Sac-Anime

Sac-Anime
Status Active
Genre Anime, Manga, Japanese culture[1]
Venue Sacramento Convention Center
Location(s) Sacramento, California
Country United States
Inaugurated 2004
Attendance 10,132 in Winter 2014[2]
Filing status Sole proprietorship[3]
Website
http://www.sacconventions.com/

Sac-Anime is a semi-annual three day anime convention held at the Sacramento Convention Center in Sacramento, California. The convention is the sister conventions to the Sacramento Comic, Toy and Anime Show (Sac-Con) and Bak-Anime.

Programming

Sac-Anime typically features an animated music video contest, art contests, artists alley, card-game tournaments, console gaming, cosplay chess, costume contests, dealers room, fashion show, karaoke, maid cafe, masquerade, music performances, panels, Q&A sessions, rave, swap meet, video games, and workshops.[1][4][5][6]

History

Sac-Anime began as an extension of the quarterly Sacramento Comic, Toy and Anime Show (Sac-Con).[4] The convention was originally known as the Sacramento Anime & Manga Show and became an semi-annual event in 2005.[7] Due to the summer conventions growth, it moved to the Sacramento Convention Center in 2013.[5] The Winter 2013 show was also moved to the Sacramento Convention Center.[8] The Summer 2013 event shared the Sacramento Convention Center with the Sacramento Greek Festival, and with the convention badge attendees could enter festival for free.[9] The convention expanded into additional space in the Sacramento Convention Center, along with holding some events in the Sheraton Grand Sacramento Hotel. The Winter 2014 convention continued to utilize space in the Sheraton Grand.[10] A marriage proposal occurred during the costume contest. Sac-Anime Winter 2016 was the first year they used all exhibit halls at the Sacramento Convention Center.[11]

Event History

Dates Location Atten. Guests
July 31 - August 1, 2004 Sunrise Mall
Citrus Heights, California		 Kyle Hoyt and Andrew Wong.[12]
February 12, 2005[7] Scottish Rite Center
Sacramento, California		1,000
July 30–31, 2005 Sunrise Mall
Citrus Heights, California		 Katie Bair, Ron Lim, Steve Oliff, and Ben Seto.[13]
January 14, 2006[14] Scottish Rite Center
Sacramento, California
July 15, 2006 Scottish Rite Center
Sacramento, California		2,000 Akai SKY, Artbeat, Katie Bair, Jodon Bellofatto, Neil Kaplan, Ron Lim, Austin Osueke, Trina Robbins, and David Stanworth.[15]
January 13–14, 2007 Scottish Rite Center
Sacramento, California		 Artbeat, Katie Bair, Jodon Bellofatto, Che Gilson, Ron Lim, Yoko Molotov, Austin Osueke, Spike Spencer, Amanda Tomasch, and {mid:night}.[16]
July 13–15, 2007[17] Red Lion Hotel Sacramento
Sacramento, California		 Akai SKY, Artbeat, Katie Bair, Crispin Freeman, Lisa Furukawa, Chris Hazelton, Yishan Li, Brandon McKinney, Yoko Molotov, Chris Patton, PLID, Rusika, Patrick Seitz, Spike Spencer, Amanda Tomasch, Voltaire, Brent Wooley, and {mid:night}.[18]
January 11–13, 2008 Scottish Rite Center
Sacramento, California		 Laura Bailey, Darrel Guilbeau, Metal Phyzix, Vic Mignogna, Ben Roman, The Slants, and Travis Willingham.[19]
August 29–31, 2008 Scottish Rite Center[20]
Sacramento, California		 Katie Bair, Jodon Bellofatto, Crispin Freeman, Che Gilson, Neil Kaplan, Liam O'Brien, Sam Riegel, and Spike Spencer.[21]
January 9–11, 2009 Scottish Rite Center
Sacramento, California		 Akai SKY, Laura Bailey, Katie Bair, Jodon Bellofatto, Lisa Furukawa, Tom Kane, Vic Mignogna, Ben Roman, Chris Sarandon, Travis Willingham, and {mid:night}.[22]
August 28–30, 2009 Radisson Hotel
Sacramento, California		 Katie Bair, Jodon Bellofatto, Alyson Court, Che Gilson, Brandon McKinney, Paul Mercier, Liam O'Brien, August Ragone, Roger Craig Smith, and Tanuki Suit Riot.[23]
January 8–10, 2010 Radisson Hotel
Sacramento, California		 Laura Bailey, Katie Bair, Jodon Bellofatto, Brandon McKinney, Vic Mignogna, Chris Sarandon, The Slants, and Travis Willingham.[24]
September 3–5, 2010 Radisson Hotel
Sacramento, California		 Katie Bair, Jodon Bellofatto, Steven Blum, Rebecca Forstadt, Ali Hillis, Mari Iijima, Billy Martinez, Liam O'Brien, Phoenix Ash,[25] and Steve Yun.[26]
January 7–9, 2011 Radisson Hotel
Sacramento, California		 Karan Ashley, Johnny Yong Bosch, Steve Cardenas, Karen Dyer, Yaya Han, Walter E. Jones, Kairu, Ken Lally, Roger Craig Smith, Sonny Strait, and Catherine Sutherland.[27]
September 2–4, 2011 Radisson Hotel
Sacramento, California		4,800[4] Akai SKY, Johnny Yong Bosch, James C. Burns, Eyeshine, Yuri Lowenthal, Billy Martinez, Liam O'Brien, Tara Platt, Sam Riegel, and The Slants.[28]
January 13–15, 2012 Woodlake Hotel (Formerly Radisson)[5]
Sacramento, California		5000+
(est)[5]		 Troy Baker, Quinton Flynn, Ali Hillis, Kazha, Vic Mignogna, Tara Strong, and Mark Tatulli.[29]
August 31-September 2, 2012 Woodlake Hotel
Sacramento, California		7,700[8] Akai SKY, Laura Bailey, Johnny Yong Bosch, Eyeshine, Jennifer Hale, Billy Martinez, Michelle Ruff, Roger Craig Smith, Team LoveHate, and Travis Willingham.[30]
January 4–6, 2013 Sacramento Convention Center
Sacramento, California		 Mai Aizawa, Kevin Conroy, Grey DeLisle, Maile Flanagan, Toshio Furukawa, Todd Haberkorn, Kyle Hebert, Kazha, Cyril Lumboy, Tsuyoshi Nonaka, Liam O'Brien, Tony Oliver, Raj Ramayya, and Hynden Walch.[31]
August 30-September 1, 2013 Sacramento Convention Center
Sacramento, California		9,000
(est)		 Akai SKY, Troy Baker, Johnny Yong Bosch, Hector David, Jr., Najee De-Tiege, Eyeshine, Alex Heartman, Ashley Johnson, Cherami Leigh, Charles Martinet, Billy Martinez, Tsuyoshi Nonaka, Nolan North, Bryce Papenbrook, Raj Ramayya, Sumi Shimamoto, J. Michael Tatum, and Dan Woren.[32]
January 3-5, 2014 Sacramento Convention Center
Sacramento, California		10,132[2] Dante Basco, Steven Blum, Ashly Burch, Svetlana Chmakova, Steve Downes, Kazha, Charles Martinet, Kenta Maruyama, Adam May, Vic Mignogna, Nylon Pink, Tony Oliver, Brina Palencia, Raj Ramayya, Jeremy Shada, Jennifer Lee Taylor, Bruce Thomas, and Janet Varney.[2]
August 29-31, 2014 Sacramento Convention Center
Sacramento, California		 Johnny Yong Bosch, Rodger Bumpass, Christine Marie Cabanos, Eyeshine, Jason Faunt, Josh Grelle, Adrian Hough, Melissa Hutchison, Yuri Lowenthal, Billy Martinez, Brandon Jay McLaren, Danielle McRae, Liam O'Brien, Tony Oliver, Tara Platt, Sam Riegel, Mark Sheppard, The Slants, Roger Craig Smith, Greg Snegoff, J. Michael Tatum, Cristina Vee, Noah Watts, Steve Yun,[33] Tiio Horn, Camilla Luddington, and Elias Toufexis.[34]
January 2-4, 2015 Sacramento Convention Center
Sacramento, California		 Linda Ballantyne, Ashly Burch, Dameon Clarke, Peter Cullen, John DiMaggio, Richard Epcar, Tony Fleecs, Caitlin Glass, Barbara Goodson, Chris Gore, Katie Griffin, Todd Haberkorn, Yaya Han, Kyle Hebert, Lauren Landa, Toshio Maeda, Charles Martinet, Adam May, Erica Mendez, Matthew Mercer, Amanda Celine Miller, Cassandra Lee Morris, Trina Nishimura, Brina Palencia, Bryce Papenbrook, Toby Proctor, Revolution Boi, Susan Roman, Ellyn Stern, David Vincent, Lisle Wilkerson, Mamoru Yokota,[35] Kerrigan Mahan,[36] and Alan Lee.[37]
September 4-6, 2015 Sacramento Convention Center
Sacramento, California		17,000[3] Zach Aguilar, Karan Ashley, Laura Bailey, Johnny Yong Bosch, Jim Cummings, John DiMaggio, Steve Downes, Eyeshine, David Faustino, David J. Fielding, Seychelle Gabriel, Erika Harlacher, Walter E. Jones, Maurice LaMarche, Erica Lindbeck, Toshio Maeda, Liam O'Brien, Austin St. John, Jennifer Lee Taylor, Lauren Tom, Janet Varney, Hynden Walch, Billy West, Travis Willingham, Wally Wingert,[38] Andrew Gray, Ciara Hanna, Cameron Jebo, John Mark Loudermilk, Christina Masterson, Max Mittelman, and Azim Rizk.[39]
January 1-3, 2016 Sacramento Convention Center
Sheraton Grand Hotel[40]
Sacramento, California		12,000[3] Irene Bedard, Ashly Burch, Zach Callison, Steve Cardenas, Dameon Clarke, Kevin Eastman, David Eddings, Crispin Freeman, Todd Haberkorn, Doug Jones, Lauren Landa, Cherami Leigh, Toshio Maeda, Charles Martinet, David Matranga, Adam May, Trina Nishimura, Chris Sarandon, and Veronica Taylor.[41]
September 2-4, 2016 Sacramento Convention Center
Sacramento Memorial Auditorium[42]
Sacramento, California		 Laura Bailey, Dante Basco, Steven Blum, Nakia Burrise, John DiMaggio, Courtnee Draper, Blake Anthony Foster, Linda Larkin, Wendee Lee, Toshio Maeda, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, Liam O'Brien, Brina Palencia, Sam Riegel, Hilary Shepard, Roger Craig Smith, Catherine Sutherland, J. Michael Tatum, Roger Velasco, Selwyn Jaydon Ward, and Travis Willingham.[43]

Bak-Anime

Main article: Bak-Anime

Bak-Anime is an annual one- or two-day anime convention held at the Bakersfield Marriott at the Convention Center in Bakersfield, California by the staff of Sac-Anime.[44] The convention began due to the requests of fans from the Bakersfield Comic Con.[45]

SacAnime Gives Back!

SacAnime Gives Back! is a one-day charity anime convention held at the McClellan Conference Center in McClellan Park, California.

Event history

Dates Location Atten. Guests
May 15, 2016 McClellan Conference Center
McClellan Park, California		 Ali Hillis and Cherami Leigh.[46]

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