no its worse

I was thinking of attending the anime club's next meeting at my school...hopefully it goes better than this

kind of want to be more social with my hobby

Don't go to anime clubs, bro.

I'm always tempted to try them out, but realize that they will probably suck and be full of hambeast, yaoi-loving weeaboos. I already go to conventions, so...

I think my university's anime club is pretty cool. I can't make it to many events since they clash with my classes but I can make it when they have BBQ lunches on campus. I've also made a few friends, most people are friendly. I think there's more awkward people in the Japanese society lol.

When I was in college I went to the anime club every week with a group of friends. I was fairly new to anime at the time and it was a way to see some shows that I wouldn't have had access to otherwise. That was years ago though and now clubs tend to be full of Narutards who haven't seen an anime outside of what Cartoon Network can provide for them and treat you like you are the idiot when you try to broaden their horizons.

almost got borderline raped at an animoo club.

the day i stopped being interested in animoo and maybe the root of all my weeb hate

>>5022830
Continue...

>first year uni student
>find out uni has an anime club
>am curious, but avoid it for three weeks due to fear of weebs after reading too many horror stories on /cgl/
>eventually suck it up and go
>everythingisbetterthanexpected.jpg

>Go to high school's anime club
>Hetalia and Naruto and Bleach
>GTFO
>Start own Anime club under new name
>TRIGUN and FLCL and Ghost In The Shell
>Kids leave the normal anime club for mine
>Feels good man

>>5019594

this at UW, OP? :3

>>5022893
I go to UW Tacoma and I wish we had an anime club because I have no friends :( I'm actually a normalfag who hides my power level, too. And I watch non-shit anime like Baccano and T&B.

Do you go to UW Seattle? My little bro just started there.

I can't wait to join my uni's anime club, for some reason there are loads of attractive men in it, and hardly any attractive girls... it's rapin' time.

>>5022893
Nope, I'm in Ontario.

I kind of knew what I was walking into, but I atleast hoped that it would be better.
What's really awkward is I saw the president and VP doing homework near one of my classes the day after, and I'm pretty sure they recognized me as the guy that left half an hour in

I used to really like my Uni's anime club. It was fun, everyone was nice and polite, we showed good anime that led to many in-jokes and laughter. I held President, Vice Pres. and a few other positions, I was good friends with all the officers even after I stopped taking a truly active roll in the club. I let someone else take the position of VP( the last position I held), she was loud, a general mega weeb, and didn't enforce all of the rules (the main job of the VP), but she was a nice, good person who helped introduce new members. Then, our current President left, moved back to his home town. He had been the main face of the club, everyone respected him including the university staff.

Things went OK after that, the job went to the Media Coordinator, who was (and still is) very well liked in the club, but he didn't get very much respect from the Uni staff for what ever reason. Still, club was fun! A new president was appointed who is a very(VERY) nice guy but frankly didn't make an impression on many people, he was appointed mainly because he was the only one who applied. The media coordinator eventually let someone else take the position and became a normal club member, but wound up choosing and showing most of the anime for a long time anyway, as the guy who applied for media coordinator didn't have a functioning laptop (one of the requirements for the job)

Then I stopped going as much, I hit a bit of a down swing and just didn't really feel like going out every week when I could watch anime at home with fewer people around. The ex- media coordinator started staying home some weeks to try to encourage the New Media Coordinator to get his shit together... and then came the month where neither of us went.

>>5023031
I don't know what happened during that time, all I know is I came back and there was a great VP, the same nice President, the same Media Coordinator with the same shitty laptop with Linux installed (he doesn't know how to use Linux btw) no Secretary as far as I can tell, and the worst lineup of moe blob bullshit I have ever seen. Which could have been funny if it weren't for THE TWO LOUDEST FUCKWADS I HAVE EVER HAD THE DISPLEASURE OF BURSTING MY EARDRUMS TO. OH MY FUCKING GOD. They get up and dance to the anime music the yell at the top of their lungs to speak in normal conversation. One of them thinks that panty shots are the FUCKING EPITOME of comedy and laughs so god damned loud that I practically ran out of the room for fear of going deaf.

The best of clubs can easily fall to the worst..... oh... sorry you wanted good stories. Well, we used to be fucking awesome. One time we threw a Halloween party that was so boss that we stole all the other Halloween parties' attendees on campus, despite having no food or booze or even a hired DJ. It was the most popular night for a Halloween party too. All we had was our selection of anime music that we gathered together, and one of the members mixed for us. That was three years ago.

Ex president was a giant virgin neckbeard that literally stole panties from the members
Current president is an autistic manchild obsessed with MLP and plays it in anime club amongst shit everyone already has seen like Gurren Lagann, K On, and Haruhi

I use to go to anime club every Monday last year because some friends that i met my senior year in high school joined the club and I wanted to meet new people as well as hang out with friends more. And we had fun there was around 12-15 of us, I met new anime fans at school & we even had a days when everyone brought in food like sushi, ramune, etc. But eventually things stated to get boring, we'd have like 30-40 min "discussions" about funds (that no one paid), there would be alot of arguing over what anime we should watch & after we decided that then we got into the whole Dub vs Sub thing, I got so bored with that I just left. And for some reason, there was always some drama going on over the dumbest things like "O Laura didn't talk to me in class today" so chealsea would cry or at convention time this girl Ashley thought she was involved in this panel when her name wasn't put on the list so she freaked and called the other girls bitches (over facebook of course).

By the end of 2nd semester I was just not feeling anime club anymore. I've started 2nd year of college now, haven't been to a meeting yet, and honestly I don't think I'm going to go back I mean I've become great friends with most people in there and i have class with a few of them too, but ive learned that I like watching anime by myself and on my own time. I'd rather be at home watching Tiger & Bunny or Michiko to Hatchin rather than debate on what anime we should watch, debate on Sub vs Dub, talk about nonexistent funds and then only have time to MAYBE get through 1 episode of GTO or K-ON.

>>5022841
class is cancelled and now im up, so why not.

It was freshman year of high school, naruto had recently started, and I was a budding weeb. I got to know 1 weeb dude who burnt animay eps onto a DVD for me so i could watch it at home. And through this weeb I ended up finding out about the animoo club and decided to give it a try. Meet new people and watch animay? sounds pretty cool.

At the club i recognized one other weeb, she was a hambeast and had horrible acne. But she was a really close friend of a sophomore whose pants I wanted to get inside, so I played nice with her. She would get me drinks, snacks, and what not before they started playing naruto on the T.V.

i actually was a officer for my high school anime club for 3 of my years there. our goal was to knock the weaboo out of people. we were fairly successful at it, by showing not just anime, but various episodes of dramas, showing densha otoko (that tends to make people stop calling themselves otaku), and even had panels on things like cosplay techniques and whatnot. we also made it a point to try to not show overly popular things, instead relying on the huge amount of shows from past to present that people hadn't seen, giving them just a few episodes of each, so they weren't forced to watch an entire series of something they didn't like.

my uni's anime club, however... i want to like it, i really do. but it's full of people that never grew out of the "omg i'm a teenage anime fan, aren't i special and unique?!" phase of their lives. and it's pretty sad.

>>5023105
At the same time, I was still talking to weeb guy outside of the club (Side-note, but dis nigga looked JUST LIKE CHO SEUNG HUI) and one time he told me he was the admin for some weeb forum and was going to make a banner for them. He sent me a photobucket link and when i checked, it was softcore hentai. (srsly?) and always joking, I said it was hot and I wanted to fap to it, he joked back saying how I had to run to the bathroom because my nose must be a faucet of shooting blood.

Guess who found out I was now a hentai "fan". Yes, the hambeast, weeabro must have told her. So she would start telling me about hentai to read and to watch. And me being the nice guy couldn't tell her to fuck off, so i would always okay.jpg and hope she would leave me alone. We also got the duty of getting and returning the T.V. back to the closet each meeting day.

>>5023121
>Guess who found out I was now a hentai "fan"
>weeabro must have told her
GDI weeabro

>moving to uni tomorrow
>joined the facebook page for the anime society
>two greasy, creepy weebs with an illustrious list of mental/social disorders have already added me on facebook

The fucking joys of being female.

>>5023121
One day while we are carting it back. Hambeast is asking me:
"dildo-kun or dildo-san did u read that anime i told you about?"
"uhh yea, it was interesting thanks"
"wouldn't it be awesome if that happened?"
"yea i guess" (i didnt read it, but i assumed it was some stupid generic anime story-line)
At this point we pushed the cart into the closet. and me being the gentleman would push the cart into the back while she waited by the door. But this time i turned around and the door was closed and she stood there, as if expecting something.
"uhh lets go?"
"dildos-san what if what happened in the anime happened right now?"
>oh sweet baby Jesus no
"yea but it wont so lets go"
At this point she wraps her arms around my waist and tries to kiss me. I push her arms down and try to push her way, but she backs up in front of the door that swings into the room. So im still stuck.
"listen fatty mcfatstein, im not into you"
"BUT YOU SAID YOU READ THE ANIMOO AND WANTED THAT TO HAPPEN!"
"ok i really didnt read it"
"your lying." She then reaches in again and is somehow able to undo my jeans button. (I give her props on that one. But then again maybe she's had a lot of experience from getting into all those finely packaged nippon snacks.)
I tell her to stop again and shes not listening, and like a hambeast shark continues on.
Luckily, for me the librarian happens to walk in and sees the whole shenanigan taking place.

We were sent to the principals office, I explain what happened. and the freak got detention. I think she must have switched schools cause I never saw her again for the rest of my highschool life. Last I heard someone told me she met up with some random fat black dude from online to watch a movie and blew him in the mens bathroom there.

Also out of curiosity I found the animoo she was referring to, skimmed through it, and it was reverse-rape. goddamn weebs

More horror!

Over here at one of the TCC campuses, the anime club is held before my 4:30 p.m. class, and good lord do these weeb girls drive me up the wall. Every day it's the same damn thing, which is playing any of those Miku Hatsune songs for the duration of my visit, watching Hetalia Yaoi fanvids, or pestering people to draw fanart for them. One of the other girls brought her infant daughter to club last Wednesday, and insisted that she would grow her child up on anime and Kingdom Hearts. Ugh, you girls are in COLLEGE.

Now I can't draw any Persona-related fanart for the P4A thing we're holding on the 6th, or else the girls will yoink my artbook out from under my nose. One of them already tried to rip out a sketch I did of Ryoji for one of my guypals.

>>5023151
Let me guess. You were nice and accepted their friend requests?

I nooed to go down to the club coordination office and see if my campus even HAS an anime club. We have a Japanese Student Association, but since I'm white as a ghost I have no business joining that.

I go to the anime club at my school. Everyone is nice, but there are a couple of weebs. We have a no mainstream anime rule, so its good.

>>5023185
I had no idea there was such trauma in your past, dildos oppa.

The San Jose State University club was run by a guy a few years back who somehow managed a great male/female ratio. He used his social manipulation skills to keep out obnoxious weaboos in general, keep and attract decent-to-good looking girls, and keep out overly-competitive guys. He also showed GOOD anime and allowed time during intermission for socializing and utilized the computers in the room as available for manga reading and whatnot.

tl;dr - sounds like an epic anime club

It's possible. You just have to know how to work people as an anime club leader.

>have really bad farts and constipation for ages and ages
>very fat so any farts sound super loud as my cheeks osscilate against each other
>realise that if i can get the gas out of my ass without it passing the cheeks everything will be fine
>connect mcdonalds straws together and make a pipe out of them, taping the seems
>put one end into my ass to releive pressure
>other end goes into a fanny pack i wore that contains several air filters
>all goes well, the filters work well enough, the smell and sound of my farts go
>have mexican for lunch, feel the gas build up, no fear however, my filtration system will save me
>get into lessons and start farting a lot, my filtration system starts to fail
>open it up and start to replace the activated carbon inside and the water percolator from my water bottle
>teacher sees me and asks what im doing
>i say nothing, she comes over anyway
>desperately try to hide my filtration system, accidently breaking the intake pipe from my ass
>just as she comes over my stomach rumbles and i begin to squirt liquid shit
>it goes up the pipe and causes it to spray all over the teacher
>shitting mcdonalds straw pipe is spraying shit everywhere, flying around from the pressure of my shit mixed with farts going through while i try to grab it
>try to run out of class but my legs have gone dead sitting there
>fall over at the front of class and slowly crawl out as everyone stares at me horrified as i leave a trail of shit
>am expelled from school, the teacher caught some disease from my shit apparently

>Art college
>Anime club is awesome, no major weeaboos
>Have a no-endless-shonen rule, watch good stuff with the occasional Western show like Wakfu and Sym-Bionic Titan
> feelsgoodman.jpg

So, I am currently secretary for our uni club. It's been a year since we had an auditorium-type room because apparently room reservations thinks we fucked the room up (some dumb-ass frat probably did). But other than that, it's a pretty good club. About 20 people usually, good environment to make friends with, and the anime isn't bad, either, because we have a rule that we don't show anything that was aired on US tv in the last 5 years.
One time, though, our vice president decided to troll people by putting up the japanese translation of "My Little Pony" and give a very vague description of the show. It got voted in, and showed the first few minutes before going to another show. Wasn't there in person, but shit was hilarious.

>>5023185
There's no such thing as reverse-rape. Woman rapes man is still just rape.

This is a good story, well, not so much a story about one particular incident, but about the club overall.

I started my university's anime club a few years back. I go to a small, public liberal arts college in Alabama, so my friends and I who founded the club weren't expecting much. Our first year we struggled some, but by the second year, our numbers were getting fairly big based on the size of our campus (we only have 3500 students and only 1000 live on campus).

But our hard work paid off and we are now the largest special interest club at our school. Through our efforts, we've been able to start an anime collection at the university library, held a Tsunami Relief fundraiser for the Red Cross, actually become official (it's a 2 year process), and have had unofficially been dubbed the "club with the best designed flyers on campus."

I'm not President anymore, but we are generally known as "the coolest club on campus" and definitely one of the most inviting and diverse groups. No one has ever formally come to us with a bad experience, and the only negative thing we experienced was a whole round of flyer theft/vandalism last fall (a guy systematically tore down every flyer we put up each week within 10 minutes of me posting... and he even burned a flyer and taped it to my dorm... CREEPY, I called the police but they didn't do anything). I dunno, I've always had a positive experience with my anime club, but I did found it, so I'm biased ^^

My friend kept trying to get me to join the anime club he was part of. I just really wasn't interested and since he was kind of loud and needed to work on his social skills I didn't want more of the same. I didn't hate the guy. It's just that he was a little tiring after awhile. He was a weeaboo who spoke in random Japanese and called me Usagi because I ate a lot of veggies and had a habit of chewing on things. He also wore a lot of grey that he said was the color of his mecha pilot uniform. I guess it was his self insert OC or something. He ate everything with chopsticks. Even pudding. Yes. Pudding.

Anyway, I wanted to be nice so I kept telling him I'd think about joining the club if I had the time. But he kept bugging me so I finally told him flat out that I didn't want to join and to please stop asking me all the time. Before you say anything I was nice about it.

After that he tells me that there are only two other girls in the club and they're both fat. Looking back at that random piece of info he gave me I'm glad that I didn't join. It just creeps me out a bit that he said that. Did he want me to join because I wasn't fat or something? So weird.

>Discover local anime club in hometown 5 years ago, not school-affiliated but originally run by uni-students.
>Back then about 10 attendants at most during weekly meetings. Small but cozy.
>I push for getting us better known to get more people to come.

Big mistake.

>Today, regular attendance of 50-100 people.
>Nearly all under or barely 18.
>Not only weebs but pretty much randoms with next to no honest interest in Japan or anime.
>All aspies, ADD and/or any other personality dissorders, and nearly all gender-confused.
>Actual activites have dwindled away due to lack of initiative; games are just fighting games (and motherfucking SMASH), and anime reruns Black Butler more often than not.

On the plus side, the girls are almost in majority and very few of them hambeasts. Too bad they are all too young for comfort.

Nowadays I just attend out of habit and having nothing better to do on Tuesday evenings, I guess. At times I kinda wish we would've just let the club die when the last serious board member resigned...

My school's anime club was always awesome, except for the mandatory obnoxious yaoi fan girl. But when it's many against one with no one to back her up, she got the hint to shut her fat face.

All in all, pretty good.

You can't be nice to fat, ronery weeaboo girls. It just doesn't work.

They take niceness as a sign that you're willing to fuck them.

In my sophomore year of highschool, I took pity on one of them, and despite not really liking anime at all (I come to 4chan for the atmosphere), she clung to me like saran wrap on a frozen porkchop. Weeabooettes have this infuriating tendency to take social advice from anime, so - lucky me - she adopted the personality of the tsundere characters that everyone on /a/ gushes about. She took it to mind that hitting me and being an obnoxious cunt would make me like her. God damn...

I'd never dealt with the clingy, stalker type before, so I didn't know what to do. I felt sorry for her. She reminded me a little of myself when I was completely socially retarded and also a girl for some reason, so pity played a big part in how long I put up with her antics. However, all that was tolerant in me eroded every time she pushed her chubby ass up against me or leaned down to show me her veiny cleavage. Ughghhghg.

It eventually ended in my friends and I telling her to fuck off.

She didn't. So I told her as explicity as possible that I did not enjoy her company and wanted her to fuck off forever.

She fucked off, but, as many of you have probably noticed with these types, they eventually ooze their way back in to your group of friends as if you would forget like a fucking goldfish.

Natalie, if you're out there, fuck you.

Guys, I'm >>5023151
and I'm feeling sort of worried about these two weird weeaboos who have added me. I mean one of them lives on a boat and clearly doesn't wash. The other was fucking drowning me in Facebook lovehearts the first time he had ever messaged me ever, and pretty much jizzed everywhere when I said I was leaving to watch Shogun with my dad.

Would it be bad form to bring along a non-weeb, apathetically interested in anime, male friend to be a weebshield?

>>5025789
BRING THE WEEBSHIELD.

Also, just straight up tell the guy he's being creepy.

Men are straightforward. If you are straightforward with him, he'll get the message. If he doesn't: shotgun.

>>5025879
This. Us dudes are very blunt most of the time.

Hey... Is it wrong wanting to go to a certain uni just because they have an awesome anime society? ;_;

>>5025982
Yes.
A decision that affects the rest of your life so heavily should be based around the actual academic benifits of studying there.

>>5023185
>>5023185

All I'm getting out of dildo's story was that he was too much of a weakfag and or pussy to be honest with the landwhale, turn her down and, in case she didn't got the message, kick her out of the room.

I mean, seriously. Why would you let that happen to yourself.

>Don't advertise power-level, ever.
>Join Computer Science program
>All anime, most of the time
>Yellow fever abounds in them.
>Clingy Girls
>Leave Computer Science
>AndNotASingleFuckWasGivenThatDay.jpg

>>5026053
>Computer Science
>Clingy Girls
Lies, first year comp sci here.
(there's 1 girl to 70+ guys)

>>5026103
>Thinks those 70+ guys will make it to 3rd term

>>5026111
Actually had over 30 drop out, whole lot more are holding onto via strings(not in terms of enjoyment, but rather low marks). I'm rather worried myself with two subjects: mathematics and management, everything else seams to be going fine.
Will be....entertaining.

>see advert for anime club on 4th floor bulletin board
>Horrible type-faces used, crappy low-quality jpegs used on advert
Yeah, no. not even giving them a chance if they can't fucking get type-faces and using photoshop right.
(graphic design major, I am overly picky on things like posters. )

>Consider visiting Anima Club of uni
>Realize I hate anime, only like manga
>Fuck that, I read alone

>>5026135
Also: I Baby Beel acceptable?
I mean, he's just always sans pants.

>>5026136
If you can't tell, you need to lurk the fuck more.

>>5023027
YAMA?

If you wanna make cool friends via animu clubs you go to only the first and second meetings, and then whoever doesn't show up for the second are the dudes you wanna hang with

>>5026150
Highly doubt that was YAMA, as they didn't do the intro stuff until the middle of the showing. Unless this is another YAMA we're talking about. Also pretty much everything else OP said didn't happen there.

>>5026125
I'm a graphic design major, too. I'm super picky and OCD about fonts and so I've tried really hard for our flyers to look good (hence our current ranking as best designed flyers).

But really, even Photoshop isn't great for text, but anything better than Arial (or Comic Sans) + pixelated background is at least decent.

All anime clubs should have a graphic design major do flyers. It makes a TON of difference for credibility, attendance, and just overall appearance. Looks professional too.

I don't think ours is that bad...
I mean, we get the occasional people who don't know what a fucking shower is. But besides that, we normally don't have any large complaints about ours.

No john you are demons.

>This week's meeting we voted on what stuff airing this season to watch
>Get yelled at for voting for Gundam while everyone joked and insulted it
>They instead voted for shit shows
>Left when they started doing draft picks
I'm not one making a fool of myself wear on those character hats you get from cons.
Other than being able to see Redline in 1080p on a huge screen, I see no reason to go to anime club.

So I joined the uni anime club and now I have two creepy-kuns borderline-stalking me.

What do, /cgl/, what do?

>>5028291
...WHICH Gundam?

When I was in high school my friends and I started an anime club. It was fun the first year, and then the second year it got overtaken by yaoi obsessed douchebags and other misfit social-retards who pretty much destroyed it and turned it into Naruto Club.
I think there's one at my college, but I haven't been brave enough to investigate yet and I'm hardly ever on campus.

>>5028298
You put on your big girl panties and tell them to fuck off

>>5028298
Explain their behaviour and habits before asking for advice. Do that.
Also: explain the merit of staying in the anime club

>>5028302
seed destiny

>>5028308
They were right
Seed Destiny was horrible
Now, maybe they were right for the wrong reasons, but still

>>5028308

The anime club I went to was pretty chill to be honest, my only complaint was that when it came time to suggest something to watch Ghost in the Shell was dismissed because the girl running it thought "her tits are huge and she's the main character? That's usually a sign for little or no plot"

meh.

>>5028324
>when it came time to suggest something to watch Ghost in the Shell was dismissed because the girl running it thought "her tits are huge and she's the main character? That's usually a sign for little or no plot"
If we're talking about the 1995 movie, the cover *is* very misleading if you have no idea what it is, but what anime fan doesn't know about GITS?

>Be in 8th grade, just moved from another state
>Join animu club in hopes of making friends
>lolnope.jpg
>Be out of weeaboo stage, everybody else in club is not
>See girl trying to do screen tones in pen, recommend a store to buy real tones from
>Everybody flips shit and bitches me out for being a "nitpicky cunt"
>Can't leave club, school requires you be in one
>Learn to deal, out in a year anyways
>Same screentone girl is in HS club, tries to worm her way to President
>Shoot her down and call her out on her idiocy
>ToneGirl's art as good as mine was in 5th grade, insists she's going to be published
>Quit Club due to ALL OF MY HATE

>Be in 8th grade, go to grade 6-12 school
>Teachers from high school part advertise Anime Club
>Sure, why not
>Watch Death Note every week as subs come out (this was when it first started airing in Japan)
>Learn basic Japanese with Rosetta Stone
>Play Guitar Hero
>15 regular members, all of them sane
It was beautiful, but then I got accepted to a better high school.

Okay so here's my question: What makes a good anime club?

I run the anime club at my school but I'm so bad at being enthusiastic about anime so I don't know anything about what's good or popular. We have a mixture of socially awkward weebs to casual fans and I want people to really enjoy it.

>Meet 2x a week
>One of days we watch one (non-mainstream) anime straight through - now we're showing Michiko to Hatchen
>The other day we have a "variety night" and change it up every week (last week was AMV night, week before we showed old Toonami shows for nostalgia's sake)

So are there any ideas on shit to do on the "variety" nights?

>>5028420
Show a non-Miyazaki movie, preferably a "weird" one like Paprika or Cat Soup

>>5028425
Hmm we've done that actually! Our first meeting we watched Steam Boy.

I was thinking things like activities? IDK I for some reason think that things like activities and crafts and shit like that = more fun than sitting around watching an anime. But I dunno.

We never had an anime club at our high school, only christan/athletic clubs (and we couldn't found new ones)
sux2beme (or does it?)

>>5023027
yo OP
which uni do you go to?

>was president of high school anime club, crazy fun
>go to university anime club
>really awkward
>only girl there
>watched good anime that was new to me, though
>go back the next week
>kid points at me and attempts to whisper "Oh my God, a girl came back twice."
>I hear him
>never go back because I hate getting attention related to my gender or physical appearance due to self esteem issues

It's been a little over 3 years since then, and I hear the club is over run with loud weeaboo chicks now.

My college's anime club is pretty awesome. Meetings twice a week: one for anime (~5hrs, set schedule, one episode of each show each week, short breaks every hour, long dinner break in the middle), one for manga (~4hrs, really a social time for doing whatever with other club members). We also had the occasional party and for a couple years had a pretty awesome cosplay group. There were the crazies in it, of course, but for the most part the members were really cool.

>>5019594

Honestly EVERYTHING depends on the leadership for your club, during HS we had a club, sophomore year a self absorbed land whale ran it spent most of the time trying to get people to acknowledge her greatness,

Year 2 and 3 I was president, and we raised more money than any other club enough to send 16 people to Anime Expo including transportation, Hotel, and 1 meal a day. plus 500 spending money for the club library. Second year a small group coordinated through the club to go to Fanime.

We got Tons of Weeabos who wanted nothing but to watch DBZ, Naruto and Bleach, but we (officers) tried to bring them more variety a few classics, and anything not airing in the US to try to ease them out of weeaboness.

Some of them grew out of it and started to see the light. The key is to be firm in your decisions and forget about the weeabos, they either turn or they leave, Win Win.

Not a crazy story, but here's mine:

>Early high school, I don't like anime/manga much anymore but will humor it, trying to get out of drawing manga-style because it's an incredible hindrance on improving your real art
>Want to bring a friend over to my house, she's funny and sort of weeby, I sort of like anime too but not as much as middle school
>she has to take the bus with me so she insists I come with her to the Anime and Manga Club (pronounced mahhhngahhh)
>Reluctantly agree and enter a room with a bunch of people trying to practice the Haruhi dance for a con that April at the nearest university
>See the teacher that's supervising meeting with a class president and an acquaintance I knew that I sort of crushed on, he was nerdy but didn't like moeshit or most anime, he liked Miyazaki films and DnD mostly but kept it secret because he was more popular
>It gets dark/quiet and everyone starts singing along to the opening theme, dancing in their desks
>The big projector was playing this shit with a pigtailed cupid-girl getting naked in a river and then killing this guy over and over, tons of pseudo-fanservice, awful show
>The guy I like sees me watching this shit and never talks to me again until graduation

Was it worth it? I don't know; I don't talk to him anymore nor do I talk to her. I guess it ended up not mattering.

Anyone here in MAD? I was thinking about joining but I'm fucking terrified.

>Highschool anime club before it became anime club and it was just video game club
>Introduction time
>Everyone says something stupid like "I'm X I killed fitty men"
>Teacher/Supervisors turn
>"I'm Mr. Seacrest and I was a combat medic"
>Showed up everyone in the room

>>5025982

I think I know who you are

>>5028302
Actually it's Gundam AGE. You can't conclude how bad it will be but at least give a chance god damn. It seemed like they were going to persecute me.

So at the start of this semester I just transferred to UNLV and found out they had an anime club. So whats the worst that could happen? Well let me tell you

First off the presidents are obnoxious as hell. One of them styled his hair after an anime character and doesn't even respond to his real name. Another always talks with caps lock, never heard the words shower and personal hygiene before, and is obsessed with My Little Pony to the point of considering it anime enough to be played. Almost positive he has aspergers or something. And the worst one is this ugly balding mexican that kept trying to flirt with me. And poorly flirt with me at that, tried to impress me with the amount of wallscrolls he has. Really? come on.

But anon the anime must be decent right? Wrong its 100% mainstream shit that pretty much everyone has seen. Haruhi and K-On, yup. And the guys in charge act like no one has ever heard of it like they're obscure anime.

There are some cool members like I there was this one dude that loves SRW but usually its a heeping pile of loud obnoxious weeboos that laugh so hard that their lungs will explode so much as anyone mentions sex. Is that a sign of autism? It should be.

I went 3 or 4 times because there were a couple cute asian guys, one always wore a wig though. Stopped seeing them there so I got the fuck out.

Avoid the fuck out of uni anime clubs /cgl/

>>5026125
I'm in graphic design too. I don't think anyone in my class watches anime, or admits to. Me included.

>typefaces
..due to the extreme abundances of media and design students over here, all event posters, flyers and such are FUCKING BEAUTIFUL.

>>5028420
J-dramas maybe? Or live-action films, crazy shit like Tokyo Gore Police or Kamikaze Girls.

>>5028420

Show Kamen Rider, immediate success

>>5028303
Same. Plus they chased off one of my friends with a combination of BO and general creepiness. And everyone wanted to whine about what we were watching or doing but no one ever wanted to lift a finger to help out. I ditched the club halfway through the second year and figured they would fend for themselves.

Saw a group of students watching One Piece in the library my freshman year at GSU, but I decided against inquiring if it was a club.

>>5028504
It's a college, but in case anyone from that club happens to lurk here, that's all I'll say

>>5028139
You're right, I was grasping at straws because I want animu friends ;~;

>>5029364
don't we all...

what's YAMA, anyway?

>>5029377

It's the Japanese word for "mountain."

>>5029379
well let me rephrase that, is YAMA an anime club in the GTA somewhere?

>>5028898
>pigtailed cupid-girl getting naked in a river and then killing this guy over and over, tons of pseudo-fanservice, awful show

sounds like bludgeoning angel

>>5029393
I love Dokuro-chan! I wish there was more of it, though.

I was the guy at the anime club that people were outwardly nice to yet hated deep down. I treated the shows like they were MST sessions, had boundary problems with the ladies, had an ego the size of an aircraft carrier, and was otherwise a massively annoying try-hard that couldn't fit in. Got kicked out my main club, which sucked. Tried to travel across the region and fit into other clubs, but that didn't work. I was just "that guy", to the point where even the ugly, creepy, smelly, balding middle-aged manchildren in the back who'd wear BCGs and breathe heavily seemed sensible.

After a while, I found I was better off just watching anime with a close circle of bros than with some adolescent social climate.

>>5029389
it's the anime club for York U

>>5029396
Fuck ya me too anon! I wish there was more awesome cosplay from it to!

>>5029401
Why don't you try not having such an odious personality? When you have the urge to do something non productive like shout "THAT'S GOTTA HURT" when someone on screen in fact did just get hurt, do the opposite. Say nothing.

>>5029407

I found that, yeah, my personality was pretty odious and that the difference between saying nothing or something was a matter of context. For sure, it took a lot of change on my part to find the bros I hang out with in the first place.

>>5029403
I'm not really near York, but you should definitely come to the next meetup!

It's really going to depend on the group running it, the vast majority suck - it's mostly students running it after all - but there are a few worthwhile ones out there. Had a great time at mine, mainstream rubbish kept out except as a lure to drag in people for education into better stuff, some of the officers actually knew their shit, one guy'd done professional work as a Japanese-English translator, asked what they knew about cosplay when I joined and got a list of the cheapest fabric places in the area. Mostly weeaboo free, pretty chilled stuff, made some good friends there.

Ask how showings are picked, what they showed the year before and what they do besides sitting in a dark room with a TV screen - if it's done by mass argument, their showings list is nothing but Naruto and Lucky Star, or activities at any point include the word "dancing" then run for it. You don't have to like everything on their agenda, just one or two good shows usually means someone in the group has a clue, you can work with that.

First meetings are probably full of new weebs who've only just joined, check back later when a decent club would've scared them off or beaten the caramelldansen out of them. Or hell, just find a fledgling club or start a new one, get in there and do it right yourself.

>Starting a new anime club
>Someone leads me to a table at dining hall to find recruitement
>Half of them are playing Magic the Gathering
>Other half are sucking up the wi-fi with mmos
>One is a brony bantering about Big Mac being 'teh best'

>that feel inside

>Wants to create anime club in university in the first year
>Feels like nobody will join something created by a freshman
>Thinks about it on the second year
>Feels nobody will join something created by a sophomore
>Fails third year, has to worry about studies
>Repeats third year worrying about studies
>Fourth year is to busy to even remember the idea of an anime club
>Thinks about creating anime club, but this is my last year, I won't be able to mantain it after I get out of university

And thus, it never happened.

>2011
>Not starting a Starcraft club at your uni

2v2 Masters League in SC2 and A rank on icCup on BW
Get at me bro

>Freshman year
>College doesn't have an anime club
>Cosplay club just started
>Decide what the fuck, why not, I've been wanted to really get into cosplaying for some time
>Much more chill than expected
>Not too many people, a few irritating people, but the officers are nice
>Actually make friends (I am a shy motherfucker)
>2 years later, now Vice Pres.

Yeah, kind of an odd club to have, but it's pretty laid back. We just do workshops of various thing, hold events, and help each other out.

>>5029488
>Half of them are playing Magic the Gathering
Don't talk shit about MtG, it's actually pretty fun.

More horror, please

Despite hearing these horror stories all the time, I'm still astounded that most of these things happen so frequently. Our university club doesn't have problems most of the time. Pretty much everyone in the club, despite being awkward and/or loud, is pretty harmless. I think the only time we had an actual problem was last year when this one guy wouldn't stop being horribly racist and annoying. Our president talked to him about it, though he ended up leaving the club anyway, thankfully. Other than that people are generally pretty nice, though I've heard some of them act really horribly when asked to move off a table reserved for another club (we share the club room with 3 other clubs). Gonna have to fix that attitude.

The worst guy this year is probably this dude who is like some sort of meme machine. Loud, obnoxious, speaks in memes; the usual. Some time during the break in the first showing, which might have been when someone was talking, he pulled that whole Kanye-West-interruption meme and no one gave a fuck. I seriously wanted to punch him in the face. Can't wait until he says something extremely offensive so I can actually call him out on his behaviour for a good reason.

>>5032188
Oh wait, if I count those times that I got people hitting on me/making stupid comments at me, then that would up the amount of creepy. I haven't heard many other people complaining about this though. Either they're not saying anything or I just happen to attract the creepiest/most retarded of the bunch.

>>5019594

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utnb5Mru_zo <- If you want an example of a gr8 anime club look here

>>5032286
facepalm

>"Oh boy, there's an animu club at our high school!"
>little sister and I show up
>full of awkward, acne-ridden boys and fat, loud scene girls
>"WE'RE GOING TO WATCH THE NARUTO MOVIES."
>sister and I give each other looks
>movie ends, we discuss different anime we like
>"Hey, do you guys like Gurren Lagann?"
>class calls sister and I faggots for liking 'plotless ecchi'
>we leave and don't come back

My only story.

>>5035178
...oh, I'm so sorry. Even not having an anime club would be better than that pablum