Very Important News!
Ok I want you all to take a deep breathe~ 1, 2, 3 *inhale* 3, 2, 1 *exhale*
The club is going to change their name! Yes, it will be quite unfortunate BUT!
we hope you guys won't leave just cause we've changed our name D: We'll still
be having the same concept and providing you with many card editions from here
and there. Alongside our Loyalty Card system. There's not a real reason to change
the name but just wanted a mystical if this is even the right word for it.. feel~
Continue to keep a look out of the club for new stuff coming your way ヽ(^Д^)ノ
Recruitment
It's still open huh? (ಠ_ಠ)
Well believe it or not, it is because we always want members like YOU to
help our club whenever we needed. We've also added additional jobs to the
application. Jump right here to find what you're interested in and apply.
Don't be shy, be fly \(^o^)/ That.. made completely no sense at all but hey, I
wrote this newsletter very late so don't blame me for writing weird shenanigans (ಥ﹏ಥ)
BINGO Event
Breaking News: Auntie Shey have retired from the Bingo Event?? NOOOOOOO (*´Д`)
Please give her a huge thanks for helping and managing the BINGO Event for you guys~
Exciting News: We are going to CONTINUE the BINGO Event as long as more than 10 people
are participating! If you LOOOOOOVE cards, join the fun and see if you're lucky enough to win
and be able to give us a card edition and be able to request ALL those cards that are made in
that winner's edition.
Without further ado:
Congratulations to Ascheherz for winning last month's bingo!
Not to forget 2nd to 4th place goes to:
2nd Place - Hime-sama
3rd Place - EvianBubble
4th Place - Haruchan-
Want to be the new winner? Come play with us and snatch that 1st placer ┌(☆o★)┘
Follow this thread to sign up monthly~
Anime Challenge: Highest Score
Another Breaking News?! ಠ▃ಠ
Indeed.. I decided to want to close the Anime Challenge.. for several reasons.. even
if they're not a good reason, I'm honestly really happy that some of you joined the club
just for watching anime on other people's list ^^ We'll take a break from the anime
challenge and will be planning for extra events to make up for the loss. Don't go away
just yet cause you'll be missing quite a few thrillers~ The youtube video has nothing related to the upcoming events...
again.. it's late and I'm supposed to be sleeping ;_;
Card Editions && Claims
Pokemon Collector Edition is still ongoing?! ఠ_ఠ
For the time being, yes. It will end when 53 pokemons have been out in the field.
There's just too many pokemons out there to do so I'll need a break from it </3
Those that have been collecting them, you will be receiving a certificate. It may
come in handy, who knows.
What's coming next month?
Kamisama Hajimemashita Limited Edition
Aura Kingdom Rare Edition
Fire Emblem Rare Edition
Sci-Fi Limited Edition
Staff Favorite Manga Rare Edition
Club Comments
Making a thread seems kind of pointless so I'll want to liven up the club comments with
the following: (Let us know your thoughts. Share your ideas.)
• General Topics for members to discussed about
• Games: Fresh ideas that haven't been done in order clubs or what you think most people would enjoy playing.
• Events: Something like what we've had in the past like Bingo & Anime Challenge
• Cards & Claim themes are most welcomed
Do not be afraid to be the first to post.
Blog Entries
Seriously guys.. Is Blog Entry the new trend around here? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Can't stress this enough that we understand you would like to separate comments &
blog entries for deliveries or if you disabled everything but I beg of you to at least clean
them. We don't have the right to tell you how to run your blogs BUT it's really
troublesome for people that deliver. It's best if you just save your cards and delete the
deliveries from existence or a new blog entry if you want to keep them.
Plagiarism
Putting this out there as I've mentioned in the club comments before, I do not want
to see people copying off each other's work UNLESS you got permission. (╬ಠ益ಠ)
It's unpleasant to see others copying and pasting or trying to replicate the same
content. As much as I want to ignore this, it just keeps happening and people
do notice the comparison. I'm saying this nicely but please just stop it already.
Newsletter Option
• Re-made the newsletter thread so if you would
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and he will removed you from the list.
Visit us often & don't forget to take care of yourselves.
Good luck to those that are taking examinations and for
everyone else that's not studying hardcore, have a wonderful
day and enjoy the fresh air~
- DC Staff
Hey o/ On behalf on AG, I would like to wish you an early happy holidays :)
Awesome Madoka profile pic!
How has your year been so far?
It may have been a while since you've been to the guild page, so I hope you don't mind me leaving this newsletter here.
There's quite a few new events that we don't want you to miss out on!
[spoiler] Hello, and Thanks for Reading Anime Guild's Fourth Newsletter!
We at the Anime Guild have brought back the topic of the week, but now you have the chance to pick what topic will talk about every month in our voting thread that is ongoing right now. http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1456632 Have fun participating ^.^
Did you enjoy Shokugeki no Souma? We surely did with Souma winning both the Anime and Character of the Season Polls. What that also means is our Seasonal Card Edition is out for all your Souma needs.
Something unique to the Anime Guild has been our Power Rankings Committee. We have done some retooling recently to make the feature more accommodating for more of our members to participate. There are now two different classes (Casual Class- 5 show voting and Titan Class- 10 show voting). If you are interesting in participating in the 2016 Winter Season please sign-up here http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1456124
Then for the main event of the year, is the inaugural 2015 Anime Trivia Challenge. Where you can test your knowledge of what happened in this year of anime. Will you be the one with the biggest Anime IQ? Will you be our Champion? Thread link is right here http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1456288
It is important to know that the changes do NOT apply for the members who already have the Master Loyalty Card.
The reason why we decided to do these modifications is simply because the number of editions we used to have was a lot lower so getting to the Master Card was more of a challenge.
Nowadays, we have a minimum of 15 editions per month so getting to the Master Card is quite fast and it was not what Mio intended when she first started with this.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Nikki, Dark, Olivia or Vienna.
Thank You!
[spoiler] Hello, and Thanks for Reading Anime Guild's Third Newsletter!
After 11 months of existence we have finally started to get into the card game thanks to Sakamoto. Here is a link to her first edition. http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1413464 Our next edition will be our one year anniversary that will be coming out sometime after September 6th.
Speaking of Artsy things. We at the Anime Guild is currently looking to expand our Art Department. If you are interested then please follow the steps in this thread. http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1415242
Our last bit of news is that were starting to get into the later rounds of the 2nd Seasonal Openings Competition. The link to the bracket is [i][b]Here.[/i][/b] One match up is posted daily so make sure you don’t miss anything -.^. Our first Ending Competition will be started shortly after.
[i]~Thanks for reading and have a nice day~
☆A.G. Staff☆
Dear Members of Dear Clouds,
Recently we had way too many people not respecting the Post Limits and the Number of Cards allowed by the Card Makers.
We have been discussing about a way to fix this but none of the methods we tried worked.
The Card Makers tried to warn the people concerned nicely way to many times and they also tried putting notes on the posts but nothing changed.
Unfortunately, for this reason, we had to come up with a more drastic way to make people understand they have to respect what the Card Makers are asking.
Here are the new rules we came up with to fix this issue once and for all :
- If the Post Limit the Card Makers are putting are not respected, they will ignore your request AND you will have your first warning. At your third warning, your post will be simply deleted and you won't get any cards at all. It takes only a few seconds to read and it will avoid a lot of trouble for everyone.
- If you request more cards than what you are allowed to from a Card Maker (Of course there are always exceptions like the MC, the Bingo, the Anime Challenge, etc.) without any valid reason, THAT specific Card Maker have the right to ignore your request OR if that person is in a good mood they can always message you so you can correct your post.
Please simply pay attention when you request cards. It takes only a few seconds.
I know this message does not apply to everyone but we have decided to send it to all of our members so everyone knows the same information.
Post Limit:
I know it's not always fun not being able to request a card that you would really love but if a Card Maker put a Post Limit, it has to be respected. The reason why i am bringing this up is because recently we had many issues regarding this. People don't pay attention and request whatever they want. If there is a post limit, it's for a reason so please respect it! It takes 2 seconds to read. If you get a Loyalty Card, you will have many chances to get the cards you missed :)!
Master Loyalty Card:
I think we need to refresh the rules on this xD! There are only a few and it's to be fair with everyone.
The Master Loyalty Card has many advantages like:
~ You can request up to 3 days after an edition has been closed IF you did not already request Please.. Only once X___X! Also yes you can request even if it's closed BUT it doesn't mean you can have all the cards!!! You have to follow the rules from each Card Maker exactly like you always do and if there's a Post Limit you HAVE to respect it also.
~ You can request an extra card from each edition. ONE EXTRA CARD!!! Not 2 , 3 or all.... One! Yes it can be applied even if there's a post limit. So this means if you are the 32nd to request and the post limit was 30 you can have ONE card from that person with the master card IF YOU WISH! You can take that extra card from any other Card Makers also.
~ When you do request an extra card, please specify beside.
Example: "Card Maker name": 1, 2 + 3(MC)
It's easier for us to understand and we know you didn't decide to just request one more because you wanted to but because you can with your Master Loyalty Card.
~ If you use any of you privileges, you HAVE to show your Master Loyalty Card in your request or it wont be accepted. If you lost the link you can always ask us and we will gladly give it back to you.
This message will be send to every member of Dear Clouds and I know this doesn't apply for everyone. I'm just remembering everybody because we don't wanna be unfair to anyone.
Thank you very much! <3
Very sorry for the bother!
*Takes out flashlight*
Oh there you are ^.^, how are you?
[spoiler] Hello, and thanks for reading the first Anime Guild's newsletter!
We are glad to announce that our nominations for best character and anime of the season is coming soon.
The winners are going to be displayed in our new layout. Courtesy of Andrew :)
If youre interested we are having Simulwatches every weekend, check our forums for more information
We are looking to add more life to our Steam group, so feel free to join if you want to.
Also if you like to talk, join our Skype group where lots of friendly users are active!
With shows almost coming to their dramatic or disappointing ends you can always go to the Seasonal Disucssion to discuss the show with your fellow club mates. Also remember that if you want to share any of your reviews you publish about this season to, add it to the Review Season Here.
~Thanks for reading and have a nice day~
Anime Guild staff
Greetings, and welcome to the 2015 Winter / Spring Edition of the Namine's Café Newsletter
First, I would like to thank everyone who has joined the cafe, as well as those who actively support us. After being open for less than 18 months, we are closing in on 5000 members and 100 affiliations. And Namine's cafe just recently passed the incredible milestone of 8000 pages of chat comments (that's 160,000 comments), the first club in MAL to ever achieve this goal.
We have an amazing amount of things happening at the cafe: First, we have three major competitions coming, including an Anime Couples Competition, a Voice Actor Competition, as well as the 2nd Annual Namine's Cafe Best Girl Competition. We'll also be having several other small competitions along the way, including an Anime Scavenger Hunt, a Best Scene Competition, a card making competition, plus many more. In addition to our competitions, there some big news at the cafe. First of all, Skype is back!!! While we still have a dedicated IRC chat, we've brought back Skype, and it's as popular as it ever was in the cafe. Also, member card editions are returning to the cafe shortly, with some of the best card makers in MAL signed up to help make wonderful cards, so stop by early and often to see what cards are available.
The details for each of our event sare listed in the below spoilers:
Namine's Café Anime Couple's Competition
Following the success of our previous competitions we held last year, we've decided to follow that up with another competition. Last month, we held a vote on what type of character competition we should hold, and Couple's Competition won.
Here's how it works:
The competition takes place in two phases. The first phase is where everyone gets to nominate a couple for the competition. You can nominate up to 3 anime/manga couples. They must be a real couple in the anime (no wishful thinking here :-)), having at least dated or kissed in the anime as a minimum. You rank your nominees from 1 to 3. The ranking determines how many points each character gets, like so:
#1 choice is worth 5 points
#2 choice is worth 3 points
#3 choice is worth 1 points
The points each character gets from each members nomination are cumulative, and when the nominations are over, the points will be counted, and the top 32 couples will compete in a double elimination bracket style competition where then members vote on them in one on one, er... two on two, competitions xD.
The nomination phase will last 15 days, starting on Sunday, 2/15/2015, and will close on Saturday, 2/28/2015. The first voting competition will start on Tuesday, 3/3/2015. A new competition will start every day, and each vote is open for 2 days. If a couple wins, they move on to the next round. If a couple loses, they move to the single loss bracket, where they will face off against the other match losers. If a couple wins their match in the second bracket, they will move on for another match in the second bracket. If they lose a match in the second bracket, they are out. This means that even if your favorite couple loses, they still have a chance.
Here are the rules:
As stated above, you can nominate up to 3 anime/manga couples. It can be less than 3, but it cannot be more. Any couple over the first 3 will be removed.
The couple must be a couple in the anime/manga. If they are not, but are a couple, or have kissed or dated in a LN or VN, then they will be accepted (proof must be provided in this case). Straight, yuri, and yaoi couples are acceptable. For threesomes and love triangles, make a choice on which pairing to nominate (or nominate both separately :-)).
List the full name of both characters in the couple to be nominated, as well as an anime that they are in. Hot-linking the characters to their MAL page is welcome, but not required.
Only one nomination list per member, please.
Namine's Café Second Annual Best Girl Competition
Our first competition last year, the Moe Competition, was an incredible success. This is the second annual competition, but instead of just moe girls, all girls will be allowed to be nominated.
Here's how it works:
Similar to last year's Moe Competition and the Couples Competition, this competition also takes place in two phases. The first phase is where everyone gets to nominate supporting characters for the competition. Since we're allowing all girls, we're also increasing the field of play. You can nominate up to 7 anime characters, listed in the MAL database. They can be your favorites, or just characters that you believe are the most cool. You rank your nominees from 1 to 7. The ranking determines how many points each girl gets, with special bonus points for #1 & #2 pics, like so:
#1 choice is worth 10 points
#2 choice is worth 7 points
#3 choice is worth 5 points
#4 choice is worth 4 points
#5 choice is worth 3 points
#6 choice is worth 2 points
#7 choice is worth 1 point
The points each character gets from each members nomination are cumulative, and when the nominations are over, the points will be counted, and the top 64 girls will compete in a single elimination bracket style competition where then members vote on them in one on one competitions.
The nomination phase will last 15 days, starting sometime in March (exact date TBD). The first voting competition will start shortly after the nominations have been closed. A new competition will start every day, and each vote is open for 2 days. Because the field will be double the size of the other competitions, the best girl competition will be single elimination and not double elimination.
Here are the rules:
As stated above, you can nominate up to 7 anime girls.
The nominee must be listed in MAL, and must be in at least one an anime - sorry, but no pure manga girls allowed. Furthermore, nominees must be female - no traps allowed.
List the full name of each character to be nominated, as well as an anime that she is in. Hot-linking the character to their MAL page is welcome, but not required.
Only one nomination list per member, please.
No double nominating. Meaning that the same character is nominated as your 1st and 3rd choice. If this happens, the 2nd listing will be removed.
Namine's Café Voice Actor Competition
Another competition we'll be having is the Voice Actor Competition
Here's how it works:
The competition takes place in three phases. The first phase is where everyone gets to nominate Voice Actors the competitions. You can nominate up to 5 Japanese Voice Actors, and up to 5 non-Japanese Voice Actors. Following the nominations, there will be two separate competitions: one for Japanese VAs and one for non-Japanese VAs. The VAs must be listed in MAL. You rank your nominees from 1 to 5. The ranking determines how many points each character gets, like so:
#1 choice is worth 5 points
#2 choice is worth 4 points
#3 choice is worth 3 points
#4 choice is worth 2 points
#5 choice is worth 1 point
The points each VA gets from each members nomination are cumulative, and when the nominations are over, the points will be counted, and the top 32 Japanese VAs and the top 32 non-Japanese VAs will compete in separate single elimination bracket style competition where then members vote on them in one on one competitions.
The nomination phase will last 15 days, starting sometime in April / May (exact date TBD). The first voting competition will start shortly after the nominations have been closed. A new competition will start every other day, with the Japanese and non-Japanese matches alternating, with each vote open for 2 days. Because there will be two separate competitions, the field will be double the size of the other competitions, similar to the best girl competition, so the VA competitions will be single elimination and not double elimination.
Here are the rules:
As stated above, you can nominate up to 10 Voice Actors - 5 Japanese and 5 English a/o non-Japanese.
The VAs must be listed in MAL.
List the full name of the VA, as well as at least one to two characters they've portrayed (so that others know who they are). Hot-linking the VAs to their MAL page is welcome, but not required.
Sometime witin the next couple of months, we'll hold an Anime Scavenger Hunt. There will be prizes for the winners.
Here's how it works:
The scavenger hunt will actually be a series of hunts, differing in levels of difficulty. Every couple days, a list will be pulished at the cafe for a new hunt. The list will contain objects, characters, quotes, etc. The job of the hunters is to find what anime the items on the list come from.
Here are the rules:
Each list will contain a set of items that need to be identified from specifica anime. The list will also include a MAL user account
If an item on the list can be found in multiple anime, listing o ne of the anime is acceptable
Teaming up is allowed
When all the items have been identified, a PM needs to be sent to the user account identified on the list. The first PM, based on datestamp, that correctly identifies everything on the list is the winner.
Namine's Café Best Scene Competition
Another competition the cafe will be having is the best scene competition.
Here's how it works:
The competition takes place in two phases. First, anyone can nominate up to two scenes that they like in anime - either it's really funny, sad, kawaii, uber-erotic, etc. To enter a nomination, members will need to make a snippet of an anime containing that scene and turn it into a video. Scenes can be up to 5 minutes long. The first 50 scenes will be accepted. If turnout is high, that can be increased. Once all the nominations are in, the compettions will begin. Each week, 5 scenes will be selected at random and added to a poll therad. The top vote counter will win that week. The #2 vote counter will also stay alive. Follign the 10 weeks of voting, the 10 2nd placers will compete in 2 weekly votes, with the 2 winners added to the 10 1st placers. The 12 remaining scenes will vote in 4 separate votes of 3 random scenes each, with the winner going to the final. The championship will be a week long vote of the final 3 scenes. The one who submitted the winning scene will win a major prize.
Namine's Café card making competition
Namine's cafe will hold a card making competiton, where anyone who wants to try to make a card can join. Once the competition starts, there will be a 2 - 3 week period where everyone can make and submit a single member card. The cards (exact number TBD), will then be pitted against each other in head to head competitions. Don't think you can make a card - don't worry so much. Try your cand at making a card and who knows, if coul dbe amazing.
Namine's Café Skype Group
The cafe once again has Skype. please Click Here for more information on the Skype Group, and to get an invitation to it.
Namine's Café Official Steam Group Activities
As many of you are aware, the Cafe has it's own Steam Group. Please click here for more information on the Steam Group, and to get an invitation to it. We are currently planning some possible Steam game tournaments in the future, and feedback on this would be awesome. Also, we may be getting our Minecraft server back, as well.
Hello again everyone~ We are writing to you this time since we have a special event coming up and we want all of our members to participate~
This time we are organizing a BINGO Monthly Event!
If you are interested you can learn more of what it will be about here.
We will be waiting for you, so don't hesitate to come and check it out here.
Subscription for next month participation will be open for a limited time! Come quickly!
(Note: Since this is a special edition it was sent to everyone, sorry for any inconvenience)
- DC staff
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LATE APRIL 2016 NEWSLETTER
Awesome Madoka profile pic!
How has your year been so far?
It may have been a while since you've been to the guild page, so I hope you don't mind me leaving this newsletter here.
There's quite a few new events that we don't want you to miss out on!
[spoiler]
Hello, and Thanks for Reading Anime Guild's Fourth Newsletter!
We at the Anime Guild have brought back the topic of the week, but now you have the chance to pick what topic will talk about every month in our voting thread that is ongoing right now. http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1456632 Have fun participating ^.^
Did you enjoy Shokugeki no Souma? We surely did with Souma winning both the Anime and Character of the Season Polls. What that also means is our Seasonal Card Edition is out for all your Souma needs.
Something unique to the Anime Guild has been our Power Rankings Committee. We have done some retooling recently to make the feature more accommodating for more of our members to participate. There are now two different classes (Casual Class- 5 show voting and Titan Class- 10 show voting). If you are interesting in participating in the 2016 Winter Season please sign-up here http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1456124
Then for the main event of the year, is the inaugural 2015 Anime Trivia Challenge. Where you can test your knowledge of what happened in this year of anime. Will you be the one with the biggest Anime IQ? Will you be our Champion? Thread link is right here http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1456288
Our Head Admin is a big dork for personality tests and personality psychology and at the Anime Guild we have several threads dedicated to personality tests like Myers Briggs 16 Personalities, Enneagram Personality Test, and What is YOUR Business Cultural Profile?. So please share your results and entertain our head admin (what a loser right?).
[i]~Thanks for reading and have a nice day~
☆A.G. Staff☆
[spoiler]
Hello, and Thanks for Reading Anime Guild's Third Newsletter!
After 11 months of existence we have finally started to get into the card game thanks to Sakamoto. Here is a link to her first edition. http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1413464 Our next edition will be our one year anniversary that will be coming out sometime after September 6th.
Speaking of Artsy things. We at the Anime Guild is currently looking to expand our Art Department. If you are interested then please follow the steps in this thread. http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1415242
We finally have started to hold events for our steam group as seen here http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1415425 So if your interested please make sure you join our Steam group.
Our last bit of news is that were starting to get into the later rounds of the 2nd Seasonal Openings Competition. The link to the bracket is [i][b]Here.[/i][/b] One match up is posted daily so make sure you don’t miss anything -.^. Our first Ending Competition will be started shortly after.
[i]~Thanks for reading and have a nice day~
☆A.G. Staff☆
Thanks for adding me tho~~~! :D
If you still remember me then, nice to meet you~ I'm Tom desu >w<
How are you?
For all Dear Clouds Members
Oh there you are ^.^, how are you?
[spoiler]
Hello, and thanks for reading the first Anime Guild's newsletter!
We are glad to announce that our nominations for best character and anime of the season is coming soon.
The winners are going to be displayed in our new layout. Courtesy of Andrew :)
If youre interested we are having Simulwatches every weekend, check our forums for more information
We are looking to add more life to our Steam group, so feel free to join if you want to.
Also if you like to talk, join our Skype group where lots of friendly users are active!
With shows almost coming to their dramatic or disappointing ends you can always go to the Seasonal Disucssion to discuss the show with your fellow club mates. Also remember that if you want to share any of your reviews you publish about this season to, add it to the Review Season Here.
~Thanks for reading and have a nice day~
Anime Guild staff
NEWSLETTER SE
did you watched WIXOSS last ep yet? c: