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Spring Library Programs!
We have some exciting stuff going on at the Cedar Rapids Public Library at Westdale in the next few weeks and we hope you can stop by to check out some of our programs!
TUESDAY, March 20th from 5:30-7:30 p.m. is our monthly Anime Club meeting – this month we will plan for our Saturday March 24th Anime Club. Sendak room.
THURSDAY, March 22nd from 5:30-7:00 p.m. is Read. Write. Talk: Hunger Games Challenge. Do you have what it takes? Compete in a physical, cornucopia, and trivia challenges for a chance to win prizes, including movie tickets to the midnight showing! Sendak room.
SATURDAY March 24th from 12:00-4:00 p.m. – Anime Club: Saturday Edition – Stop in on a Saturday to enjoy Anime, play Wii, eat candy sushi and ramen, participate in an art contest, work on paper crafts, cosplay, and more! Sendak Room.
MONDAY – FRIDAY March 26th-30th from 2-3:30 p.m. Good Eats: Cooking in the Library – Learn to make quick & easy snacks, participate in an Iron Chef challenge, enter a culinary contest and eat the results! Meet in the Young Adult area. Registration is available by calling the library at 398-5123 or online here.
TUESDAY, March 26th Teens Create: Sharpie Tie Dye. – stop by between 4:30 and 6:00 in the Sendak Room to create a wearable piece of art. We will provide you with a white t-shirt to tie dye with Sharpies. Register for this one over the phone at 398-5123 or online here.
SATURDAY, March 31st from 12:00-4:00 p.m. Join us for our 2nd annual Super Smash Bros. Brawl Wii gaming tournament! Come early to compete or stop by anytime to play X-Box Kinect, board games, or watch the action. Sendak Room.
New Manga + March Anime Clubs
ANIME CLUB NEWS
This month we have not one, but TWO Anime Clubs, and our very first on a Saturday. If you are able to make it on Tuesday, March 20th from 5:30-7:30 p.m., come prepared to help plan our Saturday, March 24th from 12:00-4:00 p.m. event!
NEW MANGA
Our Anime Club and Teen Advisory Group members have been very helpful in suggesting new titles for our Manga section. Here are a few new (to us) additions containing everything from killer puppets to scientific mysteries. Enjoy!
Grand Guignol Orchestra
Grand Guignol Orchestra (人形(ギニョール)宮廷楽団?, Guignol Kyūtei Gakudan) is a gothic horror manga series written and illustrated by Kaori Yuki (. The story is about a beautiful singer named Lucille and his orchestra who is invited to a town threatened by puppets that attack humans.
Princess Knight
Set in a medieval fairy-tale backdrop, Princess Knight is the tale of a young princess named Sapphire who must pretend to be a male prince so she can inherit the throne. Women have long been prevented from taking the throne, but Sapphire is not discouraged and instead she fully accepts the role, becoming a dashing hero(ine) that the populous is proud of.
A Certain Scientific Railgun
Meet Mikoto Misaka, the third most powerful Level 5 esper in Academy City. Together with her best friend Kuroko Shirai and the other members of Judgment, a student-run law enforcement agency, Mikoto delves deep into the dark heart of the scientific sprawl she calls home, and uncovers secrets she wishes she hadn’t!
January Anime Club: Monster Craft Edition
On Tuesday, January 17th from 5:30-7:30 in the Sendak room, the CRPL Anime Club will be watching Naruto Shippuden and working on creating a Monster banner for the library from the book Me Make Monster by Jenny Harada. As always, there will be Ramen noodles and snacks, and possibly some circle time. Hope to see you there!
Clay Contest Winners!
Last night we had our first ever clay contest for Anime Club. The results were AMAZING and it was great to see how creative our Anime Club can get. Here are our winners, and you can find the rest of the photos from last night on our Facebook page.
Winner: Tiniest Creation
Tiny panda + leek
Winner: Best Anime
Gaaru from Naruto
Winner: Overall (which kind of meant everything else)
Link from Zelda
On a slightly un-related note, I was looking at the Anime Characters Database, which lets you search for Anime characters by gender, hair color, hair length, animal ears, and MORE. I’m thinking we need a search like this for the library – especially for the questions like, “I’m looking for a book with a RED cover that is about THIS <——–> big with a dragon on the cover.”
Anime Club + Contest + New Manga ^_^
Join us on Tuesday, Dec. 20th from 5:30-7:30 at the Westdale Library for our monthly Anime Club! All 6th-12th graders are welcome to stop by, eat Ramen noodles, watch Anime, and participate in our first ever clay creation contest. The group will vote on the winners, and we have Viz Media tote bags and CRPL water bottles as prizes. In September, we recorded a video of the club dancing and you can find that video on our Facebook page here.
In other Anime related news, we have been getting some new titles in, thanks to some help from Teen Advisory Group member Tanner! I’ve included a few below – but they are flying off the shelf, so get in line for these by logging into your account on our catalog.
Maoh: Juvenile Remix
Inukai and his team of vigilantes protect the citizens of Nekota from a rising crime wave and the greed of businessmen looking to modernize the city into a strip mall, but high school student Ando suspects Inukai’s motives.
Fairy Tail
Seventeen-year-old Lucy, mage-in-training, seeks to join a magicians guild and become a full-fledged magician. Her dream lies in the most famous guild in the worldFairy Tale. One day Lucy encounters Natsu, a boy raised by a Dragon who mysteriously abandoned him when he was young. Natsu has devoted his life to finding his Dragon father. When he helps Lucy out of a tricky situation, she discovers that he is a member of the Fairy Tail magicians guild, and our heroes adventure together begins.
Monster Hunter Orage
Shiki is on a mission to hunt down a legendary monster with his companion Ailee, a skilled huntress who would rather have nothing to do with the airheaded Shiki.
September Anime Club
At the September Anime Club, we tried to watch D-Gray Man (with some technical difficulties), cosplayed, did some dancing, and some members attempted a random mall flash mob that didn’t really work out. Here are some pictures, and you can find more on the CRPL Teen Facebook page. The next CRPL Anime Club is on Tuesday, October 18th from 5:30-7:30 in the Sendak room at the Westdale Library.
New Manga!
The series below are all new to the CRPL Manga collection in August. Enjoy! ^_^
Have some suggestions to add to the collection? Notice some gaps in series you’d like filled? Leave your comments below.
Anime Club Meets Tomorrow
Cedar Rapids Public Library Anime Club is meeting for the second time tomorrow, Tuesday, June 21st from 5:30-7:30 p.m. in the Sendak room at the Westdale library. There will be an art contest (most supplies provided, but you are welcome to bring in what you’ve been working on), pocky-making, and a giant crock pot of ramen (thanks to the suggestion from one of the members). We will also be watching anime on the big screen. The club meets once a month on the third Tuesday of the month, and is open to all 6th-12th graders, no registration required.
Vote for the June Anime!
Anime Club Update! Our first meeting was pretty great, I was really happy to see all of the noodle eating, sketching, and Cube Craftin’ going on. Our second meeting is June 21st from 5:30-7:30 in the Sendak room at the Westdale mall library, and upon request there will be pocky and strawberry poptarts to enjoy. It is up to YOU to vote on the next Anime we will watch. The winner will be announced on June 21st at the meeting. The choices are below the poll, vote wisely!
Ouran High School Host Club
Ouran Academy: An institution of extravagance and prestige where learning comes secondary to luxury. But for studious Haruhi Fujioka, education is a privilege that must be earned, being on scholarship and out of place among the moneyed. That is until the day Haruhi stumbles upon the Host Club, a stumble which leaves the freshman indebted for millions of yen. And the only way to pay for the damages? Well, Haruhi will work as a Host. There’s only one problem: Haru-he is actually a Haru-she!
From the troublesome twins with their little games to the self-proclaimed “king” obsessed with the club’s newest member, these boys will cater to any desire. Freshman year definitely looks like it will be one to remember!
Black Cat
Sven is your run-of-the-mill sweeper (a.k.a. bounty hunter) – down on his luck, haunted by the perpetual grumbling of this stomach and looking to make enough cash just to get by. Oh, and he can see the future, but only about five minutes into it. When a dirty politician lands a price on his head, this sweeper jumps at the chance to turn a quick buck. But as he’s working to secure the target, his vision reveals an assassination that will cost him the job. A confrontation with the mysterious killer and Sven has no idea that he’s brushed up against the worst possible luck…
School Rumble
Sophomore cutie Tenma is completely crushed on classmate Karasuma past the point of freaking out.
Tough guy Harima, with his own delinquent style of freak, has a long-standing crush on Tenma…
And Karasuma? Can you say clueless? He’s pretty much all about the curry.
School Rumble? The absolutely funniest show you’ll ever see that’s not about anything that rumbles… ever!
Ghost Hunt
The dead have something to say…
The appeal of the unknown is undeniable and freshman Mai Taniyama is hooked. This fact, coupled with her burgeoning psychic powers, leads Mai to join the ranks of the Shibuya Psychic Research team. Led by enigmatic Kazuya “Naru” Shibuya, she works alongside a spirit medium and a shrine maiden, an exorcist and a monk to uncover the darkest mysteries of the unseen. Using state of the art technology and their respective spiritual gifts, evil is confronted and vanquished time and again.
Death is temporary and far worse fates await those which meet a harsh end. From the trembling walls of a haunted school to the bottom of a well that beckons to dead children, the horrors of reality unfold.
4.5 More Days…
…till the first CRPL Anime Club meeting of the year! Stop by the Westdale Mall library from 5:30-7:30 on Tuesday in the Sendak room to watch a TBA anime from Funimation on a really, really big screen, decide what we watch in the future, make some awesome cube crafts, and eats SNACKS. If people are willing, I think it would be great to write some letters to Japan as well. Hope to see you all there on Tuesday, May 17th. If you can’t make this one, you can find other dates here, and sign up to get some snail mail there as well.
