DPL Teens

Anime Fest 2009 

Sunday, October 18th    12-4 p.m. 

@ the Figge Art Museum

Quad-Cities Libraries and the Figge Art Museum are organizing the second annual Teen Anime Fest and Manga Art Show!

 Featuring:

• An area for swapping manga & anime.
• A cosplay mask creation station
• A cosplay cat ear and tail creation station
• Japanese tea served by Mojo’s
• Candy sushi making
• Sales booth of your favorite manga & anime supplied by Borders

And

• Viewing of episodes of our favorite anime
• A martial arts demonstration by the John Morrow–Academy of Martial Arts

 Contests:

• Anime Music Video Contest (Max entries is 2 & please bring the URL’s of your videos. Please keep them PG-13)
• Cosplay contest (feel free to wear your costume to the event)
• Art contest

Look for all the Manga Art Contest details/entry forms in tomorrow’s post. 

-Christie

September is just around the corner and that means our regular teen programs will be starting back up again.  Yay!  The line up for this year is as follows:

1st Tuesday of the month–Anime Club

2nd Tuesday of the month–TVC (Teen Volunteer Council & Gaming)

3rd Tuesday of the month–Ultimate Card Gaming (Magic/YuGiOh/…)

4th Tuesday of the month–Teen Tech Lab

EVERY Wednesday–Get Your Game On (free play video gaming) 

Anime Club starts this Tuesday, September 1st, at the Fairmount St. library from 5:30-7:30.  Don’t miss the first meeting and your chance to help plan the club’s activities for the season.  Do we need a logo?  Will you draw it?  Should we have officers?  Or just go with the flow?  How about another chopsticks/M&Ms race and ramen noodle eating contest?  (yes please)

Plus, we have big announcements concerning this year’s Anime Fest which will be held at the Figge Art Museum in October.  Art contest anyone?  Do we have cosplayers in the house?  Stay tuned to tomorrow’s post for all the juicy deets.

-Christie

Join us for our next installment of Anime-style fun, the Cosplay Workshop.  It’s taking place from 3-5 today at the Fairmount St. library.  We’ll have lots of crafty supplies on hand.  Feel free to bring in your own, too.  Who knows what cool creations we’ll come up with this time?!? 

It’s going to be furry. 

And it’s going to be fun. 

-Christie

Look What We’ve got at the Fairmount St. Library now:  Otaku USA Magazine!

If you’re an Anime/Manga fan then you’re in for a treat.  You can now check out one of the hottest magazines around from the Fairmount St. Library.  And if it’s not on the shelf when you go looking, you can always place a reserve on it and we’ll notify you when it comes in.  Pretty simple.  Pretty cool.  Want to know more about Otaku USA?  Check out the following details pulled from their website:

Otaku USA Magazine
Otaku USA is a thick, full-color magazine featuring comprehensive yet ultra-creative coverage of manga, anime, videogames and Japanese pop culture written from an American point of view. Published by Sovereign Media, the people who launched SCI FI, the official magazine of the Sci Fi channel, Otaku USA calls on Sovereign’s knowledge of the passionate nich media marrketplace. Each issue of Otaku USA will be filled with coverage of the hottest new Manga, Anime releases, computer and board games, along with all the latest pop culture trnds and happenings right now in Japan.

Otaku USA also publishes 32 pages of the hottest manga previews and sample chapters from the top publishers, plus a full color, 2-sided oversize poster. Plus, every issue comes with an online entry code allowing you to access 2-3 full-length anime episodes, plus anime and game trailers, game demos, previews, and more! Each issue is over 150 pages, oversized at 9″ x 10 7/8″, glossy, big, brash, and colorful!

Because Otaku USA is an independant US magazine, not a licensed product owned by those with an vested interest in a particular line of comics, anime, manga, games or movies, it presents the American with objective coverage. Otaku USA has the freedom to publish what’s hot in America regardless of the publisher or producer.

Web Otaku
WEB OTAKU USA (http://www.webotakuusa.com) is the online component of Otaku USA magazine, and is the perfect compliment to the magazine.

WEB OTAKU provides in-depth coverage by expanding on stories in the magazine, along with daily updates of what’s hot in Japanese pop culture, additional manga chapters, game coverage, interviews with artists and writers too extensive to fit in print pages, writing contests, drawing contests, web-only reviews and tips, reader forums and an online community program, bringing an immediacy to the market that has never before been seen.

Otaku USA is a true hybrid, an entity larger than any one medium.

***Also, DPL’s Anime Club is tomorrow night at the Fairmount St. Library starting at 5:30.  Last month we made furry gloves.  This time around it’s ears and tails!  Don’t miss it.

-Christie

Do you? 

Do you really? 

Really??

Really, really? 

Well, if you really, really, really do then I expect to see you at Anime Club tomorrow night!  Anime Club takes place at the Fairmount St. Library from 5:30-7:30.  We plan to have a mini-cosplay workshop and preview another new DVD called Mushi-shi from Funimation.  Here’s the title description pulled from their website: 

Neither good nor evil. They are life in its purest form. Vulgar and strange, they have inspired fear in humans since the dawn of time and have over the ages come over to be known as “mushi”.

The essence of the natural world is personified by ancient, natural forces called “mushi” that influence the lives of people for reasons yet unknown. Ginko, a traveling Mushi-Shi or “Mushi Master” who seeks rare mushi sightings, uses his shaman-like knowledge of the mushi to help the affected people come to terms with their mushi afflictions.

At the 2006 Japanese Media Arts Festival, both the Mushi-Shi anime and manga were ranked in the top 10 anime and manga series of all time.

For more about the characters and the show, go to www.funimation.com/mushishi/

 -Christie

Anime Club is tonight @ 5:30 at the Fairmount St. Library.  Tonight we will be playing Anime Trivia!  Also, we will be previewing a new DVD from Operation Anime called Ghost Hunt.  Check out this description from their website:

The dead have something to say…

The appeal of the unknown is undeniable and freshman Mai Taniyama is hooked. This fact, coupled with her burgeoning psychic powers, leads Mai to join the ranks of the Shibuya Psychic Research team. Led by enigmatic Kazuya “Naru” Shibuya, she works alongside a spirit medium and a shrine maiden, an exorcist and a monk to uncover the darkest mysteries of the unseen. Using state of the art technology and their respective spiritual gifts, evil is confronted and vanquished time and again.

Death is temporary and far worse fates await those which meet a harsh end. From the trembling walls of a haunted school to the bottom of a well that beckons to dead children, the horrors of reality unfold.

For more about the characters and the show, go to www.funimation.com/ghosthunt

Hope you can make it! 

-Christie

The 2008 Teen Anime Fest is today from 12-4:30 at the Figge Art Museum.  The event consists of a wide variety of activities and is pretty much going to be a guaranteed good time.  Pretty much.  As in…pretty much for sure!  Hope you can make it!  The Figge is located at 225 W. 2nd St. in downtown Davenport.  For more info call the library at 563-326-7832. 

One feature of the Anime Fest will be the Manga Art Show & Reception.  Area teens were invited to submit up to 2 pieces of manga/comic book style artwork.  Here at DPL we had over 25 entries and all of the teen artists should be really really really proud of themselves!  Plus, various public libraries on both sides of the river had lots of teens turn in submissions, as well!  Hopefully the artists can make it to the Fest today to see their artwork on display. The following is a list of the DPL artists:

Rebekka Burks, Jacob Burns, Kristina Carter, Marcus Dammann, Chris DeNeve, Erik DeNeve, Bailey Hager, Tamara Koob, Matt Lathrop, Morgan Mahon, Christopher Mbakwe, Sari Moore, Mello Peterson, Taylor Richlen, Brogen Schieving, Devin Skaff, and Mimzy Storm.

Fantastic work everyone!