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ParrySound
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Hello everyone,
I am the staff advisor for a new high school Anime Club that was launched this past week with resounding success. I am by far the most ignorant individual in our entire club when it comes to Anime - but I am willing to learn and determined to make this an unforgettable year for the club members, who were so excited to come together as a club! I would appreciate any and all suggestions on club activities, web links to post on our new website, and names of individuals who run workshops or visit schools as guest speakers (we are located north of Toronto). Students' areas of interest include but are not limited to anime (watching it, drawing it, AMV), graphic novels, costuming, rpg, and Japanese culture. Thanks, in advance, for your help. |
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ChibiBritt
 Posts: 52 Location: Denton, TX USA |
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Hiya!
A few days ago someone started a similar thread asking about things for clubs. I'm not sure if it will help you at all..but if you're interested you can go to http://animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=18020 I wish I could help with special guests, but since I'm in Texas...I don't really know about anything in your area. I would suggest checking museums and such. Sometimes they have things related to Japanese culture. Good Luck! |
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Haru to Ashura
 Posts: 617 Location: Termina |
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It might be hard to find a guest speaker/panelist/workshop holder/etc. who's willing to come to a high school, since most only do conventions and the occasionall college event. As for teaching them about Japanese culture, if there's ever some sort of Japanese/Asian cultural event in you town, take the kids. I can't speak for where you live, but where I live - Phoenix - a Japanese Matsuri (traditional festival) is held every spring. You really don't learn much of the ways of traidtional Japanese history and culture through anime, so a festival or cultural event would benefit the kids a lot more. And festivals are fun! :D Fyi your studenst are not 'drawing anime.' Anime = animation, therefore it moves frame by frame. Your students are drawing manga, which is just a Japanses word for comics. Perhaps you could ask a local webcomic artist or indie comic publisher who uses this manga style to come hold a small workshop for your students. Small-time artists (speaking from experience ;) ) are generally humble people and would accept such an invitation, whereas more popular artists and professionals expect a bigger audience and impressive monetary compensation. If your club has a budget to spend or collects dues, perhaps invest in a small library of manga (Maybe 10 to 20 titles at most) that can be lent to club members? And as for anime, I believe your sort of club can get sponored by ADV or Funimation. I've never used those programs, but I believe that if you sign up with them, they'll send you a selection of free anime to preview. As for you learning, there's not much to it. Just kick back and watch a few good titles. this thread will offer a few good suggestions, but I definently wouldn't reccomend all of the favorites listed, so make sure to research these yourself, just a bit, before you go and spend your hard-earned cash. (Not meant to be a teacher jab. :D ) Also, you should make sure that the programming that your students will be watching is appropriate for their age group. Some anime has excessive nudity and violence that, while it's not porn of anything, would not be considered wholesome to watch in a schooling enviorment and could get your club into trouble down the road. It's basically like Schindler's List - great movie, but you'd think twice about showing it to 15 year olds with anal parents that would love to fire you just because their little Jimmy saw a pair of breasts on the television screen. :roll: As for costuming, since Halloween is coming up, throw a Halloween costume party to kick off the year. |
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remember love
 Posts: 764 Location: Germany |
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As for AMV's (I'm assuming this means Anime Music Videos) A great website to download AMVs' for free is www.AnimeMusicVideos.Org. There literally hundreds to thousands of Music Videos you can download with a great way of searching through them. You should check them out.
And since your a new to anime this website is good for you to look at. Go through the encyclopedia and look through the anime you think you kids will like and plus this way the website tells you if it has some "mature" items in the anime that you probably don't want the students to watch. So instead of just looking through forums and going through everyones suggestion they probably don't tell you the "mature" items in the anime use the encyclopedia here it has ratings by fans on it along with it so you can tell if it's popular. Guest speaker wise I couldn't tell you. Graphic novels also can be found in the encyclopedia under manga section. Costuming probably find some stuff of buying it on ebay or something I don't do costuming so I wouldn't know. Rpg (Is that for video games or actual board games?) if video games go to www.gamefaqs.com, I'm sure the people will help you out there. As far as actual board games don't know anything there. |
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Starwind Amada
Posts: 981 Location: Easton, PA, USA |
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Heh, if Parry hadn't said his/her club is located in Toronto, I would've thought it was my club's new advisor. But that's a stupid thought, because he doesn't attend any meetings. And he couldn't care less about anime (he thinks we watch Spiderman and stuff like that).
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Alchemist449
 Posts: 341 Location: LED ZEPPELIN! nuf said |
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I think Newtype, an anime magazine, just moved to Toronto. Maybe an editor and/or reveiwer will come and speak.
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Starwind Amada
Posts: 981 Location: Easton, PA, USA |
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Uh, Newtype is owned by ADV, and they're in Houston. Are you sure they moved? |
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Kyle Smyth
 Posts: 157 Location: Ontario, Canda |
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I live near where you are located (well in the GTA anyway). I am in the same boat pretty much. What you can do is schedule a trip to anime north. It's a fan run anime convention held in Toronto. It is held in may and the website is updated sometime in January http://www.animenorth.com/. It is not as big as any American convention but it is fun and it has a great atmoshphere. Also as far as activities go you can rent or buy anime and preview them with your club. Also you can contact many distribution companies like ADV http://www.advfilms.com/ or Viz Media http://www.viz.com/ or http://geneonanimation.com/ and they will give you some information on what products they have and anime in general. I work at a library and we are always looking for things that companies will give us with information and Viz was very good for that. Also many magazines such as New Type and Anime Insider and Protoculture Addicts are a wealth of information.
Also I would like to know how you were able to get the club to launch because that is something that my school needs but I never thought that one open up in Ontario as well as have enough people supporting it to run it. I would very much appreciate it if you could either give me a private message or send me an email (it is on my profile) with that information. And good luck because I have a lot of respect for people are able to support anime. |
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Nani?
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I'd say looking in on these forums and this website in general are actually a good thing to do. They are probably the most intelligent forums of this type on the web with a mix of everything from young kids to University Proffessors. You'll get a lot of different opinions and you can ask some serious questions here and usually get at least some intelligent answers.
Also, some of the people here are Anime celebrities who, if you get to know might stop by if in town, you never know. All the Best, Nani? |
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Nani?
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Also, If you ever have to provide a show, two recomendations. Both are older so that you can pick them up cheap but not ancient (old enough to not to be seen by a 16 year old). They are both crowd pleasers from my experince and both have good role models, characters.
Princess Nine: About an attempt to set up a girls baseball team and the girls that make up that team while playing against guys and how it changes thier lives. Martian Succesor Nadeshiko: About a starship in wartime, but this is a comedy about the nerds and misfits chosen to crew this ship many of which are anime fans. Shows with "Educational Value" and might get students to pick up a book and learn stuff. Note, all do include violent deaths so they might be questionable for class room viewing, but the knowledge is useful. Only one episode which I mention specifically is undoubtedly over the edge. Samurai X OAV, Grave of the Fireflies (Movie)-- Japanese historical, Meiji Restoration and WW2 homefront respectively. The latter is very sad. X and Wolf's Rain: Both deal with the "end of the world" but in different ways. X takes place in contempary Japan and many of the locations are real places in Tokyo. While several characters are assosiated with religion this show does not preach or advocate and the characters work together peacebly. It is basically used mostly to explain character origins/skills, for example, one character was raised by Buddhist monks. Warning: One episode does have nudity followed by a bloody death. Wolfs Rain is set in a different world, but one with simular ecological problems to our own world and is suffering a gradual collapse because of it. Some characters also seem to be deliberately modeled after figures in Native American, Norse and Celtic Mythology. Otogi Zoshi (first half) and Twelve Kingdoms: Otogi Zoshi is set in Heian (pre Samurai) Japan and has plot elements such as characters spoiler[dying of epidemic disease, piracy and dealing with "social custom".] It has a extra with a Tokyo Univesity Proffessor talking about this time period. It deals with responsablity, right and wrong, trust and betrayal. Twelve Kingdoms is set in a world modeled after Ancient China and deals with a girl from our world taking the Thrown of one Kingdom and mastering herself in the process. It deals with many of the same issuse of resposiblity, loyalty, right and wrong as Otogi Zoshi but somewhat more effectively. I think both give a good feel of what it was like to live in a premodern society. Gunslinger Girls: It deals with adults acting in highly unethical fashions torward children, spoiler[conditioning them to act as assasins]. But the setting is modern Italy and the history of the various places, art galleries etc comes out. All the Best, Nani? |
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remember love
Posts: 764 Location: Germany |
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What does this have to do with his question? Anyways, I though up something else some companies promote anime clubs, so you might want to look into that at some companies websites. You can find companies names and I'm sure links to there website in the encyclopedia area. |
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doc-watson42
Encyclopedia Editor
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[quote="Haru to Ashura"]
Also Central Park Media (via their "Anime University") and Bandai Entertainment (AnimeAddict). Other on-line resources include How To Start Your Own Anime Club! and Gilles' Service to Fans Page. For print works, I recommend Anime Essentials: Every Thing a Fan Needs to Know. I also recommend (as part of your anime and manga education):
* The Anime Companion 2: More What's Japanese in Japanese Animation * The Anime Encyclopedia (The authority, in Japanese or English. There are mistakes contained within, but most should be corrected in the next edition.) * Anime!: A Beginner's Guide to Japanese Animation ("Long out of print, but worth it"--Gilles Poitras; I think so, too. ^_^) * Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga * Manga! Manga!: The World of Japanese Comics (The granddaddy of all English-language manga and anime books.) * Manga: 60 Years of Japanese Comics |
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Alchemist449
Posts: 341 Location: LED ZEPPELIN! nuf said |
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Sorry, misread the article I was thinking of. 
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ParrySound
Posts: 5 |
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I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who replied with so many useful suggestions! The movie suggestions and web links are fantastic. The Club is hoping to cap off the year with Anime North. And I'll have to look into Japanese Matsuri - the students want to have a Culture Day on November 3.
It's just incredible to log in and see all these helpful suggestions. Thanks so much! 
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Number Six
Posts: 84 Location: Southern California |
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As a high school advisor, I would advise you to understand the differences between shounen, shounen-ai, bishounen, shoujo, shoujo-ai, bishoujo, yaoi, yuri, and hentai. Hint: check the ANN encyclopedia
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