Adelaide Convention Centre
July 23rd - 25th 2010
AVCon features anime screenings running around the clock throughout the weekend. The screenings range from new releases to cult classics, from a variety of genres. These are a fantastic opportunity for fans and novices alike to expose themselves to the rapidly growing anime culture!
Every year AVCon kicks off with an afternoon of premiere anime screenings on the Friday night before the weekend of the convention. The screenings are held in a relaxed cinema-style environment. Your pre-registration passes can be collected at this launch.
Friday 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Rating: PG
Anyone can drive fast. Only one driver can be the fastest. It takes nerve, skill, and the right car - and Takumi’s got all three. His rep as a dominating downhill racer is growing, but when he’s invited to drive for an all-star team that could change the face of local racing, Takumi’s got to beat his stiffest competition before he’ll join their ranks: himself. With graduation approaching, his classmates drift toward uncertain futures. For Takumi, looking ahead means putting as many challengers in his rearview mirror as he can. If he can prove to himself that he’s ready, the next stage is waiting, and it’s all downhill from there.
Friday 8:00pm to 9:30pm
Saturday 9:00pm to 10:30pm
Rating: M15+
Brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric hoped to resurrect their mother’s corpse when they attempted human transmutation, but their reckless defiance of alchemy’s Law of Equivalent Exchange resulted in no miraculous reunion. Their experimentation with forbidden science plunged the boys into a hellish nightmare; half of Ed’s limbs were torn from his body, and Al awoke to discover his young soul transferred to a suit of armor. There is but one way the Elrics can restore what was lost - find the fabled Philosopher’s Stone.
Saturday 10:00am to 11:30am
Rating: PG
Set in an alternate universe, Japan has been divided since World War II. To the north, Hokkaido has been annexed by the “Union” while Honshu and other southern islands exist under US sovereignty. A gigantic and mysterious tower has risen in the north, easily viewed across the across Tsugaru Strait from Aomori, the northernmost prefecture of Honshu. In the summer of 1996, three 9th-graders had made a promise that one day they’ll build an aircraft and unravel the tower’s mystery, but their project was abandoned after the girl, Sayuri Sawatari, began experiencing sleeping sickness and transferred to Tokyo for better treatment. What the friends don’t know is that Sayuri’s unconsciousness is somehow linked with secrets of the tower... and the world.
Saturday 11:30am to 1:00pm
Rating: PG
The Sohma family is cursed. However, this is no ordinary family curse. When a member of the family is embraced by a person of the opposite gender, they transform into an animal of the Chinese Zodiac! Sweet orphan Tohru Honda has no idea when she suddenly finds herself living under their roof.
Saturday 11:30am to 1:30pm
Rating: M
Carefully and lovingly restored to celebrate the series in Japan, the original casts have reprised their roles in this new version of the famous series which presents a more condensed story closer to Akira Toriyama’s original ideas. The last descendants of an evil race of warriors known as the Saiyans are on a collision course with Earth, and Goku - the strongest fighter on the planet - is all that stands between humanity and extinction. To save his friends and the world he loves, Goku must travel to a realm from which few return, but should he survive, he’ll discover the power to face the villainous Saiyan warlord - Prince Vegeta.
Saturday 1:00pm to 2:30pm
Rating: PG
Somewhere in space….sometime in the future….men and women find themselves to be sworn enemies. At the end of one particularly bad day, Hibiki finds himself trapped on his own spaceship after it’s taken over by a band of female pirates. When they get word that their home planets are in serious danger, the men and women are forced to work together (some reluctantly, some provocatively), as they confront the growing threat of an enemy with origins and motives unknown.
Saturday 2:30pm to 4:00pm
Rating: M15+
World domination is the goal? We’re still not sure... Lord Illpalazzo and ACROSS, a secret ideological organization, are behind this potentially dastardly plan. And their certifiably insane and unbelievably hyperactive senior agent Excel will stop at nothing to help her beloved boss Lord Illpalazzo rule the planet.
Saturday 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Rating: M
In the small town of Suiten, three boys discover they can transfer their souls to a parallel world. Together they attempt to unravel the mysteries of their outer-body experiences and gain new perspectives on their unusual lives as they grow towards adulthood and attempt to reconcile with the darkness of their collective past. When ‘ghosts’ from their unseen world manifest in their apparent ‘reality’, their lives reveal further mystery...
Saturday 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Rating: MA15+
In Miss Yukari’s English class, every day is an adventure. First off, there’s the teacher herself. A bit of an air-head, she may have graduated from high school, but she sure hasn’t left. And with the arrival of not one, but two transfer students - one ten-year-old prodigy and one space cadet - it’s going to be an interesting year!
Saturday 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Rating: PG
Lina’s on the run from a government inspector who’s ready to put her away for good. Her crime? Just being herself! The guy’s hot on her tail, but a tiny creature that actually has a tail might be Lina’s biggest problem. Pokota’s a powerful little furball, and his path of destruction is getting pinned on Lina. With so much explosive magic between them, you know things will go boom when they face off. But there’s more to Pokota than anyone knows, and if Lina’s gang can get to the bottom of his habit of blowing stuff up, they could end up with an awesome new ally.
Saturday 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Rating: MA15+
Somewhere in Germany in the not-too-distant future all hell is breaking loose. Giant, biomechanical creatures of origins unknown are terrorizing the city. Labelled as Demoniacs, the creatures appear rabid and unpredictable, killing and maiming anything in their path. The town’s citizens are terrified, the media demands answers. In response the government employees a special-forces team to investigate. Known as the Xenogenesis Assault Team (XAT), its members quickly realize the creature is capable of infecting anyone it comes in contact with; no one is safe.
Saturday 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Rating: M15+
The demon lord Arawn, has been resurrected since his death a millennium ago by Drwc, a priest from the Divine Empire, who plans to rule the world using Arwan’s powers by offering a girl named Riannon, a descendant of the Elf King Pwyll as a sacrifice.
Saturday 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Rating: M15+
Neo-Tokyo, 2019. The city is well on the way to rebuilding after World War III. The central characters, Kaneda and Tetsuo, two high school drop-outs, are members of a joy-riding motorcycle gang. In the opening scene, Kaneda and Tetsuo stumble upon a secret government project to develop telekinetic humans, apparently for use as weapons. Tetsuo learns of the existence of his ‘peer’ Akira, the project’s most powerful subject, and determines to challenge him...
Saturday 8:30pm to 10:30pm
Rating: PG
Wataru is a meek and unassertive boy. One day his father runs off, leaving Wataru and his mother behind. In shock, his mother suffers an accident. Brokenhearted, Wataru goes inside a neighborhood building that is reputedly haunted, but is really an entrance to a delusional world called Vision. There Wataru must master magic techniques and collect hidden treasures to meet a goddess, who, it is believed, can make wishes come true.
Sunday 10:00am to 11:30am
Rating: M15+
Shido is not your average Private Eye. A human at heart but vampire by trade, he’s a half-breed living and working in the seediest parts of Yokohama. If you like your gore thick and sexy with a little cheese, then Nightwalker will deliver the full hot order.
Sunday 11:30am to 1:00pm
Rating: M
Hitomi Kanzaki is a typical high school girl, with typical problems, but when a vision of a young man battling a dragon becomes a reality, her life changes forever. Drawn into a strange vortex with the swordsman, Van, Hitomi is thrust into the strange world of Gaea. Van must learn to master the suit of armor, Escaflowne, before he and Hitomi are crushed by the ambitions of the Empire of Zaibach....
Sunday 1:00pm to 2:30pm
Rating: PG
A fairytale for the new millenium: Lead by the brooding Hayate, seven Knights of Leafe search for the only person who can stop this catastrophe: the Pretear, a special girl who, when merged with a knight, transforms into an all-powerful defender of life. And the Pretear just happens to be Himeno! But is she up to the challenge?
Sunday 1:00pm to 2:30pm
Rating: MA15+
With an indefatigable sense of optimism and hope, Shu is like any other teenage boy in Japan. On his way home from kendo practice he sees a beautiful girl with strange eyes atop an abandoned smokestack. Just as he tries to talk to her assailants appear on snakelike machines to kidnap her. Shu is inadvertently dragged through time ten million years into a bleak dessert future and the grounded warship Hellywood.
Sunday 2:30pm to 3:00pm
Rating: PG
Sakura, Sayoran, Fay and Kurogane discover a people oppressed, living in a virtual paradise yet trembling on the very edge of existence. A princess silenced, but not into submission. An evil king who seeks an end to light and happiness. Only the brave of heart will prevail, rescuing the kingdom from darkness eternal...
Sunday 2:30pm to 4:00pm
Rating: MA15+
In the wastelands following the great nuclear war, a legend grew of a man. “Hokuto No Ken.” The Fist of the North Star. Master of a legendary fighting technique. A man of impossible strength and endurance. Yet before Ken claimed the title of the Fist, there was another master, trained in the art of Hokuto Shinken, the King of the Fist, the Divine Fist of Heaven. His name was Raoh.
Sunday 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Rating: PG
Yuko drags her pawns along, invited to a mysterious auction at an intriguing mansion. There, confronted by greed, vanity, and pride, they will navigate through rooms and passages that twist like the souls of holics, the mongers of material satisfaction. As the other guests disappear one by one, the puzzle must be pieced together before they become part of the collection, too.
Sunday 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Rating: M
As students of the Grim Reaper at Death Weapon Meister Academy, Maka is a Meister and Soul is her Weapon - literally. When they take on the supernatural forces of evil, Soul transforms into a razor-sharp scythe and Maka wields him in battle. He gets deadlier with every defeated soul he consumes and each victory strengthens their bond - but Maka, Soul, and their classmates might not be ready to face the darkness headed their way....
Sunday 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Rating: MA15+
Mima Kirigoe is a squeaky-clean Japanese pop singer who decides to leave the music industry and try her hand at acting. Finding her way in her new field proves to be difficult as she is forced to take humiliating work in perverse low-budget films. Mima is stalked by an obsessed fan, irate at her decision to abandon her successful music career.
Sunday 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Rating: PG
A young Kamui Shirou returns to Tokyo to face his destiny. The fate of world rests on the shoulders of this 15 year old boy. The future of the planet is bound up in what choice he will make: become a Dragon of Earth and rid the planet of the human scourge that is killing it, or become a Dragon of Heaven and fight to protect humanity from total annihilation.
Sunday 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Rating: M
The King of the Netherworld has died and various demons are now building their own empires in an effort to take control. However, the late King’s son has arrived and is out to reclaim his rightful place as ruler of the Netherworld! Along to help him is his vassal, Etna, with her Prinny squad, and Flonne, an angel-in-training originally sent to assassinate the king only to find that he has already died. Join our three intrepid - and somewhat eccentric - heroes as they initiate their plan to conquer the Netherworld, Heaven and Earth!