Propeller Anime invades MegaCon and A Comic Shop!

It's getting closer! MegaCon, Florida's largest comic book, anime, sci-fi, and gaming convention will be on February 17th-19th at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL!

As of the time of this writing, you can still pre-order tickets and avoid the long lines at registration. We highly recommend doing that so you can spend more time at events like ours!

We have the rules for our all our contests up! Check out what we have for the Ninja Olympics, Iron Cardboard Robot Cosplay, and the Quickdraw! Contest. We also have a schedule of all our events, including panels and showings here.

Our friends at Anime Sushi also posted a full schedule of all the anime events, which includes our panels from guests such as Chris Sabat, Todd Haberkorn, Laura Bailey, Travis Willingham, Brina Palenica, Mark Meer, and Vic Mignogna.

The anime event schedule also features events and panels from the likes of Anime Spot, Anime Addicts Anonymous, Anime World Order, and many others!

We've been involved with MegaCon for quite some time now, and this is by far the best line-up of anime events and guests the convention has ever had. It's better than almost every anime convention in Florida and we hope to see you there!

 

This Friday will also be very good. The week before MegaCon, we'll be at A Comic Shop for Anime Nite @ The Geek Easy! We're going to have Anime Debate Tournament, which features teams of fans arguing over anime-related topics, and a showing of a Studio Ghibli film. 

To find out more about that, check this article out and you can also RSVP on Facebook. The event is free and it's a good way for anime fans to get together and party!

A Comic Shop is located at 114 S. Semoran Blvd Winter Park, FL 32792. The event starts at 8PM but show up a little early if you have a team that wants to debate.

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Anime Nite! Ghibli Month with the Anime Debate Tournament! (2/10)

“With Studio Ghibli’s latest film, “The Secret World of Arrietty” coming to theaters throughout America on February 17^th, Propeller Anime wants to show fans some really good Studio Ghibli movies.  We have declared our February events at A Comic Shop to be “Ghibli Month!”

 

That means that our Anime Nite @ The Geek Easy on Friday, February 10^th will feature a great movie Studio Ghibli created! We’ll bring in a bunch of their movies and use a process of figuring out what you guys haven’t seen to determine what we will show!

But before that, we’ll get down to event we did a year ago at MegaCon… the Anime Debate Tournament!

Up to six teams of three will fiercely compete in a debate tournament on tongue-in-cheek topics relating to Japanese anime and manga fandom.

If you love to argue, this is your chance to show off your skills for prizes including the ultimate geek reward: satisfaction in always being right!  RSVP on Facebook.

Recap of yesterday's meeting! 3/20/11 edition!

Man, that was a great way to end the quarter! We had exciting finishes to Cromartie High School, Mobile Suit Gundam: The 8th M.S. Team, and FLCL!

We also got to do a test run of Anime Debate Tournament, a new event to be held at this year's MegaCon! We had four teams of three debate over topics such as "Tengen Toppa Gurren Laggan is a manly anime" "Anime needs more black people" and "Vic Mignogna is still a contender to headline conventions and anime."

It was great discussion overall, and we got to refine the rules of the event before it goes live at 5PM this Friday in W224D of the Orange County Convention Center. Sign-ups will be held at our table in front of W224B from 1PM to 4:30PM. You should check out the details and rules of the event here.

We also determined what anime we shall show in April, May, and June. For series, we shall have Record of Lodoss War, Gunbuster vs Diebuster, and Durarara!! For features the club selected Castle of Cagliostro, Legend of Koizumi, One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island, Arcadia of my Youth, Armitage III, and Interstella 5555!

With these, the upcoming showing of REDLINE at the Florida Film Festival in April, and our Anime Nites @ The Geek Easy, it's going to be a great spring! Our first meeting of the next quarter will begin on Sunday, April 3rd!

By the way, if you are going to MegaCon this weekend and have a smart phone with access to twitter, please follow us @PropellerAnime so you can get full updates on our events at the convention!

Next Propeller Anime Club meeting on Sunday, March 20th!

The next meeting of Propeller Anime Club will be on Sunday, March 20th at 1pm in FS3F-111 in Building 3F at Full Sail University. This will be the last meeting before MegaCon, and our last meeting of the first quarter of 2011. This means we end three series and decided where to go next. But that is not all! We have an event to test run!

Did organizing the schedule into quarters work for meetings? Did we watch some cool stuff? What will we start in April? Will Cromartie High School ever make sense?

Planned Schedule

1:00PM - Introduction and News

1:10PM - Cromartie High School 22 - 26 (END)

2:00PM - Mobile Suit Gundam: The 8th M.S. Team (END)

3:00PM - Intermission

3:25PM - Anime Debate Tournament: Test Run

4:15PM - FLCL 4 - 6 (END)

5:25PM - Decide The Anime Q2

Anime Debate Tournament Test Run



We are debating Anime Debate Tournament at MegaCon days later and some of us want to do a test run to make sure we are ready for the primetime! What does this mean for us? Well, we need three (3) teams of three (3) contestants to participate in the event. This will give our emcee a chance to warm up and the rest of staff to determine the flow.

Check the rules of our event and see if you want to form teams. Everyone who participates gets candy!

Decide The Anime Q2

Last December, we looked at what anime we would show starting this year. We will be finishing all of those on Sunday! With that said, we need to figure out what we will watch as a club! So I have listened to some suggestions and have also thought heavily on interesting anime the club needs to see and would enjoy.

Twelve (12) series and twelve (12) features are being put up for vote. For the second quarter that goes from April to June, three (3) series and (6) six features will be selected by you guys! It's a lot of great stuff from different genres and eras, including some newer stuff.

I'll go over what each anime is and why it's interesting and you will let me know which ones you like and would totally come to meetings to watch without staring at FaceBook or World of Warcraft the whole time. The anime that get the most amount of likes will be the ones we show. It's that simple!

Cromartie High School

Oh Cromartie, you are so crazy and badass! We will miss your crazy logic, your absurd conversations that are completely irreverent, and most of all... we will miss Freddie. Gorilla will star in a couple of these episodes and there will be a surprise ending that may mess with some of you guys!

Mobile Suit Gundam: The 8th M.S. Team

Man, the last few episodes have been amazing. Shiro and Aina have become lovers. Ginias has become mad during the creation of Zeon's Apsalus mobile armor. Shiro has faced pending court martial only to quit the Earth Federation and fight for his own justice. And Aina is now forced to pilot the Apsalus against the man whom she loves. It's the end of a Gundam story so expect death tolls on both sides and an all-out explosive finish!

FLCL 4 -6

This series is all over the place. We have a kid with horns coming out of his head that become monsters, an out-of-this-world chick who fights them with a bass guitar, and a robot that was a monster that merges with the kid to become a super monster-fighting machine! Oh and there is a lot of "Fooly Cooly" going on, whatever that means...

It's the most bizarre coming of age story ever told in anime and we shall finish it up this upcoming meeting! See you there!

Anime Debate Tournament @ MegaCon 2011!

Eight teams fiercely compete in a debate tournament on topics relating to Japanese anime and manga and their fandoms. If you love to argue, this is your chance to show off your skills for prizes including the ultimate geek reward: satisfaction in always being right!

This is one of the many events Propeller Anime Club will be hosting at MegaCon 2011. This will be a collaboration with our friends at Anime Spot! Event will be from 5PM to 7PM on Friday, March 25th in W224D at the Orange County Convention Center!

Sign-ups for the event will be the table Propeller Anime Club and Anime Spot will be sharing, outside of room W224B from 1pm - 4:30pm. Sign-ups are closed once eight (8) teams have entered.

All information you need to know about the event is below.