Archive Fall 2005

Meeting: Thursday December 8th, 2005.
Issues: Final meeting of Fall 2005 semester.
Anime: Full Metal Panic Fumoffu

Overview (Official Description): It's Full Metal Pandemonium! Sousuke and Kaname are back in action! And this time, the battleground is the school ground! High-yield explosives and hilarity come together with a bang, as the somber soldier and his unwitting target brave everything from lovesick "terrorists" to an unforgiving teacher who is bent on revenge. But as good as he is with guns, Sousuke is one clueless commando when it comes to girls...especially Kaname! A day at the beach turns sour after Sousuke misses the point one too many times (and even fails to notice Kaname's new bikini). Then, when Kaname is suddenly kidnapped, it's up to our dense hero to devise a daring rescue! Don't miss the hilarious antics of everyone's favorite military maniac and Jin High's most fiery female as the full-throttle action begins!
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Meeting: Monday December 5th, 2005.
Issues: Final comments about the semester, some minor issues brought up, and discussions about feature anime conventions.
Anime: Kakurenbo/Labyrinth of Flames
Refer to Monday Monday October 17th, 2005 for Golden Boy overview.

Overview Kakurenbo (Official Description): There is a street where no one lives, where ghostly lights flicker in the shadows. It is whispered that children who play hide-and-seek there after dark are kidnapped by demons - and disappear forever. Tonight, a boy named Hikora joins the game in search of his missing sister. Eight children gather. The street lamps flare though no one is there to light them. The game...and the terror...are about to begin!
Overview Labyrinth of Flames (Official Description): Meet Galan, a spastic geek who'd do anything to be a real, live samurai. But that's just an impossible dream...or is it? When his Russian princess girlfriend gives him the gift of an ancient sword, strange events unfold, and even stranger people drop out of the sky to attack. Now Galan must overcome his ineptitude and join a bunch of beautiful women in a wacky romp through a kingdom that time forgot. Hey, what could be better?
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Meeting: Thursday December 1st, 2005.
Issues: Nothing of importance.
Anime: Attack the Gas Station

Overview (Official Description): A quartet of disaffected Korean youths have robbed a Seoul gas station. Later, while hanging out in a Chinese noodle shop, they decide to rob the same gas station. After taking the gas station over, their wacky antics ensue; forcing the manager to sing, kidnapping customers that complain about the service, and staging fist-fights between street gang members and gas station employees; all of these reflect their own gripes against society.
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Meeting: Monday November 28th, 2005.
Issues: Final few meetings of the semester are upon us, discussed issues for next semester.
Anime: Ghost Stories

Overview (Official Description): Can a school have too much spirit? When nearby construction disturbs a spiritual resting place, its disgruntled denizens do what any supernatural being would do after a rude awakening: they terrorize the local school. And that means it's up to a scruffy band of young ghostbusters to expel their satanic schoolmates before everyone gets sent to permanent detention! So join Satsuki, her crybaby brother, the resident class stud, the school nerd and "physical researcher," a born-again beauty, and a resentful, demon-possessed cat in the funniest, scariest school you've ever enrolled in.
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Thursday November 24th, 2005. No meeting due to Thanksgiving holiday.

Meeting: Monday November 21st, 2005.
Issues: Discussed treasury issues, future plans of the club, and other club related issues.
Anime: Battle Royale II

Overview (Description from Wikipedia): It's been a few years since Shuya and Noriko survived their BR bloodbath. They're now known as the head of a terrorist group known as the Wild Seven who blew up a series of skyscrapers. This time, the government decides to send the latest bunch of BR candidates to eliminate them. The group includes Shiori Kitano, the daughter of Kitano (Takeshi 'Beat' Kitano), the teacher and the director of the BR program who was killed by Shuya and Noriko. The group has only three days to finish the job, and again, they must wear dog collars that explode. This time round however, the same numbered students are connected through the collars, and if one dies, the other's dog collar explodes. With even bigger actions than the first movie, BRII racks up a body count that would make Freddy and Jason envious.
Links: Battle Royale II

Meeting: Thursday November 17th, 2005.
Issues: Nothing of importance.
Anime: Due to lack of members the meeting was held under the Summer Rules and does not count towards the anime shown and member attendance. A anime was chosen from the available titles with member opinion.

Meeting: Monday November 14th, 2005.
Issues: Nothing of importance.
Anime: Battle Royale

Overview (Official Description): Battle Royale is set in a dystopian future Japan in which a group of middle school students are chosen to participate in a death game after the government has passed an act to deal with overpopulation and unmotivated students. A randomly-selected class of ninth-grade students are taken unwillingly to a small isolated island. Each student is given a map, bread and water, and a randomly allocated weapon. Some students get "weapons" such as binoculars and frying pans, but others get swords, guns and grenades. The students are forced to kill each other until only one survivor remains. Each student is forced to wear a special collar which will explode when they break a rule. Friends and lovers are forced to set their emotions aside as the bloody battle ensues.
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Meeting: Thursday November 10th, 2005.
Issues: Working on rooms for the spring film fest.
Anime: I My Me! Strawberry Eggs

Overview (Official Description): A Cross Dressing Teacher?! Hibiki Amawa needs a job! If he wants to avoid being shot by his landlady, Hibiki has to get a job teaching at the local high school. Unfortunately, this high school only accepts female teachers... From the creators of Hand Maid May, comes a new dramatic comedy of a man's goal to fulfill his desire to teach in conflict with a school's strict traditions and his own male image.
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Meeting: Monday November 8th, 2005.
Issues: Nothing of importance.
Anime: Hare + Guu

Overview (Official Description): Welcome to the jungle the peaceful home of fun-loving ten year old Hare. That is until Guu moves in. She may look like an innocent orphan girl to everyone else but only Hare knows that Guu is really a pan-dimensional mind-reading magic-using monster with a sarcastic wit and an unlimited appetite!
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Meeting: Thursday November 3rd, 2005.
Issues: Room secured for next semester.
Anime: Space Adventure Cobra

Overview (Official Description): Cobra and his partner, Jane Flower, find themselves on the wrong end of a witch hunt by the Mafia Guild. To make matters worse, the dreaded Crystal Boy has been sent to sniff them out. Based on the manga by Buichi Terasawa.
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Meeting: Monday October 31st, 2005.
Issues: Post film fest meeting, discussed and planned next semester's film fest. Halloween party was cool, about 10 people dressed up, we gave out candy to the winners.
Anime: Ninja Nonsense

Overview (Official Description): Take one totally cute (and naive) ninja-girl trainee, add a ninja horde under the tutelage of a perverse headmaster - a strange, yellow, spherical, pudgy... creature... named Onsokumaru - and you get the kind of "super-explosive ninja insanity" that can only be found in what's been called "the runaway nuclear reactor" of anime comedies!
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Meeting: Thursday October 27th, 2005.
Issues: Meeting was officer's choice due to our Vice President singing in Bloom Idol. Film fest post meeting set for Monday, October 31st. Halloween party set for same day.
Anime: Read or Die OVA

Overview (Official Description): Ms.Yomiko Readman, a Library Special Operations officer known as Agent Paper, is on the trail of one of the most nefarious criminals she has ever faced. Determined to locate a long lost Beethoven manuscript, this unknown criminal has cloned some of history's most extraordinary people to help him find the manuscript. Now, Readman must not only contend with a ruthless criminal, but also Tokugawa-era scientist Gennai Hiraga, aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal and 19th century entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre as she tries to stop a plot that could potentially destroy the Earth.
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Meeting: Monday October 24th, 2005.
Issues: Film fest was on Sunday, it was a success. Film fest post meeting set for Monday, October 31st. Halloween party set for same day.
Anime: Golden Boy/Colorful
Refer to Monday Monday October 17th, 2005 for Golden Boy overview.

Overview (Official Description): Two horny college slackers and a beautiful professor. A frustrated TV reporter. A sexy track star and her tempted coach. And a high school girlzilla that's the size of the Empire State building. Colorful! contains over 50 vignettes of men, women, and the pursuit of... well, you'll just have to see. From hotties on subways and perverted cabbies, to panty-obsessed video geeks, sexy mall babes, and the furry phenomenon, Colorful! is a strange, deranged, racy and hilarious dose of animated Viagra!
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Meeting: Thursday October 20th, 2005.
Issues: Film fest is on Sunday.
Anime: Godanner

Overview (Official Description): Five years ago, as the Mimetic Beasts laid waste to Japan, Dannar Pilot Go saved young Anna Aoi's life. Now, as they prepare to march down the aisle, a new Beast appears and Go is summoned into battle once more. But he's not going alone if his blushing bride to be can help it! It's a honeymoon from hell as two stubborn mecha pilots bump heads, egos and other bits; but if Anna and Go can mate their robots' interlocking parts, they'll form the ultimate marriage of man, woman and machine!
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Meeting: Monday October 17th, 2005.
Issues: Film fest anime showing schedule set by members running the tables, planning continues.
Anime: Golden Boy

Overview (Official Description): Golden Boy is the story of Kintaro Oe, a twenty-five-year-old in pursuit of life's lessons. A brilliant student, he dropped out of Tokyo Universiy's law program because he had had mastered the entire curriculum. Now he lives a simple life, traveling on his bicycle and working numerous part-time jobs ranging from software companies to noodle restaurants in order to learn everything that he can about the world. Although he's a kind and giving person, Kintaro's only weakness lies in his lust for beautiful women. However, as long as he can control himself, he may just manage to save the day, and win a few hearts in the process.
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Meeting: Thursday October 13th, 2005.
Issues: Final planning meeting for Film Fest on Monday. Rooms now fully reserved and locked in for the event.
Anime: Wild Zero

Overview (Official Description): Ace, a rockabilly fan who really wants to be cool, is on his way to see his favorite rock group, Guitar Wolf, when a strange thing occurs… aliens invade the earth and people start returning to life as flesh-eating zombies! Enlisting the help of the (real life) Japanese rock/punk band Guitar Wolf, Ace and the members of the band get entangled in many misadventures with crazy rock managers in very tight shorts, transsexuals, naked women shooting guns in the shower and blood-thirsty zombies ready to tear them apart! Leather jackets, loud over-modulated music, laser guitar picks, motorcycles, muscle cars and LOTS of fire… It’s all right here! Did we also happen to mention flesh-eating zombies?
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Meeting: Monday October 10th, 2005.
Issues: Film fest planning continues.
Anime: Those Who Hunt Elves
Refer to Monday October 3rd, 2005. for Anime overview.

Meeting: Thursday October 6th, 2005.
Issues: Film fest planning continues.
Anime: Cromartie High School

Overview (Official Description): Teen life is tough. And high school life is even tougher. But if you're one of the delinquents sent to Cromartie, it'swell, put it this way, it ain't The O.C. So pack your bags, put on your best tough-guy swagger, and get a lesson in insanity from the losers, bruisers, and thugs at Cromartie High.
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Meeting: Monday October 3rd, 2005.
Issues: Film fest planning meeting held.
Anime: Those Who Hunt Elves

Overview (Official Description): No one knows exactly how strongman Junpei, Hollywood actress Airi, teenage Ritsuko, and their T-74 tank landed in a world of elves, but it's up to Celcia, the elves' elder, to cast the spell to send them back to their own world. Unfortunately, the spell runs amok and splits into five fragments that now appear as tattoos upon the bodies of five elves, five young female elves that is, somewhere in the land. So begins the quest of Those Who Hunt Elves to strip every elf they can lay hands on until they find the missing spell pieces.
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Meeting: Thursday September 29th, 2005.
Issues: Film fest planning meeting 7 P.M. in Bakeless 107.
Anime: Genshiken

Overview (Official Description): It is Sasahara's first day of college and a fateful choice awaits him - which college clubs will he chose to join? But Sasahara is no ordinary young man; a dark secret lurks within his soul. For one thing, he knows what "Cosplay" is, and he'd like to know more. He knows how to unlock all the secret characters in "Guilty Gear X", and he'd like to know more. He knows what the plot twist is in episode twenty-five of "Kujibiki Unbalance" because he's read the manga, and he'd like to know more. He's heard of Doujinshi, and he needs to know more. Enter Genshiken, the barely legitimized Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture, home to all subspecies of Otaku!
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Meeting: Monday September 26th, 2005.
Issues: Film fest planning continues.
Anime: Initial D (Live-Action Movie)

Overview (Official Description): Takumi Fuijiwara, a high-school kid delivers tofu every morning for his father Bunta. During his daily delivery, Takumi unknowingly sharpens up his racing skills by speeding through notorious racing spot Mt. Akina, where some of Japan's greatest street racers venture for glory. After Takumi accidentally bests Night Kids leader Takeshi Nakazato on Akina's downhill, he begins to attract the attention of other street racers. But Takumi is more than just another wannabe racer. Years of delivering tofu in his father's Toyota AE86 Trueno have made him an incredibly skilled driver, and not even Takumi really knows just how good he is!
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Meeting: Thursday September 22nd, 2005.
Issues: Film Fest date changed from October 15th, 2005 to October 22rd, 2005.
Anime: Full Metal Panic!
Refer to Monday September 15th, 2005 for Anime overview.

Meeting: Monday September 19th, 2005.
Issues: Nothing of importance.
Anime: Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

Overview (Official Description): Two years after the events in "Final Fantasy VII", a disease called 'Seikon-Shoukougun', or 'Geostigma', is spreading through the planet. This disease is believed to have been caused by the body fighting off foreign material that invaded the body two years earlier, at the end of "Final Fantasy VII". Guilt-ridden and haunted by his past, ex-SOLDIER Cloud Strife has decided to live a secluded, solitary life away from his friends while maintaining "Strife's Delivery Service", whose headquarters is located in Tifa Lockheart's bar, the Seventh Heaven. Tifa's bar serves as an orphanage for children stricken with Geostigma. Here, Tifa keeps an eye on Barret's six-year-old daughter, Marlene, while Barret searches the planet for an alternative energy source to the fossil fuel, Mako. One day, Cloud receives a phone call from the former Shinra, Inc. president, Rufus, asking him for protection from a mysterious man named Kadaj. Kadaj, in the meantime, along with his brothers Loz and Yazoo, are searching for their "mother", and seem to believe that Cloud knows where to find her. Meanwhile, Vincent Valentine has been wandering the planet gathering information on Kadaj's scheme, and Cloud and his friends must come together again to fight these new enemies.
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Meeting: Thursday September 15th, 2005.
Issues: Nothing of importance, voting process reverts to standard process on Monday.
Anime: Full Metal Panic

Overview (Official Description): On the surface, Kaname Chidori appears to be a normal, popular high school student. The problem is, she doesn't realize just how popular she is. Unbeknownst to her, a group of terrorists believe she possesses the special powers of "the Whispered," and they're out to kidnap her. Enter Sousuke Sagara, a young, hotshot agent from the stealthy anti-terrorist organization Mithril. Will he be able to protect Kaname without her finding out what's really going on? Or will he just drive her crazy as he tries to fit in as her awkward, gung-ho, war-crazed classmate?
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Meeting: Monday September 12th, 2005.
Issues: First regular meeting of the semester. Discussed changes in club, introduced minor changes, and talked about officer's choice of anime for the first week. The new officers were introduced to the club. A vote was taken to form the Public Relations committee; Andrew and Grant were made co-chairs.
Anime: Ah! My Goddess TV

Overview (Official Description): Keiichi Morisato is an engineering student and the top driver of the campus racing club. While calling for take out, a wrong number puts him in contact with the Goddess Hotline. One misplaced wish later, Keiichi finds himself blessed with Belldandy, the perfect girlfriend and a bona fide goddess. Unfortunately, she doesn't have any idea how to act in the human world, and her presence quickly gets Keiichi kicked out of the dorms. Keiichi's troubles have just begun!
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Spring 2005 Archive