So, I'm curious as to how many of us are members of any somewhat official anime clubs. I recently joined one at my university, and honestly I'm a bit disappointed - I seem to be more knowledgeable than most of the other members, and we have quite a few "stereotypical weeaboo" type fans. A letdown, since I'd never really had any people local who shared my hobby and I was hoping for better.

Anyone else have any experiences like this?

I was a Project A-ko on SCI-FI Channel noob.
Too young to get the whole "lesbian" thing :|

I'm 41. I grew up on Speed Racer, Astroboy, Kimba, Marine Boy and Prince Planet. We also were lucky enough to have Ultra-Man and Johnny Sokko and his Giant Robot. Life was good.

>>50 was this UK sci-fi or US sci-fi?

Living it, it questions.
There is an honorific in Japanese, and the character also has complex Chinese
characters in the hiragana, the katakana, and it.
How though it thinks Japanese to be a difficult language farther because of English?

>>53 I do not understand your question. For translation, please try http://www.nifty.com/globalgate/
It is better than other translators (Most of the time)

35. When I was growing up, Star Blazers was the shit. Then came Robotech.
I also remember those Cartoon Fantasy organization meetings in Philly. Great times...

I'm like >>50. 23, my first was either Project A-ko or Dominion Tank Police on US Sci-Fi. Did anyone here see the later special with Apollo Smile? jesus

My first anime was Evangelion. A friend of mine lent me the series. I wouldn't say i've become an Otaku but I am DEVOTED to all that is NG Evangelion.

>>57

Don't worry; you'll get better.

I'm not in an anime club right now. I don't know if there really is any concrete club where I am anyway. I'll most likely join one when I go to college, though I'm really not much of a hardcore anime fan. My first real delve into anime was when I got hooked on Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 in 8th grade back when it was being played on the Action channel late at night back in 2001. I still haven't seen mnay of the "classics", mostly because I just don't really care enough. It seems hard enough to keep up with what's current/somewhat current. Oh well.

>>57 It's okay to like things like Evangelion and FLCL at first, but if you don't move on after a few years people might start to injure you!

(This is true for any series, really. But it seems GAINAX is notorious for creating shows that people get tired of hearing of after two or three years. FLCL especially. I know of at least one oekaki board that has banned FLCL fanart.)

>>60

What, after a few years when people have become elitist snobs who think popular shows are too good for them?

Evangelion and FLCL are popular for a simple reason: They're good shows. Disliking something because other people like it is incredibly silly.

>>61

>>Evangelion and FLCL are popular for a simple reason:

Hordes of fanboys that annoy normal people, the same reason why the shows are hated.

good, but not the greatest.

>>62

> Disliking something because other people like it is incredibly silly.

>>64

signed!

> Disliking something because other people like it is incredibly silly.

I don't know, there must be some reason people do that

How about elitism, >>66 ? I know some people genuinely don't like it, but again, >>64 spake teh tr00th.

I go to a club that's pretty cool. The schedule is nominated and voted by the members, so a general sense of taste is maintained since the majority rules the lineup. Then again, my opinion may be skewed as almost half the lineup is coming off of my shelves...

Still, clubs are fun except for the occasional (or not so occasional) moron member that you just want to smack around for not just talking/heckling, but failing to have anything worth saying whatsoever in the process.

>>72
never go to a convention anime showing; they are populated entirely by those guys.

>>72

I've been to about 15 conventions...and see plenty of girls around, even in screenings for oldskool mecha shows and porn.

I was offered a "glomp" at a convention once. At the time I had misheard the girl and wasn't sure what she was talking about so I said no thanks. Upon reflection, maybe I should have taken her offer. With my looks I'm not the kind of guy who should be getting random girls offering him hugs. On the other hand it might have been out of pity so maybe it's better I didn't. orz

I'm the president of the anime club at my college. We get a decent turnout, and I noticed that one of you is from DAI? My club is in Colorado, but thats all I'll say in the interests of anonymity. We show lots of different shows, some new and some old. We aren't allowed to show any unlicensed anime, so mostly its stuff people have seen but come back to see in a crowd. My members have fun laughing together, and we've shown some good ones.

My members are kinda half half. We got a few weaboo types, some standard nerds, and some (gasp) pretty cool people. Depends on what you want to get into it for, I guess. And I too have observed that at conventions, quite a few attendees are women, and a surprisingly large number of them are fairly deently hot...

how do you find a anime club?? i cant find anywhere here ~"~

I used to go to one...but they stopped having them. its a real shame

>>77

Ask around at a local comic store, or google for "anime" and the name of your local universities - chances are you'll get a hit from something.

^^ yay!

>>80
You found one?

Well, no, but, i was excited about it from the previous statement and help. ill be looking for one soon. though, im not sure if my schedule will allow right now.

oohh i see! thanks i go check if i can find some anime clubs ^o^

I actually started and ran an anime club. made a lot of good friends there but good god there were a lot of .... strange people,

I was thinking about joining my school's anime club...until I found out that the only members were like a few crazy fan-girls :(

>>84
a LOT of strange people in my schools anime club.....

I'm thinking of restarting my anime club. We had to take last semester off due to lack of enthusiasm and the fact that our treasurer, the only guy who ever did anything or filled out any papers, went to another school. Who knows, we usually scare off the weeaboos, but that just leaves about three people when you get down to it...

I'm a newbie to the core, by the way. I got my start on Sailor Moon, DBZ and Pokey-mawwn before I found out about all the shit-awesome stuff out there.

Just as a note, anime clubs tend to lure in flocks of crazies.XD

I acutally started the anime club at my high school during my junior year, and it's been doing REALLY well. I checked up on it last year, its third year running, and it's actually got more steady members that show up weekly than two years back. Here's hoping it's up for a good long run.<3

Basically, since I ran the club, I showed a lot of obscure titles that I figuired everyone would enjoy. Excel Saga was shown way back in my first year of the club; that was the first anime I ever introduced to the club, actually. It's a good start, considering it has a lot of cultural references. When I came to visit the club last year, I lent them a copy of a DVD player friendly version of Honey and Clover. They loved it.<3 Considering most of them were newbies to the world of anime, I did my best to open them up to this wonderfully wide world. Now, if you don't have my kind of power, instead of just playing stuff, recommend stuff. Everyone's a newbie at one point or another, so I'm personally very tolerant of them.<3

I attend 2 clubs in my area and thinking about attending a 3rd one. I am a mixture of 2 and 3. The clubs have its garden varity Fan girl/boys, shy's, dangers to physicial health, knollege wannabe's and people who actually KNOW what there talking about (at least 4 professors attend that I know of), etc. we mainly show current fansubs and the odd licanced series (with permission of the licancor)

Anonymous 09/03/06(Sun)18:18 No.934439

From my experiences, an established anime club exhibits at least one person from each of the following groups.

• The hard core otaku. He still lives in his parent's basement, has a beard, and spends all of his disposable income on anime. Unfortunately, it's all shitty anime so nobody wants to watch it.
• The condescending asshole - Most likely the club president. He can't lord over anyone else anywhere else, so this is his only chance.
• The gamer - Wants to use the projector when nobody else is looking.
• The silent guy - Arrives quietly, sits in a corner, leaves quietly. Friend of the gamer.
• The spunky blathering idiot - Can't string two words together, is made fun of by the condescending assholes.
• The butch lesbian - Almost like one of the guys. Likes watching yaoi. Likes hinting at yaoi relations between male members of the club.
• The "less than beautiful" silent girl - Shows up for a few meetings then leaves.
• The hot girl - Unfortunately with a totally fucked up past and probably a dozen types of STDs. Goes through guys faster than chewing gum -- storms into the club, sleeps with a few of the nerds (since nobody else is desperate enough to jam it in :( ) and then leaves never to be seen again.
• The guy who looks like a jock - Buff, in the military, but the biggest weaboo around.

I'm not flaming... it's just that from my experience, that is what the majority of anime clubs are about.

>The silent guy - Arrives quietly, sits in a corner, leaves quietly. Friend of the gamer.

That would be me, if I ever attended one. I'm considering starting a anime club at my college but I'm certainly not

>The condescending asshole - Most likely the club president. He can't lord over anyone else anywhere else, so this is his only chance.

Thus, I really don't have the confidence/charisma/etc to. I'm looking into finding a straw man the "run" the club, while I do most of the important stuff from the shadows as an "advisor" or something.

>The "less than beautiful" silent girl - Shows up for a few meetings then leaves.

I wouldn't mind meeting one of those. ;)

>The "less than beautiful" silent girl - Shows up for a few meetings then leaves.

Do want. ;_;

Is joining a club really that worth it?

I mean, I work full time, and I'm not a member of any anime club. It's kind of sad, I've only got anonymous to talk to about anime, and I refuse to date anyone who doesn't watch anime.

But the anime they show at clubs isn't stuff I like watching (Unlicenced anime like Magical Pokaan and School Rumble and Pretty Cure ^_^) and they're just university newbs that don't know what they're doing with themselves.

Still, I say this without ever having joined an anime club. Maybe I should first?

>>93

>But the anime they show at clubs isn't stuff I like watching (Unlicenced anime like Magical Pokaan and School Rumble and Pretty Cure ^_^)

The club at my university watches unlicenced shows exclusively. I don't know if this is a standard, but it seems logical to me, seeing as it is a (questionably) legal way to watch shows without spending any club funds.

Just go to a meeting or two and if you don't like it, don't return. Not that hard of a move.

My community college doesn't have an anime club (that I can find.)

I just found out that they have a "Japanese club," though. It's funny, I've been here for 1.5 years, and only find out when I have about 1 year left. Although, I suppose it could be a new club...

Well anyway, their sign up form went something like "Let's learn to speak Japanese, learn to cook Japanese food, and learn more about Japanese culture! Let's try to make it to Japan next year!" though, there was no one at the table to explain anything else about the club.

I decided to join so I can ask them thing about "Japanimation" and "Oragami." Details later on how things turn out.

>>84

Truth. It's funny, I go through life trying to give people the benefit of the doubt. After all, stereotypes are just broad generalizations and don't apply to actual people, right?

Wrong. There are some people that create stereotypes.

i dont get it most of the clubs that ive been to are never organized...
just a bunch of n00bs who watch naruto and dont even understand the story lines...
they just watch it for the action...
NARUTO = N00B anime!!!

when i was in 10th grade, i started up an anime club at my High School. it was rather successful, with us running screenings at least twice a week in two rooms

when i graduated from HS, i moved onto University and joined the anime club there. like 1, i found that i had a lot more knowledge than the other club members, hell, my anime collection was larger than theirs

i think it's important to have people that you can chat to bout your hobbies, that can get together and do it with you. i haven't been active with the activities of my Uni's anime club however that's mainly because i already have a community i can turn to

i've been on the organisational committee of the anime convention held in my State for 2 years now, a volunteer for them for the last 4. the attendees of our convention do meet ups and activities all through the year

so i guess what i'm trying to say is even if the community at your school/college/uni's anime club is disappointing, look around to find different people you can share your time and interests too ^-^

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