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, and welcome to the Summer Edition of the Namine's Café Newsletter
We have a whole bunch of events planned at the cafe, including another major character competition, an AMV competition, a new monthly 'Design a Game' attraction, as well as several more cool events. Also, because IMG tags our working again, we now have official badges for the cafe, and official members cards will be coming soon. The details for each of our event sare listed in the below spoilers:
Naine's Café Supporting Character Competition
Following the incredible success of the Moe Competition we held in the Spring, 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 Supporting Character won hands down.
Here's how it works:
The competition takes place in two phases. The first phase is where everyone gets to nominate supporting characters for the competition. You can nominate up to 5 anime/manga characters, listed as supporting 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 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 character gets from each members nomination are cumulative, and when the nominations are over, the points will be counted, and the top 32 characters will compete in a bracket style competition where then members vote on them in one on one competitions.
The nomination phase will last 15 days, starting on Tuesday, 7/1/2014, and will close on Wednesday, 7/16/2014. The first voting competition will start on Friday, 7/18/2014. A new competition will start every day, and each vote is open for 2 days. This means there Will be a total of 31 competitions to name a champion.
Here are the rules:
As stated above, you can nominate up to 5 supporting characters. It can be less than 5, but it cannot be more. Any character over the first 5 will be removed.
The nominee must be listed as Supporting in MAL. Furthermore, they must primarily be a supporting character. If they are listed as a supporting character in a series, but then the main character in like 5 other series, they don't count.
List the full name of each character to be nominated, as well as an anime that he/she/it 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.
Winners & Awards:
If one of your nominees gets into the final four, you'll get a special card with her on it, custom designed to your preferences by the Namine's Cafe card makers. There will be special awards if you nominated the winning character, such as ebooks, custom AMVs, specially custom made banners, and other prizes
Please note, if you any questions on this, please contact militus, the cafe's event manager who will be managing the competition.
Namine's Café AMV Competition
With the Cafe's Song of the Weeks getting more and more popular, Sipi, our music admin, will be holding our first ever AMV competition. Similar to the moe & supporting character competitions, the AMV competition will be in two phases, a nomination phase and a tournament phase. However, there is a little catch, as well (keep reading :-)).
The nomination phase starts 07/10/2014 and will end when we get at least 30 AMVs for the first round preliminary vote, plus an optional 4 custom AMVs. After the nominations are over, there is going to be preliminary round voting where top 12-16 AMVs will be decided, depending on the next step.
The tournament will consist of 16 AMVs. However, If any members are willing to create a well made custom AMV for the competition, they will get one of the top slots in te tournament phase, as well as special awards and prizes (TBD) for taking the extra effort. If there are more than 4 custom AMVs, we will hold a small tournament to decide the top 4.
The top 16 will then have vs. battle tournament where the winner advances to the next round finally leaving the two finalists, and ultimately the winner.
Namine's Café Monthly 'Design a Game'
Namine's café is opening a game request thread. If you have a game design idea, feel free to post it in the thread. A vote will be held each month to decide which games are added, with the winners getting awards and prizes, including one prize of a Staff Admin position as the new cafe games manager.
Namine's Café Official Club Badges
Kitsune77, one of the cafe's most skilled card designers, has graciosuly designed official club badges for the cafe. Please Click Here to be redirected to the thread and order your badges. Kitsune will even resize your badges after they are created so that they will fit in your forum signature area.
While the badges will not immediately be needed for anything in the cafe, eventually, they may be needed to support things like ordering cards and playing in tournaments. Along with this, We will also be adding awards, prizes, and other special goodies for participation in the café in some events and deeds done in the café. Examples of the prizes may be custom made cards, badges, & banners, ebooks, custom AMVs, and many others
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, Namine's Cafe is holding our first annual Moe Girl Competition
The competition takes place in two phases. The first phase is where everyone gets to nominate moe girls for the competition. The nomination thread will open on Sunday (3/10/2014), and will last for 10 days, Each cafe member can nominate up to 5 girls, with a point systems as follows:
#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
Unlike this, the Namine's Cafe Moe Competition will only be for Moe girls. Kawaii/ecchi girls will have their own competition later. To help ensure that only moe girls are nominated, we will have a panel of judges who will review the nominations, and if they unanimously determine that a nominee is not moe, then that specific nominee will be disqualified from the competition.To assist, here is a definition of moe, as stated by our judges:
Moe is an affection for cute girls doing cute things that excludes sexual desire. Moe will either minimizes the sexualization of their characters, or won't even reference sex at all. Lolicon depicts children as objects of sexual gratification, literally a romantic and sexual desire focused on a child. That being said, there are some lolicon characters that are also depicted as moe.
If a nominee is disqualified, she will be removed from the member's list. The rest of the member's list will still be available for the competition, but backfilling a disqualified nominee will not be allowed.
After the nominations are over, the points for each girl are tallied. The top 32 are put into a bracket style competition, the one with the most points will be ranked #1, and will face the one ranked #32 with the least points (no random competition selection).
A new competition will start every two days, and each vote is open for 4 days. This means there Will be a total of 31 competitions to name a champion. The winning character will get a special place on the layout for her, a card edition just for her, and have the fame and recognition of being Namine's Cafe's firsy moe champion (LOL). If we get enough support for the moe competition, we may follow it up with other competitions.
i also say'd he could accepted the offer to become Chef, & second it can happen in real life to, depends on a Boss, its rare but possible 1 from 100 that get to work under Boss that is that type of a good person, & i also say'd he could just ask, can i get place in Tokyo, asking never hurts any1, so my opinion of the matter dose not change, there are meany ways not 1, but he so only 1 cause hes short sided dummy, But its possible that even a good Boss like that would say, Sry right new other places are full :D, but il let u know if anything changes, & if he would struggle like he did to find new job, he just needs to suck up hes pride & let Yuzu take care of him until he finds a job, so he will live from her money, its not like hes lazy who wants to live like that, like some, but i ton't think it would come to that if he decides to become chef, but i heard rumor he gets promoted & gets place in Tokyo, u were talking about realism, is that realistic that guy who finishes school properly, i think he even finished collage cant find a job in a are in hes nation where he wants? no it is not, i have heard some have difficulty's getting job, but not were they want, cause some bosses want a new worker that has experience, & when they go to another city they get the same response, not just that, but in there + they live on another city becomes a issue in bosses eyes, & most people who have finished school & are problem finding job are to picky, they want job that pays a lot so they could live in luxury, & they ton't realize that u can always get what u want, if Haru is kind of person who puts hes job firs then i know hes future, hes wife chet's him cause she feels lonely, or he will do it cause of same reason or both, & second, when they get kids, they turn in to drug addicts or criminals, well that's, it happen's with most people who put their jobs first (bot not with all, if their kids have relatives who will but their nose in to it, cause they see this kids are bad parents), thinking only about money, well they think about cause of their family, but with out thinking that family need them more then they need the money, high pay they get, & its quite possible if Haru gets promoted, cause with promotion comes more work, it would be in real life mots likely scenario, so i doubt that Seo will write it like that, it was an example Hajime story from Jigoku Shoujo is best example, hes story is raveled close to end & i tont mean final EP, but the hole series, i guess u half to watch it first to understand that example, HE MC there But Ai is shown first, so i guess hes second mane, but key to mane plot as well, at first u feel like there is no mane plot, but there is, new that hes single father he got hes priority's straight, got it when she was a lot younger then she is in Jigoku Shoujo first season, also before he went to work there, he should have taken temporary job as Chef (that would have been a option to), until he find a job he wants (& when he works as Chef he can marry Yuzu & rise a kid & search a new job), then he would have more time to look for job what he would like, if hes that picky about jobs, cause people mostly do jobs cause they need to, not cause they like it, but Haru seems to search a job that he would like, & for hes selfishness he brakes up with her, ironic isn't it? he say'd i couldn't ask her to give it up for my selfishness, but right new hes being even more selfish, as i explained, & he can even stay as a Chef for life in my opinion, cause as i say'd, for loved one u do even a job what u ton't like much, but haru is neutral about it, its just Haru dose not see Chef Job as something he would do for life, like he sayd its hobby to him, hes not against Chef thing, he dose not want to only cause he sees it as a hobby, not even for Yuzu, after he worked so hard to be with her & suferd a lot of pain cause of her & still went bac to her, so u cant defend him, hes dumb & selfish, al stuff i pointed out weighs over all u say'd, & i can pring up meany more reasons, but not sure i want to waste my energy on that :D, it sems today i heave made a lot of posts to u already :D
tomoya's father was a drunk, mother dead, father was not violent, but how it effected Tomoya, how he felt, & what problems the old man caused, gambling debts 1 thing, his life was crap until he met Haeroine, well hes life was still crap, but Heroine just made him feel better
to me ushio's death was more impactful cause MC already lost 1 person & second would be 2much, second, first MC rejected ushio & finally when he accepted her she is taken away from him, 3th ushio was the only thing left for him from hes love who died, from Nagi
BDW Jigoku Shoujo is good anime, hell girl, Ai deals with punishing people, a girl in school was bullied & she contacted Ai/Hellgirl & she gave her straw doll & around it red string, & Ai say's if u really want to burnish ur tormentor untie the red string & our contract is sealed I i carry ur tormentor straight to hell, how ever, once its done ur soul will also belong to hell, after u die that is, u never feel joys of haven, new the choice is urs , & then dispersed again, but Ai way carrying some1 to hell is not straight to hell, first they want to hear a confession, so the person is dragged in to some like some other world between hell & earth, a empty world what is reshaped awry time Ai uses it, to fit with the situation, like 1 guy was dragged there from the party & he still so all he friends there, suddenly 1 guy turns around & hes face is skull, so Ai gives the guilty haunted house until they confess, Hell before Hell LOL, well its not just haunted house cause person wont die there & they could torture him to, & they have, well almost, he confessed before the could cut of hes legs, & if it happens there, person also wont bleed, but feels the pain, but ton't worry it dose not show hard core torture :D, they confess before it reaches to that point :D, but still they experience Hell before Hell
also he should try to talk with hes boss, not just that, he should have done it when he got the job, & talk about job in Tokyo, but he just took it without thinking, maybe Boss would have had opportunity to give him job in Tokyo, but he even didn't ask, also if he would have explained that hes GF is working in Tokyo then, maybe Boss would have even bent rules of hes company a bit to help him, well if i would be hes Boss i would try to help the guy :)
BDW i laughed at hes job interview, how he talked half of hes life story there LOL
Haru could become Chef, some1 offered it once, cant remember who, Akari's friend? i remember it was friend of a friend, who cares if he dose not see it as a, how did he say it? if he wants to be with the one he loves takes even a job that he dose not like!!! & he has nothing against Chef job, its just he dose not see it as a...
if he would put Yuzu first he could still find new job, so when u say'd ur partner shouldn't be first is not 100% right, putting ur partner first dose not mean u should not work at all, it dose not matter what kind of a job he finds as long as Haru can be with Yuzu
again Haruto is being retard, she finally became the teacher she wanted, i couldn't ask her to give it up for my selfishness, my reaction WTF!!! who say'd she needs to quite her job, either of u have same choice, quite to be able to marry, so Haru should quite not Yuzu, & also Seo, how can he come out with something that dumb? it dose not make sense, cause he talks about Yuzu quieting her job, like its an only option, like hes so dumb & dose not see that there is 2 choices not 1, if he would see, then he would say i cant quite, but he wont write it like that cause Haru cant answer that, if he would it would be even dumber, cause i cant start life with Yuzu, why is is dumb? cause he cant start life with Yuzu either way with hes logic LOL, he cant quite cause he wants to start life with Yuzu, but how can he if they broke up :D, awry excuse including current one is dumb & would make no sense, Seo should have made him com e to his senses (with or without any1's help) in this Chap, not make him act like retard
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to me ushio's death was more impactful cause MC already lost 1 person & second would be 2much, second, first MC rejected ushio & finally when he accepted her she is taken away from him, 3th ushio was the only thing left for him from hes love who died, from Nagi
BDW i laughed at hes job interview, how he talked half of hes life story there LOL
again Haruto is being retard, she finally became the teacher she wanted, i couldn't ask her to give it up for my selfishness, my reaction WTF!!! who say'd she needs to quite her job, either of u have same choice, quite to be able to marry, so Haru should quite not Yuzu, & also Seo, how can he come out with something that dumb? it dose not make sense, cause he talks about Yuzu quieting her job, like its an only option, like hes so dumb & dose not see that there is 2 choices not 1, if he would see, then he would say i cant quite, but he wont write it like that cause Haru cant answer that, if he would it would be even dumber, cause i cant start life with Yuzu, why is is dumb? cause he cant start life with Yuzu either way with hes logic LOL, he cant quite cause he wants to start life with Yuzu, but how can he if they broke up :D, awry excuse including current one is dumb & would make no sense, Seo should have made him com e to his senses (with or without any1's help) in this Chap, not make him act like retard