SaikouCon Welcomes Last Minute Additions to Guests of Honor Roster
Bill Rogers, Greg Houser, and Marc Swint join SaikouCon 72 hours before Convention
8/21/13 Breinigsville, PA – Anime Ate My Brain Magazine announced last year that they will be hosting a convention called SaikouCon. SaikouCon, which means "best convention”, is the Northeast's newest large scale anime convention.
Presented by Anime Ate My Brain Magazine, a division of Tastes Like Rock! Publishing (Tastes Like Rock! Music Magazine, Anime Ate My Brain Magazine, Tastes Like Rock! Radio, and the upcoming original webcomic Zombie Skatepunk Apocalypse, and Amerimanga Machina Saisei: Jakkan), the convention promises to be a yearly high point in the Summer months of the anime convention season. Boasting a dedicated staff of longtime Japanese anime and manga fans, SaikouCon is excited to be the only convention dedicated exclusively to anime, manga, and Japanese culture in this area of Northeast Pennsylvania.
Confirmed Guests of Honor include Voice Actrees/ADR Director Terri Doty (Fairy Tail, Deadman Wonderland, Okami-san and Her Seven Companions, One Piece), prolific cosplayer and cosplay photographer RuffleButt (Jessie Pridemore), voice and stage actress Jad Saxton (Baccano!, A Certain Scientific Railgun, Freezing, Okami-san and Her Seven Companions, Shangri-La, Fafner: Dead Agressor: Heaven and Earth, Fairy Tail, Michiko and Hatchin), and voice and television actor Darrel Guilbeau (Durarara!!, Samurai Champloo, Bleach, Cyborg 009, Paranoia Agent, and many more).
Featured Guests will include The D20 Girls Project of New Jersey (like the Suicide Girls just without the nudity, but better because they all love games, comics, and ANIME), the film makers behind Cosplayer Nation (the first large scale documentary devoted to cosplay), The League of Hot Geeks, and the Sci-Fi Photo Guys!
Musical guests include Hitomi Himekawa from New York City by way of Japan, and Con favorites The Slants from Oregon, all performing at SaikouCon 2013's Cosplay Masquerade Ball on August 24!
The convention will always feature some of the best live entertainment themed to Japanese culture as well as the best in J-Rock, J-Pop, and geek culture musical acts from all over the US and beyond.
All of this plus top creators, writers, artists, distributors, industry insiders, English dub and original Japanese voice talent, some of the best cosplay talent, shows, masquerades; and so much more!
Joing SaikouCon 2013's Guest of Honor roster a mere 72 hours before the event are Bill Rogers (Pokémon, Boogie Pop Phantom, Gravitation, Ikki Tousen, and more), Greg Houser (Evangelion, Shiki, One Piece, Tales of Vesperia), and Marc Swint (Mass Effect: Paragon Lost)! SaikouCon is happy to welcome these latest editions to their first year, SaikouCon 2013 looks to shine even brighter than hoped for!
At the door registration will be taking place beginning at 11 AM on Friday August 23 before the convention opens at 1:30 pm. At the door registration fees are as follows: Day Pass for Friday 8/23: $40 per person; Day Pass for Saturday 8/24 $40 per person; Day Passes for Sunday 8/25 $25 per person; and available Friday only, 3 Day Passes for $75 per person. Please keep an eye out for the Guest Registration Table and the Pre-Registration Guest Check In Table. Please remember, now that pre-registration is closed, there will be no Parental Consent Forms given out at the Guest Registration Table, so no guests 16 and under will be able to attend without a chaperon age 18+ unless they have pre-registered. This is to keep paperwork onsite to a minimum so registration moves quickly and smoothly.
SaikouCon 2013 will be held August 23, 24, and 25 of 2013 in the heart of the Lehigh Valley area in Breinigsville, Pennsylvania. Hosting the convention in 2013 will be the Holiday Inn Conference Center Lehigh Valley. To book a room in the SaikouCon block at the Holiday Inn please call (610) 391-1000 and tell the staff you want a SaikouCon room! Please reserve your rooms at the discounted SaikouCon Attendee only rate by August 12 2013.
To get the latest up-to-the-minute updates follow SaikouCon on http://www.saikoucon.com, http://facebook.com/SaikouCon, http://twitter.com/SaikouCon, and SaikouCon's listing on AnimeCons.com at http://animecons.com/events/info.shtml/3636/SaikouCon_2013
