MIT Anime Club Showing #543 Friday 06 June 2008 Summer Showing #3 Note: this showing is in room 4-237 at 7:00PM 7:10 Toshokan Sensou 1 (or Kanon(2006) 1) 7:35 Pizza token sales (for the first 5 minutes) 7:45 Toshokan Sensou 2-3 (or Kanon(2006) 2-3) 8:35 Intermission 8:55 Kure-nai 1-3 (or Kanon(2006) 4-6) 10:10 Renkin 3-kyu Magical? Pokaan 1-2 (or Kanon(2006) 7-8) 11:00 Short Intermission 11:55 Kaiba 1-2 (0r Kanon(2006) 9-10 *********************************************************************** Contents: Open Officer Positions Membership Pizza Pizza Ordering Procedure Library Silence Programme ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Summer Showing #3 In this installment of the MIT anime club, we'll be showing random stuff we like in honor of graduation. To all our members graduating, we wish you good luck in your future endeavors. Congratulations on surviving. We'd like to show Kanon this week. In fact as you can glean from the schedule, it's all we'd like to show you. Unfortunately, ADV is being exceptionally slow in answering emails so we might not be able to show it. It's probably safe to say, we *probably* won't be able to show it. So, in its stead, we've prepared a selection of other good samplers such that you won't go home empty handed. Enjoy!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Officer Positions Help make the club better! For the next month or so we will be looking to fill the positions which remain after elections. The one elected position which remains is: - Secretary To hold these positions, you must be an MIT student (undergraduate or graduate). In addition, there are a number of important appointed offices (industrial liaison(s), acquisitions, communications), along with many voluntary positions that help keep the club running, keep the showings happening, and keep the library functioning. Please send a note to anime-inquiry to register your interest in running for office, and talk to the club officers about what it's like to be an officer. We have a page describing the election procedure here: http://web.mit.edu/anime/www/elections.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 Grilled Chicken (this week's feature flavor) Future weeks will feature: - Hawaiian (ham + pineapple) - Hamburger - Sausage - Grilled Chicken ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 We'll be running library checkouts in the normal way this week, but it will be the last Friday checkouts before the library closes for our annual inventory: there won't be any checkouts on June 6th or 13th. Any items you borrow this week need to be returned by Sunday. June 8th. The sampler DVD+RW from the beginning of the month is still available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Silence We've cut deals with the militant anti library forces to allow you to watch this showing. However, it's a fragile alliance. If you talk there's no saying what'll happen to you. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme 7:10 Kanon (2006) 1-10 High-school student Yuichi Aizawa moves to a snowy northern town that he once visited as a child, to stay with his aunt and cousin. He soon meets a number of other girls of his own age with varying personalities, who all turn out to have connections to his past. With good-natured selflessness (but some cynical asides) he helps them with their problems and uncovers the sometimes fantastic, sometimes tragic, mysteries of their pasts. This is the newer, shiny, Kyoto Animation-produced adaptation of the classic 1999 visual novel game from Key. It's the same team that brought you Clannad (which we sampled in November) and Air (which we showed over the summer of 2005), so if you remember those, you have a good sense of what you'll be getting. (For better or worse: this is a fairly love-hate genre, including among the club's officers.) As is common practice in adapting the choose-your-own-(romantic) -adventure branching of a visual novel into a linear medium, the series focuses on each of Yuichi's targets of moe affection in turn, though there is a bit of intermingling. Of the episodes we'll be showing, 1-5 introduce all the main characters and might seem like a light slice of life comedy, but the show changes direction as each girl's arc develops. Episodes 6-10 focus on Makoto Sawatari, a mischievous girl who has lost most of her memories, but somehow remembers she has a grudge with Yuichi. 7:10 Toshokan Sensou (Library War) 1-3 In a somewhat implausible alternate-present-day scenario, a low-level armed conflict has broken out between the Japanese national government's heavily armed censorship squads and militias organized at the local government level to defend libraries and the books they contain. Recent recruit Iku Kasahara is charged with idealism from a childhood incident where an LDF officer came to her defense in a bookstore, but she has difficulties with the rigors of training, even before she is unexpectedly recruited to join an elite task force. This Production I.G adaptation of a light novel series is airing on Fuji TV's Noitamina block, which has had a string of successes with innovative shows that transcend neat (or gender-based) genre categorization, including Paradise Kiss, Jyu Oh Sei, Hataraki Man, Nodame Cantabile, and Moyashimon. This show follows in that tradition by sporting an unusual premise, and combining some shojo tropes (like the "prince" the lead met in childhood, and deformed character art in humorous moments) with a fairly realistic presentation of military life. 8:55 Kure-nai 1-3 Shinkuro Kurenai is a mild-mannered looking high school boy with supernatural fighting powers; he works part time as a "dispute mediator", though that mainly involves beating people up who are in disputes. One day his boss gives him an unusual assignment: take care of Murusaki Kuhoin, a seven year old girl who led a very sheltered life at the estate of a rich family she is now on the run from. Another atypical combination, this time between supernatural themed action (in a style somewhat like Darker than Black) and moe "little-sister" style slice-of-life comedy (a slightly more realistic and less sexualized Chokotto Sister). Adapted from a light novel series; there's also a parallel manga version in Jump Square (not to be confused with the unrelated manga released in the US as Red Prowling Devil, whose Japanese name is also Kurenai). The animation production is by Brain's Base; Murusaki's wide-eyed stare may remind you of their previous work on Kamichu and Gigantic Formula. 10:10 Renkin 3-kyu Magical? Pokaan 1-2 This show's a bit odd to say the least. It features four underworld princesses who have recently arrived in a modern day Japan. Their party consists of a vampire, a werewolf, a witch, and an android. As the audience, you will follow their hijinx as they try to make their way in our supposedly crazy world. With four young princesses as protagonists the show doesn't lack in the fan service department, but there's not enough to turn off any average anime fan. We're showing the first 2 aired 'episodes' but with this series you get a bonus. For each episode, there are two seperate plots and as you'll see the anime counts each one as it's own episode. Thus, you're getting 4 episodes for the price of only 50 minutes. 11:05 Kaiba 1-2 Dr. Seuss meets Osamu Tezuka in an opium den while Chiaki Konaka's dolls recite poetry. Another friend used the adjective "dadaist" in talking about this series. It's not often that we feel at a loss for words after watching an episode of anime, but this left us stunned and speechless (in a *good* way). This has a distinctive, childish look, and a bizarre, surrealistic setting and designs. It is set in a world divided between rich and poor, and one of the things the rich like to do is buy the memories of people and relive their experiences. People's identities are held in "chips", and it's possible to, for example, remove your chip and sell your body. From a director who did (or was involved in) "Kemonozume" and "Mind Game". ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (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.