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Mizuumi-Con 3: In Words & Pictures

Clockwise from top left: Japanese eggs, Andy Anderson's Fighting Generica Art, just one of many cosplayers, steampunk optical gear, origami demonstration (photographs by Soren Vaughn)

This past weekend I took the family out to Our Lady of the Lake University on the shore of Lake Elmendorf in San Antonio’s near west side to enjoy the [Read it all...]

Mizuumi-Con 3: Anime & Video Games at OLLU

Mizuumi-Con 3: Art by contest winner Valerie Lynn Aguilar

The Mizuumi Anime Club presents Mizuumi-Con 3 Saturday, February 27th 2010 at Our Lady of the Lake University. Guests include anime voice actor Kyle Hebert (Street Fighter IV, Naruto, Bleach, Dragonball Z), anime actor/producer/director Samantha Inoue-Harte (Final Fantasy Unlimited, New Fist of the Northstar, The Princess [Read it all...]

San Japan Announces 1st Guests & Opens Pre-Reg

From San Japan 2009. Photo ©2009 SkyPirate.

San Japan, San Antonio’s major Japanese Culture and Anime Convention, has announced the first round of guests for its July 2010 convention. The convention is proud to announce that voice actors Carrie Savage, Chris Ayres and Josh Grelle will be making return appearances to San Antonio. San Japan [Read it all...]

Tower of Druaga - Free Tonight at the Drafthouse

Tonight, Monday December 7 at 7:30 PM. you can score another free anime showing at the Alamo Drafthouse Westlakes (1255 SW Loop 410, San Antonio, TX 78227, 210.677.8500). On tap this evening is The Tower of Druaga: The Aegis of Uruk.

Here is the plot synopsis from Wikipedia: It has been sixty years since King Gilgamesh defeated “the tower” single-handedly, [Read it all...]

Free Anime Tonight at the Drafthouse

Head out to the Alamo Drafthouse Westlakes tonight, November 30th at 7:30PM, to get your fix of FREE ANIME. Tonight’s meetup will be featuring VIEWER’S CHOICE, where the audience gets to pick which title to watch. Bring an old classic or a new title and you may be setting the program! Anime movies must be [Read it all...]

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind at SAMA tonight

Film poster for Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

The San Antonio Museum of Art is showing Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind this evening (November 10th) for free as part of a month-long tribute to the work of acclaimed animator Hayao Miyazaki.

The film will be shown in SAMA’s Auditorium, seating begins at [Read it all...]

The Allure of Hayao Miyazaki - Lecture at SAMA

The San Antonio Museum of Art features a lecture titled The Allure of Hayao Miyazaki by Frederik L. Schodt on Sunday, November 8 at 3 pm. A public reception follows.The lecture will be in SAMA’s Auditorium and is free with Museum Admission. Seating begins at 2:30 and is first-come, first-seated.

From SAMA’s web site: The filmmaker Hayao [Read it all...]

Meetups of Note this Week

Every week in San Antonio there are people getting together to check out cool Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror media. Many use the service Meetup.com to organize the gatherings. Here are a few select meetups from Worlds Collide, A.C.E.S. (Anime Culture Enthusiasts Society) and the Alamo Drafthouse coming up that may be of interest to [Read it all...]

Konnichiwa San Japan

Japanese culture and media have been very influential to mainstream American media in varied ways, some as obvious as Godzilla, others as subtle as an American remake of a Japanese horror flick. If you are a fan of Japanese culture, movies, anime or manga, SAN JAPAN is the place for you this weekend.

San Japan is [Read it all...]

Made In SA: Dave Henkin

SAN JAPAN'S MAN WITH A PLAN: Dave Henkin means business.

DAVE HENKIN is not one of us. He’s not a San Antonio guy. So why is he being profiled for “Made In SA”? Quite frankly, because in two short years, Dave has become one of the key shapers of San Antonio’s genre scene. He’s making [Read it all...]