/a/ - Animu & Mango

It's not like I have personal experience, but attracting casuals with shit taste is probably just inevitable, since that's the majority of the public, and the ones more likely to not be socially retarded, ie. willing to join a club.

SJWs, it depends on your college. I think if you have a couple like-minded people, if you occasionally shoot some mildly racist/sexist jokes, they should see themselves out. If your college is drinking too much koolaid, this could get you in trouble instead though.

>>861825

>We've only got a handful of people so far, but it's one of those situations where you can be certain there are many more people who want one

Careful, I've tried making a club before. Everyone says they want one, but when you tell them it's happening and ask what times would work best, they're indecisive or avoid the subject. Once you have one established, about 1/10th of the people who say they'll show up will actually show up.

>How do I form up a good club that will last into the future with a good state of mind and way of thinking that will carry forward after I graduate?

You basically can't unless you attack this aggressively and make a campaign out of it. Otherwise as soon as you leave, things will begin to take a nosedive as soon as you're out. You might keep it going for an additional year or two, but that's usually about it without some university professor's influence, and then the club will only last as long as that Uni professor is there.

>What are some things I need to be aware of, or to keep in mind?

Very, very few people have a desire to help you. Expect anyone who says they'll help you to bail on you 50% of the time (90% of the time if it involves any level of driving or showing up when they aren't physically there at the Uni already), and expect any kind of activity that involves more interaction from a club member than showing up to the room or sitting at a table between classes for an hour or two (while they don't even do anything but study) to flop. That's ok though, having more people at a club table makes people come to the table. The tumblr folks are going to show up either way, so you either need to push the direction of the club with an iron fist (in which case you will lose members that the tumblr folks will take with them) or you need to in general just make it unappealing to them from the start (moe anime works good for this, but is off-putting to the types of uni people who usually want to go to an anime club). Know you can't kick a person out of the club unless they're seriously being ridiculously obnoxious (at the level of screeching during episodes kind of levels of obnoxious) or violating the student code of conduct. Otherwise your club will be shut down. Also, the autist who is in the right is in the right, but when he talks about loli anime or some other topic that isn't normalfag-friendly (or is a nitch genre in general), it WILL cost you members, so the anime that you like might not be the anime you can show to the club since it might rile the autist into action attacking other club members. Other club members will want you to do something about these problematic individuals, so it will be up to you to find a good balance between kicking out "anime extremists" and tumblr shitters to keep the club healthy.

I was going to post a long winded thing about opsec plans involving dual viewing lists and downloading materials onto discs off-campus (to throw off the club advisor) and the preferences of members thus far, but I don't think it's worth it (not lazy or giving up, just trying to keep myself on topic). As for times, we're going to have a meeting about things this Tuesday at 5:00 or 6:00 PM, and I'm aiming for late Sunday evenings/Sunday Nights for viewing times since we're from a satellite campus, but I want to include interested students from the main campus. I'm studying Mechatronics for example, so my day starts with theory at 8:00 AM and concludes with the end of lab at 3:00 PM. Most businesses in town that we need (banks, compressed gas dealers, hardware stores, people that for some reason only run their business during the common man's working hours) close at 5:00 PM, which sucks for both US and THEM. As for club activities, there would be viewing shows and chatting about material at first, and gaming too I would think. I would kind of like to get it to the point where we might be a part of festivals or travel to a convention, but that's a long, LONG way off. It would be cool to do a Halloween Cosplay event at some point too.

>>861867

You posted while I was typing, and I'm glad you brought this stuff up. I don't know why I didn't consider doing two-tier club instead of two-tier viewing list, but it's a good idea if we can find a good place to settle in. I'm good at facilitating things but I need to understand available logistics first.

>>861868

I kind of wondered about that too. I'm willing to spitball that the IT goys monitor network traffic and probably have flags and triggers, and while one guy might watch an anime stream in between classes or something and not cause anyone to give a shit I was thinking of ways to keep network traffic and paper trails to a minimum (see downloading to discs). These are all logistics issues that we're going to have to discuss on Thursday, and we may want to thoroughly acquaint ourselves with campus policy books in the interrim time too so we might be able to jew our way out of any problems using loopholes and technicalities.

Sorry if any of this post seems like a random vomiting of answers, but I'm caught between this and getting ready to go back to my place this evening so I can get into class on time tomorrow morning.

It has to be full of people who are passionate and want to share their passion. Make it an environment where everyone is expected to be studying their passions are share it with each other.

That's what clubs are meant for. You don't need events or any of that shit.

>>861843

I would pretty much do this. Quietly play my favorite anime movies once a week in a small class room and wait for people to take interest, if they ever do.

>>861868

That spoiler terrifies me. Are you still around OP? How did it go?

>>865063

That's great to hear! I hope you have more cozy times in the future and keep us updated or maybe just show up to tell us all about how everything fell apart. Anyway, I sure wish I had a group of friends to talk and watch anime with irl.