Anime and Manga Convention

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The “Hanami” convention in Ludwigshafen 2013

Anime and manga conventions are events where anime and manga fans meet. The program of conventions , which take place around the world, often includes the showing of anime films and series, sales stands for manga, anime and merchandising products, as well as trade fairs and stage performances , including in particular cosplay competitions.

program

Certain offers have established themselves at larger of these often multi-day events with sometimes thousands of visitors. This often includes rooms for exhibitors (dealers, clubs, publishers, etc.), demonstrations of anime in specially designed video rooms, competitions for cosplay and drawings (usually in conjunction with an exhibition), workshops on various topics such as manga drawing, Go , etc. and book signing by guests of honor from home and abroad. In the center of these events there is usually a central stage, on which not only cosplay but also other presentations are offered. Depending on the convention, there may be other special features.

The mood at anime conventions is comparable to large family celebrations, where a large part of the audience is keen to meet like-minded people. For some years now, fans have been increasingly meeting up in advance on the Internet in relevant forums and expressing their solidarity, for example by wearing uniform clothing (cosplay) on a specific topic.

historical development

Modern anime conventions have their roots in American science fiction and comic conventions. From the end of the 1970s, such events, such as Comic-Con or Lunacon, held demonstrations of anime TV series that were popular in the USA at the time, such as Brave Raideen and Star Blazers , which were soon imported from Japan Original Anime Versions. Dave Merill mentions the first YamatoCon , which took place in Dallas on August 13, 1983, as the first independent major anime event ever . However, these first attempts did not last long, u. A. due to the frequently changing organizers. As the first long-term successful western anime convention, the Project A-Kon in Dallas, which still exists today, established itself in 1990 . As the first convention with great support from the American anime publishers and with Japanese guests, Fred Patten mentions the AnimeCon 1991. The first Anime Expo took place in 1992 and is still one of the largest conventions to this day. A decisive factor in the fact that anime like Akira also became known to a larger audience outside of Japan at the time. As a result, from the early 1990s onwards, more and more events such as Animethon , Otakon and JACON arose in the United States , some of which still take place today and attract up to several tens of thousands of visitors.

In Europe and Australia, a comparable development followed from the mid-1990s, which in time coincides quite well with the increasing availability of anime and manga in the respective countries.

Due to the increasing spread of these media, many smaller events were founded in areas that are not covered by the large and established events. But the market economy has also discovered these events for itself, and so new products are often presented in such a setting.

The relatively low number of visitors to German-language events in an international comparison is attributed, among other things, to the fact that comics are not as widely accepted in Germany as in other countries. In Germany, for example, there is still no specific categorization for comics, which is described as “for children”, “for collectors” and “for in between”. In this context, the poor cooperation between publishers of literary works and other media such as the Internet and television is also criticized.

Anime conventions in German-speaking countries

There have been regional private anime and manga meetings in Germany since around the mid-1990s. The first regional anime convention in Germany was the iHAT in Hamburg, which took place for the first time in June 1998. The first Germany-wide anime convention was the Neo Moon project organized by the “ Sailor Moon Online Fanclub” (SMOF) from September 19-20, 1998 in Zorneding near Munich , and the first anime convention that still takes place annually today was the Anime Marathon des Anime no Tomodachi , which took place from March 26th to 28th, 1999 in Königs Wusterhausen . Also one of the first conventions in German-speaking countries were the AniNite in Vienna in 2001 and the Japanimanga Night in Winterthur , today in Davos .

The largest German-speaking conventions are AnimagiC , first organized by AnimaniA in the summer of 1999 , Connichi in Kassel, organized by Animexx since 2002, with 27,000 visitors , and DoKomi in Düsseldorf, held for the first time in 2009, with over 40,000 visitors. The Manga Comic Convention has been taking place in Leipzig since 2014, embedded in the Leipzig Book Fair , with more than 100,000 visitors since 2017.

Anime conventions international

The largest European anime convention is the French Japan Expo in Paris with 247,000 visitors, ahead of the Italian Lucca Comics in Lucca (includes video games and comics in general) with 240,000 visitors and the Spanish Salón del Manga in Barcelona with 63,000 visitors. The largest anime conventions in the USA are the Anime Expo in Southern California with almost 41,000 visitors and the Otakon in Baltimore / Maryland with 22,000 visitors.

An event comparable to the conventions in Japan is the Comic Market held twice a year in Tokyo with 550,000 visitors at the 73rd event, a sales exhibition of self-drawn manga ( doujinshi ) without a show program. The Anime Japan since 2014 has the classic offer of a convention.

List of Manga and Anime Conventions

Surname place Years Visitor 1 particularities
AkiCon Austria , Graz 2007–… 00.3000 not in Graz until 2012
AnimagiC Germany , Mannheim 1999–… 028,000 until 2005 in Koblenz , from 2006 to 2016 in Bonn
AniMaCo Germany , Berlin 2004-2018 00.7000 changed annually with Mega Manga Convention with which they merged in 2019 for MEX-Berlin
Anime Contents Expo Japan , Chiba 2011-2013 070,000 Elimination from the Tokyo International Anime Fair , with this 2014 Anime Japan merged
Anime Expo United States , Anaheim 1991– ... 357.178 in the first year in San José
Anime marathon Germany 1999–… from the Anime no Tomodachi association , changing location, is one of the oldest of its kind in Germany
Anime Messe Berlin Germany 2015–… 00.6500 changing location
AnimeJapan Japan , Tokyo 2014–… 145,000 Merger of the Tōkyō Kokusai Anime Fair and Anime Contents Expo
Animuc Germany , Fürstenfeldbruck 2009–… 00.3000
AniNite Austria , Vienna 2001–… 024,000
BiMaCo Germany , Bitterfeld-Wolfen 2011–… 000.400
Bonenkai Germany 2001-2006 changing location
ChisaiiCon Germany , Hamburg 2006-2018 No con organized in 2007 and 2008; after eleven cons it was decided not to let the con take place anymore
Chizuru Germany , Dortmund 2015–… 1,300
Conneko Germany , Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2003-2006 00.3000
Connichi Germany , Kassel 2002–… 027,000 Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2002
Contopia Germany , Dortmund 2005-2015 00.2000 Suspended in 2011
CosDay Germany , Frankfurt am Main 2004-2010 00.3000
CosDay² Germany , Frankfurt am Main 2011–… 00.6000
D-Con Scotland , Dundee 2009-2011 00.3000
DeDeCo Germany , Dresden 2012– ... 00.7500
DoJaKu Germany , Dortmund 2010–… 000.600 monthly event
DoKomi Germany , Düsseldorf 2008–… 040,000
Fuyu Convention Austria , Mürzzuschlag 2011–…
Hanami Germany , Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2006–… 00.5200
Japan Expo France , Villepinte 1999–… 247,000
Japan Matsuri Switzerland , Bellinzona 2012– ... 00.6000
JapAniManga Night Switzerland , Davos 2001–… 00.3500 until 2014 in Winterthur
J-Con Germany , Merzig 2004– ... 000.900 until 2005 in Beckingen
LoriCon Austria , Seefeld in Tirol 2018–… 1000-1300
MACConvention Austria , Upper Austria 2005–2012 00.4000
Made in Japan Austria , Wiener Neustadt 2007–…
Manga comic convention Germany , Leipzig 2014–… 105,000 since 2001 as the comics section of the Leipzig Book Fair , since 2014 as a separate book fair event
Mega Manga Convention Germany , Berlin 2002-2017 012,600 has changed annually with AniMaCo since 2004 , with whom she merged to form MEX-Berlin in 2019
Manga & Entertainment Expo Germany , Berlin 2019–… 016,000 Merger of the AniMaCo and the Mega Manga Convention
MiZacKo Germany , Zwickau 2015–… 000.500 2019 paused
NiCon Germany , Hanover 2005–… 000.800
NipponCon Germany , Bremen 2010–…
Nippon Nation Austria , Vienna 2015–… 2015 in the TU Wien, from 2016 in the Museumsquartier
NyanCon Austria , Linz 2012– ... 00.2000
Otakon United States , Baltimore 1994– ... 107,500
Polymanga Switzerland , Lausanne 2006–… 030,000
Sakana Matsuri Germany , Berlin 2014–…
Salón del Manga de Barcelona Spain , Barcelona 1995– ... 130,000
Shumatsu Germany , Dresden 1998-2008
TiCon Germany , Wurzburg 2008–… 00.1200
Tōkyō Kokusai Anime Fair Japan , Tokyo 2002-2013 50000-132000 2014 Anime Contents Expo to Anime Japan merged
Like.MAI.KAI Germany , Wiesbaden 2007–… 00.1000
1 Partly organizer information

Web links

Commons : Anime-Convention  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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