Anime Clubs and Events
Everyone here at Japanimation.com still remembers the days of our youth when we were in high school. Back then, our anime clubs had pitiful amounts of stuff to show. One staff member reminisces that he only had Akira and Robo Carnival to watch back in his high school Otaku Club. These days, everything from small school clubs to worldwide conventions are being formed all in the name of promoting anime to the masses.
The more mainstream society recognizes that anime is not just kids' cartoons, the better our chances are for uncensored, uncut anime making it over here to America. Just about every knows the catastrophe that was Escaflowne on Fox Kids. The studio execs over at Fox thought that little kids wouldn't be ready for the mature themes in the series, so they cut out a lot of the vital stuff in Escaflowne. In many ways, they were right; little kids are not ready for the ideas of sacrifice, death, and cross dressing found in Escaflowne. Big kids are. Big kids with lots of money to spend. Big kids that can be a lucrative market for these studios if they realize that anime is not always for kids.
These are some of the more interesting anime clubs and conventions going on right now around the Internet. Check them out when you have some time.
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BOHS Anime Club
is an anime club located in Southern California. They discuss and watch various anime and hold contests every Thursday.
No-Name Anime is an Anime club that features FREE anime showings using their AnimeScope projector on an eight-foot screen, making even the smallest subtitles readable. Check 'em out!
Anime Central is a convention concentrating and celebrating the worlds of Japanese Animation (anime) and comics (manga). ACen is held every Spring in the Chicago area.
Fanime Con is an Anime convention for the fans, by the fans.
Foothill Anime is a San Francisco Bay Area anime club that gets together the first Sunday of every month to appreciate the art form of Japanese animation.
Animatrix Network is one of the largest anime and manga fan clubs in the Chicagoland area. Their monthly meetings are free and open to the public.
