After The Year that wasn't, the year that shall not be named, the year of the Apocal... you get what we're saying... SaikouCon is back for its true eighth year. How does that song go? Better, harder, faster, stronger. The year off has given the SaikouSquad time to think up new activities, improve existing events, and continue to prioritize safety and health in the post Covid-19 world. SaikouCon is still a big party, but now we're a Post Apocalypse Party and together with you we are going to celebrate life and the human will to overcome adversity, no matter how challenging that adversity is. Celebrate at Saikoucon 2021 with fun, some learning, music, cosplay, and the comradery that can only be found at fan conventions. Let's rebuild the in-person con scene together and make it better than it ever was before!

We are happy to be back, and ready to roll out a better show than 2020 could have ever been. We hope you're excited too! Open now is our annual Cyber Monday BOGO sale on General Admission tickets to the show, we are sorry we're starting at 8 PM on Cyber Monday, but we just got the contract with Mountain Laurel Resort finalized earlier today after a comedy of errors that only 2020 could deliver... the first few times the resort sent our contract they disappeared in the cyber ether, and then for the past few months our email was shut down again as spam. After a lengthy battle to get [email protected] (our web host hosts the email through Yahoo) reinstated as a legitimate business email and not a spam bot, we were able to get the rental contract with the resort sorted today. To celebrate, and to make up for starting the ticket so late in the day, we are extending the Cyber Monday BOGO into a Cyber Week BOGO, all General Admission SaikouCon 2021 badges will be buy one get free until Friday, December 4, 2020 at 12 AM (the 12 AM going into Saturday, December 5 to be precise)! Remember, the extra ticket will not be seen in your Shopping Cart at check out, PayPal always freaks out when we try to set it up that way for our two annual BOGO sales, but your Registration Confirmation message that you receive 24-72 hours after purchase (the confirmation messages will never be automated, they always come direct from our con chair, only the e-receipt from PayPal itself is automated), will have free free tickets listed. Visit www.saikoucon.com/registration.html for all the info and to pre-registration for SaikouCon 2021!

Now, with us being labeled spam and having our messaging privileges suspended for nearly three months, it is going to take us a few days to get caught up with messages we couldn't access as well as sending out updated Registration Confirmation messages for everyone that bought tickets for 2020 and are getting their tickets rolled over to SaikouCon 2021 and then complimentary tickets to SaikouCon 2022 to make up for having postpone so close to our planned showtime for 2020. Don't worry, your updated messages are coming this week, we're just limiting how many messages with identical subject lines we're sending in a day to about 20 so we don't get flagged as spam again now that registration for 2021 is open. Merchants you will be receiving your updated Registration emails this week as well for your roll over to 2021 and complimentary 2022 merchant registrations. As stated when we were forced to postpone 2020, we do not have dates for 2022 yet, for attendees or merchants, you will receive your 2022 messages once we have our 2022 contract and dates in place following SaikouCon 2021.

All Our Best, The SaikouSquad

I loved getting the chance to cosplay as Lucifer again the other weekend! SaikouCon was the perfect opportunity to reconnect with some old friends and bring back cosplays I love wearing.

the awesome @kirumicore !!!! so nice n great cosplay!!!!

pants on his faceeeee

smile, sweet, sister, sadistic, surprise, service!! ☆

So at SaikouCon this weekend there was free breakfast in the con hotel (which was great bc they had a waffle machine and everything.) I head down to the breakfast area with one of my friends and we make ourselves a waffle and start eating. There was this person sitting right next to us who also had a waffle, but instead of putting the syrup on top of his food or dipping pieces of the waffle into it he straight up start drinking the syrup out of a plastic cup after he took a bite of waffle.

(I saw the cup before he started eating and it was easily halfway filled with syrup, too.)

I didn’t see the first time when he drank the syrup, but I heard the other people at his table react to it, so I quickly turned around and asked him to do it again. He was hesitant to do it again since the syrup was so sugary, so he decided to chomp on an entire little packet of butter instead. (He basically inhaled the whole thing in a matter of seconds.) Myself and my friend asked him to please drink the cup of syrup again since we didn’t see it the first time and eventually he agreed.

He filled up the cup halfway with syrup and started chugging it. It was probably the best thing I saw all of SaikouCon weekend. After all was said and done he ended up signing a napkin with “Syrup Man” and “Butter Girl”, since those were the two superhero names we had given him for doing such a feat. I may not have seen My Hero Academia yet, so please forgive me for saying this if I’m out of line, but I feel like Syrup Man/Butter Girl would make a great hero. They are the hero we truly deserve.

The photo used for this post was the autograph that they left before they headed out to the convention. Thank you for an unforgettable con experience, Syrup Man and Butter Girl.

My sis @kxmo_med got 2nd place on a drawing contest at #saikou #saikoucon! (Yeah, she's cosplaying as #togahimiko, check her out here: @kxmo_cos) #cosplay #drawingcontest #secondplace #chihiro #anime #convention (at City Mall (Guayaquil - Ecuador)) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUBBuIbru1Y/?utm_medium=tumblr

#saikoucon2018 was a fun day and we managed to finally try out our full #finalfantasycosplay group! Thanks to @knightshade94 for the shots! Lulu: @fragmentedfable Auron: @phreshxbear #finalfantasy10cosplay #ffx #ffxcosplay #yunasummoner #yunacosplay #yunacosplayer #yunasummonercosplay #lulu #lulucosplay #auron #auroncosplay #squareenix #saikoucon #ardawigs #videogamecosplay #cosplayersofinstagram #handmadeprops #cosplaygirl #videogame #saturday #photography #cosplayphotography #throwback #classicgame #finalfantasy #groupcosplay (at SaikouCon)

SaikouCon Cancels 2021 Event and All Future Events

SaikouCon Cancels 2021 Event and All Future Events

Michael Meade, former con chair for the SaikouCon event, has announced that the 2021 event is canceled. The event was originally scheduled for August 20-22, 2021 at the Mountain Laurel Resort & Spa in White Haven, Pennsylvania. Meade explained that the convention did “not have enough programming to move forward.” Meade also stated that due to various difficulties that “have made our operations…

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I over slept today! How important is sleep to you? Scale 1-10 haha . . @officialsaikoucon I had a blast this year!!! The staff, the attendees and the vibe reminded me of my first con (just a whole lot bigger) The magic that happens when you see people just celebrating their passions for fun. See you all next year ♡♡♡ Thanks for having me #saikoucon . . Wearing : #dollskill @dollskill #currentmoodclothing @currentmoodclothing . . . #caution #ootd #dailyfashion #daily #messyhair #motd #grungestyle #grungemakeup #grunge #redlips #fishnet #tattoomodel #tattoos #tatt

Sorry I didn't get the four month countdown banner posted on social media on the seventh; that was grocery shopping day and it took all day, a lot of panic buying around SaikouHomebase again... Also, we didn't get it posted back on April 3 due to some issues with the dev end of the website and then forgot across our social media profiles, but in light of the Covid-19 pandemic and how almost everyone's income has been affected by the quarantines across the US, we will not be instituting the 20% price jump on Pre-Registration General Admission Badges to attend SaikouCon 2020 that is usually set four months out from our showtime. We know this isn't much of a help in these hard times, we wish it was more, but we still have to pay the venue rental fees and guest star appearance fees and transportation costs to be able to be continue moving the show forward this year, and unfortunately it doesn't look like there will be much, if any, emergency stimulas funding for our side of the entertainment industry in Pennsylvania unless your event produces revenue in the six figure arena.

As always, we hope you're all staying safe and healthy out there and we're all looking forward to seeing everyone at SaikouCon 2020!

Best, Mike Meade Con Chair

I really enjoyed stopping by SaikouCon the other weekend! I cosplayed as Yuno Gasai from Mirai Nikki during the Saturday of the con.

my blog is dying and it’s now a borzoi, jotakak, and cosplay blog lol

One piece charlotte katakuri knew pad are Finished my big sister becca help me #saikoucon #onepiecekatakuri #onepiece #anime #animecosplay

Finally got photos back of #LaPucelle from #HurDurrrPhotography! No luck in the #Saikoucon contest, but I’m still incredibly proud of her! There were a lot of build challenges with her, and I consider it a huge victory 💙 #magicalgirlraisingproject #magicalgirlraisingprojectcosplay #lapucellecosplay #mgrp #mgrpcosplay #mahoushoujoikuseikeikaku #cosplay #cosplaygirl #cosplayfemale

So was selling in the AA at Saikoucon this past weekend and it was a lot of fun and I was so happy to meet other voltron cosplayers! I love to cosplay Pidge and I finally had the chance to get some photos together with my sis at Matt!!