Next Meeting: June 5th, 2014 @ 6pm | Location: Waynesboro Public Library | 600 S Wayne Ave, Waynesboro, VA 22980 [MAPS]
Developments with club and shirts:
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Live RiffTrax of Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might [more details here]
On June 14th, 2014 Anime & Manga Club 22980 will be holding its first ever Live RiffTrax. This movie's choice is Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might at the library at 1 pm. What is RiffTrax you ask? It is comedy audio commentaries of of movies and/or television shows. We will be tearing that movie apart and keeping you laughing harder than you've laughed in a long time! Join us for this event! Mark it on your calendars! What is the best part? The best part is that it is FREE!!! We welcome you with open arms to come have a great laugh as me make fun of Krillin's baby face! You will even have time after to attend the city's lawn party that starts at 6 pm in the center of the city near the fire department. Arrive early at 12:30 pm to sign the guest log and grab your seats! If you need directions, please call or text: 540/456-1237.
Gaming Tournament: Marvel vs Capcom 2 [more details here]
On June 19th, 2014 Anime & Manga Club 22980 will be holding a community based tournament featuring Marvel vs Capcom New Age of Heroes. We will be bracketing the tournament until we have a winner! There will be a gift card for the first place winner donated by An AAC Photography, $25 Vanilla Visa Gift Card! There is no fees for this tournament but donations are always welcome! It will be open to all members of the public. We may have Hot Dogs and Soda for sale available to the community. The tournament will be held at Rosser House ((1328 Rosser Ave, Waynesboro, VA 22980 [MAPS])) promptly at 6 pm. Arrive early at 5:30 pm to sign up for tournament and receive name tags. If you need directions, please call or text: 540/456-1237.
Last week we enjoyed: Gunslinger Girl | [details here]
Developments with club and shirts:
- We have some stuff to discuss about the upcoming events. We need as many people at this meeting as possible and we will be taking pictures!! Please do your best to be there for the pictures for the website!! Arend Walker suggested we make a video for the club, and I agree with him. We can take photos and video clips here and there and eventually make a video with it for the public to get a feel for the club.
- Discussion about shirts, order forms and design of shirts. Please attend if you had Landon and Sam make you the designs on the shirts. The shirts are going to be around $20-25 a piece including the $4.99 shipping and handling. I know that sounds like a lot but it is a custom designed shirt and the club has already paid for the artists $15 a piece for each design of your characters. Contact me at 540/471-1808 if you need you have not put in your idea for your shirt design.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Live RiffTrax of Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might [more details here]
On June 14th, 2014 Anime & Manga Club 22980 will be holding its first ever Live RiffTrax. This movie's choice is Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might at the library at 1 pm. What is RiffTrax you ask? It is comedy audio commentaries of of movies and/or television shows. We will be tearing that movie apart and keeping you laughing harder than you've laughed in a long time! Join us for this event! Mark it on your calendars! What is the best part? The best part is that it is FREE!!! We welcome you with open arms to come have a great laugh as me make fun of Krillin's baby face! You will even have time after to attend the city's lawn party that starts at 6 pm in the center of the city near the fire department. Arrive early at 12:30 pm to sign the guest log and grab your seats! If you need directions, please call or text: 540/456-1237.
Gaming Tournament: Marvel vs Capcom 2 [more details here]
On June 19th, 2014 Anime & Manga Club 22980 will be holding a community based tournament featuring Marvel vs Capcom New Age of Heroes. We will be bracketing the tournament until we have a winner! There will be a gift card for the first place winner donated by An AAC Photography, $25 Vanilla Visa Gift Card! There is no fees for this tournament but donations are always welcome! It will be open to all members of the public. We may have Hot Dogs and Soda for sale available to the community. The tournament will be held at Rosser House ((1328 Rosser Ave, Waynesboro, VA 22980 [MAPS])) promptly at 6 pm. Arrive early at 5:30 pm to sign up for tournament and receive name tags. If you need directions, please call or text: 540/456-1237.
Last week we enjoyed: Gunslinger Girl | [details here]
Next week: Deadman Wonderland
Summary 1:
Deadman Wonderland is a manga written by Jinsei Kataoka and illustrated by Kazuma Kondō, serialized in Shōnen Ace since 2007. An anime adaption has premiered April 16. Deadman Wonderland is about Ganta Igarashi being sentenced to death for a crime he didn't commit. He is sent to the privatly run prison Deadman Wonderland, where he meets his lost childhood friend, Shiro. He soon figures out he isn't like any normal prisoner, but that he's a Deadman, someone who has a Branch of Sin. This means he can control his blood freely. He is sent to G Ward and meets all the other Deadmen. They discover a plot set up by the Chief Warden Tamaki that has to do with the Red Man, the man who has framed Ganta into Deadman Wonderland. They decide to fight Tamaki and his underlings, the Undertakers and the Forgeries. But the plot goes further than Tamaki...
Summary 2: A massive earthquake ravaged Japan's mainland and destroyed most of Tokyo, sinking three-quarters of the city into the ocean. Ten years later, the story shifts to Ganta Igarashi, a seemingly ordinary student attending Nagano Prefecture's middle school. As an escapee, a survivor of the great earthquake, Ganta has no memories of the tragedy and has lived a normal life. This all changes when a strange person covered in blood and crimson armor floats through his classroom windows. Grinning madly, the 'Red Man' massacres Ganta's entire class but instead of killing him, embeds a red crystal shard in Ganta's chest. Within days of the massacre, Ganta is declared the sole suspect. Following a quick unfair trial, Ganta is sentenced to death and is incarcerated in Deadman Wonderland, a massive theme park-like prison. Arriving at the prison, Ganta is fitted with a special collar which monitors his location and life signs. Due to the heinous nature of Ganta's "crime," he has to live out his imprisonment under Deadman Wonderland's 'Death Sentence'. A lethal poison is constantly injected into his bloodstream through the collar, but it can be neutralized by consuming a peculiar candy-like medicine every three days, which can be acquired through various activities in the prison, i.e. performing for audiences, working backstage, purchasing with cast points, etc. In order to gather Cast Points (the prison's currency), an inmate has to perform in the facility's lethal games and survive. Fortunately for Ganta, he is aided by a mysterious girl named Shiro, who apparently knows Ganta, and is known by other prisoners as well. While trying to survive as an inmate on death row, Ganta becomes increasingly obsessed with the 'Red Man' and tries to find him so he could clear his name. In a bizarre twist, Ganta begins to develop the ability to manipulate his own blood, to the point of turning it into a weapon. Unbeknownst to him, Ganta has become one of the prison's "Deadmen," a segregated group of prisoners possessing the Branches of Sin which makes them capable of controlling their blood. After his ability is discovered, Ganta is forced to participate in brutal gladiatorial death matches known as Carnival Corpse, whose anonymous spectators pay large amounts of money to watch. In his struggle he manages to befriend some of those he fought off in the arena and with their help, Ganta continues his quest to uncover the identity of the 'Red Man', why he turned into a Deadman, and the dark secrets the prison authorities are hiding.
Deadman Wonderland is a manga written by Jinsei Kataoka and illustrated by Kazuma Kondō, serialized in Shōnen Ace since 2007. An anime adaption has premiered April 16. Deadman Wonderland is about Ganta Igarashi being sentenced to death for a crime he didn't commit. He is sent to the privatly run prison Deadman Wonderland, where he meets his lost childhood friend, Shiro. He soon figures out he isn't like any normal prisoner, but that he's a Deadman, someone who has a Branch of Sin. This means he can control his blood freely. He is sent to G Ward and meets all the other Deadmen. They discover a plot set up by the Chief Warden Tamaki that has to do with the Red Man, the man who has framed Ganta into Deadman Wonderland. They decide to fight Tamaki and his underlings, the Undertakers and the Forgeries. But the plot goes further than Tamaki...
Summary 2: A massive earthquake ravaged Japan's mainland and destroyed most of Tokyo, sinking three-quarters of the city into the ocean. Ten years later, the story shifts to Ganta Igarashi, a seemingly ordinary student attending Nagano Prefecture's middle school. As an escapee, a survivor of the great earthquake, Ganta has no memories of the tragedy and has lived a normal life. This all changes when a strange person covered in blood and crimson armor floats through his classroom windows. Grinning madly, the 'Red Man' massacres Ganta's entire class but instead of killing him, embeds a red crystal shard in Ganta's chest. Within days of the massacre, Ganta is declared the sole suspect. Following a quick unfair trial, Ganta is sentenced to death and is incarcerated in Deadman Wonderland, a massive theme park-like prison. Arriving at the prison, Ganta is fitted with a special collar which monitors his location and life signs. Due to the heinous nature of Ganta's "crime," he has to live out his imprisonment under Deadman Wonderland's 'Death Sentence'. A lethal poison is constantly injected into his bloodstream through the collar, but it can be neutralized by consuming a peculiar candy-like medicine every three days, which can be acquired through various activities in the prison, i.e. performing for audiences, working backstage, purchasing with cast points, etc. In order to gather Cast Points (the prison's currency), an inmate has to perform in the facility's lethal games and survive. Fortunately for Ganta, he is aided by a mysterious girl named Shiro, who apparently knows Ganta, and is known by other prisoners as well. While trying to survive as an inmate on death row, Ganta becomes increasingly obsessed with the 'Red Man' and tries to find him so he could clear his name. In a bizarre twist, Ganta begins to develop the ability to manipulate his own blood, to the point of turning it into a weapon. Unbeknownst to him, Ganta has become one of the prison's "Deadmen," a segregated group of prisoners possessing the Branches of Sin which makes them capable of controlling their blood. After his ability is discovered, Ganta is forced to participate in brutal gladiatorial death matches known as Carnival Corpse, whose anonymous spectators pay large amounts of money to watch. In his struggle he manages to befriend some of those he fought off in the arena and with their help, Ganta continues his quest to uncover the identity of the 'Red Man', why he turned into a Deadman, and the dark secrets the prison authorities are hiding.
*Officials:
President: Cierra Tomlin | Temp-Acting, Vice President: Matt Miller | Speaker of the House: Wesley Gross | Treasurer: Josh McGovern | Technicians: Forest Halterman | T-A Community Events Organizer: Josh Brooks | Needed positions: Minutes
President: Cierra Tomlin | Temp-Acting, Vice President: Matt Miller | Speaker of the House: Wesley Gross | Treasurer: Josh McGovern | Technicians: Forest Halterman | T-A Community Events Organizer: Josh Brooks | Needed positions: Minutes