• Anime Screening: Non Non Biyori

    Nerman: 2nd Floor

    Life moves at a different pace in the tiny rural village of Asahigaoka, where a handful of students of different ages share the same small school.

  • Anime Screening: Dungeon People

    Nerman: 2nd Floor

    Skilled thief Clay ventures deep into a mysterious dungeon in search of her missing father, only to discover there is much more happening behind the scenes than monsters and treasure.

  • Anime Screening: My Love Story!

    Nerman: 2nd Floor

    Takeo Gouda is a big-hearted high school student whose imposing appearance hasn’t exactly helped his romantic prospects. But after he rescues the kindhearted Rinko Yamato, an unexpected romance begins.

  • Anime Screening: The Dangers in My Heart

    Nerman: 2nd Floor

    Quiet middle school student Kyotaro Ichikawa prefers keeping to himself, until he begins spending time with Anna Yamada, a cheerful and popular classmate who isn’t quite what he expected.

  • Screening: JCCC Japanese Shorts Festival

    Nerman: 2nd Floor

    Watch fourteen original Japanese-language shorts created by Japanese language students at schools in Kansas and Missouri.

  • Anime Screening: Ya Boy Kongming

    Nerman: 2nd Floor

    Legendary Chinese military strategist Zhuge Liang—better known as Kongming—awakens in modern-day Tokyo and discovers an entirely new battlefield: the city’s music scene.

  • Anime Screening: Azumanga Daioh

    Nerman: 2nd Floor

    Follow a wonderfully eccentric group of students through the funny, strange, and surprisingly memorable moments of everyday high school life.

  • Anime Screening: Tsurune

    Nerman: 2nd Floor

    Minato Narumiya once loved kyudo, the traditional Japanese art of archery, but a difficult experience caused him to leave the sport behind.

  • Anime Screening: Flying Witch

    Nerman: 2nd Floor

    Flying Witch is a gentle, supernatural, slice-of-life anime and manga about 15-year-old witch Makoto Kowata, who moves from the city to the Japanese countryside of Aomori Prefecture to live with her cousins and train as a full-fledged witch.

  • Feature Film Anime Screening: A Letter to Momo

    Nerman: 2nd Floor

    A Letter to Momo is a Japanese anime drama film about 11-year-old Momo, who moves to a remote island after her father's death and discovers she is being watched by three hungry, visible-only-to-her goblins, leading to an adventure that helps her cope with grief and her mother's absence.

  • Influence of Western Fantasy Gaming on Japanese Anime, Novels & Manga

    Nerman: 2nd Floor

    This talk will cover the introduction of Dungeons and Dragons into Japan, leading to the creation of the Record of Lodoss War novelization, Anime, and then Sword World and how these early influences have affected modern anime world-building, writing, and style.

  • Anime Screening: Shirobako

    Nerman: 2nd Floor

    Shirobako is an anime series centered on five ambitious high school friends who vow to work in the anime industry together, only to find the reality of the business challenging and stressful.

  • Anime Screening: Senryu Girl

    Nerman: 2nd Floor

    Senryu Girl is a Japanese comedy anime and manga series about Nanako Yukishiro, a cheerful high school girl who communicates solely through written Senryu poems instead of speaking.

  • Anime Screening: Princess Tutu

    Nerman: 2nd Floor

    Princess Tutu is a dark, metaphorical fairy tale and magical girl anime about a duck named Ahiru who, granted a pendant by the mysterious Drosselmeyer, can transform into the ballerina Princess Tutu.