MIT Anime Club Showing #498 Friday 08 June 2007 Summer Showing #03 2007 Note: this showing is in room 6-120 at 7:00PM 7:10 Twelve Kingdoms 4-6 8:25 Intermission 8:55 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 8-12 11:00 Short intermission 11:05 Prefectural Earth Defense Force *********************************************************************** Contents: Paprika Showing at Kendall Cinema Membership Forms Pizza Library Silence Programme ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Summer #03 2007 This week we continue with Twelve Kingdoms and GitS:SAC, and as promised we deliver a classic sampler that people should find fairly humorous. This showing is scaled down though as there won't be library checkouts or pizza. (see below for more info) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Paprika showing at the Kendall Cinema Satoshi Kon's latest film, Paprika, is currently playing at the Kendall Square Cinema. Consult the theatre's website [1] for showtimes and ticket prices. The movie is subtitled, and is scheduled for screenings through at least June 14. From our May 18 showing announcement: 29 year old, Dr. Atsuko Chiba is an attractive but modest Japanese research psychotherapist whose work is on the cutting edge of her field. Her alter-ego is a stunning and fearless 18 year old "dream detective," code named PAPRIKA, who can enter into people's dreams and synchronize with their unconscious to help uncover the source of their anxiety or neurosis. At Atsuko's lab, a powerful new psychotherapy devise known as the "DC-MINI" has been invented by her brilliant colleague, Dr. Tokita, a nerdy genius who is rather too fond of his food. Although this state-of-art devise could revolutionize the world of psychotherapy, in the wrong hands the potential misuse of the devise could be devastating, allowing the user to completely annihilate the dreamer's personality while they are asleep. When one of the only four existing DC-MINI prototypes is stolen in the final stages of research, and simultaneously Dr. Tokita's research assistant, Himuro, goes missing, Atsuko suspects it's not a coincidence. Several of the remaining researchers at the lab start to go mad, dreaming while in their waking states, haunted by a Japanese doll which featured heavily in the dreams of one of Himuro's schizophrenic patients. Atsuko now knows for certain that the DC MINI is being used to destroy people's minds. She fears that not only will the government refuse to sanction the use of the machine for psychotherapy purposes when it becomes public, but whoever is manipulating the machines has a more evil purpose in mind. [1] http://www.landmarktheatres.com/Market/Boston/Boston_Frameset.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Membership Forms New membership forms are available for people who want to join or need to renew their memberships. Membership information (including a downloadable membership form) is online at: . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Pizza Due to a shorthanded showing this week, there probably won't be any pizza sales. Instead you should eat before you come or bring snacks or something. I'm sure you can figure it out. If you need help finding some place ask at the showing and someone will be able to point you towards the victuals. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Library Due to a lack of staff, there won't be library checkouts or returns this week, sorry. Any items that would normally be due back this week may be returned next week without penalty. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Silence I would tell you not to talk during the showing but the brain hack will subdue the noisy ones anyway, so I don't think it's necessary. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme 7:10 Twelve Kingdoms (Juuni Kokki) 4-6 Our first summer series tells the story of Youko, a model student. The teachers at her new school mistake her for a slacker because they think her red hair is the result of dye, while her parents think her refusal to dye her red hair black is a sign of rebelliousness. That's bad enough, but lately she's been tormented by strange dreams that leave her with a sense of dread. The dreams turn to reality one day during a break between classes. An oddly dressed stranger confronts her in the classroom and implores her to accept his service. Before he can explain, the windows shatter and the school is under attack by monsters. Youko is herself possessed by a spirit that lets her wield a sword in defense. Within minutes Youko and two of her classmates find themselves swept away to another world, where the attacks continue, and their guide is separated from them. Alone in a strange world, will they be able to master their destinies? With character designs from Akihiro Yamada, character designer for RahXephon, and the voice talent of Aya Hisakawa as Youko. 8:55 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 8-12 We showed a sample of this series in the fall and we're going to show all of it over the summer. Most of the time we try to avoid popular US releases, as we believe they have enough exposure already, but this show is good and deserves to be shown in it's entirety. Major Motoko Kusanagi and the other variously cyber-enhanced members of Public Security Section 9 solve crimes and keep order with a combination of quick wits, hacking skills, and superior firepower. The TV series has a separate continuity from the movies or the manga, but includes all of your favorite characters, including AI mini-tanks like the manga's that didn't make the cut for the movie. 11:05 Prefectural Earth Defense Force The evil Telephone Pole Team organization (run out of a tea shop) plans to begin its conquest of the world with the local neighborhood. The mayor has a high school sports coach recruit some of his students to fight off this new menace (with the non-trivial assistance of the evil group's own renegade cyborg.) Armed with expendable troops and an expendable vehicle, they fight off the Telephone Pole Team's bands of (literally) faceless minions. This early (1986) OVA has some fans at ADV, thanks to which it's one of the few titles of its vintage to recently get a US DVD release. So we've been able to replace the VHS fansub we first showed this from more than a decade ago. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (This showing is made possible in part with funding from Finboard and the Undergraduate Association of MIT.) You have received this message because you are on the MIT Anime Club's email list for showing announcements. For a change in your subscription, please send mail to anime-inquiry at mit.edu.