meleechampion wrote:I'd be interested to hear everyone's experiences with anime clubs.
I haven't been to the one at my school yet, but I have classes with everyone who goes to it and runs it. I should say that I am an Animation major, which shares a LOT of classes with the Game Art and Design students.
It was like being in high school again, that feeling that everyone around you is an immature idiot, and you are the only sane one. I share their interests, I do. But it's PITIFUL. I was in a Drawing & Characterization class and we had to draw characters who were predesigned for us. One kid drew the most terrible animu drawing of a female, and was so lazy/bad that they had the hair covering her face. I understand just being bad at art, but then... why are you in a school for ART? And even more, this kid claimed he was going to move to Japan and be an animator there.
One guy in my Fundamentals of Animation class (who every day would NOT shut up about who would win a battle between kakashi and ichigo, and who talked non-stop about how bleach was the best anime ever and what the fuck have you) had, for his final project, a video of the camera zooming in and out of a traced hentai picture he did. And he was SO proud of that drawing.
I can even begin to tell you about all of the kids in my classes that talk to each other in memes, and even disrepsect the INSTRUCTORS who are not "in" with the 4chan shit, and makes complete asses out of themselves. I remember when a student was making fun of the "slutwalk" events a while back, and our instructor, who was female, told him to get off the topic or leave. He said "Oh, you mad? Cry some more". I was floored! Life drawing was the worst, as all our models were nude (as is customary). The comments they would make to those models to their FACE. I can't even begin to understand.
Then there were the kids mentioned in my earlier post. Then there's the girls who wear cat ears to school and sqee and "glomp" and carry on.
And this isn't even in the club.
Don't get me wrong, there are normal anime/manga fans there, and even artists who draw in that style that are very talented. But they are a minority. Hell, the entire school's popularity is a minority compared to either the weeaboo Game Art or Animation students or the stuck up, talentless fashion design students.
This is why I switched to Illustration! \o/ Much better crowd of people here. Even the students who are in to anime and manga. It's a breath of fresh air.
Long story short: I will never be attending the Anime/Game club at my school.
I have many funny and pornographic sailor moon pictures. 8D
