| BECOME A VIP |
Book a room at the Sheraton for the show and upgrade your WEEKEND BADGE to VIP. Get Cool Swag. Gain early entry into all Premiere Events including the VIP Only Autograph Session.
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| PRE-REGISTER |
Attend All Three Days of SacAnime for only $30. Pre-Registration opens September 9th.
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| HUGE EXHIBITOR ROOM |
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SACANIME'S Exhibitor Room is Bigger and Better than ever! Our List of Vendors will be posted soon.
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| ARTIST ALLEY |
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SACANIME'S Artist Alley features over 100 tables filled with great artistic endeavors.
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| SWAP MEET |
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Got some old anime stuff you don't want anymore? Maybe you're just looking for a killer deal on some gently used anime goods? Either way, come check out the SacAnime Swap Meet, where one otaku's trash is another one's treasure!
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| COSPLAY MASQUERADE |
The SacAnime Masquerade and Cosplay Parade, open to competitors of all ages and skill levels, is one of the most popular events of the weekend!
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| HALL COSPLAY |
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For those of you who want to dress up in costume, but don't feel ready for the pressure of full-on competition, we welcome you to hall cosplay! Any costume is eligible for hall cosplay, you don't even need to make it yourself!
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SACANIME'S Cosplay Gatherings offers the opportunity for cosplayers of specific anime, video games, etc. to meet and take photos. If you want to plan or attend a gathering, check out our forums for more info.
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| CAFE HOSHI |
SacAnime's Own Maid and Butler Cafe Experience. Our talented and friendly staff will keep you laughing, and delight you with snacks, games, dancing, prizes, and more. It's the perfect place for a mid-convention break!
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| STARLIGHT BALL |
This Summer, SacAnime will be expanding the Starlight Ball. This special dance event featuring elegant music and ballroom dancing for all ages happens Saturday night at 9:00pm in the Cafe Hoshi room. Formal or Semi-Formal attire is required, and there is a small admission fee to cover refreshments.
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LOLITA
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The Lolita Morning Tea is a special meet-up for Lolitas and Dandies of every variety to play games, win prizes, and enjoy tea and snacks. Properly themed attire is required.
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| J-FASHION RUNWAY |
Attention all designers and models: SacAnime is proud to host the return of J-Fashion Runway show! This is your chance to show off your creative side by designing or wearing your best Asian fashion inspired clothing on the catwalk! This event is open to amateur and professional designers as an open showcase, and will be held Friday evening.
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| LIVE MUSIC |
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SACANIME'S Premiere Music Event will be held Friday and Saturday nights. Musical guests to be announced.
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| LATE NIGHT ELECTRONIC DANCE |
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SACANIME'S Exhibitor Room is Bigger and Better than ever! Our List of Vendors will be posted soon.
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| KARAOKE ROOM |
SACANIME'S Karaoke room is expanding, taking up one third of the Sheraton's Ballroom. Karaoke comes to SacAnime courtesy of Karaoke Kaizokudan! We'll be having open mic and a contest.
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CONSOLE
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SACANIME'S Console Game Room will feature a variety of tournaments throughout the weekend as well as freeplay.
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Yugioh is just one of the card game tournaments that will be held at SACANIME. Entry for tournaments is free with registration to the show.
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| AMATEUR ART CONTEST |
Submit your original artwork plus a photocopy to the SACANIME Art Tables in Artist Alley bySaturday January 4th at 12pm. Winners will be announced by 4pm. Check our website for complete list of rules.
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| DIGITAL ART CONTEST |
Submit your computer created artwork bySaturday November 30th. Winners will be announced before the show. All entries will be displayed at the SACANIME Art Tables in Artist Alley.
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| MANGA CONTEST |
SacAnime will continue the Manga Contest for our Summer 2014 show.
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| AMV CONTEST |
The SacAnime AMV Contest will take place Saturday night in Main Events. Come laugh, cry, or "awwww" at the great entries from our talented contestants, then fill out your ballot to vote for the winners!
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| ANIME VIEWING ROOM |
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Come check out SACANIME's Anime Viewing Room, located on the 2nd Floor of the Sheraton.
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| DIRECTIONS |
SACANIME is located at the Sacramento Convention Center and Sheraton Grand Hotel, which are in the heart of Downtown Sacramento. Easily accessible by bus, lightrail or Amtrak.
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| PARKING |
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Parking in Downtown Sacramento isn't as hard or expensive as it seems. The Memorial Parking Garage is located at the corner of 14th and H Streets. The all day weekend rate Friday - Sunday is $8 per day and is only two blocks away from the Sacramento Convention Center. Street parking on Sunday is free.
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| STEVE BLUM |
With literally hundreds of V/O credits to his name, Steve Blum is best known as the voice of "Spike Spiegel" from Cowboy Bebop, "Wolverine" from several incarnations of X-Men (animated movies, games, the Wolverine and the X-Men TV Series, The Super Hero Squad Show, X-Men Anime and more), "Orochimaru," "Zabuza," and others from Naruto, "Green Goblin" from the Spectacular Spiderman series, "Heatblast," "Vilgax" and "Ghostfreak" from Ben 10, "Grayson Hunt" (Bulletstorm) "Grunt" (Mass Effect 2 and 3), "Tank Dempsey" (Call of Duty), "Killer Croc" from Arkham Asylum, "Oghren" (DragonAge),"Vincent Valentine" (Final Fantasy VII), "Leeron" (Guren Lagann), "Jamie" from Megas XLR, "Storm Troopers" and many others in most of the Star Wars games, "Boogoo,""Sparky" and others from Disney's Anime - Stitch, The voice of 7-11, dozens of Digimon and a gigantic list of other characters from Anime, Video Games, TV and Film. In 2012, Steve was inducted into the Guinness Book of World records as Most Prolific Voice Actor in Video Games - appearing in almost 300 games! Currently you can catch him on the new super-charged CGI series Transformers: Prime, playing the sometimes delusional but always deadly Decepticon "Starscream" and as Heatwave on the brand new kid-friendly, Transformers: Rescue Bots! And most recently guest starring on Ultimate Spider Man, the Regular Show and as the terrifying anti-bender "Amon" on the new hit series Avatar: The Legend of Korra!
And after 4 years off the air, thanks to tremendous fan support, Steve once again takes the helm of the great star cruiser Absolution, reprising his role as "TOM" the robotic host of Cartoon Network's Toonami on Adult Swim.
On Twitter! @blumspew
www.steveblumvoices.com
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| VIC MIGNOGNA |
Vic has been acting for stage and screen since he was 8 years old. But he started his career in anime a little over ten years ago as Vega in Streetfighter II. Since then Vic has been in more than two hundred shows and video games, known for such roles as Edward Elric in Fullmetal Alchemist, Tamaki Suou in Ouran High School Host Club, Zero in Vampire Knight, Yoshimori in Adult Swim's Kekkaishi, Death Scythe in Soul Eater, Fai in Tsubasa Chronicle, Dark in DN Angel, Kurz in Full Metal Panic, Broly in Dragonball Z, Kougaijji in Saiyuki, Ikkaku in Bleach, Yukito in Air, Takanaga in Wallflower, Tatsu in Peacemaker, Luciano in Code Geass, Virgil Walsh in Trinity Blood, Hikaru in Macross and many more. Currently Vic recently played Keldeo in the new Pokemon movie, as well as roles G4's Wolverine and Iron Man series, and the original Mass Effect movie. Vic is currently playing roles in Tiger & Bunny, Digimon, Nura, Lagrange and several others. Vic has also voiced roles in a large number of video games including Soul Calibur, Disgaea, Dynasty Warriors, Persona III, Sonic Colours, DBZ, Bleach, FMA and more. But even longer than his voice acting, Vic has been a professional music composer / singer / producer who has written and produced hundreds of pieces for TV, radio and CD. He sings the themes for shows like One Piece & DBGT, and has produced several CDs of his own original music, all available on iTunes. Finally, in addition to anime and music, Vic has a degree in film and is deeply involved as an actor and director in several web series like "Nuka Break", "Starship Farragut", and is executive producing a brand new TOS based series "Star Trek Continues", where he is not only directing, but fulfilling a childhood dream of playing the iconic role of Captain Kirk. Vic works regularly writing, producing and directing video and film productions of all kinds.
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| STEVE DOWNES |
Steve Downes is an American DJ and voice actor. He is best known for his work as the voice of Master Chief in the popular Halo video game series. He worked as a disc jockey from 1978 until present. Most recently, he works as the morning show host for 97.1 WDRV "The Drive" in Chicago, Illinois. Downes also hosts the nationally syndicated radio show, "The Classics".
Steve Downes has been in commercial voice since 1990. He has provided voices for several video games. His first experience in voice acting for video games came in 1999 when he played the role of Gunnar in the video game Septerra Core: Legacy of the Creator by Valkyrie Studios. Despite the relatively minor role, his performance caught the attention of the voice acting director and music composer of the game, Martin "Marty" O'Donnell. When Marty began working on the video game Halo: Combat Evolved at Bungie, he invited Steve to voice the game's main character, Master Chief.
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| JEN TAYLOR |
Jennifer Lee "Jen" Taylor is an American voice actress best known for her role as Cortana in various Halo games, Zoey in Left 4 Dead and the Xbox 360 game 1 vs. 100.
Jen Taylor's first voice role was Sunny Day in Backyard Baseball. Since 1999 in Mario Golf, she has voiced Princess Peach and from 2001 Toad in various Mario games. More recently, she has voiced the role of Zoey in Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2, Cate Archer in No One Lives Forever 2 and Jessica Cannon in the episodic FPS SiN Episodes. She also plays the voice of Keira Stokes in F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin. She also worked alongside David Scully on both Saw and Alien vs Predator 2.
Taylor also provided the voice of Cortana and Dr. Catherine Halsey in the Xbox and Xbox 360 Halo video game series. For the Legendary Edition release of Halo 3, Jen Taylor filmed The Cortana Chronicles: In Search of Fandom, in which she traveled across America meeting fans of the series. In 2002, she performed the audio version of Elizabeth Berg's novel, True to Form. She is also the voice talent for the character Chloe in the Hoyle Board and Card games series. Jen recently has taken the voice of the co-host of 1 vs 100 on Xbox Live. In 2007, Taylor worked alongside Holter Graham in the Halo: Contact Harvest audio book.
An accomplished stage actress, in 2007 she performed in starring roles in both the Book-It Repertory Theatre adaptation of The House of Mirth, and the Seattle Children's Theatre production of Afternoon of the Elves.
In 2012, she played Eliza Doolittle in a Seattle Shakespeare Company production of Pygmalion. In 2013, she played Miss Casewell in the Village Theatre production of The Mousetrap.
In 2004, she also appeared in the feature film Inheritance, her first film role, as Abbey. She appeared in one episode of Leverage as Jodie McManus in 2010. A sought-after audiobook narrator, Taylor has read "Perfected By Girls, a novel written by Alfred C. Martino, named to the list of 'Best Children's and YA Audiobooks for 2012' by Sound Commentary.
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| BRINA PALENCIA |
Brina Palencia is not actually a boy, though she has voiced many boys and has even been mistaken for a boy in real life. She has played numerous characters (male, female, alien, and cyborg) for anime and video games. Some of her anime highlights include: The Grand Cleric in Dragon Age: Origins, Natsuki in Summer Wars, Chibitalia in Hetalia, Ciel Pahntomhive in Black Butler, Holo in Spice and Wolf, Yumi Azusa in Soul Eater, Sora in Oh Edo Rocket, Rei Ayanami in Evangelion 1.0 and 2.0, Chiaotzu and Puar in Dragon Ball Z Kai, Juliet in Romeo x Juliet, Miharu in Nabari No Ou, Tony Tony Chopper in One Piece, Tamama in Sgt. Frog, Ennis in Baccano, Mikoto in School Rumble, Georgie in Shin Chan, Eve in Black Cat, Moro and Zashikiwarashi in xxxHolic, Juvia in Fairy Tale, Clain in Fractale, Ryoko Okami in Okami-san and Her Seven Companions. In the land of gaming she can be heard as Mad Moxxi in Borderlands 1 & 2, Gerda and Paper Lad in Comic Jumper, Moogle/Dungeon Hero X in Final Fantasy Fables, the main player in Mushroom Men, Monster Tales, and The Maw, and various characters in The Walking Dead: The Game, Duke Nukem Forever, Guitar Hero III and IV, Stunt Driver 2, Ghostbusters: The Video Game, Donkey Kong Country Returns, and Street Fighter 4. She has also served as the ADR Director for Moon Phase (eps 21-26), School Rumble,Black Blood Brothers, and xxxHOLiC (the movie and eps 1-8), Assistant ADR Director for Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, D Gray Man, The Tower of Druaga, and Dragon Ball Z Kai, and Music Director for Sasami: Magical Girls Club, Negima!?, My Bride is a Mermaid, Rosario + Vampire, and Dragon Ball kai. On camera she has had guest spots on the national television series The Good Guys and Chase and has worked on several independent features:www.imdb.me/brinapalencia. Most recently she has been producing her own musical comedy web series, The Troubadoors, which stars Brina's beloved online personality, Kagura4221973. Watch the awesome at www.thetroubadoors.com.
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| ASHLY BURCH |
Ashly Burch is a writer, actor, and singer based in Los Angeles, CA. She's best known for her web series "Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'?", created with her brother Anthony, and her work as Tiny Tina in Borderlands 2. Ashly has also been in the following stuff: Awesomenauts as Ayla, Aliens: Colonial Marines as Reid, School of Thrones as Dany and Board with Life as Michelle. She occasionally says stuff like "feminism" and "donuts" on her twitter.
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| TSUYOSHI NONAKA |
TSUYOSHI NONAKA has provided mechanical designs for Mazinkaiser SKL, Shin Mazinger Shōgeki! Z-Hen and DICE.
In addition to his work in animation he has been a devoted toy producer who has been working in the toy business at Bandai Co. LTD (Japan) for more than 20 years as a toy designer and planner. While working for them he was responsible for creating and designing heroes and robots, vehicles and weapons for kids' TV series and turning them into toys. His masterpieces include the Toei Metal Hero Series and Super Sentai Series (Power Rangers). Needless to say that Tsuyoshi is known as the original designer of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Kyoryu Sentai Zyu-Ranger in Japan) as well as several Kamen Rider series. In addition, he has created a successful toy series brand for adults in Japan called Chogokin-Damashii (Soul of Chogokin) and recreated his childhood favorite character Mazinger Z (Tranzor Z) as part of collectible die-cast robot toy series targeted for the high-end collector market.
In 2011, he shifted his creative base from Asia to North America where he has become the head of "PLEX International Design, US division" working on toy designs for Power Rangers, Ben 10 and other properties for Bandai America Inc. (Cypress CA).
Make sure and check out his table in the vendor room, where he'll be doing sketches and signing autographs Saturday and Sunday.
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