27. - 29. July Beethovenhalle Bonn

27. - 29. July
Beethovenhalle Bonn
AnimagiC-Info-Sheet
F
ounded in the year 1999, the AnimagiC-Convention is now Germanies biggest and most
popular Convention with the Main-Themes
Anime, Manga, J-Culture, Cosplay and Games.
In 2012 AnimagiC will be in it´s 14th year – and
with the following pages, we want to give
you brief Impressions and Informations about
the Conventions History, the most important
Events, the Exhibitors and of course the japanese Guests of Honor, which attended the AnimagiC during the last 14 years.
Most important Facts about AnimagiC:
• Host and Organizer of the AnimagiC (since it´s Foundation in 1999) is the AnimaniA-Magazine
• AnimagiC is held every Year, during the last Weekend of July
• Since 2006, the AnimagiC takes place in the Beethovenhall in the German City of Bonn
• From the AnimagiC-Start, the number of Visitors increased each year: In 2010 the AnimagiC
had about 15.000 Visitors during the Conventions Weekend
• Because of the close and trustful Relationship between AnimaniA and the Domestic and japanese Anime-, Manga- and Game-Publishers, the most important Players of the Business attending the Convention with Booths, promoting their New Products and supporting AnimagiC
with the Invitation of fantastic, japanese Guests of Honor
The AnimagiC-Convention-Center: Because the Number of Visitors increased
every year, in 2006 the AnimagiC moved to the famous Beethovenhall in Bonn,
which is located in the Heart of the City, directly beneath the River Rhine
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Thousands and thousands of Fans: In 2011 there were around 15.000 Visitors attending the AnimagiC-Convention in the German City of Bonn – the Convention is
held by AnimaniA-Magazine every year at the last Weekend of July
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Impressive: The Heart of the AnimagiC-Convention-Center is the Big Hall. Originally created for Concerts of
Philharmonic Orchestras, during AnimagiC all the Showacts, Cosplay-Contests, J-Rock-Concerts and the
Anime-Special-Screenings are taking place here – there are seats for 2.000 People inside the Big Hall
Fully packed with 2.000 enthusiastic Fans: The MainEvents like the AnimagiC-Opening, the Showgroups
and the Cosplay-Contests in the Big Hall won´t be
missed by the AnimagiC-Visitors.
Big Convention-Hall
Heart of the AnimagiC-Convention is the Big
Hall, which is located right in the middle of the
Beethovenhall. Originally, this Hall was built
up for presenting Concerts of Philharmonic
Orchestras, which is still happening. But during the AnimagiC-Convention, there are a lot
of Main-Events, taking place in this Hall.
place, like the big Opening Ceremony on the
Evening of AnimagiC-Friday. During this Opening, also the Guests of Honor will be introduced
officially to the Fans. Furhter Main-Events in
the Big Hall are the Cosplay-Contests, the
Show-Programme which is done by the FanShowgroups and the J-Music-Concerts.
The Big Hall: Capacity & Technic
The Big Hall offers 2.000 Seats for the Fans. As
for special J-Rock-Concerts, it´s also possible
to do it without Chairs, to increase the Numbers of Attendees up to 3.500 Fans. As the Big
Hall was originally built to do Concerts with
Philharmonic Orchestras, there is a complete
Soundsystem Installed. There is also a Big
Screen. Extended Technics (like special SpotLight-Systems) are hired by the AnimagiC-Organization especially for this Event.
The Big Hall: J-Music-Concerts
In the past 13 Years of AnimagiC, many JMusic-Artists attended the Convention. For
example Yoko Kanno: She performed the best
Soundtracks like from Cowboy Bebop as well
as some other Songs on a Piano on the MainStage. The same did Yuki Kajiura some Years
later. But we had also J-Rock-Bands like the
Gazette (2006) and Plastic Tree (2007) playing
their Concerts at AnimagiC – as well as Mega-Star Miyavi (also 2007), who played some
Songs unplugged at the Main-Stage. The Fans
also love Singers like Nana Kitade (2008), AURAL VAMPIRE (2009) or SHANADOO (2011).
The Big Hall: Main-Events
In the Big Hall all the Main-Events are taking
The Guests of Honor on the Main-Stage: Every year, the AnimagiC-Opening-Ceremony takes place the Big
Hall. One of the Shows Highlights for the Fans is the Introduction of the Guests of Honor, like here in 2011
with Nozomu Tamaki (in Front; Manga-ka Dance in the Vampire Bund), Takashi Okazaki (Manga-ka AFRO
SAMURAI), Shunsuke Saito (Producer Black Butler), Tomonori Ochikoshi (Producer Blue Exorcist),
Koji Masunari (Director Welcome to THE SPACE SHOW) and SHANADOO (Picture on the right)
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J-Pop-Concerts in the Big Hall: Every year, AnimagiC
presents a japanese TOP MUSIC ACT – in 2011 the famous J-Pop-Trio SHANADOO performed two fantastic
Concerts for the enthusiastic Fans
COSPLAY-Contests: About 70% of all AnimagiC-Visitors are attending the Convention in their CosplayOutfit. Many of the Fans are preparing the Costumes
with all of their passion during the months right
before the Convention. So it´s no wonder, that the
Cosplay-Contests itself are one of the main Attractions of the AnimagiC-Programme – and taking place
in the fully crowded Big Hall.
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Black Butler-Promotion: In 2009 Carlsen Manga had a Special AnimagiC-Booth, which was designed in
Black completely – many Fans stopped by to buy the first Manga-Volume of the Black Butler-Series
Exhibitors and more ...
During the last 14 years, AnimaniA-Magazine
built up a close and trustful Relationship to
all Domestic Anime-, Manga and Game-Publishers. Of course, these Business-Partners
are not cooperating with AnimaniA-Magazine
during the whole year, but also using AnimagiC as Platform to promote their Companies
and Products with Booths, Special-Events
and Exhibitions (like Shueisha did in 2008) ...
Attending Manga- and Anime-Companies
The German Manga-Publishers Carlsen Manga, TOKYOPOP and EMA (Egmont Ehapa) attending every years AnimagiC-Convention with
their own Company-Booth(s). Furthermore the
most important Players in the Anime-Business
also attending with their Booths like Universum
Anime, Kazé (former Anime Virtual), ANIMAX
Germany and ION New Media. All of them representing their topic Titles and Products and
they are supporting the AnimagiC-Programme
with Special-Screenings, Company-Panels
(showing the Fans, which Titles will come out),
Special-Events and Exhibitions.
Attending Game-Companies
Beneath the Manga- and Anime-Business,
many Game-Companies are attending the
AnimagiC as well. For Example, NINTENDO
excites the Fans every year with a big BoothFloor, promoting their topic Titles and Hardware. In 2011 they will feature the brand new
Nintendo 3DS and the newest PokemonGames. Furthermore SQUARE ENIX attends
the AnimagiC as well as NAMCO BANDAI,
CAPCOM and KOEI. All these Companies are
placing their Game-Stations all around the
AnimagiC-Floors, so that the Fans have the
chance to play the Games, when they like to.
ANIMAX-TV-Lounge: During all AnimagiC-Days, the
TV-Station ANIMAX represents their topic Line-up in
a Special Area, where the Fans can „sit and watch“.
Shueisha-Presentation: During AnimagiC 2008,
the famous japanese Manga-Publishing-Company
Shueisha created a special Exhibition for „40th Anniversary of Shonen Jump“, with showing their topic
Manga-Titles (like One Piece, BLEACH, etc.) but also
the Future-Possibilities of Digital Manga Distribution.
AnimagiC-Workshops
Beneath all the Booths, Main-Events in the Big
Hall, Signing-Sessions in the Studio, AnimeSpecial-Screenings and J-Rock-Concerts,
AnimagiC offers many, many more Workshops
and Activities to the Visitors – like Karaoke,
Dubbing-Workshops,
Drawing-Workshops,
Fanart-Exhibitions,
How-to-make-CosplayWorkshops and a free Internet-Lounge.
The AnimagiC offers many Workshops to all the Fans
and Visitors. One of them is the „Drawing Workshop“:
Here all the interested Hobby-Manga-kas can improve their Skills and getting Drawing-Lessons from
the Professional COMICADEMY-Teachers.
AnimagiC 2009: Universum Anime (Germanies strongest Anime-DVD-Publisher in terms of Distribution – the
company publishs the Ghibli-Titles in Germany, too) is promoting the AFRO SAMURAI-Animation with having
a Signing-Session with Director Fuminori Kizaki at the Companies AnimagiC-Booth
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One of the most important Convention-Spot for all
Fans and AnimagiC-Visitors – the „Traders Hall“.
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Hilton Hotel
Special-Room „Studio“: The „Studio“ offers 400 Seats for the Fans and is used mainly for the Q&A-Panels
as well as the Signing Sessions with the Guests of Honor. Furthermore the „Studio“ is a beloved place for
Special Anime-Screenings on the Big Screen in HD-Quality and a excellent Sound-System
Q&A-Panels & Signing
One of the Highlights the AnimagiC-Fans looking forward to every year are the Q&A-Panels
and the Signing-Sessions with the Guests of
Honor. As Location for these Events, AnimagiC
accordingly offers the Room „Studio“.
Studio: Capacity & Technic
The „Studio“ offers 400 Seats for the Fans.
There is a Big Screen and a excellent SoundSystem installed. For each Guest of Honor (as
well as for the Host and each Interpreter) there
are Microphones installed in this Room, too.
Q&A-Panel
Each Guest of Honor is asked to have one
Q&A-Panel each on Conventions Saturday and
Sunday. Host of these Q&A-Panels is a AnimagiC-Staff-Member, introducing the Guests
and getting the Questions from the Audience.
Signing-Sessions
On the AnimagiC-Friday, there is a big „Opening Signing Session“, where all the Guests of
Honor will sign the Official AnimagiC-Poster
for the Fans. Each Guest of Honor will have
one Signing-Session each on Conventions
Saturday and Sunday, too. Sometimes the
Guests want to combine this with the Q&APanel. For example: They are doing 45 Minutes
Q&A-Panel, then 15 Minutes Break, then 45
Minutes Signing-Session, which is absolutely
acceptable for us. These points will be cleared
in Cooperation with the German Publisher/the
Management of the Guest of Honor in Advance
of the AnimagiC-Convention, of course.
Special-Note: Interpreters
The AnimagiC-Team includes several highly
Japanese-skilled Interpreters. Some of them
are native Japanese – but all of them are really into Anime and Manga and of course wellbriefed with the Bios and Titles of the Guest of
Honor, they have to attend. The Interpreters
will attend the Guests of Honor not only during
the Q&A-Panels and the Signing-Sessions, but
also during their whole Freetime.
During the AnimagiC-Convention all Guests
of Honor, the AnimaniA-/AnimagiC-Main-Staff
(including the whole Interpreter-Crew) and
the AnimagiC-Business-Partners are living in
the Hilton Hotel Bonn.
Hilton Hotel: Location & Booking
The Hilton Hotel is located in the Center of the
City Bonn and only a five-minute-Walk away
from the Beethoven Hall. The Booking of the
Rooms will be handled by the AnimagiC-Organizer in Advance of the Event.
Transportation during AnimagiC
The AnimagiC-Organizer takes care of all the
needed Transportation of the Guests of Honor.
For Example: There will be a AnimagiC-Bus,
picking the Guests up from the Airport after
their arrival and transport them back to the Airport at the Day of Departure, too.
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Signing Session in the „Studio“ with Akira Himekawa (Manga-ka The Legend of Zelda-Series; both in the
Front of the Photo) at AnimagiC 2010: The Fans have to line-up in Front of the Signing-Desks – of course, there
are AnimagiC-Staff-Members all the Time, checking, if everything is comfortable for the Guests of Honor
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Guests of Honor: Part I
With the following two Pages, we want to show you the AnimagiC-Developement in Terms of
the Location, Numbers of Visitors – but also, which Guests attended AnimagiC in all these years.
AnimagiC 1999 / Location: Koblenz / Visitors: 4.000
- Mastumoto, Takehiko: Character-Design Yugo the Negotiator
- Watanabe, Shinichiro: Director Cowboy Bebop; Founder of Anime-Studio manglobe
AnimagiC 2000 / Location: Koblenz / Visitors: 5.000
- Asamiya, Kia: Manga-ka Silent Möbius, Dark Angel (Kadokawa Shoten)
- Ozawa, Tadashi: Animation Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
AnimagiC 2001 / Location: Koblenz / Visitors: 5.500
- Yuki, Kaori: Manga-ka Angel Sanctuary, Boy´s Next Door (Hakusensha)
- Kamiyama, Kenji: Director Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
AnimagiC 2002 / Location: Koblenz / Visitors: 6.000
- Kanno, Yoko: Music-Artist; Anime-Soundtracks: Cowboy Bebop, Escaflowne, Ghost in the Shell:
Stand Alone Complex, Macross, Wolf´s Rain, Turn a Gundam
- Maeda, Mahiro: Director Blue Submarine No. 6, Animatrix: The Second Renaissance
- Murata, Range: Character-Design Blue Submarine No. 6, Last Exile
- Shiki, Satoshi: Manga-ka Kami-Kaze, Daphne in the Brilliant Blue (Shonen Gahosha)
- Watanabe, Shinichiro: Director Cowboy Bebop; Founder of Animation-Studio manglobe
- Yazawa, Nao: Manga-ka Wedding Peach (Shogakukan)
- Yuki, Nobuteru: Character-Design Escaflowne, Heat Guy J, Record of Lodoos War, X - Movie
AnimagiC 2003: The living Anime-Legend, Director
Rintaro (Director Captain Harlock-Saga, Galaxy Express 999), attended the AnimagiC as Guest of Honor
to promote the Anime-Movie Metropolis
AnimagiC 2003 / Location: Koblenz / Visitors: 8.000
- Kanemori, Yoshinori: Character-Design X – TV-Series
- Kojima, Masayuki: Director The Piano Forest, Monster
- Maruyama, Masao: Creative CEO of Anime-Studio MADHOUSE
- Matsubara, Hidenori: Character-Design Sakura Wars, King of Thorn, Ah! My Goddess
- Rintaro: Director Captain Harlock, Galaxy Express 999, Metropolis
- Urushihara, Satoshi: Manga-ka Plastic Little, Chirality, Vampire Master Dark Crimson (Kodansha)
- Cutie Pai: Japanese J-Pop-Duo
AnimagiC 2004 / Location: Koblenz / Visitors: 10.000
- Abe, Yoshitoshi: Manga-ka Texhnolyze, Haibane Renmei, NieA 7 (Kadokawa Shoten)
- Cutie Pai: Japanese J-Pop-Duo
- Higuri, You: Manga-ka Seimaden, Gakuen Heaven, Cantarella, Ludwig II (Kadokawa Shoten)
- Hosoda, Mamoru: Director The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars
- Kajiura, Yuki: Music-Artist; Anime-Soundtracks: Pandora Hearts, Tsubasa REERVoir CHRoNiCLE
- Kawamoto, Toshihiro: Character-Design Cowboy Bebop, Golden Boy, Wolf´s Rain
- Maruyama, Masao: Creative CEO of Anime-Studio MADHOUSE
- Murata, Range: Character-Design Blue Submarine No. 6, Last Exile
AnimagiC 2005 / Location: Koblenz / Visitors: 11.000
- Chino: Music-Artist; Anime-Openings Witch Hunter Robin, Transformers: Galaxy Force
- Itano, Ichiro: Director Fist of the North Star-TV-Series, Gantz, Blassreiter
- Kawarajima, Ko: Manga-ka New Generation of Manga-kas (Graphic-sha)
- Maruyama, Masao: Creative CEO of Anime-Studio MADHOUSE
- Nozaki, Keiichi: Anime-Music-Producer Witch Hunter Robin, .Hack-Series, MS Gundam SEED
- Ohata, Koichi: Director Burst Angel, Saiyuki Reload: Burial, Ikki Tousen-TV-Series
Big J-Rock-Conerts: Every year, AnimagiC is presenting a Special Music Group, performing two Concerts in
the Convention Centers Big Hall. This picture is showing the famous Band „the Gazette“, playing a Concert
during the AnimagiC-Convention in the Year 2006
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AnimagiC 2004: MADHOUSE-Studio-Boss Masao
Maruyama attended the AnimagiC several Times
in the Convention 13th Years History. Since then,
AnimagiC and Madhouse have a really close
Relationship.
The famous Anime-Movie-Director Mamoru Hosoda
(Director The Gilr Who Leapt Through Time, Summer
Wars) attended the AnimagiC-Convention in the Year
2004 as Guest of Honor.
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Guests of Honor: Part II
AnimagiC 2006 / Location: Bonn / Visitors: 12.000
- Murahama, Shoji: President of Anime-Studio GONZO
- Hirata, Tomohiro: Director Trinity Blood, Giant Robo
- Sugishima, Kunihisa: Director Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters, Speedgrapher
- Nakajima, Atsuko: Character-Design You Are Under Arrest, Ranma 1/2 and Princess, Princess
- the Gazette: J-Rock-Band
AnimagiC 2007 / Location: Bonn / Visitors: 13.000
- Furuhashi, Kazuhiro: Director Getbackers, Le Chevalier D´Eon, You´re Under Arrest
- Fukushima, Haruka: Manga-ka Cherry Juice, Orange Planet (Kodansha)
- Hirano, Kota: Manga-ka Hellsing (Shonen Gahosha)
- Miyavi: Music-Artist
- Ohashi, Yoshimitsu: Director Witchblade, Galaxy Angel
- Tokoro, Tomokazu: Director Hellsing Ultimate OVA
- Ubukata, Tow: Author Fafner, Le Chevalier D´Eon, Mardock Scramble
AnimagiC 2008 / Location: Bonn / Visitors: 13.500
- Aramaki, Shinji: Director Apleseed - The Movie, Appleseed - EX MACHINA
- Hoshino, Katsura: Manga-ka D.Gray-man (Shueisha)
- Kamiyama, Kenji: Director Eden of the East
- Kitade, Nana: Music-Artist; Ending-Theme Fullmetal Alchemist
- Takahashi, Ryosuke: Director Hinotori - The Phoenix, FLAG, Armored Trooper Votoms
AnimagiC 2007: The Manga-ka Haruka Fukushima
attended as Guest of Honor to promote their new Title
Orange Planet, which was published in Germany by
TOKYOPOP and in Japan by KODANSHA.
AnimagiC 2009 / Location: Bonn / Visitors: 14.000
- Aural Vampire: Elektro-Goth-New-Wave-Music-Duo
- Ishiyama, Kei: Manga-ka Grimm´s Manga (TOKYOPOP)
- Kizaki, Fuminori: Director of AFRO SAMURAI
- Minami, Masahiko: President of Anime-Studio BONES
- Mizushima, Seiji: Director Fullmetal Alchemist, MS Gundam 00
- Okazaki, Takashi: Manga-ka AFRO SAMURAI (Nononhow)
- Tanemura, Arina: Manga-ka Shinshi Doumei Cross (Shueisha)
AnimagiC 2010 / Location: Bonn / Visitors: 15.000
- Himekawa, Akira: Manga-ka-Duo The Legend of Zelda-Series (Shogakukan)
- Yoshimatsu, Takahiro: Character-Design TRIGUN, Slayers, Supernatural – The Animation
- Nishimura, Satoshi: Director Hajime no Ippo, TRIGUN
- MOON KANA: J-Rock-/Pop-Idol
- Onosaka, Masaya: Voice-Actor; Voice of Vash the Stampede in TRIGUN
AnimagiC 2011 / Location: Bonn / Visitors: 15.000
- Kudo, Susumu: Director Mardock Scramble: The First Compression
- Masunari, Koji: Director Welcome to THE SPACE SHOW
- Nakanishi, Go: Producer Mardock Scramble: The First Compression
- Ochikoshi, Tomonori: Producer Welcome to THE SPACE SHOW
- Okazaki, Takashi: Manga-ka AFRO SAMURAI
- Saito, Shunsuke: Producer Black Butler
- Shimizu, Hiroyuki: Producer Black Butler & Mardock Scramble: The First Compression
- Tamaki, Nozomu: Manga-ka Dance in the Vampire Bund
- SHANADOO: J-Pop-Trio / Music-Act
AnimagiC 2010: Seiyuu Masaya Onosaka (Original Voice of Vash the Stampede) and Character-Designer Takahiro Yoshimatsu (Character-Design TRIGUN, Slayers-Series) while doing a Signing-Session in the „Studio“
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AnimagiC 2008: In Cooperation with TOKYOPOP Germany and Shueisha, AnimagiC proudly presented the
famous Manga-ka Arina Tanemura as Guest of Honor.
Founder and CEO of the famous Anime-Studio BONES:
Masahiko Minami attended the AnimagiC-Convention
in the Year 2009, to Introduce Titles like Soul Eater,
Fullmetal Alchemist, DARKER THAN BLACK and
many, many more ...
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