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Animania Festival

   
   
Contact Person: Animania Festival
   
Email: Click to Contact  
     
Postal Address :
PO Box 325
     
Postal Address Suburb :
Beecroft NSW
     
Post Code :
2119
     
Contact Person 1 :
Louis Lee
     
Location of program :
Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, check website for exact location for each event
     
Appropriate age group :
All ages
     
Average cost per child :
Please check website
     
Special events :
Cosplay, Fusion, Panels/Workshops, Competitions, etc
     
Special Offers :
By pre-registration, attendees will receive discounts and gain express entry into the Festival.
     
Full Comprehensive Description :
Get ready for a stampede of girls in cat ears, giant robots, and sword-wielding samurai across three states this year. That’s right, Animania Festival is back for its fifth year, and this time will be giving fans of anime plenty to look forward to with a total of five events occurring right throughout the year not only in its home city of Sydney, but also in Brisbane and Melbourne. Of these five events, Brisbane and Melbourne will host smaller scale day festivals, while Sydney August will be workshop-focused (see below for dates). These events will culminate in the popular weekend long event in October that will cover a wide range of events including panels, markets, competitions and large stage events. Animania Festival began in Sydney in 2001 and since then has been going strong, creating an event dedicated solely to the celebration of Japanese animation, better known to fans as anime (from the French for animation), and comics, manga. The aim of the Festival is to promote and increase awareness of the medium, catering for both long time “hardcore” fans who were raised on a steady diet of Astro Boy and Sailor Moon, and “newbies” who have only just seen the Academy Award winning animated feature, Spirited Away. The love of anime has taken Western media by storm, reflected not only in the popularity of the children’s game/cartoon Pokemon, but also in the success of more mature films such as Ghost in the Shell and its sequel Innocence, and most recently, the latest film from acclaimed anime director Hayao Miyazaki, Howl’s Moving Castle. Anime is more than children’s cartoons, and not simply a genre. Rather, it is a medium through which a multitude of genres are played out, including high school stories, office dramas, science fiction, epic fantasy, and slapstick comedy. Although in Japan manga (comics) and anime (animated shows/films) are simply one aspect of daily life, in the West it is perhaps one of the most fast growing pop culture phenomena. A real testament of the impact of anime in the West is the inclusion of Animania Festival in the Official Program of the 2006 Australia-Japan Year of Exchange – a year marking the 30 year anniversary of cultural exchange between Australia and Japan. This yearlong program endorsed by both embassies in both countries aims to promote cultural exchange and friendship between the two countries. For more information about the event and latest updates, visit Animania’s website >> animania.net.au.
     

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