History

At this time we are preparing for our 12th festival as The J-POP Foundation.
Details about this festival are located at the dedicated website www.animecon.nl.
This is however not the 12th festival we are organising, we did a lot more.
We started out in the nineties as a combination of 3 different groups of people, one of which left us after two years.
The foundation now consists of the two previously separate entities:
Dutch Anime Society and Anime Workgroup Holland.

Our previous events were (in reverse chronological order):

Anime 2010 (J-POP Foundation)
Location: Theaterhotel Almelo, Almelo
Date: May 2010
Number of visitors: over 1800
Special: Surround sound in all Video Rooms - Two live bands - Preliminaries for EuroCosplay in London
Guest: Helen McCarthy

Anime 2009 (J-POP Foundation)
Location: Theaterhotel Almelo, Almelo
Date: May 2009
Number of visitors: over 1700

Anime 2008 (J-POP Foundation)
Location: Theaterhotel Almelo, Almelo
Date: May 2008
Number of visitors: over 1350

Anime 2007 (J-POP Foundation)
Location: Theaterhotel Almelo, Almelo
Date: June 2007
Number of visitors: around 1350

Anime 2006 (J-POP Foundation)
Location: Theaterhotel Almelo, Almelo
Date: June 2006
Number of visitors: ~1300

Anime 2005 (J-POP Foundation)
Location: Theaterhotel Almelo, Almelo
Date: May 2005
Number of visitors: 1157
Special: Karaoke night and secondary dealer room

Anime 2004 (J-POP Foundation)
Location: Theaterhotel Almelo, Almelo
Date: May 2004
Number of visitors: 1043
Special: Real 750-seat theatre with 5.1 sound, even bigger dealer and game room, 4th video room
Guests: Mr. Tatsuo Sato and Mr. Takatoshi Chino (Studio Xebec)

Anime 2003 (J-POP Foundation)
Location: Haarlem, Hotel Haarlem-Zuid
Date: February 2003
Number of visitors: 770
Special: Bigger dealer room, No special guests

Anime 2002 (J-POP Foundation)
Location: Veldhoven, Koningshof
Date: February 2002
Number of visitors: 524
Special: 2*5.1 sound system, first cosplay contest. No special guests

Anime 2001 (J-POP Foundation)
Location: Veldhoven, Koningshof
Date: February 2001
Number of visitors: 382

Anime 2000 (J-POP Foundation)
Location: Veldhoven, Koningshof
Date: February 2000
Number of visitors: 300+
Special: Kenji Horikawa as a guest (Producer Jinroh, Popolocrois, Arc the Lad)

Anime ’99 (J-POP Foundation)
Location: Rotterdam, Holiday Inn
Date: February 1999
Number of visitors: 208
Special: First real con, guests from Xebec and Bandai

Made in Japan - Animation film cycle (co organized by AWH)
Location: Maastricht
Date: 1998
Number of visitors: Unknown
Special: Organized in a film theatre

Summer of Anime (AWH and DAS)
Location: Den Bosh
Date: 1998
Number of visitors: 150+
Special: First 2 day event

Second Impact (AWH)
Location: Maastricht
Date: 1998
Number of visitors: Between 100 and 150
Special: Sales people from Pioneer UK and Dynamic Benelux

Famicon III (DAS)
Location: Den Bosch
Date: 1997
Number of visitors: 110

Nacht van de grote Anime (AWH)
Location: Maastricht
Date: 1997
Number of visitors: 40

Famicon II (DAS)
Location: Den Bosch
Date: 1996
Number of visitors: 80

Famicon (festival named after the FaniManga fanzine) (DAS)
Location: Papendrecht, The Netherlands
Date: 1995
Number of visitors: 32 (including an American)