 No-Name
Anime(TM) began in November 1993 in a tiny room
at Eastridge Mall. It moved to the San Jose Main Public Library, spent
over a decade at the Santa Teresa Library and after some showings
at the Saratoga and other county libraries,
ended up at the
Santa Clara City Library.
From the start, our
goal was to show only subtitled or dubbed anime (preferably subbed), and we've tried
to be on the cutting edge of anime by being the first to screen the best shows
we could. Over the years, we've managed to premiere shows like
Please Save My Earth, Combustible
Campus Guardress, Heisei Tanuki Wars - Pon Poko (jointly shown with
Foothill A.N.I.M.E.), Magic Users
Club, Melty Lancer, the Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2, Whisper of
the Heart, and Princess Mononoke. We've also exposed our audience to older,
but excellent and thoughtful shows like Touch and Only Yesterday.
We've always helped
local anime conventions. In particular, we handled most of the publications and
color badges for Anime America '94 and Fanime Con
from 96 to 2000. No-Name was, in fact, one of the 4 clubs that helped to start
Fanime in '96, and had a staff member on Fanime's board until 2001.
About 20 years after it all started, in December 2013, the remaining staff retired.
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At the Santa Clara Library, we used their AV system which is very nice.
At previous locations, our
monthly showings used our "AnimeScope" projector on an eight-foot
screen, making even the smallest subtitles readable.
We also had our special
Anime Surround sound to enhance those shows that have surround sound.
Our abunai! breaks were a good chance for members to chat with each other,
show off various anime-related items they own, and of course, for the No-Name door
prize drawings. Attendees at meetings could also pick up a copy of our newsletter, which were
always jam-packed with various tidbits of information. In the past it contained our
exclusive translations of Megumi-Toon(TM)
comic strips.
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