NYAF's 2009 winners were Yaya Han and Anna Raper, who'll be traveling to Tokyo shortly for this year's TAF, and we're already putting our 2010 contest together. The Yume Cosplay Prize's finals take place this October in NYC as part of the New York Anime Festival, but there's no need to wait to enter, as NYAF and the Yume Cosplay Prize are coming to select convention across the country in the Spring and Summer.

We hosted a regional at MetroCon late last year, and we're proud to reveal our next regional contest will be at Anime Matsuri (www.animematsuri.com), April 2-4, 2010 in Houston, TX. The winners of Anime Matsuri's masquerade will win two tickets to NYC and guaranteed entry into the Yume finals -- where they'll compete for a trip to Japan!

Live in the South West? Wanna go to Tokyo? Start putting your costume together and get down to Anime Matsuri!