MIT Anime Club Showing #520 Friday 9 November 2007 Fall Showing #10 Note: this showing is in room 6-120 at 7:00PM 7:10 Minami-ke 1,2,4,5 8:50 Intermission 9:20 Paniponi Dash! 19-22 11:05 Clannad 1-2 *********************************************************************** Contents: Business Meeting Geneon going-out-of-business DVD donation drive Membership Pizza Pizza Ordering Procedure Library Silence Programme ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Fall Showing #10 So for those of you unable to keep up with the latest new releases from Japan, this showing will be a great treat. Our samplers this week don't mess around with classics or really great things that came out awhile ago that we've not shown. This week, we're given you the best of the shows airing right now in Japan. Sandwiched between those two, of course, is the next rousing segment of Paniponi Dash! There's no reason for you not to come. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Business meeting Tuesday, 7pm The club's next regular business meeting will be this upcoming Tuesday, November 13th, at 7pm. Come help us decide which series to sample at future showings, and more. The location of this meeting and subsequent ones this semester is 4-144. This is located in the same hallway you might be used to but one floor lower. If you would like to receive announcements of future meetings email anime-inquiry at mit.edu. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Hamburger* (this week's feature flavor) Future weeks will feature: - Bacon - Hawaiian (ham + pineapple) - Feta cheese - Pastrami - Sausage - Grilled Chicken - Buffalo Grilled Chicken - Hamburger *Subject to change, since we're going to try ordering from a different place tonight. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 talk during the anime, Chiaki will give you an unflattering nickname. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme 7:10 Minami-ke 1,2,4,5 Meet the three Minami sisters - responsible high school student Haruka, impulsive junior-high student Kana, and blunt middle-school student Chiaki. The three of them live alone in a Tokyo apartment. Sounds kind of boring, but this is actually a very funny show - like a slightly more normal Azumanga Daioh, or an otaku-less Lucky Star. Between Chiaki's strange nicknames for her classmates, Kana's disastrous reaction to a love letter, and Haruka's less-than-suave admirer, we hope you'll find a lot to laugh about. We're skipping episode 3, not because it's bad, but in order to show you episode 5 which is extremely good. 9:20 Pani Poni Dash! 19-22 Becky Miyamoto is a child prodigy. She has returned to Japan from America to be a schoolteacher and to save the world. About halfway through the first episode you'll see why we're showing this manic melange of pop-culture references. Featuring the voice talent of Chiwa Saito (Lavie Hedd in "Last Exile", Anita King in "R.O.D. TV"). From the director of "Tsukiyomi Moon Phase" (Nekomimi modo desu!), "Soul Taker", and "Starship Girl Yamamoto Yohko". 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. 11:05 Clannad 1-2 Tomoya Okazaki isn't really a bad person at heart, but he's been skipping school recently, and generally feeling apathetic. After we meet him, though, he seems to start running into a number of female schoolmates with weird personality quirks: one who's withdrawn after missing a year of school, a quiet one who spends all her time in the library, an amazingly skilled fighter, one who does nothing but carve wooden starfish sculptures, and so on. Will getting to know them help him get over the bad experiences from his past? And what's with these weird dreams he's having? This is the third time in the last few years that Kyoto Animation has adapted a Key visual novel for TV, so if you remember Air from when we showed it in 2005, or last year's Kanon, you have a pretty good idea what you're in for. This series has a bit more violence and slapstick humor than the previous ones, but character drama is still front and center. In fact, just about all the elements that made the previous series such love-hate propositions are back: the big watery-eyed character designs, flowing animation, and quirky humor, but also the slow pace, implausible gender ratio, and nominally high-school girl characters whose mental age comes off as a number of years younger. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (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. 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