The link to buy the lifetime membership only has the second tier tickets available, so how do we buy the lifetime ones?

We’re sorry about that, they’ve now been relisted. We currently only have 2 lifetime membership badges left, so be sure to grab yours quick! You can snag them here on our eventbrite page!

We do also have the second-tier prices going for just a few more days, and then you’ll have to buy them at the door! We can’t wait to see you guys and ghouls there!

You can purchase the lifetime and annual memberships here.

We are setting up for an amazing year, and its time to get spooky with our deals as Jack and Jackie the Red Pandas get FESTIVE!

in case you haven’t been keeping up with our guest announcements for Akai.

A bit of pirate booty to continue our announcements with! Please welcome our next guest to the show, cosplayer Phil Mizuno. A newcomer to the cosplay scene in 2014, Phil is all about welcoming everyone to the cosplay community and encouraging newbies and veterans alike to do their best and cosplay what they love. Check him out on Facebook and social media! Give him a warm welcome from Nashville to Canada.

find him on facebook here and tumblr here! (you know you want to~)

SPECIAL PRESENTER ANNOUNCEMENT!!!

Gavin Fitch is the producer and star of Pymslap Panels, a convention based entertainment group founded in 2010. He has found great success with hit shows such as “Undead Tonight” and “The Pokechurch” and can be found at most Tennessee conventions bringing his brand of comedy to unsuspecting masses. Side effects of Pymslap Panels include but are not limited to: Smiling, Laughing, Aching sides, Mild Hysteria, Insomnia, Stroke or death. Please see your con chair for symptoms of laughter lasting more than two hours. 

Think panels. Think Pymslap.

Another special announcement! As we hail from music city, you guys weren't getting away without some good local tunes. We're happy to announce a special guest band! : NIGHT SABERS Remember when musician bios used to matter? Yea, we don't remember that time very well either. Did they ever really matter? Someone could have a great press kit, and the music could suck. Actually, the music sucked a lot of the time. Let's just cut to the chase. Night Sabers are a nerd pop band that varies in size and members show to show. With songs about everything from Adventure Time to anime and classic Nick shows things never have time to get boring. Music should be unpredictable, rules are meant to be broken, and pop music doesn't have to be horrible. Let's do all of these things together. Night Sabers are here to have a good time. Do you want to have a good time? Come to our show, and dance with us! Come to our show, and sing with us! Come to our show, and make an ever lasting memory with us! See you soon!

A super special video from our super special presenters Fairy Tail Podcast and OTP Manga!

There’s only 8 days left to preregister for Akaicon, Pandas!

You can buy your tickets here!

J-Rock fans! Don't miss this! Please help us welcome our first musical guest to the show, j-rock act Kazha, fronted by Kazuha Oda! Kazha is a rock band from Tokyo Japan. After their release of the first album "Overture", they've been touring North America,Korea,Japan and South America, and keep spreading their music to the world. Kazha released second studio album "Evolution"on Sep 7,2013. The band's sound incorporates heavy metal and acoustic elements. Their music combines the softness of a falling feather with the heaviness of a hurricane. Find more about Kazha on their official website and on their youtube page.

AkaiCon would like to present our final industry guest for 2015. Last but certainly not least, please welcome a long time actor and voice actor who has only been able to make a handful of appearances in our region - Scott McNeil. Scott McNeil is a Canadian actor and voice actor. He currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He has provided voices to many characters in animated shows, most notably ReBoot, Rattrap in Beast Wars, Storm Hawks, Piccolo in Dragon Ball Z, Duo Maxwell in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Koga in Inuyasha, Ranma ½, Hoenheim in Fullmetal Alchemist, and Wolverine in X-Men: Evolution. He has done live action work as well, appearing as a villain on this 2015 season of the Flash, Supernatural, and dozens of others.

Lending his voice to countless characters in animation, feature films, video game, commercials, apps and more, Jason Marsden has been working full force in the entertainment biz since he was 12. In the 90s you might have seen him on such shows as “Boy Meets World”, “Full House”, and “Step by Step”. 

Transitioning to voice over, Jason can be heard most notably as Max, Goofy’s son in “A Goofy Movie” and “Extremely Goofy Movie”! He played Haku, the mysterious boy/dragon in Hayo Miyazaki’s, Academy Award Winning, “Spirited Away”. 

He’s voiced such popular characters as Chester in “Fairly Odd Parents”, Impulse in “Young Justice”, reporter, Snapper Carr in “Justice League”, Duke in “GI JOE: Renegades”, as well as a few well-known felines: Kovu in “Lion King 2”, Binx in “Hocus Pocus”, and Nermal in “Garfield”. Video Game fans will recognize Jason as the title role in the “Tak” franchise, Boone from “Fallout: New Vegas”, and Noel Kriess in “Final Fantasy 13.2! 

Currently Marsden can be heard on “Avatar: Legend of Korra”, “Transformers: Rescue Bots”, “MAD”, “Kaijudo”, “Beware the Batman”, “Monsters U”, in select “DC Nation” shorts, and much more!

A bit of pirate booty to continue our announcements with! Please welcome our next guest to the show, cosplayer Phil Mizuno. A newcomer to the cosplay scene in 2014, Phil is all about welcoming everyone to the cosplay community and encouraging newbies and veterans alike to do their best and cosplay what they love. Check him out on Facebook and social media! Give him a warm welcome from Nashville to Canada.

find him on facebook here and tumblr here! (you know you want to~)

More news to roll out peeps, please welcome another guest back to our show, Marisha Ray who has now earned a starring role in the Persona franchise as Margaret in Persona Q : Shadow of the Labyrinth, and Persona 4 Arena : Ultimax. MARISHA RAY is an Actor, Host, Writer, Producer, and all-around Geek Girl based out of Los Angeles, CA. You can see her work on such shows as Batgirl: Spoiled (Batgirl/ Stephanie Brown), Super Power Beat Down (Host), Proxy: A Slenderman Story (Jess), The Grind (Host), Written By a Kid (Sally McGreese) and many other web projects. At a young age, Marisha had an itch for performing and got her start in theater on the east coast performing throughout New York, Chicago, and Orlando. She took her education, unlike most other things, very seriously, training at the American Academy of the Dramatic Arts, Point Park University Conservatory of Performing Arts, Governors School for the Arts, and LA Connection Comedy Theater. Since arriving in Los Angeles in 2008, Marisha has worked with such networks as Spike TV, Halmark Channel, and MTV. Marisha has been clutching a game controller nearly constantly since the age of 3, and her love for video gaming very much colors her comedy and writing career.

find her on facebook here!

Do you wanna host a game show? That's what we asked our next featured programming guest - Greggo's Game Shows ! If you've ever imagined how fun and hilariously funny it might be to share a stage with some of your favorite voice actors and watch them take stabs in the dark at their own anime trivia, you'll get your chance at AkaiCon 3. Greggo has been producing game shows for anime conventions across North America since 1999! Known for his parodies of some of the more famous game shows in television history (including Match Game, Press Your Luck, Pyramid and The Price is Right), Greggo has also developed original shows and will always be focused on bringing entertaining and interactive fun wherever he goes!

find him on facebook here!

If you've ever wanted to learn Japanese, this is your guy to talk to. Please welcome up and coming mangaka and language enthusiast Steven D'Onofrio. The native New Yorker is passionate about the intersection of art, culture and entertainment. He attended university in Tokyo from 2010 to 2012. At 24, he is fluent in three Asian languages (Japanese, Mandarin Chinese and Korean). Steven is currently prepared to release his debut manga, “SAMURAI EIKO” in association with Dark Horse Comics. Throughout 2014, Steven went on his North America tour “Welcome to Planet KuNu” visiting various conventions and events teaching Japanese on stage using his charisma and comedic charm. He is now preparing to go on his 2015 tour in Japan. Steven has a YouTube channel where he uploads requested art and teaches Japanese. He plans to bring the channel back full-force in January 2015 when he returns to Tokyo.

Be friends with Steven:

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Please welcome Danielle McRae,- You've probably taken a round or two on Summoner's Rift with her! Danielle McRae is a voice over actress residing in Los Angeles, California. Being a huge fan of video games and anime. Her passion has led her to pursue a voice acting career in the industry. Some of her most notable credits have been in League of Legends as "Karma the Enlightened One", World of Warcraft: Cataclysm as "Hagara the Stormbinder", and "Painwheel" in the Popular 2D fighting game, Skullgirls Encore.

You can find her on facebook here!

We're not done yet, gamers! If PC isn't quite your thing, we're sure you've enjoyed several titles that our next industry guest has starred in! Please welcome Lauren Landa, the Los-Angeles based actress whom has done frequent work for FUNimation entertainment. She is best known as Kasumi in Dead or Alive 5; the sexy Litchi Faye-Ling in BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, Continuum Shift, Continuum Shift Extend, and Chrono Phantasma, Yan Leixia in Soulcalibur V; Little Queen in Tales of Graces, the adorable zombie Squigly in Skullgirls; Leia in Tales of Xillia; Chuubo Sonken in Ikki Tousen: Great Guardians. You'll also hear her behind the microphone as Kyoko Sakura in Madoka Magica, and on the current Toonami line-up as Annie Leonhart in Attack on Titan.