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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〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.whois.com/whois/wasabianime.com )〕) 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. ==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〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://web.archive.org/web/20021023065622/http://www.geocities.com/wasabilauderdale/ )〕 * Wasabi Anime: Green Cove Springs〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/110503/nec_13950311.shtml )〕 ''(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〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.willvolution.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=375&sid=fe03043613fb2ea9b573bfbd27ad2ca0 )〕 * 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.) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wasabi Anime」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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