MIT Anime Club Showing #530 Friday 22 Februrary 2008 Spring Showing #3 Note: this showing is in room 6-120 at 7:00PM 7:10 Spice and Wolf 1-2 8:00 Pizza token sales (for the first 5 minutes) 8:10 Spice And Wolf 3-4 9:00 Intermission 9:20 Dennou Coil 5-8 11:00 Short intermission 11:05 Gunbuster 2 (Diebuster) 1-2 *********************************************************************** Contents: Geneon going-out-of-business DVD donation drive Membership Pizza Pizza Ordering Procedure Library Silence Programme ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Spring Showing #3 This is almost a standard week. We give you some more tasty Dennou Coil and we sample a really well done show Spice and Wolf. However, instead of sampling another 2 episodes of a different show, we're going to start a new mini-semester series with Gunbuster 2. It's a classic and we plan on finishing it over the next 3 showings, so be sure to come or you'll miss out. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 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: - Pastrami - Salami - Grilled Chicken - Hawaiian (ham + pineapple) - Hamburger - Sausage ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 for checkouts as usual this week; get your requests in by Thursday for the best service. The digisub sampler DVD+RW from a few weeks ago is still available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Silence If you talk during the anime, you will be found and dealt with by Satchii. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme 7:10 Spice and Wolf 1-4 In a medieval time, a trader named Lawrence travels from town to town, making what deals he can. In the small town of Pasroe, he arrives during a pagan festival celebrating the wolf goddess, Horo the Wise, who has dominion over the harvest. Just local customs - until a girl with wolf ears and tail appears in his cart! Despite the heavy focus on trade issues, this is a fun and exciting series with a few supernatural elements. (From the opening you might expect a large amount of nudity, but it's actually not that widespread, at least after the first episode.) 9:20 Dennou Coil 5-8 In the near future, virtual computer-generated objects coexist with real ones - if you're wearing cyberspace-enabled glasses. Yuuko Okonogi moves to Daikoku City with her parents, her little sister, and her cyberdog Densuke, and gets caught up in the strange events happening in that city's cyberspace. Everything about this series is well-done - the Miyazaki-esque artwork, the augmented-reality interfaces, the character interactions - and don't miss the Mojos. 11:05 Gunbuster 2 (Diebuster) 1-2 Our main character Nono left her rural Martian hometown with dreams of becoming a space pilot, and she's convinced that her hard work and dedication will eventually pay off, even if her current job is just as a waitress in a seedy diner. She gets her foot in the door, though, with a chance encounter with Lal'C, one of the most skilled of a group of elite teenaged giant robot pilots named "Topless". Though Nono's hero worship can be grating (she calls Lal'C "onee-sama", a reverential and honorary "big sister"), she shows some potential after getting caught in the middle of a battle with one of the Space Monsters that plague the solar system. It turns out, though, that Nono is something other than what she originally appears. This 2004-2006 OVA series is Gainax's weird kind of sequel to their classic 1988 OVA series Gunbuster: it stars a completely different cast, and has a very different art style, but there are thematic echos and deliberate homages everywhere. The other clear ancestor is FLCL, which shared a number of key staff: both the character designs and the general atmosphere of weirdness are very similar (no soundtrack by The Pillows, alas). (A naming note: the Japanese title of the original series was "Top o Nerae: Gunbuster" ("Aim for the Top: Gunbuster"), shortened just to "Gunbuster" in the US release. This one is "Top o Nerae 2: Diebuster", so there's some disagreement as to whether the more logical English title should be "Gunbuster 2", as the US distributor eventually chose, or "Diebuster".) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (This showing is made possible in part with funding from Finboard and the Undergraduate Association of MIT.) 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