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AmaLee is a voice-actor, singer, and vtuber streamer, well known for her English anime covers that have gained over 2 million subscribers and over a billion views, and is more recently known for her vtuber persona “Monarch” on Twitch, where she has amassed a dedicated following.

AmaLee has also provided her voice to anime and games such as, Marin Kitagawa in “My Dress up Darling”, Uta in “One Piece Film: Red”, Jingliu in “Honkai: Star Rail”, Hayasaka in “Kaguya-Sama: Love is War”, Lillie in “Pokémon Evolutions” and Ruppe & Viper in “NIKKE”. She can be heard on official soundtracks for League of Legends, Dragon Ball Super, and Tokyo Ghoul:Re, and has also been featured on records for Eminem (Kamikaze – “Good Guy”) and Porter Robinson (Worlds – “Fellow Feeling”).

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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!

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!

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.