Saturday 31 May 2014

Otaku Con Homepage

What is Otaku Con Dublin? Well let us tell you!                                                                                                  Otaku Con Dublin's a video game, anime,comic book,Sci fi and cosplay convention from the 13th-14th December at Red Cow Moran Hotel. We will have many local indie video game and comic book company's.We will have panels,screenings,video game tournaments.
Check out Ireland Cosplay Con
http://www.irelandcosplaycon.com

Our recently announced guests are.


David Vincent
David Vincent (born August 29, 1972) is an American voice actor whose work includes popular shows like Code Geass, Fate/Stay Night, and Tales of Phantasia. He is best known for providing his voice in the role of Grimmjow Jeagerjaquez in the hit TV series Bleach, Marshall Law in the renowned Tekken series, T. Hawk in Super Street Fighter IV, and Jin Kisaragi and Hakumen in the popular Arc System Works fighting game series BlazBlue. David was nominated Best Voice Actor in an Anime by the American Anime Awards for his work in Gun X Sword.

Terrence Stone 
Terrence Stone (born March 2, 1955) is an Irish-American voice actor who is also known as Terry Stone.He is most known in Bleach as Yoruichi Shihouin's Cat Form, Mayuri Kurotsuchi
He has voiced in iconic video games such as Dynasty Warriors,EverQuest,Star Ocean and Diablo 3.
Lisle Wikerson
Lisle grew up in Tokyo, Japan and moved to the US in 2008. She speaks fluent Japanese, and has been hosting radio/television shows in Japanese/English ever since she was 19 yrs old.Lisle is best known as the powerhouse voice of Nina Williams, Christie Monteiro and Zafina from the Tekken franchise , Sarah Bryant from Virtua Fighter, and Christie Monteiro in "Streetfighter vs. Tekken".Lisle was also in the 2003 Academy Award winning Sofia Coppola film "Lost in Translation", and played a principal role in the 2006 award winning indie film, "Kamataki"

 Manos Lagouvardos 
Manos was born in 1981 in Athens, and has a degree of Architecture from the National Technical University of Athens. However, cartoons, animation and comics were always some of his main interests along with his education. In 2001 he participated in thePan-hellenic Comic Competition, in which he won the 1st Honour. He has also participated in workshops at the school of AKTO, and since 2009 and each year henceforth, Manos joins with other comic artists in the Annual Comic Convention in Athens. His biggest achievement is the comicbook "Galaxia princess of the stars",which skyrocketed his career.Its an adventure with plenty of action, superpowers and planetary conflicts.
This year 2013 Manos won the ComicDom Fan Award for his comicbook Galaxia: Princess of the Stars!
Currently, he lives and works in Athens as a freelance artist drawing all sorts of paper heroes for advertising and publishing companies.


Kauri in Cosplay Land
Today we would like to present you Kairi an amazing, talented and very successful Polish cosplayer.
At the age of 25 her cosplay awards list is very impresive! To mention a few of them:
-2nd place in EUROCOSPLAY CHAMPIONSHIPS at MCM london expo (ashura-ou from TRC) 
-2nd place at EuroCosplay 2012 (onion knight from dissidia)
-craftsmanship award at GATHERING (sakura from TRC)
-craftmanship award at DOUBLEBACK 2013 (aurora from sleeping beauty)
-craftmanship award at ANIMACHINA 2013 (tim drake from batman)
-1st place in general at B-5 (selene Usada's OC)
-best resemblance award at MFKiG (batgirl from red robin)
-grand prix at LOVE 5 (red from transistor)
Not to forget a few from the best performance list:
-best performance at PACON (the world ends with you group)
-grand prix at MOKON 3 (tangled group)
-best performance at HELLCON (machen group)
- best performance at MFKiG (batgirls group)

Traders/Exhibitors


Sub City Comics

Dublin City Comics
Cineworld 



Comic Vault


Sandbox


Game Exchange


Annihilator Comics and Gaming

A Beads C Start

Magicians Merch

AnimeOokami


Anathiell


Prestons Patches


Bryan's prop shop


Cosplay Props Eire


Wasteland Fx 


Bizarro Cupcakes


Flare Book series 


BitSmith Games

Dark Oasis Studio


Celtic Clan


Garth Cremona


Artist Alley
Kevin Smyth
Emily Brien
Rebeka Webb
James Sharkey
Ellen Woods
Chrissy Hanks
Fernanda Machado
Luke O Brien
Abbey Mcveigh
Sorika Reilly
Katie (Katie Draws Pretty Things)
Tara Faulkner

Canvas junction
Lorraine Scanlon
https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=116726125120581

Events
Stoney Bards Performance
Mario Busker Performance
K Pop Ireland Performance
Kendo Exhibition
Otaku Cosplay Experience

TCGs
Yugioh
Pokemon
Magic the gathering

Card Fight Vanguard

Video game tournaments
Smash Brothers
Pokemon X and Y
Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire
Street Fighter 2
Mario Kart 64
Golden Eye


Panels
Lost in Translation
(Hosted by Lisle Wilkerson)
Lost in translation is a panel that is a tribute to the Academy Award-winning Sofia Coppola film Lisle was in, but the panel itself is really more about the world of interpreting/translating, as well as being a good source of info for everyone that is studying Japanese and/or trying to get a job using their Japanese skills. 

Memoirs of a 6ft Blond Geisha
(Hosted by Lisle Wilkerson)
Lisle talks about growing up in Japan, as well as the various cultural differences between Japan and the US. She also talks about some of the culture shock experiences she has had since moving back to the U.S. She also opens it up to a Q&A session, so any and all questions you might have about Japan, Japanese culture,etc you can ask here!

Tekken Panel
(Hosted by David Vincent and Lisle Wilkerson)
Our guests Lisle and David have voiced Nina Williams and Marshall Law in the Tekken franchise.Do you have what it takes to defeat the guests playing as the characters they voice acted.There will be a lot of button mashing and rage quiting so come along and get your game on.

Chicks Dig Big Robots
(Hosted by Geek Eire)
Geek Eire as we dive into the craziest giant robot anime as we answer why women love the giant robots from early beginnings in the 1970s to over the top crazy universal fights of Gurren Laggan . This panel will make you fall in love with the Giant robots we come to love today Also featuring Geek Eire reviewing the worst god awful anime known to mankind something so rotten they preferred Black Butler

Surprise Manga Review
(Hosted by Simon Moore)
Hello there people my name is The Great KDB. Through my travels through the internets I have found some interesting mangas. Some good, bad and ugly. But now its time to share my findings with everyone. What will I have to show. Maybe a pilot chapter of a popular manga you all love or maybe a manga story thats a sequel to a popular movie? I dunno but I'll see ya there!

Board Games
Cards Against Humanity
Warhammer Fantasy Battle
Munchkin

No comments:

Post a Comment