Voice Actress Tia Ballard Joins SaikouCon 2015 Guests of Honor
Convention also has first and only Pre-Reg Price Jump of the Year, and announces Free MP3s for all Pre-Reg Attendees from The Adarna
4/1/15 Bethlehem, PA – SaikouCon, which means "best convention”, is the Lehigh Valley's first and only large scale, annual anime convention. Boasting a dedicated staff of longtime Japanese anime and manga fans, SaikouCon is excited to be the only annual convention dedicated exclusively to anime, manga, and Japanese culture and pop culture in this area of Northeast Pennsylvania. The convention grew out of the now defunct, but soon to be relaunched, webzine Anime Ate My Brain Magazine; the sibling webzine to Tastes Like Rock! Music Magazine. Both journalistic endeavors fall under the newly renamed Nerdy Rock 'n Roller Publishing, which will be growing in diversity in 2015.
The convention promises to remain very hands on and attendee friendly every year, while also maintaining a safe atmosphere for attendees to enjoy the convention to their carefree fullest. As always, Cosplay =/= Consent is a very important issue to the staff of SaikouCon, and the same rules and regulations that made SaikouCon 2013 and 2014 a safe haven for cosplayers will be enforced just as strictly at SaikouCon 2015. SaikouCon 2015 will feature many diverse and entertaining panels, workshops, activities, events, screenings, gaming tournaments, and much more!
SaikouCon welcomes anime dub voice actress Tia Ballard to its 2015 show as a Guest of Honor, this is Tia's first time at SaikouCon; an exciting addition to 2015's roster of guests she is probably best known for her work as the English Dub voice of Happy from Fairy Tail, Rin Ogata in Rideback, Mizore Shirayuki in Rosario + Vampire, Eris in Cat Planet Cuties, and most recently Hannah in Attack on Titan, Nanami in Kamisama Kiss, Chiho in The Devil is a Part-Timer, and Yoshino/Yoshinon in Date A Live among others! We're told she bakes a mean cheesecake too!
Also announced is that as of 12:01 AM on April 1, 2015; SaikouCon's first and only price jump of the year for pre-reg badges has been instated. The jump excludes VIP badges of the 3 Day and 1 Day Adult and Teen badges. As announced earlier in the year the All Access VIP badges were not brought back in 2015 due to low popularity in 2014. And just like last year, SaikouCon 2015's headlining band, The Adarna are giving away free MP3s of two of their songs from their upcoming album, "How Perceptive", to all SaikouCon 2015 attendees that pre-register to attend the August convention. The band is releasing "How Perceptive" April 24, 2015.
SaikouCon 2015's list of Guests to date is as follows:
Guests of Honor:
RuffleButt Cosplay (Jessie Pridemore)
Leah Clark, Voice Actress
Danielle McRae, Voice Actress
Tia Ballard, Voice Actress
Featured Guests:
The Gamer's Edge Comics & Gaming
Sci-Fi Photo Guys
Cosplayer Hazel Dayze
Cosplay Burlesque
Musical Guests:
The Adarna
Mike P
More musical guests to be announced soon!
Special Guest:
Koralene Cosplay
For more information on all of SaikouCon's Guests, visit www.saikoucon.com/guests-of-honor.html.
To Pre-Register as a guest of SaikouCon 2015 visit www.saikoucon.com/guest-registration.html and make sure to note the new designations for Teen and Adult badges to attend the convention, the new designations do away with the need for parental consent forms for SaikouCon guests under the age of 17. To book a room for SaikouCon Weekend 2015, call the Best Western Lehigh Valley Hotel Conference Center, SaikouCon's new home located at 300 Gateway Drive, Bethlehem PA 18017, at 1-888-222-8512 or 1-610-866-5800 and request a room in the SaikouCon block of rooms for the discounted rate! The Best Western is offering SaikouCon attendees a block of 50 rooms available until July 25, 2015 or until the block is booked solid. There will be limited overflow rooms available for booking after the Best Western block is filled at the Hampton Inn right next door to the Best Western. Amenities from both hotels are open to attendees that book sleeping rooms at either hotel including the Best Western's outdoor pool and the Hampton Inn's indoor pool as well as gym facilities at both hotels.
The convention will always feature some of the best live entertainment themed to Japanese culture and pop culture, as well as the best in J-Rock, J-Pop, and nerd/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!
To get the latest up-to-the-minute updates follow SaikouCon on http://www.saikoucon.com, http://facebook.com/SaikouCon, http://twitter.com/SaikouCon, http://saikoucon.tumblr.com, and SaikouCon's listing on animecons.com: http://animecons.com/events/info.shtml/5461/SaikouCon_2015
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