Next Club Meeting: May 25, 2024, at the Fountaindale Public Library in Bolingbrook from 11:00 am - 5:00 pm

The Animatrix Network is an anime & manga fan club located in the Southwest suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. We usually meet on the third Saturday of each month (except when holidays or conventions coincide). The meetings are free and open to the public. Join us for a day filled with anime.

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Monday, May 6, 2024

ANIME is CRUSHING Hollywood!

Fans Fed Up With Woke Are Fleeing
to JAPAN For Their Entertainment!
As Doctor Who triples down on wokeness, driving away any Whovians who remained after The Timeless Children by promising the new season with Ncuti Gatwa will be the MOSTEST Woke EVAR, Anime is stealing viewers and profits away from Hollywood! In this exclusive report from my Hollywood spies, we make the case that this mass defection to Japanese anime entertainment is yet another sign that, despite all the destruction of our beloved franchises, we are winning the war against these cultural vandals, and anime is one way we're outlasting them as they burn their own business to the ground!

Sunday, May 5, 2024

Disney submits to specific religion; ignores others...

Exclusive: Disney Gives Money and Resources Based on
Religious Beliefs -- The R.I.S.E. Program Exposed
It's a video we never thought we would make. Disney is apparently rewarding individuals of a particular religious belief... and thus excluding all others from contention. But that's just the beginning as we look into a previously unnoticed program that suggests it is impacting almost everything the company produces...

Saturday, May 4, 2024

May the 4th Be with You!

This is what Star Wars means to us.
Happy STAR WARS Day!
The Disney Star Wars sequel trilogy destroyed Star Wars. Finally, Lucasfilm is taking steps to avoid the Sequel Trilogy at all costs! The May the Fourth video just released on the official Star Wars youtube channel did not show a single clip from a sequel trilogy movie, and it did not show a single actor from the sequel trilogy. Finally, Lucasfilm is getting it, but is it too late?

Friday, May 3, 2024

Let's see your Cosplay...

C2E2 2024 Cosplay
C2E2 cosplay music video Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo takes place every in Chicago and hosts the Crown Championship of Cosplay where the best cosplays in the world compete for the winning title...
C2E2 took place April 26-28 2024

Thursday, May 2, 2024

From the director of “A Whisker Away”...

My Oni Girl
The long-awaited fourth feature-length film and latest work from Studio Colorido tells the story of a boy and an oni (demon) girl. This film will be directed by Tomotaka Shibayama, who, after working for Studio Ghibli, has participated in many TV commercials and film works at Studio Colorido, where he made his feature-length directorial debut, “A Whisker Away.”
Yearning to get along with others and not be disliked, first-year high school student Hiiragi finds himself unable to say no whenever someone requests something of him. One summer day, while unsuccessfully carrying out yet another request, he encounters an oni girl named Tsumugi, who has come to the human world to search for her mother. She does whatever she pleases and is the complete opposite of Hiiragi. Studio Colorido presents this fantasy tale of youth that unfolds over one wintery summer.

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

A vast buried tresure is hidden in Hokkaido...

GOLDEN KAMUY
In the noble, vast land of Hokkaido in the north of Japan, in the tumultous early 20th century ... Saichi Sugimoto is a Russo-Japanese War hero who earned the epithet "immortal" for the otherworldy combat skills he demonstrated on many battlefields, including the bloodiest of them all: 203 Meter Hill. Hoping to find a huge sum of money for a certain purpose, he begins searching for gold in Hokkaido. There, Sugimoto learns about a large trove of gold that was stolen from an Ainu tribe. The man who stole it, Noppera-Bo, hid it just before being captured. He gave 24 of his fellow inmates tattoos that, when combined, make up a single code that reveals the location of the gold, and then helped the prisoners escape. Around that time, Sugimoto is attacked by a wild brown bear and saved by an Ainu girl named Asirpa, whose father was killed by the man who stole the gold. Sugimoto, who wants to find the gold, and Asirpa, who seeks revenge for her father, decide to team up. Another man is also on the treasure's trail: Tokushiro Tsurumi, First Lieutenant of the 7th Division of the Imperial Japanese Army. He schemes to conquer Hokkaido for the sake of his soldiers who risked their lives in the war but were left unrewarded, and needs the gold to fund his military aims. Among the escaped prisoners is Toshizo Hijikata, the merciless vice-commander of the Shinsengumi military police force who was thought to have died in the Boshin War. He and his former ally Shinpachi Nagakura seek the gold to realize their own ambitions. Sugimoto & Asirpa, the 7th Division, and Toshizo Hijikata all go head-to-head in a bid to strike it rich in the majestic northern wilderness! The three-way battle for survival begins now! "Golden Kamuy" Only on Netflix 19 May

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Monday, April 29, 2024

The first hand-dawn animated movie by Pakistan...

THE GLASSWORKER
From Mano Animation Studios comes the new animated feature film “The Glassworker,” directed by Usman Riaz, opening in cinemas in Pakistan on July 26, 2024. ‘Young Vincent and his father, Tomas, run the finest glass workshop in the country and find their lives upended by an impending war in which they want no part. The arrival in their town of an army colonel and his young, talented violinist daughter, Alliz, shakes their reality and tests the relationship between father and son.’ The English version cast includes Art Malik, Sacha Dhawan, Anjli Mohindra, Tony Jayawardena, Teresa Gallagher, Maya Soraya, Sham Ali, and Mina Anwar.

Saturday, April 27, 2024

"I don't fight humans anymore..."

Garouden: The Way of the Lone Wolf
On the run from a past crime, Juzo Fujimaki is blackmailed into joining an illicit tournament and has to face top martial artists in deadly match-ups.
"Garouden: The Way of the Lone Wolf" streams May 23 only on Netflix!

Friday, April 26, 2024

A Modern Twist on Beloved Fairy Tales...

THE GRIMM VARIATIONS
Inspired by the classic Brothers Grimm stories, this anthology features
six fairy tales with a dark twist, exposing the shadowy side of human desire.
Grimms' Fairy Tales get a bold reboot on Netflix, with character concepts by CLAMP, screenplay by Michiko Yokote, music by Akira Miyagawa, and animation by WIT Studio! Once upon a time, brothers Jacob and Wilhelm collected fairy tales from across the land and made them into a book. They also had a much younger sister, the innocent and curious Charlotte, who they loved very much. One day, while the brothers were telling Charlotte a fairy tale like usual, they saw that she had a somewhat melancholy look on her face. She asked them, "Do you suppose they really lived happily ever after?" The pages of Grimms' Fairy Tales, written by Jacob and Wilhelm, are now presented from the unique perspective of Charlotte, who sees the stories quite differently from her brothers.
"The Grimm Variations" only on Netflix!