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.

Super Anime Trivia @ MegaCon 2011!

You dare to call yourself an anime fan? Then prove it by crushing everyone in Super Anime Trivia! Three trivia sessions: new anime, old school anime, and name that tune! Fabulous prizes will be given to winners!

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! Bone up on some anime(coming to meetings at either club helps!) and see us Friday, March 25th at 3PM in W224B of the Orange County Convention Center!



Anime Nite @ The Geek Easy on Thursday, March 3rd!

Anime fans and all other geeks in the Orlando rejoice! Propeller Anime Club and A Comic Shop have teamed up to bring a new anime event to their super cool hangout lounge known as The Geek Easy!

Every month, the Propeller Anime Club will have Anime Nite @ The Geek Easy, a haven for anime fans that will feature some combination of anime showings, interactive events, contests, and partying!

You see, we were thinking "why watch anime in a dark room by yourself when you can dress up and party with other fans and have even more fun?"

The first Anime Nite @ The Geek Easy will be a STEEL CAGE MATCH*  between two fan favorite anime starring sexy ladies that save the day by fighting monsters and other things that prey upon the weak!

In the blue corner, we have the lovely magical sailor scouts from Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon! In the red corner, we have the sexy fallen angels of Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt!

Two anime will enter and have a back and forth battle where you, the fans, decide the winner! We'll show several of the best episodes of each series and then destiny will run it's course!

This event is free and will be held on Thursday, March 3rd at 8pm in The Geek Easy Lounge, located in A Comic Shop on 114 S. Semoran Blvd in Winter Park, FL. For those who want the full cultural experience, Gizmo Sushi is located two doors down from A Comic Shop!

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*There is no real steel cage. You will have to use your imagination the whole night.

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

Valentines Day will have passed by this time but that doesn't mean can't have a little bit of romance left over. Sunday, February 20th at 1PM in FS3F-111 of Building 3F at Full Sail University will be when and where our next meeting will take place.

Propeller Anime Club enters a genre it has stayed away from and experiences the most recent film of one of the past decade's most acclaimed directors: Makoto Shinkai.

Makoto Shinkai broke out in 2000 when he created, directed, wrote, and produced - BY HIMSELF - Voices of a Distant Star. Since then, he has been named a contender for Hayao Miyazaki's throne much like Mamoru Hosoda has.

Our feature will be 5 Centimeters Per Second. The movie looks beautiful and features a story of two close friends who are forced apart by their families and try their best to stay in touch through letters. But over time, their communication begins to cease and the rift between them grows wider.

The movie examines human relationships and the power of communication in great detail and it will be something that is certainly fresh and new for the club.

Planned Schedule

1:00PM Introduction and News

1:15PM Cromartie High School 13-17

2:15PM Mobile Suit Gundam: The 8th M.S. Team 7 & 8

3:10PM - Intermission

3:35PM - Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage 7 & 8

4:30PM - 5 Centimeters Per Second

5:30PM - After Meeting Meeting

In Cromartie High School, we learn how to handle trolls on the internet and the Japan Boss Championships begins! Every school boss and punk will be there to battle for title of Japan's strongest!

In Mobile Gundam: The 8th M.S. Team, we get a new director(the old one died after episode 6 was finished) and Shiro reveals his love for Aina. (After he gets to see her naked in a hot spring, of course!) When the Earth Federation finds out about Shiro's relationship with her, they brand him a traitor and seek his court martial! Unless Shiro does something for them...

In Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage, a new mission begins and Rock tags along with Hotel Moscow boss Balalaika to be translator in negotiations with a fallen yakuza group and decide to crush the other yakuza group that has been treating them poorly. At some point, this leads to Revy wanting to kill people and I know that's what you want to see!

See you all on the 20th! 

Recap of the last meeting! 2/5/11 edition!

Last meeting was very sweet! Literally! We had brownies, candy, cupcakes, and caramel-filled cake. And punch too! Gotta have punch. We had a couple big things to celebrate!

For those who still don't know, we beat Anime Spot in dodgeball 3 games to 1 this past Saturday, thus making us the supreme anime club in Orlando! We did some casuals after and it started to rain. We also had a couple games to show off from the Global Game Jam that some of our club members worked on. They made some pretty rad stuff in 48 hours!

We'll have what video we have of the games up in the future, but right now you can download the games worked on by Steven C, Erik B, Dustin J, Jordan J, Kassandra L, and Michael D. (With the master plan.)

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Good job guys! If anyone else has collaborative projects to show off, whether they are games, artwork, short films, or AMVs, let me know so I can schedule them in for meetings! 

We also talked a bit about MegaCon, taking place March 25th - 27th in Orlando, Florida at the Orange County Convention Center. I showed you guys a scary convention video filled with dumbasses but don't worry, MegaCon will still be rad. We have a ton of awesome events there too so please come out and support us! And tell your friends!

In the future, we'll highlight our major events at MegaCon and some of the other things in the Anime Events Track you should also check out!

Awesome stuff was seen and we are halfway through all of our series! In Cromartie High, we got to see the glory that is the MechzawaCycle and Takenouchi ended up in America when he conspired with luchadore criminals to hijack an airplane!

Aina of Zeon and Shira of the Earth Federation have reunited in fierce battle in Mobile Suit Gundam: The 8th M.S. Team! Will their love blossom? (Also, a manly headbutt was delivered in a Zeon prison cell. Hell yeah!)

Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage was pretty crazy! Revy, Eda, and the rest of Lagoon Company fought of many bounty hunters including a gothic lolita chainsaw freak, a rotund pyromaniac, the blade-wielding Shenhua("lovingly" called "Chinglish" by Revy), and a so-called wizard who likes grand entrances! And don't forget the cowboy from Florida! Yeah, those were a couple of awesome episodes.

Last but not least, we showed Robot Carnival. Oh man, what a treat that was. Nine animated robot-themed shorts from people that were already masters of Japanese animation or were on the path to becoming so.

It featured directors such as Katsuhiro Otomo(AKIRA), Hiroyuki Kitakubo(Golden Boy), Hiroyuki Kitazume(Zeta Gundam), and Hidetoshi Omori(Bubblegum Crisis), just to name a few. Everyone needs to watch this. Not every short will win you over, but the ones that do will blow you away.

That's it for now! We'll meet again on February 20th! See you then!

Propeller Anime Club Meeting on Sunday, February 6th!

Our next meeting of Propeller Anime Club will be on Sunday, February 6th at 1:00PM in FS3F-111 in Building 3F of Full Sail University. We have several things to celebrate before we begin watching Japanese cartoons!

First, senior member Zak W. will have a birthday soon. So hopefully he will be at the meeting so we can celebrate that! (I will bake some sweets!)

Next, more than several of our club members participated in the Orlando branch of the Global Game Jam this past weekend. For those not in the know, the GGJ is a worldwide event that lasts for 48 hours. In that time, developers of all types get together and create small labors of love in the form of videogames! So our club members that participated will show their games off!

Finally, we will have to celebrate for our very likely victory in dodgeball that we will gain this Saturday against Anime Spot. The team has been doing some very manly training under my guidance and have become a small army of badasses. Please make sure that you support them this Saturday! Give your spirit to them so they can launch dodgeballs like Genki Dama at their opponents!

Planned Schedule

1:00PM - Introduction and News

1:10PM - Celebrations and Global Game Jam Showcase

1:40PM - Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage 5 & 6

2:40PM - Cromartie High School 9-12

3:10PM - Intermission

3:35PM - Mobile Suit Gundam: The 8th M.S. Team 5 & 6

4:30PM - Robot Carnival

Propeller Anime Club vs Anime Spot: DODGEBALL!!!

The day of destiny is coming fast! Propeller Anime Club and Anime Spot have selected the members of their respective dodgeball teams and both teams have trained hard for victory!

But there can only be one victor and one supreme anime club in all of Orlando. Which one will it be?

The game is scheduled to start at 3PM in Jay Blanchard Park on Dean Road. You will be there and will cheer loudly for blood and violence!

The match will be determined by the team to reach three (3) wins first and they must be ahead by two (2) games in order to claim victory.

Afterwards, casual dodgeball play will be available to anyone who wants to play. Niether club will assume responsibility for any injuries you might recieve at the park on February 5th.

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