Spread over 2 floors, Anime, manga and cosplay invaded the Mercure Hotel on Saturday May 1st for Animania.

Event photos

Supanova has been running in Brisbane since 2003, and this year proved that it only gets bigger and better with each year that goes by.

Where: Brisbane RNA Showgrounds
When: 9th to 11th April 2010
Website: http://www.supanova.com.au/

Supanova 2010 Photos

Returning for its third year, the Amaranth costume ball is one of those unique events on the Australian cosplay event calendar. Tied in to Manifest but its own separate event, how did the event go in this third iteration?

Where: San Remo Ballroom
When: 20th August, 2009
Amaranth Anime Ball '09 Photos

SMASH! (Sydney Manga and Anime SHow) is a fan run convention held at the University of New South Wales and is one of the newer conventions on the Australian scene. This was the first year for myself to attend and it was also the first year for them to expand to two days. How did things go?

Where: Roundhouse@UNSW
When: 8th & 9th of August 2009
Website: SMASH! Website
SMASH! '09 Photos

AVCon, Adelaide’s famous fan run convention for games and anime, took the big step of moving from university campus to the Adelaide Convention Centre. This was a bold change for a non for profit, fan run convention with lots of people not convinced it would work. However it has to be said it worked extremely well and the increase in attendees and sponsorship buy television station channel TEN is testimony to that.

Where: Adelaide Convention Centre
When: 24th to 26th of July 2009
Website: AVCon '09 Website AVcon '10 Website
AVCon Photos