We use an approval process for new members, After you register you will be reviewed by an Administrator and accepted into the group. We only reject people if they are obviosuly here to cause trouble, so don't worry if you are truly a fan of Arina Tanemura. You will write a short thing about why you wish to join that we will review, basically to prove that you are a human and not a spambot. This is simply to ensure that our users are actual fans of Arina Tanemura, or hoping to become one It is also used to prevent spambot registrations.

We are all Arina Tanemura Fans!

Vampire Rose, New One-Shot

Not much is currently known about this upcoming one-shot by Arina Tanemura. All that seems to be known at this time is that it is about vampires in some manner, and the main heroine is named Mira, who is 15, somewhat of a crybaby, and hates blood, ghosts, and bugs, which probably ties into the story in some manner.

Some New Rules

As of late, activity on this website has been starting to wane as well as become unsteady. One of the reasons for this change of pace is our relative relaxed attitude towards rules. I have stated in the past that I do not like forums that are sticklers about staying on topic, and other miscellaneous rules, however it is a fine line with those types of rules and having too much restriction and having too little restriction.

I have begun to realize that we are slowly seeping below the line and are suffering from a lack of order, and as such I will have to bring us back up to a reasonable level of order.

First off, one thing that I have been noticing is a rise in the level of bickering and disputes between members as of late. I won't be going into specific examples, however I will be putting in place, effective as of this post a rule to alleviate this issue, this should be basic common sense, however as the saying goes "Common sense isn't common." Also human nature tends to lead people to being rude and disrespectful over the internet due to the relative level of anonymity.

Please respect others, their opinions, ideas, culture, and be generally respectful towards all members of The Arina Tanemura FanClub. If any concerns do arise, please do not dispute publicly, try and resolve any issues peacefully in private, or if appropriate contact a staff member.

The above rule will apply from everything ranging from somebody's favorite character from said series, to being respectful about their religious affiliation.

Another thing is that even though this is the Arina Tanemura FanClub, Arina isn't necassarily everyone's favorite author, and there may even be member who don't even read her works, so please keep that in mind. Also not everyone feels the same way for particular characters, one person may think a certain character is a complete moron, while another person thinks that character is the best thing since sliced bread. Please also be respectful of this.

However those aren't the only issues regarding respect, as a general rule of thumb, please treat other members of this site in the same manner that you would treat your friends in real life.

Also, in the past we have been fairly relaxed about going off-topic, however it has now reached a point where nothing stays on topic for more than a few posts, and this doesn't look good on our part. There have even been other sites that have commented on us in a negative light for just that. So I'll be implementing a new rule regarding that as well.

Please stay close to the original intention of the topic. Please refrain from going off-topic (straying far from the original intent) unless there is a good reason, or it is part of a side note and you go back into topic.

Both of these rules will be enforced by the moderation team in a reasonable manner. The warning system will also be applied to this, if we deem that these rules have been broken, a moderator may decide to give you a warning for stated actions.

These rules may at first seem overbearing, and dictatorial, however that is just because it's a slight shift in the attitude of this site, in general if you follow the motto Don't be rude you should be fine.

Affiliated Topics

I came up with this idea the other night and have decided to implement the idea. Basically what it is is topic-sharing between us and our Affiliates (Recommended Sites, the ones that are forums anyways).

These topics will be created with the same topic title as on the other forum except the sign (AFF) will be appended to the end to let you know that it's an affiliated topic. Once you get in the topic it will be simply a link to a topic on another site that you can post in as long as you have an account on that site. After making a reply on the other site's topic feel free to make a post that says simply: Posted on Site. This will do two things: Raise your post count here on ATFC, and secondly, bump the topic here on ATFC so people can easily see that there was a new reply. But please keep the reply to simply that.

This is primarily intended to increase the community strength between various sites in the Tanemura fan community, and to show our support of their sites.

I may create a specially designated forum section for these topic types depending on how well this is received by the community

P.S. Feel free to create your own affiliated topics as well.

New Forum: Images & Videos

Since the Testing Area was beginning to become mainly a place for posting random images and videos I decided to make a new forum just for that purpose, it is called Images & Videos and can be found on the list of forums near General Discussion and Forum Sunstuff

A direct link also follows: Images & Videos

ATFC Convention Trip

I am looking into getting as many of our members to attend a certain upcoming anime convention as possible. The convention is AnimeNebraskon 2009 in Omaha, Nebraska on November 6-8, 2009. One of the themes of the convention is "World Domination" and part of this idea is getting various clubs to bring "war banners" to the conventions, so what better convention to bring our club, and war banner to? To see more information, and for discussion go here: Let's Go To A Con