News : Pen-Gen

As our celebrated GenCarnival is fast approaching, another story-related news is also coming this way!

Pen-Gen (also abbreviated as PengMas) stands for Pengabdian Masyarakat Genshiken, which more or less translates into Genshiken Community Service. Stands as a part of GenCarnival's opening ceremony, this event will let elementary school students to experience the vibrant atmosphere of the creative industry world, allowing them to emerge into a dimension less likely taught in school previously.

Here's the concept of the event, as translated directly from the proposal by us (with some extra flairs every here and there) :

When one's being asked about what he or she wants to be, he/she will answer based on the information that he/she had had previously. This applies no exception to children - it's no surprise if the outcome to this question is a common profession, such as teacher or doctor.

It's a seldom case the uncommon answer (such as being a novelist or a game designer) popped out. One aspect most likely being responsible for this is the lack of information about creative industry-related works on elementary schools' curriculum.

As a group who plays a role in the world of creative industry, Genshiken ITB aims to enlighten and empower these elementary school students with invigorating creative industry-related information. Five booths will be prepared for this event, which encompasses:

• Movie (in collaboration with LFM ITB)
• Digital game (in collaboration with HMIF ITB)
• Traditional game
• Illustration
• Story

...well, the proposal continues, but the bolded item on the list should reflect what we're trying to deliver here mostly : Genshiken Story will be participating in Pen-Gen to educate these children alongside four other booths (in which will be filled out by delegations from other Genshiken division). Right now, our only confirmed delegation is Rakaputra P. // Rheine - the other one is still left undecided.

Oh, and if you're wondering where I would be, actually I've been stationed (by the request of the head of Pen-Gen) on the movie booth. Either way, we're hoping that what we're delivering here is something which will come in handy for these future generation members.

See you there!

- Nivalyx

News : GenCarnival

Hello there! We're back from our single week hiatus with - get hyped for it...

...nothing!

Well, you're reading it right. Basically there's nothing ultimately interesting over these past few weeks - just us being busy with our daily tasks, as usual. (it's obvious though that we need to keep posting things to tell the world that we're still alive, so we think this news post should work as a gap-filler)

Consider this post also acts as a call-to-arms, though. Most of our core members (including myself) had been busy preparing for GenCarnival, an upcoming creative exhibition event which will be held this April. The trailer above is freely viewable for your pleasure, and because we're lazy to craft a chain of words to describe the event in detail, we'll just copy and paste the words embedded on the video's description here:

A spiritual successor to our previously successful Gen-Reon (http://genreon.wordpress.com/), Genshiken ITB (through GenCarnival) aims to deliver the magnum opus of Indonesia's creative visual modern products!

This creative exhibition event will be held at Institut Teknologi Bandung (Jl. Ganesha No. 10) on April 19th, 2014 - we'll gladly await your presence there!

Let's join the fun together!~

...should be obvious already (from the wording) that we're heaving a deep role down the event, isn't it?

Well, anyway, we're still trying to opt in our members to the event. To all Genshiken Story members, if you appear to have a work-in-progress, consider to showcase it in this event! Don't let your work of art left abandoned in oblivion - benefit guaranteed!

Further information about the event is accessible here.

- Nivalyx

News : World Beyond the Window

"When you wake up feeling worn out, open the window and look for something you've never seen before."

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Hello! Yes, we're fully aware that we're not posting news often here. But worry not - this very time, we're bringing you the long-awaited big news!

...well, frankly speaking, there are more important stuff for us to deliver, but we decided to publish this out first. Genshiken ITB will be participating (as a stand contributor) on the upcoming Pasar Komik Bandung 2014. The event's name translates into 'Bandung Comic Market 2014', so it should be obvious what to expect there (:

Speaking aside the event, the main news we're trying to headline is this : Very recently, one of our prolific author - I'm sure you might have been familiar with this name by now - Karina R. // Riesling, sent us this picture about her upcoming project which will be showcased will have the teaser comic of it be showcased on the Pasar Komik Bandung 2014 event:


Portrayed as 'a visual novel with an otoge feature' from the official description given, the visual novel tells the story about 'someone who lost in a town, hoping to be found - however, in the end, she have to be able to find herself''. Aside from the fact that Riesling did the above picture (and will do the majority of the artwork for the game) by herself, not much details are known about this VN to the outside world.

We're not directly promoting the event, but here's the details about the upcoming Pasar Komik Bandung event in case you're wondering:

• Event : Pasar Komik Bandung 2014
• Location : Braga City Walk
• Date : March 15th to 16th 

I myself don't really know whether I could attend the event or not, but for sure I'll try to get the copy of the VN and post my afterthoughts about it here. Stay tuned!

PS :  Yes, we know, the image we embedded above is quite large. We're just lazy to resize it (:

- Nivalyx