[OOC] Anime Club!

[Tosui]

Hello everyone!

Welcome to the anime club, I hope you guys enjoy the RP!

Background:

It's fall and the school year has just started! Today, for whatever reason you decided that you wanted to join a club. There are tons of clubs to choose from at Todai University, but you heard something about a new Anime Club that started this year. Seeing as it would be a great way to meet some new people, and share your passion of anime, you decide to turn in a submission form.

Todai University is located in the Chiba prefecture and has a reputation as a very good school. You somehow got in, but now that you're here it's time to meet some new people!

CS

Name:

Age: (18-23)

Appearance: (Please provide a anime photo)

Appearance details: (Any small details you want us to know about yourself not included in the photo)

Height:

Background -

Hometown:

Major:

Hobbies: (Outside of anime & manga)

Part-time job: (Optional)

Back story: (125 Words+)

Club Members:
- Koji Matsuoka *President* - Tosui (GM)
- David Porter *Exchange student* - evershadow (Co GM)
- Akiko Kobayashi - UnendingEmpire
- Asami Levi - Hebigami Shiho
- Anri Fujiwara - Pyromania99
- Takenaka Manamiv - Midori
- Kakusareta Shunjun - Jedly
-Katsuo Kasane - Erode
-Yuusuke Hanari - Jivusa

Please PM me if you are going to be gone for multiple days.

Club Room

[Tosui]

Name: Koji Matuoka

Age: 20

Appearance:

Appearance details: None

Height: 5'11"

Background

Hometown: Osaka

Major: Animation

Hobbies: Reading literature, drawing, sight seeing.

Part-time job: Barista at Sudoh - Bucks

Back story:
Koji grew up with a love for anime and manga. When he was younger he was put out by the other children his age so he would spend most of his time at home. As he grew, so did his interest in anime. He began to teach himself how to draw, figured out making scripts, and started working on small manga projects. At first his work was very sloppy, and lacked any kind of style, but by the time he entered university he was able to produce a somewhat decent finished product.

When he decided to go to university, his parents were excited for him, but couldn't support his tuition. He took on a part time job as a barista to help support himself. At work, when things were slow Koji would spend time day dreaming and drawing on coffee cups. People usually told him that he always seemed distant, and in his own world. But Koji was just thinking about drawings, his favorite shows, and being able to work for a major animation company one day.

However, Koji never shared any of his work with others. He was not confident in his own skills and felt that he would be ridiculed by anyone who read it. After his first year of university at Todai he moved out from home and got his own apartment. He still didn’t have many friends though, so he decided to start an Anime Club to meet people with similar interests. He had gone through the paperwork with the school and they had agreed to let him start his new club.

From there the Anime Club was born!

Edit 1: Updated CS to look prettier, added a bit to his bio.

[Tosui]

Anyone interested in being the Co-GM let me know. You would be the vice-president IC.

[evershadow]

Name:
David Porter

Age: (18-23)
Twenty-two

Appearance

Appearance details:
N/A

Height:
6'1"

Background -

Hometown:
London (David is an exchange student)

Major:
Photography

Hobbies:
Guitar, BMX and photography (bit of an obvious one there)

Part-time job:
David has only just arrived as an exchange student for a foreign exchange program for the next year of university and hasn't had time to find a job yet.

Back story:
David was born and raised in London and from a young age has been passionate about three things; Photography, manga and anime (in no particular order). Once he reached his early teens he moved off of the more child-like anime and manga, beginning to watch and read darker stories, usually psychologically driven, it was a big thing for him. At the age of fifteen, his parents got divorced and for the next year he became a bit reclusive, his school performance and social life suffering.

However, eventually he persevered leaving school with the grades he needed to pursue his dream course in College. Seeing as you couldn't study Anime and Manga that was ruled out, but he took up Photography, something he had always admired.

At twenty-two years of age David was approaching his third and final year of college and had become sick of England. When he saw the opportunity to do a foreign exchange he jumped on it, not knowing when he'd get to go to Japan for free again.

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Hope that's okay. I don't mind helping you GM if you need it. I've been a GM in a lot of roleplays for a long time so it wouldn't be anything new. As for being vice pres IC I don't really see that working as my character is only a exchange student and I wouldn't want to be vice pres.

[UnendingEmpire]

We've got the club prez and the foreign exchange student. Now it's time for the club's fun-sized ball of energy.

Akiko

Name: Akiko Kobayashi

Age: 18

Appearance:

Appearance details: Akiko will invariably dress warmly, no matter the temperature outside. This is due to a keen frigophobia she developed from a childhood experience.

Height: 4'8" (~142cm)

Background

Hometown: Kyoto

Major: Literature

Hobbies: Listening to and creating music | 3D/2D art | "Tactical rest" (which is her way of saying she's taking a nap without actually saying she's taking a nap) | Writing fanfiction (which she's not good at)

Part-time job: Akiko doesn't have time for a job. However, she does sell the music she writes online. She doesn't really make much doing it since her fanbase is small to nonexistent, but it's enough to stay afloat with a very minor amount of help from home.

Back story: Born and raised in lovely Kyoto, Akiko was a creative sort from the very beginning. Art and music just clicked with her, and she was pretty good at making these things and bringing them to life. And you know what brings art and music together into one thing? Anime. Akiko's first anime was her father re-watching Hokuto no Ken, and to her, the idea that art and music could happen at the same time was something that never occurred to her before. Granted, Hokuto no Ken isn't the most kid-friendly thing in the world, but she was already eight by the time she saw it. That wasn't all she had going for her, either.

Akiko also had plenty of friends. For her tenth birthday, the family even rented out a nice little restaurant for the day, and everyone had a ball. Until she and the other kids played hide-and-seek, that is. Akiko's first hiding place was the restaurant's walk-in freezer. It wasn't until about an hour later that she figured out that the door was broken and wouldn't open from the inside. Which sucked, since she'd shut it tight behind her. After a total of three hours in there, one of the cooks finally found her, frostbitten and freezing to the touch. This was an incident that would impact Akiko for the rest of her life by leaving her with a sharp frigophobia. However, even when fearful of the cold, Akiko's spirit seldom died down.

While at home, Akiko spent a lot of time hanging out with her would-be manga artist of a father. As a result, a lot of Akiko's favorite animes are the ones her old man watched. Her art style sharpened with inspiration, and she became more enthusiastic about music. So to say, the anime she watched was most responsible for turning her into the artist/musician she is today. Fast-forward a few years, and Akiko graduated from high school in Kyoto. She had even started putting her art and music online, and what do you know, a few people liked it.

Then, after graduation, Akiko made a decision. She was going to leave Kyoto and take life on with her own two hands. She began selling her music online, making just enough to get by with some miniscule help from home. Akiko vowed on the day she left Kyoto that she wouldn't return home until she finally made her dream come true; her dream to become an anime producer. No matter how long it takes, Akiko plans to live up to her promise. The first step? Learn to make a good plot. How to do that? Go to Todai University, major in literature, and join the anime club.

*KANSAI INTENSIFIES*

EDIT: I may or may not be modifying Akiko's bio sometime today or tomorrow. However, I won't be removing any events; just adding new ones.
EDIT2: Did that; Akiko now has a bigger bio.

[ERode]

My 18 year old Club Member can't be this loli.

Guess I'll whip something up laterly.

[Tosui]

evershadow said I don't mind helping you GM if you need it. I've been a GM in a lot of roleplays for a long time so it wouldn't be anything new. As for being vice pres IC I don't really see that working as my character is only a exchange student and I wouldn't want to be vice pres.

True, I'll figure out another way to elect a VP IC. I'll still appreciate the help though so you've got the job. Thanks for offering!

[Hebigami Shiho]

My character!

Name: Asami Levi

Age: 18

Appearance:


Appearance details: She uses glasses, though she only puts them on when drawing or when she is in class.

Height: 1.61 m/5'3''

Background

Hometown: Tokyo

Major: Systems Engineering

Hobbies: Drawing, reading, playing videogames, breaking down and putting back together computers or any other kind of electronic device.

Part-time job: Waitress at a cosplay cafe.

Back story: Levi has demonstrated big artistical ability since she was a little girl, however, being born into an average family ruined any kind of dream Levi had for a future in the world of the Fine Arts. After all, she knew that people who majored in that kind of things were almost always wealthy enough to not have to worry about the future and what job you could get with such a major. So, she decided to go with something she thought would give her a job AND still enjoyed enough for her not to see it as a drag, Systems Engineering. At least, she gained habits of breaking down computers to their components and building them again just for fun.

Since young, Levi has been a realist and, to be honest, reality bored her. Unable to withstand reality's boring nature, Levi made an habit of escaping to the worlds of manga, anime and videogames. She was enticed by the stories and just couldn't get her eyes off of them, despite of what others said of her or how she was isolated, she liked it, and wouldn't let others to take the only source of entertainment she had in this boring world. A loner by choice, she always said, though she had more friends than one would think, friends who actually understood her. Unfortunately, Levi picked up many bad habits from her middle school and even high school friends. During her time in middle school and high school, she was known as 'Levi, The Darkness Princess', as yet another way of escaping reality, she acted as if she were a princess from another world who had come to earth to plague it with destruction. Of course, now that she goes to college, all of that is behind her, however, she still acts as 'The Darkness Princess whenever she is alone.

One of her dreams is making a doujinshin and outsell it in the Comiket, however, she has no talent in storytelling whatsoever and is searching for someone who can help her with it.

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Here's my character! Hope you like her! (And no, totally not hyped for Trinity Seven xD)

[Tosui]

Everyone's characters look great so far! If anyone has any questions let me know.

[Jedly]

Are there still free slots by any chance? I could whip up a CS once I get home.

[Tosui]

Jedly said
Are there still free slots by any chance? I could whip up a CS once I get home.

Yeah, go ahead!

[evershadow]

I'm going to add to my bio later. I was feeling a bit lazy when I put together my character. I'm liking the look of the roleplay so far and everyone is bringing forward interesting characters.

[Jedly]

CS'll have to be up tomorrow, currently studying for PSATs. I can write it up afterwards.

[evershadow]

Mm. I'm looking forward to this roleplay! Tosui, do you think it would be possible to add the tag next to my character's name in your list; [Exchange Student] or something along those lines. Please and thank-you.

[ERode]

I was wondering...

You have both 'Backstory' and 'Background', but everyone leaving Background empty. So what exactly is that for?

[Tosui]

ERode said
I was wondering...You have both 'Backstory' and 'Background', but everyone leaving Background empty. So what exactly is that for?

Hometown, Major, Hobbies, etc all fall under background. It itself isn't a field to fill out.
Sorry for the confusion!

[UnendingEmpire]

If no other players are volunteering their character to be the club VP, Akiko could probably do it.

[Hebigami Shiho]

Oh, we were deciding on that now? Levi also wants to run for VP! :D I promise manga for my fellow clubmates if you elect me!

[Tosui]

I think the VP position will be decided IC. Stay tuned!

[evershadow]

How many more characters before we begin Tosui?