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And the highlights of Fanime Con 1 were:
1. The city hunter movie (someone had just brought it over and Aaron loved HK movies)
2. The Street Fighter movie with subtitles

and the biggest draw was:

3. The Tenchi Muyo Mihoshi Galactic Police special (subtitled-I think it had been released in Japan one week before the con) At the time Tenchi Muyo, the 6 part OVA was incredibly popluar.

The dealers room was like 3 or 4 dealers, and it was free of charge to the dealers.
Their was a video contest as well, for music anime videos that was very good I remember.  Fred Schott was the guest of honor.

And the number one trivial trivia fact-the original Fanime Con was held on-Father's Day! The next one was not held on Father's Day and attendance tripled.

Test your knowledge of Fanime Con!



Q5. In general the founders of Fanime were memebers of what college anime club?

Q6. What is Fanime con's motto?

Q5. Fanime 1 -Chabot college (you never would have thought that eh?!)

Q6. It used to be by the fans, for the fans (this was in response to the break up of anime con into Anime America and anime Expo and all the ill will it caused, and the people that got hurt the most were the bay area fans)

Ooooh
Deep History,
Fanime was started by many people. Dropping names but the most important would have been Aaron, Dennis, Warner, Bruce, Che, Kyle, Jay O., Garrett, Rob and Mike of Foothill fame. J. Frazier and R. Loo came along later and were a big help.

It was a gathering of 3 anime clubs, no-name, who was extremly hot at the time, Foothill Anime and the mystery 3rd no one seems to remember.
That was Chabot Animage, who along with Cal State Hayward got the con up and made it 1) Free, and 2) for the fans.
It was a moderate success and the rest is history.

A few of the founders Bruce, Aaron, R.Loo, J. Frazier were all convention volunteers and had seen their hobby be sucked up in apathy and politics, so that is why fanime was born.
I remember having dinner with Bruce, Aaron and J. Frazier (R. Loo was so cheerful he wouldnt say anything bad about anyone)  at TGIFridays one night, and both of them were so negative about how certain staff (mainly UC Berk grads) had become so rude to everyone (they eventually went down to Anaheim to form Expo (a great con but lacking the atmosphere of Fanime, its just-not as fun) and Baycon people (who were klingons and con people who thought they could run a con and didnt care what the subject was).
Mike then took over the con, and moved it to Foothill. The core staff remained and it grew from there. (I believe Aaron moved to Japan and lived there for 9 years)

So thats why Fanime started