Oni-Con

Oni-Con
Status	Active
Venue	Galvestion Island Convention Center
Location	Galveston, Texas (formerly Houston, Texas)
Country	United States
First held	2004
Attendance	6000 in 2009
Official website	http://www.oni-con.com/

The Oni-Con is an anime convention created in 2004 in Houston, Texas. This was Houston's first major anime convention and, despite being a relatively new anime convention, their list of past guests is very notable including the likes of Scott McNeil, Johnny Yong Bosch, Greg Ayres, Taliesin Jaffe, and most notably Yoshitaka Amano.

Oni-Con has been held in four different places since its creation. Oni-Con 2004 was held at the Sheraton North Houston. Oni-Con 2005 was held at the Grand Plaza Hotel, and Oni-Cons 2006, 2007 and 2008 were held at the George R. Brown Convention Center. Oni-Con 2009 was held at the Marriott, Westchase.

It occurs in the month of October except for 2008 when it was moved to December due to Hurricane Ike.

Oni-Con 2010 was held at the Westchase Mariott on October 29–31. For 2011, Oni-Con is moving to Galveston, Texas and will be held at the Galveston Island Convention Center on October 28–30.

History

Event history

Dates	Location	Atten.	Guests
October 22–24, 2004	Sheraton North Houston Houston, Texas	3,000	Greg Ayres, Jason Balduf, Byron Beaubien, Camino, Rodney "Largo" Caston, Cherry, Mandy Clark, Michael Coleman, Duel Jewel, Tiffany Grant, Kyle Hebert, Taliesin Jaffe, Lord Katsuhiko Jinnai, Bruce Lewis, George Manley, Scott McNeil, Vic Mignogna, Chris Patton, Xero Reynolds, Monica Rial, Jan Scott-Frazier, Doug Smith, and Shawn the Touched.
October 21–23, 2005	Park Plaza, Reliant Center Houston, Texas		Phantasmagoria (band), Chris Ayres, Greg Ayres, Tom Bateman, echostream, Cherry, Emily DeJesus, Taliesin Jaffe, Bruce Lewis, Mike McFarland, Jamie McGonnigal, Vic Mignogna, Chris Moujaes, Xero Reynolds, Monica Rial, Rooster Teeth Productions, Jan Scott-Frazier, Doug Smith, and Dan Woren.
October 20–22, 2006	George R. Brown Convention Center Houston, Texas		12012, Alistair Abell, Yoshitaka Amano, Chris Ayres, Greg Ayres, Chris Bevins, Charles C. Campbell, Luci Christian, Tiffany Grant, Matt Greenfield, Clarine Harp, Taliesin Jaffe, Kyle Jones, Brittney Karbowski, Bruce Lewis, Limit Break Cosplay, Sarah Lindholm, Jamie McGonnigal, Matt Miller, Jace Moore, Chris Moujaes, Chris Patton, Xero Reynolds, Monica Rial, Aaron Romo, Don Rush, Sailor JAM-Boree, Carrie Savage, Jan Scott-Frazier, Blake Shepard, Doug Smith, Space Invader, John Swasey, Michael "Mookie" Terracciano, and David Williams.
October 19–21, 2007	George R. Brown Convention Center Houston, Texas	4,030	Tomo Asaha, Chris Ayres, Greg Ayres, Chris Bevins, Clint Bickham, Michael Coleman, Kaylyn Dicksion, Aaron Dismuke, Tiffany Grant, Josh Grelle, Clarine Harp, Kyle Hebert, Samantha Inoue Harte, Taliesin Jaffe, Trish Ledoux, Bruce Lewis, Mike McFarland, Scott McNeil, Vic Mignogna, Chris Moujaes, Chris Patton, Wendy Powell, Derek Stephen Prince, Xero Reynolds, Aaron Romo, Carrie Savage, Jan Scott-Frazier, Doug Smith, Michael "Mookie" Terracciano, Shinichi Watanabe, Travis Willingham, and Toshifumi Yoshida.
December 19–21, 2008	George R. Brown Convention Center Houston, Texas	5,000	Greg Ayres, Chris Ayres, Josh Grelle, Vic Mignogna, Mike McFarland, Bruce Lewis, Jan Scott-Frazier, Samantha Inoue Harte, and Chris Patton.
October 30-November 1, 2009	Marriott, Westchase Houston, Texas	6,000	Blake Shepard, born, Bruce Lewis, Buranden, Carrie Savage, Christopher Bevins, Clarine Harp, Echostream, Elize and Reveur, Jerry Jewell,Tomo Asaha, Kiryu, Matt Greenfield, Michael Terracciano, Satsuki, Tiffany Grant, Twinzik, Wendy Powell, Xero Reynolds
October 29–31, 2010	Marriott, Westchase Houston, Texas
October 28–30, 2011	Galveston Island Convention Center Galveston, Texas

External links

• Oni-Con website