Monday, September 29, 2008

Animation-Comic-Game Hong Kong

Animation-Comic-Game Hong Kong is an material-entertainment fair and book fair focusing on animations, comics and games in Hong Kong. It is held annually at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre usually around August, selling comic books and comic-related / animation-related / game-related products. In recent years, categories of products and services in ACGHK have been extending.

History



The fair was previously called Hong Kong Comics Festival . In 2004, The convention was sponsored by , and was called the 2004 Animax Summer FUNtasy.

Since 2006, Hong Kong Comics Festival had been renamed as Ani-Com Hong Kong and was held with Hong Kong Game Fair together. Then they were merged as ACGHK since 2008.

Events and Conventions


Other than comics, there are shows, cosplay and dancing competitions during the festival. The annual Hong Kong Game Fair is held in conjunction with the comics festival. Companies such as Microsoft's XBOX have large kiosks and displays in the show, as well as the Samsung Game Girl competition, in which 11 girls compete for the Game Girl title. This competition is not so much based on their gaming ability, but rather on their looks.

For 2007, the convention was held on July 27 - 31 at the HKCEC. This was the 9th year of the convention. The estimated attendance was over 500,000 visitors. The convention also took place in Guangzhou, China from October 3-7, 2007.

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