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Greetings Tekko and KuroKiiro Festival fans!

We have a lot of news to share with everyone today. We have everything from the dates of this years KuroKiiro Festival, to the complete guest list and even new and exciting home that everyone will love.

The KuroKiiro Festival will be Aug 29-31 at California University of Pennsylvania in their wonderful new Convocation Center. Their beautiful state of the art facility mixes the feel and setting of a school festival with the size and flexibility of a convention center.

This year's guests include Tyson Rinehart, a voice actor known for Itsru ‘Daru’ Hashida in Steins;Gate. Other credits include Hugo in Attack on Titan, Matsuda in HighSchool DxD, Georg in Eureka Seven: AO, Oimo in One Piece, and Squeak in Space Dandy.

We are also excited to welcome back Nancy Kepner! Nancy Kepner writes comedic songs about Otaku and Geek culture. She got her start in 2011 when she performed “The Weeaboo Song” at KuroKiiro Festival. She now has two Albums: “Album for the Weeaboo,” and “Fodder for the Fandoms” available on iTunes and Cdbaby.

We are also excited to have the enigmatic Charles Dunbar at this year's KKF! Charles Dunbar is an anthropologist. He studies a lot of things, be it fandom, anime culture, the supernatural or mysterious men in blue boxes. He received his MA in Sociocultural Anthropology in 2011, after utilizing ancient Mayan techniques to hypnotize his department into believing that he was, in fact, the reincarnation of Victor Turner. His thesis, entitled “Pilgrimage, Pageantry and Fan Communities,” was published soon after, and focused on anime convention participation, including stereotyping, spending habits, cosplay and con culture.

Finally, The KuroKiiro Festival announces our fourth and final guest; Leah Clark! Leah Clark is a Random Force Of Nature working as a voice actress and script adapter for FUNimation Entertainment and voice artist for DuArt Films. She has also worked as a director for FUNimation as well as a stage actress in the Dallas-Ft Worth TX area.

Some of her most memorable voice roles include Nodoka in Negima; Suzuka in Suzuka; Rin in Toriko; Fuyuki in Sgt Frog; Blair in Soul Eater; Minatsuki in Deadman Wonderland; Saki in Eden of the East; Nora in Spice and Wolf; Minami in Baka and Test; Jiji in Princess Jellyfish; Noah in Full Metal Alchemist—Conqueror of Shamballa; Coby and Miss Doublefinger in One Piece; Paris in Shin Chan; Eri in School Rumble; Maron in Dragonball GT; Carlita in Pokemon the Movie: Black/White—Victini and Reshiram; and Maru in XXXHolic.

PreRegistration is even open! For one week only, we offer a $20 per registration rate. On June 2nd, that rate goes up to $25 per registration. We also are excited to announce our Buy 4, Get 1 Free registration deal! If you preregister four people together, the fifth registration is free! So load your car up and preregister now!

We also have a new KuroKiiro Festival webpage where will be posting all new information. Here you can preregister you and your friends and save money. Click here to go to our new website and learn how.

This year was the best Tekko yet! Thank you each and every one of you for attending! We broke every attendance record of any PittJCS or previous Tekkos! This year, we hit a record 5,111 number of individuals at Tekko! That’s over a 1,000 increase from last year. So thank you all for attending and making it the best year yet! Incase you were unable to attend, here’s a quick recap of the weekend! For our industry guests: We had Charles Dunbar, an anthropologist, who studies everything from fandom culture, the supernatural, to men in blue boxes.

Uncle Yo also made an appearance! From Otakon to Anime Expo, Karl “Uncle Yo” Custer teleports to anime, comic book and video game conventions performing his unique brand of geek-specific stand-up comedy!

And returning to Tekko for the first time in years was Greg "Greggo" Wicker! He is known for producing and hosting game shows at anime conventions since 1999.

We were also excited to introduce Nancy Kepner, a local Pittsburgh musical comedian who specializes in music about Otaku and Geek culture.

Our list of voice actors included: Caitlin Glass, known for Winry from FMA, and Haruhi from Ouran High School Host Club.

David Vincent, whose credits include BLEACH, Code Geass, Gun X Sword, Fate/Stay a Night, and many others.

Finally, we also had Brittney Karbowski, known for Soul Eater, FMA, Angel Beats!, and Fairy Tale, among many other credits.

Finally, we had two amazing musical acts! Lolita Dark

Lolita Dark is an Epic Rock band with roots in Southern California and Japan, who formed in 2011. Their sound weaves together crunching guitar riffs, progressive bass lines, lush harmonies, and complex melodic structures in songs that reflect both angst and optimism in an increasingly interconnected world of disconnected residents. Gacharic Spin