Board 8 > Anime club at school was successful

(+) Yeah! (+)

We had 34 people join!
That's the most for a school club where I am (2000 students at are school) not counting Sports.

Being the President I was quite happy that the club was successful!

We watched the first 4 episodes of Yu Yu Hakusho.

We chose by voting with me explaining what each anime was for those who didn't know what they were. Yu Yu Hakusho got an outrageous number of votes compared to the other stuff I brought. All I said was it was a shonen like Bleach and One Piece and they went nuts! I guess that's to be expected.

Anyway are selection was:

Baccano!
Cowboy Bebop
Escaflowne
Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
Gurren Lagann
Trigun
Wolf's Rain
Yu Yu Hakusho (Won)

They all liked Yu Yu Hakusho and said they want to see it again next week.

Anyway it was fun and I can't wait till then.

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they chose pretty poorly

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What was the rate of internet memes spouted per minute?

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Neeeeeerds!

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Do they look like the typically thought of crowd when it comes to anime?

You guys need to watch something more suitable to a limited of time club viewing.

Like Gundam Unicorn, greatest animation ever.

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Do they cosplay like every day? Cause I remember the anime club at my college was easily the largest club too. And the president cosplayed nearly every day.

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From: th3l3fty | #002
they chose pretty poorly

F*** you, Yu Yu Hakusho is the best anime ever.

Glad it won but I take offense to it being compared to Bleach. That failure isn't even worthy enough to be in the same bracket as YYH.

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You really should have picked different shows. And picking something long like YYH is a pretty bad idea in the first place.

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foolm0ron posted...
What was the rate of internet memes spouted per minute?

surprisingly enough all I heard was it's over 9000 a couple times and One Piece attacks like Gum Gum (insert Move here) every couple minutes. Most of them are like 15-17 years old.

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Chrono1219 posted...
Do they cosplay like every day? Cause I remember the anime club at my college was easily the largest club too. And the president cosplayed nearly every day.

No but one Girl dressed as Lucy from Elfen Lied a couple days ago.

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So no one came in spinning a leek?

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Baccano was the correct choice

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A bunch of totally mainstream anime. You got some winners there. I bet you're only watching the dubs, too.

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Do highschool clubs like that have budgets do do things etc? Like I know in college we were able to head to conventions and stuff like that.

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ShadowHalo17 posted...
From: th3l3fty | #002
they chose pretty poorly
F*** you, Yu Yu Hakusho is the best anime ever.

Glad it won but I take offense to it being compared to Bleach. That failure isn't even worthy enough to be in the same bracket as YYH.

I compared it to bleach because both are made by Shonen and I wanted to compare it to something they saw.

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Burning Spies is one of my Specialties!

How do people going to an anime club not know what Yu Yu Hakusho is?

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Bleach was originally rejected by Jump for being too much of a Yu Yu Hakusho ripoff.

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Chrono1219 posted...
Do highschool clubs like that have budgets do do things etc? Like I know in college we were able to head to conventions and stuff like that.

We are planning on a trip to Anime North this year. Hopefully that will go through.

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From: UberPyro64 | #012
No but one Girl dressed as Lucy from Elfen Lied a couple days ago.

So she was naked with invisible hands spouting from her back that tore through people and left a bloody mess all over the classroom?

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Bran_Stark posted...
How do people going to an anime club not know what Yu Yu Hakusho is?

Never aired in Canada.

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From: Diet Water | #019
Bleach was originally rejected by Jump for being too much of a Yu Yu Hakusho ripoff.

And it's still too much of a ripoff. I mean from what I can remember and from what I heard, one of the arcs is pretty much exactly like the Chapter Black saga.

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ShadowHalo17 posted...
From: UberPyro64 | #012
No but one Girl dressed as Lucy from Elfen Lied a couple days ago.
So she was naked with invisible hands spouting from her back that tore through people and left a bloody mess all over the classroom?

lol no she looked like this:



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Elfen Lied sucks and is one of the shows that made me realize most anime sucked and that anime culture is stupid

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LordoftheMorons posted...
Baccano was the correct choice

I actually voted that.

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Cut the voting and show Gundam Unicorn.

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From: UberPyro64 | #024
lol no she looked like this:

So she wore a casual slutty dress. What a lazy cosplayer.

Did she even have pink hair and horns?

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UberPyro64 posted...
Never aired in Canada.

People watch anime on tv?

But seriously, that's not an excuse.

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So mainstream XD

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ShadowHalo17 posted...
From: UberPyro64 | #024
lol no she looked like this:


So she wore a casual slutty dress. What a lazy cosplayer.

Did she even have pink hair and horns?

She has died pink hair and fake horns.

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Please tell me they at least knew what the other shows were?


Also, FLCL is like a prerequisite for this kind of thing. Especially if all they know is silly shonen crap.

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From: RevolverSaro | #105
Elfen Lied sucks and is one of the shows that made me realize most anime sucked and that anime culture is stupid

I thought you'd like the show because of teh dog part.

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LillySatou posted...
So mainstream XD

I plan on brining more non mainstream things as the weeks go on. I just wanted to start off with things they knew or heard of. Of course the only things I brought in that they heard of were Cowboy Bebop and Trigun XD.

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Elfen Lied is awesome. a rare instance of the anime being better than the manga too.
because that manga drove straight through wtf land and into ;_; to finish.

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I watched only a little bit of YYH, back when Adult Swim and Toonami had it, like a million years ago. I remember absolutely nothing about it.


*blastin' off, yo*

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Kudos for spreading the anime powah! Some of my favs in that selection.

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you remember SHOTGUUN!! most likely, and that's about it.

also depending on their attention span, Baccano! works. it's more serious but really good as you go through it. especially if they dig crazy ****. just compare it to Pulp Fiction in storytelling and hopefully they'll get it.

thought everyone had seen Bebop and Trigun by now.
ignore Escaflowne and Wolf's Rain.
Gankutsuou uh.. really doesn't fit a very 'anime club' environment.
Gurren Lagann is an easy one to make 'em get into because it's another shounen, with robots, manly men, and chicks with boobs.

YYH is fine, but it's long. that's the only problem with it. ideally, you'll cycle through animes every week so that each has some air time that's worth watching.

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Wanglicious posted...
you remember SHOTGUUN!! most likely, and that's about it.

also depending on their attention span, Baccano! works. it's more serious but really good as you go through it. especially if they dig crazy ****. just compare it to Pulp Fiction in storytelling and hopefully they'll get it.

thought everyone had seen Bebop and Trigun by now.
ignore Escaflowne and Wolf's Rain.
Gankutsuou uh.. really doesn't fit a very 'anime club' environment.
Gurren Lagann is an easy one to make 'em get into because it's another shounen, with robots, manly men, and chicks with boobs.

YYH is fine, but it's long. that's the only problem with it. ideally, you'll cycle through animes every week so that each has some air time that's worth watching.

I've seen all of them so I know what would be good for them.
Yes Gankutsuou wouldn't really fit the vibe.
Gurren Lagann works very well but a lot them have seen it. (I forgot to Mention that)
Escaflowne was 2nd place because I described it as "somewhat similar to Inuyasha but with Mechs". Also I like it a lot.
Wolf's Rain is probably to sad to show but I brought it anyway.

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FLCL seems like the ideal anime to start with imo. It's original, charming, quirky, action-packed, very short, and absolutely hilarious.

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GenesisSaga posted...
FLCL seems like the ideal anime to start with imo. It's original, charming, quirky, action-packed, very short, and absolutely hilarious.

I'd say I enjoyed FLCL more having watched anime for years prior, but that's just me. Definitely something that should be watched eventually in your club, without doubt.


*blastin' off, yo*

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