Animexx
Animexx eV is in Munich, was established on January 30, 2000 Club, which is dedicated to promoting Japanese pop culture, particularly manga and anime prescribed. The association is a 2008 member of the Association German -Japanese companies since May 2.
Development
The Animexx eV emerged from the merger of two clubs: the "1st Sailor Moon Online Fanclub " ( SMOF ) and the " Animangai ". The S.M.O.F. was formally established on 1 August 1997 and organized in September 1998, one of the first Germany -wide Anime conventions at all, the Neo Moon Project '98 Zorneding near Munich. The Animangai was founded on 1 January 1999 and published the club magazine " tsunami ", which was later adopted in the Animexx with.
Size and program
The Animexx eV currently has over 1,000 sustaining members worldwide and approximately 102,900 online members (as of March 2013).
Online offer
The Animexx site, which is one of the largest German-language manga and anime - pages covers the following areas:
- Information about the club
- Information about animes, mangas and J-Rock/J-Pop particular publication lists for the German market
- A Fanwork area, exhibit fanarts, fanfics, dōjinshi and photos from free anime convention where fans can
- General features of an online community, such as user profiles ( " Profiles "), and User Blogs, an internet forum and role playing
- So-called " circle" in which members organize themselves according to their own interests
- Possibilities, even to organize events across the page
- Parts of the site also exist in an English version.
The site was hosted by 31 October 2006 4Players, then in online worlds.
The association is also editor of the online magazine animePRO.
Meetings and events
In addition to numerous monthly meetings throughout the German-speaking area of the club since 2002, organized the annual anime convention Connichi, first in May in Ludwigshafen, Germany, since 2003 in September in Kassel (2007: 13.500 day visitors in 3 days). From 2003 to 2005, the publishing house Egmont Manga & Anime was involved as a sponsor and co-organizer at the Connichi. More Anime conventions under the auspices of the Association are the Hanami in Ludwigshafen, Germany (since 2006), the YukiCon in Stuttgart- Zuffenhausen (since 2004), the J -Con (2004 as The Con, 2006, 2008 ) in Merzig and, since 2009 Animuc Fuerstenfeldbruck. In addition, the club from 2003 until 2004, was also the bearer of Conneko in Ludwigshafen.
The club's magazine was first up to its setting in early 2004 tsunami. It was replaced by the FUNime, which was the joint journal of the clubs Animexx and Anime no Tomodachi by the end of 2008.
German Cosplay Championship
The club is one of the two sponsors of the German Cosplay Championship and responsible for regional decisions.
Print products
The association regularly publishes print products, including:
- A fanart calendar year (since 2003)
- The dōjinshi manga anthology Mixx (since 2006), including various Special Volumes
- Dōjinshi - Einzelbände
- In collaboration with Egmont Manga & Anime three editions of the dōjinshi - anthology " Shinkan Special" (2003 to 2005) ( superseded by Manga - Mixx )
- Animexx Postcards ( since 2008)