Hartwell: MAL School of Enchantment
◆◇◆◇ S E P T E M B E R N E W S L E T T E R ◆◇◆◇ IMPORTANT NOTICE
Hartwell: School of Enchantment will be shut down at the end of September.
It was a nice start on reviving this club and it's sad to say that I'll have to retire
for now. Perhaps until next summer or when the creator is back,
this club could be up and running again, along with our collab partner, Colorful Shining Stars Club.
I want to thank each and every one of you for joining this club, it really means a lot to us.
The next time you see HMSE, we will be starting from scratch and hope that everyone will support us and give us strength.
It's been nice working with everyone and I hope yall have a great day. Sayonara, until next time.
- HMSE Staff
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[spoiler]Hi everybody! This is our first newsletter for Ani-Manga!!
This letter contains informations and updates about the club. If you don't care, then don't read it! :P
Or as Azun (our leader) would say, " You don't like something, Deal with it. (Its that simple)".
So far we have 90 members! Thank you for joining Ani-Manga! :)
And also, thank you to those who kept the club active!
Ani-Manga would have been some boring, inactive club with nothing in it without you guys!
Character of the Week is...
LAVI from D. Gray Man!
Vote for the next character of the week here!
If you want to nominate characters, feel free to go here!!
For members: Feel free to create a thread! It can be about anything.... APPROPRIATE. ^^
Note: If you are interested in becoming an officer/admin, please PM Azun and give her a reason why you want to be an officer/admin.
Thank you for reading this, and have a wonderful day. :)
BIG NEWS! (Senting this to all 167 Members.)
Since our creator, naruse_,
has been inactive for more than 2 months already;
I decide to do a little re-vamp of the club and run it myself
with the help of my loyal friend VanityStar.
I know most of you would probably wonder when will naruse_ be back..
To tell you the truth, she didn't leave any message regarding why she would
be inactive for that long. Once she's back, I'll definitely leave the club in her care.
But at the moment, I'll be taking care of it :x
I'm not really good with managing clubs since I've never done it..
so I ask for you to please bare with me!
I'll do my best and I hope yall enjoy staying in our club.
We're almost starting completely fresh!
Keeping some of the old threads for memories but moving on with new ones.
So try to help us make this club alive again!
Spread the words; Invite your friends :)
Official Member Cards & Badges are on the making.
Please be patient with us.
Last and foremost, we're currently recruiting more people
for the available jobs listed in Staff Recruitment.
Join the staff and make this club grow~!
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.
Greetings fellow members! Just wanted to inform that our club will have its first annual tournament this first week of October. If you haven't joined a team yet, you can register here.
if you want to create your own team, you can register it at the library and we will start even if the slots aren't filled :) but take note that teamwork and more members will have more advantage in winning :3 the winning team shall have a prize for each of its members.
And to those interested in becoming a layout, card and badge maker, you can sign here. Staff Recruitment is always open for these positions. We are in need of card and badge makers, and as of now, the club has only 1 layout designer so if you are interested please help us T^T
There's also new updates and open threads, you can check it here. Thank you very much! have a fun and awesome day >w<
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Hello admins T^T sorry for being inactive, anyway i am back and i'm good.. btw, i know i haven't update the club as much as before probably the staff badge, some of you have change username and positions and i am really sorry for the delay of changing it. Anyway... i've decided to create a new one :D so please send me a high quality picture you want me to use for your staff badge via comment.
And for the art department (layout designer, cards and badge makers), i have a little favor to ask T^T can you make a banner for our club? any anime will do but we have to stick to the theme which is school, fantasy or magic like :) thank you so much! have a great day ahead ^^
>The first club name "Emily's Card Factory" has been
decided to be changed into HARTWELL: MAL
School of Enchantment (H.M.S.E).
What's in the club?
we would like to tell you that no feature of the previous
club has been eliminated and the only thing that has
changed is that we will add more features in the future and
we will make the activities in the club school-based.
> any members can join and register a school club at the Library. H.M.S.E will have it's first
annual club tournament at the end of September so we
suggest you pick or register a club now in order to gain
better chances from winning a club badge.
Our club's name [ECF] Emily's Card Factory
has been converted to HARTWELL: MAL School
of Enchantment. Nevertheless, no feature from
the previous club would be eliminated and we will
continue on what has been done. But expect more
features that will come since our club's theme has
more been incorporated as a school club.
Discuss the features with other admins/staffs that
you think might be a good one to add here.
For queries and questions, post it here
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You can join us!^^
Hartwell: MAL School of Enchantment
◆◇◆◇ S E P T E M B E R N E W S L E T T E R ◆◇◆◇
IMPORTANT NOTICE
[spoiler]Hi everybody! This is our first newsletter for Ani-Manga!!
This letter contains informations and updates about the club.
If you don't care, then don't read it! :P
Or as Azun (our leader) would say, " You don't like something, Deal with it. (Its that simple)".
Staff:
Azun26 (call her Azun) - Leader (Creator...ish)
Precious (AKA Neptune) - Co-Leader
So far we have 90 members! Thank you for joining Ani-Manga! :)
And also, thank you to those who kept the club active!
Ani-Manga would have been some boring, inactive club with nothing in it without you guys!
Anyways let's move on!
We have cards made by Azun!
Azun's Hand At Membership Cards || Azun's Alice in Wonderland Rare Edition Cards!
Character of the Week is...
LAVI from D. Gray Man!
Vote for the next character of the week here!
If you want to nominate characters, feel free to go here!!
For members: Feel free to create a thread! It can be about anything.... APPROPRIATE. ^^
Note: If you are interested in becoming an officer/admin, please PM Azun and give her a reason why you want to be an officer/admin.
Thank you for reading this, and have a wonderful day. :)
BIG NEWS!
(Senting this to all 167 Members.)
Since our creator, naruse_,
has been inactive for more than 2 months already;
I decide to do a little re-vamp of the club and run it myself
with the help of my loyal friend VanityStar.
I know most of you would probably wonder when will naruse_ be back..
To tell you the truth, she didn't leave any message regarding why she would
be inactive for that long. Once she's back, I'll definitely leave the club in her care.
But at the moment, I'll be taking care of it :x
I'm not really good with managing clubs since I've never done it..
so I ask for you to please bare with me!
I'll do my best and I hope yall enjoy staying in our club.
We're almost starting completely fresh!
Keeping some of the old threads for memories but moving on with new ones.
So try to help us make this club alive again!
Spread the words; Invite your friends :)
Official Member Cards & Badges are on the making.
Please be patient with us.
Last and foremost, we're currently recruiting more people
for the available jobs listed in Staff Recruitment.
Join the staff and make this club grow~!
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G E N E R A L ✡ N O T I C E
Greetings fellow members! Just wanted to inform that our club will have its first annual tournament this first week of October. If you haven't joined a team yet, you can register here.
if you want to create your own team, you can register it at the library and we will start even if the slots aren't filled :) but take note that teamwork and more members will have more advantage in winning :3 the winning team shall have a prize for each of its members.
And to those interested in becoming a layout, card and badge maker, you can sign here. Staff Recruitment is always open for these positions. We are in need of card and badge makers, and as of now, the club has only 1 layout designer so if you are interested please help us T^T
There's also new updates and open threads, you can check it here. Thank you very much! have a fun and awesome day >w<
N E W S L E T T E R ✡ D E L I V E R Y
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A N N O U N C E M E N T:
>The first club name "Emily's Card Factory" has been
decided to be changed into HARTWELL: MAL
School of Enchantment (H.M.S.E).
What's in the club?
we would like to tell you that no feature of the previous
club has been eliminated and the only thing that has
changed is that we will add more features in the future and
we will make the activities in the club school-based.
> Locations: School Entrance, School Yard, Faculty Room,
Headmaster's Office, Library and Classroom has been added.
S C H O O L - L O C A T I O N S
School Entrance: New Members Introduction Thread
School Yard: Members' General Chat Thread
Faculty Room: Staff's General Chat Thread
Headmaster’s Office: Questions & Suggestions
Library: For Club Registration
Classroom: Attendance Check! (earn points)
> any members can join and
register a school club at the
Library. H.M.S.E will have it's first
annual club tournament at the end of September so we
suggest you pick or register a club now in order to gain
better chances from winning a club badge.
>Logo making contest for H.M.S.E will open soon
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Our club's name [ECF] Emily's Card Factory
has been converted to HARTWELL: MAL School
of Enchantment. Nevertheless, no feature from
the previous club would be eliminated and we will
continue on what has been done. But expect more
features that will come since our club's theme has
more been incorporated as a school club.
Discuss the features with other admins/staffs that
you think might be a good one to add here.
For queries and questions, post it here
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HAVE A NICE DAY! :)