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After first hearing about the newly cre ated Better Anime Club, Kim was opposed to the idea of a rivaling group. “[We] didn’t really have positive feelings to wards it,” she said. However, gradually she has grown to live with it after realizing the two clubs had different goals and atmospheres.

The Anime Club founders acknowledge that their rival club is conducted differ ently and more social than theirs. Still, they prefer their club being more anime-focused. Although their goal is watching anime, members are still allowed to talk in the background and go to the club to socialize. “Our club is really chill,” said Kim. “Like even if you don’t like anime, you can just join but

by Nikhil Kulangaroth staff reporter

Juniors Parker Walton and Ronald Xu have recently started another an ime club at Mounds View: “The Better Anime Club.”

The idea of starting an anime club was always in mind according to Walton and Xu. “Ronny and I had planned to do this for a couple of years now. But then they beat us to it. We couldn’t allow this disrespect,” said Walton.

Be - fore deciding to create the Better Anime Club, Wal - ton did some digging on the original anime club. “Parker also went to the first Anime Club meet ing, and was very disappoint ed with how the meeting went. This further encour aged us to make the Better Anime Club,” explained

In contrast with the original anime club, Better Anime Club participates in more activities. “We’re a lot more hands-on. We do actual activities and we talk about anime. Whereas they just watch an episode and say ‘alright, pack it up guys, let’s go home,’” said Walton. In addition to intense games of anime jeopardy, they also play chess, board games and help each other with homework.

Members of the Better Anime Club have many

“You don’t need to, like, know anything about anime to be in our club.”

With many posters being taken down on both sides, the Anime Club founder feels frustrated by the poster war and thinks it wastes their money. “I just hope that they can stay up there when we put them up and we don’t have to re-put them up every time,” said Shi.

Despite the drama, the Anime Club has no issue coexisting with their rival. “I just want to make it clear that we don’t have any ill-intent against the other club,” said Kim. “It’s just friendly competition.” positive things to say about it. “It’s pretty fun and you get to talk about your interests,” said junior Echo Zhai. Meeting others with a common interest is another favorite aspect of the club. “The best part about the club is meeting new people and having new experiences,” said junior Case Pedersen.

An aspect of the club rivalry has been meddling with each other’s posters. This has peeved the Better

Anime Club founders. “We’ve had some resistance, we’ve had some rebellious people, but we’re working on it,” said Walton.

While the original anime club has no harmful intent towards their rival, Better Anime Club continues to advance the competition. “In all reality, our content is better, our snacks are better, our team leader, no disrespect to the other team leader, is better,” said junior Fardis Malik. “We got a Better Anime Club in our name for a reason, you won’t see as many members over there,” he said.

Walton explains how the Better Anime Club has a vision to continue advancing. “We’re gonna have more activities, varied activities, bigger prizes. We are going to get better,” he said.