anime clubs

fatandpowerful1 · Post by **fatandpowerful1** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 12:48 am

Mine's at Great Bridge High School (home of the worst football team ever). Our anime club is good but our turnout decreases sometimes. And believe me,like Ixidor said (in general), it sux not to have a big turnout

dokool · Post by **dokool** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 10:49 am

I started the Simon's Rock Anime Club, we get around 5-10 people per screening (which is impressive for our school), but right now my friend's running things with me in Japan.

ssraid · Post by **ssraid** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 6:08 pm

Think of clubs AD vision has a club offer. Its called anime ADvocates they say that they will give you free anime and all you have to do is join. Has anyone heard about it. I have been think about cheating it just to get the free anime but a cant decide if I should or not. So my question to you is would you lie to get free anime?

Merm · Post by **Merm** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 11:12 am

ssraid wrote:Think of clubs AD vision has a club offer. Its called anime ADvocates they say that they will give you free anime and all you have to do is join. Has anyone heard about it. I have been think about cheating it just to get the free anime but a cant decide if I should or not. So my question to you is would you lie to get free anime?

No. I would not cheat a good hearted system for free anime. If I am going to get it anyway, I'll shell out the 20 bucks or whatever it takes to join (if I wanted to.

bubblehead · Post by **bubblehead** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 6:34 pm

Sequoia High School. I started the club this year (after no club for a year) and we have probably 16 or so members (an estimate, we officially have 14 I think), most of whom attend regularly... school is estimated at about 1700 students... some of whom don't speak/read English and so would not understand the anime anyway.

At least two .Org members in the bunch, myself and one who never posts... you wouldn't know her, obviously. I don't know about others.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 6:38 pm

Heh, I wonder which club has the most .org [forum] members and the highest .org to general member ratio?

Mine has 3 out of just over a dozen

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 6:49 pm

Merm wrote:
ssraid wrote:Think of clubs AD vision has a club offer. Its called anime ADvocates they say that they will give you free anime and all you have to do is join. Has anyone heard about it. I have been think about cheating it just to get the free anime but a cant decide if I should or not. So my question to you is would you lie to get free anime?
No. I would not cheat a good hearted system for free anime. If I am going to get it anyway, I'll shell out the 20 bucks or whatever it takes to join (if I wanted to.

It's free anyway. And most of what they send you is merchandise, like stickers and pins and the like. (I just got the first package for my club, so I know)

Otohiko wrote:Heh, I wonder which club has the most .org [forum] members and the highest .org to general member ratio?

Well, I know it's not mine....

rose4emily · Post by **rose4emily** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 12:37 am

Merm wrote:
Otohiko wrote:
Merm wrote:Rochester Institute of Technology
Is it true that you guys have the biggest anime club in the US?
There are numerous RIT peeps here on the .org, too
I don't think we have the biggest in the U.S. . .We usually only half fill a small theater. I only casually go depending on what is being shown.

And, yes, we have infested the .org

I think it's one of those things where there are a large number of people who show up occassionally, and most of the "occasional members" probably follow one of three patterns:

Show up for "cute" showings
Show up for "action" showings
Show up when not too busy

Since two of these conditions are more or less mutually exclusive, and the third probably applies to most members (and, when discussing schedules, you do have to keep in mind the fact that we are R.I.T.), any one showing probably has 1/3 to 1/2 of the total number of people who ever show up, on one week or the other. There are also a lot of people who tend to stay for the AMVs and then take off when the series starts, or if thye don't like the first episode. This considered, there probably are 150-200 "members" in the R.I.T. anime club, with about 60-80 appearing on an average week, and 30-50 staying until the end of most showings.

As to full "paying" members, that number's probably more in like 20-30. Not that there's much of a difference beyond library rights.

As to what Rym said about us being the largest non-commercial anime club (or whatever the exact phrasing was) in the US, I find there are many times when it's hard to tell whether he's being serious or just making something up for the sake of being entertaining (and entertaining he was). I think that was one of those times, especially with Kalium saying the Michigan club has 200 people at every screening (the last time I think I saw that at R.I.T. was last year, when we did "Irresponsible Captain Tylor").

GMDanish · Post by **GMDanish** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:38 am

What times for your club and what styles of showing anime have worked well for your club?

On my campus of about 5,000 students we only have about 20 consistent club goers.

Also what ways of advertising your club have had that have been successful?

Basically do you guys have any suggestions for making an anime club better and getting more people to come to it?

thistledown · Post by **thistledown** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 9:27 am

I'm a member of Minna No Anime over here at Cal Poly. We get almost a hundred people sometimes. Spread a bunch or series over the course of the year, one episode each week. The schedule there right now is for our end of the quarter movie, so it's off. Typically this year, it's those shows + banner of the stars II, Inuyasha (~episode 70 or so), & one more I can't think of right now, plus a fansub of the week episode.

http://www.minnanoanime.org/