This year's Uchi-con VIII is January 30th 2010!
The University of Chicago Japanese Animation Society welcomes Crispin Freeman, an American voice actor for Hellsing, Naruto, Eureka Seven, etc, will be speaking on Anime Mythology.
The convention will be held Saturday, January 30th from 11:00 am to 7:00pm in the University of Chicago's Harper building on 58th street and Ellis. Officers and volunteers need to arrive at 9:30 am for the preparations.
Uchi-con 2010 website is updated!
Events:
Crispin Freema's lecture on Anime Mythology 12-2pm
Super Smash Brothers and Halo tournament (starts @ 2pm): 1st and 2nd prizes; Systems will include an X-box 360, Wii, PS2, & PS3. Games provided guitar hero, super smash brothers, halo 3, meeleee, and much more.
Multiple Raffles
Miyazaki Screening Room: (in this order)
Princess Mononoke
Howl's Moving Castle
Ponyo
Spirited Away
Anime Screenings
Mecha/Shonen Room:
Vision of Escaflowne 1-2
Soul Eater 1-3
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood 2-3
Mobile Suit Gundum 00 1-2
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann 1-2
Sengoku Basara 1-2
Wolf's Rain 1-2
Pumpkin Scissors 1-2
Casshern Sins 1-2
Desert Punk 1-2
Speed Grapher 1-2
Shojo/Fantasy Room:
Mai-Hime 1-2
Voices of a Distant Star (OVA - 30 min)
SkipBeat 1-2
Ouran HS Host Club 1-2
Kobato 1-2
Seirei no Moribito 1-2
Toward the Terra 1-2
Guin Saga 1-2
Saiunkoku Monogatari 1-2
07 Ghost 1-2
Birdy the Mighty Decode 1-2
Horror/Misc Room:
Pandora Hearts 1-2
Ghost Hunt 1-3
Higurashi When they Cry 1-2
Shikabane Hime (Corpse Princess) 1-2
Heroic Age 1-2
Gankutsuou 1-2
Kekkaishi 1-2
DOGS 1-4 (15 min ea)
Getbackers 1-2
Fairy Tail 1-2
An Artists Alley open all day!
Cafe: ramen with a variety of topings, chinese buns, sushi, drinks: soda, tea, buble tea etc, cake, cookies, and more also open all day!
Game Room: Dungeons and Dragons, Magic, Mountain Witch RPG...
Panels: Gothic Lolita (3-4pm), Fanfiction (5-6pm), Fanart (11am-12pm), Manga (2-3pm), and Con 101 (4-5pm).
o_O !!!!!COME AND JOIN THE FUN!!!
HERE'S A MAP, STARS ARE WHERE YOU WANT TO BE, 58TH STREET & ELLIS:
FULL MAP
Visit the UChi-Con WEBSITE to see what happened last year.
Check out what the Maroon had to say about UChi-Con!
Information on conventions from previous years:
UChi-Con VII!
January 31st 2009.The event will be held in both Stuart and Harper Hall from noon til 8 pm. Hope to see you all there!
UChi-Con 2009 Speakers
[Dr. Susan Napier]
[Dr. Kinko Ito]
[Dr. Marc Steinberg]
See UChi-Con III
Panels
Gothic lolita
Con 101
Webcomics
Cosplay
Higarashi
Japanese and American Comic Books: A Symbiotic Relationship
Con Suite
Screening:
Mecha: Code Geass, Macross, Captain Tylor, Gundam(MS Gundam,
08th MS Team, Gundam Wing), Outlaw Star, Eva, Full Metal Panic
Shoujo: Mai-hime, Ranma ½, Full Moon, Nana, Vampire Knight,
Kanon, Tora Dora, Victorian Romance Emma.
Action: Trinity Blood, Read or Die, Chevalier d’Eon, Cowboy
Bebop, Wolf’s Rain, .Hack, Black Lagoon.
Weird: Excel Saga, Puni Puni Poemi, Lain, Genshiken, KARAS,
Ghost Town, Cosplay Complex, Dragon Half
Movies: Advent Children, Miyazaki, Cat Soup, Jin Roh,
Milennium Actress, Ghost in the Shell, Girl who leapt through
time, Stranger Sword
Video Game Room
Artist Alley and Webcomics Panel Dorama Room (Sponsored by J-Club)
See UChi-Con II
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