Sponsors
Guests
There are many different opportunities to meet with Sakura-Con's Guests of Honor over the weekend. Our guests will be attending both Opening & Closing Ceremonies. Also, the Guests will be available for various panels and autograph sessions. For a really up close experience, you can attend the Guests Reception Friday night of the Convention. Come mingle and enjoy dinner and dessert, conversing with your favorite Guest.
We also encourage everyone to read the autograph and photography Policies and guidelines regarding Guests. This ensures that the Guests of Honor and fans will have positive mojo for the entire weekend.
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Sakura-Con allows photography and hand held video in most live programming events but there are exceptions at the request of guests, industry, and panelists from time to time. So please listen at the start of every live programming event for the specific photography policy before snapping pictures or video. Photography is never allowed in artshow, our video theaters or our anime premieres. At the request of the bands's management this specific photography policy is in effect for Hangry & Angry and girugamesh while they attend Sakura-Con: Public Photo / Video Policy
Autograph Policy
Media Photo / Video Policy
Media Interviews
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2009 Guests of Honor
Smile.dk
Smile.dk is one of the most licensed artists in the Dance Dance Revolution series since their debut in 1998. We are proud to announce they will appear at Sakura-Con in Seattle in April...[more]
girugamesh
Formed in 2004, girugamesh made their USA debut at 2007's JRock Revolution event in Los Angeles, CA, which also featured artists such as Miyavi, D'espairsRay, alice nine, and MUCC. In 2008, the band...[more]
The Slants
Sakura-Con is pleased to announce the return of The Slants for Sakura-Con 2009.
The Slants are an Asian dance rock band from Portland, OR. Exploding on the scene in mid-2007, the band has...[more]
Hangry & Angry
Hangry & Angry is a collaboration with a Harajuku fashion store which goes by the same name and is the brand of popular Japanese designer h.NAOTO . Illustrator GASHICON draws the gurokawa...[more]
Jonathan Klein
Jonathan Klein is the vice-president, co-founder and co-owner of New Generation Pictures, Inc., a company that has been producing English versions of anime and videogames for many of the leading...[more]
Aaron Dismuke
Texas-born Aaron Dismuke started with a few small parts (in Fruits Basket and Kiddy Grade), courtesy of his cousin, FUNimation ADR director Justin Cook when he was 9 years old. But, it...[more]
Leah Clark
Leah Clark: Leah is a director, writer, and voice actress for FUNimation Entertainment. She got her start in anime as bit roles for Case Closed, Burst Angel, and Spiral....[more]
Todd Haberkorn
Todd Haberkorn has been acting either on stage or on set for over 15 years in the entertainment industry as an actor, director, producer, and writer.
Coming all the way from FUNimation headquarters...[more]
Wendy Powell
Wendy Powell has been a professional voice actress for FUNimation Entertainment and Okratron 5000 for over seven years.
She is probably most well known for a little villain named "Envy" on...[more]
Kappei Yamaguchi
Voice Actor Kappei Yamaguchi will make his first ever West Coast appearance as a guest at Sakura-Con 2009.
Kappei Yamaguchi is a popular and prolific seiyuu (voice actor) best known for the...[more]
Peter Fernandez
Peter Fernandez is an American actor, voice actor, film director, and film crew person from the United States with extensive experience in screenwriting, production, and voice and dialogue direction....[more]
Greg Dean
Greg Dean has been writing and illustrating his online comic, "Real Life"
since late 1999, making it the longest he's ever paid attention to just one thing.
Greg has recently graduated...[more]
Roland Kelts
Roland Kelts is the author of Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the U.S. (www.japanamericabook.com), published in the U.S.,...[more]
Sasaki Nozomu
Sasaki Nozomu is a prolific voice actor know for over 100 roles.
Anime fans may know him best for his work in Yu-Yu Hakusho (Yusuke Urameshi), Akira (Tetsuo Shima), Monster...[more]
Yoshitoshi ABe
Back for his second Sakura-Con Yoshitoshi ABe is a talented Japanese graphic artist who works predominantly in anime and manga.
He received his Master of Fine Arts from the Tokyo National University...[more]
Koichi Ohata
Koichi Ohata is the creator of the classic manga M.D. Geist- as well as an accomplished artist, director and mechanical designer.
Koichi Ohata is a veteran of the anime industry who has...[more]
Hideo Okamoto
Hideo Okamoto started his career in 1981 with mecha design work on Transformers and Zoids. His debut as a mecha designer came with Ginga Senpu Buraigaa, Ginga Reppu Bakushingaa and Ginga Shippuu...[more]
Penny Arcade
Sakura-Con is pleased to welcome back the creators of Penny Arcade. Penny Arcade is a webcomic written by Jerry Holkins and illustrated by Mike...[more]
Myuji
Myuji was born in Hawaii to Ann Lewis and Masahiro Kuwana, both notable rock musicians.
He debuted at 16 as a musician, releasing many songs, such as "Over the view", "Normal"...[more]
David Stanworth
David Stanworth runs the webcomic group Snafu-comics.com and is also
the author of two of it's more popular comics Snafu and TIN: The
Incompetent Ninja. ...[more]
Shawn Handyside
Graphic designer by day and comic strip artist by night, Shawn Handyside is the creator of the completely illogical comic strip Staccato, the extremely random webcomic Fork You, and the...[more]
J. Michael Tatum
J. Michael Tatum is an American voice actor best known for portraying Kyoya in FUNimation's hit English language dub of Ouran High School Host Club and Doumeki in XXXHolic.
Other...[more]
Joel McDonald
Joel McDonald has had a hand in several shows since he began at FUNimation
in February of last year.
As a director, he's had the opportunity to work on Tsubasa: Season 2, Kenichi,...[more]
If you are interested about Guests at Sakura-Con 2009, please contact the Director of Relations. Also, you can ask questions in the Guest Section of the Message Board.
Special Karaoke Performers
Soul CandySoul Candy is an "otaku rock" cover band consisting of talented musicians who are also otaku--big anime fans. As such, they specialize in playing songs and music from your favorite anime series. Hailing from the Seattle/King County...[more]
If your curious about Guests that have attended our Convention in the past, be sure to check the Past Guests page.
One of our 2005 Guests of Honor, Ikue Otani, also agreed to an interview here on our site.
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