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.
This notice has been sent to most of the staff members who has not posted anything on page 65 of the staff chat. Hello, Js here again.
It's been 2 months since the disappearance of Js and he's finally returned to punish bad girls and boys who has neglected their duties in ARC.
Please fill in the form below and comment it on my profile.
Please don't pm me your form. For. Various. Reasons. Like. It. Being. Too. Troublesome.
Format -
a) Position(s):
b) How active are you:
c) Explain your answer in (b):
d) Do you wish to continue your duties: Y/N
e) Explain your answer in (d) if you replied "Yes":
f) Club(s) you admin: [Number only]
g) Do you play School Idol Festival?: Y/N
Additional Questions -
h) Who's your favorite μ's idol:
i) What's your favorite song from μ's:
j) Did you even watch Love Live! :
k) Did you steal my 16gb micro SD card from my phone:
i) The heights of students in a school are found to be normally distributed with mean and standard deviation of 164cm and 8cm respectively.
1) Find the probability that a student chosen randomly has height between 160cm & 170cm,
2) A random sample of 600 students is chosen.
a) Calculate the number of students with height less than 160cm,
b) Given that 417 students have height of more than h cm, find the value of h
You may use the following formulae:
(N - μ) / σ
You should also be able to use the upper tail probabilities Q(z) of the normal distributions N(0,1)
[center]Those who fail to answer in 1 week or who has disappointing answers will either be dismissed from their duty or demoted to the officer position.
Demoted? Why? Well, according to the rule that me and Ginjiro made in a PM that has already been deleted from both sides, those who has contributed a certain amount but no longer wants to be a staff member will be demoted to officer instead of being dismissed.
[color=royalblue][size=150]ARC Card Makers Newsletter[/size][/color]
[spoiler]
Hello Card Makers of ARC (hiatus card makers too!)~ I am here to announce to you that August 2014 editions are finally up!
This is the schedule:
Lolipops RE ~ 1st - 3rd
Balloons LE ~ 5th - 7th
Visual Novels LE ~ 8th - 11th
Ao Haru Ride RE ~ 13th - 16th
Purple LE ~ 17th - 20th
Nisekoi SE ~ 21th - 24th
Bishies RE ~ 25th - 28th
Pillowfight LE ~ 29th - 31th
Also, you are always welcomed to host solo editions or a duo/group editions :D
Feel free to ask me any questions about the editions, I’ll try my best to help you ^^
[color=darkviolet][size=150]Dear Anime Research Club's Card Makers [/size][/color]
[spoiler]
Hello ^^ ~ Sorry for the delay, but new editions for JULY 2014 are finally up :D
This is the schedule:
Kyoto Animation LE ~ 5th - 8th
No Game No Life LE ~ 9th - 11th
Butler LE ~ 13th - 15th
Haikyuu! SE ~ 16th - 18th
Cellphone LE ~ 19th - 21th
Gender Bender ~ 22th - 25th
Swimsuits LE ~ 26th - 28th
Animals LE ~ 29th - 31th
Also, you are always welcomed to host solo editions or a duo/group editions :D
Feel free to ask me any questions about the editions, I’ll try my best to help you ^^
I'm sorry to bother you with this large delivery! ^^;
So, these deliveries are SUPER late. I'm finally back from my long hiatus, and I made these as soon as I could. I really apologize for the lateness, but better late than never, right? xD
For usernames, I put the name you indicated on your form request, so if you have changed your username, you may want to search for your card(s) using your old username.
Also, for the Haikyuu!! LE, the font I used for usernames unfortunately does not support numbers, which I only realized as I was making them. For that edition, I deleted the numbers for anyone who had them in their username. Sorry about that, and I hope that it doesn't inconvenience anybody.
I made all these cards in one sitting, so there are bound to be mistakes. Please do not hesitate to let me know if there are any problems!
CTRL + F to find your cards. Please save and rehost within 14 days.
Hello my lovely staff ^^v thank you for always helping around the club ~
This would be the fourth staff newsletter meaning it's been 3 months since the club's reorganization :p
And we finally got ourselves a new layout maker and we would be changing to his newly made layout starting next month ^^
Oh, and don't worry about the staff logo >.> I know I'm lazy and I like remaking everything but I promise the new staff logo will be final!
And I also thought of removing the following positions:
Game Makers Inviters
Forum Morderators
So for those holding those positions might be relived of their duty or transferred to another department.
I also made a new position called the "Event Organizer", basically their like game makers but they monthly/weekly events to make the club more interesting and fun. before our club is assumed to be a cardshop >.>
Btw, who the hell is Shinjitzu? I'm get confused when someone changes their name >.>
And did someone delete some of the staff request on the staff recruitment thread? >.< I was going to accept some of them for the new month but they've gone missing >.> Unless they delete them themselves :/ I didn't even write Rejected there so why would they delete their post? :I
Card Makers:
It's time for the June editions :D Here they are!
The editions this month were inspired by Audiof3ar who suggested that we need more boobies kinda, so we have 3 new editions based on that inspiration. There are also 1 color edition, 2 Holiday edition, 1 card edition request edition and I stole the rest from other club's card edition request section :p
The editions includes the following:
Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica LE ~ 1st - 4th June
Imouto LE ~ 5th - 8th
Fantasy LE ~ 9th - 13th
Flag SE ~ 14th - 15th
Father's Day SE ~ 15th - 16th
Maids LE ~ 17th - 20th
Ecchi LE ~ 21st - 24th
Slice of Life LE ~ 25th - 28th
Yellow SE ~ 29th - 30th
--
1000+ SE
May The Best Card Maker Win! SE
I know I initially had MTBCMW! SE set up for this month as a special event but my plan kinda failed >.>
Well, it's now postponed to December or next year. Aren't you glad? ;x
Claim Banner Makers:
Beside our one thread ( Character Claim ), I want to start a new claim thread so that we could put our two new banner maker to use. So if everyone could throw out their ideas for the new claim, that would be great. Or I can brainstorm ideas myself.
Card Deliverers:
Just be a dog good deliverer for the card makers xD
Newsletter Deliverers:
-- I'll send you guys the job at a later date --
Updaters:
Well, good work as always ~ I love you >3< ~❤
Game Makers, Forum Moderators, Inviters:
-- Do we even need these positions anymore? --
Thanks for requesting! Please don't hesitate to let me know if I made any mistakes. There's a lot of cards here, so I'm sure I did somewhere.
Please save and rehost, deletion in one week. Part 1/2 - Part 2 is to be delivered next weekend.
Hello all! This is the third Staff Newsletter and thank you for being part of the staff :D.
Well, this letter is just to update you guys about the some stuff.
Be sure to check out the Updates Thread for any updates and sometimes the staff chat for minor updates. And how do you like the new layout? After a month of reorganizing the club, I was still unable to find a layout maker T.T I hope the new layout doesn't offend anyone is one way or another.
When image bbcode comes back, we can finally have our club looking fresh and new ^^
I also decided to merge POTD admin into the updater post. :3
Card Makers:
It's time for the May editions :D Here they are!
The editions include Mecha LE, KyoAni LE, Mother's Day SE, Harem LE, Idol LE, Red SE, Shaft LE, 900+ SE, & May The Best Card Maker Wins! SE.
If you're curious about that certain edition, I have added some basic info on the card edition's post. :3
Card Deliverers:
Just be a dog good deliverer for the card makers xD
Newsletter Deliverers:
I have some work for you today ^^ It's time to send out the newsletters again xD Thank you for your hardwork :)
1- freesyder
2- Raikounen
3- Hagarn
4- hinarin
Updaters:
Yaa o/ We have updaters ^^ Good job for April :D Especially Audiof3ar, you guys sure saved me alot of time ^^
Well, I'm sure you all know what to do, update the claim thread, make sure the card editions are open and closed at the appropriate time and notify card makers that they need to make cards.
Game Makers, Forum Moderators, Inviters:
And of course, I wouldn't know if you're be doing your work but good job I guess ^^b
And for the rest that holds position(s) that isn't mentioned here, I trust you know what to do and I don't think I need to explain much about your jobs :3 if you have any questions, just inform me :)
Well, that's all for this newsletter, if you've read this newsletter, just post something in the Staff Chat.
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As a part of the ✧Royal♔Medley✧ Staff, I, BunnyAyuki, co-creator, am asking you to help with reviving our club!
If you can help, you can make cards, editions, games, plug dj events, skype/anime watching events, and more!
If you would like to help, please tell me what is on your schedule so I arrange something for you to help with!
Thank you for reading this post! I look forward to seeing you help our club~!!! :3
[spoiler]
Hello Card Makers of ARC (hiatus card makers too!)~ I am here to announce to you that August 2014 editions are finally up!
This is the schedule:
Lolipops RE ~ 1st - 3rd
Balloons LE ~ 5th - 7th
Visual Novels LE ~ 8th - 11th
Ao Haru Ride RE ~ 13th - 16th
Purple LE ~ 17th - 20th
Nisekoi SE ~ 21th - 24th
Bishies RE ~ 25th - 28th
Pillowfight LE ~ 29th - 31th
Please Sign up for editions here
Also, you are always welcomed to host solo editions or a duo/group editions :D
Feel free to ask me any questions about the editions, I’ll try my best to help you ^^
[spoiler]
Hello ^^ ~ Sorry for the delay, but new editions for JULY 2014 are finally up :D
This is the schedule:
Kyoto Animation LE ~ 5th - 8th
No Game No Life LE ~ 9th - 11th
Butler LE ~ 13th - 15th
Haikyuu! SE ~ 16th - 18th
Cellphone LE ~ 19th - 21th
Gender Bender ~ 22th - 25th
Swimsuits LE ~ 26th - 28th
Animals LE ~ 29th - 31th
Please Sign up for editions here
Also, you are always welcomed to host solo editions or a duo/group editions :D
Feel free to ask me any questions about the editions, I’ll try my best to help you ^^
Written by Ginjiro-kun Jsnoob
Mew’s Maid Café
Grand Opening SE | Cards
50+ Members SE | Cards
Ladies versus Butlers RE | Cards
Namine’s Café
Militus Birthday SE | Cards
DanganRonpa LE | Cards
Yuri RE | Cards
Konoe’s Card Shop
OMC Posts #2 - #57 | Cards
Grand Opening SE | Cards
Flowers WE | Cards
Eren Yeager Birthday SE | Cards
Green WE | Cards
100+ Members SE | Cards
One Piece LE | Cards
Kagerou Project RE | Cards
Ice Cream RE | Cards
Wings WE | Cards
Royal Medley
100+ SE | Cards
Nisekoi RE | Cards
Random SE - #5 | Cards
Video Games LE | Cards
200+ SE | Cards
Mirai Nikki LE | Cards
Thanks for requesting! Please don't hesitate to let me know if I made any mistakes. There's a lot of cards here, so I'm sure I did somewhere.
Please save and rehost, deletion in one week.
Part 1/2 - Part 2 is to be delivered next weekend.
Written by Jsnoob