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[The D]

At our college we were lucky enough to have a small anime club even being a 2 year college. This club actually helped me get into anime.

Now, when i say club, I don't mean we went to people's houses and hung around and raided their fridge. We had a auditorium, and a projector, and a movie screen. We would gather on a saturday once a month, watch anime for 4-5 hours, between shows we would play video games and eat and raffle off prizes.

When I got to the school the club was run well with a large staff. However, the club has shrunk. People left, graduated, transferred, got married, had babies. A new president took over, ran the club, then left for another college. Then a greek friend of mine took over even though he went to a 4 year college. Either he was lazy like I've heard Greeks are, or didn't have any time, because the club died.


I would love to restart the club, even though I might go to a 4 year college next year. But I don't see how.

I have around 5 dvds of anime in my house total. If I was a hardcore otaku with a shelf 7 feet high overflowing with anime, I would have no problem running a club. But I don't.

I also don't have the means to show fansubs. Even if I could download the anime, where would I show it? I would need a computer notebook to hook up to the projection equipment, or hope the fansubbers give out hard copies. Damn it, why does notebooks have to be fucking expensive?

So, lack of anime, what the fuck am I supposed to show? Unless I can find someone to whore shows off of.

Or sponsorship. The gay anime club at one nearby 4 year university is sponsored by an anime/comic book store that loans them anime and goods. Teh Gay, I want sponsorship!


I haven't been good at anything leadership, let alone starting up anything. But I'll be damned if I don't try to start a club.

[Bernie AKA]

Got a DVD player, access to meeting space with a TV and $22 a month? Join Netflix & rent all the mainstream anime you want.   Even the freakin' C/FO in LA shows stuff like Cowboy Bebop at its meetings, according to a Van Nuys bud of mine.  Unfortunately, that's what seems to attract members.  My friend who started a C/FO chapter here at Rice got fed up with everybody wanting to see mecha and explosions at every fucking meeting when she wanted to show some old school like Gatchaman and totally weird shit like Patarillo which she & I were all over precisely because we COULDN'T see it anywhere else.  :angry:  

[The D]

c/fo?

[B E C K]

I was wondering that, too.  That Netflix thing seems like a good idea though.  And you could get a start with whatever stuff you do own, just to get people to show up for that first Saturday and get things rolling.

[Bernie AKA]

Cartoon/Fantasy Organization, the grandpappy of anime clubs.

[Chopper Face 69]

We used to have a really awesome anime club at my university.  5-11pm every friday watched tons of good stuff.  It just sort of died off one summer and never started back up.  Kept waiting for it but it didn't.  That sucked.