Well I joined my first anime club....

Now this can be really good or really bad because I have met a people who had a bad experiences with their anime club or a bad falling out with them. So I'm already coming in with not the biggest of exceptions. My two biggest fears are that:


But I have 3 reasons to tolerate my two fears because I get free trip to a Otakucon in Washington, DC, they're making the anime club into sub gaming club so if one person is decent at fighting games then that's cool, and there's a few people in the anime club that I know already so it isn't like I'm going to meet a completely new group of people.

So yeah, what was your experience with your anime club if you had one? And you got any advice for me on the subject?

I wish my school had an anime club

Joined one in Highschool that was great at first, but drama and no motivation from 80% of the members tore the club apart. There was one in my college, but it didn't look appealing, but I could never figure out when/where they were meeting and my studies took over most of my life.

Just go in with an open mind and if people are being dicks you can stop going anytime. You'll hopefully make one decent friend in it.

I already have friends in the club that meet off-hand, it's just everyone else I'm worried about.

Honestly, on the outside the club doesn't look to bad. What I'm worried about is when I get in, what is it like then?

Depends on the people really. We had a pretty large anime club in Highschool so with 20-40 people shit is bound to go down. Only people I never got along with were the opinionated assholes. Remember when I told you that mecha was ruined for me? Basically some jerks made me and others feel like shit for whatever reason (didn't help the one guy was sexually abused as a kid; little fact that was learned later while drunk at a convention).

It should be fine and just be yourself. You'll either get a warm welcome or it may take a couple of meetings to warm up to people. Either way it's worth a shot and going to Otakucon is a nice deal.

Couldn't be as bad as here or on /a/sshat.

Never was in one, but I have a deaf friend whose in one.

Joined the anime club once in high school. Wasn't my cup of tea though cause I felt detached from them.

Being in the military, we have more of a mix of having DnD players, TCG players, and VG and anime people. We really don't have a club per se, but more of a giant clique and I think it's an unique way to have people with the same interests and mesh it all into one.

I was in my anime club in high school.

Was full of weebs.

Not big surprise

>Anime club

All the ones near me are full of cringe-worthy weebs.

Never joined an anime club back at uni since most of us just watch anime (i.e. one piece / fairy tail), though few watch non-mainstream ones.
We all agreed never to download naruto anime again since the pain saga.


Though I believe I'm the only one who watched initial D, wangan midnight, trigun and GTO.

My college actually didn't have an anime club so I started one. Made it official and everything. We even got free money to go to Anime Boston. Never really got more than 20 members or so, but it was a cool group and from what I hear it's still going strong.

I've never been in a club.

I was President of my schools anime club my senior year. It was a lot of fun, but hard work setting things up. It was my responsibility to set up gaming tournaments to fund our Animazment trip, and set up activities like Anime Jeopardy or find a good movie to watch. We also did a lot of drawing and had an "art show" featuring our best works. Anime clubs our fun, but you need to make sure who is running it knows what they are doing.

I was part of one during my freshman year in High School. Borrowed Full Metal Panic and forgot to bring it back. Never gave it back actually. I still have it and I haven't seen it since then.

Almost joined on a couple years ago. Boy, it's a good thing I avoided doing that.

I remember in school there was a anime and manga club, I went in to see what it was like and most of the members where just sat in a corner reading manga and not talking, the rest was showing off their death note merchandise, needless to say I never went back.
There's a club made up mostly made up of people in university/working life and they meet once a month at a pub to talk and share snacks. That's something I wouldn't mind joining

There's an anime society at my uni but I didn't join because of workload. Maybe in the second year.

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Would be interesting to join one. I know people who like anime where I live, just don't speak to them often enough to consider them "friends".