Creative Mela(Festival) and my Anime Corner

The Creative Mela we held at Arena Animation successfully finished and I was able to find a lot of anime lovers in my city thank to it ^^ Here's a pic by pic of everything that happened in the 2 Day at my Anime Corner~

Abhilasha Di and Vidhi standing near my Posters and Photographs

Garima at My Anime Corner

Vidhi and Garima helped a lot managing my Anime corner and the visitor's Register ^^ Thanks both of you!

The Bouquet Jose sent a day before the event stayed at my corner for the entire event ^^ Thanks Jose that really cheered me up! 

Pretty flowers with beautiful Yuuko and IA in background

The Mugs I got done for the event! Let's see how many people recognize what anime/what chars!

First Look at my Anime Items for the Event:

I didn't realize I had so much stuff stacked up o.o... forgot to take picture of the Card Captor Sakura File Folders and the Gaara Gourd Watch T~T...

First Day look at the Anime Corner:

 

Vikas Eyeing my Itachi Mug O.O

Finally Met Zarrin!

Zarrin, My First buyer and a really cool person! 

Zarrin's Shoes, she should go into business with this :x such awesome Art work!

Seriously some people have SO much talent!

Next Day :

T Shirts finally got printed ! 

My precious color books that I made for this event! And my Fushigi Yuugi Laptop cover xD

Vikas gave a glass of Sprite, the bubbles looked so pretty going up in the lights all around! I tried to take a pic but couldn't get a good one from where I was sitting at, in the end Vidhi took this pic, pretty cool with Kakashi in the background xD (That hand right there with the awesome Mentor tag is mine huhuhuhu)

Swaleh wrote the text for the title of my photographs section "The World Around Me"
Such awesome work! Thanks Swaleh!

My Anime Corner the next day with the now finally finished Shirts! Looks so much better with the Anime Corner that Swaleh wrote in his awesome writing! I painted it in different colors.

My Manga Collection

Mug matched the Itachi T shirt so decided to put both in same area.

Me Vikas and Ashar, poor T Shirts finally sliding off x.x... people cannot keep their hands off!

Over all it was a great event, I met a lot of awesome anime loving people. Special Thanks to Garima and Vidhi for helping me manage my corner and the Guest Register, honestly it would have been hard dealing with so many people on my own.

Also Thanks to Swaleh for Writing the Anime Corner and The World Around Me in his awesome writing. 

Thanks to David, Ashutosh, Qadir and Vibhor for helping with the decorations! Especially Ashutosh and David, who had exam next day and stayed late to help out with printing/decorations/star sticking/and tape providing.

BIG Thanks to my sister Nelly and Ashutosh for helping me put up my posters and Photographs, alone I would have gone have crazy doing all that myself.

Thanks so much Lokesh Sir for getting the Shirts printed before the event was over.

And thank you so much Jose for sending the beautiful flowers that kept my corner bright ^^

I really hope that we get to do this event again and this time I find more anime lovers and make more good friends ^-^

Being an Anime Lover in a World where Anime is for 'Kids'

Yeah... I'm actually writing this post that I didn't think I'd ever have to write, being such a cliche topic -..-... So... my Institute is having a Festival of sorts and I wanted to have an Anime Awareness corner in there (everyone else doing Graphic Design/Handicrafts related things). I tried to show the other students in my institute an anime episode (Bleach Episode 1 English dubbed *gags*) expecting a good response since it was a shounen anime with a lot of humor and action that generally everyone ends up liking, and everyone being a graphic designer/animator I thought would be a great learning experience as well. That... crashed and burned -..-... Everyone made fun of/laughed or just simply talked through the still-in-Japanese opening, and then all through the episode the majority of the people (thankfully not all) were behaving like they were being forced to watch something utterly ridiculous. I don't think I felt this discouraged even when my best friend (Maddy) in the beginning laughed super hard at the manga I used to read all the time. It was like they had their minds already made up that it's something childish and not worth spending time on watching. The mere 25 minute episode felt 2 hour long with the subtle jokes/looking at cell phones/laptops and talking out loud instead of looking at the screen where the anime was being shown. I'm honestly discouraged. I miss my old Orkut group and I miss my JD best friend (VT) who was also Indian but was open minded enough to give anime a try (in Japanese with subs no less) and ending up liking it after all. The lack of response from people here was heartbreaking bad. I'm left thinking that if these people who're future animators and graphic designers are behaving like this, how the hell is my Anime Corner gonna end up in the festival in April... really discouraging...

I've watched anime since back in 1998 when they used to air 3x3 Eyes and Grander Musashi Flame of Recca and Ninku on AXN, back when there was no Toonami on the Cartoon Network in India and no one even knew what anime was. It feels like, after all these years, the people still don't know or even want to know.

I wonder how people can place anime as something that's meant for just children? I mean... this... :

is hardly something you'd want your children watching now is it...

I don't understand why people don't even 'try' to give something new a chance, maybe they'd end up liking it. I once again realized I'm in the wrong place at the wrong time, there isn't any like minded person around me and I highly doubt that in my city there ever will be as it so far...

Hontouni kodoku wa tsurai desu. Doesn't matter how huge of an anime collection I have, doesn't matter how much knowledge I have, I have no one in this place to share it with. Well my sister but she doesn't usually have time when I do so we hardly ever watch anything together, we just end up recommending stuff to each other. I honestly wish people would be more open minded.. T__T