Founded August 13, 2001 | Founder Tom Croom Website GreenMustard.com | |
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Industry Fan Conventions & Events Parent Green Mustard Entertainment, Inc. | ||
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:
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.)
Appearances
Wasabi Anime has designed entertainment and programming for a number of anime and fan conventions since starting in 2001.
California
Florida
Georgia
Indiana
Nevada
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.)