Anime Punch!

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Armageddicon
Location Columbus, Ohio
Years in existence 2005 to present
Attendance approx. 1000 (2006)
List of events Documentary Room, Child-safe Video Room, Staff Picks video room, Bad Anime Room, Artist Alley, Dealers' Room, Cosplay Contest, Interpretive Cosplay, Swimsuit Cosplay, Auto-Cosplay, Kids Cosplay, AMV Contest, Fanfiction Contest, 24 hour gaming rooms, Collective Gaming Room, Tabletop Gaming, Your Favorite Anime Sucks, Hentai Olympics, Roll a Katamari, Featured Guest Musician, The Spoony Bards, Evangelion Puppet Show, Model Building/ Figure Trading Jam Session, Anime Trial
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Anime Punch! is an is an organization that began as an offshoot of Animate!, The Ohio State University's anime club. After a small initial event held in the Ohio Union on the OSU campus in early 2005, initial plans were made to hold a larger, apocalypse-themed Armageddicon. Anime Punch! claims to focus almost exclusively on anime, eschewing the recent trend of conventions to attempt to cover anything and everything remotely related to Japan.

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[edit] Armageddicon

The main event of Anime Punch!, Armageddicon claims to focus exclusively on anime, eschewing the recent trend of conventions to attempt to cover anything and everything remotely related to Japan. Notably, Armageddicon also features a high density of educational, cultural and scholarly panels and workshops. The first Armageddicon happened on the weekend of March 31 - April 2 at the Holiday Inn in Worthington, just outside of Columbus, Ohio. For 2005, guests included Steve Conte, The Spoony Bards (a fan-band), Joshua Seth, Crispin Freeman, Lawrence Eng, Lillian Olsen and several professors and graduate students from OSU that came to give talks. The next Armageddicon is scheduled for March 30 - April 1.

[edit] Fieldcon

Fieldcon took place from July 28th through July 30th 2006. It is assumed to be the first anime convention held entirely outdoors.[weasel words] Although the attendance was small, the event was successful and will become a recurring event.[citation needed]

[edit] List of Convention Dates and Locations

[edit] Signature Events

Anime Punch! has several signature events that have become a sort of tradition.

  • Your Favorite Anime Sucks - Abbreviated "YAnSucks," this event involves the audience supplying titles of their favorite shows for the hosts to "burn." This event travels and was featured at Anime Central 2006.
  • Evangelion Puppet Show - A humorous recreation of various scenes from Neon Genesis Evangelion in the form of a puppet show.
  • Collective Gaming Room - A room where single games such as Oregon Trail are intended to be played as a group, with one person controlling and the rest shouting directions and suggestions.
  • Model Building/ Figure Trading Jam Session - A gathering intended for people that like building models and those who collect trading figures and gashapon.
  • Swimsuit Cosplay - Much as the name implies, swimsuit cosplay concerns either a swimsuit seen in anime or a swimwear interpretation of a character's normal costume.
  • Auto-Cosplay - In a similar vein as swimsuit cosplay, auto cosplay involves vehicles that are supposed to replicate those seen in or otherwise themed in some way to relate to anime.
  • Anime Trial - an event where a "trial" and subsequent "execution" are held for the anime character most hated by fans.
  • Roll a Katamari - Similar to the concept of the popular video game, Katamari Damacy, this event starts as a ball of duct tape, and accumulates many objects that people tape to it, including garbage, tacos, magazines, and even other people.
  • Hentai Olympics - Described on the website with the ominous words "What happens at the Hentai Olympics, stays at the Hentai Olympics."

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