The Japanese Media Appreciation Club

S’up JMACers,

Sara here, reporting to you from under a blanket on this Sunday evening. Though the weather is rough out there, whether there’s subarctic windchill, a snowpocalpse or a senior thesis armageddon, the weekly email must be delivered!

Some Reminders

The Japanese media appreciation club’s annual winter appreciation activity is scheduled for next Saturday! JMAC on Ice (and a Dim Sum dinner) will take place in Millennium Park (and Chinatown afterwards) on this coming Saturday, January 23rd. Meet up at the Lincoln Park Student Center between 11-11:30am to join in on the winter festivities!

Our most anticipated event of the year is coming near: the JMAC Voice Actor Event with Kyle Hebert! Kyle is most notably known for voicing Gohan and narrator from the Dragonball series, Ryu from Street Fighter, and Kamina from Gurren Lagaan. A panel and Q&A with Kyle will take place on Saturday, February 6th in SAC room 254 from 12-4pm.

Next Week’s Meeting (or lack thereof): Mitsuwa Outing!

Because the university is closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, JMAC will not its regularly scheduled weekly meeting. Instead, we will spend an afternoon at Mitsuwa, a store that specializes in Japanese food, books, pastries and more! On Monday, January 18th, JMAC and DCMC (the DePaul Comics and Manga Club) are going on a joint outing to Mitsuwa Marketplace in the northwestern suburb of Arlington Heights.

Meet JMAC President Eric and DCMC President Ariana at Brownstones in the Lincoln Park Student Center between 10:30-11am. At 11am sharp, we will be headed to the Rosemont blue line stop (at approx. 11:45am) in the hopes of catching a 12pm Pace bus to Mitsuwa, so come join us on this holiday adventure with a hearty appetite and bus money~
Last Week’s PowerPoint: WQ Week 2

Attached is the PowerPoint from week 2 of the winter quarter~ The slides feature the Seven Gods of Fortune and are part 2 of series of V.P. Monida’s ongoing series about Japanese mythology. Check out the featured manga of the month and this week’s music video from the opening to Noragami Aragato.

Stay snug (as a bug in a rug), JMAC!
Sara S.
JMAC Secretary

JMAC Website

WQ Week 2.pdf

Hi JMACers,

With the upcoming cold Chicago weather on the way (aaaa polar vortex, we meet again!), I hope everyone is getting nicely accustomed to their new schedules and classes for the winter quarter.

Some Reminders

For the first time ever, DePaul has Martin Luther King Jr. Day off! Though the university is closed and hence no official JMAC meeting, JMAC will be collaborating with DCMC (the DePaul Comics and Manga Club) to travel to Mitsuwa Marketplace in northwestern Arlington Heights on Monday, January 18th! Mitsuwa is an authentic Japanese grocery store filled with a food court, a book store, and a bakery. Details about this anticipated event will be announced soon~

Another anticipated event is our annual JMAC on Ice. Join us on Saturday, January 23rd for afternoon of ice skating in Millennium Park and a Dim Sum dinner in Chinatown afterwards! Skate rental at the park is $12 and dinner in Chinatown shall range from $10-20.

Next Meeting: Winter Quarter Week 2

Join us for next week’s meeting on Monday, January 11th from 4-9pm in room 380 (located across from the Center of Students with Disabilities) in the Lincoln Park Student Center. Our social hour of Witch Hunt kicks off at 4pm.

Next meeting’s weekly showing at 5:30pm is the sci-fi anime Bokurano ("Ours"). When 15 middle school children are tricked into joining a war against 15 aliens, they must learn to pilot the giant mecha "Zearth." As soon as they learn how to pilot Zearth, the children discover the costly price of piloting such a mecha.

After a short break, we’ll continue at 7:30ish with more episodes of Kids on the Slope, the first of our two running series for the winter quarter.

Last Week’s PowerPoint (Week 1)

Attached is the first PowerPoint of the new year, themed with annual festivities that take place in Japan for the New Year holiday. These slides also feature a new manga for the month of January about beings with animal-like powers and a music video by a band that aimed to become a real-life band from a manga.

Lastly, but surely not least, check out the attached PowerPoint slides to see who is the voice actor visiting JMAC on Saturday, February 6th from 12-4pm. ;)

Stay savvy, JMAC!
Sara S.
JMAC Secretary

JMAC Website

WQ week 1.pdf

Happy New Year, JMACers!

I hope your month-long winter break went well! My own winter break has been filled with research for my senior thesis, rhythm games, and research on rhythm games.

Next Meeting: Winter Quarter Week 1

Spend the first afternoon of the academic quarter with JMAC! We’ll be kicking off our first meeting of the year on Monday, January 4th from 4-9pm, located in room 380 of the Lincoln Park Student Center (the room located nearby the Center for Students with Disabilities). During social hour, we will be screening Megaman, the TV series based off of the video game of the same name!

Our weekly PowerPoint is presented at 5pm, where we’ll have several announcements about upcoming JMAC outings and events. It’s at this time we’ll be announcing the (super awesome) voice actor visiting JMAC in early February! Stay tuned for details about our biggest event of the year~

Afterwards, join us at 5:30pm for this week’s showing of D-Frag. Though D-Frag (the DePaul group) successfully manages their own fundamental research in academic gaming, D-Frag (the comedic anime series) semi-follows Kenji Kazama, a delinquent recruited to join his school’s struggling game development club. After putting out a fire, he forcibly joins the cast of eccentric club members!

Our running series for the quarter is… actually a combination of two shorter series. JMAC will show Kids on the Slope (12 episodes) for the first half of the quarter and Terror in Resonance (11 episodes) for the second half. Kids on the Slope is about honor student Kaoru Nishimi meeting the notorious Sentaro Kawabuchi. Through his devil-may-care classmate, Kaoru, a classically-trained pianist, learns about jazz and meets fellow musicians in his new seaside town.

That’s about it from me, so hope to see you at tomorrow’s meeting!

Best,
Sara S.
JMAC Secretary

JMAC Website

Season’s greetings, JMACers!

The holiday season is finally upon us, and with it comes seasonal festivities! If you’re in the Chicagoland area this holiday season, we’d like to invite you to a few outings during the winter intercession.

Wednesday, December 9th is JMAC’s outing to Christkindlmarket in Daley Plaza! Christkindlmarket is an open-air German market with plentiful gift vendors and delicious food stalls! Meet up with Nicole and Joe at 12pm in front of the Barnes & Noble on DePaul’s Loop campus, for they’ll be leading the group to Christkindlmarket at 12:30pm.

If you’re unable to meet up with the loop group by 12:30, make your way over to Daley Plaza, drop on by and say hi! JMAC members will be at Christkindlmarket until 4:30pm. Receive notifications and communicate with us via the event page for the JMAC 2015-2016 Facebook group.

Another outing this season is Mochitsuki at the Midwest Buddhist Temple on Saturday, December 12th from 8:30am-1pm. This is a joyous social event centered around pounding rice cakes as a post-harvest celebration. Though this is an unofficial JMAC outing, we encourage everyone to check out the event page and learn more about mochitsuki!

Hope to see you there, and happy holidays to all!
Sara S.
JMAC Secretary

JMAC Website

Greetings JMACers,

So how ’bout them finals… I hope you’re finding some self-affirmation during the coming week, but if not, Matsuoka Shuzo can provide some for you. :)

JMAC has been invited to an AnimeChicago meet up this Saturday! On November 21st, Anime Chicago’s is hosting a symposium titled "Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga" (totes not like Tezuka was a topic of discussion during one of our social hours this quarter or anything, whaat). At this event, there will be presentations by English Tezuka scholars and a display of iconic memorabilia. Our own JMAC president, Eric, will be in attendance! For more info about the event and to reserve (free) tickets, check out AnimeChicago’s event page.

If you’re sticking around in the Chicago area during the December intercession, JMAC is hosting two social outings! The first outing is on Wednesday, December 9th to Christkindlmarket in the downtown Daily Plaza. Christkindlmarket is an open-air Christmas festival that brings international flair (and super delicious foods) to Chicago’s downtown area.

The second event is on Saturday, December 12th for Mochitsuki ("pounding rice cakes") at the Midwest Buddhist Temple. This is a cultural social event that’s held to bring good health for the coming year. (More info about mochitsuki can be found here!) Save the dates for JMAC’s two outings, Christkindlmarket and Mochitsuki, during the month of December~

Attached is the final PointPoint for fall quarter. This week’s slides are Christmas themed! The slides feature this month’s manga about a fellow named Yuuma (+his carnivorous dinosaur girlfriend) and also feature a Japanese music video sung by JMAC Head PR’s favorite Korean boy band.

Hope to see you at one of these upcoming events, and good luck on finals~

Strenuously yours,
Sara S.
JMAC Secretary

JMAC Website

FQ Week 10.pdf