Anime Festival (formerly Madman Anime Festival or MadFest) was an annual Australian

anime is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japanese, (a term derived from a shortening of ...

and Japanese culture convention held in

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and Sydney. The convention was organised by

Madman Anime Crunchyroll Pty. Ltd., trading as Madman Anime, is an Australian distribution company focused on anime and Japanese media. The company handles licensing and distribution of anime in Australia and New Zealand. Originally part of independent film ...

. The convention was inaugurated in 2016 and held in

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as a two-day event from the 3–4 September 2016 in

. The convention was later expanded to Perth and Brisbane in 2017 after a successful inaugural event, with each event held a few months apart, and to Sydney in 2019. On 29 March 2022, it was announced that Anime Festival would be replaced with

Crunchyroll Expo Crunchyroll Expo (CRX) is an annual three-day anime convention held during August/September at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California over Labor Day weekend. The convention is organized by anime licensor Crunchyroll and L ...

Australia, with the first event scheduled for 17–18 September 2022. Subsequently, all previously scheduled events were cancelled.

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{{Reflist Anime conventions in Australia