MIT Anime Club Showing #512 Friday 14 September 2007 Fall Showing #2 Note: this showing is in room 6-120 at 7:00PM 7:10 Code-E 1-4 8:50 Intermission 9:20 Paniponi Dash! 1-4 11:00 Short intermission 11:05 Hitohira 1-2 *********************************************************************** Contents: Membership Pizza New Pizza Ordering Procedure Library Silence Programme ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Fall Showing #2 Well, everything's getting into full swing now, all the more reason to take a break and come enjoy some first class anime. This week we have two first rate sampler's which should whet your appetite for the latest new animation from the land of the rising sun. Of course we also start up our full length semester series, Pani Poni Dash, which is a hilarious anime that features a setting I'm sure we can all relate to. Probably. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Pizza We'll be using the same token-based pizza sales system we first tested three weeks ago: we'll sell tokens after the second episode of Code-E (about 8:00) that you can exchange for slices during intermission. This week's pizza options are: $1.50 Plain cheese $2.00 Pepperoni $2.00 Hamburger (this week's feature flavor) Future weeks will feature: - Bacon - Hawaiian (ham + pineapple) - Feta Cheese - Pastrami - Sausage - Grilled Chicken - Buffalo Grilled Chicken - Hamburger ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@mit.edu by the day before the showing. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Silence If you cell phone goes off during the showing, Chinami will get flustered. And when she's not happy, the projector acts up. So for the sake of everyone's peaceful enjoyment, please don't cause distractions during the anime. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme 7:10 Code-E 1-4 Chinami Ebihara has a problem. Whenever she gets the slightest bit flustered, electronic devices in her vicinity go haywire. To avoid being treated like a freak, she and her family move once her problem is discovered. She's starting a new semester at a new school. Her father has plotted a path to school that will avoid most electronic signs and shops. All is going well until a tour of her new school takes her past the science club... Some viewers have noticed similarities between this series and the R.O.D franchise. If you have trouble telling them apart, please consult this handy guide: Code-E R.O.D ------ ----- Production Company Studio Deen Studio Deen (OVA) J.C. Staff (TV) Original Story Ichiro Sakaki Hideyuki Kurata (Scrapped Princess) (Kamichu!) Opening Theme instrumental, instrumental, James Bond-ish James Bond-ish Music by Caoli Cano Taku Iwasaki Mechanical Design Eiji Suganuma Eiji Suganuma (OVA) Set in school? yes no (OVA) just a bit (TV) Heroine: wear glasses check check clumsy check check secret agent? not yet yes! super power breaks electronics wields paper 9:20 Pani Poni Dash 1-4 This series is directed by Akiyuki Shinbo, and displays a number of his characteristic animation tricks --- not the least of which is a frenetic pace and random events that require almost a frame-by-frame examination to catch all the references and jokes. Before this series was licensed, one fansub group released their subs accompanied by multi-page PDF (http://ggkthx.org/pdfs/) files containing commentary on the things that appear on the screen. * ep 1. We meet Becky Miyamoto, 11-year-old MIT graduate turned high-school teacher in Japan, and the odd-balls in 1-C-gumi (plus an oddball or two from the neighboring classes, and the God who lives in the vending machine). * ep 2. Becky has trouble remembering the names of her students, and applies nick-names to them. Being called "plain" truly depresses Momose Kurumi. * ep 3. Becky is late, the head of the school intelligence club is spying on her classroom. In this episode, we learn that if you pull out Himeko's ahoge, it causes problems. When the aliens abduct the ahoge, Becky has to fashion an artificial one, with Ichijou-induced complications. * ep 4 An onsen episode! Not really. Becky announces a surprise test for the morrow, and the students of 1-C hit on the idea of a study session at study-bug's house. Which is too small to fit all of them, especially when it turns into a sleepover. Ichijou knows what to do --- borrow the "lodging club's" facilities --- which is a place that looks like a traditional ryokan, complete with ofuro (though not an onsen). 11:05 Hitohira 1-2 Are you a female, aged 14-30, who feels awkward in social situations? Do you have difficulty speaking in front of large groups, or do you feel light-headed when the attention turns to you? In real life, these symptoms might make you eligible for a study of an investigational anti-depressant medication, but in the world of anime, they can make you the star! Mugi Asai has always been shy, and she suffers from stage fright and low self-esteem. So only in the world of fiction could it happen that soon after getting into the high-school of her choice, she found herself drafted into the Drama Research Club. Their activities wouldn't happen to involve some kind of performance, would they? This promises to be quite the growth experience for her. From the premise, you might mistake this for a shojo anime, but the character designs reveal that the main target audience is actually men. This show was adapted from one of the flagship titles of Futabasha's Comic High! manga anthology, which specializes in putting the "shojo" in "bishojo". Their slogan: "Girlish comics for boys and girls". ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (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.