OTAKON 2006 in Baltimore

Otakon 2006 program in pdf. http://www.otakon.com/pdf/schedule-2006.pdf

Otakon 2006 website http://www.otakon.com/default2.asp

There will be Otakon 2006 (a conference for anime fans in the US) held in Baltimore from Aug 4th to Aug 6th. I wanted to take a look what it was but I'm not so enthusiastic to pay $60 to go there for three days.

Interesting guests include Yoshiki (singer from Japanese rock group "X") and Yuuki Nobuteru(an illustrator and animator, "Escaflowne" "X" "Five star stories"). Also Karaoke (hopefully anime song karaoke) venue will be open for many anime fans for the whole day and anime product dealers will present their product.

Those anime fan conferences are very popular nowadays in Korea and Japan (birthplace of anime fan conventions, I think) but I've never seen one in north America until I hear about otakon from Valardur. I might convince Valardur to come with me to Baltimore on Saturday and see if we could get in without fully registering the conference.