MIT Anime Club Showing #519 Friday 2 November 2007 Fall Showing #9 Note: this showing is in room 6-120 at 7:00PM 7:10 Lovely Complex 1-4 8:50 Intermission 9:20 Kashimashi ~ Girl Meets Girl~ 6-9 11:05 D.Gray-man 2, 19 *********************************************************************** Contents: Geneon going-out-of-business DVD donation drive Karaoke Membership Pizza Pizza Ordering Procedure Library Silence Programme ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Fall Showing #9 This week, we give you our normal great selection of anime. Two interesting samplers, which will be sure to whet your palette, as well as one of our favorite new shows, Kashimashi. The general message of this paragraph is that you should come to the showing because all of it is really awesome. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Friday, November 2, at the first intermission is your last chance to request songs for Karaoke. Please fill out a form at the showing and return it to an officer before the end of the intermission. The karaoke event will be held on December 1 from 2-5pm in room 4-270. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 This week's digisub sampler DVD+RW continued with more new series from the fall season, and second episodes from series where only one was available last time. As always these are not intended to be playable in stand-alone DVD players: they're intended for computers, like our CD-Rs, but have a higher capacity. This week's sampler will contain: Bamboo Blade 1-2* Blue Drop ~Tenshitachi no Gikyoku~ 1-2*, ep 1 parody sub* Ghost Hound* 1 Gundam 00 1-2* Juushin Enbu (Hero Tales)* 1 Kawaii! Jenny (stop motion)* 1 Kodomo no Jikan* 1 Koutetsushin Jeeg [April]* 1 Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro* 1 Minami-ke* 1-2 Moyashimon - Tales of Agriculture* 1 Prism Ark* 1 Shion no Ou* 1-2 Sketchbook ~full color's~* 1-2 Suteki Tantei Labyrinth* 1-2 (Asterisks indicate whether the series is completely new this time around, or what's new is more episodes) You can request one of these DVD+RWs in the normal way, but since we need to burn them in advance, supplies will be limited for requests made at the last minute. The discs are counted separately from the other limits on borrowing, but you should only ever have one out at once (we won't keep old ones circulating, since we want to reuse the discs). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Silence If you talk during the showing, technologically advanced but biologically inexperienced aliens will blast you to smithereens and then reconstruct your body with the incorrect sex. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme 7:10 Lovely Complex 1-4 Risa Koizumi is the tallest girl in her class, and Atsushi Otani is the shortest guy. Neither of them have been very lucky in love, and their classmates mainly think of them in terms of the famous comedy duo they resemble. They have a joshing friendship, though, and decide to help each other out arranging a double date with their respective crushes, only to find out they have more in common with each other than with the ones they had their eyes on. Could this be the start of an odd-couple relationship? A light shojo comedy based on the manga of the same name (sometimes abbreviated Love*Com) available in the US from Viz, who also just announced the license of a live action movie. The character designs reminiscent of Bokura ga Ita, but colored with fewer pastels, and the in the same way the story is similar but somewhat sillier. 9:20 Kashimashi 6-9 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 D.Gray-man 2, 19 Allen Walker is a young Exorcist who has a cursed eye that can see the suffering of the Akumas created by The Millenium Earl. He travels to England to the Headquarters of the Exorcists where his Master has sent him to meet with the other Exorcists. The battle with the Millenium Earl and the Noah Family vs. the Exorcists intensifies when some of the best Exorcists begin to get killed by hoards of Akuma. Japan takes center stage in this end of 19th Century plot in order to not let the entire human race be turned into Akumas and the Exorcists have the power of "Innocence" that was given to them by God on their side. (This blurb taken from Anime News Network) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (This showing is made possible in part with funding from Finboard and the Undergraduate Association of MIT.) 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