World's Geekiest Library Offers Cosplay, Gaming, and More

Written by Marissa Meli

Saturday, 11 July 2009 21:28

Plenty of kids have been tricked into reading by libraries with DDR and Guitar Hero. But the Forest Hills Library does far better by offering cosplay, anime, manga, and more.

The 40+ members of the Alamo Cosplay Troop dress up as characters from video games, anime, and manga and “perform” regularly at the library for huge crowds.

And the best part? It’s in San Antonio, Texas.

It’s amazing that the state whose governor wanted to secede from the United States after Obama’s economic stimulus plan would have taxpayers eager to pay for teenagers to learn sumo wrestling and sahaja yoga meditation.

A library cosplayer enjoys the finer things in life

San Antonio’s entire library system is apparently like this. Every week, there’s Japanese Bunka Monday, where kids can watch anime, learn how to draw manga, or play karuta (a Japanese card game with many variations). There are many different tabletop gaming clubs, from Yu-Gi-Oh to D&D.

Representatives from San Japan, the Texas Japanese culture and anime convention, come to the library to teach kids how to make Japanese animation cells.

If you prefer your geekery American-style, you can always join the USS Bexar Star Trek Club, which has a major presence at the San Antonio libraries. Remember: trekkers, not trekkies.

And yeah, there’s DDR, Guitar Hero, and Wii done Texas-style, with wall-to-wall big screens and major tournaments.

I’m proud of you, cowboy libraries. On a more serious note, I’m really impressed that the library district offers free lunch for kids and teens every day on top of all the geeky fun.

Seen on mysanantonio.com.

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written by Aggro, July 14, 2009

They've been doing this sort of thing at a lot of libraries across the country. My local library offers DDR, Guitar Hero, 6 Nintendo Wiis with Wii sports and Smash Brawl, as well as 8 game cubes for Smash Melee and enough lan cables and a splitter for those 8 gamecubes to link up for some Mario Kart Double Dash. They also run tournaments for said games too, they've been doing this since 2005

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