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[showenbe]

I wish my school had one.I will have to wait till I go to MUN.My school is to full of preps.

[The Mothman]

My college has a club, but I recommend you try to appeal to the least nerdy candidates for such an establishment. The club I know has the goofiest representatives.

[Yuto]

Anime club...hm that would be cool to see, a gathering of fans from around the world in one place..hm I like that idea

[Chizzy]

we have one at my school, called the KG Comics, its actually dwindling, and its just abunch of people comming after school to drawl, and its quite quiet (except for the Autistic kid who (Occasionally) sits there and sings horribly on his Ipod)

[didgeball]

1. I noticed that the person who started this thread hasn't commented in at least ten pages or so, so I figure this is now the "talk about your animé club" thread.2. If you wanna start a club for animé, manga, and Japanese pop culture in general, you need to figure out a few things:* how much interest there is. If too few people are interested, you may want to make the club more general, say, a geeky interests club combining people who play D&D, read sci-fi novels, watch animé, play lots of videogames, etc.. I'd say try to get at least 15-20 people interested initially; if you have too few try to broaden your focus or latch onto another similar group. An initial group of 15-20 will mean about 5-8 people will consistently come to your meetings (assuming you give them a reason to keep coming).* what the club will be about. Common interest is NEVER enough to make a group coherent. People need to have a purpose. Will your club be about introducing people to current/recent animé, or popularizing animé and manga, or exploring Japanese/east Asian pop culture, or examining media trends, or what? And what will people be doing during club meetings--just watching animé, or discussing trends, or making AMVs/MADs, or what? People also need something to look forward to, to stay interested in the club.* whether you can get permission to do it. Some schools are more strict about clubs having educational purposes, and you usually need to find a teacher to sponsor the club anyway. I think animé clubs are much more common in colleges/universities than in high schools and middle schools.3.

Also, you need to know how to play it right because there was a "Japanese Culture Club" at my school that just ended up being non-Japanese people talking about anime and manga; don't make your club out to be something it's not.

I used to gripe about this, but after reading this thread, I now think the reason this happens is more often because people want to make an animé/manga club but need to justify it being "educational" in some way. Rather than people being crazy Japanophiles.--My university has a little club with maybe 30-40 people total, about 15 of which show up for regular meetings, and this is divided into two group--you have the organizers, about five or so people who are mostly the officers, who organize things, pick animé for viewing, etc., and then a few other hardcore fans that always stay after the meeting to chat about Nico Nico Douga videos and vocaloids and that sort of stuff. Every meeting we watch a few episodes of a series, typically one that's ongoing or recently subbed/dubbed, and usually one we haven't seen before. Some have been high-profile stuff like Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood but others have been more weird stuff like Alien Nine, but it's always new stuff. So the point of our club is to keep up with new animé, broadly speaking, and there's a few of us who are interested in internet pop culture / internet nerd culture and memes and stuff.