MIT Anime Club Showing #562 Friday 17 October 2008 Fall Showing #7 Note: this showing is in room 4-237 at 7:00PM 7:10 Gankutsuoh 13-14 8:00 Pizza token sales (for the first 5 minutes) 8:10 Gankutsuoh 15-16 9:00 Intermission 9:20 Mushi-shi 13-17 11:25 Short Intermission 11:30 Chocolate Underground 1-8 *********************************************************************** Contents: Business Meeting Next Week Open Officer Positions Membership Pizza Library Silence Programme ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Fall Showing #7 This week Gank and Mushi-shi are back, so most of you should be pretty excited. If not for that, then at least for the fact that Halloween is coming up sooner than you expect. And that means candy and/or parties. (Depending on your preferences.) Appropriately, our sampler is about chocolate and how it's been banned. REMEMBER: This week's showing is in 4-237 so don't go to 6-120. See the website for directions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Businees Meeting Next Week, Oct. 23rd, 7pm 4-253 Right on schedule, we have another business meeting coming up in less than two weeks. Same time, same place. If you want to help decide what we show and how the club is run in general be sure to come. Bring Ideas!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Sausage (this week's feature flavor) Future weeks will feature: - Grilled Chicken - Hawaiian (ham + pineapple) - Hamburger - Sausage ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 the audience makes too much noise during the showing, a colony of "Un" mushi now living in Killian Court will be lured in and take up residence in your ear canals. To help us avoid this icky fate, please silence your electronics and refrain from conversation. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme 7:10 Gankutsuoh 13-16 Dumas' "The Count of Monte Cristo" transplanted to a future with cities on the moon. Despite the colorful pallette, it will appeal to your inner Goth. Absolutely stunning animation --- the clothes of many of the characters are treated as transparencies into various textures and images. As they move, the textures and images do not move in synch. This produces an odd, and I think interesting effect: in lit-crit mode, I might speculate that the disorienting effect it has on the audience mirrors the disoriented state of the callow young aristocrat getting his first taste of lunar decadence. Beautiful and innovative. 9:20 Mushi-shi 13-17 Ginko is a mushishi --- an expert in "mushi", quasi-biological ectoplasmic creatures that come in a variety of unusual species. As he wanders through a rural Japan reminiscent of an earlier age, he tries to help people afflicted by mushi problems, with varying degrees of success. This anime adapts Yuki Urushibara's award-winning manga series, sticking quite close to the original stories but bringing the lush landscapes to life in vibrant color. The series has a distinctive atmosphere reminiscent of traditional Japanese folk takes, but also manages to stay fresh with a parade of creatures each weirder that the last. 11:30 Chocolate Underground Chocolate is now illegal. The story takes place in present day, the Good for You Party has won the election and announced the amazing Chocolate Prohibition law. They prohibit all sweet things, including chocolates, because they are harmful to ones health. Two boys, Huntley and Smudger, stand up to fight against the law. With help from Louise and other friends, they begin to bootleg chocolate. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (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.