Starting your own Anime Club

So you want to start your own anime club eh? Well, I can't say "you've come to the right place", but I can say that you've come to one spot that contains some really good bits of info for starting an anime club.

I wrote this a year or so after starting SJAS and have been updating it once in a while to revise data and add new stuff. The information comes from personal experience, observations, and anything else others have offered.

This document will hopefully answer many of your questions and concerns about starting an anime club. If there's an issue that I have not addressed, and you'd like to see it included in the handbook, give the club president an email.

After being asked for help many times by people wanting to start anime clubs, I decided to put the handbook up on the web page as a resource fully open to anyone who wants to start an anime club. (and besides... it saves me the headache of a LOT of typing)

Following the link below will bring the handbook text document on screen. (you can save that handbook on your computer by saving the page as a text file on your hard drive)

Click here to view the club handbook.

Now, should your club get its own internet domain name? Sure thing! "Isn't it expensive?" You say? Not really. If your ISP or some place can host your club's web page, then all you need to do is find a domain registrar that offers "domain forewarding". Domain forewarding allows you to keep your web site anywhere you want, and all the people have to do is to type out the registered domain name and forewarding does the rest. Your web site can reside anywhere on the internet because the forewarding will always point to it - all you have to do is keep the forewarding database updated when you change locations. One place that offers this service is Name.com This place charges $6.99 for a 1 year registration, and they also have "masked" domain forewarding so the domain can be hosted anywhere and the registered domain name will always stay in the url bar no matter where the site really is. That's a nice feature! Their site method may take some getting used to, and their customer service was pretty darn good.