Want to help C.R.A.Z.Y.O.T.A.K.U.?

October 26th, 2011

This is your chance! C.R.A.Z.Y.O.T.A.K.U. now has an account you can donate to!

We at C.R.A.Z.Y.O.T.A.K.U. work hard each year to bring you entertainment and prizes, but for the most part, this has come from our pockets. Each convention costs us over $500! If you would like to help us go to more conventions, keep providing quality prizes and props (such as the custom t-shirts, pocky, and candy), and maintain this website, then this is your chance and it will be greatly appreciated! If you donate, send an e-mail to Taishi@crazyotaku.com to let me know your name or group if you would like for me to announce it right here on the main page (and get props and promotion during the panel itself)! Any and every bit helps. We thank you from the bottoms of our hearts for helping C.R.A.Z.Y.O.T.A.K.U. continue to provide you with the best entertainment possible year after year!

Big announcement!

October 4th, 2011

We’re here and we have huge news! C.R.A.Z.Y.O.T.A.K.U. has been invited as an official guest at MangaNEXT! The dream of taking over the world is starting to come to fruition! I expect to see all of the C.R.A.Z.Y.O.T.A.K.U. army there for support!

http://www.manganext.org/

February 24-26, 2012

Sheraton Meadowland Hotel & Conference Center
2 Meadowlands Plaza,
East Rutherford, NJ 07073
Tel: 1-201-896-0500
Web: Sheraton Meadowland

Thanks for coming!

June 13th, 2011

Man, this year was intense! I thank you all for coming to CRAZYOTAKU and competing. We’ve only just gotten home and we’re exhausted! We definitely had a learning experience this year. We got to try some great new games and listen to some tunes. However, we will be going back to our old multiple round format next year. For those of you that withstood 3 hours worth of rounds, I salute you! I can’t wait to see you all again! Expect pictures coming soon!

We’re here!

June 9th, 2011

We leave for AnimeNEXT today and we’re really excited about bringing you this year’s event! We hope to see many of you there. Remember: Prelims will be Saturday from 3:30-5PM in Events C immediately followed by the main panel itself which will run 5PM-8PM in the same room as the prelims. YOU MUST ATTEND PRELIMS IF YOU ARE PARTICIPATING!!! With that, we wish you all the best of luck! I hope you know your anime! See you there!

We have a time and location!

May 27th, 2011

With 2 weeks to go, C.R.A.Z.Y.O.T.A.K.U. already has an official date and location! We will need 100 participants and 10 volunteers. If you want to do either of these, YOU MUST ATTEND THE PRELIMS!!! This is a must! Prelims will be Saturday from 3:30-5PM in Events C immediately followed by the main panel itself which will run 5PM-8PM in the same room as the prelims. I expect to see this double ballroom filled to capacity! I’ll see you all there! May the best otaku win!

2011 T-Shirt Design

May 8th, 2011

Thank you to all of you who entered your designs and ideas for our 2011 T-Shirt Contest.  ^-^

This year however, there was only one clear-cut design that stood out above the rest done by Tyler Coderre, a game designer and graphic designer from Binghamton, NY.

Now to unveil this year’s C.R.A.Z.Y.O.T.A.K.U. Design!

We look forward to seeing everyone at our panel at AnimeNEXT in June, and don’t forget:

If you wish to participate be sure to show up at our Preliminary Panel!!  We’ll be looking for 100 participants this year so we expect to see all of you down there giving it your best shot! ^-^

T-Shirt Contest and Panel Update!!

April 14th, 2011

There are only three weeks left to the T-Shirt contest deadline!!  We got some nice entries so far, but be sure to send us your entries as well!  You can create them on the computer or by hand, so long as you e-mail your final results to:  taishi@crazyotaku.com and/or hikari@crazyotaku.com

The winner of our T-shirt contest not only gets their own T-shirt, but a pass into the Pocky-lympics at this year’s C.R.A.Z.Y.O.T.A.K.U. Panel! ^-^

So best of luck to all of you who participate and be sure to  check back for more news and updates about this year’s C.R.A.Z.Y.O.T.A.K.U. panel! ^-^

- Hikari ^-^

C.R.A.Z.Y.O.T.A.K.U. Panel Gets a Makeover!

February 24th, 2011

With only 106 days left until AnimeNEXT 2011, C.R.A.Z.Y.O.T.A.K.U. is already working hard to bring you all an awesome event.  Not only do we plan to be bigger and better than last year (then again, don’t we always promise that?), but with the help of our sponsors and the donations we’ve received, we are morphing our entire panel from single one-shot games and into a full blown elimination battle. 

Yes, you heard correctly, otaku versus otaku until only ten remain to face off in our Final Round, the Pocky-lympics!   And yet, while every Pocky-lympics participant is a true-blue otaku in our eyes, only our top three will take home a prize from C.R.A.Z.Y.O.T.A.K.U.’s library of anime boxsets.

And for all of our otakus who suffer from stage fright and/or the ’bout of bad luck?  Never fear, we have candy for you. ^-^

-  Hikari

AnimeNEXT 2011 C.R.A.Z.Y.O.T.A.K.U. T-Shirt Contest

January 29th, 2011

This year’s C.R.A.Z.Y.O.T.A.K.U. panel is back and with a whole new look and feel.  To complete it however, we need your help!  Your challenge?  Draw.

Yup, that’s all we need.  We want something creative.  Draw our mascot, Okay, or whatever you think screams “C.R.A.Z.Y.O.T.A.K.U.” and if we like it, you’ll find your artwork on our T-Shirts at AnimeNEXT 2011!

How to Enter:

Create electronic artwork in jpg or PDF format and e-mail it. (Electronic artwork can either be a scanned copy of hand-drawn art, or art that was created with software like Photoshop or InDesign.)

Deadline:

The deadline for artwork submissions is May 1, 2011.

E-mail your artwork to:

hikari@crazyotaku.com
or
taishi@crazyotaku.com

When you submit your T-shirt design, don’t forget to include…

  • Your artwork
  • Your name and e-mail address
  • Your City and State
  • A little about yourself!

Rules and Regulations:

  1. The artwork must be created by YOU, the artist.
  2. All submissions must be original. (Get creative guys!!  Think outside of the box!)
  3. C.R.A.Z.Y.O.T.A.K.U. will not accept any artwork that features: Existing registered trademarks or trademark slogans, tobacco, firearms, alcohol, profanity, or sexual connotations.
  4. By entering this contest you relinquish any rights to this drawing and all contents to C.R.A.Z.Y.O.T.A.K.U. to use as they see fit.

Prize:

  1. An automatic pass into the finals (Pocky-lympics)
  2. A copy of this year’s C.R.A.Z.Y.O.T.A.K.U. T-Shirt