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Zenkaikon Meet & Greet at Philcon This Weekend

Tuesday, November 16th, 2010

This weekend is Philcon, an annual sci-fi and fantasy convention run by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society. It’s taking place at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Cherry Hill, NJ, and Zenkaikon will be there! In addition to running a table (where we’ll be showing videos, handing out flyers, and allowing you to register for Zenkaikon), we’ll also be running a special meet and greet panel on Saturday! Here are the details:

ZENKAIKON & DELAWARE ANIME SOCIETY MEET-AND-GREET
Sat 2:00 PM in Plaza I  (1 hour)

Come join the staff of the Philadelphia-area anime and sci-fi convention, Zenkaikon (www.zenkaikon.com), and the Delaware Anime Society, as we meet, greet and chat live and in the flesh at Philcon 2010! Learn about the origins of the groups, some insight into how anime cons and clubs are run, and throw us some questions. Zenkaikon is one of the fastest growing anime conventions in the Philadelphia-area and is located at the Valley Forge Convention Center. The D.A.S. has monthly meetings at two locations in Delaware (Dover & Wilmington) and one location in Willow Grove, PA. All club chapters are free to join and have many fun activities including parties, mini-cons, trips and more! All are welcome!

Philcon is one of the oldest science fiction conventions in the US (established in 1936), and features panels, readings, performances, gaming, and special guests. We hope to see you there!

Zenkaikon on Tour: Inochicon 2010

Sunday, September 5th, 2010

Hello everyone! Here is another update from “Zenkaikon on Tour.”

At the end of August, we attended Inochicon, a new convention at the Loews Hotel in Philadelphia, PA. We had a lot of fun! Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth. It was great to have the opportunity to chat with so many past and future Zenkaikon attendees. We also got to hang out with past Zenkaikon guests Uncle Yo and Reni Mimura, and past Zenkaikon press attendees from Vidgle (who also provided many of the videos airing at our booth).

Many cosplayers posed for photos in front of our table, which we’ve posted after the jump. Don’t forget to comment if you see yourself. Inochicon, thanks for having us, and congratulations on a successful first event!

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Zenkaikon on Tour: Otakon 2010

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

The Zenkaikon crew had a blast at Otakon! Lots of folks stopped by our booth to learn more about us, or to register for the upcoming convention. We even had a visit from past Zenkaikon guest Uncle Yo, and current guest Todd Haberkorn! We enjoyed plenty of events such as panels, screenings, and the Masquerade. The folks from Vidgle/Congoer also stopped by to interview us, so be on the lookout for the video!

Thanks to all the Zenkaikon staff who helped to man our booth, and all our friends who came to say “hello.” We look forward to seeing you all again at future events!

Check out photos of our booth after the jump.

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Visit Zenkaikon at Otakon Booth 318!

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

Are you planning to attend Otakon this year? So are we! Otakon is one of the largest anime conventions in the country, which takes place annually in Baltimore, Maryland. This year it is taking place from July 30th to August 1st. Zenkaikon will be having a booth in the Dealer’s Room at Otakon, and we’d love it if you stopped by! You’ll be able to pre-register for Zenkaikon V if you haven’t yet, or pick up some of our shiny new Zenkaikon V flyers. Show us your awesome cosplays, and we may even feature a photo of you on this blog, or our Twitter and Facebook pages!

Check us out at Booth #318 in Hall F. We look forward to seeing you there!

Zenkaikon on Tour: T-MODE 2010

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

April was a busy month for the Zenkaikon staff. In addition to announcing our next convention and running activities at Sakura Sunday, we also attended T-MODE 2010!

T-MODE is an anime and gaming convention in Alexandria, VA, and a number of the Zenkaikon staff were on hand to man our booth in their Otaku Bazaar. We had a great time chatting with attendees about Zenkaikon, and showing them pictures of our last convention! We also ran into ConGoer/Vidgle, who covered our convention as press last year. If you haven’t checked out the awesome videos they filmed of our 2009 con yet, I highly recommend it. We hope to have some of them playing at the next booth we run.

During our off-time from the booth, we got to check out the rest of the convention! We saw entertaining panels, played carnival games, and our Registration Head was recruited into a round of Iron Artist by Zenkaikon’s 2009 guests, Geeks Next Door. (Unfortunately, he also proved he should not go into illustration, sorry Tim!) Yours truly even got to attend her first convention rave, which was a lot of fun!

Thanks to everyone who stopped by to see us at T-MODE, and keep a look out for us at future events, including Otakon 2010! We’ll see you there!