MIT Anime Club Showing #521 Friday 16 November 2007 Fall Showing #11 Note: this showing is in room 6-120 at 7:00PM 7:10 Blue Drop 1-4 8:50 Intermission 9:20 Kashimashi ~Girl Meets Girl~ 10-13 (concludes) 11:05 Baccano! 1-2 *********************************************************************** Contents: Geneon going-out-of-business DVD donation drive Membership Pizza Pizza Ordering Procedure Library Silence Programme ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Fall Showing #11 This week is a lot like the last, in the sense that we have a lot more really awesome anime for you to enjoy. And once again, unless you're on the bleeding edge of Japanese animation, you won't be able to say you've seen the majority of what we're showing. Plus, our two new shows sandwich the Kashimashi goodness you know and love. Don't miss it! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Bacon (this week's feature flavor) Future weeks will feature: - Hawaiian (ham + pineapple) - Feta cheese - Pastrami - Sausage - Grilled Chicken - Buffalo Grilled Chicken - Hamburger - Bacon ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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're noisy during the anime, Hagino's hands will brush lightly across your cheeks before gripping tightly around your throat and squeezing with otherworldly concentration. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme 7:10 Blue Drop 1-4 Mari Wakatake is in a bit of a funk. You can't blame her, though: a mysterious disaster five years ago killed her parents and wiped out her memories, and her grandmother just sent her away to an all-girls boarding school. At the dorm, she meets Hagino Senkoji, who's the class rep, good in class and at sports, and everyone's favorite sempai. Everyone's except Mari's, that is; she can't tell what everyone sees in her, and they get off on the wrong foot, to say the least. It turns out that Hagino is more than she appears, and may hold the key to both Mari's past and her future. Angsty drama at a girls boarding school (with the obligatory yuri overtones) and alien-invasion science fiction are an unexpected combination, but they go together pretty naturally here. 3D animation by Gonzo is used not for the expected sci-fi purposes, but also to enhance otherwise prosaic scenes like desks in a classroom or a striking set piece with seagulls that turns out to have an unexpected significance. Another neat detail is that the episodes are named after flowers, with the named flower appearing somewhere in the corresponding episode. For a series that leans on a lot of genre tropes, this one takes itself quite seriously, but fans of either genre should find plenty to like. 9:20 Kashimashi 10-13 (concludes) "The third volume of Kashimashi gets right down to the business of turning your heart to strawberry jelly." -- Carl Kimlinger, ANN 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 Baccano! 1-2 Baccano is Italian for noise, but Narita translates it as "stupid commotion." Each of the stories in the series involves several unrelated plots intersecting and crossing each other as events spiral farther and farther out of control. Immortal alchemists, mafia operated speakeasies, and many other elements of pulp fiction mashed together for a world straight out of the movies. (This blurb borrowed from the Anime News Network.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (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.