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Pre-1995

2008-02-22T05:30:43Z

Kanshou: /* Email From Ron Neal */

{{yearnav|Pre-1995|Pre-1995|1995-1996}}
Not much here yet, any info about the prehistory of the club I can find will go on this page.
Years we find definitive information about will be created.

If we can get ahold of the 15-year-old club charter Ben mentioned once, that would be awesome.

====Email From [[Ron Neal]]====
<pre>From: Ron Neal <rogan@*****.net>
To: lupin@****************.com
Subject: Re: WWW Form Submission
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 17:12:40 -0700

Yes, the address still works.

I believe I held the office in 1995. Dan Chu was the Treasurer, and Ed
Jajko was VP (He was the former Pres. before me) Bob Mathews was
Secretary.

It all started when I was bored, bummed out, and needed some cheering
up. I had seen a flyer for the local anime club and decided to drop in.
I forget the name of the hall, but I used to call it the Turret. It's
located on the west edge of the main campus, right up the road from
Mustang Village.

Needless to say, I was blown away by the fact that this little club had
access to a state of the art Lecture hall with stadium seating,
overhead projection tv, and computerized multimedia control center.
Unfortunately, we were watching such quality anime as "Root Search" and
really bad Viz dubs of Ranma 1/2.

Back then, there was no DVD. It was a proposed standard that many
people in the Laser Disk camp were poo-pooing due to the lossy mpeg
compression, and the fact that their album sized LD would not FIT, let
alone WORK with the proposed devices. Gen-Locks were expensive hardware
that plugged into Amigas, and let Fan subbers put out some kick-ass
quality subtitles that were far more accurate than the few pirated
subtitled Anime we could get through shady connections who had shady
connections.

Anyhow, when I thought things were just going to get worse (Ed had
shown us his copy of The Ultimate Teacher, and some people wanted to
show Urotsu Doji <sp?>) In walked Danny Chu with a bunch of Anime he'd
collected. Danny was our Golden Boy, he had connections to people in
Japan who weren't pirates. He'd actually BOUGHT most of his tapes, and
he knew Fan subbers who made quality subs. We were saved from bad
tentacle porn, MST3K tapes, and Anime about Cockroach Super Villains.

We watched such wonderful series like Mezon Ikkoku, Kimagure Orange
Road and Record of Lodoss War. Ranma 1/2 became MUCH better when it
regained it's asian flavor with subtitles. OAV's like Project A-KO,
Robot Carnival, and Macross Plus seemed to just fall out of Dan's
back-pack and into the player.

Jeez, I could go on forever about the club and the things we did. I
haven't scratched the surface... We participated at Poly-Con, Went to
the San Diego Comics Convention when Rumiko Takahashi was signing
Autographs, Sold the infamous tee-shirts, Built, and manned a booth at
Cal Poly's annual Meet and greet day (Dont remember the name) and Club
Days. We held auctions for artwork I put together with some of the
members, and we even tutored students in basic Japanese -- It was part
of our charter.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions you have. You can
probably get info on Bob Mathews and Ed Jajko (pronounce ~YaiKo) through
the CSC dept. Our Club was sponsored by the Japanese Language
teacher...Yosiko Tachibana, I took 3 quarters of Japanese from her.
She would have more input about the club, and perhaps contact info for
some of us Alumni.

Ronald K. Neal
Rognvalder Sax
www.*****.net/rogan
---
</pre>
I began attending Minna No Anime meetings while still attending Cuesta College. This would have been early 1993. I can't remember who was president or any of the other officers of the club except the founder was an architecture student. The earlier meetings had more typical fare like Akira and Project A-Ko. One meeting which sticks out was the showing of several episodes of Teki wa Kaizoku. Not a very good show and earner of the moniker, "Pirates In My Pants". Summer of 1993 is when Ed Hunter who I'm not even sure was a Cal Poly student began bringing Ramna 1/2 tv shows, OAVs, and movies. He had an extensive and current laser disc collection and screened Porco Rosso, Yuyuhakshou, Video Girl Ai, etc. He usually distributed a plot synopsis newsletter at meetings. Ed Hunter brought anime to Lee Bougeois' meetings held at a pizza place in downtown SLO. Not Woodstock's but it was nearby. During that time was the famous Minna No Anime shirt design contest. The design chosen was controversial because it wasn't really anime in the strictest sense for back then and the lettering was hard to read. My involvement with the club diminished as a student at Cal Poly the first year but Ron Neal above is correct that Dan Chu supplied much of the material shown at meetings back then. Minna No Anime and Poly Ink were fairly close during 1993-1997. Sometimes more so than others. We ran ads for Minna No Anime meetings in the comic book we produced and one of our artists parodied the t-shirt debacle mentioned above. Scans for all of this can be posted if there's interest. More info as memories become dislodged but the time at Cal Poly was overall a great 4 years and Minna No Anime provided a fair share.
--David Demers (kanshou)

* Note: Rumiko Takahashi appeared at the San Diego Comic Con in August, 1994[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic-Con_International]
* Rumiko Takahashi also did a limited signing at a Dr. Comics and Mr. Games in Oakland on August 7, 1994.
[[Image:rtticket.jpg|thumb|left|240px|The ticket to the Rumiko Takahashi signing. (August 7, 1994)]]
[[Image:tornado.jpg|thumb|left|240px|Rumiko Takahashi's signature. (August 7, 1994)]]
[[Category:Timeline]]

File:Tornado.jpg

2008-02-22T05:26:46Z

Kanshou: Rumiko Takahashi's signature from her appearance in Oakland, CA in 1994.

Rumiko Takahashi's signature from her appearance in Oakland, CA in 1994.

File:Rtticket.jpg

2008-02-22T05:25:21Z

Kanshou: Ticket to have an item signed by Rumiko Takahashi. The ticket says two items would be signed but it was changed the day of the signing to one item. Several MNA members were in attendance at the signing including Dan Chew, David Demers, and Ron Neal.

Ticket to have an item signed by Rumiko Takahashi. The ticket says two items would be signed but it was changed the day of the signing to one item. Several MNA members were in attendance at the signing including Dan Chew, David Demers, and Ron Neal.

Pre-1995

2008-01-29T07:28:27Z

Kanshou: /* Email From Ron Neal */

{{yearnav|Pre-1995|Pre-1995|1995-1996}}
Not much here yet, any info about the prehistory of the club I can find will go on this page.
Years we find definitive information about will be created.

If we can get ahold of the 15-year-old club charter Ben mentioned once, that would be awesome.

====Email From [[Ron Neal]]====
<pre>From: Ron Neal <rogan@*****.net>
To: lupin@****************.com
Subject: Re: WWW Form Submission
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 17:12:40 -0700

Yes, the address still works.

I believe I held the office in 1995. Dan Chu was the Treasurer, and Ed
Jajko was VP (He was the former Pres. before me) Bob Mathews was
Secretary.

It all started when I was bored, bummed out, and needed some cheering
up. I had seen a flyer for the local anime club and decided to drop in.
I forget the name of the hall, but I used to call it the Turret. It's
located on the west edge of the main campus, right up the road from
Mustang Village.

Needless to say, I was blown away by the fact that this little club had
access to a state of the art Lecture hall with stadium seating,
overhead projection tv, and computerized multimedia control center.
Unfortunately, we were watching such quality anime as "Root Search" and
really bad Viz dubs of Ranma 1/2.

Back then, there was no DVD. It was a proposed standard that many
people in the Laser Disk camp were poo-pooing due to the lossy mpeg
compression, and the fact that their album sized LD would not FIT, let
alone WORK with the proposed devices. Gen-Locks were expensive hardware
that plugged into Amigas, and let Fan subbers put out some kick-ass
quality subtitles that were far more accurate than the few pirated
subtitled Anime we could get through shady connections who had shady
connections.

Anyhow, when I thought things were just going to get worse (Ed had
shown us his copy of The Ultimate Teacher, and some people wanted to
show Urotsu Doji <sp?>) In walked Danny Chu with a bunch of Anime he'd
collected. Danny was our Golden Boy, he had connections to people in
Japan who weren't pirates. He'd actually BOUGHT most of his tapes, and
he knew Fan subbers who made quality subs. We were saved from bad
tentacle porn, MST3K tapes, and Anime about Cockroach Super Villains.

We watched such wonderful series like Mezon Ikkoku, Kimagure Orange
Road and Record of Lodoss War. Ranma 1/2 became MUCH better when it
regained it's asian flavor with subtitles. OAV's like Project A-KO,
Robot Carnival, and Macross Plus seemed to just fall out of Dan's
back-pack and into the player.

Jeez, I could go on forever about the club and the things we did. I
haven't scratched the surface... We participated at Poly-Con, Went to
the San Diego Comics Convention when Rumiko Takahashi was signing
Autographs, Sold the infamous tee-shirts, Built, and manned a booth at
Cal Poly's annual Meet and greet day (Dont remember the name) and Club
Days. We held auctions for artwork I put together with some of the
members, and we even tutored students in basic Japanese -- It was part
of our charter.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions you have. You can
probably get info on Bob Mathews and Ed Jajko (pronounce ~YaiKo) through
the CSC dept. Our Club was sponsored by the Japanese Language
teacher...Yosiko Tachibana, I took 3 quarters of Japanese from her.
She would have more input about the club, and perhaps contact info for
some of us Alumni.

Ronald K. Neal
Rognvalder Sax
www.*****.net/rogan
---
</pre>
I began attending Minna No Anime meetings while still attending Cuesta College. This would have been early 1993. I can't remember who was president or any of the other officers of the club except the founder was an architecture student. The earlier meetings had more typical fare like Akira and Project A-Ko. One meeting which sticks out was the showing of several episodes of Teki wa Kaizoku. Not a very good show and earner of the moniker, "Pirates In My Pants". Summer of 1993 is when Ed Hunter who I'm not even sure was a Cal Poly student began bringing Ramna 1/2 tv shows, OAVs, and movies. He had an extensive and current laser disc collection and screened Porco Rosso, Yuyuhakshou, Video Girl Ai, etc. He usually distributed a plot synopsis newsletter at meetings. Ed Hunter brought anime to Lee Bougeois' meetings held at a pizza place in downtown SLO. Not Woodstock's but it was nearby. During that time was the famous Minna No Anime shirt design contest. The design chosen was controversial because it wasn't really anime in the strictest sense for back then and the lettering was hard to read. My involvement with the club diminished as a student at Cal Poly the first year but Ron Neal above is correct that Dan Chu supplied much of the material shown at meetings back then. Minna No Anime and Poly Ink were fairly close during 1993-1997. Sometimes more so than others. We ran ads for Minna No Anime meetings in the comic book we produced and one of our artists parodied the t-shirt debacle mentioned above. Scans for all of this can be posted if there's interest. More info as memories become dislodged but the time at Cal Poly was overall a great 4 years and Minna No Anime provided a fair share.
--David Demers (kanshou)

* Note: Rumiko Takahashi appeared at the San Diego Comic Con in August, 1994[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic-Con_International]
* Rumiko Takahashi also did a limited signing at a comic shop in Oakland (?) in summer of 1994.
[[Category:Timeline]]

Pre-1995

2008-01-29T07:26:56Z

Kanshou: /* Email From Ron Neal */

{{yearnav|Pre-1995|Pre-1995|1995-1996}}
Not much here yet, any info about the prehistory of the club I can find will go on this page.
Years we find definitive information about will be created.

If we can get ahold of the 15-year-old club charter Ben mentioned once, that would be awesome.

====Email From [[Ron Neal]]====
<pre>From: Ron Neal <rogan@*****.net>
To: lupin@****************.com
Subject: Re: WWW Form Submission
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 17:12:40 -0700

Yes, the address still works.

I believe I held the office in 1995. Dan Chu was the Treasurer, and Ed
Jajko was VP (He was the former Pres. before me) Bob Mathews was
Secretary.

It all started when I was bored, bummed out, and needed some cheering
up. I had seen a flyer for the local anime club and decided to drop in.
I forget the name of the hall, but I used to call it the Turret. It's
located on the west edge of the main campus, right up the road from
Mustang Village.

Needless to say, I was blown away by the fact that this little club had
access to a state of the art Lecture hall with stadium seating,
overhead projection tv, and computerized multimedia control center.
Unfortunately, we were watching such quality anime as "Root Search" and
really bad Viz dubs of Ranma 1/2.

Back then, there was no DVD. It was a proposed standard that many
people in the Laser Disk camp were poo-pooing due to the lossy mpeg
compression, and the fact that their album sized LD would not FIT, let
alone WORK with the proposed devices. Gen-Locks were expensive hardware
that plugged into Amigas, and let Fan subbers put out some kick-ass
quality subtitles that were far more accurate than the few pirated
subtitled Anime we could get through shady connections who had shady
connections.

Anyhow, when I thought things were just going to get worse (Ed had
shown us his copy of The Ultimate Teacher, and some people wanted to
show Urotsu Doji <sp?>) In walked Danny Chu with a bunch of Anime he'd
collected. Danny was our Golden Boy, he had connections to people in
Japan who weren't pirates. He'd actually BOUGHT most of his tapes, and
he knew Fan subbers who made quality subs. We were saved from bad
tentacle porn, MST3K tapes, and Anime about Cockroach Super Villains.

We watched such wonderful series like Mezon Ikkoku, Kimagure Orange
Road and Record of Lodoss War. Ranma 1/2 became MUCH better when it
regained it's asian flavor with subtitles. OAV's like Project A-KO,
Robot Carnival, and Macross Plus seemed to just fall out of Dan's
back-pack and into the player.

Jeez, I could go on forever about the club and the things we did. I
haven't scratched the surface... We participated at Poly-Con, Went to
the San Diego Comics Convention when Rumiko Takahashi was signing
Autographs, Sold the infamous tee-shirts, Built, and manned a booth at
Cal Poly's annual Meet and greet day (Dont remember the name) and Club
Days. We held auctions for artwork I put together with some of the
members, and we even tutored students in basic Japanese -- It was part
of our charter.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions you have. You can
probably get info on Bob Mathews and Ed Jajko (pronounce ~YaiKo) through
the CSC dept. Our Club was sponsored by the Japanese Language
teacher...Yosiko Tachibana, I took 3 quarters of Japanese from her.
She would have more input about the club, and perhaps contact info for
some of us Alumni.

Ronald K. Neal
Rognvalder Sax
www.*****.net/rogan
---
</pre>
I began attending Minna No Anime meetings while still attending Cuesta College. This would have been early 1993. I can't remember who was president or any of the other officers of the club except the founder was an architecture student. The earlier meetings had more typical fare like Akira and Project A-Ko. One meeting which sticks out was the showing of several episodes of Teki wa Kaizoku. Not a very good show and earner of the moniker, "Pirates In My Pants". Summer of 1993 is when Ed Hunter who I'm not even sure was a Cal Poly student began bringing Ramna 1/2 tv shows, OAVs, and movies. He had an extensive and current laser disc collection and screened Porco Rosso, Yuyuhakshou, Video Girl Ai, etc. He also distributed a plot synopsis newsletter at meetings. Ed Hunter also brought anime to Lee Bougeois' meetings held at a pizza place in downtown SLO. Not Woodstock's but it was nearby. Also during that time was the famous Minna No Anime shirt design contest. The design chosen was controversial because it wasn't really anime in the strictest sense for back then and the lettering was hard to read. My involvement with the club diminished as a student at Cal Poly the first year but Ron Neal above is correct that Dan Chu supplied much of the material shown at meetings back then. Minna No Anime and Poly Ink were fairly close during 1993-1997. Sometimes more so than others. We ran ads for Minna No Anime meetings in the comic book we produced and one of our artists parodied the t-shirt debacle mentioned above. Scans for all of this can be posted if there's interest. More info as memories become dislodged but the time at Cal Poly was overall a great 4 years and Minna No Anime provided a fair share.
--David Demers (kanshou)

* Note: Rumiko Takahashi appeared at the San Diego Comic Con in August, 1994[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic-Con_International]
* Rumiko Takahashi also did a limited signing at a comic shop in Oakland (?) in summer of 1994.
[[Category:Timeline]]

Pre-1995

2008-01-29T07:18:09Z

Kanshou: /* Email From Ron Neal */

{{yearnav|Pre-1995|Pre-1995|1995-1996}}
Not much here yet, any info about the prehistory of the club I can find will go on this page.
Years we find definitive information about will be created.

If we can get ahold of the 15-year-old club charter Ben mentioned once, that would be awesome.

====Email From [[Ron Neal]]====
<pre>From: Ron Neal <rogan@*****.net>
To: lupin@****************.com
Subject: Re: WWW Form Submission
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 17:12:40 -0700

Yes, the address still works.

I believe I held the office in 1995. Dan Chu was the Treasurer, and Ed
Jajko was VP (He was the former Pres. before me) Bob Mathews was
Secretary.

It all started when I was bored, bummed out, and needed some cheering
up. I had seen a flyer for the local anime club and decided to drop in.
I forget the name of the hall, but I used to call it the Turret. It's
located on the west edge of the main campus, right up the road from
Mustang Village.

Needless to say, I was blown away by the fact that this little club had
access to a state of the art Lecture hall with stadium seating,
overhead projection tv, and computerized multimedia control center.
Unfortunately, we were watching such quality anime as "Root Search" and
really bad Viz dubs of Ranma 1/2.

Back then, there was no DVD. It was a proposed standard that many
people in the Laser Disk camp were poo-pooing due to the lossy mpeg
compression, and the fact that their album sized LD would not FIT, let
alone WORK with the proposed devices. Gen-Locks were expensive hardware
that plugged into Amigas, and let Fan subbers put out some kick-ass
quality subtitles that were far more accurate than the few pirated
subtitled Anime we could get through shady connections who had shady
connections.

Anyhow, when I thought things were just going to get worse (Ed had
shown us his copy of The Ultimate Teacher, and some people wanted to
show Urotsu Doji <sp?>) In walked Danny Chu with a bunch of Anime he'd
collected. Danny was our Golden Boy, he had connections to people in
Japan who weren't pirates. He'd actually BOUGHT most of his tapes, and
he knew Fan subbers who made quality subs. We were saved from bad
tentacle porn, MST3K tapes, and Anime about Cockroach Super Villains.

We watched such wonderful series like Mezon Ikkoku, Kimagure Orange
Road and Record of Lodoss War. Ranma 1/2 became MUCH better when it
regained it's asian flavor with subtitles. OAV's like Project A-KO,
Robot Carnival, and Macross Plus seemed to just fall out of Dan's
back-pack and into the player.

Jeez, I could go on forever about the club and the things we did. I
haven't scratched the surface... We participated at Poly-Con, Went to
the San Diego Comics Convention when Rumiko Takahashi was signing
Autographs, Sold the infamous tee-shirts, Built, and manned a booth at
Cal Poly's annual Meet and greet day (Dont remember the name) and Club
Days. We held auctions for artwork I put together with some of the
members, and we even tutored students in basic Japanese -- It was part
of our charter.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions you have. You can
probably get info on Bob Mathews and Ed Jajko (pronounce ~YaiKo) through
the CSC dept. Our Club was sponsored by the Japanese Language
teacher...Yosiko Tachibana, I took 3 quarters of Japanese from her.
She would have more input about the club, and perhaps contact info for
some of us Alumni.

Ronald K. Neal
Rognvalder Sax
www.*****.net/rogan
---
</pre>
I began attending Minna No Anime meetings while still attending Cuesta College. This would have been early 1993. I can't remember who was president or any of the other officers of the club except the founder was an architecture student. The earlier meetings had more typical fare like Akira and Project A-Ko. One meeting which sticks out was the showing of several episodes of Teki wa Kaizoku. Not a very good show and earner of the moniker, "Pirates In My Pants". Summer of 1993 is when Ed Hunter who I'm not even sure was a Cal Poly student began bringing Ramna 1/2 tv shows, OAVs, and movies. He had an extensive and current laser disc collection and screened Porco Rosso, Yuyuhakshou, Video Girl Ai, etc. He also distributed a plot synopsis newsletter at meetings. Scans will be posted if possible. Ed Hunter also brought anime to Lee Bougeois' meetings held at a pizza place in downtown SLO. Not Woodstock's but it was nearby. Also during that time was the famous Minna No Anime shirt design contest. The design chosen was controversial because it wasn't really anime in the strictest sense for back then and the lettering was hard to read. My involvement with the club diminished as a student at Cal Poly the first year but Ron Neal above is correct that Dan Chu supplied much of the material shown at meetings back then. Minna No Anime and Poly Ink were fairly close during 1993-1997. Sometimes more so than others. We ran ads for Minna No Anime meetings in the comic book we produced and one of our artists parodied the t-shirt debacle mentioned above. Scans for all of this can be posted if there's interest. Some of it is here in Pasadena and some of it is in Detroit. More info as memories become dislodged but the time at Cal Poly was overall a great 4 years and Minna No Anime provided a fair share.
--David Demers (kanshou)

* Note: Rumiko Takahashi appeared at the San Diego Comic Con in August, 1994[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic-Con_International]
* Rumiko Takahashi also did a limited signing at a comic shop in Oakland (?) in summer of 1994. Scans forthcoming.
[[Category:Timeline]]

Pre-1995

2008-01-29T07:14:56Z

Kanshou: /* Email From Ron Neal */

{{yearnav|Pre-1995|Pre-1995|1995-1996}}
Not much here yet, any info about the prehistory of the club I can find will go on this page.
Years we find definitive information about will be created.

If we can get ahold of the 15-year-old club charter Ben mentioned once, that would be awesome.

====Email From [[Ron Neal]]====
<pre>From: Ron Neal <rogan@*****.net>
To: lupin@****************.com
Subject: Re: WWW Form Submission
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 17:12:40 -0700

Yes, the address still works.

I believe I held the office in 1995. Dan Chu was the Treasurer, and Ed
Jajko was VP (He was the former Pres. before me) Bob Mathews was
Secretary.

It all started when I was bored, bummed out, and needed some cheering
up. I had seen a flyer for the local anime club and decided to drop in.
I forget the name of the hall, but I used to call it the Turret. It's
located on the west edge of the main campus, right up the road from
Mustang Village.

Needless to say, I was blown away by the fact that this little club had
access to a state of the art Lecture hall with stadium seating,
overhead projection tv, and computerized multimedia control center.
Unfortunately, we were watching such quality anime as "Root Search" and
really bad Viz dubs of Ranma 1/2.

Back then, there was no DVD. It was a proposed standard that many
people in the Laser Disk camp were poo-pooing due to the lossy mpeg
compression, and the fact that their album sized LD would not FIT, let
alone WORK with the proposed devices. Gen-Locks were expensive hardware
that plugged into Amigas, and let Fan subbers put out some kick-ass
quality subtitles that were far more accurate than the few pirated
subtitled Anime we could get through shady connections who had shady
connections.

Anyhow, when I thought things were just going to get worse (Ed had
shown us his copy of The Ultimate Teacher, and some people wanted to
show Urotsu Doji <sp?>) In walked Danny Chu with a bunch of Anime he'd
collected. Danny was our Golden Boy, he had connections to people in
Japan who weren't pirates. He'd actually BOUGHT most of his tapes, and
he knew Fan subbers who made quality subs. We were saved from bad
tentacle porn, MST3K tapes, and Anime about Cockroach Super Villains.

We watched such wonderful series like Mezon Ikkoku, Kimagure Orange
Road and Record of Lodoss War. Ranma 1/2 became MUCH better when it
regained it's asian flavor with subtitles. OAV's like Project A-KO,
Robot Carnival, and Macross Plus seemed to just fall out of Dan's
back-pack and into the player.

Jeez, I could go on forever about the club and the things we did. I
haven't scratched the surface... We participated at Poly-Con, Went to
the San Diego Comics Convention when Rumiko Takahashi was signing
Autographs, Sold the infamous tee-shirts, Built, and manned a booth at
Cal Poly's annual Meet and greet day (Dont remember the name) and Club
Days. We held auctions for artwork I put together with some of the
members, and we even tutored students in basic Japanese -- It was part
of our charter.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions you have. You can
probably get info on Bob Mathews and Ed Jajko (pronounce ~YaiKo) through
the CSC dept. Our Club was sponsored by the Japanese Language
teacher...Yosiko Tachibana, I took 3 quarters of Japanese from her.
She would have more input about the club, and perhaps contact info for
some of us Alumni.

Ronald K. Neal
Rognvalder Sax
www.*****.net/rogan
---
</pre>
I began attending Minna No Anime meetings while still attending Cuesta College. This would have been early 1993. I can't remember who was president or any of the other officers of the club except the founder was an architecture student. The earlier meetings had more typical fare like Akira and Project A-Ko. One meeting which sticks out was the showing of several episodes of Teki wa Kaizoku. Not a very good show and earner of the moniker, "Pirates In My Pants". Summer of 1993 is when Ed Hunter who I'm not even sure was a Cal Poly student began bringing Ramna 1/2 tv shows, OAVs, and movies. He had an extensive and current laser disc collection and screened Porco Rosso, Yuyuhakshou, Video Girl Ai, etc. He also distributed a plot synopsis newsletter at meetings. Scans will be posted if possible. Ed Hunter also brought anime to Lee Bougeois' meetings held at a pizza place in downtown SLO. Not Woodstock's but it was nearby. Also during that time was the famous Minna No Anime shirt design contest. Ed Hunter, Winnie Wong, and a few others entered. The design chosen was controversial because it wasn't really anime in the strictest sense for back then and the lettering was hard to read. My involvement with the club diminished as a student at Cal Poly the first year but Ron Neal above is correct that Dan Chu supplied much of the material shown at meetings back then. Minna No Anime and Poly Ink (which I started along with Anson Lui, Scott Burton, and Corey Burton) were fairly close during 1993-1997. Sometimes more so than others. We ran ads for Minna No Anime meetings in the comic book we produced and one of our artists parodied the t-shirt debacle mentioned above. Scans for all of this can be posted if there's interest. Some of it is here in Pasadena and some of it is in Detroit. More info as memories become dislodged but the time at Cal Poly was overall a great 4 years and Minna No Anime provided a fair share.

* Note: Rumiko Takahashi appeared at the San Diego Comic Con in August, 1994[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic-Con_International]
* Rumiko Takahashi also did a limited signing at a comic shop in Oakland (?) in summer of 1994. Scans forthcoming.
[[Category:Timeline]]

Pre-1995

2008-01-29T06:45:54Z

Kanshou: /* Email From Ron Neal */

Ron Neal

2008-01-13T23:54:02Z

Kanshou:

Ron Neal was a graphic design major like myself and we were in several of the same classes and both lived at Mustang Village. I was losing interest in anime and mostly saw him outside of the club meetings. The most infamous Ron Neal story was that of the all-night anime party from spring 1994. I was trying to beat a deadline for a class but stopped in a few times to see how things were going since it was held in a public meeting room at Mustang Village. During the evening the toilet was badly damaged and Ron had to purchase a "snake" from the hardware store to fix it. Someone from the club drew him in anime style holding a plunger leaping into action. Ron was a good guy who had a lot of enthusiasm and added a lot to Minna no Anime.

Nadia: Secret of Blue Water

2008-01-13T23:30:28Z

Kanshou: /* Member Reviews */

{| class="wikitable"
! Show Type
| TV
|-
! # Episodes
| 39
|-
! Vintage
| 1990-1991
|-
! Shown By MNA
| [[2002-2003]] @ 6:00, [[2003-2004]] @ 6:20 (Fall/Winter)
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! Episodes Shown
| All
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! Shown On
| R1 DVD (ADV)
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== Capsule Description ==

Nadia is an orphaned circus girl who cannot remember where she came from. Jean is a genious inventor who takes a liking to Nadia and promises to find her homeland. Together they run from a group of misfits who want Nadia and the mysterious pendant around her neck.

Nadia is a re-telling of the story "20,000 Legues Under the Sea" by the acclaimed production company Gainax. Though it is not a new series, it has appeal even for the new fans.

== Member Reviews ==

Dan Chu brought the first four episodes subtitled to a meeting in 1994 or so. This was back before there was a whole section at best buy devoted to anime so anything reasonably new was looked at in awe and admiration. As far as the series goes, it got off to a great start with excellent animation and interesting characters but since there were only 4 episodes shown it is hard to comment on the story line.

== Additional Information ==
* Anime News Network Encyclopedia [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=48]

[[Category:Shows]][[Category:TV Shows]]

Wings of Honneamise

2008-01-13T23:20:16Z

Kanshou:

Dan Chu and I drove to a movie theater in the Bay Area (San Jose?) during its early theatrical release. This was a big deal at the time to see anime in a real movie theater. It was like it was finally being taken seriously. Siskel and Ebert at the time were championing anime such as Tonari no Totoro and Akira. This is from Roger Ebert's 1995 review of the film: "Not many examples of anime have played the American theatrical circuit; we're not used to non-family or non-Disney use of the medium. "Akira," an apocalyptic epic, has become a best-seller on video, and the wonderful "My Neighbor Totoro" has been embraced by many parents and children as a special and charming family film. Yet anime fans are a vocal underground, the genre is popular on video and on campuses, and supporters claim that the trademark of anime - the large, dark eyes of the characters - has been appropriated by Disney in all its films since "The Little Mermaid." If you're curious about anime, "The Wings of Honneamise," playing for one week at the Music Box, is a good place to start."

Wings of Honneamise was shown at The Palm Theater in downtown San Luis Obispo.

Wings of Honneamise

2008-01-13T23:17:48Z

Kanshou:

Dan Chu and I drove to a movie theater in the Bay Area (San Jose?) during its theatrical release. This was a big deal at the time to see anime in a real movie theater. It was like it was finally being taken seriously. Siskel and Ebert at the time were championing anime such as Tonari no Totoro and Akira. This is from Roger Ebert's 1995 review of the film: "Not many examples of anime have played the American theatrical circuit; we're not used to non-family or non-Disney use of the medium. "Akira," an apocalyptic epic, has become a best-seller on video, and the wonderful "My Neighbor Totoro" has been embraced by many parents and children as a special and charming family film. Yet anime fans are a vocal underground, the genre is popular on video and on campuses, and supporters claim that the trademark of anime - the large, dark eyes of the characters - has been appropriated by Disney in all its films since "The Little Mermaid." If you're curious about anime, "The Wings of Honneamise," playing for one week at the Music Box, is a good place to start."

Wings of Honneamise

2008-01-13T23:16:59Z

Kanshou:

Dan Chu and I drove to a movie theater in the Bay Area (San Jose?) during its theatrical release. This was a big deal at the time to see anime in a real movie theater. It was like it was finally being taken seriously. Siskel and Ebert at the time were championing anime such as Tonari no Totoro and Akira. This is from his 1995 review of this film: "Not many examples of anime have played the American theatrical circuit; we're not used to non-family or non-Disney use of the medium. "Akira," an apocalyptic epic, has become a best-seller on video, and the wonderful "My Neighbor Totoro" has been embraced by many parents and children as a special and charming family film. Yet anime fans are a vocal underground, the genre is popular on video and on campuses, and supporters claim that the trademark of anime - the large, dark eyes of the characters - has been appropriated by Disney in all its films since "The Little Mermaid." If you're curious about anime, "The Wings of Honneamise," playing for one week at the Music Box, is a good place to start."

Patlabor Movie 1

2008-01-13T23:11:44Z

Kanshou:

Dan Chu brought a subtitled copy of the movie to a meeting in 1994 or so.