AnimagiC

The AnimagiC (also Animagic and often just called Ani by fans) is a German annual convention for animanga fans and one of the largest of its kind in the German-speaking regions, organized by the publishing company (first OVA Films, then Animagine GmbH) behind the special interest magazine AnimaniA.
==Overview==
The event takes place every year in Summer (end of July/beginning of August) and over a span of three days (Friday to Sunday).
The convention focuses on Japanese popular culture and attracts fans of anime, manga, J-Rock, Visual Kei and cosplay. Anime and films are shown in video rooms, a games room and role playing, a Bring&Buy (flea market) and a Dealer's Room are part of what AnimagiC has to offer every year. The convention is known to invite Japanese guests of honor, give room to various concerts and showacts (especially popular fanish cosplay show acts that have become a tradition on German anime conventions), and host different workshops.
There usually is a cosplay contest on the main stage and since 2009 it also holds one of the preliminaries for the German Cosplay Championship (DCM).
==History==
From 1999 to 2005 AnimagiC took place in the Rhein-Mosel-Halle in Koblenz. Due to a growing number of visitors the event soon outgrew the Rhein-Mosel-Halle and the event spread to additional premises like the Electoral Palace (Kurfürstliches Schloss), two cinemas and the club Circus Maximus.
When the event could no longer use the Electoral Palace it was relocated to Bonn, where it takes place in the Beethovenhalle.
The total number of visitors of the three day event currently is around 15.000.
===Outdoor event and controversy===
Since the event has been held in Bonn, guests and especially cosplayers have gathered around the Beethovenhalle. Many visitors who did not get a ticket came to meet up with friends and fellow cosplayers and had access to the lawn in front of the premises and could make use of the booths outside (selling food and more) or even experience one of the outdoor taiko performances.
Since 2011 the lawn in front of the Beethovenhalle is closed off from the public and an official part of the convention premises and it’s possible to buy a special outdoor ticket to access it. The organizers explained that this was due to some incidents of vandalism and untoward behaviour from passers-by and onlookers and due to a rise in pickpocketing.
The fence now surrounding the premises was not welcomed by everybody and some people complained about it in different places and especially in the animexx event forum for AnimagiC 2011.
Shinji Schneider integretaed the story into his stand up comedy into his next performance at CosDay one week after AnimagiC 2011.
===1999===
06.08. - 08.08.1999 - Koblenz.
* Animexx Event page
* Picture galleries for Animagic 1999
===2000===
07.07. - 09.07.2000 - Koblenz.
* Animexx Event page
* Picture galleries for Animagic 2000
===2001===
15.06. - 17.06.2001 - Koblenz.
* Animexx Event page
* Picture galleries for Animagic 2001
===2002===
14.06. - 16.06.2002 - Koblenz
* Animexx Event page
* Picture galleries for Animagic 2002
===2003===
25.07. - 27.07.2003 - Koblenz.
* Animexx Event page
* Picture galleries for Animagic 2003
===2004===
23.07. - 25.07.2004 - Koblenz.
* Animexx Event page
* Picture galleries for Animagic 2004
===2005===
29.07. - 31.07.2005 - Koblenz.
* Animexx Event page
* Picture galleries for Animagic 2005
===2006===
28.07. - 30.07.2006 - Bonn.
* Animexx Event page
* Picture galleries for Animagic 2006
===2007===
27.07. - 29.07.2007 - Bonn..
* Animexx Event page
* Picture galleries for Animagic 2007
===2008===
01.08. - 03.08.2008 - Bonn.
Special Exhibition “40 years JUMP” on the convention grounds.
Guests: Takashi Okazaki - Shinji Aramaki - Koh Kawarajima - Katsura Hoshino - Fuminori Kizaki - Hiroya Iijima - Masahiko Minami - Kenji Kamiyama - Anike Hage(Gothik Sports)- Anna Hollmann (Stupid Story) - Judith Park(Y-Square) - Rebecca Jeltsch( A Demons Kiss) - Laura Müller (Alle Guten Geister) - Alexandra Völker(Catwalk) - Diana Liesaus(Musouka) - Nana Kitade
Showacts and fanish groups:
* Animexx Event page
* Picture galleries for Animagic 2008
===2009===
31.07. - 02.08.2009, Bonn,.
* Animexx Event page
* Picture galleries for Animagic 2009
===2010===
30.07. - 01.08.2010, Bonn.
* Animexx Event page
* Picture galleries for Animagic 2010
===2011===
29.07. - 31.07.2011 - Bonn.
* Animexx Event page
* Picture galleries for Animagic 2011
===2012===
27.07. - 29.07.2012 - Bonn.
Guests: Atsuhiro Iwakami - Anna Hollmann - David Füleki - Dennis Saemann - Evelyne Bösch - Hideo Baba - Inga Steinmetz - Janine Sander - Kalafina - Kanako Ito - Katja Kober - Kanan Minami - Markus Haase - Martin Geier - Martina Peters - Natalie Wormsbecher - Nina Amerschläger - Renate Kaiser - Rieke Werner - Shoji Sato - Takaki Kosaka -Tomonori Ochikoshi
Showacts and fanish groups: Daijoubu - Eden Films - KIRA KIRA HIKARU - K!SEKI - ONGAKU NO KARA - PROJECT AT - Shiroku - Tsuki no Senshi (TNS) - X‘N‘Y DANCECREW
* Animexx Event page
* Picture galleries for Animagic 2012
===2013===
Animagic 2013 will be held 26.07. - 28.07.2013 in Bonn.
* Animexx Event page
==References==
Category:Anime Conventions
Category:Conventions in Germany
Category:1999 Conventions
Category:2000s Conventions
Category:2010s Conventions