Anime club members are all about the game
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Members of the Anime Club hang out in room M154 on Feb. 19 to discuss their favorite anime shows and play video games.
Members of the MATC Anime Club meet every Wednesday and Friday between 1 and 5 p.m. in Room M154 at the downtown Milwaukee campus. During the first hour of the Wednesday meetings they work on a collaborative manga, after the first hour, students come and go between their classes to watch anime, play video games, exchange information about their favorite anime series, or just enjoy each other’s company.
In addition to those activities, they also play card games, and on occasion the Anime Club President Adrian Trotter will give drawing tips to those that are interested.
Currently the club has 178 members, with about 40 to 50 members that make it to each meeting. On Feb. 14 – 16 approximately 20 members went to Anime Milwaukee as a group of friends just checking out the convention.
May 16 – 18 another group of 20 from the club will go to Anime Central in Chicago. Next year, Trotter hopes to organize a table for the group at Anime Milwaukee to give them the opportunity to sell their artwork, or manga, and promote the group further.
Trotter says that, “The group is a good place to come to meet people, and is also a good place to get into anime.” During the meetings there is usually a screening of anime on in the background with a different anime each meeting, but the group does try to watch a complete series together from beginning to end over the course of each semester.
For more information about the Anime Club at MATC, you can email them at [email protected] or you can visit them in Room M154 on Wednesdays and Fridays from 1 – 5 p.m.
