MIT Anime Club Showing #564 Friday 7 November 2008 Fall Showing #9 Note: this showing is in room 6-120 at 7:00PM 7:10 Gankutsuoh 17-18 8:00 Pizza token sales (for the first 5 minutes) 8:10 Gankutsuoh 19-20 9:00 Intermission 9:20 Mushi-shi 18-22 11:25 Short Intermission 11:30 Time of Eve 1-2 *********************************************************************** Contents: Open Officer Positions Membership Pizza Library Silence Programme ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Fall Showing #9 Welcome back after our halloween hiatus. This week we're back on track with the series you love and a really good sampler. Take this long weekend as an opportunity to enjoy some great anime. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Hawaiian (ham + pineapple) (this week's feature flavor) Future weeks will feature: - Hamburger - Sausage - Grilled Chicken - Hawaiian (ham + pineapple) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Kyou no 5 no 2 1 Akane-iro ni Somaru Saka 1-2 Toaru Majutsu no Index 1 Macademi WAsshoi 1 Shikabanehime Aka 1 Chaos Head 1 Earl and Fairy 1 Hyakko 1 Toradora 1-2 Casshern SINS 1 Tales of the Abyss 1-2 Ga-Rei-Zero 1 Yozakura Quartet 1 Kemeko DX 1 Vampire Knight Guilty 1 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 during the anime, years later we'll hatch a sinister plot to guarantee your undoing. You will not see it coming, and then, in your darkest moments, you will wish you had held your tongue. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme 7:10 Gankutsuoh 17-20 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 18-22 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 Time of Eve The show itself isn't extremely new but it has an odd release cycle of once every 2 months. The episodes are also only half length. This should mean that the quality of Time of Eve is very good because they spend a lot of time on the final product. Well, it turns out that it is. Time of Eve is an intriguing anime into a future world where androids are common household appliances. They look like humans in every way, except that androids are required to have a digital halo above their heads at all times to allow for identification. This show examines what it means to be human and the story invokes a strong sense of the American civil rights music. That, combined with great music and beautiful art makes Time of Eve a must see. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (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.