Hi everyone! I hope midterms are treating you all well and that you all are having an amazing semester.

UL Anime and Manga Society are excited to announce that we will be holding our Annual General Meeting (AGM) on the 12th of November at 6pm. As of right now, it will be in Room 3 in the Student Life Building, but this is subject to change based on the interest.

As this is our first event as an official society, you do NOT need to be a member to come along (it would be great if you were though ?). Bring anyone and everyone that you think could be interested!! 

As the society is new, all the following positions are up for grabs;

• President
• Co-President
• Secretary 
• Treasurer
• Public Relations Officer (P.R.O)
• Health and Safety Officer (H.S.O)
• Event Manager
• Discord Moderator 
• First Year Representative 
• Ordinary Committee Member (O.C.M)

The voting procedure will be explained on the night.

Tuesday week 4 (27th of September)  instead of our hangouts we will be hosting our Annual General Meeting.

This is where we elect our new committee that runs the society for the rest of the year. 
This will take place in KBG10 in Kemmy Business School. 

We will start the Meeting at 7pm but we request people arrive early to make it easier to make sure everyone is signed up and ready. After the meeting it will become a regular hangout session. 

It is very important to the society to fill out these positions effectively and we request as many members to come along and vote as they can. 
(There will be free pizza provided)

We will host a back to back movie screening Friday 26th November (Week 12) In KBG11

The two movies are,

Studio Ghibli's Howl's Moving Castle (1h 59m):

When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking castle. 

and Madhouse's Redline (1h 42m):

A story about the most popular racing event in the galaxy, the Redline, and the various racers who compete in it.

 Hope to see you there!

This Halloween Anime & Manga society will be hosting a virtual movie screening of the movie Akira at 7pm. The runtime is around 2 hours so afterwards from 9pm onwards we will be playing some games together. All this will take place on our Discord server which is available to join via the attached link and also on our UL Wolves homepage. (Note: some of the scenes in the movie Akira contain instances of violence and gore so viewer discretion is advised.)

Anime & Manga Society will be hosting our AGM (Annual General Meeting) on our Discord server on Tuesday the 28th of September at 6:30 pm (Week 4). Please be as early so we can handle the admin stuff quickly. This is where we elect the new committee to run the society for the year. Please come along and cast your vote on the various committee positions. The positions available will be announced at a date closer to the time. If you are interested in running for a position please do! It is a great opportunity to see the inner workings of a society and it also counts towards the Presidents Volunteer Award. You must be a fully paid and accepted member to attend. We hope to see you there!

We are doing a collaboration charity movie screening with Games Society this Saturday at 6:30 pm,
on their discord: https://discord.gg/3u9FamA
This will be in aid of the World Health Organisation Covid Relief Fund.
Attendance is free but if you would like to donate you can do so by sending some money
here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ulgsoc 

We chose some game related anime movies to watch for it,
so hopefully you will come along after most of the final college work will be finished up with on Friday.

 Movies selected are Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution
 and
 Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie

Good luck and thanks for reading.

This Saturday at 6:30pm we will be doing our movie screening on the Discord.

The selection of movies we chose are:

Studio Ghibli's "The Cat Returns" (High school student Haru rescues a cat that was about to be run over by a truck and discovers the cat is actually a prince named Lune. Out of gratitude, Lune's father, the Cat King, asks her to marry Lune.)

Satoshi Kon's "Tokyo Godfather" (Middle-aged alcoholic Gin , teenage runaway Miyuki and former drag queen Hana are a trio of homeless people surviving as a makeshift family on the streets of Tokyo. While rummaging in the trash for food on Christmas Eve, they stumble upon an abandoned newborn baby in a trash bin. With only a handful of clues to the baby's identity, the three misfits search the streets of Tokyo for help in returning the baby to its parents.)

 Due to this, Thursday's Screening will not be taking place.

 The screening is open to non-members so if you know anyone who wants to come along or know any past members who want to join in for the night just give them this link to the discord: Link
 The more the merrier!

A&M and Crafts soc are collaborating to host a creator's panel next Tuesday from 8pm. Please contact ulcraftsoc@gmail.com to let them know you are interested in attending.

Anime & Manga Society will be hosting our AGM (Annual General Meeting) on our Discord server on Tuesday the 3rd of November at 6:30 pm (Week 6). Please be as early so we can handle the admin stuff quickly. This is where we elect the new committee to run the society for the year. Please come along and cast your vote on the various committee positions. The positions available will be announced at a date closer to the time. If you are interested in running for a position please do! It is a great opportunity to see the inner workings of a society and it also counts towards the Presidents Volunteer Award. You must be a fully paid and accepted member to attend. We hope to see you there!

Dublin Comic Con is taking place on Saturday the 14th of March and currently Anime & Manga are interested in going as a society. We will not be organizing tickets for transport to Dublin as that has a history of complications but we will plan a leaving time as a group on the morning of the Con to keep us all together. We will also provide suggestions for the cheapest form of travel also. Anime and Manga society will knock off €5.45 for each ticket of members of the society if you book with us and there is a further reduction if 10+ are going provided by the con. The tickets will be €19 per person, however we can give €3 back to people if more than 10 people are going. We can start taking money for this from now until Tuesday and add people going to a messenger group chat to keep everyone together. Please confirm that you are a registered member on UL Wolves beforehand.

Anime & Manga are holding an EGM (Extraordinary General Meeting) on Thursday 6pm at the Student Life Common Room.

The positions needed to be filled are:

- President

- First Year Rep

- Screenings Officer

Also depending on interest we may also open up positions that were not filled at the AGM last semester. After the EGM we have booked the common room until 10pm so it will run into an Anime & Manga Society Hangout. 

Anime & Manga society are holding a movie screening Thursday 21st of November. We will show two movies back to back. The first movie is the Ghibli classic "Howl's Moving Castle", the second is the award winning "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time". The screenings are free to attend and you don't have to be a member of Anime & Manga so if you know anyone who would be interested let them know (the more the merrier). There is an option to order a small pizza on the night for a fiver if anyone wants food. You will get two toppings, chips and a drink in this. The room we are screening is HSG037 from 6-10. If anyone is unsure where the Health Science building is, please ask us on Facebook or by emailing ulanimesoc@gmail.com.

This October for the first time ever Anime and Manga society is attending the Kingdom Comic Fest in Tralee, as both a stand holder and a visitor! This makes Kingdom Comic Fest the most involved event not just for our committee but for our members as well.

Meeting place: UL Student Life Courtyard @7:30am

Location of Event: Brandon Hotel Tralee

Event Ticket Cost: €6

The Society will leave the hotel/venue at half five in order to be on time for the 6 o'clock return bus to Limerick!

If you wish to make your own travel plans please inform the Committee beforehand in Week 2!

From the Student Life Courtyard we will take either the 304 or the 304a intercity bus to the station. We will be getting the Route 13 bus from there and travel on this route until we arrive at the Tralee Bus Station. After which we will walk for approx. 15 minutes to the Brandon Hotel. 

There will be two committee members at our stall at all times, changing in shifts, so if you need to communicate  something with a committee member you will know where to find us. Also, there will be an event specific messenger group chat to which all attending society members will be added as to not cause confusion in the main chat.

See News for more information.

With the restricted release of My Hero Academia: Two Heroes, the society plans on visting the subtitled version on the 6th of December in the local Odeon.

We are having a bake sale in the student courtyard on Friday 16th from 11 to 4. We have a variety of tasty treats for you all be sure to check it out. You’ll need a snack for the long trip home on Friday.