MIT Anime Club Showing #536 Friday 18 April 2008 Spring Showing #9 Note: this showing is in room 6-120 at 7:00PM 7:10 Koi Kaze 1-2 8:00 Pizza token sales (for the first 5 minutes) 8:10 Koi Kaze 3 8:35 Dennou Coil 17 9:00 Intermission 9:20 Dennou Coil 18-21 11:00 Short intermission 11:05 H20 ~Footprints in the Sand~ 1-2 *********************************************************************** Contents: Geneon going-out-of-business DVD donation drive Membership Pizza Pizza Ordering Procedure Library Silence Programme ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Spring Showing #9 As the semester comes to an end I hope all of you are enjoying yourselves. I always thought the best way to enjoy oneself was to watch a bunch of anime with other people who also love anime. To that end, we've packaged together a great showing this week. Come see the beginning of the end of Dennou Coil and feel slightly saddened by the fact that it can't last forever. The samplers are also solid and definitely a bit different then your average fare so I hope you'll have fun. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Hawaiian (ham + pineapple) (this week's feature flavor) Future weeks will feature: - Hamburger - Sausage - Grilled Chicken - Hawaiian (ham + pineapple) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 next two showings (4/18 and 4/25) will have a substitute librarian. Things will mostly go as usual, but you'll need to submit your requests earlier: no later than 4pm, and as always you can help us serve you best by making requests by Thursday. After the usual drought in February and March, the traditional beginning of the Japanese year in April brings a bunch of new series, just now starting to be fansubbed. We're starting early with a fairly short digisub sampler disc this week, to whet your appetite and because the librarian's schedule means it will be a while before we can produce the next one. 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: Chi's Sweet Home 1-4 Kanokon 1 Kure-nai 1 Macross Frontier 1 Mnemosyne 1-2 Special A 1 To Love-Ru 1 Vampire Knight 1 Zettai Karen Children 1 You can request one of these DVD+RWs in the normal way. 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 If you talk during the anime you'll attract the unwanted attention of a boar. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme 7:10 Koi Kaze 1-3 This show is an brother and a sister separated when they were very young. They meet by accident later in life and begin to develop feelings for each other. The show explores a touchy topic in a very tasteful way. Even so the biggest difference in this show isn't it's content, it's the way the characters and story seem to exist in the real world. When first watching this show, something seemed slightly off about it, and it occurred to me that this show features characters which are perhaps more real than any other show I've seen as of late. In short, the show is good, but not perfect and should be an enjoyable watch. 9:20 Dennou Coil 17-21 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 H20 ~Footprints in the Sand~ 1-2 This is another show based on a dating sim game which means it features all the things fans of those games like. There's a harem of young girls who all like the protagonist and you get a good view of their panties from time to time. That being said this one has at least a few differences which seem compelling. First, the protagonist is blind, which puts an interesting perspective on the harem genre, since he has a fairly good excuse for anything improper he does. Also, he's the chosen one with some great destiny to somehow benefit the world around him. It's a least a bit more interesting than the usual fare and some of the characters have intriguing depth. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (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.