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Welcome to Animania, UofM's official ANIME club

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Con Ja Nai

This is the only ANIME CONVENTION that is not a con! Right here at UofM, you can take part in this huge annual screening festival. Don't forget to dress up as your favorite anime character, because we WILL be judging! We encourage you to see the huge list of anime we showed at last year's screening in November.

WHAT is Animania?!

Since its creation in 1980, Animania has gradually become well-known for being the official University of Michigan's source for Japanese animation and film. Over the years, Animania has evolved and expanded, offering more and more things to experience for those interested in anime.

With the undying passion of serving anime for over 20 years, Animania still continues to grow! Here is a link to our comprehensive FAQ that will help you learn more about our culture.

Screenings

July 31st Screening

Posted by: misa^2

JULY 2010 SCREENING

Date: July 31, 2010
Time: 4:00 PM to 12:00 AM
Location: Lecture Room 1, Modern Languages Building
University of Michigan, Central Campus, Ann Arbor, Michigan

SCHEDULE:
(Synopses modified from Anime News Network)

4:00: Amagami SS
Episodes 1-4
Second-year high school student Tachibana Jun'ichi finds himself uneasy during Christmas time, having been stood up on a Christmas Eve date two years ago. However, this year at Christmas, he gets his last chance to ask out a new girl. Arranged as a series of arcs with periodic resets, the first four episodes follow Morishima Haruka, a senior one year older than Jun'ichi, and the development of their rocky young relationship.

5:40: Baka to Test to Shokanjuu (Running Series)
Episodes 8-10
Summary of previous episodes:
Class F still cannot declare war, due to their loss against Class A, so Akihisa's crew was biding their time with school life antics. Himeji prepared lunch for Akihisa, but due to her deadly cooking, Minami ultimately managed to give Akihisa the lunch she prepared. The school went on a treasure hunt, and the students manage to win back just as much as they had lost. As punishment for sneaking into the pool, Akihisa and Yuuji must clean it all summer, but they also took time to relax by the poolside. Yuuji turned down Shouko's confession of love yet again at an amusement park, but Shouko refuses to give up.

7:00: Occult Academy (Sponsored by Crunchyroll)
Episodes 1-3
Maya - The daughter of the former headmaster of a private Japanese academy dedicated to the study of the occult who died in 1999.
Uchida - A mysterious young man who travels back in time from the year 2012.

8:15: Break
Trailers for upcoming anime.

9:00: Sasameki Koto (Sponsored by Crunchyroll)
Episodes 1-3
Murasame Sumika is deeply in love with her cheerful classmate and friend, Kazama Ushio. Ushio is openly lesbian, but she only likes cute girls, and Sumika, top student, class representative, karate black belt, is anything but cute. Even worse, Sumika herself is terrified of endangering her friendship with Ushio and chooses to maintain the status quo, as much as it pains her to hide her feelings...

10:15: Raffle
Two 1 month Premium Anime Memberships will be raffled off, thanks to Crunchyroll.
Raffle prizes have been generously donated by Wizzywigs.
(4720 South State Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48108)

10:30: Durarara (Sponsored by Crunchyroll) (Running Series)
Episodes 7-9
Summary of previous episodes:
Twenty years ago, Celty lost her head and most of her memories. Upon discovering that her head was traveling to Japan, stowed away on a ship along with her horse disguised as a motorcycle, she meets Shinra's father, a doctor who offered to let her stay with him if she'd let him dissect her. She agreed, and now lives with Shinra. At school, Sonohara explains to Mikado and Kida that Harima used to stalk Seiji, but has now disappeared. Mikado later spots Seiji with a red-haired girl and chases after them, but Seiji tells Mikado to leave them alone. Later, Yumasaki, Karisawa, Togusa and Kadota receive a strange text message from Kaztano but ignore it. They learn that Kaztano had been kidnapped, and after rescuing him, learn from a kidnapper that the missing people being reported are actually being taken to Yagiri Pharmacy for human testing.

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The Buzz

Welcome to Summer 2010!

I'm sure everyone is glad that finals are over, and we're finally free from the shackles of 9am classes and blue books. Now that it's summer, we're looking forward to continuing our monthly screenings for four more solid months of excellent anime. For our summer session, we usually have less people on staff than our screenings during the school year, but we're all still excited to share our passion for anime with all of you!

Our runners for Spring/Summer are Durarara and Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu. Look forward to improvements to our MST3k format during break, along with a brand new sponsor.

Until we get the calendar working again, here are the tentative screening dates for Spring/Summer: May 22, June 19, July 17, and August 21. Watch this space for confirmation of our screening dates and more exciting details as the days get longer and the weather gets hotter!

Temporary site maintenance

The Animania website will be undergoing maintenance over the next week. Please do not be alarmed if something breaks while you are browsing our site. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Server Upgrade

The server was upgraded on April 03, 2010. The old server ran this site fine, but this server should be powerful enough to handle any growth this site will have for quite a while to come :)

Japan Lecture Series

Thank you everyone for coming to our Japan Lecture Series we've been hosting every month during break. For those who weren't able to make it, watch this space for updates every month with everything you've missed (mostly).

February: Japanese Valentine's Day
We showed episode 19 of Hime Chan's Ribbon as a precursor to Japanese Valentine's Day. The fansub group that subbed the series is honobono.

We will be updating this space with links to more material from other months soon.

New Decade 2010!!!

Welcome to Michigan 2010! I hope everyone is enjoying the lovely weather we're having. With the bitter memories of the football season behind us, we can now focus on our favorite spring sport: Basketball!

Jokes aside, we hope everyone enjoyed last semester, and we have some big plans for this semester also. We will be continuing our peek into Japanese culture during breaks, along with bringing two new runners this semester: Nodame Cantabile and Kuroshitsuji. We hope to reach a broader audience of anime fans this semester, so we'll be showing a blockbuster anime movie at every screening, so bring your friends!