This friendly group welcomes you to Japan's rich world of artistic animation. Our focus is limited series, an institution in Japanese late-night television. These are not like American TV shows that just add more episodes until the ratings drop. They are planned as complete stories in 12-26 half-hour episodes, sometimes with just one writer and one director. Like movies, most suck, but some are brilliant. We will be watching the brilliant ones. Japanese TV has four seasons corresponding to the q …

Meet fellow Yaoi fans near you! Come to a local SF Bay Area Yaoi Meetup for fun, friends and to talk about your favorite Anime/Manga artists, series, shows and games. Share your own art and fiction! Like to cosplay? So do we! Whatever interests you about Yaoi, Anime and Manga is welcome.

Are you an Anime fan? Gamer? Manga reader? Not really for the grandeur of mass event driven meet ups and just want to hang out? Just want to meet new friends who share your interests? Live in the far East Bay? Then this will be the group for you. This group is intended for those in the East Bay (Walnut Creek, Pleasant Hill, Concord etc) who don't really feel like taking a Bart trip for 30 minutes to the middle of the city to meet up. If you're elsewhere, feel free to join. We'll meet once a mont …

This is a meetup for nerdy girls. Ideal BANG members will have an interest in any of the following: Comics  | Graphic Novels Gaming | Boardgames Anime   | Manga Sci-Fi     | Fantasy Cosplay  | Dressing up No match up top? How about these: Graphic Design, Web Development, Interior Design, Typography, Makeup, Baking, Knitting, RPG tabletop, Writers, Tea/coffee drinkers (we do a lot of that in this group), pie enthusiasts, crafty DIY ladies. ______________________________________________________ …

This group was created to unify Post-Apocalypse enthusiasts. We will meet and discuss our favorite Post- Apoc. interests! They can be from any medium: movies, novels, comics, tv shows, animes, games, etc. Movies like: Mad Max The Road 28 Days Later (zombie enthusiasts are welcome) Night of the Living Dead Sunshine Anime: Desert Punk Ergo Proxy The Big O Trigun Comics: Y: The Last Man Walking Dead Tank Girl Wasteland Games: Pandemic (board game) Half-Life Manhunter Fallout Borderlands Any …

Let's meet up and do fun things in the Bay Area together! Activities can range from movies, dinners, foodie events, conventions, tours, game nights, karaoke, museums, bounce houses, anime events to MMA/UFC events. Anything and everything interesting we can think of! So come and join if you're in you're 25-45, and looking to make awesome friends and have a great time!  :)

We are a group of adult geeks who like to hang out and have fun! We will be holding meetups at a multitude of places; conventions, restaurants, bowling, my house, camping, everywhere and anything! Activities will include: gaming tournaments, anime, scifi, or fantasy marathons, comic book discussions, rockband, parties and more! I welcome suggestions, help, and other organizers! Everyone who is 18 and up is welcome!

Welcome! We are a diverse group of open-minded people with interests that are somewhat unusual.  Our hope is for the Geek Club (Peninsula Chapter) to be a place for meeting like-minded people with which to go on adventures or just hang out.  Most of our events are very laid-back, so don't be afraid to jump right in. Our group definition of geeky is fairly broad.  Anything off the beaten track:  anime, computers, science and science fiction, cult films, unusual art processes, fighting robots and …

Do you want to cosplay but are running into one of the following problems? No experience, no skill, no confidence, no one to cosplay with or not a whole lot of cash? Well, I noticed that there weren't any cosplay groups in the East/North Bay and I thought that it would be fun to start one myself! I'd love to get together with some like-minded people who love to cosplay! I like to work with all kinds of materials and try new things. We would be able to have crafting parties, create cosplay troupe …

Meet fellow Yuri fans near you! Come to a local Bay Area Yuri Meetup for fun, friends and to talk about your favorite Anime/Manga artists, series, shows and games. Share your own art and fiction! Like to cosplay? So do we! Whatever interests you about Yuri, Anime and Manga is welcome.

I couldn't find a group for slash fans in the area, so I started one! If you like the female-friendly fandom spaces of LJ, AO3, DW, tumblr, are excited for Yuletide, etc, please join up! I'm hoping to have some low key cafe and restaurant meetups, as well as movie meetups and tv nights if people are interested. Also of interest: some people have kindly told me about the San Francisco Bay Area Slashers (SFBAS) yahoo group. They have meetings at rotating locations in the Bay Area every other month …

This group is for people who enjoy drawing, painting, sculpting, crafts, or any other creative pursuit. To be surrounded by creative minds while bouncing ideas off of each other. Any medium is welcome, including animation, visual development, graphic design, comics, manga and writers. Industry professionals welcome and encouraged to join. All levels welcome. Join as a student or as a Mentor. Everyone who is 18 and up is welcome!

I do not know many people that actually play pokemon. I want to create a group where we can get together and battle different people and even set up mini-tournaments. All good fun.

Bonjour! Venez rencontrer de nouveaux Francophones et Francophiles et passez un bon moment en conversations animées! Happy hour, films, dîners, évènements culturels et plus! Venez rencontrer de nouveaux ainsi que d'anciens amis! All welcome. Merci d'écrire en Français et merci d'inclure une photo visible de vous sur votre profil. À la prochaine!

The Red Lantern: Bay Area Asian Cinephiles, based in San Francisco, is the world's largest Meetup for Asian films.  In theaters and in private venues, we explore the high, the low and the everything-in-between of Asian cinema, from Woo to wuxia, from Ozu to "Zatoichi."

The Geekery is a community collective providing opportunities for geeks to share similar interests and fulfill their socialization needs. We are up for anything in the realm of geekiness including (but not limited to): - Board Games/RPG's - Video/PC Games (including Rock Band) - Magic/Pokemon/TCG Games - Book Readings and Discussions - Cartoons/Anime - Nerf Battles - Crafting - SciFi/Fantasy movies/books/TV series These could be group activities or just topics for discussion. Feel free to post i …

Attention all you comic creators out there! This is a Meetup Group where members from Tapastic and comic creators can get together and work on projects, critique work, ask for advise, and meet other creators and the Tapastic team. What is Tapasic you say? We’re a brand new website specializing in bringing serialized "webtoons", or webcomics to a larger audience and give an outlet to the many independent comic artists around the world so they can get noticed. You can think of us as the Youtube of …