MIT Anime Club Showing #559 Friday 26 September 2008 Fall Showing #4 Note: this showing is in room 6-120 at 7:00PM 7:10 Nadesico 5-6 8:00 Pizza token sales (for the first 5 minutes) 8:10 Nadesico 7-8 9:00 Intermission 9:20 Golgo 13 1-4 11:00 Short Intermission 11:05 Windy Tales 3-4 *********************************************************************** Contents: Tekkon Kinkreet Panel Open Officer Positions Membership Pizza Library Silence Programme ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Fall Showing #4 We're continuing the saga of our two semester series plus a fun sampler. You already know the series are good but I think this weeks sampler, gives a lot of punch as well. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tekkon Kinkreet Panel Tekkon Kinreet is a manga and animated feature film which is pretty cool. As part of the "Cool Japan" stuff Ian Condry runs it's certain to be an interesting event. Below is the original blurb: Oct. 1 (Wed.), 6:00 =96 9:30pm Panel discussion; anime screening, Tekkon Kinkreet Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 6pm panel discussion, 7-8:45pm screening, 8:45 =96 9:30pm Q/A and discussion (seating limited to 150; first come, first served) Panelists: Susan Napier (Tufts), Markus Nornes (U Michigan / Harvard), Anthony Weintraub (screenwriter, Tekkon), Ian Condry (MIT) The R-rated film Tekkon Kinkreet (2006, Dir. Michael Arias) features stunning visuals and a hard-boiled story of youth violence and corrupt capitalists. It is also the first feature-length Japanese anime to be directed by an American. It won the Japan Academy Prize for Best Animated Feature in 2008. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 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 finally have a new digisub sampler. This is mostly from the summer season so it will soon be replaced by things released in the coming months. 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: Tetsuwan Birdy Decode 1-2 Koihime Musou 1-2 Sekirei 1-2 Blade of the Immortal 1-2 World Destruction 1-4 Eve no Jikan 1 Telepathy Shoujo Ran 1-2 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 We don't condone violence but if you're talking during the anime you're going to make an easy target for Duke. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme 7:10 Nadesico 5-8 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 Golgo 13 1-4 Duke Togo is a professional assassin. His age and birthplace are unknown and there is no consensus in the worldwide intelligence community as to his true identity.[1] Most of his jobs are completed through the use of a customized, scoped M16 rifle. Duke's alias ("Golgo 13") is short for Golgotha, the place of Jesus Christ's crucifixion. *Borrowed from Wikipedia* 11:05 Windy Tales 3-4 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.