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GeekNights 061206 - Anime Clubs: RIT Anime
Tonight on GeekNights, we begin a hopefully long running series on anime clubs. In the news, 4Kids drops One Piece and Reason has an article on anime fansubbing.
Scott's Thing - The Asian Squat
Rym's Thing - The Truth About Sushi
Comments
Oh and the asian squat was easy.
1. Cheesecake is a custard. To quote the master Alton Brown, "Think about it. Aside, of course, from the crust a basic cheesecake only contains some sugar, vanilla, eggs and dairy. It's a custard no matter how you cut it. In fact the only real difference between a cheese cake and a cream pie is that most of the dairy of a cheesecake comes in the form of a soft, smooth, tangy, cow's milk cheese containing no less than 33 percent milk fat and no more than 55 percent moisture known far and wide as cream cheese." So it's basically a custard in a pie crust.
2. I like One Piece, it's one of my favorite animes/mangas. I can understand people not liking it, but I don't understand what you mean by "you got all you needed out of it." And I would recommend that continuing to read One Piece even if you skip the fighting, because the in between bits get really good, especially where it is now.
If you haven't shown Phoenix, you'd better. ^_~
-EDIT- Oh. That could've been mine with an extra ten minutes on there. :-P
Back when I first arrived at college our anime club was pretty depressing, there were maybe 8 members max. Each meeting was once a week, 4 hours long and schedule consisted of 2 shows shown back to back without a break, so 5 or 6 episodes of Show A and the same for Show B. I don't really remember the schedules because I only went once in a while when I had absolutely nothing better to do, the showings were just that bad. I remember they were mainly older shows, some mech stuff and a lot of screwball comedies (Sorcerer Hunters, Nadesico, Irresponsible Captain Tylor). That was all..
Well after a mini revolt resulting in several 20+ page flamewar threads on the club's message board, a failed attempt to start a second anime club and more e-drama and b*tching then I care to remember, the club held elections and got some new blood including myself and we've started making some changes.
* Aggressive advertising during the Fall semester to attract the incoming freshmen, we put fliers and posters all over the student union and on the bulletin boards in the main buildings and all of the comp sci and engineering buildings. The stereotype is true after all :^) As a result membership has grown from 8 to around 25/30ish with another 5/10 people who float in and out.
* A club library was created by the newly created librarian position (me!), we got one of those huge 500 disc binders and a bunch of blank DVDs and I burned all the unlicensed fansubs, AMVs, live action jdramas, Iron Chef episodes, unlicensed manga scanslations on my harddrives.. pretty much anything that could possibly interest an anime geek.
* However in order to check stuff out from the library you had to become a club member and pay a $10 fee good for a year. This plus money out of the officer's own pockets allowed us to hold..
* parties! We'd have one at the beginning of the year for everyone to meet the new members, socialize and make friends and whatnot. We'd do the usual stuff, watch anime movies, hold Super Smash Brother, DDR and Beatmania tournaments, order pizza, bring snacks and drinks and play some simple tabletop or card games. We also hold an end of year party after finals are over at a local sushi place that has a karaoke machine.
* As for our new schedule..
+ I usually arrive around 30-40 minutes early to hook up my laptop to the projector. Some members have started coming early as well and we hang out and watch a random fansub or youtube/flash videos.
+ Random Fansub Slot (1 episode) - Each week t the beginning of the meeting we show a different first episode of one of the latest series from japan. This is for the people who come in late because of work or late classes, they won't miss anything important as well as giving give members a sampling and hopefully members will discover new genres and shows they'd normally never watch. So no Bleach or Naruto type shows will be found here
+ Fansub Slot #1 (2 episodes) - Typically the most popular anime from the previous semester's random fansub slot will get moved up and shown here. This semester's was Suzumiya Haruhi and next semester should be Death Note but since it is probably going to be licensed we're going with Ouran High Host Club.
+ Fansub Slot #2 (2 episodes) - This is reserved for Monster, our long running 74 episode serious drama show.
+ Break (20 minutes but can be cut short if we're running late) - This is our social period where people can get up and walk around, talk, go to the bathroom or the vending and coke machines as well as library checkout time. I don't get much of a break -__-; Nothing is shown at this time, but I'm been thinking about showing eye candy/special effects AMVs or a combination of AMVs and random anime opening and closing clips; anything with music and stuff on the screen to create a party atmosphere so those talking won't be disturbed and those who don't want to socialize have something to watch.
+ DVD Slot #1 (2 episodes) - usually some sort of action comedy and dubbed for our dub fans. This semester was Rune Soldier.
+ DVD Slot #2 (2 episodes) - usually something a bit more serious and with drama. This semester was Princess Tutu ( don't laugh, I thought it sounded pretty stupid but even I was pleasantly surprised. It is actually really really good even though the premise still sounds silly.
Suggestions, criticism and flames would be greatly appreciated, we're really trying to improve our anime club and never ever go back to the way it use to be.