If you’ve ever wanted to be a fly on the wall around people who are passionate about anime, manga, and the culture of Cool Japan in America, here’s your chance. I attended Sushi Night this past Saturday with the Austin Anime Meetup Group, where I and 6 others enjoyed the fare at Ryu of Japan and discussed our favorite topics. I recorded much of it on video, which I’ve edited and posted below, and we took lots of pictures.
Enjoy. But more importantly, join us next time. It really is a Gendai Shikaku Bunka Kenkyukai (現代視覚文化研究会), or Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture.
And here are some of the photos from the evening. We did something a little different this time around by passing around the camera and getting shots from all angles (and seeing who can’t take pictures as you’ll see in the slideshow at the end of the video).
If you’re interested in checking out Ryu of Japan yourself, check out their website, or drop by at:
11101 Burnet Road
Austin, TX 78758
(512) 973-9498
If you want to join the Austin Anime Meetup Group, join us at our Meetup site.
I had the pleasure of attending the 2010 Classical Japanese Dance Recital by Hanayagi Dance Academy today (Sunday, February 28th). Women and children, young and old, entertained a large crowd at the Asian American Cultural Center on Jollyville Road in Austin.
Below are some pictures from the event. For more pictures, go to my Flickr page.
The Hanayagi Dance Academy is directed by Rokumizu Hanayagi (Chizuko Matsumoto). If you’re interested in learning traditional Japanese dance or folk dance, you can contact Matsumoto-san via e-mail (hanayagi [at] earthlink [dot] com). You can also contact her through the Asian American Cultural Center.
I’m back! It has been a long time since I’ve added any posts, mainly due to work consuming so much of my time. But I managed to make it out to tonight’s Thursday Night Manga Meetup with the Austin Anime Meetup Group. Lots of cool people showed up tonight and shared their manga. A few aspiring manga-ka were also there, drawing and showing off their skills.
Be sure to join us next month, or show up to one of the anime nights scheduled between now and then.
Greetings, everyone. I have brought my relentless charm to bear on the Austin Otaku and managed to secure myself a guest post here at AustinOtaku.com. Hopefully this post will succeed in persuading you to try an anime title that I’ve enjoyed immensely.
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RT @s_konohana: About the Tokyo metropolitan manga & anime regulations, famous manga artists will announce our opposition to it on Monday.about 4 hours agofrom Seesmic
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