Animania

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Animania Festival
Jono and Guu, the Animania mascots, with the Animania logo
Status	Active
Venue	Sydney Town Hall (main convention)
Location	Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne
Country	Australia
First held	2002
Official website

Animania is an annual anime convention that has been held in Sydney, Australia since 2002. It is Sydney's first dedicated anime and manga event.

Originally run by local University anime societies, Animania is now organised by Aurora Entertainment, and includes several events in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, culminating in the main convention held in October in the Sydney Town Hall.

1 Programming
- 1.1 Halcyon
- 1.2 World Cosplay Summit
2 History
- 2.1 Event history
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Programming

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Animania features many of the typical events found at anime conventions such as cosplay and AMV (anime music video) competitions, screenings (originally these were mainly fansubs but now only screen licensed titles), artist booths, karaoke and video games such as Dance Dance Revolution and Initial D.

In addition to such staples, Animania has experimented with several of its own attractions, such as live fandubbing, an "Iron Artist" drawing competition based on the Iron Chef TV show, the anime cover-band Halcyon, and "Animania Fusion", a skit-based video comedy featuring members of Animania staff.

[edit] Halcyon

Halcyon performing at Animania Sydney 2007.

Halcyon made their debut at Animania 2003 and at that time consisted of three members: Amanda Setiadi as the vocalist, Michael Lee (aka "Muki") as the acoustic guitar player, and Rosi Yu as the violinist. The band performed a small set and were sufficiently popular to warrant their return for Animania in 2005, as well as making appearances at other anime-related events in Sydney. The band has also grown from the original three-member setup to six, including a drummer, Michael Ip, and two more guitarists, Lindsay Nighjoy on bass and Jason Solomon on lead.

At the main Sydney Animania in 2007, Halcyon played two sets, including an acoustic set (without drums) at the Friday preview night, and with the full band on the Saturday night.

Halcyon's "style" is playing songs that have appeared in anime and Japanese video games, creating original translations (and occasionally reinterpretations) of the Japanese lyrics. Songs they have covered include Fly Me to the Moon from Neon Genesis Evangelion and HT from Trigun.

[edit] World Cosplay Summit

At the September 2007 Sydney event Animania announced^[1] they had been accepted by the World Cosplay Summit to host the Australian competitions to compete in Japan at WCS 2009. This will be the first time Australia has been represented at WCS.

Preliminary competition events will be held at the 2008 events with the finals taking place at August 2008 Sydney event. The winning team will be flown to Japan in 2009 to compete in the World Cosplay Summit.

[edit] History

[edit] Event history

Dates	Location	Guests
October 12, 2002	Eastern Avenue Lecture Theatre and Auditorium Complex Sydney, Australia^[2]
October 11–12, 2003	The Scientia, University of New South Wales Kensington, Australia	Lewis Morley.^[3]
October 23–24, 2004	Sydney City Town Hall Sydney, Australia^[4]
September 3, 2005	Holiday Inn Brisbane Brisbane, Australia^[5]
October 8–9, 2005	Sydney City Town Hall Sydney, Australia^[6]
May 20, 2006	Holiday Inn Brisbane Brisbane, Australia^[7]
July 1, 2006	The Victoria Hotel Melbourne, Australia^[8]
August 12, 2006	Carlton Crest Hotel Sydney, Australia^[9]
September 9, 2006	Holiday Inn Brisbane Brisbane, Australia^[10]
September 30 – October 1, 2006	Sydney Town Hall Sydney, Australia^[11]
March 31, 2007	Carlton Crest Hotel Sydney, Australia^[12]
April 28, 2007	Rydges Hotel, Melbourne Melbourne, Australia^[13]
May 26-27, 2007	Holiday Inn Brisbane Brisbane, Australia^[14]
September 28–30, 2007	Sydney Town Hall Sydney, Australia^[15]
March 29, 2008	Citigate Central Hotel (formerly known as Carlton Crest) Sydney, Australia^[16]
April 19, 2008	Rydges Hotel, Melbourne Melbourne, Australia^[17]
May 10, 2008	Holiday Inn Brisbane Brisbane, Australia^[18]
August 23-34 2008	Australian Technology Park Sydney, Australia^[19]
September 20, 2008	Holiday Inn Brisbane Brisbane, Australia^[20]