AnimeClick.it
{{Short description|Italian-language anime and manga website}}
{{Primary sources|date=May 2025}}
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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,{{Cite journal|title=Dieci "piccoli" siti. La top 10 italiana dell'informazione web su manga e anime|author=Loris Cantarelli|journal=Manga Academica|volume=2|page=107|year=2009}}{{Cite web|url=http://animeclick.it/news/16233-animeclickit-segnalato-da-adnkronos|title=AnimeClick.it segnalato da Adnkronos|publisher=AnimeClick.it|date=July 12, 2007}}{{Cite book|title=Il Manga. Storia e universi del fumetto giapponese|author=Bouissou|translator=Di Fratta|publisher=Tunué|location=Italy|language=it|author1-mask=|volume=|pages=314–315|isbn=978-8897165309|first=Jean-Marie|date=October 21, 2010|translator-first=Gianluca}} also provides related information such as trivia about the Japanese culture, videogames and fansubs in Italian.
History
AnimeClick.it is an amateur site founded at the end of 1998 as a side branch of a local web portal called VeronaClick.{{Cite web|url=http://www.aulamanga.it/manga/aggiornamenti/marzo2006/taccan.htm|title=Sono il webmaster del sito www.animeclick.it.|date=February 21, 2009}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.animeclick.it/news/30806-animeclickit-2011-e-cattivi-propositi-per-il-2012|title=AnimeClick.it: 2011 e cattivi propositi per il 2012|publisher=AnimeClick.it|date=January 1, 2012}} On the same day, the founder of the site, Andrea Sartori, entrusted the management of the portal to said association.{{Cite web|url=http://www.antme.it/2012/05/30/associazione-newtype-media-e-animeclick-it/|title=Associazione NewType Media e AnimeClick.it|publisher=Associazione NewType Media|date=May 30, 2012}}
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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dynit.it/ultimissime_dettaglio.asp?idnws=613|title=Scegli i doppiatori di MADOKA MAGICA!|author=|website=Dynit|date=September 6, 2011|language=it}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.antoniogenna.net/doppiaggio/anim/madokamagica.htm|title="Madoka Magica" ("Puella Magi Madoka Magica")|author=|website=Il mondo dei doppiatori|publisher=|date=February 23, 2013|language=it}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.animeclick.it/ListaFansubs.php|title=Fansub italiani: la lista completa degli episodi fansubbati|publisher=AnimeClick.it}}
In October, 2011, AnimeClick.it released on the Android Market an app that offers some of the site's services.{{Cite web|url=https://market.android.com/details?id=cc.animeclick|title=AnimeClick - Android Apps on Google Play|publisher=Google Play}} 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,{{Cite web|url=https://maps2011.luccacomicsandgames.com/|title=Lucca Comics & Games 2011 - Mappa Espositori|publisher=Lucca Comics & Games}} Napoli Comicon,{{Cite web|url=http://www.comicon.it/events/anime-dream-2/|title=AnimeClick: Anime Dream|publisher=Napoli Comicon|date=March 19, 2015}} Cartoomics,{{Cite web|url=http://cartoomics.it/elenco-espositori-2016|title=Cartoomics 2016: elenco espositori|publisher=Cartoomics|date=March 11, 2016}} Etna Comics,{{Cite web|url=http://www.youblisher.com/p/905900-Brochure-Etna-Comics-2014|title=Brochure Etna Comics 2014|publisher=Etna Comics|date=June 20, 2014}} Romics,{{Cite web|url=https://www.romics.it/it/contenuto/attacco-dei-giganti-da-manga-ad-anime-alla-scoperta-di-un-titolo-colossale|title=L'attacco dei giganti: da manga ad anime, alla scoperta di un titolo colossale|publisher=Romics}} Udine's Far East Film Festival, becoming the official Media Partner of some of them.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cartoomics.it/|title=Cartoomics homepage|publisher=Cartoomics|date=February 10, 2019}}{{Cite web|url=http://thegamefortress.it/|title=The Game Fortress homepage|publisher=NovaLudica|date=May 20, 2018}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.fareastfilm.com/easyne2/sponsor/web-media-partners.aspx|title=Far East Festival - Web Media Partners|publisher=Far East Festival|date=February 22, 2016}}
In 2015, the site became a network with the opening of two other web portals: SerialClick.it,{{Cite web|url=https://www.serialclick.it/news/41443-benvenuti-a-serialclick|title=Benvenuti a SerialClick|publisher=SerialClick}} about TV series and live actions, in January (then closed in 2019){{Cite web|url=https://www.serialclick.it/news/79037-serialclick-compie-4-anni-e-chiude-i-battenti|title=SerialClick compie 4 anni e chiude i battenti|publisher=SerialClick}} and GamerClick.it,{{Cite web|url=https://www.gamerclick.it/news/40761-welcome-togamerclickit|title=Welcome to GamerClick.it|publisher=GamerClick}} a portal about videogames, in June.
In 2018, during the Lucca Comics & Games convention, AnimeClick.it held the first edition of the AnimeClick Awards.{{Cite web|url=https://mobile.starcomics.com/news-item.aspx?News=19954|title=Star Comics è tra i premiati agli AnimeClick Awards 2018 a Lucca|publisher=Star Comics}} In 2021, the site became an official Streaming Media Partner of Lucca Comics & Games and kept the role since.{{Cite web|url=https://www.luccacomicsandgames.com/it/2021/partner/|title=Partnership}}
In October 2023, the publishing house Rizzoli published the book La super guida manga, curated by the editorial staff of the site.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rizzolilibri.it/libri/la-super-guida-manga/|title=La super guida manga|author=|website=|publisher=Rizzoli|date=|language=|page=|pages=|quotation=}}