Free SacAnime Weekend Badge w/VIP Upgrade for every Room Night Booked at the Sheraton by January 31st!. Meet Nolan North, Johnny Yong Bosch and More!

SACANIME is being held on Friday, Saturday and Sunday August 30th - September 1st, 2013 at the Sacramento Convention Center and Sheraton Grand Hotel.  For more information, check out our website at:    http://www.sacanime.com

Free Weekend Badge w/VIP Upgrade if you book Your Room at the Sheraton by January 31st!
Time is Running Out!  After January 31st, booking a room will only upgrade your existing Weekend Badge to VIP.  You will have to pay for your badge(s). 

The Sheraton is giving SacAnime attendees a rate of $99 per night (double occupancy).

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SacAnime Winter 2013 Special Guests:

NOLAN NORTH  is an American actor and voice actor born in New Haven, Connecticut. He has been described as "the nearest thing the games industry has to a bona fide leading man." He is most well known for his voice work as Desmond Miles from the Assassin's Creed video game series, and Nathan Drake from the Uncharted series.  See his full bio. 

 

   

 JOHNNY YONG BOSCH  got his start as Adam Park, the Black Ranger in the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers-a role that he played for three-and-a-half seasons on TV, two motion pictures and two special guest appearances in subsequent seasons. 

Johnny is also well-known for voice acting work in numerous anime titles, including Vash the Stampede in Trigun, Kaneda in Akira, Renton in Eureka Seven, Claus in Last Exile, Sakaki in Witch Hunter Robin, Kiba in Wolf's Rain, Itsuki in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Ichigo Kurosaki in Bleach, Lelouch Lamperouge in Code Geass, Izaya in Durarara, and Yukio in Blue Exorcist.

Johnny's voice can also be heard in numerous video games, including Nero in Devil May Cry 4 and voiceover work in titles like .hack//G.U., Persona 4, Disgaea 3, Tales of Symphonia,  Eternal Sonata, Transformers: War for Cybertron, and Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Johnny will be appearing at SacAnime Summer 2013 for a free concert Friday and Saturday nights with his band Eyeshine! This four piece "edge rock" band, formed in West Hills, California, features Johnny and bandmates Maurice, Polo and Ginny!

 

   

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.

 

 

BILLY MARTINEZ has been working comics and fine art for over 18 years. He is the publisher of Neko Press. His works include Wildflower, Kickass Girl, and The Deepest Dark. His art has been featured in Heavy Metal Magazine and as well as The Family Guy and Hellboy for Inkworks trading cards. He has been commissioned by Starbucks Coffee and has designed work for Qualcomm Communications. He currently resides in San Diego and teaches over 17 classes a week at Neko Press Art Studios. He regularly performs live art at many venues up and down the coast and is continuing his series of 1000 Girls paintings. 2012 marked the release of - In Your Face, a complete guide to drawing facial expressions. Billy will be debuting his follow up 2013 how to draw book- Body Movin'. This book features a solid approach to figure drawing.

  

  

MORE GUESTS TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON!