Anime Club Stories

[ngsilver]

Going on the current trend of comments about anime clubs in the vent thread, figured now's as good as any time to create a thread for it.

So, what are your experiences with anime clubs around you? Do you go? Are they open? Do they creep out out? Details!


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Me, I've been involved with 2 anime clubs. 1 at each college I've attended. When I was as UK (University of Kentucky) I joined the local club known as AMUK at the time (hahah, we're running amuk haha......). It was your standard spread of mostly guys and a few gals, some creepers, some not. I became friends with the president and by my 2nd semester I was defacto Vice President, and actually got the job my 2nd year. While I was involved I helped grow the club from about 12 members who would show up for meetings to about 40 regularly, with a 100'ish membership base and major showings moving us to the theater on campus. Fun times. Probably my biggest accomplishment is when I helped the president at the time draw up a new constitution that we were able to vote in and changed the name to UK Anime, which I hear is still around today, sporting the same constitution with a few minor changes. I later became president and then there was a big fallout between me and my vice and well... I left the club and moved. As far as the demographic was concerned, we had I believe more female members then male actually, and generally the club as a whole was made up of mostly 'normal' people.

I currently attend and try to help grow the anime club at UofM Dearborn. I'm currently an adviser and webmaster/forum admin for the club, helping to advise a group of members that include those a decade younger then me. It's an interesting dynamic. The club is made up of mostly guys. There are a few girls in the club and what ones are there are fairly normal, but they are the rare breed that hasn't been scared away by the rampant immaturity, especially in the presence of... "BOOBIES!".... Probably my most overused comment is 'this is why we're a sausage fest' as I often point out the reason we generally lack female members is due to every guy in the room staring at any girl who walks in the room, usually blurting out, 'ITS A GIRL!' At the very least, for the most part, the club is generally sociable however. We'll go out to dinner after club meetings on Friday nights and hang out during the week. Now if only I can get them to advertise more around campus and make the viewing environment a little more inviting to everyone. I fear this may be an up-hill battle, but who knows what new members will bring this fall.

[Copycat_Revolver]

Once upon a time...




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[Nya-chan Production]

Incoherent babbling stuff

I can't shake off the feeling that you look like Madarame now |:

As for me... we don't have clubs. The end.

The closest I can think of is an otaku tea room I attend to regularly...

[BasharOfTheAges]

I ran and helped found my Highschool one back in 02. Nobody ever really had ideas or desires for any sort of events. We tried a t-shirt sale once to raise funds and ended up with our costs covered and a huge bag of excess T-shirts that nobody wanted. I think the most successful thing we ended up doing the 2 years I ran it was getting a group together to go to Anime Boston 03 and 04. Everyone talked me out of trying to start one up at my University (as I mentioned in the other thread) because there was still political fall-out present from the last club's downfall baked into the Student Union rules and regulations (or so I was led to believe). I ended up pointing the club that started there in 09 in the direction of the old club's constitution so they could have some sort of basis for starting out - it turns out an alum I knew from a couple of DnD games was the old club's president and wrote the constitution herself.

[Castor Troy]

I never bothered with the gaming and anime clubs in high school since I had a group of friends I hung out with regularly.

I didn't get involved in an anime club until 2002 when Ikasu, NeoHentaiMaster, (both are members of the .org but no longer active), and I were coordinating and judging the CSUN (California State University Northridge) AMV contest. Most of the people were quite normal there.

We stopped going after CSUN stopped having their amv contest and they revived themselves as Mimokicon years later. CSUN's too far from me and most of the club has probably graduated since then.

The only time I've dealt with "weaboos" and insane otaku has always been online. Maybe I should be grateful.

[ZephyrStar]

Went to our college one, it was fairly bad. Too many people hung up on who was a bigger otaku (OH YEAH, well, I IMPORT AND EAT POCKY ON A REGULAR BASIS! YEAH), who had seen what and who had not, why (insert Naruto, DBZ, Bleach, One Piece, Death Note) is the best anime conceived by mankind ever, and yeah.

I was hesitant to go to cons because of this kind of behavior, but once I met a lot of the regulars from this site, cons are super fun because I get to see them.

Currently I attend an anime meetup group in my city, and so far it has been pretty laid back and chill. Mostly older fans.

[ngsilver]

Incoherent babbling stuff

I can't shake off the feeling that you look like Madarame now |:

Other then checking google image for pics, I have no clue what you're talking about. And from the designs I see, yeah, couldn't be farther from that I don't think ^^()

And you are probably right, what I said was mostly incoherent babble. The big thing to take from it was, my first club had girls and most of them weren't the creepy weaboo or fan-girl type, while my current club is a giant sausage fest and what girls we've been able to keep have been the creepy weaboo fangirl type.

[Kariudo]

My first anime club wasn't really an anime club, it was more of a gaming club (and by gaming, I mean halo. And I suppose I should mention it was in High School). So we'd have maybe 30 guys acting like douches while playing halo...and maybe 10 people (including a few girls) watching anime in another room. One of my friends ended up taking over after I graduated and the club grew.

I've been involved in my college's anime club since I was a freshman. It was only about 10-12 people (myself included) when I first started to go, but it grew over the years to somewhere between 40-50 regulars (with a respectable number of girls, though there are still more guys). There are a few creepers, but I'd say most of the people are rather normal. Attendance for the past 2 years has dropped, which I attribute to two things. One reason is the format change (went from watching complete series with members bringing in a few episodes of a random series each meeting to theme nights), the other is the convention that has taken up nearly all the money the club gets (save for member fees) for the past 4 years.

Other than that, my college's club has had a few other distinctions:
-One of the most well attended student orgs
-One of the (if not the) most diverse student org
-We sued part of the student government, and won

yeah, the UW-Milwaukee student government has pretty much been corrupt since I started going there. We sued the student allocations committee after they denied funding for Anime Milwaukee due to rules they made up on the spot (and they don't allow submission of anything during the allocations hearing...so they pretty much ruled us out before we even showed up). Also, that reminds me of the year the SAC lost our paperwork (which had to be done in octuplet...or nonuplent if we wanted to keep a copy) which forced us to be the very last hearing (meaning they're way past the point of having given out all the money they're going to give)

tl;dr
my college animu club is a pretty cool guy, eh has girlz and doesn't afraid of student government

[ngsilver]

tl;dr
my college animu club is a pretty cool guy, eh has girlz and doesn't afraid of student government

Almost polar opposite of UofM D's gaming club. does afraid of student government ^^()

[Nya-chan Production]

Incoherent babbling stuff

I can't shake off the feeling that you look like Madarame now |:

Other then checking google image for pics, I have no clue what you're talking about. And from the designs I see, yeah, couldn't be farther from that I don't think ^^() (...)

Madarame from Genshiken, that should help a lot. Particularly this:

No.

Madarame is the most moe character in Genshiken.

No, seriously.