AnimeClick.it
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Type of site | Anime and manga social networking and cataloging |
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| Available in | Italian |
| Founded | 1998 |
| Owner | Associazione culturale New Type Media ETS |
| Created by | Andrea Sartori |
| Key people | Alessandro « Ironic74 » Falciatore (Editor-in-Chief) |
| URL | https://www.animeclick.it/ |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
AnimeClick.it is an Italian web portal that provides daily news and a database about anime and manga. The website, often regarded as the most important in that field in Italy,[1][2][3] also provides related information such as trivia about the Japanese culture, videogames and fansubs in Italian.
History
[edit]AnimeClick.it is an amateur site founded at the end of 1998 as a side branch of a local web portal called VeronaClick.[4] It has published its first news on October 4, 1999.
On May 31, 2011, the editorial staff of AnimeClick.it came together at the no-profit cultural association Associazione NewType Media.[5] On the same day, the founder of the site, Andrea Sartori, entrusted the management of the portal to said association.[6]
In the Autumn of the same year, AnimeClick.it was involved by manga and anime publisher Dynit in the casting of the main voice actors for the Italian official release of Puella Magi Madoka Magica, through a survey among the users of the site.[7][8] Following this, the site expanded its offer, giving more coverage to live-action productions, j-pop and k-pop, and to the phenomenon of Italian fansubs.[9]
In October, 2011, AnimeClick.it released on the Android Market an app that offers some of the site's services.[10] Since 2011, the site also started to have its own official stand and official collaborations with various Italian comics and games conventions such as Lucca Comics & Games,[11] Napoli Comicon,[12] Cartoomics,[13] Etna Comics,[14] Romics,[15] Udine's Far East Film Festival, becoming the official Media Partner of some of them.[16][17][18]
In 2015, the site became a network with the opening of two other web portals: SerialClick.it,[19] about TV series and live actions, in January (then closed in 2019)[20] and GamerClick.it,[21] a portal about videogames, in June.
In 2018, during the Lucca Comics & Games convention, AnimeClick.it held the first edition of the AnimeClick Awards.[22] In 2021, the site became an official Streaming Media Partner of Lucca Comics & Games and kept the role since.[23]
In October 2023, the publishing house Rizzoli published the book La super guida manga, curated by the editorial staff of the site.[24]
References
[edit]- ^ Loris Cantarelli (2009). "Dieci "piccoli" siti. La top 10 italiana dell'informazione web su manga e anime". Manga Academica. 2: 107.
- ^ "AnimeClick.it segnalato da Adnkronos". AnimeClick.it. July 12, 2007.
- ^ Bouissou, Jean-Marie (October 21, 2010). Il Manga. Storia e universi del fumetto giapponese (in Italian). Translated by Di Fratta, Gianluca. Italy: Tunué. pp. 314–315. ISBN 978-8897165309.
- ^ "Sono il webmaster del sito www.animeclick.it". web.archive.org. February 21, 2009.
- ^ "AnimeClick.it: 2011 e cattivi propositi per il 2012". AnimeClick.it. January 1, 2012.
- ^ "Associazione NewType Media e AnimeClick.it". Associazione NewType Media. May 30, 2012.
- ^ "Scegli i doppiatori di MADOKA MAGICA!". Dynit (in Italian). September 6, 2011.
- ^ ""Madoka Magica" ("Puella Magi Madoka Magica")". Il mondo dei doppiatori (in Italian). February 23, 2013.
- ^ "Fansub italiani: la lista completa degli episodi fansubbati". AnimeClick.it.
- ^ "AnimeClick - Android Apps on Google Play". Google Play.
- ^ "Lucca Comics & Games 2011 - Mappa Espositori". Lucca Comics & Games.
- ^ "AnimeClick: Anime Dream". Napoli Comicon. March 19, 2015.
- ^ "Cartoomics 2016: elenco espositori". Cartoomics. March 11, 2016.
- ^ "Brochure Etna Comics 2014". Etna Comics. June 20, 2014.
- ^ "L'attacco dei giganti: da manga ad anime, alla scoperta di un titolo colossale". Romics.
- ^ "Cartoomics homepage". Cartoomics. February 10, 2019.
- ^ "The Game Fortress homepage". NovaLudica. May 20, 2018.
- ^ "Far East Festival - Web Media Partners". Far East Festival. February 22, 2016.
- ^ "Benvenuti a SerialClick". SerialClick.
- ^ "SerialClick compie 4 anni e chiude i battenti". SerialClick.
- ^ "Welcome to GamerClick.it". GamerClick.
- ^ "Star Comics è tra i premiati agli AnimeClick Awards 2018 a Lucca". Star Comics.
- ^ "Partnership".
- ^ "La super guida manga". Rizzoli.