SaikouCon Closes Pre-Registration after an Additional Extension of 6 Hours

All pre-registration is closed for the final time for SaikouCon 2013

8/13/13 Breinigsville, PA – Anime Ate My Brain Magazine announced last year that they will be hosting a convention called SaikouCon. SaikouCon, which means "best convention”, is the Northeast's newest large scale anime convention.

Presented by Anime Ate My Brain Magazine, a division of Tastes Like Rock! Publishing (Tastes Like Rock! Music Magazine, Anime Ate My Brain Magazine, Tastes Like Rock! Radio, and the upcoming original webcomic Zombie Skatepunk Apocalypse, and Amerimanga Machina Saisei: Jakkan), the convention promises to be a yearly high point in the Summer months of the anime convention season. Boasting a dedicated staff of longtime Japanese anime and manga fans, SaikouCon is excited to be the only convention dedicated exclusively to anime, manga, and Japanese culture in this area of Northeast Pennsylvania.

Confirmed Guests of Honor include Voice Actrees/ADR Director Terri Doty (Fairy Tail, Deadman Wonderland, Okami-san and Her Seven Companions, One Piece), prolific cosplayer and cosplay photographer RuffleButt (Jessie Pridemore), voice and stage actress Jad Saxton (Baccano!, A Certain Scientific Railgun, Freezing, Okami-san and Her Seven Companions, Shangri-La, Fafner: Dead Agressor: Heaven and Earth, Fairy Tail, Michiko and Hatchin), and voice and television actor Darrel Guilbeau (Durarara!!, Samurai Champloo, Bleach, Cyborg 009, Paranoia Agent, and many more).

Featured Guests will include The D20 Girls Project of New Jersey (like the Suicide Girls just without the nudity, but better because they all love games, comics, and ANIME), the film makers behind Cosplayer Nation (the first large scale documentary devoted to cosplay), The League of Hot Geeks, and the Sci-Fi Photo Guys!

Musical guests include DJ Soul Eater from PA (spinning at SaikouCon's DJ Dance Party Happy Fun Time on August 23), Hitomi Himekawa from New York City by way of Japan, and Con favorites The Slants from Oregon, all performing at SaikouCon 2013's Cosplay Masquerade Ball on August 24!

The convention will always feature some of the best live entertainment themed to Japanese culture as well as the best in J-Rock, J-Pop, and geek culture musical acts from all over the US and beyond.

All of this plus top creators, writers, artists, distributors, industry insiders, English dub and original Japanese voice talent, some of the best cosplay talent, shows, masquerades; and so much more!

The pre-registration period is closed once and for all for SaikoCon 2013 as midnight August 13. With a ten day extension followed by a surprise six hour extension, SaikouCon founder and executive coordinator Michael Meade is very happy and thankful for the support shown through pre-registration of guests; as well as vendor registrations and Artist Alley registrations, both of which are almost completely full with only three spaces between the two left unregistered at the close of merchant registration almost a month ago at the end of their registration extension on July 25. Meade had this to say from SaikouCon's Facebook and Twitter pages, “We would keep it (pre-registration) going to the night before SaikouCon 2013 begins but if we do there's no way we can get your entry badges made! Thank you to everyone that pre-registered for our first year, you all rock! And everyone that is coming to register at the door on the days of SaikouCon 2013, you rock too but your registration fees will help give us a real head start on SaikouCon 2014! Pre-reg guests of 2013, you all really made this year happen along with our vendors and Artist Alley artists... DOMO ARIGATO!!!!!!”

At the door registration will be taking place beginning at 11 AM on Friday August 23 before the convention opens at 1:30 pm. At the door registration fees are as follows: Day Pass for Friday 8/23: $50 per person; Two Day Pass for Friday 8/23 and Saturday 8/24 $90 per person; Day Pass for Saturday 8/24 $50 per person; Two Day Pass for Saturday 8/24 and Sunday 8/25 $75 per person; and Day Passes for Sunday 8/25 $50 per person. Please keep an eye out for the Guest Registration Table and the Pre-Registration Guest Check In Table. Please remember, now that pre-registration is closed, there will be no Parental Consent Forms given out at the Guest Registration Table, so no guests 16 and under will be able to attend without a chaperon age 18+ unless they have pre-registered. This is to keep paperwork onsite to a minimum so registration moves quickly and smoothly.

SaikouCon 2013 will be held August 23, 24, and 25 of 2013 in the heart of the Lehigh Valley area in Breinigsville, Pennsylvania. Hosting the convention in 2013 will be the Holiday Inn Conference Center Lehigh Valley. To book a room in the SaikouCon block at the Holiday Inn please call (610) 391-1000 and tell the staff you want a SaikouCon room! Please reserve your rooms at the discounted SaikouCon Attendee only rate by August 12 2013.

To get the latest up-to-the-minute updates follow SaikouCon on http://www.saikoucon.com, http://facebook.com/SaikouCon, http://twitter.com/SaikouCon, and SaikouCon's listing on AnimeCons.com at http://animecons.com/events/info.shtml/3636/SaikouCon_2013