Today we have the great honour to be the first to report on the licensing of the cult series Shakugan no Shana. To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the series, FilmConfect Anime in cooperation with emania ANIME is releasing the long awaited cult series Shakugan no Shana in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and Italy on BD, DVD and as VoD. You can find all information about the Shakugan no Shana licensing directly on the official website: www.shakugan.net/news/1

In this context we, as Anime Messe Babelsberg, are pleased to announce that the official advance sale has started directly via our AnimeTickets-Shop. Click here to go directly to the advance booking: www.ea.run/Pre-Order-Shana-EN

Shakugan no Shana can be pre-ordered for the "Anime Messe Babelsberg" as part of a crowdfunding campaign thanks to FilmConfect Anime and emania ANIME. You will receive great discounts as a pre-order during the crowdfunding campaign and you can secure exclusive goodies from Shana and our character Manami. Furthermore, with every purchase you directly support the Anime Messe Babelsberg and AnimeRadio.de in times of Corona. 

IMPORTANT NOTE! Since often already asked: Shakugan no Shana is released under the label FilmConfect Anime. emania ANIME only cooperates in production and is not responsible for licensing. The crowdfunding project is an additional support for the Anime fair and the association. The crowdfunding project has no influence on the release. The situation of the Anime Kultur Verein has no influence on the release.

Background to this campaign:

We at the Anime Messe Babelsberg were also hit hard by the Corona crisis. As you know, we had to cancel our events this year. However, this necessary decision had the consequence that already invested money in the events in 2020 was lost. Looking ahead to 2021, we are pleased to be able to hold the event with the help of a good hygiene concept, but we see no signs of a financial improvement in 2020. We rather expect a further deterioration, since, among other things, the hygiene concept will result in significantly higher costs. At the moment the Anime Kultur e.V. has to compensate a financial loss of at least 50.000 Euro due to the Corona crisis.

Due to the fact that our partner events cannot take place either, for which we normally provide necessary financial reserves with AnimeRadio.de, we are no longer able to bear the losses of the events from our own resources. Our company "emania", which provides the financial means for the association to carry out all association projects, has founded the project "Help for self-help" together with FilmConfect Anime. With the Anime licence and the associated crowdfunding we are in good spirits to secure the necessary financial means for the continuation of the Anime Messe, AnimeRadio.de and the other projects of Anime Kultur e.V.

But for this project we need all of you! Because a crowdfunding campaign only works with you. If the Anime Messe and maybe even the Anime Shakugan no Shana are close to your heart, we would be happy if YOU would become a part of this campaign. No matter if you just spread the word or even participate financially. We are happy about every help!

PS: More details about our situation and information about the crowdfunding project will follow day by day on our website. We want to give you the greatest possible insight behind our scenes. We want to show you how many volunteers work for the association and for the company to promote anime culture in the German-speaking world.

Today we want to point out once again together with the initiative #Alarmstuferot (red alert) the terrible situation in the whole event industry! Since March we are in a lockdown without any perspective. Even aid loans are blocked by the house banks, with the reason that the event industry is at the end of its rope...

That is why the second major demonstration will take place in Berlin today, 28.10.2020. Showing the flag without spreading the virus further. We all know that the measures must be taken to protect lives. However, the promised aid should also be implemented! Not only saving planes, cars and cruise ships.

If the government does not clear the way for real aid, the event industry will not survive the winter. An industry that has twice as many employees as the car industry and a total turnover of 130 billion euros, thus generating important tax money for the state. Tax money that has to be distributed fairly! We do not want to compensate for losses, the industry only wants to survive Corona. The government is just trampling underfoot the people who provide culture in this country, who promote education and not the conspiracies. For many people the event industry is the light at the end of the long tunnel that makes life worth living.

We feel the same as everyone else in the event industry! Our income, which is used to maintain the Anime Kultur Verein, to maintain AnimeRadio.de, to maintain the Anime Festival Freiburg and to maintain the Anime Messe Babelsberg, has fallen by 90%.

As a small company / association we only made a profit of 5.000 Euro last year. This is not enough to build up reserves. We do not want any profit either! We always use all our money for the benefit of anime culture! But with a turnover of almost half a million Euros we give many people work. For example the technicians, security forces, caterers, hotels, transport companies, hall operators, tent builders and so on... We give many new artists and dealers a platform that would otherwise be lost in the masses of the internet.

It is time to show the flag with brains! Support the initiative #Alarmstuferot (red alert) by sharing the basic idea! Equal help for all! It cannot be that you have either one employee too few or one too many, that you have your company headquarters in the wrong federal state, that you have 1 m² too much or too little rental space, that you have chosen the wrong legal form for your company or that you are 1 day too young or too old. If you fall through all these grids, the last stop must not be Harz 4 (Social assistance) in connection with the abandonment of the business.

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Here is a great factual video summary from Till Brönner on Facebook, which describes the situation in which the event industry finds itself. (only in German) "Till Brönner is a German trumpeter, composer, professor for jazz trumpet and photographer."