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.
2010 Guests of Honor
Chris Patton
Chris Patton started acting professionally at a very early age, and later
discovered voice acing in his twenties. Chris has gone on to voice over 120 shows for ADV and FUNimation, and
continues to...[more]
Richard Epcar
Richard Epcar is well known to anime and game fans, starting with the
original Robotech series, in which he played Ben Dixon, Lunk, Grel.
He directed the new original animated feature,
Robotech: The...[more]
Dazzle Vision
Popular in the Japanese indie scene for their hard rock sound and Maiko's alternating melodic/death-voice vocals, Dazzle Vision was formed in June 2003, and has held their current lineup since May...[more]
Luci Christian
Some of Luci's voice acting credits for Funimation Entertainment include Psiren and Wrath in Fullmetal Alchemist, Nami in One Piece, Rico in Gunslinger Girl, Komachi in Samurai 7, Louis Ft. Drake in...[more]
Brina Palencia
Brina Palencia is a voice actress and ADR director for Funimation.
More recently she's been cast as Rei Ayanami in Evangelion 1.0, Juliet in Romeo X Juliet, Tamama in Sgt. Frog, Holo in Spice and...[more]
HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR
HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR
Formed in Okinawa, Japanese rock band HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR has contributed theme songs for three hit anime series: "Bleach," "Mobile Suit Gundam Seed...[more]
Kent Williams
Kent Williams is a Texas-born, Dallas actor.
He's logged 22 years of classroom instruction introducing K-12 students to such fine arts disciplines as marionette puppetry, stage stuntwork and Japanese...[more]
Todd Haberkorn
As far as shows go, catch Todd's voice as lead roles in Suzuka as Yamato, Ghost Hunt as Naru, Claymore as Raki, Tower of Druaga as Jil, Holic as Wataknuki, D. Gray Man as Allen Walker, and some...[more]
Soul Candy is a Seattle-based band consisting for 4 talented musicians that bonded through their love of music and anime. They formed in July 2008 as a 5 piece band to perform for a local...[more]
Vic Mignogna
Vic has been acting for stage and screen since he was 8 years old. But he started his career in anime about ten years ago as Vega in Streetfighter II. Since then Vic has been in more than a hundred...[more]
Troy Baker
Troy Baker is a multi-talented voice actor and performer. He most recently voiced Abel Nightroad in Trinity Blood. Baker also voiced such memorable characters as Frank Archer in Fullmetal Alchemist...[more]
Hsu-nami
Hsu-nami, an Erhu Rock fusion band from New Jersey, have played the TekkoshoCon in Pittsburg, The ArmegediCon in Columbus Ohio, and the Zenkaikon in Philadelphia.
They were recently one of...[more]
Ellyn Stern
Ellyn Stern began acting at the age of 12. She is a classically trained actress known for both her dramatic and comedic roles. Her career spans from film to television to stage.
Ellyn's...[more]
Chloe Chan
Chloe Chan, who goes by the alias Nuu online, is the visual art aspect
of a creative team that makes original comics and doujinshi. She is
best known for her work on the shounen-ai webcomic Honeydew...[more]
Yutaka Minowa
Yutaka Minowa is a character designer and animation director who works almost exclusively with Madhouse, one of the premiere Japanese animation companies. His work is most notably recognized in the...[more]
Tsuyoshi Nonaka
Tsuyoshi Nonaka is a Mechanical designer known for his work on D.I.C.E. (TV) and Shin Mazinger Shogeki! Z-Hen. This will be Nonaka-San's first...[more]
Wendy Powell is so excited to be here with all of you...so let's start this CON out with a bang! Wendy has been a professional voice actress for Funimation Entertainment and Okratron 5000 for over...[more]
Jennie Breeden
Jennie Breeden is the creator of the autobiographical webcomic The Devil's
Panties. Ms. Breeden has been posting her daily webcomic since 2001 and has
published three graphic novels that are in...[more]
Cari Corene
Originally from Alaska, Cari Corene attended the Savannah College of Art &
Design, graduating in 2009 with a degree in sequential art. Her printed work
most recently has come to include...[more]
DJ Sharpnel
DJ Sharpnel (sharpnelsound) is an influential and well-known
"Japanimated" hardcore, or gabber, group formed in Tokyo, Japan. In
1996, Jea started his first own hardcore project named...[more]
Mayumi Tanaka
Mayumi Tanaka is a prolific and accomplished seiyu.
She is best known for the
roles of Ryuunosuke Fujinami in Urusei Yatsura, Pazu in Laputa:
Castle in the Sky, Monkey D. Luffy in...[more]
Jason Thompson
Jason Thompson (www.kingofrpgs.com) is the author of the graphic novel King
of RPGs (drawn by Victor Hao) and the Eisner-nominated encyclopedia...[more]
Victor Hao
Victor C. Hao (www.VictorHao.com) is the artist
of the graphic novel King of RPGs (written by Jason Thompson) and a recent
graduate with a Bachelor of Fine...[more]
Katsuhiro Namba
Katsuhiro "Alex" Namba has been acting since childhood, taking roles in
many Japanese TV dramas. After middle school, he began voice acting for
anime, such as voicing Roddy Shuffle in...[more]
Satoshi Nishimura
Satoshi Nishimura worked for years as an animator on numerous anime titles
providing key animation and story board work. Some popular series he did
such work on include Alien Nine, Card Captor...[more]
Takahiro Yoshimatsu
Takahiro Yoshimatsu is an animator with numerous character design and
animation credits to his name. He's worked on many titles, including
Future GPX Cyber Formula, Slayers the Movie,TRIGUN,...[more]
Noizi Ito
Noizi Ito is an artist well known for her work as the
character designer and artist for the Shakugan no Syana novel series which
spawned a manga and anime series. She is the original character...[more]
Artist, graphic designer and compulsive achievement unlocker... Shawn Handyside is the creator/editor of "HALOLZ" (your premiere source for humorous video game screen captions) and...[more]
If you are interested about Guests at Sakura-Con 2010, please contact the Director of Relations. Also, you can ask questions in the Guest Section of the Message Board.
If your curious about Guests that have attended our Convention in the past, be sure to check the Past Guests page.
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