MIT Anime Club Showing #517 Friday 19 October 2007 Fall Showing #7 Note: this showing is in room 6-120 at 7:00PM 7:10 Spiral 1-3 8:25 Intermission 8:55 Kashimashi ~Girl Meets Girl~ 1-5 11:05 Ramen Fighter Miki 1-2 *********************************************************************** Contents: Geneon going-out-of-business DVD donation drive Karaoke Membership Pizza Pizza Ordering Procedure Library Silence Programme ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Fall Showing #6 I must say this week is fairly stupendous. We start of with Spiral which we think you'll enjoy a great deal if you like good anime, if you don't, you might want to find some "Bad Anime Showing Club" you can attend which more fits your needs. But the real meat of this showing is the beginning of Kashimashi, which has a great premise, and is probably the best thing you'll watch for a good long while. We close out the night with Ramen Fighter Miki, it's random, you'll laugh, you'll cry, it will be good times. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Geneon going-out-of-business DVD donation drive So if you've been thinking about sponsoring a disc but haven't now's your chance, what better way to prove your love for a series than buying it for us. ^^ In late September, it was announced that Geneon, one of the largest US anime companies, is getting out of the DVD sales business. Unfortunately, there were still a lot of DVDs we wanted to buy from them! To supplement our normal acquisitions budget of money from the UA, memberships, and refreshments, we're also asking for your help in picking up good series that might be going away for good. For more information, see: http://web.mit.edu/anime/www/donations/geneon-oob-2007.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Karaoke Karaoke will be held on Saturday, December 1, 2007. Time will likely be 2-5pm, room TBA. All are welcome. If you have a special request or two, please fill out a request form (available at the showing or at http://web.mit.edu/anime/Events/karaoke_Dec07.pdf) and drop it off at a showing or during office hours. You may also e-mail your requests to anime-inquiry at mit.edu. Songs will be timed, and romaji lyrics provided. Whenever possible, the karaoke or instrumental versions of songs will be used. Requests are due by October 28. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Membership Did your club membership expire in August? Renew now for continued library checkouts and other membership 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 two episodes before intermission that you can exchange for slices during intermission. This week's pizza options are: $1.50 Plain cheese $2.00 Pepperoni $2.00 Sausage (this week's feature flavor) Future weeks will feature: - Grilled Chicken - Buffalo Grilled Chicken - Hamburger - Bacon - Hawaiian (ham + pineapple) - Feta cheese - Pastrami - Sausage ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 digisub sampler DVD+RW from last week is still available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Silence We're not going to stop you from talking but we will say that Miki doesn't take kind to interruptions, and frankly, she will not hesitate terminate to your talking in a much less polite, much more violent fashion. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme 7:10 Spiral 1-3 Ayumu Narumi's older brother Kiyotaka, a famous detective and pianist, disappears without a trace. The only clue as to his whereabouts is the "Blade Children", the only words Ayumu managed to catch in a final phone call from Kiyotaka. Two years later, a row of murders and incidents begin, all related to the Blade Children. Together with the infamous (and only) school journalist, Hiyono Yuizaki, Ayumu tries to figure out their destiny and the mystery shrouding their past. (Spiral Summary from Wikipedia) 8:55 Kashimashi ~Girl Meets Girl~ 1-5 Hazumu Osaragi was a rather effeminate high-school boy, spending his time in the gardening club and letting his tomboyish childhood friend Tomari Kurusu defend him. He finally gets up the nerve to confess his love to his classmate Yasuna Kamiizumi, but she rejects him. Depressed, he goes for a walk in the woods, only to have an alien spaceship crash on him. The good news is that the aliens are able to restore his body; but by some mishap they put him back together as a girl. This gender swap changes Hazumu's relationships with both Yasuna and Tomari: Yasuna had rejected him because she couldn't love a guy, but has second thoughts now that Hazumu is a girl, and Tomari's feelings of protectiveness also grow into something more than just friendship. Adapted from the manga of the same name (available from Seven Seas), this series is one of the first released in the US to focus primarily on yuri (female-female) relationships. But you don't have to worry about an estrogen overdose: the romantic angst here is mixed with lighthearted humor and presented using many of the tropes of shonen romantic comedies. Her transformed body aside, Hazumu's plight isn't too different from the indecisive male lead of your favorite harem show. 11:05 Ramen Fighter Miki This isn't going to be a long complicated blurb because this is not a complicated show. Miki is a poster girl for her familiy's ramen shop. She's extremely strong and not afraid to fight, but she's also really immature. There's a lot of slapstick violence and other general (random) hilarity, so if you were looking for something to give your brain a break, don't miss this opportunity. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (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.