The 17th Annual
Arizona's anime convention
- February 19-21, 2027
- Mesa Convention Center
Locations & Hours
Mesa Convention Center
263 N Center St, Mesa, AZ 85201
Parking Info
Free Parking
Delta Hotels Phoenix Mesa
200 N Centennial Way, Mesa, AZ 85201
Parking Info
Free Parking
Badge Pickup & On Site Sales Hours
Friday: 10am – 8pm; Saturday 10am – 7pm; Sunday 10am – 3pm
Programming / Event Hours
Friday: 11:30am – 12:30am; Saturday 10am – 12:30am; Sunday 10am – 4:30pm
Vendor Hall Hours
Friday: 12pm – 8pm (Premier Badge & Bundle Badge holders access at 11am); Saturday 10am – 7pm; Sunday 10am – 4pm (last entry at 3:30pm)
Solar Japanese Festival Hours
Friday: 1pm – 5:30pm; Saturday 10am – 5:30pm; Sunday 10am – 3:00pm
Luna Night Market Hours
Friday: 5pm – 9pm; Saturday 5pm – 9pm
About Us.
Taiyou Con is a family friendly 3-day anime convention and Japanese festival at the Mesa Convention Center! We are an introduction to all things Asian pop culture – anime, cosplay, video games, K-Pop, Asian food trucks, and much more with over 300 hours of interactive activities just for YOU.
We started out as an event for people that needed a place to share their common interests with each other. Our first event took place 16 years ago at a school with no admission cost and lasted only a total of eight hours. Now, our event is much bigger and strive to introduce more people to this community by making it easy and affordable, but our mission remains the same… help people make awesome memories with each other.
Oh yeah! You can bring your kids.
Let your kids enjoy browsing through the art in artist alley, eating at the food trucks at the Japanese festival, getting autographs from their favorite anime voice actors and more!
- Kids at 11 years old or younger enter get free admission with a paid adult ticket purchase.
- Up to 2 kids per paid adult ticket purchase.
- Kids must be supervised at all times.
Things To Do
Download the mobile for complete schedule and activities!
Cherami Leigh
Voice Actor
Cherami Leigh
Voice ActorCherami Leigh is an actor, writer and director and has been working in the industry for over 25 years. She has appeared in films such as Temple Grandin, The Hottest State and Fast Food Nation, as well as television shows including Friday Night Lights, Bones and Shameless, and 9-1-1. In anime she has played over 150 characters including Lucy in Fairy Tail, Asuna in Sword Art Online, Sailor Venus in Sailor Moon, Sarada in Boruto, Kotaro in Kotaro Lives Alone, Chloe and Grookey in Pokémon: Journeys and Red Blood Cell in Cells at Work. Some of her video game credits include her BAFTA nominated performance as Female V in Cyberpunk 2077, Gaige in Borderlands 2, Makoto in Persona 5, A2 in NieR Automata, The Quartermaster In Call of Duty: WWII, Minerva in The Walking Dead: Final Season, Irelia in League of Legends, The Imagined in Fortnite Queen Sonia in Legend of Zelda: TOK and Manon in the upcoming Street Fighter 6. She also voices multiple characters in the Fire Emblem universe: Caeda, Mae, Rhea, and more. She also worked for Radio Disney in various roles over 20 years and is one of the creators of the award winning web series “CONfessionals” as well as creating over 600 episodes of “Love and Light.”
Kira Buckland
Voice Actor
Kira Buckland
Voice ActorKira Buckland is a voice actor best known as the English voice of Jolyne Cujoh in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean, Mitsuri Kanroji in Demon Slayer, Kuki Shinobu in Genshin Impact, and 2B in NieR:Automata. Other popular anime & dubbing credits include Kakegurui (Mary), Pokémon Horizons (Sprigatito), Eden’s Zero (Rebecca), Welcome to Demon School Iruma-kun (Ameri), YashaHime (Setsuna), Miraculous Ladybug (Alix), ReZero (Beatrice), Komi Can’t Communicate (Makeru), Rainbow High (Violet), Blue Exorcist (Izumo), Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle (Princess Syalis) and JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable (Reimi). Additional video game work includes the Danganronpa franchise (Hiyoko & Kirumi), River City Girls (Kyoko), Fire Emblem Engage (Eirika), Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice (Trucy), NIKKE: Goddess of Victory (Privaty, Novel & Liveryn), Sand Land (Ann), and Granblue Fantasy (Lyria). Kira has also appeared as prominent characters in various other game franchises such as Soulcalibur, Street tFighter, Dead or Alive, BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle, Skullgirls, Puyo Puyo Tetris, Trails of Cold Steel, Disgaea, 13 Sentinels, Phantasy Star Online, Unicorn Overlord and many more. Kira is the founder of the Voice Acting Club, an online community providing free resources for actors and content creators around the world. She streams Genshin Impact as a cowtuber on the Twitch channel “msziggystardust”, has five cats, and is the proud owner of an ‘83 DeLorean.
Do you know what's going on?
Stay up to date with the latest news in our Updates section or on social media. You can also check out the mascot stories in the Light Novel menu!
Cherami Leigh is an actor, writer and director and has been
Kira Buckland is a voice actor best known as the English
You are reading the official Taiyouverse light novel, Reset!!! We Tried
The fun times over the years...
