The Library hates us and the "Friends here are LAZY and there are alot of Dislikes"

Much like the communists our club bases our imagery on, I'd hate to see the "revolution" fail to spread. I wonder how things have gone with Trident Technical College? If that's in Charleston, that might be their best shot. Or what about the College of Charleston? They don't have a club? I was about to say: "Hey, our club started out with just 3 friends and began to grow after a LOT of myspace messages, word of mouth, and small cards with our info on it left in a Japanese restaurant." While that's true and we now have between 12 and 15 regulars (40 different people total have been to the club), I sometimes wonder if the only reason our small club (relative to USC Columbia's club) sticks together is because of the free atmosphere being based out of a family owned restaurant that's closed on weekends and/or the fact we also have gaming on the side (our members LOVE Smash Bros Brawl). As big as Charleston is, you'd think an anime club there would work really well.

I'm part of SARM! Really I think we are gonna take over the world!!!

From my experiences of starting Anime clubs... you actually need a cornerstone 'politician'-like person to keep things copecitic with the locals. I.e. a really savvy talker. I know of a few... and they can talk their members out of being banned at librarys for random 'glomping.' Library's with a convention/conference room are some of the best places to hold meetings, and you can legitimize it by focusing the library's attention to MANGA, while you use the conference spacing for projector screen anime, LAN-parties, tabletop stuff (larp, RPG, cards, munchkin, zombies!). If charleston wants an Anime club, you need to want it, band up... and have a spearhead/politician/business guy/gal. You also need other staple officials to just control things, tresury, historian, publicity lead. Working colleges has its' perks too access of getting free rooms, albeit you need to conform to the schools rules and whatnot. But the fact you can work in charity events and pass flyers to chillax hot spots makes it easy to publicize the club. And the fact of randomly having nerd/gopher auctions for funding the clubs and punishi... I mean letting members experience the culture. Creativity and passion is key.

I don't know if anyone checks this anymore, since there has'nt been a post in a while but there is a Anime group in charleston! Here is the site www.meetups.com/lowcountryvideogamers it is called L.A.G. ( lowcountry anime & gaming) We meet every thursday to watch a anime and have gaming tournaments, cosplay events and help the community. Check us out and join us!

I concur.
I concur with there needing to be a club around here. I see that these posts are old. Has there been any updates?

Awesome - I'll have to check the group out. I live in Lake City, SC, and my girlfriend (who is also into anime) lives in Charleston 8)