MIT Anime Club Showing #557 Friday 12 September 2008 Fall Showing #2 Note: this showing is in room 6-120 at 7:00PM 7:10 Nadesico 1-2 8:00 Pizza token sales (for the first 5 minutes) 8:10 Nadesico 3-4 9:00 Intermission 9:20 Natsume Yujincho 1-4 11:00 Short Intermission 11:05 Windy Tales 1-2 *********************************************************************** Contents: Open Officer Positions Membership Pizza Library Silence Programme ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Fall Showing #2 This week we showcase our other semester series, Nadesico and Windy Tales. I always feel like the beginning of anime is the most important so try not to miss this showing. The sampler's pretty good as well. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 June? 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 Hamburger (this week's feature flavor) Future weeks will feature: - Sausage - Grilled Chicken - Hawaiian (ham + pineapple) - 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 The library is open for checkouts again after our annual inventory. Please make sure that you have your request in by 5:00pm on Friday; requests received after that cutoff will not be honored. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Silence If you talk during the showing we'll give you to the aliens. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme 7:10 Nadesico 1-4 Aliens attack and drive humanity off of Mars. Soon, they're on the Moon and attacking the Earth. When the military prove ineffectual, the giant conglomerate Nergal constructs an advanced spaceship, ND-001, "Nadesico", and staffs it with the best people they can find: an undefeated (in simulation) tactical genius commanding officer, an anime voice actress communications officer, a 12-year-old science officer. Plus the best cook in outer space. At first blush, "Nadesico" is a parody of large-mecha space operas like "Macross" and "Gundam". But you don't have to have seen those series (nor even to much care for mecha in general) to enjoy the multi-layered humor, creativity, and fast pace of this series. It's just a parody, right? Wrong: the parody serves as camoflage for many layers of meaning and commentary. First, there's an affectionate and humorous look at giant robot anime and giant robot anime otaku. Then there's a commentary on how we view our own past and our society's past, and finally there's a meditation on memory, forgetting, and personal identity. "Nadesico" is an ensemble work: it has a large cast and you get to know many of its characters, their personalities, and motives. It's even possible to find depth, strength, and reasons to admire apparently and annoyingly ditzy Yurika. 9:20 Natsume Yujincho 1-4 Natsume Takashi has the ability to see spirits, which he has long kept secret. However, once he inherits a strange book that belonged to his deceased grandmother, Reiko, he discovers the reason why spirits surround him. Containing the names of these spirits, a binding contract was formed between the spirits and the owner of the book. Now, Natsume is determined to free the spirits and dissolve the contracts. With the help of a spirit cat, his days are filled trying to return the names to these spirits. *Borrowed from the Anime News Network* 11:05 Windy Tales A work from Production IG with a truly distinctive look. Production IG is famous for its quality animation (Ghost in the Shell, Blood, the Last Vampire, Dead Leaves, FLCL (a collaboration with Gainax)). "Windy Tales" centers on Nao, a high-school girl, and her circle of friends as they discover people (and cats!) in their community who have a strange affinity for the wind --- wind-users. This is a lovely slice-of-life series, reminiscent of "Yokohama shopping log" or the work of Studio Ghibli. Directed by Junji Nishimura (dir. of Kyo Kara Maoh!, Soul Hunter, the "You're Under Arrest" movie). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (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.