MIT Anime Club Showing #527 Friday 18 January 2008 IAP Showing #3 Note: this showing is in room 6-120 at 7:00PM 7:10 Baccano! 7-10 8:50 Intermission 9:20 Baccano! 11-13 10:35 Short intermission 10:40 Kiddy Grade 1-3 *********************************************************************** Contents: Geneon going-out-of-business DVD donation drive RightStuf ADV Sale Membership Pizza Pizza Ordering Procedure Library Silence Programme ----------------------------------------------------------------------- IAP Showing #4 The last showing of IAP. We'll conclude Baccano and show you a classic show, Kiddy Grade. Hopefully, you've enjoyed your break from studies and are ready for a new semester. We'll of course be showing great shows as always. Our two semester series will be Ergo Proxy and Denno Coil, and of course we'll always have various samplers for your enjoyment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 January? 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 ***************************************************************** Due to a lack of willing staff, we may not be able to sell pizza tonight. Sorry for the inconvenience; you may wish to make other plans for dinner. (The student center may be a viable alternative.) ******************************************************************** The following are the plans for if we do sell 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 Bacon (this week's feature flavor) Future weeks will feature: - Hawaiian (ham + pineapple) - Feta cheese - Pastrami - Salami - Sausage - Grilled Chicken - Hamburger ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Just in time for the end of the month, we have a new sampler disc with January premiers from Japan. This series had a lot of continuations, and a couple of shows were just licensed on Wednesday, so everything else fits pretty easily on one disc. 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: Ayakashi (2008) 1-2 H2O ~Footprints in the Sand~ 1-2 Hakaba Kitarou 1-2 Hatenkou Yugi 1-2 Macross Frontier 1 Minami-ke ~Okawari~ 1-2 Persona -trinity soul- 1-2 Rosario to Vampire 1-2 Spice and Wolf (Ookami to Koushinryou) 1-2 They Are My Noble Masters (Kimi ga Aruji de Shitsuji ga Ore de) 1-2 Yatterman New Series 1 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 While baccano may be Italian for noisy, that doesn't mean you can be. I'd hate to see what would happen to the person who tried to test this. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme 7:10 Baccano! 7-13 1930s America is a time and place plagued with economic depression and the shadows of warring mafia families. A bumbling duo of thieves, conflicting mafia groups with paper-thin alliances, a gang of juvenile delinquents, and even a handful of secretive immortals and alchemists all become involved in a series of seemingly unrelated separate plot lines which spiral out of control in a beautifully orchestrated collision. "Baccano" is an Italian word for a nonsensical ruckus, which is appropriate. The events are portrayed completely non-chronologically. The first few episodes, for instance, are structured around giving each of a series of characters their moment in the sun, a common structure for anime meant to appeal to fans of an original work too extensive to adapt in full (in this case, a long-running series of light novels). But we're planning to show the whole thing, so it'll make more sense as we go on. The episode titles give a taste of what you're in for: ep 7: Everything Began on Board the Advena Avis ep 8: Isaac and Miria Spread Happiness Without Realizing It ep 9: Clare Stanfield Faithfully Executes His Professional Duties ep 10: Czeslaw Meyer is Frightened by the Shadow of an Immortal and Reflects Upon His Shceme ep 11: Chane LaForet is Silent Before the Two Mysterious People ep 12: Firo and the Gandor Brothers are Shot Down ep 13: Both the Life of an Immortal and a Mortal are Equally Glorified Like the Le Chevalier D'Eon, the series it's standing in for, this series takes a western historical setting, and mixes in some supernatural powers and a some often-bloody violence. Engaging characters in a fresh and unique setting, combined with suspenseful storytelling, smooth animation and a highly appealing soundtrack all make this greatly underrated series exciting and entertaining. 10:40 Kiddy Grade 1-3 This is a classic space age anime, which for some reason we haven't shown before. The Galactic Organization of Trade and Tariffs (GOTT) controls the super powered ES taskforce which carry out various missions for them. The main characters, Eclair and Lumiere, are low ranking members of this task force. The story essentially follows them on their adventures. That's the basic story, and it's executed very well. The first 3 episodes give you a taste for the style of the fighting and an introduction to the interesting characters. If you like it at all I recommend you check out the rest, as the true gem of this anime is the ongoing story telling which makes you want to watch episode after episode. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (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.