MIT Anime Club Showing #513 Friday 21 September 2007 Fall Showing #3 Note: this showing is in room 6-120 at 7:00PM 7:10 Yugo the Negotiator 1-4 8:50 Intermission 9:20 Paradise Kiss 5-8 11:00 Short intermission 11:05 Sky Girls (TV) 1-2 *********************************************************************** Contents: Membership Pizza New Pizza Ordering Procedure Library Silence Programme ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Fall Showing #2 Another week, another Friday of great anime action. We're back at you with a second helping of Pardise Kiss, as well as samplers ranging from old classics to new up-and-comers. FUn to be had for all. Of course, if you really love Paniponi Dash, don't fret! It will be back next week. And if you really hate Pardise Kiss (how could you?) then in a few weeks you can enjoy it's replacement Kasimasi. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 a few weeks ago: we'll sell tokens after the first episode of Yugo the Negotiator (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 Bacon (this week's feature flavor) Future weeks will feature: - Hawaiian (ham + pineapple) - Feta Cheese - Pastrami - Sausage - Grilled Chicken - Buffalo Grilled Chicken - Hamburger - Bacon ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 I was going to forward the usual threats of death and pain in order to keep people from talking. But I believe a 5 minute talk from Yugo at the beginning of the showing will be enough. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme 7:10 Yugo the Negotiator 1-4 Having described this series in the past I've always responded with the most obvious description: "It's about a guy named Yugo, for the most part, he negotiates." Because I like you guys so much, I'll go into a bit more detail so you can see why this show is so great. Yugo is in fact a negotiator, but not your normal vanilla type. He's the best of the best, when all the other negotiators are shot and killed he's right there to make sure the job gets done right. His motives are pure, unspoiled by political alliances or governmental loyalties. He fits the hero archetype near perfect. In these episodes particularly, a young lady's father is being held hostage, and she'll do anything to get him back. The government doesn't negotiate with terrorists (they never do) but Yugo does, and it's his task to deliver the ransom money and free his client's father. His welcome into Pakistan will not be warm; With seemingly everyone trying to kill him, will this be his last negotiation? Tune to find out. 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 Sky Girls (TV) 1-2 In the second half of the 21st century, mankind is devastated by a war with giant creatures known as WORMS. They are finally defeated, but only at the cost of major ecological disruption and the death of most of the military-age male population. So when the military in Japan needs test pilots for a newly developed flying power suit, the only candidates that will work are teenaged girls, including a couple of civilians who don't at first seem to be air-force material. Given the Aero-Astro themes and the large-head/small-body character designs, you could be forgiven for confusing this series with Rocket Girls, which we played in this time slot over the summer, or the recent OVA series Strike Witches, but this is an unrelated franchise. It started with a one-shot OVA, which was successful enough to spawn this TV series which started in July. Planned for 26 episodes, the length of the TV version should allow for a lot more character development, but unfortunately that pace also means that you won't get to see much mecha action in these first episodes. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (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.