OtakonNews

Good news everyone! Registration for Otakon 2020 is now open! Register early to lock in the special "early bird" discount rate. Learn more at our website and join us July 31 - August 2, 2020!

The Otakon 2020 Hotel Room Block is now Open! Reserve your room today and stay closer to the action. Find out more on the Otakon Hotels page here.

Save the Date! The hotel portal for Otakon 2020 will go live on October 11th at Noon! Find out all the details here on our Hotels page.

We hope you enjoyed everything we had to present at this year's Otakon. Now that you've had some time to reflect, we'd love to get your feedback -- let us know how we did! The format of the survey is much like last year's and should only take about 10 minutes to complete. Didn't attend? Let us know why. Your feedback helps us plan for next year! Otakon 2019 Feedback Survey

Are you interested in participating in one of several exciting events hosted by Capital Area Budokai? If so, read on! Capital Area Budokai will be hosting 4 workshops at Otakon 2019. Participation in each session will be limited to participants selected via this web form. Sing ups end at 6:00 PM on Tuesday, July 23 Details: All 4 events will take place in Workshop 3 (WEWCC 146A) Friday, July 26, 2019 Saturday, July 27 2019 Session #1: Art of the Staff– 3:00pm-4:00pm Session #2: Art of the Sword -4:30-5:30pm Session #3: Japanese Fencing Seminar–8:00-9:00pm Session

Three of the Japanese voice actors for the 2019 Fruits Basket anime will be attending Otakon 2019, and here’s your chance to meet them and get an item autographed! Through a special arrangement with our partners at Funimation, 3 Japanese voice actors for Fruits Basket, Manaka Iwami (Tohru Honda), Nobunaga Shimazaki (Yuki Soma), and Makoto Furukawa (Hatsuharu Soma) will be holding a special meet and greet session for an autograph board at Otakon 2019! This is a ticket-only event courtesy of Funimation. For details on how to attend this EXCLUSIVE, LIMITED signing opportunity, check the event

Animation Producer Naoko Tsutsumi and Chief Key Animator Yoh Yoshinari will be joining us this year at Otakon From Studio Trigger. They worked on Kill la Kill, Little Witch Academia, and Gurren Lagann! Otakorp thanks Studio Trigger for helping us to bring these guests to Otakon! Find the complete list of guests coming to Otakon 2018 here www.otakon.com/guests/

Animation Producer Naoko Tsutsumi and Chief Key Animator Yoh Yoshinari will be joining us this year at Otakon From Studio Trigger. They worked on Kill la Kill, Little Witch Academia, and Gurren Lagann! Otakorp thanks Studio Trigger for helping us to bring these guests to Otakon! Find the complete list of guests coming to Otakon 2018 here www.otakon.com/guests/

Cherami Leigh will be joining us at Otakon 2018. You may know her as “Lucy” in Fairy Tail, “Asuna” in Sword Art Online, “Kudelia” in Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans, “A2” in Nier Automata, “Makoto” in the Persona 5. Otakorp would like to thank Aniplex for helping us bring Cherami! Find the complete list of guests coming to Otakon 2018 here www.otakon.com/guests/

Cherami Leigh will be joining us at Otakon 2018. You may know her as “Lucy” in Fairy Tail, “Asuna” in Sword Art Online, “Kudelia” in Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans, “A2” in Nier Automata, “Makoto” in the Persona 5. Otakorp would like to thank Aniplex for helping us bring Cherami! Find the complete list of guests coming to Otakon 2018 here www.otakon.com/guests/