Valentine’s Day may have just passed and winter will probably stick around Chicago for another month or so, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty of warmth and sweetness to be found, especially in AnimeChicago’s Round Table choice for the month of February, My Love Story!! My Love Story!!, also known as Ore Monogatari!!, is…
I’m certain you have seen at least one place in an anime series or movie where you thought, to quote Liz Lemon from 30 Rock, “I want to go to there.” Be it a scenic getaway in Japan, or an awe-inspiring fantasy land, the locales in anime are definitely travel-worthy. As an enthusiast of fine…
On November 21st, 2015, AnimeChicago hosted its first ever symposium at the Cards Against Humanity Theater, focusing on the “God of Manga” Osamu Tezuka. Despite the uncooperative weather, a dedicated group of attendees enjoyed a day filled with education and entertainment, which was the culmination of a great deal of effort and passion by the…
Welcome to the first ever Round Table Round-Up, where we highlight topics and ideas discussed in a recent AnimeChicago Round Table. This article covers director Satoshi Kon’s television series Paranoia Agent. As pointed out by Neil, our discussion moderator, Paranoia Agent was formed as set of experiments based off of story “scraps” that Kon had…
October 4th 2015 marked the 20th Anniversary of the seminal, and often argued about, anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. Don’t know how to celebrate such an important milestone? Don’t worry, AnimeChicago has your back with these 17 suggestions. 17 suggestions, 17 Angels, see what we did there? Fill your bathtub with orange tang, put on…
The series Death Parade centers around the lives and work of Arbiters, whose job it is to judge the recently deceased souls and determine those souls’ ultimate fate. The method that the Arbiters use to achieve this goal involves pitting two souls against each other in various games in an attempt to elicit desperate emotions…
For this month’s Anime Round Table, we watched Tekkonkinkreet, the tale of two orphan brothers, Kuro and Shiro, who are living on the streets of the dream-like Treasure Town whilst fighting against the Yakuza, possible aliens, and ultimately the inner workings of their own minds. Kuro, whose name literally translates to “Black”, is the older…
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 his recommendations on what you should drink while watching our January Round Table selection. Cowboy Bebop is such a deep and vast series that to pin one particular style or theme is definitely difficult, if not downright impossible. So…