Articles from AnimeChicago
Weekly musings direct from our members.
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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…
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Anime’s Game Changers: Our Interview with FACETS
The spaces in which we enjoy anime and the people who share in that joy can be just as much…
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Manga Spice Cafe
AnimeChicago’s Interview series highlights local organization leaders, artists and personalities. Today we’re chatting with the anime-influenced artist AnimeSpice about her…
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A Brief History of Anime and Manga: From Zen Cartoons to Sailor Moon
As caveat, we will be exploring anime and manga from a Western perspective and this small summary is by no…
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Anime Marathons & Session Beers
Some anime you watch in the same way you’d enjoy a fine glass of whisky – slow, and with contemplative…
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Furious Spoon
Boasting three locations in the city of Chicago and creating lots of buzz with two successful Kickstarters, Furious Spoon capitalizes…
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Across the Board: Anime Directors
The AnimeChicago team meets weekly and we sometimes we find ourselves in heated discussions about anime. Here’s just one of…
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Lessons from the Scrubbin’ Bubbles: Tabletop Gaming in the World of One Piece
Warning: Minor spoilers for One Piece. I’ve been a fan of the massively popular shounen adventure series One Piece since…
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What are AnimeChicago’s Favorite Anime?
When you first join the AnimeChicago Meetup page, one of the questions you answer is, quite simply, “What is your…
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Across the Board: Anime Studios
Did you know that the AnimeChicago team meets weekly to plan all the great events around Chicago? Just like every…
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My Favorite Anime of 2016, Erased: A Time Traveling and Character Driven Delight
I was blown away by Erased, which is called Boku Daki ga Inai Machi in Japan. I consider myself a…
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A Small Taste of Craft Beer in Japan – Part 3
Hitachino Nest turned around my disappointing Kyoto craft beer experience. At this point, my opinion on Japan’s craft beer scene…
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Ramen Review: High Five Ramen
I’ve been struggling to come up with something to write for AnimeChicago for the longest time when I stumbled upon…
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2016 Annual Report: 10 Years and Counting
When I registered AnimeChicago.com in 2006, it was a small dream. Chicago lacked a central guide for all the anime…
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A Small Taste of Craft Beer in Japan – Part 2
You can find part one of this craft beer adventure here. Osaka had showed me that Japan’s beer scene is…
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Kyodai Hero: An Ultraman Introduction for New Viewers
We’ll continue the exploration of the monsters (in my prior article on Daikaiju Eiga), heroes, and robots that make up…