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Sakura-Con 2017 presents designer Kenichi Sonoda as a Guest of Honor! He best known as the character designer for the Bubblegum Crash/Bubblegum Crisis series, as well as the designs for Gall Force, Otaku no Video, and Riding Bean.

Sakura-Con is pleased to announce Hiroshi Nagahama, celebrated animator, designer and director, as a 2017 guest of honor! US fans may know him best as the Director of Mushishi, the Assistant Director of Fruits Basket, and many more.

In honor of our 20th Anniversary we are pleased to welcome guests from Thunderbolt Fantasy Sword Seekers and Touken Ranbu!

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Sakura-Con is proud to present Shiki Douji as a guest of honor for our 20th Anniversary!

Shiki Douji is a prolific character designer and illustrator known best for the Full Metal Panic! series of manga, light novels, TV, and OAV.

Sakura-Con 2017 is pleased to announce our first Guest of Honor, Yasuhiro Irie, director of Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood, just in time for the Holidays!

Attention all AMV creators and video editors! Enjoy making videos? Love Sakura-Con? Want to help get people pumped up? Why not try your hand at making us a video for our Opening Ceremonies? Read More »

Sakura-con 2017 Artist Alley sign-ups will be open for 36 hours, from 8 pm on Sunday December 25th through 8am on Tuesday December 27th. The sign-up link will be available here when applications open.

The Sakura-Con 2017 Hotel Block is now Open!