MIT Anime Club Showing #525 Friday 11 January 2008 IAP Showing #1 Note: this showing is in room 6-120 at 7:00PM 7:10 Le Chevalier D'Eon 1-4 8:50 Intermission 9:20 Le Chevalier D'Eon 6-6 10:10 Short Intermission 10:15 Kannazuki no Miko 1-4 *********************************************************************** Contents: Geneon going-out-of-business DVD donation drive Membership Pizza Pizza Ordering Procedure Library Silence Programme ----------------------------------------------------------------------- IAP Showing #1 Welcome back to the first showing of 2008. I hope everyone's holidays were good and all that. We're planning on starting off this year with bang, and to do that we're showing the entirety of Le Chevalier D'Eon over IAP. While most of our time will be dedicated to this, we'll also give you a taste of some other stuff we think is good, just for a bit of variety. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 have been using for awhile: 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 - Salami ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 open again after winter break. Any items you checked out at the last showing in December are due by this Sunday, and new checkouts are available as usual. The sampler DVD from late November is still available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Silence If you talk, bad stuff will happen. Things so horrible that even history has forgotten them lest it have nightmares. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme 7:10 Le chevalier D'Eon 1-6 ADVISORY: This series has some depictions of life like violence featuring a lot of blood. Well, it's pretty life like, as life like as zombie killing will ever be. Anyway, be warned that it might be a tad be messy at times. During the time when Louis XV still ruled France, a certain woman was found dead in the coffin floating through the Seine river. D'Eon, the woman's brother, determines to seach for the killer of his sister, Lia. But there are some strange movements in France. And things become more strange when Lia's soul enters D'Eon's body... 10:15 Kannazuki no Miko 1-4 Chikane Himemiya is the star of the private high school she attends: from a very wealthy family, an expert archer, tennis player, and pianist, and possessor of a large fan club. She shares a quiet friendship with unassuming classmate Himeko Kurusugawa, at least until the day that a giant mecha attacks the school. It turns out that robot is one of the eight agents of the evil god Orochi, and to defeat them, Himeko and Chikane will fulfill their destinies and become the solar and lunar priestesses (the "Miko" of the title). Oh, and since Himeko's dorm was leveled in the attack, she'll need to move in with Chikane. A somewhat unusual combination of yuri (lesbian) romantic drama and robot action, based on a shonen manga by duo Kaishaku (Steel Angel Kurumi, UFO Princess Valkyrie) due for a US release from Tokyopop in May. Chikane and Himeko's angsty romance shares features with similar boarding-school series, and their character designs are similar to the main couple from Yami to Boshi to Hon no Tabibito (which we showed last IAP). The robot action side isn't too ground breaking either, though the creators took the unusual route of making the evil pilots all other kinds of genre stereotypes ("a bishonen sociopath, an unintelligent brute, a former pop idol, an anti-social manga artist, a catgirl, and a disillusioned nun", to use Wikipedia's summary). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (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.