Cal Animage

Cal Animage – Cal Animage is a loosely organized association of International Anime clubs. The founding chapter, Cal Animage Alpha (CAA), was founded in 1989 by Mike Tatsugawa, George Herbert, Albert Wang and Mike Ellis as the anime club of University of Califonia at Berkley’s (UC Berkley) anime club. Tatsugawa was the founding president. CAA is one of the oldest anime clubs in North America, and claims to have at one point been the largest anime club in the world outside of Japan. Cal Animage clubs are usually designated by a Greek letter following Cal Animage, ie: Cal Anime Alpha, Cal Animage Beta, etc… To celebrate its 15th anniversary in 2004, CAA organized its own one-day anime convention on UC Berkeley Campus, Anime Destiny. Following its initial success, it was held again in 2005 but has not been held again since. The first additional chapters, Cal Animage Beta and Cal Animage Gamma were founded in April 1990 at UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara respectively. Other chapters followed over the years, some only lasting for as little as one school term. Japan termin.