Anime Club Stories

[Castor Troy]

I feel like watching Otaku no video again.

[Kitsuner]

There used to be an anime discussion group at the Barnes & Noble near where I used to live. I remember there being only two other members, and the employee leading the discussion, as it were, loaned me a book with philosophical/psychological essays about salt and a VHS copy of Twilight of the Cockroaches. In exchange, she borrowed some Excel Saga and Cutey Honey DVDs from me.

Due to confusing scheduling, I never attended another meeting of the group and never saw her again. I'm pretty satisfied with our trade though.

[ShatteredFlame]

The anime club at my school was a collective of the biggest cynical assholes I've ever met. Plus the males were all very ugly and would trade their hideous girlfriends every other week, it was disgusting.

I'm not even trying to slam anime fans but that is honestly my experience. It was funny because I went to a high school where sports were the main focus, yet that stereotypes about jocks beating up the nerdy kids could not be more far off. They would try to be friends with the anime fans but most of them just showed nothing but disrespect for anyone that wasn't in their little club. And the majority of people you would see making out in the halls would be those anime kids.

Me, I let some of them know I liked anime but avoided that club at all cost. The worst was hearing a bunch of internet memes like "the game" being shouted between them, it would bother me that I knew what they were talking about.


I'm starting my first year of college soon and there is an anime club there. None of the anime kids from my school are going there and it's in a different state so I'm curious to see how it is.

[Fay-Sa]

I started the one in my high school. Nothing more then friends sitting around watching anime and getting us out of class around 3 period. The club died a year after I left.

There a local one that happens once a month and mini meetings every week. I only go to the monthly one once in awhile. Reason being that there are only two people there that don't drive me crazy and the club works with the local cons. The head of the club been to Japan many times and he use to work in film editing back in the day (the guy in his 70's at least) and the other just a really nice guy. It's kinda funny since they are both way older than me but their easier to talk to then most people my age hehe.

Outside of the quite members I avoid the others as much as possible. There are also this mother & daughter that are there at both the monthly and weekly meetings and everyone pretty much convinced that the daughter has some real mental issues..doesn't help they fight like pre-teens at every meeting. They wanted me to share a room with them so it would be a 'girls only' room and not a co-ed for a con coming up...I lied and said I already had a room. There also this one guy who a complete pig and has no respect for women.

Also I avoid the mini-meetings cause one of the members and I butt heads. He likely the most bull headed 'prueist' I ever known. While I have no issue if you like sub over dub or vice versa, that fine I respect that and all I ask is for the person to respect what I like. This guy however doesn't care. Having someone insult you cause you bought a DVD from Funimation instead of the "Malaysian version" aka bootleg and using terms like "American garbage" when regrading those who work with US anime distribution companies (and he doesn't just mean VA's..he means everyone) is really annoying. Mainly cause he the one who brings it up all the time and will go on and on about it when there really no need to. Sad thing is his wife way nicer and I like talking to her, just not him.

Did I mention I have to work on con staff with them =(

Finally the (now former) head of this local high school anime club invited me as a guest to one of their meetings...I honestly couldn't get out of there fast enough. Everyone was so out of control and was nothing but a shouting match. Needless to say I 'politely' declined the 2nd time I was asked. Through I did go to the girl's graduation party which was almost as bad.

So yea..outside of my little get together in high school the clubs kinda suck around here. I heard there was on at IU but as far as I know it's now gone.

[Davis 51]

I'm the VP of my University's Anime Club. When I joined as a freshman, we had maybe 25-30 members and 10 regulars. Now our member/email list is hueg, and our regulars are anywhere between 30-60, thanks to some amazing leadership by our past few presidents and my own volunteering to turn us into a campus mainstay. We are putting on a small "convention" this year, and are looking to make our presence known through the local area and not just the university.

[Kionon]

For high school: this.

For college: it was pretty much like you'd imagine at the time. A library of VHS tapes, mostly nerdy guys, maybe two women. Dark classroom we had to get permission to use. Terribly small CRT television mounted in the corner. No digisubs. We didn't have that shit until later. Selection was pretty bad (the entire library was kept by the president in a wheeled suitcase). I'm not sure it honestly survived another year. When bittorrent and digisubs did show up in about 2003 or so, I had stopped going, and moved to Austin. I was far too busy to attend UT's anime club, but I heard it had a better selection.

[Castor Troy]

Also I avoid the mini-meetings cause one of the members and I butt heads. He likely the most bull headed 'prueist' I ever known. While I have no issue if you like sub over dub or vice versa, that fine I respect that and all I ask is for the person to respect what I like. This guy however doesn't care. Having someone insult you cause you bought a DVD from Funimation instead of the "Malaysian version" aka bootleg and using terms like "American garbage" when regrading those who work with US anime distribution companies (and he doesn't just mean VA's..he means everyone) is really annoying. Mainly cause he the one who brings it up all the time and will go on and on about it when there really no need to. Sad thing is his wife way nicer and I like talking to her, just not him.

How does someone like that even have a wife in the first place?

[Fay-Sa]

Also I avoid the mini-meetings cause one of the members and I butt heads. He likely the most bull headed 'prueist' I ever known. While I have no issue if you like sub over dub or vice versa, that fine I respect that and all I ask is for the person to respect what I like. This guy however doesn't care. Having someone insult you cause you bought a DVD from Funimation instead of the "Malaysian version" aka bootleg and using terms like "American garbage" when regrading those who work with US anime distribution companies (and he doesn't just mean VA's..he means everyone) is really annoying. Mainly cause he the one who brings it up all the time and will go on and on about it when there really no need to. Sad thing is his wife way nicer and I like talking to her, just not him.

How does someone like that even have a wife in the first place?

I honestly have no idea. Your guess is as good as mine.

[JaddziaDax]

The org counts as an anime club right?

It's the closest thing to being involved in such a thing for me.

[gotenks794]

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