Madman Anime Festival

Australian anime & Japanese culture convention From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Anime Festival (formerly Madman Anime Festival or MadFest) was an annual Australian anime and Japanese culture convention held in Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane and Sydney. The convention was organised by Madman Anime.[a][2] The convention was inaugurated in 2016 and held in Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre as a two-day event from the 3–4 September 2016 in Melbourne.[3][4] The convention was later expanded to Perth and Brisbane in 2017 after a successful inaugural event, with each event held a few months apart,[5] and to Sydney in 2019.

StatusDefunct
GenreAnime, Japanese popular culture
VenueVarious
Locations
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Madman Anime Festival
Logo used from 2020 until its cancellation
StatusDefunct
GenreAnime, Japanese popular culture
VenueVarious
Locations
CountryAustralia
Inaugurated2016 (Melbourne)
Attendance4500 (2017, Perth)[1]
Organised byMadman Anime
Websitehttp://www.animefestival.com.au/
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On 29 March 2022, it was announced that Anime Festival would be replaced with Crunchyroll Expo Australia, with the first event scheduled for 17–18 September 2022.[6] Subsequently, all previously scheduled events were cancelled.

Event history

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Date Location Venue Notable Events Ref.
3–4 September 2016 Melbourne Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre [7]
4–5 March 2017 Perth Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre [8]
10–11 June 2017 Brisbane Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre [9]
4–5 November 2017 Melbourne Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre [11]
4–5 March 2018 Perth Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre [12]
2–3 June 2018 Brisbane Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre [13]
15–16 September 2018 Melbourne Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre [14]
16–17 March 2019 Sydney International Convention Centre Sydney [15]
25–26 May 2019 Brisbane Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre [16]
14–15 September 2019 Melbourne Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre [17]
5–6 October 2019 Perth Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre [18]
7–8 March 2020 Sydney International Convention Centre Sydney [20]
23–24 May 2020 (cancelled) Brisbane Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre [21]
29–30 August 2020 (cancelled) Melbourne Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
  • The event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
 [22]
3–4 October 2020 (cancelled) Perth Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre
  • The event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
 [23]
March 2021 (cancelled) Sydney International Convention Centre Sydney
  • The event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
 [24]
May 2021 (cancelled) Brisbane Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre
  • The event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
 [25]
2021 (cancelled) Melbourne Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
  • The event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
 [26]
2021 (cancelled) Perth Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre
  • The event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
 [26]
12–13 March 2022 (cancelled) Sydney International Convention Centre Sydney
21–22 May 2022 (cancelled) Brisbane Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre
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Notes

  1. [a]
    Madman Entertainment organised the event prior to the sale of Madman Anime to Sony Music Entertainment Japan's Aniplex in 2019, its reorganisation later that year as the Australian division of Funimation, itself owned by Sony Pictures since 2017 and Aniplex since 2019, and rebranding as Crunchyroll Store Australia in 2022 following Sony's acquisition of Crunchyroll in 2021 and Funimation's rebranding as Crunchyroll, LLC in 2022.
  2. [b]
    Attendances by Yuki Kaji, Kana Ueda, Kensuke Tateishi, Kaori Maeda, Mayu Sagara, and Luna Haruna were cancelled due to policies related to the COVID-19 pandemic.[19]

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