MIT Anime Club Showing #561 Friday 10 October 2008 Fall Showing #6 Note: this showing is in room 6-120 at 7:00PM 7:10 Nadesico 9-10 8:00 Pizza token sales (for the first 5 minutes) 8:10 Nadesico 11-12 9:00 Intermission 9:20 Blade of teh Immortal 1-3 10:35 Short Intermission 10:40 Windy Tales 5-7 *********************************************************************** Contents: Death Note 2 Open Officer Positions Membership Pizza Library Silence Programme ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Fall Showing #6 The routine should be firmly planted in your mind by now so I'll leave you to think up your own reasons for enjoying tonights showwing. Or if not, come for Blade of the Immortal. Pretty good. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Death Note II: the Last name Death Note 2 will be showing in a few theaters in the Boston area. Details here: http://cts.vresp.com/c/?VIZ/2e0fa591e7/c0bb22b950/09e1303e69/eventid=752 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 We still have the newish sampler from before. 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 If you talk while the anime is going that instantly puts you in the "wicked" category. At which point, you're just an easy check mark for the immortal. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme 7:10 Nadesico 9-12 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 Blade of the Immortal 1-3 Blade of the Immortal is a simple anime about a man who has killed a lot of people. Due to his bloodly life he has been cursed with immortality. In order to find peace he must kill 1000 wicked men as payment for what he has done. It has a classic feudal Japan feel. Lots of bloodly battles, with interesting characters. 11:05 Windy Tales 5-7 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.