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Announcing Daisho Con's 2010 Guest Lineup!

If you're interested in anime, gaming, comics, fantasy and general otaku culture, you'll want to meet the guests that will be at Daisho Con 2010!

Our guests are a mix of voice actors, authors and internet celebrities.  You'll be positively amazed at the experiences that our guests will bring to our conference!  Even if you haven't seen their animes, heard their voices in video games, or kept up with their blogs, there's no doubt that our guests have impacted our otaku culture forever.

They worked on the shows that brought anime to America.  They started memes that have been injected into our interwebs.  They impacted fantasy writing and comics culture.  They brought traditional Japanese culture to our front door.

Now, they're coming to Daisho Con 2010!

Guests for 2010 will include:

  • Spike Spencer - Spike Spencer has been a voice actor since the early nineties. He has voiced hundreds of episodes of Anime including such notable titles as Evangelion, Battle Angel, Suikoden, Orphen, Spriggan, and Nadesico.
  • Richard Epcar - Richard is well known to anime and gaming fans, starting with the original ‘Robotech’ series in which he played Ben Dixon.  He is the voice of Batou in all things ‘Ghost in the Shell’ and has directed a countless number of shows and video games.
  • Doug Walker - Doug Walker, from ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com, is best known for his character The Nostalgia Critic, who reviews bad movies and TV shows from childhood.  He also plays the roles of Chester A. Bum, the hyper active bum who loves every movie ever made, and Dominic, a bar tender who has talked with some of the video game world's biggest stars.
  • Lewis Lovhaug - Lewis “Linkara” Lovhaug is a comic book critic who runs the blog/video series: Atop The Fourth Wall. He is also a contributor to ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com.
  • Pat Rothfuss - Pat Rothfuss is the author of the highly acclaimed fantasy novel The Name of the Wind, which is the first book in the Kingkiller Chronicle.
  • Scott Lynch - Scott Lynch is the author of the Gentleman Bastard sequence of fantasy crime novels, which began with The Lies of Locke Lamora and continues with Red Seas Under Red Skies.  His work has been published in more than fifteen languages and twenty countries.
  • Arashi Taiko Dan - Arashi Taiko Dan is a student organization from St. Cloud State University that practices the traditional art of Japanese Drumming.
  • Scootywok Sound and Light - Scootywok Sound and Light is a team of two dance-event professionals with almost twenty years of combined experience hosting raves, parties, and other events.

Don't forget to register for Daisho Con 2010 and meet the industry greats in November!  We hope you're as excited and impressed as we are!

A Wild AMV Contest Appears!

InvaderDave, Daisho staffer and luchador, has presented the rules for this year's Anime Music Video Contest!

It has the same premise as before: show us your crazy AMV-making skills! It doesn't matter if it is serious or silly; all that matters is that you are creative. The AMV contest judges entries for technical detail, focus on synchronizing the sound to the audio (in some manner), and pure creativity. Make us laugh, make us cry. Whichever mood you choose, just make sure to impress us!

Details on how to enter the contest have been posted in the forums. If you have any questions, join the forums and shoot a message to InvaderDave, or just contact us here.

P.S. Don't feel bad if you just have to use Good Charlotte or Linkin Park in your anime music video. I'm sure InvaderDave will understand.

Vendor Room: Filling Up Fast!

Make sure to save some extra copper and silver pieces in your coin purse this November!

Our Vendor Room is filling up quickly! You'll see some new faces, from local stores to veteran merchants.

We'll be featuring our vendors in a series of posts in the near future. Our vendor room is full of talented artists and merchants with conference experience and stories of their own, and we want to give you the chance to get excited about the vendor room before it opens. They're lovely people, and we want you to "meet" them before you meet them. Yo, dawg?

Anyways, make sure to stop on by the vendors page to check out what we have in store for Daisho Con 2010! We're servicing a huge spectrum of geek and otaku interests, from table-top gaming to role-play, and from anime posters and DVDs to craft items and oriental clothing! If you can't find what you're looking for in our vendor room (you clever, elitist non-mainstreamer otaku), you're bound to find the connections you need to get what you desire!

Cheers, from the eternally busy Daisho Con Staff!