MIT Anime Club Showing #574 Friday 13 February 2009 Spring Showing #2 Note: this showing is in room 6-120 at 7:00PM 7:10 School Rumble 6-8 8:25 Pizza token sales (for the first 5 minutes) 8:35 School Rumble 9-10 9:25 Intermission 9:45 Yozakura Quartet 1-3 11:00 Short Intermission 11:05 Mnemosyne 2 *********************************************************************** Contents: Open Officer Positions Membership Pizza Library Silence Programme ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Spring Showing #2 We keep on rolling here at the anime club, presenting you with the 2nd installment of 2 semester series!! In addition to this already great deal, we provide an interesting taste of another fairly recent show. Being Friday the 13th, you might be tempted to stay home and weep, but that will only make you more vulnerable. Join us at our anime stronghold for a night of fun. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 January? 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. These are fall series some of which we've played already. 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). Look forward to a new sampler CD with winter shows soon. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Silence If you talk you'll be hearing from a private detective friend of ours. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme 7:10 School Rumble 6-10 High school student Tenma Tsukamoto is a happy but not-too-bright girl with a big crush on class wierdo Oji Karasuma. Kenji Harima is a not-too-bright delinquent boy with a big crush on Tenma. This inept love triangle anchors a large ensemble cast and a litany of misunderstandings, sight gags, and other ridiculous antics in this high school comedy. *Thanks to Funimation for permission to show this series* 9:45 Yozakura Quartet 1-3 There is a town where demons and humans co-exist peacefully. This is the town where we meet our heroes. A quartet (unsurprisingly) of young adults with special powers (mostly). The fact is, even though the majority of the town is all about peace, there are some bad apples that must be dealt with. And for that purpose the quartet exists. The show is action and mystery, with a bit of detective goodness thrown in for good measure. All in all, an enjoyable experience. 11:05 Mnemosyne 2 Caution: this show features a lot of bloody violence, nudity, and sexual suggestion, sometimes all at once. If you enjoyed Elfen Lied, you have an idea of what you're getting into, but younger or more sensitive viewers might want to skip it. Rin Asogi is a private eye in 1990s Shinjuku, taking cases ranging from lost cats to big corporate/organized-crime conspiracies. With the help of her teenaged-looking hacker sidekick Mimi (who is nonetheless quite fond of vodka), there are few cases she can't solve. It's a dangerous job, though, and Rin has to fight off assassins both on and off the job, even right out of the shower. A series planned for 6 45-minute episodes, which are airing one per month on late-night Japanese TV with DVD releases soon afterwards. It starts with a number of fairly standard aspects (detective plots, sidekick banter, casual nudity for the sake of fanservice) that almost feel like a throwback to the OVAs of an earlier era. But then it adds a dose of unusually graphic sexualized violence, which seems to be intended largely for shock value. Pronunciation note: The female titan from Greek mythology this series is named for has her name pronounced like "NIH-mah-zuh-nee" in English, but the katakana in the title suggest that the creators would like the show's name to be pronounced "munemoshune" in Japanese. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (This showing is made possible in part with funding from Finboard and the Undergraduate Association of MIT.) 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