Due to some events at King's, two of our main meetings are going to have to move from Tuesday to Wednesday. Those meetings are 31/01 -> 01/02 and 28/02 -> 29/02. The meetings will still be from 7 - 10pm in the Chetwynd Room. We'll be reminding everyone by email before the meeting.

The Cambridge University Anglo-Japanese and Anime & Manga Societies are proud to present Masa-kun!

Masa-kun comes from London to give his debut performance in Cambridge. In demand by Japanese organisations and anime conventions alike, he'll entertain with a variety of Japanese songs, ranging from Hikaru Utada to Final Fantasy tunes. His philosophy is to entertain with his music, breaking away from the notion of the violin as a "classical" instrument. Masa-kun's performances can be seen on his YouTube channel. He will be accompanied by Hibiki Ichikawa, a professional shamisen player, who is also currently touring the UK.

AJS will be running a raffle during the intermission, with several bottles of umeshu up for grabs!

The synopses for the series starting in Michaelmas are up on the Main and Sunday meetings pages. We'll also shortly be announcing an exciting joint event with the CU Anglo-Japanese Society.

It's almost the start of a new year, and CUAMS will once again be recruiting new members at the CUSU Societies' Fair. You can come sign up to our mailing list on either Tuesday 4th or Wednesday 5th.

The Freshers' Squash will be on Tuesday 11th in the Chetwynd Room, King's College (directions can be found on the Main Meetings page), where we'll be showing The Time of Eve and a surprise movie. You can sign up for a 1 year membership for £10, and everyone who signs up will be entered into a prize draw to win anime goodies! After a long (some would say traditional) run of good luck by old members, last year saw a significant amount of freshers win prizes too.

The year's schedule is almost finalised and can be seen on the relevant page - synopsis pages will be up shortly~

The CUAMS Garden Party will be taking place on Friday 17th June, starting at noon on Queen's backs, and eventually ending up in Dojo's for a meal. Please bring along food and drink to share!

From this Thursday onwards, main meetings and Sunday meetings are replaced by bonus meetings during the exam period. The schedule is Soredemo Machi Wa Mawatteiru, Kino's Travels and GA ~Geijutsuka Art Design Class~. Timings are as always, and the episodes in these series are fairly standalone so feel free to come to any meetings you can attend.

Welcome back everyone to the last term of this Cambridge year. CUAMS, unlike most other societies, is still going strong with the programme. Main meetings are back on Thursdays, but will be taking place in the Munby Room (see the main meetings page for directions). Also please note that Sunday meetings are taking place from 3-6pm, and not 4-7pm. Series from last term will be continuing in their respective meetings, until June where both Thursdays and Sundays will become bonus meetings (see schedule for more details).

Once again in true CUAMS style, this year's elections were a shining example of democracy. The ever-present threat of RON fazed none of the contenders, with Xanth continuing his presidency for his seventh year (prophecies foretell an eight year of his benevolent endless reign). Katherine, Tom and Lech have also retained their positions as, respectively, secretary, internal officer and catering officer. Alex was elected as the new treasurer, with Kai assuming the position of webmaster, and Tom (a different one) practically bullied into becoming an eventual catering officer for a short period of time. Thanks to the outgoing treasurer Yingke and webmaster James for their hard work over the last year!

Firstly, we apologise for the disruption to last week's Thursday meeting. We have checked with King's, and the very noisy group who was in Keynes Hall last week will not be there again for the next couple of weeks, so meeetings will continue to be in the Chetwynd Room until further notice. If you missed our move up to the Mumby Room, you'll probably want to get caught up as soon as possible. To do so, get in contact with a committee member or come on to IRC.

The other change to the schedule is that Sunday meetings will now be from 3pm to 6pm rather than the usual 4pm to 7pm. This is because someone has booked the room from 6:30pm, and we want to give ourselves a bit of extra time to get packed up at the end so there isn't quite such a rush. Hopefully this doesn't inconvenience anyone too much.

Welcome back to Cambridge; hopefully everyone's well rested from the Christmas break. The first main change to CUAMS this term is that main meetings are now on Fridays, not Thursdays. Unfortunately this is due to room-booking circumstances outside of our control, and we apologise if it clashes with any other Friday commitments people might have. The first main meeting of term is on Friday, 28th January, and remains in the Chetwynd Room. Sunday meetings start on Sunday, 23rd January, and are in every respect the same as they were last term. More complete information can be found on the schedule page.

For anyone who wasn't able to attend meetings last term, but is thinking about coming along this term, we're watching several new series, especially on Sundays, where we'll be starting Kimi ni Todoke and Shiki. Now is therefore a great time to come along and see if you like us, with no commitment to pay any membership fees until you've been to a few meetings. If you do feel like catching up with any of the continuing series, you can get in contact with a member of the committee who will be able to sort you out.

One of the important events this term is the AGM, which happens in the fifth week, and the only really important bit of that is the committee changeover. Xanth will still be around (although as always, he wouldn't mind getting rid of the president position that has been his for about eight years now), but our webmaster and treasurer are both graduating, and there's a significant possibility that we'll also lose our catering manager and secretary, as well as most of the people who currently carry equipment to and from meetings. We would therefore be very grateful if anyone interested in doing any of the committee positions or just helping out generally by carrying things would get in contact with Xanth, as it is quite important for the society that we fill our committee positions.

Hopefully everyone is enjoying the series that CUAMS has been showing, some of which will continue into next term. As we near the end of the first term, there are a couple of changes to the norm worth noting. Firstly, this week's main meeting is on Friday, 26th November rather than the usual Thursday. Secondly, this week's Sunday meeting is starting at 3pm rather than the usual 4pm. We've also got some end-of-term bonus meetings coming up - more info on those nearer the time.

(As I imagine everyone noticed, the previous meeting was also on Friday, so this information should really have been up much sooner - sorry for forgetting to update.)

If there's anyone who can't make it to our Thursday meetings, or for whom three hours of CUAMS per week just isn't enough, we also have Sunday meetings, the first of which is tomorrow (that's Sunday, 24th October), running from 4pm to 7pm. They take place in Sidney Sussex college, R-Block Common Room, which for old members is the same place as last year. The route there is a bit complicated, so for new members, we'll have people waiting just inside the main entrance to Sidney Sussex to take you to the room where our meetings are held. Our room for Sunday meetings is smaller than the room for Thursday meetings, so if you're only planning on coming to one meeting per week and it is otherwise an arbitrary decision, we recommend Thursdays.

This term on Sundays, we're following Baka To Test To Shoukanjuu, The Tatami Galaxy and Ookiku Furikabutte. Note that at the first meeting, however, we'll be showing the first episode of Denpa Teki no Kanojo instead of Ookiku Furikabutte - this is to resolve scheduling issues with differences in the numbers of episodes of the series we're watching. Ookiku Furikabutte will instead be starting at the following Sunday meeting.

Hopefully everyone enjoyed our squash (and especially the amazing Summer Wars). Our main meetings are on Thursdays, with the first one at 7pm on Thursday, 21st October. Thursday meetings this term (and probably all through this year) will take place in the same place as the squash i.e. the Chetwynd Room, King's College.

We're following three series through this term - Working!!, Trapeze and Cross Game, and usually watching two episodes of each per week, with breaks for drink and snack consumption. Some details are currently up on the Main Meetings page, and synopses will be up there shortly (for now, you can follow the ANN links for brief synopses).

Members from last year, note that there is no Sunday meeting this week. Sunday meetings will start next week - full details will be in the e-mail and on the next news post.

Thanks to everyone who visited our stall and signed up for the mailing list at the Freshers' Fair. We can now confirm that our Squash will be held in the Chetwynd Room, King's College, from 7pm to 10pm on Thusday, 14th October. The Chetwynd Room is where all our main meetings will be this term, and directions can be found at the top of our Main Meetings page.

At the squash, we will be showing two (excellent) standalone films. For everyone who joins CUAMS on the evening, we will also be holding a raffle with a spectacular array of prizes courtesy of our friends at Beez. Membership is £4 for a term and £10 for the year, which pays for the food and drink we have at meetings. With the number of anime DVDs and box sets we have to give away this year, there's a good chance of making your money back straight away, so it's well worth signing up.

Finally, note that the schedule is now up on the schedule page in near-complete form. It's still subject to minor change, but gives a pretty good picture of how we'll be spending the year.

Another new year begins at Cambridge. Welcome and welcome back to students new and old. As always, there are still a few finishing touches to be put to the schedule (current members can view it in its near-completed state on the wiki). We have, however, been allocated a stall at the Freshers' Fair. The fair takes place at Kelsey Kerridge on the 5th October between 11am and 6:30pm and on the 6th October between 10am and 3pm. We'll be at stall D12 (a map of the stall locations can be found here) - come along to ask any questions you might have, and to sign up to our mailing list.