MIT Anime Club Showing #583 Friday 1 May 2009 Spring Showing #11 Note: this showing is in room 6-120 at 7:00PM 7:10 Pumpkin Scissors 17-18 8:00 Pizza token sales (for the first 5 minutes) 8:10 Pumpkin Scissors 19-20 9:00 Intermission 9:20 SoraKake 1-4 11:00 Short Intermission 11:05 Rocket Girls 9-10 *********************************************************************** Contents: Elections!! Karaoke Membership Pizza Library Silence Programme ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Spring Showing #11 We're heading into the home stretch but we still have 2 weeks of great anime left. Then we have brain reset which is great in it's own way. Stop by and see how our semester series conclude. (Free bonus: brand new sampler) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Elections Help make the club better! In early May, we'll be holding elections for next year's officers. We would love for a bunch of people to help out. Here are the positions: - President - Vice President - Treasurer - 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Karaoke Karaoke is coming up again, if you didn't request anything, don't worry since we have a large collection of songs ready for you to sing. The event itself will be on May 9th room TBA. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 This is the current plan for pizza, it might change on relatively short notice. 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. 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 Be silent or you'll find out the hard way that war is hell. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme 7:10 Pumpkin Scissors 17-20 Three years after the end of the long-running war with the Republic of Frost, the Royal Empire is still far from recovered. This latest military drama from GONZO follows Second Lieutenant Alice Malvin and the rest of her strangely-named brigade as they help citizens throughout the empire recover their dignity. They are aided in this difficult task by the arrival of Corporal Randal Orlando, a large man who is usually quiet, until it comes time for battle: then his preferred targets are tanks. 9:20 Sora o Kakeru Shojo (Sora Kake Girl) 1-4 The year is 311 in the orbital calendar. Mankind now lives mainly in extensive space colonies, with the help of robots and cute potato-sized floating mascot characters who are good at piloting. 17 year old student Akiha Shishido is a bit miffed that her sister set her up in an arranged marriage, so she skips out of school in an escape pod, only to drift into a debris field and a giant abandoned space colony whose only occupants seem to be a powerful AI and a mysterious girl in a cat-themed costume, at just the same time the Inter-Colony Police's mystery squad arrives on the scene themselves. Akiha and the ICP officer are only able to keep the crazed colony from crashing to Earth with the help of their Quantum Transducing Environment Crosslink Terrain Operational Reinforcer powered suits. And that's just the first episode. This Sunrise original production comes from the same director and producer as My-Otome, and it takes a similar approach in compressing a number of genre (here, sci-fi) and bishojo tropes into a small space. Unfortunately, despite a naming similarity that must have been intentional, this series bears no relation to Yasutaka Tsutsui's Toki o Kakeru Shojo novel or its 2006 anime movie version. 11:05 Rocket Girls 9-10 High school student Morita Yukari goes in search of her father, who disappeared on his honeymoon in the Solomon Islands. Meanwhile, the Solomon Space Agency is trying to figure out how to start up their fledgling space program - but the new rockets keep failing, and the old rockets can't handle the weight requirements of a capsule for a full-grown man. I wonder what will happen next? A short (12-episode), fun series that mentions Hohmann transfer orbits, produced with the assistance of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- (This showing is made possible in part with funding from Finboard and the Undergraduate Association of MIT.) 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