Wasabi Anime (also known as Green Mustard Entertainment) is a company that produces events and programming for anime conventions (and other fan conventions) in North America along with their own stand alone conventions. Started in 2001 (with the registration of the WasabiAnime.com website) the group started as an anime club before evolving into an LLC in 2007 and then a corporation in 2010. As of July 2012, Wasabi Anime has hosted events in California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, and Las Vegas.
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History
Wasabi Anime was started by Tom Croom with a group of motivated anime fans shortly after the completion of Anime Festival Orlando II in Kissimmee, Florida. The group felt that dedicating help to one single convention and club didn't serve the purpose of helping all of fandom, so Wasabi Anime (then called "Wasabi Anime of Florida") began networking pre-existing anime clubs and helping support new anime clubs. Wasabi Anime club members had access to photo I.D. cards that granted discounts a local anime and comic stores in Florida. Clubs in the Wasabi Anime network included:
- Anime Goes Anime Club Miami
- Gator Anime
- HIYAH! The Southwest Florida Anime Club
- Japanese Animation Club of Tallahassee
- Lake Brantley High School Anime & SciFi Club
- Mile Stretch Anime Club
- North Port Anime Club
- Oukyuu Anime Club
- Wasabi Anime: Deltona
- Wasabi Anime: Englewood
- Wasabi Anime: Ft. Lauderdale
- Wasabi Anime: Green Cove Springs (went on to become the Anime Belle club)
- Wasabi Anime: Jacksonville
- Wasabi Anime: Miami
- Wasabi Anime: New Smyrna Beach
- Wasabi Anime: Orlando
- Wasabi Anime: Tampa (went on to be the original volunteer staff for MetroCon 2003)
- Wasabi Anime: Titusville
- Wasabi Anime: Treasure Coast
- Wasabi Anime: West Palm Beach
Occasionally, the core group running Wasabi Anime would host stand alone events to try and gather the clubs together. This included the Wasabi Anime Halloween Cosplay Parties in 2001 and 2003.
Around 2004, Wasabi Anime began to step away from networking clubs and started focusing more on designing events for anime and fan conventions. These included themed panels, game shows, dances, and stage shows (like the Wasabi Animusical.)
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Appearances
Wasabi Anime has designed entertainment and programming for a number of anime and fan conventions since starting in 2001.
California
- Anime Expo 2012
Florida
- AccioCon (2009)
- Ancient City Con 4 (2010)
- Animation Supercon 2009
- Anime Express V (2002)
- Anime Express VI (2003)
- Anime Festival Orlando III (2002)
- Anime Festival Orlando IV (2003)
- Anime Festival Orlando V (2004)
- Anime Festival Orlando VI (2005)
- Anime Festival Orlando VII (2006)
- Anime Festival Orlando VIII (2007)
- Anime Festival Orlando IX (2008)
- Anime Festival Orlando X (2009)
- Anime Festival Orlando XI (2010)
- Anime Festival Orlando XIII (2012)
- Broward Anime Festival (2009)
- DreamCon (2004)
- FITCON 2003
- FITCON 2004
- FITCON 2008
- Florida Supercon 2009
- Florida Supercon 2010
- Florida Supercon 2011
- FX Show 2005
- FX Show 2006
- FX Show 2007
- FX Show 2008
- FX Show 2009
- JACON 2002
- JACON 2003
- JACON 2004
- JACON 2005
- JACON 2006
- JACON 2007
- JACON 2008
- MetroCon 2003
- MetroCon 2004
- The Nightmare Before Thanksgiving (2004)
- Umicon 2012
- Vulkon Orlando 2003
- Vulkon Tampa 2003
- YasumiCon 2003
- YasumiCon 2005
Georgia
- Anime Weekend Atlanta 15 (2009)
- Anime Weekend Atlanta 16 (2010)
- Anime Weekend Atlanta 17 (2011)
- Dragon*Con 2007
- Dragon*Con 2011
- MomoCon 2011
Indiana
- Gen Con 2010
- Gen Con 2011
- Gen Con 2012
Nevada
- NeonCon 2010
Conventions
In 2007, Wasabi Anime began producing their own fan conventions. Since some of these productions were not anime-centric, they often operated under the corporate names (either Green Mustard, LLC or Green Mustard Entertainment, Inc.)
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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