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|  | BEHIND THE SCENES: ANIME 101 IN UP ARKI continued... 9. What are your future plans for anime@arki? Hitman: Future plans? More of the same thing I guess. After all, there will be newer stuff coming out but we have to screen the good ones from the lousy ones. More games like DDR? Who knows? JJC: Move into a bigger venue once the college moves to the new building! Fox: Always keep to the prime directive: do a good show. Y’know, we won't be here if it were not for the help of so many friends: our main guys in Vancouver Japanese Animation Society and Streets of San Francisco Anime and, locally, Digital Otaku Club. And finally, all the great fans in the audience. So if any plans will develop for the immediate future, it will surely revolved around giving everyone a great experience. Nothing like sharing to energize the soul, eh? Sailor: We've never tried to be very ambitious about the whole thing. As said before, we are in it for fun! But we continously try and find the means to improve the operation and try to do an even better show, if possible. That's why we have the contests and forums now. 10. How long will you maintain anime@arki? Hitman: For as long as it's still fun to do it. Once we see that we're already doing things because it's become a routine, that may be the day when we'll see A@A do one last show. JJC: Heehee. Wakaranai. We'll do our best to keep A@A going! Fox: As I said much earlier, I didn't expect anything. A@A can go on for a while, a long while. Or it may shut down tomorrow. Either way must be a realistic possibility for me. If the shows get more and more momentum, it will be hard to stop. If the core group members don't grow in size and capabilities, it may be hard to start newer ideas. If the oversea fansubs slow down, so do we. If the audience loses interest, so do we. I can't tell in all reality how long A@A will remain. We came to have fun and share fun. We have done it. We are still doing it. So if it keeps going, excellent. If there is no more fun, then its time to move on. There would be no regrets since we have not failed in our objectives of doing good shows. Sailor: For as long as we possibly can. As long as there is the means and fans, A@A will always be there. But if A@A should come to an end, we'll go out with a bang and no sadness in our hearts. [ prev page ] [ top ] [ next article ] |
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