MIT Anime Club Showing #511 Friday 07 September 2007 Fall Showing #1 Note: this showing is in room 6-120 at 7:00PM 7:10 Dennou Coil 1-4 8:50 Intermission 9:20 Paradise Kiss 1-4 11:00 Short intermission 11:05 Madlax 1-2 *********************************************************************** Contents: Membership Live Action Anime: Madness at Mokuba Vericon VIII registration now open Pizza New Pizza Ordering Procedure Library Silence Programme ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Fall Showing #1 So I hope everyone's classes are going well. Remember if you're ever hosed with classes, you always have a relaxing night of anime to look forward to. Our ongoing semester series will start this week with the first four episodes of Paradise Kiss, which will be followed half-way through the year with Kashimashi ~Girl Meets Girl~. On alternating Fridays, starting next week, we'll be showing Pani Poni Dash! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Membership Is your club membership expiring this August? Renew now for uninterrupted member privileges. Or start a new membership for the term, the year, or a longer period. Ask for a form at the showing or print it in advance from our web site at: http://web.mit.edu/anime/register/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Live Action Anime: Madness at Mokuba You've probably already read the first announcement we gave about this so this will just be key points. Auditions are this weekend Sunday, 2-3 and Monday 6-8 (Walker 201). Here are some excerpts from the official release: "Live Action Anime 2007: Madness at Mokuba," an MIT Dance Theater Ensemble project, is SEEKING ACTORS, DANCERS, TECHNICIANS to help create a unique live action performance of original anime during the fall semester. NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED, just a love of anime and in interest in expressing your creativity. HASS credit is available. This "live-action anime" play will be performed at MIT Nov. 29 - Dec. 1 at the Kresge Little Theater, and we are asking for your help. Directed by Prof. Tommy DeFrantz (Music and Theater Arts) and written by Prof. Ian Condry (Foreign Languages and Literatures), the play is a homage to mecha, samurai, slice-of-life, and school drama anime, but we need your imagination, energy, and love of anime to make it something big." I've left out the synopsis, which is in short, about "the final battle of a giant robot contest at the Mokuba Institute of Technology." Of course, just like in anime there are some twists so don't expect it to be blase or straightforward. For more information contact Tommy at defrantz at mit.edu or Ian at condry at mit.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Vericon VIII registration now open Vericon is a science-fiction, fantasy, gaming, and anime convention held annually at Harvard University. Pre-registration is now open for Vericon VIII, coming January 25-27, 2008. The program will be headlined by guest of honor Orson Scott Card, but a full anime showing track has also been confirmed. More information at: http://www.vericon.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Pizza We'll be using the same token-based pizza sales system we first tested two weeks ago: we'll sell tokens after the first episode of Dennou Coil (about 7:35) that you can exchange for slices during intermission. This week's pizza options are: $1.50 Plain cheese $2.00 Pepperoni $2.00 Buffalo Grilled Chicken (this week's feature flavor) Future weeks will feature: - Hamburger - Bacon - Hawaiian (ham + pineapple) - Feta Cheese - Pastrami - Sausage - Grilled Chicken - Buffalo Grilled Chicken ----------------------------------------------------------------------- New Pizza Ordering Procedure To bring you a more reliable pizza experience, we're going to be taking orders using a new procedure. Instead of taking a poll on the blackboard and then selling slices for cash, we'll sell tokens early in the evening which can be exchanged for slices during intermission. If there are extra slices, we'll sell tokens for them at intermission, but advance orders will get priority. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Library The library is running as usual this week, and the recent sampler DVD+RW is still available. If your membership expired in August, you'll need to renew it before picking up items. For the best service, send your requests to anime-library at mit.edu by the day before the showing. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Silence If you disrupt the showing, one of our cadre of forgetful but dead-accurate schoolgirl sharp-shooters (we still have a few left from last spring) will take you out. But in deference to TV Tokyo's sensibilities, no blood will be visible as your body slumps lifelessly to the ground. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme 7:10 Dennou Coil 1-4 In the near future, virtual computer-generated objects coexist with real ones - if you're wearing cyberspace-enabled glasses. Yuuko Okonogi moves to Daikoku City with her parents, her little sister, and her cyberdog Densuke, and gets caught up in the strange events happening in that city's cyberspace. Everything about this series is well-done - the Miyazaki-esque artwork, the augmented-reality interfaces, the character interactions - and don't miss the Mojos. 9:20 Paradise Kiss 1-4 "Paradise Kiss" is the brand name of a motley group of Yazawa Arts fashion students who work together on clothes for school projects and consignment sale. They're casting about for a model for an upcoming school fashion show when one of them runs into Yukari Hayasaka, a square and somewhat bored high-school student whose thoughts are mainly on entrance exams. Initially Yukari wants nothing to do with them, but she has second thoughts after meeting George Koizumi, the group's dashing lead designer. This short (12 episode) series has a more hip attitude than most anime, a trait it shares with director Osamu Kobayashi's earlier Beck and original manga-ka Ai Yazawa's more recent Nana. And like other series that Fuji TV has aired in its "noitaminA" block (Honey and Clover, Jyu-oh-sei, Hataraki Man, Nodame Cantabile), it aims for a more diverse audience in age and sex than just late-night otaku. Given that the manga originally ran in a fashion magazine rather than an anthology, it's not surprising to see a lot of work went into the costume designs, with textures supplied by a less distracting version of the pattern fill technique seen in Gakutsuoh. 11:05 Madlax 1-2 Fate brings together a skilled female assassin and an amnesiac girl in a series of exotic locations where they must uncover the truth behind a global conspiracy with a French name and ties to their forgotten past. If that premise reminds you of Noir, which we showed in the fall of 2005, it isn't a coincidence: Madlax is just short of a sequel to Noir, reuniting director Koichi Mashimo (Captain Tylor, .hack, Tsubasa), composer Yuki Kajiura, and many other staffers from the studio Bee Train. And with the release of this spring's El Cazador de la Bruja, the series has become a trilogy. In this outing, the experienced professional is the title character, a mercenary code-named Madlax in a fictional war-torn third-world country named Gazth-Sonika. Her more moe counterpart is Margaret Burton, heir to an aristocratic family in the sleepy European nation of Nafrece. Unlike in Noir, it takes a while for these main characters to meet: the initial episodes, including the ones we'll show, alternate between them. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (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.