If you are interested in being a part of Motaku 2010, join us for our first staff meeting, Saturday, February 27th at 1PM.
Please email admin@motaku.org for more info.

As we promised, we donated $1 per attendee to the Japanese Sister City Commission of Independence.  In this photo, Motaku Industry Relations Chair, Matt Weston, presents the $435 check to Sister City President Jeannae Brown.  How much will we donate in 2010?  Register now to help it be more.

Also, be sure to check out the Japanese Sister City Commission’s Cherry Blossom Festival, April 11th in Independence, Missouri(more on this coming soon).

Due to an upgrade mishap, the forums were unfortunately deleted here a while back, as we’re sure you noticed. Unfortunately we had no backup of them, so they are gone gone, and everyone needs to re-register for the forums. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yeah, We know we said we would announce this a while back, but with the holidays came eggnog, pumpkinnog, and pocky.

So, FINALLY, we would like to announce the winner of the feedback free badge raffle:

JORDAN LEWIS

Badge # 399

CONGRATULATIONS!  Please email admin@motaku.org to claim your badge.

To everyone else:   Better luck next time.  Remember to fill out the feedback form in 2010 for your chance to win!

Hey everyone!
First, we all hope you had some happy holidays!
Second, Welcome to the new website! You may notice a few new changes. We have split up the information and rules into separate pages, and added a few other new things as well. Some areas currently lack content, but don’t worry, it will all be up soon.

Third, you may have noticed that the forums have vanished. While in the process of upgrading, all the forum content was lost from our server. We are terribly sorry for any inconveniences, and are working hard to get everything back online. You will have to register for the forums again when they return.

Thank you all for your patience, and Happy New Year!

Well, Motaku 2009 is over.  The staff are checked out of the rooms, the guests on their trips home, the hotel paid off, the equipment still sitting in staff vehicles….

Thanks a bunch for making it all possible, we are very very happy to have been able to provide you all with a great weekend of entertainment, and we hope to see you next year.  Thank you to everyone who attended, thatnks more if you told friends to come, and/or filled out our feedback form(the raffle will be in a week or so).

Thanks to our fantastic hotel staff, who graciously allowed Spike to cook, and made sure anything we needed happened withing 30 minutes.

Thank you to Spike, for daring to try something new and cooking some kick ass food while the con chair lit the table on fire.

Thank you Sophie and FUNimation for the massive amount of swag, the great panels, and the awesome free Ichi posters.

Thanks to all the awesome staff who worked so hard to keep things as on track as possible, and to all the panelists who did some pretty wicked stuff.  Also thanks to our DJs who we landed on incredibly short notice, the sound was awesome(thanks to Lear for the equipment loan).

To anyone we forgot to thank:  Sorry, and thank you!

We will have some more stuff up soon about next year and suches, but we are all going to sleep for a few days first!

Thanks again everyone, for attending, and for reading this really long thank you.