DPL Teens

from the Quad City Times:

QC Anime-zing will be Friday-Sunday at The Lodge Hotel in Bettendorf.

Convention events will include anime screenings, videogames, board gaming, discussion panels, autograph signings, cosplay competition, a concert and a dance. Attendees also will be able to buy anime merchandise.

Organizers expect an estimated 500-1,000 fans, with roughly one-third of these in costume.

Expected to attend are anime voice actors Johnny Young Bosch and Carrie Savage. Bands scheduled to perform are Eyeshine and The Man Power.

Information, including admission and schedule of events, can be found online at www.qcanimezing.com.

OH MAN OH MAN OH MAN!  Have you registered for the QC Anime-zing Event yet?!?  It’s just one month away so scrounge up some cash and check out the registration info on their website.  REGISTER NOW! 

Gobs of the DPL Teens will be there and maybe even a DPL employee or two, but you won’t recognize them.  Trust me.  Help make the first ever QC Anime Convention an epic event that hopefully turns into an everlasting tradition.  Or get eaten by zombies.  It’s your choice.

The event takes place June 18-20 at the Lodge Hotel in Bettendorf.  There will be awesome guests like Johnny Yong Bosch and his band Eyeshine, Spike Spencer, Robert Axelrod, and The Man Power.  Check the QC Anime-zing website for all the details.  *more geeking out*

Tomorrow night is the first Anime Club meeting of 2010!

We’ll be kicking things off with Anime Jeopardy so put your thinking caps on and tromp on over to Fairmount by 5:30. 

Then we’ll be checking out the latest DVD sent to us by FUNimation called Gunslinger Girl.

And maybe…just maybe…if the Anime Karaoke CD I’ve reserved arrives in time we’ll have to have way too much fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

-Christie

WHAT?!?

yes

SERIOUSLY?!?

serious

NO WAY!?!

promise

Mindbridge Foundation (the group that puts AnimeIowa together) just announced that their newest con will be in the Quad Cities.

 June 18-20, 2010 at the Lodge Hotel in Bettendorf, IA. 

THE QUAD CITIES!!! 

Bout time, right?!? 

For all event details including cost & registration info check out the QC Anime-zing website. 

I think that means the Quad Cities just got a little bit cooler. 

Now run and tell all your friends.

-Christie

Check out these pics from “Food Night” at last night’s Anime Club. 

Here’s Marcus winning the ramen noodle eating contest!

Some of the girls and their delicious candy sushi!

nom nom nom

You shoulda been there!

-Christie

The plan for tomorrow night’s Anime Club is what we like to refer to as Food Night. This time around we’ll be featuring a couple of last year’s FN activities like the ramen noodle eating contest and we’ll most certainly have a chopsticks race of some sort.  New for this year, we’ll be making our own candy sushi, and showing off a few select dishes pulled from The Manga Cookbook.

The Manga Cookbook, one of our newer YA non-fiction books, is full of great recipes and ideas for all the hungry manga lovers out there.  It even has instructional tidbits on how to properly use chopsticks, and set the table in a traditional Japanese fashion, not to mention a list of some the more uncommon ingredients and tips on where to find them. 

I’m wondering if Naruto Rolls go well with Ramune?  Guess there’s only one way to find out…

Tomorrow night.  5:30.  Fairmount Library.

-Christie

Here are some more fun pics from Anime Fest.  Enjoy!

Look at the ears on these cool cats.  Nice creations.

Hanging out at the candy sushi station.  Mmm…sugar.

Cosplaying and candy sushi make a lovely combo.  Always.

Cosplayers striking a pose before the final voting.  Yah!

And if you have any comments on this year’s Teen Anime Fest be sure to let us know.  Don’t be shy!  Let us know what you liked as well as what you didn’t like.  We plan to make next year’s event even better and we can’t do it without your fresh ideas and valuable input.

-Christie