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Kawa Kon 2010 Pre-Registration OPEN!

You can now register either online or via mail for Kawa Kon 2010. You can pick up your badges at the convention starting Thursday, March 11 at 6:00 p.m. You can also pick them up any time during the convention weekend. Head on over to the Registration Page for details and prices!

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Location Open for Booking!

The Crowne Plaza Clayton is now open for you to book your room for Kawa Kon 2010. Read a little more about the beautiful home of Kawa Kon at on the Location Page.

An Easier-to-Remember Website: KKon.com!

Kawa Kon has yet ANOTHER new website to ad to the growing number of places you can go to get the same info as our homepage. Now all you have to remember is KKon.com! KKon.com will have the same information as kawakon.com, animestl.com, and animestlouis.com (we're keeping all of those, but we're just adding kkon.com to that). We're just doing it to make things easier on you when you're trying to remember how to spell "Kawa". :)

Masquerade Gallery Open for Purchases!

If you would like to buy the professional pictures taken by Mikhail Lynn Photography in the masquerade photography room, they are now for sale at our masquerade gallery microsite. Pictures will only be available for a limited time, so get yours today!

2010 Convention Dates!

I apologize for the fact that the dates changed a bit between what I announced as our tentative dates at the convention and what we're actually doing, but that's why they're called "tentative".

Our dates for next year are March 12-14, 2010, and we will be at the Crowne Plaza in Clayton. You will be able to book your room and pre-register by the end of May.

L & Light's Date Night Contest Winners Announced!

Thank you to everyone who entered!

Our winners are Nefey and Hekate from Cape Girardeau. The two of them won not only because they were willing to travel TWO HOURS just to see the movie with L and Light but they also wrote the most amusing entry - a list of 20 reasons why they should be picked to go see L: Change the World on Wednesday, including such gems as:

"we are super ninja"

and

"We are willing to eat chocolate *oh the torture*"

The entire touching piece ended with:

"So uhm, you knew this was coming...
*gets down on knees and begs*
I IMPLORE YOU! WE LOVE DEATH NOTE! And uhm, we're certainly not boring...X{D
No, far from that, I assure you.
I promise not to glomp you.
I will restrain myself.
Getting sued and whatnot isn't really my thing..."

Well, glomp away guys, because you won!

Again, the contest is sponsored by VIZ Media (the tickets) and Kawa Kon (the dinner). Excerpts of the winning entry are used with permission.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

I would like to thank every single person who attended and enjoyed Kawa Kon 2009! All of you made it a great success.

Here are some of the stats for the year: attendance - around 1000 (we gave out 1027 badges), volunteers and staff - 61, dealers and artists - 26, all guests made it (even Cam!), and we rocked the house with over 200 people entering the rave as it was beginning.

The Best in Show winners for the masquerade were "Nananananananana Batman".

Best of all, we're doing it again next year! Oh, yeah, and for all of you Boys' Love fans out there, we're doing Bishie Con this November at the Holiday Inn Southwest-Viking.

On April 25-26, join Mikhail and I at Cape Comic Con where we will be running anime and manga programming.

There are more events coming this summer and fall, including pre-Bishie Con parties at several Midwest conventions and cosplay raves featuring DJ L-Des and DJ Ataru from this year's Mech no Techno Rave.

Theme for 2010: Matsuri!

Although we haven't yet chosen the food to go with it, our 2010 Kawa Kon theme is Matsuri! "Matsuri" is Japanese for "festival", and what a festival it will be!

Kawa Kon 2010 will feature Japanese historical, cultural, and pop cultural events such as a "Sports Day" team contest, Bon Odori dancing, and karaoke. Hurry back for more information about our events for 2010!