Hey, MNA!

As you may have seen in the latest email, the next week of school is week 10, which means that we'll be watching movies instead of our usual shows. If you haven't seen (or even heard of) these films, feel free to ask around or investigate, but make sure to not get spoiled.

On Thursday, March 11th, we will watch A Letter to Momo (2012) (about 2 hours long):



On Saturday, March 13th, we will watch The Dragon Dentist (2017) (about 1 and a half hours long):



See you there!
- Shawn

Hey, MNA!

Here's something that some of you have probably been waiting for.

It's finally that time again, where we ask YOU to make designs for our club T-Shirt. If you're not already aware, there is a club competition each year where club members submit their own designs. There are a couple of rules in submitting a design, so please read through them carefully:

-You can use 4 of any colors on top of a T-shirt color.
-Don't put copyrighted/licensed characters on it, because that's a no-no.
-It should say "Minna" or "Minna no Anime" on it in Japanese and/or English.
-Maximum dimensions are 12" x 15" and you'll be designing the back of the shirt.
-300 DPI minimum
-Each color should be in a separate layer.
-Don’t include the words “Cal Poly”

There is no limit to how many T-Shirt designs you can submit. The window for submissions will close on March 6th, so make sure you get your submissions in before then. After that, a club vote will be taken to determine the club T-Shirt for the 2020-2021 school year. Please send your submissions to the webmaster on Discord or through email at sbudwal@calpoly.edu.

Good luck!!

Hey, MNA!

Thank you to everyone who participated in the MNA Anime of the Year 2020 event! Without further ado, here are the results:

(Winter = Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
Spring = BNA
Summer = Great Pretender
Fall = Jujutsu Kaisen)
AoTY = Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
Sequel = Kaguya-sama: Love is War 2
Movie = Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul
Protagonist = Midori Asakusa, Sayaka Kanamori, and Tsubame Mizusaki from Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
Antagonist = Bondrewd from Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul
OP Song = DADDY! DADDY! DO! feat. Airi Suzuki from Kaguya-sama: Love is War 2
OP Visuals = G.P. by Yutaka Yamada
ED Song = LOST IN PARADISE by ALI ft. AKLO
ED Visuals = LOST IN PARADISE by ALI ft. AKLO

And here is the video to go along with it, produced by Wesley.
2020 really wasn't the best of years, but at least we got some cool anime out of it... right?

Hello MNA!

Winter quarter is finally here, and so are our winter meetings! We will be adopting the same Thursday/Saturday 8-10 PM virtual meeting times as last quarter, with a fresh start on a new show schedule, starting Thursday 1/7 and Saturday 1/9, streaming on here Discord. If you missed our meetings last quarter, this is the perfect time to jump in! We will be starting at episode 1 of the following shows, and watching them weekly through to completion at the end of Spring quarter:

Thursday Shows 8-10PM, Starting 1/7

Nichijou
Tsuki ga Kirei
Monthly Girls' Nozaki-Kun
Megalo Box

Saturday Shows 8-10PM, Starting 1/9

Kyoukai no Kanata
ACCA: 13 Territory Inspection Department
Violet Evergarden
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

To complete this full lineup while also ensuring Thursday and Saturday episodes stay exclusive to their respective days, a rather creative schedule had to be put together. We have included it here so you know what to expect. Please note that the pattern is uniform, and that each 1-cour show only skips a meeting every 3 or 5 weeks. ACCA is never skipped for narrative cohesion. Gurren Lagann episode 16 is entirely a recap episode between the first half finale and second half start, so it has been omitted. Movies have yet to be decided, and will be released later. Two OVAs have also been included to fill spots from shorter shows once they end:

Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuioku-hen
Mobile Suit Gundam 00: War in the Pocket

Also, per high community demand, we will be implementing a better Drive solution for weekly episodes, where they will all be uploaded ahead of time and not deleted afterwards, allowing members to both download episodes at the time of receiving our email, and access all previous weeks' episodes whenever.

Thank you for your cooperation in these unprecedented times and we hope you find our upcoming meetings and shows enjoyable!

Hello again, Minna no Anime!

Congrats on getting through Fall Quarter! We hope that everyone has been able to relax despite the current pandemic.

Due to the overwhelming success of our Halloween Party, the officers have decided to host another virtual party during Winter Break. Please see the schedule below for all of the events happening on this Discord server on Tuesday, December 29th. We have chosen this date to allow for sufficient time between Christmas and New Years, as we know that many people are currently with family.

At the beginning of the party, we will have some channels open for people to play Among Us. This is starting to get more popular on our server, so we definitely encourage everyone who is interested to think about participating.

*For the Gaming Tournament, we will be bringing back Skribblio, since it was well-received last time. To sign up for this event, please use this form. You will receive a notification for what round you have been assigned the Sunday before the party.

In order to adapt 20 Questions to a virtual setting, we have made certain alterations. This is an event where one person, which we will refer to as the contestant, is competing against a group. In order to make things fair, we will randomly select the contestants at the time of the event, and they will DM us their item of interest so that the officers in the call are on the same page as them. The guessers will be given the category before the round starts (the topic may be a show, character, or other anime-related thing). There will be a temporary text channel for the event for people to use, and the guessers must work together to find out the contestant’s pick. The singular contestant will win if the group cannot guess the item of interest within 20 questions, but the group wins if they can correctly identify it before then. Depending on people’s interests, the duration of this event may be adjusted.

AMQ, for those who are not aware, is short for Anime Music Quiz. This is a quiz game about anime OSTs hosted on this website. Playing rounds of AMQ is fairly standard within our club, especially during Hangout meetings (gone, but not forgotten). Since we didn’t get to officially reserve any time for it during the Halloween Party, we wanted to dedicate some time towards it during this one. The duration of this event may also be adjusted.

For the rules and Scavenger Hunt list, check out this document. Please DM your submissions to the officers by 6:00 PM on the day of the party so that we can assemble the voting form during dinner. If you have any questions, message an officer for clarification. Since we want this party to be more casual, we will not be offering prizes for events.

We will be taking a break from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM for dinner.

At 8:00 PM, we will begin streaming our movie for the night. We have selected Tokyo Godfathers, as it is a topical piece of media for the holiday season. It will last approximately one and a half hours, so take this into account.

That was a lot of information, but please read the whole announcement and fill out the gaming form if you are interested. On that note, please make sure to fill out this End of Quarter survey to give us your feedback.

Also, please send appreciation over to Wesley, as he was a big part of organizing/coordinating this whole thing.

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