Main Stage

The Main Stage will be home to the Animania Festival's largest and most visually spectacular events as well as the quirky and comical.

• Cosplay Catwalk
• Cosplay Show
• Dance Showcase
• Ikue Otani Live!
• Martial Arts Demonstrations
• Special Cosplay Guest Performances
• WCS Championship Video
  
• WCS 2011 Australia Team Report and performances
• WCS Finals
• Who Wants to be Over 9000?

 

Cosplay Catwalk

Saturday 4.30pm - 5.30pm  /  Sunday 3.00pm - 4.00pm

If you have a costume, homemade or bought, it doesn’t matter, the Cosplay Cat-walk will allow you to go on stage and have your few seconds of fame. During the Cosplay Cat-walk, you will be able to walk on stage to some anime music, and pause for a few seconds (and take any pose your character would) and then exit the stage. It’s that easy!

How do you get on stage? Well, that’s even easier. You need to go to the Cosplay registration desk in the CosplayHQ (check the event map for the location) during opening hours 10am-12pm (2 hours), and pick up a token. The people at the desk will let you know at what time and where you need to be to access the Cosplay Cat-walk. That’s it!

By the way, this is not a competition. If you want to get a performance judged, check out the Cosplay Show, and if you want to get a costume judged, check out the Cosplay pre-judging.

 

Cosplay Show

Saturday 12.30pm - 1.15pm  /  Sunday 1.00pm - 1.45pm

Do you enjoy watching or performing cosplay skits? Well, this is the event for you then. This is a competiton so obviously there will be judges watching the performances. Solo and group skits are both welcome, and there will be an award for each category.

So how do you get into the Cosplay Show? Well it’s simple; you MUST register online at least 1 week before the Festival.. You will automatically be accepted into the Cosplay Show, we just need you to register ahead of time so we can prepare for it. You are only judged on your performance, so it doesn’t matter if your costume is homemade or bought. Make sure to visit the Cosplay registration desk in the CosplayHQ  (check the event map for the location) during opening hours 10am-12pm  (2 hours), to check-in and give your audio/video files. Pre-recorded skits are highly recommended!

For more info, check out the rules here: Animania Festival Cosplay Show rules.
 

The CosplayHQ has all the information you need to participate in Cosplay events at Animania Festival Weekend.

 

Dance Showcase

We'll see a little bit of hip, hop, break, shake, krump and general dance stylin' adding some flayva to Animania Festival. Classes will be running in Mini Games and Dance. Courtesy of Ace Dance Studio, Crossover Dance Studios and SoulXPresss.

 

Ikue Otani Live!

Saturday 3.30pm-4.15pm

Are you coming down with One Piece fever? Well we have the medicne for you! Our special guest Ikue Otani will be performing live dubbing as Tony Tony Chopper from One Piece. If you're a One Piece fan this is totally for you!

 

Martial Arts Demonstrations

Sydney Shinbukan Kendo & Sydney Iaido Club will be doing live demonstations on stage. There is definitely more to martial arts than flying high-kicks and high pitched screaming! Be sure to catch these demonstrations, you're bound to learn something new about martial arts and see some totally sweet moves!

 

Special Cosplay Guest Performances

Saturday 1.15pm - 1.45pm

First up, Team Singapore 2009 (WCS), Skye and Jill, will each perform on the main stage some live anime songs, from Chrono Crusade and Gurren Laggen. Their performances will be then followed by a special cosplay performance from the anime Tiger & Bunny, by guest cosplayers, Wakaleo, SorceressMooNBlaDeR, Hiyuki, Kurai-Kishi, Chibifiedkitsunes and Alysael.

 

WCS Championship Video

Sunday 10.00am - 11.00am

An exclusive screening of the World Cosplay Summit Championship 2011 from Nagoya, Japan. See the performance from the 17 competing countries, and the announcement of the 2011 World Champion. Will Australia take the title this year?

 

WCS 2011 Australia Team Report and Performances

Sunday 1.45pm-2:45pm

Team Australia 2011 are back from Japan, with a suitcase full of stories to tell about World Cosplay Summit. Come watch their report, including exclusive footage behind the scenes, photos of the Press, Parade and Championship costumes for all the competing countries! You can also meet one of the WCS organisers.

The report is followed by an encore Championship performance from Team Australia 2011, and the encore performance from the winners of the WCS Finals, Team Australia 2012.

 

WCS Finals

Saturday 2.30pm - 3.30pm

After a long year of pre-selection rounds in Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, the five finalist teams will compete on the Main Stage for the title of Team Australia 2012.

Join us as we showcase Australia's finest and reveal the winners of the World Cosplay Summit.

Who are the judges of the competition? Visit the Guest page to find out!!

 

Who Wants to be Over 9000?

Sunday 12.00pm - 1.00pm

If your knowledge of anime and manga had a power ranking, what do you think you would score? Do you think you could rank... OVER 9000?? Come join us in this awesome new trivia game show that will put what you know to the test!

Participants will be chosen from the audience, so don't be shy get all "the Price is Right" come on down and play the game!