Wasabi Anime

Wasabi Anime
Industry Fan Conventions & Events
Founded August 13, 2001
Founder Tom Croom
Headquarters Florida
Parent Green Mustard Entertainment, Inc.
Website GreenMustard.com

Wasabi Anime (also known as Green Mustard Entertainment) is a company that produces events and programming for anime conventions (and other fan conventions) in North America along with their own stand alone conventions. Started in 2001 (with the registration of the WasabiAnime.com website[1]) the group started as an anime club before evolving into an LLC in 2007 and then a corporation in 2010. As of July 2012, Wasabi Anime has hosted events in California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, and Las Vegas.

History

Wasabi Anime was started by Tom Croom with a group of motivated anime fans shortly after the completion of Anime Festival Orlando II in Kissimmee, Florida. The group felt that dedicating help to one single convention and club didn't serve the purpose of helping all of fandom, so Wasabi Anime (then called "Wasabi Anime of Florida") began networking pre-existing anime clubs and helping support new anime clubs. Wasabi Anime club members had access to photo I.D. cards that granted discounts a local anime and comic stores in Florida. Clubs in the Wasabi Anime network included:

Occasionally, the core group running Wasabi Anime would host stand alone events to try and gather the clubs together. This included the Wasabi Anime Halloween Cosplay Parties in 2001 and 2003.

Around 2004, Wasabi Anime began to step away from networking clubs and started focusing more on designing events for anime and fan conventions. These included themed panels, game shows, dances, and stage shows (like the Wasabi Animusical.)

Appearances

Wasabi Anime has designed entertainment and programming for a number of anime and fan conventions since starting in 2001.

California

Florida

Georgia

Indiana

Nevada

Conventions

In 2007, Wasabi Anime began producing their own fan conventions. Since some of these productions were not anime-centric, they often operated under the corporate names (either Green Mustard, LLC or Green Mustard Entertainment, Inc.)

Convention Name Theme Dates Location Attendance Guests
ASSIMILATION
(as Green Mustard, LLC) 		Science Fiction September 29–30, 2007 Radisson Worldgate Resort Orlando
Kissimmee, FL 		160 attendees
(85 unique) 		Ethan Phillips, Glenda Finkelstein, Michael A. Stackpole, Richard Horvitz, Rooster Teeth Productions, & Tracy Scoggins
MuggleCon
(as Green Mustard, LLC) 		Harry Potter November 21–22, 2008 Ramada Orlando Celebration Resort & Convention Center
Kissimmee, FL 		TBD The House of Black & Witherwings
InvaderCON Invader ZIM March 26–27, 2011[5] Marriott Century Center
Atlanta, GA 		TBD Andy Berman, Eric Trueheart, Melissa Fahn, Richard Horvitz, & Rikki Simons
Florida Anime Experience 2011 Anime May 27–29, 2011[6] Ramada Orlando Celebration Resort
Kissimmee, FL 		1931 attendees
(925 unique) 		Anime World Order, Brett Weaver, Brittney Karbowski, Daric "Jingoro" Jackson, & Steve Blum
Florida Anime Experience 2012 Anime May 25–27, 2012[7] International Palms Resort & Convention Center
Orlando, FL 		2167 attendees
(1027 unique) 		Anime Addict Anonymous, Dan Woren, Darrel Guilbeau, Daric "Jingoro" Jackson, & Terri Hawkes
Project Anime 2012
(with Anime Expo) 		Anime Conventions June 27–28, 2012 Westin Bonaventure
Los Angeles, CA 		33 unique N/A (conference; no guests)
InvaderCON II: DOOMCON Invader ZIM July 28–29, 2012[8] Torrance Marriott South Bay
Torrance, CA 		TBD Aaron Alexovich, Eric Trueheart, Jason Stiff, Jhonen Vasquez, Melissa Fahn, Richard Horvitz, Rikki Simons, Rodger Bumpass, & Wally Wingert
PinUpalooza Pin-Up, Burlesque, & Rockabilly October 6, 2012 International Palms Resort & Convention Center
Orlando, FL 		TBD TBD
WasabiCon Geek Culture October 27–28, 2012 Jacksonville Marriott
Jacksonville, FL 		TBD TBD
Florida Anime Experience 2013 Anime May 24–26, 2013 International Palms Resort & Convention Center
Orlando, FL 		TBD TBD

References

  1. ↑ "Whois Registry info for WasabiAnime.com". Whois.
  2. ↑ "Wasabi Anime Fort Lauderdale Homepage". Archive.org. Archived from the original on October 23, 2002.
  3. ↑ "Calendar Published Wednesday, November 5, 2003". Jacksonville.com.
  4. ↑ "wasabi anime treasure coast site". willvolution.com.
  5. ↑ "InvaderCON on AnimeCons.com". AnimeCons.com.
  6. ↑ "Florida Anime Experience 2011 on AnimeCons.com". AnimeCons.com.
  7. ↑ "Florida Anime Experience 2012 on AnimeCons.com". AnimeCons.com.
  8. ↑ "InvaderCON II: DOOMCON on AnimeCons.com". AnimeCons.com.
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