As you explore everything the expanded Sakura-Con has to offer this year, keep an eye out for the QR codes that have been hidden throughout the con. Starting Friday morning, scan one to begin the hunt and receive clues to their locations. Follow the clues and find all of them and you’ll win an exclusive 20th anniversary mascot pin! If you need a QR code reader for your device, visit www.sakurahunt.org for links and for the official rules. If you don’t have a smartphone, stop by the Info Booth for a paper entry form.

Yasuhiro Irie, known as the FMA Brotherhood director, is seeking 10 models for his live drawing panel on Saturday, 4/15/17 in the 6C Panels room from 11am to 1 pm. The models would be drawn and animated in a 30 second animated clip for anime production demonstration purposes only. Irie-san will animate the models with the original characters from his latest Kickstarter project “Halloween Pajama”, so don’t miss out this exclusive rare opportunity to be animated.

Heroes come in all types!  And we need yours! Be a hero and give the generous gift of health, life and hope for a better tomorrow. Our GOAL is 70 donors each day… Please donate blood!

Sakura con is proud to announce two exclusive premiers of Black Butler Live Action & Gosick English Dub Premiers, courtesy of Funimation. Black Butler Live Action Washington State Dub Premier Location: 6C Friday 17:15 – 19:15 Gosick English Dub Premier Location: 6C Time: Saturday 21:00 – 23:00    

Join Aniplex of America as we bring you the dub world premiere of Blue Exorcist Kyoto Saga! Make time on your schedule to attend this special cram school session as we watch a few episodes of the dub followed by a Q&A session with your special guest lecturers Johnny Yong Bosch (Yukio Okumura), Christine Marie Cabanos (Shiemi Moriyama), and Kira Buckland (Izumo Kamiki).

Sakura-Con welcomes voice actress Christine Cabanos!

The Sakura-Con 2017 Schedule is now available for download!

WIN A PLAYSTATION 4 AT THE EXTREMELY HARD TAKE-HOME ANIME QUIZ! This is a multiple-choice, open-book, take-home quiz that begins on the Sakura-con site three weeks before the convention. You can look up anything you want to get the answer. The questions are so hard that you probably will not know any of the answers from memory. Instead, you will need to do research into the real world of such topics as art, geography, history, literature, music and science. Hopefully, this will give you a better appreciation of what goes on in anime and some of the hidden meanings behind the material.

Sakura-Con Cosplay is excited to present this year’s Cosplay Contest Judges! Please check out their biographies on the Costume Contest Judges Page

Sakura-Con 2017 welcomes Natalie Hoover! She is a voice actress who has done work for anime & games you love! Well known roles include Sonia Nevermind from the Danganronpa series, Arisa Ahokainen in Akiba’s Trip, and Tsukino in SHOW BY ROCK!!.