Anime club activities...?

Hey guys.

I'm thinking about founding an anime club at my university, last I checked, there was no such thing. Only WOW, movie and Warhammer clubs.

So... what activities does an anime club do? I think a club more like Genshiken would be way cooler, but 1) don't know how to name that one 2) would be too overboard for most students

Any of you guys been in an anime club? If so, what was your average club meeting like?

Watch anime.

Well, duh.

I mean, there have to be things besides that, right? I figure coming together to watch anime is a bit pointless...

Everybody would want to watch Naruto or Bleach only, anyway


Welcome to reality lol.

I'd rather found a club for video games, but then again, only dudes who play shit like GTA or WOW would join...

It's really hopeless...

Then get them involved into animes that arent complete garbage.

Good idea, but I figure a lot of people would be put off by watching anime subtitled...

I hope you realize that most clubs attract the worlds biggest weeaboos who don't know how to hide their power level. Also 99.9% of those clubs watch dubs insteads of subs.

Better not fuck this up if you are going to do it.

Most anime clubs I know just sit around, talk about anime for a bit, and do random shit.

Good luck. I estimate a large presence of weaboo, as well as insistence on watching crappy fanservice anime.

That's exactly what's bothering me.

If theyre such weaboos, but only watch dubs... well.. that does not compute. They better learn to like subs. Soooooo many better animes out there that arent dubbed, theyre just keeping themselves in the dark (ha look whos talking)

Make anime club, people vote for garbage anime, be like, "FUCK YOU! WE'RE WATCHIN' CLANNAD!!"

well, I was once in a Japanese Culture Club in high school, we basicly study Japanese cultures, languages and all the miscellaneous things.

sometimes we watch anime together, going to a Con and sell anime goods in the school bazaar. we even did a mini cosplay fashion show too, more like Kimono fashion show to be exact, since the club has too many girls in it.

well, if it's going to be focused on anime only:
-Watching new animes together
-discuss the anime currently being watch
-plan an event that is anime related (cosplay, group project, etc).

it's kinda hard to think about the activities if it's focused on one thing like this.

BTW, harmonian's statement is invalid. my club have 8 girls in it, and they're not ugly fat kids, and we also got a some Cute twins too. Ironically the guys were only 2 at my generation, and increased it to 6 when I was chairman.

so in the end the status of the club when I have to quit from there is
10 Girls, 5 Boys

Well, as I said... I'd rather found a Genshiken-type club... but that would kinda be a bit too extreme :\

introduce them to the few good dubs that exist, Gits, bebop, champloo, etc. After that tell them you know there's even better shit out there but it requires subs and you may convince a few of them.

I wonder if all of them would even know what Genshiken is. Regardless, they're not fans if they cant watch subs, they're in it for something else.

/lol no proof

Pic related. OK it looks like it would be fun if you didn't care but you get my point.

I'm not from the US, that's the problem.

Over here, dubs SUCK ASS. I've only seen like, 1 or 2 good dubs and that were american cartoons (Invader Zim, Angry Beavers).

oh, then you really have to get them into to subbed stuff, you dont have much of a choice unless you want to spend your time watching narutu or belch.

Idea: Asian cinema club. More respectable and a broader spectrum, but people ought to expect some anime mixed in considering its prevalence. Needs a bit of extra effort in the research, but it's easy enough to find good films through recommendations.