Archive Fall 2007

Meeting: Thursday December 6th, 2007
Issues: Final Meeting of the Fall Semester. First official meeting of the next semester will be held on Monday, January 14th in Bakeless 107 at 8PM. Good luck with finals, have a safe break, and see you next semester!
Show: Flag

Overview Flag (Official Description): In the mountainous Asian country of Uddiyana a civil war rages. No end lie in sight for the war-torn nation until a lone photographer snapped an iconic image that would come to be known simply as "Flag." Hope arises as the many factions involved begin an approach to peace, rousing the call for a ceasefire behind the featured flag. When an unknown guerilla sect steals this symbol of unity, a U.N. Special Development Command unit is dispatched using the latest in military technology, a transforming bipedal exoskeleton known as the HAVWC system. Recruited to document this mission is a war-time journalist, the author of the "Flag" photograph, Saeko Shirasu. Witness the trials and triumphs of a peacekeeping taskforce behind the camera's view-finder as they take their first steps towards the recovery of the road to peace and discover the truth behind a struggle.
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Meeting: Monday December 3rd, 2007
Issues: Nothing of importance.
Show: Outlaw Star

Overview Outlaw Star (Official Description): Gene Starwind and his partner Jim Hawking run a small business on the backwater planet of Centinel 3. But all that changes the day that Hilda hires them for a bodyguard job. Now, thrust into a mystery they don't fully understand, they're on the run from the cops, the pirates, an angry alien, and a mysterious assassin. But they've got one thing going in their favor- they have the galaxy's most advanced ship!
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Meeting: Thursday November 29th, 2007
Issues: Nothing of importance.
Show: Code Geass

Overview Code Geass (Official Description): On August 10th of the year 2010 the Holy Empire of Britannia began a campaign of conquest, its sights set on Japan. Operations were completed in one month thanks to Britannia’s deployment of new mobile humanoid armor vehicles dubbed Knightmare Frames. Japan’s rights and identity were stripped away, the once proud nation now referred to as Area 11. Its citizens, Elevens, are forced to scratch out a living while the Britannian aristocracy lives comfortably within their settlements. Pockets of resistance appear throughout Area 11, working towards independence for Japan. Lelouch, an exiled Imperial Prince of Britannia posing as a student, finds himself in the heart of the ongoing conflict for the island nation. Through a chance meeting with a mysterious girl named C.C., Lelouch gains his Geass, the power of the king. Now endowed with absolute dominance over any person, Lelouch may finally realize his goal of bringing down Britannia from within!
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Meeting: Monday November 26th, 2007
Issues: Room reserved for next year, website updates.
Show: Pumpkin Scissors

Overview Pumpkin Scissors (Official Description): In a country ravaged by war…the aftermath can be even more devastating. Yet for some of noble birth, the spoils can be sweet. But the corruption of a post-war time can leave the masses with a bitter taste in their mouths. After the Great War, Lt. Alice Malvin takes command of the Imperial Army’s Intelligence Section Three. Code name: PUMPKIN SCISSORS. Under her leadership, she sharpens them into an instrument of justice to expose the corrupt, power-mad nobility who prey on the weak. And the newest member of the unit is a hulking giant of a man who hunts down tanks…with a handgun!
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Thursday November 22nd, 2007. No meeting due to Thanksgiving holiday. Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Meeting: Monday November 19th, 2007
Issues: Happy Thanksgiving! No meeting Thursday. Discussed club future and elections.
Show: Baccano!
Refer to Thursday September 27th, 2007 for Anime overview.

Meeting: Thursday November 15st, 2007
Issues: Discussed next film fest, club future, and future elections.
Show: Rental Magica

Overview Rental Magica (Official Description): Destroying supernatural monsters... Dispelling dark magic... It's all in a day's work for the mages of Astral! However, after the mysterious disappearance of the company president, they're left in a lurch. His son, Itsuki Iba, begrudgingly fills in, but Itsuki's unfamiliarity with magic could spell bad news for Astral - especially with their rival Goetia vying for the very same contracts. As the jobs grow ever more dangerous, they soon find that staying in business is the least of their worries.
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Meeting: Monday November 12th, 2007
Issues: Nothing of importance.
Show: Speed Grapher
Refer to Monday November 5th, 2007 for Anime overview.

Meeting: Thursday November 8th, 2007
Issues: Nothing of importance.
Show: When They Cry
Refer to Thursday October 25th, 2007 for Anime overview.

Meeting: Monday November 5th, 2007
Issues: Nothing of importance.
Show: Speed Grapher

Overview Speed Grapher (Official Description): Ten years after the Bubble War, the dichotomy between the rich and the poor in the world becomes more prominent and Japan is no exception. The rich seeks to satisfy their desires and derive pleasure for themselves, and Tokyo has materialize into such a city as a result. Saiga, once a war photographer, works for Hibara Ginza in the capitalist state of Tokyo. He infiltrates into Roppongi Club, a secretive base located in the red district area of the city, to collect information about them. However, he was caught in the process and brought forward to a girl called Kagura who was in the midst of a ritual. His contact with Kagura awakens his special ability: the power to make things explode once photographed. In order to unravel the mystery behind the Roppongi Club and Kagura, Saiga begins his solitary battle.
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Meeting: Thursday November 1st, 2007
Issues: Nothing of importance.
Show: Goshuushou-sama Ninomiya-kun

Overview Goshuushou-sama Ninomiya-kun (Description from Wikipedia): Shungo is a normal high school student living in a huge house. One day, his sister Ryoko sends Mayu and Mikihiro Tsukimura, two siblings, to live with him to help Mayu overcome androphobia (fear of men). Unfortunately this is acomplished by making Mayu and Shungo share the same room, bed, and even baths together. Making things even worse, Reika Hojo, the student-council chair, is blackmailed into becoming their maid due to a video that Ryoko recorded, in which she tries to seduce Shungo.
Links: Goshuushou-sama Ninomiya-kun

Meeting: Monday October 29th, 2007
Issues: BUMAC held its annual Halloween party. Thanks to all those who dressed up, we had 8 members and officers come with a costume. Congrats to Fred who won first place with Diamond Pimp and Katelyn who won second place with Evil Catgirl.
Show: Monster
Refer to Monday October 15th, 2007 for Anime overview.

Meeting: Thursday October 25th, 2007
Issues: Halloween Party is on Monday! Make sure to wear your costumes!
Show: When They Cry

Overview When They Cry (Official Description): It's tough being the new guy in town, having just moved into the small rural village of Hinamizawa, but when Keiichi joins an after-school club and befriends four cute girls, life doesn't seem too bad. That is, until he learns about demonic cults and a failed dam construction project, plus the grisly murders and disappearances that have occurred every year after the town festival. As shocking past events are unveiled through different viewpoints, Keiichi learns that things and even people aren't what they appear to be. How many of his club "friends" are involved and what are their plans for him?!
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Meeting: Monday October 22nd, 2007
Issues: Nothing of importance.
Show: Death Note (live-action)

Overview Death Note (live-action) (Official Description): Yagami Light is a brilliant college student who, one day, finds a notebook simply titled "Death Note." Inside of this book is a list of rules and details as for the use of the "Death Note." When he realizes the power he holds, he decides he's going to make over the world. He wants to make it into a better place by killing those who do others harm. He has been nicknamed by the police "Kira." L, a brilliant detective who lives in secrecy, rises from the shadows and puts his life on the line trying to capture Light.
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Meeting: Thursday October 18th, 2007
Issues: Nothing of importance.
Show: Hellsing Ultimate Vol. 2 & Hellsing Ultimate Vol. 3

Overview Hellsing Ultimate Vol. 2 (Official Description): An unusual new breed of vampires terrorizes England while increasing at an alarming rate, making it impossible to conceal their presence from the public for much longer. Furthermore, the attacks seem organized, which makes the situation even more ominous. While Sir Integra reports her findings to the members of the Round Table, the Hellsing mansion gets blitzed by an army of indestructible ghouls led by the Valentine brothers, a vicious and hedonistic duo who claim to have all the vampiric powers of Arucard and beyond. Indeed, the night has only just begun...
Overview Hellsing Ultimate Vol. 3 (Official Description): With the massacre of her troops at the hands of the Valentine Brothers, Sir Integrea recruits the aid of the legendary mercenary group "Wild Geese." In a rare moment of cooperation - and self-serving righteousness - the Vatican calls a meeting with Sir Integra and reveals classified information about the origin and motives behind the shadowy Millenium Organization. This shocking truth and troubling link to World War II spurs her to send Arucard, Seras, and the Captain of the Wild Geese to South America on a search and destroy mission. However, the tables are quickly turned and Arucard and Seras are framed as international terrorists! The resultant bloodbath and public display of overwhelming power and carnage lights the fuse on a powder keg containing the Hellsing Organization and the Vatican's dirty little secret, The Millenium Organization.
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Meeting: Monday October 15th, 2007
Issues: Nothing of importance.
Show: Monster

Overview Monster (Official Description): Brilliant doctor Kenzo Tenma risks his reputation and promising career to save the life of a critically wounded young boy. Unbeknownst to him, this child is destined for a terrible fate.
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Meeting: Thursday October 11th, 2007
Issues: Have a good reading day (day off)!
Show: Moon Phase

Overview Moon Phase (Official Description): While a photographer is investigating a mysterious castle, he discovers a captivating young vampire girl who’s been trapped there for years. Unknowingly, he frees her and ensnares them both in a struggle for love, power and authority among the undead and other dark forces that combat them. The girl’s peaking vampire powers, alluring beauty and uncontrollable personality have now been unleashed upon the world.
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Meeting: Monday October 8th, 2007
Issues: Thanks for all those who attended the film fest!
Show: Ouran High School Host Club

Overview Ouran High School Host Club (Official Description): One day, Haruhi, a scholarship student at exclusive Ouran High School, breaks an $80,000 vase that belongs to the "Host Club," a mysterious campus group consisting of six super-rich (and gorgeous) guys. To pay back the damages, she is forced to work for the club, and it's there that she discovers just how wealthy the boys are and how different they are from everybody else.
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Meeting: Thursday October 4th, 2007
Issues: The Film Fest is on Saturday, we hope to see you all there!
Show: Zombie-Loan

Overview Zombie-Loan (Official Description): Michiru Kita's a weak-spirited girl who has a hard time saying what's on her mind. One day, she notices mysterious, ring-like markings around the necks of two of her classmates, Chika Akatsuki and Shito Tachibana. They are two boys who miraculously survived a horrible accident six months ago. Michiru, possessing the rare ability to see these rings, knows that they warn of impending death. Thinking that, perhaps, she can do something to save her classmates' lives, she approaches them...but it seems the boys have already made a different kind of deal and garnered themselves a heavy debt by doing so.
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Meeting: Monday October 1st, 2007
Issues: Discussed Film Fest. Table meeting occurred as scheduled. The film fest is less than ONE week away!
Show: Variable Geo

Overview Variable Geo (Official Description): The action is sudden and fierce. The TV cameras are close behind. With every match, beautiful winners inch closer to the grand prize - gorgeous losers strip naked before an audience of billions. Harmless fun? Not quite. Black magic oozes from every pore in the tournament's public facade. Variable Geo is about more than the opponent in the arena. It's about the reach of an international conglomerate, the genius of well-paid scientists, the bond between best friends and what it truly means to be alive. It's about one powerful woman's burning desire to achieve life everlasting, and defeat the one opponent that stalks us all.
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Meeting: Thursday September 27th, 2007
Issues: Discussed Film Fest. On Monday there will be a meeting for those who volunteered to run tables at the film fest. The meeting will take place in Bakeless Room 107 at 7:30PM.
Show: Baccano!

Overview Baccano! (Official Description): Don’t let nobody tell you there’s no future in a life of crime, because some rackets can last forever. But we’ll get around to all that immortality jazz later. A mafia turf war is raging on the mean streets of the Big Apple, a place where regular joes bounce between backdoor booze joints and the breadline. But this caper ain’t about a simple gangland brawl. It’s about hoods who can’t seem to die proper after catching a bullet or five between the eyes. Sadistic hit-men and the dames they love, mad bombers going boom, monsters going bump and soul sucking alchemists bootlegging an elixir of eternal life.
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Meeting: Monday September 24th, 2007
Issues: Discussed Film Fest. Film fest is less than two week away!
Show: Black Lagoon
Refer to Monday September 17th, 2007 for Anime overview.

Meeting: Thursday September 20th, 2007
Issues: Discussed Film Fest. PR committee submitted posters and equipment needs were discussed.
Show: Battle Programmer SHIRASE

Overview Battle Programmer SHIRASE (Description from Wikipedia): The story of BPS revolves around a "freelance programmer" named Akira Shirase. He's a very talented, yet mysterious computer programmer. Because of his incredible abilities, he's contacted by several individuals (curiously, all of them are very similar persons named Akizuki Kaoru) to do all sorts of strange computer-related hacking/security jobs.
Links: Battle Programmer SHIRASE

Meeting: Monday September 17th, 2007
Issues: Preparations for the Film fest have begun.
Show: Black Lagoon

Overview Black Lagoon (Official Description): Rokuro Okajima is meek, mundane and metropolitan. His business trip to South East Asia turns from pleasure cruise to festival of pain when modern day pirates board the ship and take him hostage. Revy, Dutch and Benny are merciless, maniacal and mean. Together, they make up the crew of the Black Lagoon. Making a living in a city where the most villainous of villains make themselves at home isn't without its risks, but they take on any job available to them. Smuggling guns, drugs, kidnapped children and stolen goods is all part of a hard days work.
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Meeting: Thursday September 13th, 2007
Issues: Thanks for all those who came to this meeting. It was one of the largest turnouts of both anime and people we have had in a long time! THANKS!
Show: Darker than Black

Overview Darker than Black (Official Description): A new and deadly breed of covert agent walks the streets. Known as Contractors, these assassins and spies wield bizarre supernatural powers to carry out the dirty work of others. They thrive in the underworld, between rumor and reality, their loyalties always in question. One among these operatives is more mysterious than the rest – The masked killer BK201, the Black Reaper. His true identity and intentions remain unknown, but as his path weaves through the shadows and alleys of Tokyo, blood is spilled on both sides of the law. It’s a new age of confusion, and the rules of engagement have changed.
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Meeting: Monday September 10th, 2007
Issues: Volunteers were taken for people wanting to run a Film Fest table, committees were voted on and assigned, and donations of content (fanart, fanfiction, convention pictures) for the website were requested.
Show: Hayate the Combat Butler

Overview Hayate the Combat Butler (Official Description): Hardworking Hayate has a plan to pay the yakuza who are now the legal owners of his vital organs back: he'll kidnap someone and ransom them for a mountain of money. But things get tricky when his would-be kidnappee who as luck would have it is the daughter of a mind-bogglingly wealthy family mistake Hayate’s action for a confession of love, and hires him to be her personal servant. At least his employment future is secure, or so he thinks...
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Meeting: Thursday September 6th, 2007
Issues: First meeting of the semester.
Show: Sars Wars: Bangkok Zombie Crisis

Overview Sars Wars: Bangkok Zombie Crisis (Official Description): The fourth generation of the virus SARS is found in Africa! It's more dangerous and causes the patients to transform into bloodthirsty zombies. The virus quickly lands to Thailand, Dr. Bryan Thompson (Andrew Biggs) who creates the anti-virus, ends up getting infected while doing his experiment and soon the virus is spreading to all the residents of his same building. At that time, Khun (Supakorn Kitsuwan) is trying to help a young girl who's being kidnapped in the building.....He ends up trapped in the building with only his precious sword as a weapon. Surrounded by the zombies, he has to find the girl and escape from the building before the government drops a bomb to destroy the virus and the building.
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