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Anime Central 2025 – Across the Board
We’re a few days from Anime Central, Chicago’s biggest anime convention fondly known as ACen. So we asked AnimeChicago teammates…
2024 Annual Report: A Year of Connection
18 years later, and AnimeChicago not only keeps the lights on – we’re strengthening our social ties daily. Tough times…
Anime’s Game Changers: Shinichiro Watanabe, Part 1
Recorded live at C2E2 2023, this episode of Anime’s Game Changers focuses on the early smash hit works of director…
Anime’s Game Changers: Yasuhiro Yoshiura
In this episode of Anime’s Game Changers, hosts Neil and JPod traverse the well-structured sci-fi optimism of director Yasuhiro Yoshiura.…
2022 Annual Report: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Since our founding sixteen years ago, AnimeChicago has grown from a small group of friends to a vibrant and engaged…
Summer 2022 Anthology: Then & Now
Just like the plethora of remakes popping up in the anime sphere, we tasked our artists to recreate a work from their past. Unlike more remakes, the results are actually good!
Anime’s Game Changers: Hiroyuki Imaishi
This is Anime’s Game Changers, the podcast dedicated to highlighting the people, ideas, and events that shaped the anime you…
Spring 2022 Anthology: Cover Image
We asked our Art Circle artists to help promote the program to newcomers using their personal style. We are blown away by these new promo covers!
Winter 2022 Anthology: Very Very Peri
We challenged our Art Circle artists to create a work inspired by 2022’s Pantone Color of the Year: Very Peri. Let’s just say that the results are Peri good!
6 reasons Anime Sampler is worth your time
159 anime titles premiere this Spring 2022. They certainly aren’t all winners. But how can you be the most informed fan…
AnimeChicago at ACen 2022!
Come rep AnimeChicago at Anime Central 2022! Join us for 3 panels, an IRL Member Mixer, and our first-ever Cosplay…
Fall 2021 Anthology: Your Favorite Anime
Fan art might be ubiquitous in the anime community, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t special. Especially the pieces our Art Circle regulars put together for our Your Favorite Anime Anthology.
2021 Annual Report: Old Favorites, New Norms
Last year was more of what we didn’t ask for: staying indoors, peeled to screens, creating whatever this “new normal”…
Summer 2021 Anthology: Wild Monsters
AnimeChicago proudly presents Summer 2021 Anthology: Wild Monsters published as a digital gallery for public viewing.
Spring 2021 Anthology: Summer Festival
AnimeChicago proudly presents Spring 2021 Anthology: Summer Festival, published as a digital gallery for public viewing. Each piece includes an artist’s statement that provides context into their creation.
Learn how your skills pay bills at “AMA: Passion to Profession”
Anime Central 2020 approved this panel and a pandemic thwarted it. So we’re bringing it online! Four AnimeChicago members will…