Why did monthly screenings become SO BIG?
Still feeling the buzz from AX, the Core Group decided really grow Animania during the 1993-94 school year. We distributed fliers to every comics, gaming, and indie video shop in southeastern Michigan, and we also set up a huge booth at that year’s Festifall. The result was that our October show — still in the Anderson Room at the Union — was standing room only with 150-200 people. I know that doesn’t sound like much, but anime was still relatively fringe at the time. Doug Jacobs had also just returned from his year in Japan, so the Core Group had a good laugh about the SRO crowd being his “welcome home” present. ** Stuff we watched during that time: “Gundam 0083”, “Porco Rosso”, “Gunbuster”, “Otaku no Video”, and… I cannot remember what else because I was busy with Core Group stuff and rarely watched the actual shows. With attendance like that, we obviously couldn’t stay in the Anderson Room, so the next month we moved to Angell Auditorium A. And the club just kept growing, so ver
