Onna looking for volunteers

Onna!, a festival of women’s roles in anime and manga, Oct. 8-10 at the Gateway Hilton in Newark, New Jersey, is looking for volunteers (more info on the next page . . .)

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  Week 6 Photo Theme Results

Congratulations to PZB for winning week six’s photo theme “Cheat” with entry “The Only Way He Can Win.” 2nd place went to Mitylene for “A Girl Can Never Have Too Many Aces” and 3rd place to xaipe for “Raito and L”. This week’s theme, “Inner Self” is now posted and voting is enabled in the forums.

  Week 5 Photo Theme Results

Congratulations to Okitasan for winning week five’s photo theme “Slumber” with his entry “Sleepy Ed” - shown to the right.  2nd place went to Angelwing for “Eternal Sleep” and 3rd place to PikminLink for “Innocence”. This week’s theme, “Cheat” is now posted and voting is enabled in the forums.

  Week 4 Photo Theme Results

Congratulations to Suguishi for winning our fourth weekly photo theme “The End” with her entry titled “Peractio Universitas Oraculum” 2nd place went to Mitylene for “I just didn’t want to lose anymore...” and 3rd place to Chibi_Misao1 for “How Kagome really feels”. This week’s theme, Slumber” is now posted and voting is enabled in the forums.

  Big Apple Con Announces Guest List Preview

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  Week 3 Photo Theme Results

Congratulations to Jaina Solo for winning our third weekly photo theme “Concentration” with her entry titled “Prepare an Ambulance.” 2nd place went to ANoM for “All For Me” and 3rd place to Angelwing for “Wishful Thoughts”. This week’s theme, “The End” is now posted and voting is enabled in the forums.

  Yaoi-Con Dates Announced

Yaoi-Con has announced its dates and location for 2005 - October 28-30 at the Westin San Francisco Airport hotel in California.  The full press release is linked below.

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  Week 2 Photo Theme Results

Congratulations to Mitylene for winning our second weekly photo theme “Self-Portrait”.  Her entry was titled “Studying, Costuming, and Fighting Hard Everday!”, and is shown linked to the right.  2nd place went to Godly for “Portrait of a Madman” and 3rd place to xfallenangelx for “Purple Fairy”. This week’s theme, “Concentration” is now posted and voting is enabled in the forums.

  Week 1 Photo Theme Results

Congratulations to YukitoLeonheart for winning our first weekly photo theme “Red and White” with his entry “Target Practice”, shown linked to the right.  2nd place went to Eron Rauch for “Away Above” and 3rd place to Mitylene for “White Chi”. This week’s theme, “Self-Portrait” is now posted and voting is enabled in the forums.

  Heading to AniZona

We’re off for AniZona - please remember to stop by our sponsored panels Friday evening! (4pm Cosplay Q&A with Yaya Han, Tristen Citrine and Adella, and 5pm Anime Musicals with Tristen Citrine).  I watched Tristen’s anime musicals panel last night and it’s full of some interesting stuff, especially if you’re into Sailor Moon, Sakura Taisen and Takurazuka!

I will be there doing photos all weekend so be sure to grab me if you want a few pictures taken.  I’m not doing any scheduled shoots at the con, so I should be available most of the time.

  Wasabi Animusical to Premiere at JACON 2005 Convention

ORLANDO, FL, MARCH 21, 2005:  Wasabi Anime is producing a one time presentation of the Wasabi Animusical – an amalgamation of anime, manga, video games, “cosplay,” music videos, dancing, comedy, and Broadway show tunes. 

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  Cosplay.com Sponsors Anime Boston Masquerade

What better way to be awarded for cosplay than to receive gift certificates toward cosplay items as a prize?

Cosplay.com has donated a giant stack of gift certificates to Anime Boston for use as awards for their cosplay contests.  These gift certificates are redeemable in the Cosplay.com Store for anything we carry, including our popular wig section, photo prints, anime merchandise and more. Good luck to everyone taking part in the costume contests at Anime Boston!

  Cosplay Magazines in the Store

We currently have a very limited supply of the following magazines: Cosmode 004, Cosmode 006, Cosmode 007, Cosplex 1, Kera 74 and Rococo 1. We will add more in the future. http://store.cosplay.com/home.php?cat=6

  Cosplay.com Sponsored Panels at Anizona

The schedule for our two sponsored panels is as follows:

Friday 4pm: Cosplay Q&A Session with Tristen Citrine, Adella and Yaya Han - Come to a general cosplay Q&A session with three accomplished cosplayers.

Friday 5pm: Anime Musicals with Tristen Citrine - Did you know some of the world’s most popular anime series have been turned into Broadway style musicals? This panel will be a brief overview of just a few of the titles that have been turned into stage productions and what it is like to see them live. Also featured will be some rare footage of the all-female Takarazuka revue company; the group who jump-started this genre with their production of the Rose of Versailles.

AniZona is taking place on March 25-27 in Phoenix, Arizona.

  JACON 2005 Announces New and Exciting Cosplay Events

JACON has sent us a press release detailing some of their cosplay events for this year, including their costume and cosplay contests and a couple of interestingly themed cosplay events.  Please read the full announcement on the next page.

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