Cal-Animage?

The roughly mid-90's and earlier (generally pre-Toonami, pre-anime boom) era of anime & manga fandom: early cons, clubs, tape trading, Nth Generation VHS fansubs, old magazines & fanzines, fandubs, ancient merchandise, rec.arts.anime, and more!
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Cal-Animage?

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(Club logo circa 1994, courtesy of the Internet Archive)

One of the last of the "nation-building" anime club networks along the lines of the C/FO, as far as I can tell. Odd in that they didn't try to actively recruit new clubs, and in that they have persisted until today, long after the advantage of having tape-trading partners has gone away. :)

A 1997 history of Cal-Animage by Mike Tatsugawa of Anime Expo fame:
Cal-Animage History

1989:
Jan Cal-Animage UCB formed by Mike Tatsugawa, George Herbert, Albert Wang and Mike Ellis
1990:
Ä-Ni-Mè: The Berkeley Journal of Japanese Animation released. First ASUC publication in history to make a profit. (Aside from the U.C. Berkeley yearbook)
Apr
Cal-Animage UCSD formed by Barry Brown
Cal-Animage UCSB formed by Jim Lick
Oct Cal-Animage UCI formed by David Cotelessa and Larry Mann
1991:
Aug AnimeCon '91, the first international anime convention co-sponsored by Cal-Animage.
Aug The Anime Reference Guide, Cal-Animage's second publication premiered at AnimeCon '91
Apr Cal-Animage Perth formed by Michael Studte and Tom Edge
Aug Cal-Animage SFSU formed by Mike Tatsugawa
Oct Cal-Animage UCLA formed by Dr. Darold Higa, Chris Bare, Hin Orr and Kevin Chu
1992:
July The Anime Reference Guide, Vol II released.
July The Founders of Cal-Animage co-sponsor Anime Expo
Aug
A-Ni-Me Vol II released by the Cal-Animage network.
Jan
Cal-Animage Stanford formed by Hao-An Le
Cal-Animage SLO formed by Scott Mucci
Cal-Animage NDSU formed by Chris Fogel
May Cal-Animage SFSU goes inactive
1993:
Apr Cal-Animage USC formed by Darold Higa
Jan
Cal-Animage UCSC formed by Phil B.
Cal-Animage Chabot formed by Aaron Pilgrim
Feb Cal-Animage WWU formed by Rob Ketcherside under the name AIYA!
May Cal-Animage UCSC goes inactive
1994:
Feb AIYA! (WWU) became Cal-Animage Nu
May Cal-Animage Chabot goes inactive
1997:
Jan Cal-Animage Olympia formed by Geoffrey Quick and Mikel Reparaz under the name Giant Robot Appreciation Society (G.R.A.S.)
(http://www.apricot.com/~shogun/C-A.html)
mbanu: What's between Old School and New School?
runesaint: Hmmm. "Middle School", perhaps?
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