President – The return of classics- Putting Cinema back in action

Since 2020 basically cancelled everything, a lot of releases planned for this year had to be moved to the next one. Daniel Craig’s last James Bond film is now scheduled for 2021, Space Jam 2 is also scheduled and even a sequel to the original Ghostbusters movies! All in all, a good year for the classics already.

Events Officer – Cobra Kai Season 3

Cobra Kai is a weird work. Imagine if you try to superimpose the adult life of a kid from a show into sort of the same setting, weird right? Well, as weird as it is, we love it. Cobra Kai is the spiritual successor to the original Karate Kid films, even featuring the same main actors all grown up trying to navigate their way through life. 2021 will see the release of Season 3, which will surely take this amazing story to great places.

Internal Secretary – Concerts

Social Distance is currently the name of the game, and quite rightly. Health has to take a priority in such a trying time, and so, mosh pits, which even before pandemics were quite a risky endeavour, have taken a long break. There have been cases this year where certain festivals and concerts managed to create either a drive-in environment or spaced out any available seating. While they were still concerts, the real vibe was lost. So, we’re hoping that once this all boils over, we can return to proper headbanging and moshing.

Media Officer – The return of Star Wars?

2020 ended with a bang, sort of. The release of The Mandalorian‘s second season was a great coping mechanism for many these past few weeks. The season has consistently provided great stories, interesting characters, beautiful visuals and overall an extremely enjoyable experience. This all begs one massive question, is Star Wars back?

This is a hell of a question to answer. Disney clearly thinks it is, of course they do, even after those disastrous sequels. A few weeks ago, just before the Mandalorian finale, they announced a huge amount of new media that will soon release, all hoping to ride on the great atmosphere that Mandalorian created. Well, we’re certainly hopeful, and we recently discussed this more in-depth in our new podcast called 1Up-cast which you can catch on Twitch or our YouTube channel.

Public Relations Officer – A heap of Anime and Manga

Our PRO is incessantly keen on anime (but in a good way). 2021 marks a good year for the genre with the fresh release for the Dr. Stone anime series. As well as series 2 of Promised Neverland. 2021 will also see the release of a new third-person shooter for the Ratchet & Clank franchise called Rift Apart. This should be an exciting edition to an already amazing series of games. Best of all, it’ll be available on the next-gen PS5, that is, if people will be able to buy PS5s in 2021…

Conclusion

All in all, we’re hopeful for 2021, we have to be, it’s a way by which we help ourselves to get on with it. We highly recommend trying to be hopeful for the future, as that way, each and every one of us help to make it truly better.

We will soon be doing another episode of 1Up-Cast based on the things we’re hyped about for 2021 where we’ll talk more in-depth about these and a lot more! Check out our Facebook page for information and updates! In the meantime, we wish you Happy Holidays and a very Happy New Year, from all of us at 1-Up Club!

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With no context that phrase might leave you slightly baffled. The phrase is really and truly a meme in the anime community, where fans will say that 2D girls are far superior to 3D girls. It’s a funny meme that coincides with people choosing a waifu or husbando (fictional wives/husbands) over cultivating an actual real-life relationship. It’s a funny joke but with time it is growing increasingly concernning.

Some fans are so passionate about their waifu that they even celebrate the character’s birthday. This can span from simply changing their profile picture to sometimes holding a full-on celebration. However, this isn’t the furthest fans go. With certain people even getting married to their fictional lovers.

In fact, in japan there is a company called Gatebox with its slogan being “Living with Characters”. The concept of this device is that it’s basically a virtual wife which wakes you up in the morning, sends you messages throughout the day (which can sometimes verge on flirtatious), welcomes you home by switching on the lights before you arrive. Some customers have formed such a bond with their virtual wife that Gatebox has issued more than 3,700 certificates for “cross-dimension” marriages. To this date Gatebox is only available in Japanese meaning that it hasn’t really expanded, and we won’t really know if it would have the same impact in the west.

They know that they won’t be abandoned because their waifu/husbando will be loyal to them till the end.

Even with the lack of Gatebox, people outside of Japan still form relationships with their favourite anime characters. People, sometimes, end up choosing to have these sorts of relationships because of experiences that left them traumatized. So the fact that there isn’t any real risk of being rejected and/or hurt by their waifu/husbando creates a sense of comfort for them.

Some eventually realise that they need a proper emotional connection with a real-life person but others either can’t get move pass their trauma or might simply prefer a relationship without all the hassles that come with dating a human being.

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The oddity is when the different tribes of pop-culture start to turn on each other but the sub-group which seems to get the most judgement from a large variety of people are anime and manga enthusiasts.

There are a couple of reasons that could be why anime is looked down upon by people. As someone who used to think the same way as these people, I can explain why:

• Lack of Exposure: Many of the people who dislike anime are people who haven’t even watched it at all. The only exposure they probably get is through Hentai or relatively terrible English dubs that sometimes come on TV.

• Association with Otakus: People tend to associate those who like anime with the anime fanatics. They look at pictures of cosplays (which, lets be honest, looks weird if you’ve never been exposed to the content), and assume that everyone who likes anime probably acts like that when, in reality, watching anime is nothing more than the same pleasure of, say, watching Game of Thrones or devouring Harry Potter.
• Association with Cartoons: Cartoon has the negative connotation of being childish. So when they see that someone likes ‘Japanese cartoons’, they assume that people who enjoy anime are nothing more than a bunch of cartoon watchers. Little do they know all the dark amines that exist.
• Weaboos: Some fans also tend to perpetuate the negative stereotypes associated with anime and manga lovers and give the more casual fans an uneasy feeling. Setting their Facebook profile pictures to anime characters and posting statuses such as “OMG ICHIMADOKU-CHAN IS MAI WAIFU ^ _ ^ <3”. Can you imagine how weird this looks to someone who hasn’t watched any anime whatsoever?

The art style is also widely criticised, especially in anime. When you look at it objectively it’s true that the general Anime style is a very limited form of animation.

Often it comes down to scenes of mouths moving with the occasional eye blink, sandwiched between brilliantly rendered long shots of epic backgrounds. The fluidity of traditional 2D animation rarely makes an appearance, except in short spurts during fast, motion-blur filled action. Anime is also the master of the “animated cycle” and reusing drawings and actions.

At the end of the day, we are all are entitled to their opinion. However, before criticising we should take into consideration the fact that this is a widely popular area of pop-culture, and with good reason. There are several gems to read or watch such as RWBY, Death Note, My Hero Academia as well as others which we’ve grown up watching such as Naruto, Dragon Ball and One Piece.

More of, respect those who work in this industry. The market is tougher than ever due to digital piracy and, writers and animators work extremely hard for relatively little pay. In Japan it is so common to die from being over-worked that linguistics have caught on and developed a specific word for it. So, for those quick to criticise at least respect those who work in the industry and who estimates show only get 3 hours of free time a week.

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