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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Chicago’s own UNIQLO Opening on Friday Oct 23
In case you’ve missed my previous posts, I’m a bit of a UNIQLO fan. I’ve worn a variety of UNIQLO…
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The 2015 Anime Research Project
You may know tons about anime fandom, but did you know that anime academics are a thing? The number of ethnographic books and anthropologists…
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17 Ways to Celebrate Evangelion’s 20th Anniversary
October 4th 2015 marked the 20th Anniversary of the seminal, and often argued about, anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. Don’t…
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Anime Central 2014: Pre-registration and hotel blocks open Oct 1st
Set your alarms, mark your calendars, pester your friends. Pre-registration for the 19th annual Anime Central opens this Thursday, October…
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Heaven or Helles: Death Parade
The series Death Parade centers around the lives and work of Arbiters, whose job it is to judge the recently…
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Black & Wit: TekkonKinkreet
For this month’s Anime Round Table, we watched Tekkonkinkreet, the tale of two orphan brothers, Kuro and Shiro, who are…
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Cowboy Beerhop
Welcome to our new column OTP where we combine anime with amazing things! AnimeChicago member Jeremy P. has an exquisite palette for great beer and great anime. Here are…
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Announcing – Chicago Premiere of Princess Kaguya
AnimeChicago is packing the house for the the premiere of The Tale of the Princess Kaguya at the Siskel Film Center. We will…
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Nakama Toys
AnimeChicago’s Interview series highlights local organization leaders, artists and personalities. We’re chatting Mary Warren, one-half of Nakama Toys, Chicago’s newest toy…
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Call for Attack on Titan Cosplayers!
Local studio Seth Deming Films is producing a live-action short. They’re big fans of the series and want to feature local Attack on Titan cosplayers in…
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Alternative Manga Panel Guide
“…in terms of popularity and sales, manga in America can be divided into Naruto and everything else. Aren’t most comics…
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AnimeChicago at Anime Central 2014
AnimeChicago will be making waves at this year’s Anime Central, where multiple board members will be hosting panel discussions all…
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The Wind Rises
The Wind Rises review by Neil Clingerman Rating 10/10 (Masterpiece) “But he who knows the body, who knows life, also…
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Join our Meetup!
Facebook hasn’t been the most reliable communication channel. We still update it, but if you want the latest AnimeChicago has…