Team Sakura invites everyone to Japan Fair 2017!  Japan Fair is free to the public and offers free parking. It will be on July 8th and 9th at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue WA! Visit their website, www.japanfairus.org for full details!

If you’d like to participate in our section of the Chinatown Seafair Parade (aka the Cosplay parade!) please follow these instructions: Date: July 23rd, 6-6:30pm line up. Objective: To show Seattle what Sakura-Con cosplay is all about!! Where: Meet at approximately King Street and 8th Avenue. * We do not know our exact placement until we check in–usually they place us in section “c”. You may need to ask where Sakura-Con’s section is with the parade organizers.

Sakura-Con thanks all members for a wonderful 20th Anniversary year. We hope you had a great time celebrating with us! Please keep an eye on our website for updates for 2018!

Here are new mascot for 2018! 1st Place: Rosalie Higashi 2nd Place: Vania Chong 3rd Place: Marida Voir

Presenting the ANCEA/Sakura-Con Member Newsletter 2017 Pre-Convention Edition!

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).