Las Vegas has kind of a bad reputation in the Anime Community.  First there was the failed Vegas Comic-con… what?  Never heard of it?  Exactly.  Next is Anime Vegas, which while it had potential, has in later years fallen a bit, and generated a bit of a reputation as a glorified day care of pre-teens screaming about in poor japanese.  I will not even dignify Supercon, or any of the other upstart attempts.

All in all, it has left a somewhat sour taste in my mouth and a cynical attitude.

So it is with a bit of Cautious Optimism that i’m going to link this here.

Shonen Vegas in conjunction with multiple other groups are working to bring a bit of the Anime for a strangely under represented part of the Community… adults.

For start Anime Nights is a 21+ event.  We are 100% serious.  Anyone who has hung out with us knows that Shonen Vegas Rule #2 is: We Card, and this is one of the primary reasons we are throwing in our support with this event.  Leave your kids at home, this is not a day care, and honestly we don’t particularly care if this excludes a large chunk of the community.

Secondly, i want to say that this is not an “Adult” event.  We are not going to be showing porn every week.  Don’t show up expecting a drunken party.  This event is for the older anime crowd.  People who don’t want to hang out with teens, but still enjoy the social side of things, can have a drink responsibly (this is vegas, i didn’t say there would be no drinking) and just want to spend a few hours hanging out with like minded people in a chill relax atmosphere… with some kick ass anime playing in the background.  There will be a mix of whats new, with some old school favorites thrown in.

The First event is looking to happen on Feb 17th, 7pm at: 520 Fremont Street, 2nd Floor, Las Vegas, NV 89101

Hope to see you there.