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PRESS RELEASE: WasabiCon Returns to Jacksonville, Florida

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MEDIA CONTACT:
Danielle Garbett, WasabiCon 2021 Event Coordinator
(407) 536-9272
[email protected] 

WASABICON, NORTHEAST FLORIDA’S LARGEST POP CULTURE EVENT, RETURNS!
The cosplay, anime, and gaming convention returns to the Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center with its first in-person event in Jacksonville, Florida since 2019.

(JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA. October 8, 2021) WasabiCon is a two-day pop culture convention for fans of Asian pop culture, cosplay, and gaming. The event, its ninth in Jacksonville, Florida, will take place at the Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center and will feature celebrity guests, video games, tabletop gaming, a car show, food trucks, and over 200 exhibitors.

This year’s media guests include English voice actors Josh Grelle (Tokoyami from My Hero Academia), Monica Rial (Froppy from My Hero Academia), Mark Whitten (Rengoku from Demon Slayer), and Zach Aguilar (Tanjiro from Demon Slayer). The Demon Slayer: Mugen Train movie, released earlier this year, holds the record for the largest opening for a foreign film in the United States and is the highest grossing anime film of all time and features the voices of both Mark Whitten and Zach Aguilar as primary characters.

Tickets are $35 for Saturday, $30 for Sunday, or $50 for the weekend. You can purchase admission in advance on the WasabiCon website (WasabiCon.com/jax/tickets/) or at the door each day. Parking is $5 each day for all attendees. Programming begins at 10:00 AM each day and concludes at 11:00 PM on Saturday and 7:00 PM on Sunday.

Masks are required for all WasabiCon attendees (ages 2 and up) regardless of vaccination status. An approved mask is required to be worn covering the nose and mouth while indoors except when eating and drinking while stationary. Details regarding this policy can be found online at WasabiCon.com/jax/covid

For other information regarding the convention including an event schedule, programming details, and more, please visit WasabiCon.com/jax

ABOUT GREEN MUSTARD ENTERTAINMENT. Green Mustard Entertainment started as a Japanese animation fan club called Wasabi Anime® in 2001 which later evolved into a media and event company in 2010. Today they offer services that cater to the consumer-focused media event market. This includes event design, implementation, and consulting in both the operations and entertainment space. GreenMustard.com

PRESS KIT. http://bit.ly/WJAX2021presskit 

Zach Aguilar

INDUSTRY GUEST: Voice Actor – Zach Aguilar

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Zach Aguilar is an American voice actor who works for Bang Zoom! Entertainment and is well known for voicing a variety of anime and video game characters. He’s voiced Slaine Troyard in Aldnoah.Zero, Genos in One Punch Man, Sieg in Fate/Apocrypha, Koichi Hirose in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable and Tanjiro Kamado in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. Zach provided the English voice of Tanjiro most recently in 2021’s Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train which is now the top-grossing anime film of all time in Japan!

Along with voice acting, Zach is very active with streaming on Twitch and YouTube, so be sure to check out his content online.

Monica Rial

INDUSTRY GUEST: Voice Actress – Monica Rial

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Monica Rial has been working in the anime industry for 20 years and she is currently listed as the most prolific anime voice actor in the USA. She is best known for her work as Bulma in the Dragon Ball franchise but she has lent her voice to over 500 anime including: Black Butler, Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card, Deadman Wonderland, Fairy Tail, Hello Kitty, Michiko & Hatchin, My Hero Academia, One Piece, Ouran Host Club, Panty and Stocking, Saga of Tanya the Evil, Soul Eater, Yuri!!! on Ice, and many more. She’s also appeared in Aqua Teen Hunger Force, RWBY, and several video games including Tales of Berseria, Fire Emblem Echoes, Ms. ‘Splosion Man, the Angry Birds series, Monster Tale, Tribes Ascend, Smite, Borderlands 2, Borderlands the Pre-Sequel, Dungeon Boss, and Orcs Must Die!

$30 for an Autograph
$30 for Photos/Selfies
$50 for a Combo

WasabiCon Online News

WasabiCon Postponed until 2021. WasabiCon Online Coming!

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At WasabiCon, we always use the phrase “Fandom is Family” when referring to how we feel about our attendees, guests, and vendors every year. This is especially true during these trying times that we are all experiencing. After discussing options with our partners at the Prime Osborn Convention Center, we have decided to delay WasabiCon until next year. Green Mustard Entertainment would like to extend our sincerest appreciation to JaxEvents and the team at the POCC for their flexibility and help for making this happen. The health and safety of any and everyone who is a part of WasabiCon is of the utmost importance to us, and we cannot in good conscience host our annual gathering when doing so could potentially threaten their health and wellbeing.

WasabiCon 2021 will take place October 16-17, 2021 at the Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center in Jacksonville, Florida.

So what’s next?

ARTISTS AND VENDORS

Since both of these areas were sold out for 2020, we are offering the option to forward your exhibitor space to the new dates in 2021. If this is not something that you feel is financially feasible for you at this time, we are more than happy to offer a refund. All refund requests must be received no later than August 31, 2020. At that point any remaining artists/vendors will be automatically forwarded to 2021. Information for processing refunds will be sent directly via Eventbrite next week.

ATTENDEES

Attendees who purchased tickets have two options to choose from. 

  • FORWARD TO 2021. If you’ve already purchased your badge for WasabiCon 2020 and are willing to roll it into next year, this will help us keep WasabiCon’s operation sustainable during these unprecedented times and come back better than ever in 2021. If you’d like to pursue this option, you don’t have to do a thing. Your 2020 badge will automatically convert to 2021. Additionally, as a thank you, we will ship you a WasabiCon Online badge along with our new WasabiCon Online (2020) pin, a random bonus pin, and a decal to show our appreciation this fall. 
  • REFUND. If you would like a refund for your badge, you will need to let us know before August 31, 2020. Information for processing refunds will be sent directly via Eventbrite next week.

HOTELS

If you have made a reservation at any of our host hotels for WasabiCon 2020, you will need to contact them directly to cancel your reservation. 

  • If you have a reservation at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Jacksonville Riverfront, please contact them directly at (904) 398-8800.
  • If you have a reservation at the Omni Jacksonville Hotel, please contact them directly at (904) 355-6664.

WASABICON ONLINE

During the original weekend of WasabiCon (October 3-4, 2020) plans are already underway for a free online celebration of fandom in Jacksonville, Florida featuring live and recorded programming. We will be releasing more details in the coming weeks, but for now:

Once again we would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to our fans, partners, and the City of Jacksonville for their continued support as we all get through this together with the hopes of meeting up again next year.