Sakura-Con

You can apply here: 2025 Sakura-Con Cosplay Chess Application

If you’ve never been in Cosplay Chess before and just want to sample the carnage, consider applying for our Improv Cosplay Chess where the audience gets to be a part of the action! If you’d rather watch from the sidelines, we are also looking for Stage Ninjas to help with special moves and to keep the fights moving along. No headbands required, but there will be running involved! If you have any questions about Cosplay Chess, please feel free to send an email to cosplay.chess@sakuracon.org.

Hope to see you at Sakura-Con 2025!

Now is the time to get your membership at the lowest price all year! This price is only available until April 24, 2024 at 9:00 p.m. PDT—membership prices increase after!

For more information or to get your membership, see our Registration page at https://sakuracon.org/registration/.

FILMINATION Co., Ltd. (Japan), in collaboration with GKIDS Films (USA) and the Hyogo Business & Cultural Center, will host a special screening of Japanese animated films at Sakura-Con!

Stitchfully Bewitched

Brewing one mean seam at a time, Stitchfully Bewitched is an award-winning cosplayer and a professional seamstress. She has over a decade of experience in both costume and apparel design. She has a deep affection for costume designing and enjoys… [Read more]

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Abradorable

Abradorable, or Abra for short, is an award winning cosplayer from Florida that started her competition journey in 2010. She is best known for her over-the-top prop work using materials ranging from foam to fiberglass. She mastered her craft in cosplay… [Read more]

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Tealiosk

Meet Tealiosk, your friendly neighborhood seamstress and cosplay superstar! With decades of sewing experience under her belt, she’s a fabric wizard who can whip up jaw-dropping costumes faster than you can say “Just Dance!” She’s a proud advocate for inclu… [Read more]

This is a multiple-choice, open-book, take-home quiz that begins on the Sakura-con site three weeks before the convention.

This is a multiple-choice, open-book, take-home quiz that begins on the Sakura-Con site three weeks before the convention.  You are encouraged to use any resource at your disposal.  Some of the questions will test your understanding and ability to analyze anime, not just your memory.  Instead, you will need to do research into the real world of such topics as art, geography, history, literature, music and science.  The answers to the questions will provide additional context and meaning to the anime that you already enjoy.

The cherry blossoms are blooming and spring is upon us for another Sakurumble! 

Sakurumble is returning with two fantastic events at Sakura-Con 2025! Head over to Summit on Friday and Saturday to cheer on your favorite characters – or for the downfall of your least – to decide the winner. Charisma makes all the difference in this no-contact sport!

Do you hear the roar of the crowd for you? Ready for the showdown? Experienced or novice, we want to hear from you.

Applications open now until April 4! Apply today!

Sakura-con is pleased to welcome Simba Tsuchiya (voice of Shuji Itō from Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-)!

Actor and voice actor, born in 1996, Tokyo. He trained his physical ability through Japanese dance and classical ballet, and worked as an action actor. He was fascinated by “voice acting” on stage, and is now active as a genre-less expressive actor. He has voiced various roles including Shuji Itō in “Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX-Beginning-“, Balgo in “BURN THE WITCH“, Tsutomu Goshiki in “Haikyuu!!”, Tatara Fujita in “Welcome to the Ballroom”, Shotaro Futaba in “Backflip‼”, Raphael in “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem”. He also participated in stage productions of Shakespeare’s “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar” and “Love’s Labor’s Lost”. In 2020, he won the “Best New Actors” of the 15th Seiyu Awards.

Sakura-Con loves cosplay, and we wanna see your lineup! So share what you’ll be wearing with our official cosplay lineup frames!

To use a frame, just download the image as a PNG and place your cosplay plans using your preferred image editor. Don’t forget use #sakuraconcosplaylineup and #sakuracon2025 in your posts so our community can see!

Under the pen name TurtleMe, Brandon Lee blends Western and Eastern influences in his award-winning series, The Beginning After the End (TBATE). TBATE is the first English webnovel to webcomic series to receive an anime adaptation with its premiere in April 2025 on Crunchyroll. This long-running popular action-fantasy web novel and webcomic are available on Tapas Entertainment. It is also available as a graphic novel from Yen Press.

TBATE has garnered over 700K followers across its webnovel and webcomic on Tapas and has been honored with the prestigious Japanese Piccoma Award in both 2021 and 2022. The series has also been released internationally in countries including the United States, Japan, South Korea, China, Thailand, Indonesia, France, Germany, Mexico, and India.

Applications for 2025 Cosplay Chess went live on Sunday, February 16th at 12:00PM Pacific,
Application Link: 2025 Sakura-Con Cosplay Chess Application

Applications will be open until March 17th, 11:59PM PST. The theme for the all-ages Main Game is Red Vs Black, the same colors as our chessboard! The theme for the 18+ Late Night Game is Brains Vs Brawn.

We also have the Sunday Improv Game, where anything can happen!  

Sakura-Con is pleased to announce Reol will perform at this year’s convention!

Reol began creating and releasing music in 2012, and quickly hit 1 million subscribers. She was later chosen for the first global YouTube campaign, “Artist on the Rise”.

An internet-born songwriter, record producer, and rapper with clear electronic and rock influences, her music is a distinctive fusion of western and Asian pop. Her music is defined by her expressive voice combined with appealing, upbeat melodies. Currently, she has over 1.71 million Youtube subscribers with a total of 1.08 billion views, and her hit song, “THE SIXTH SENSE” exceeded 100 million streams. Reol is gaining international popularity with her one-and-only joyful, bitter dark, twisted, and kawaii vibes.

Anime Day with the Seattle Mariners is back! 

Join Sakura-Con on April 13th at T-Mobile Park for our second year of Anime Day. Come cheer on the Mariners, get your limited-edition Anime Day shirt featuring Ikuta and the Mariner Moose, and help support Sakura-Con! 

Deadline to purchase: Friday, Apr 11 at 5pm

https://www.mlb.com/mariners/tickets/specials/anime