Wednesday meetings this year are in Mass Comm 104 from 6pm-9pm. However, the meeting on September 1st will only be from 6pm to 7:30pm because organizations are not allowed to conflict with MTSU’s Welcome Week events.  Please make a note of this!

For those unfamiliar with our meetings, we tend to watch Japanese cartoons. In Japan they refer to it as “anime”. Anime can be very diverse, as opposed to Western culture’s animation which is generally limited to children’s tv, or comedy (IE: Simpson’s, South Park).  If this sounds like it is something you’re interested in, feel free to stop by. There are no dues, and there is nothing to be afraid of!

After each meeting, we gravitate towards cyber cafe for dinner and hang out there until they close up shop. We generally try to keep quiet during the shows, but we encourage social activity at this venue. If you are a freshman and/or do not know where Cyber Cafe is, just ask someone at the meeting.

Our first Thursday meeting will be on September 9th. More details on that will be posted closer to the date.

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to express them at the 1st meeting official thread: A Reminder About the First Week’s Meeting

Currently, we are taking names of those who are interested in going to Awa. We have rooms available, and all that. So head on over to our forums and post in the official thread if you’re interested in going.

Once we get a rough estimate on who will be going, we can discuss prices. It’s important that you put your name in this thread, and keep an eye on it as things progress:

AWA Club Registration Thread

It’s imperative that if you are interested that you express your desire to sign up promptly. AWA is rapidly approaching, and we need to know before school starts up.

The fun starts in BAS s268 at 11am where we will watch an hour’s worth of anime. Then we will go eat lunch and carpool to Chef Wang’s. Upon returning, we will open up the gaming room in BAS s262 where you can hook up your PS3s and Xbox and Atari Mario consoles.

The anime room will close at 8pm and the gaming room will close at 7pm.

All are welcome to bring friends, video game consoles, board games, card games, manga, and may also cosplay if you want!

Don’t let that discourage you, though! There’s a t-shirt ninja who happens to have backups. Those should be available shortly.

In the meanwhile, please take some time to check our amazing forums

The forums are fancy and nice. You can talk to like-minded anime fans and get some extreme discussions going on. So dial-up and log on!

It is customary that all incoming freshman attend a customs session. It’s a glorious orientation that can be fun for everyone!

Current club members are encouraged to volunteer to be at the booth. You can cosplay, bring anime-ish things, or some manga. It’s an excellent opportunity to meet fresh faces!

Prospective club members are invited to come visit our table, and learn more about what we do. If you’re into anime, you should definitely give our booth a visit.

Here is the list of the days when we will have a table at customs:

May 27 (Th)
June 4 (F)
June 10 (TH)
June 16 (W)
June 19 (SAT)
June 24 (TH)
July 8 (TH)
July 14 (W)
July 17 (SAT)
July 23 (F)
July 29 (TH)

The session lasts from 9am-noon. (Although, students usually don’t come until 9:30)

For other comments, volunteering, questions, or concerns please visit the thread on our forums

According to Joshua Spurlock, over 20 panels were run by members of our club. Unfortunately, I was only able to record segments from three of them.

The first one is run by our President Kyoji and Kisha. This panel is about how people of non-Japanese-descent are viewed in anime culture. This one is called “People of Color in Anime”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU6dhmmc1U8

The second one is run by Ashley and Jon. This one is called “Panelloid: A Vocaloid Panel”. Vocaloid is a singing synthesizer application software developed by the Yamaha Corporation that enables users to synthesize singing by typing in lyrics and melody. They have mascots for the different voices, and this panel covers the various types of vocaloid related things.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXetEufG8hE

This next one is special. Headed up by Thomas and our former head of programming Stan, it’s FANDUMB. Hailed as one of the coolest panels at MTAC (albeit an 18+ endeavor) I present to you:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujy1rzW85yw

Spring 2010 anime club season has finally come to an end. We’ll still see a lot of you at MTAC, and hopefully at our Summer ADA [TBD]. Be sure to check the blog during the summer for details on customs, Fall 2010 dates & rooms.

In other news, here are the results of the election in case you missed the meeting:

President: William Beale “Kyoji” V. Johnson
Vice President: Andrew Eidson
Secretary: Jennifer “Bunny” Goldberg
Treasurer: KJ McKelley
Head of Programming: Elliot Teel

Congratulations to those who were elected.

President

• William “Kyoji” Johnson

Vice-President

• Andrew Eidson
• Alex Hilliard

Treasurer

• KJ McKelley
• Takia Richardson
  

Secretary

• Jennifer Goldberg
• John Ibanez
• Tyler Whitaker

Head of Programming

• Devin Adkins
• Elliot Teel
• Ashley Steele

Be there to vote on Wednesday, April 28th! Speeches begin at 6:30. After the election, we will discuss MTAC stuff, and I have a special surprise for club! Be there!

Also, remember to send in any MTAC panels you are presenting/helping to present so that we can all see how much of MTAC we are contributing! E-mail the details to mtsuac@gmail.com.