Archive Fall 2012
Meeting: Thursday December 6th, 2012
Agenda: Final Meeting of the Fall Semester. Good luck with finals, have a safe break, and see you next semester! First official meeting of the next semester will be held on Monday January 28th, 2013 in Bakeless 107 at 8 p.m. The game committee reminds people to bring in games and systems from home for the upcoming spring Game Fest is scheduled for Sunday February 17th, 2013 in Kehr Union Multipurpose A&B. We will also see you at Setsucon on January 26th-27th, 2013! Anime pot luck - Christmas episode round. One episode from the titles with the highest votes were viewed.
Show: An non-anime was showed as allowed by the special rules for this meeting.
Show: Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (Bobobobo Bobobo)
Refer to Thursday September 27th, 2012 for Anime overview.
Show: Macross (Makurosu)
Overview (Official Description): In 1999, a giant alien spacecraft crash lands on South Ataria island. Humanity proceeds to attempt to rebuild this marvel, but political conflicts centered around the Macross result in a global war. After 10 years, the Unification Wars are finally over, the new Earth United Nations Government is in power, and work on the Macross is complete. On the day of the launching ceremony, its main cannon fires on its own, destroying an alien spacecraft. This fateful day marks the beginning of the war between the humans on the Macross and the Zentradi, a race of humanoid aliens of giant proportions.
Links: Official Site (English), Official Site (Japanese), Wikipedia, ANN, AnimeNfo, AniDB, MyAnimeList
Show: The Idolmaster (THE iDOLM@STER)
Overview (Description from Wikipedia): The anime follows a group of thirteen pop idols from 765 Production studios and their goal to become the most popular idols in Japan.
Links: Official Site (English), Official Site (Japanese), Wikipedia, ANN, AnimeNfo, AniDB, MyAnimeList
Meeting: Monday December 3rd, 2012
Agenda: Thursday will be the final meeting for the fall semester. Room reservations for next semester are being worked on. Thursday will be pot luck - Christmas episode round. The Game Fest is scheduled for Sunday February 17th, 2013 in Kehr Union Multipurpose A&B. Discussed Setsucon trip.
Show: Perfect Blue (Kurosu Gemu)
Overview (Official Description): Pop singer Mima Kirigoe looks forward to a bright new career when she quits her chart-topping trio to become an actress. When she lands a role in a sexually-charged murder mystery, Mima's life begins to fall apart. Reality and hallucinations merge into a terrifying world where innocence is lost and dreams become nightmares. Quickly decending into a dangerous state of paranoid delusions, Mima watches as Internet sites appear describing every intimate detail of her life. She is helpless and afraid as her associates are threatened and killed by a mysterious stalker.
Links: Official Site (English), Official Site (Japanese), Wikipedia, ANN, AnimeNfo, AniDB, MyAnimeList
Meeting: Thursday November 29th, 2012
Agenda: Thursday will be pot luck - Christmas episode round. The Game Fest is scheduled for Sunday February 17th, 2013 in Kehr Union Multipurpose A&B. Only two meetings left this semester.
Show: Samurai Champloo (Samurai Chanpuru)
Overview (Official Description): Let’s break it down. Mugen’s a reckless sword-slinger with a style that’s more b-boy than Shaolin. He’s got a nasty streak that makes people want to stick a knife in his throat. Then there’s Jin, a deadbeat ronin who speaks softly but carries a big blade. He runs game old-school style, but he can make your blood spray with the quickness. When these roughnecks bring the ruckus, it ain’t good for anybody, especially them. Enter Fuu, the dizzy waitress who springs her new friends from a deadly jam. All she wants in return is help solving a riddle from her past. She and the boys are tracking the scent, but there’s ninety-nine ways to die between them and the sunflower samurai.
Links: Official Site (English), Official Site (Japanese), Wikipedia, ANN, AnimeNfo, AniDB, MyAnimeList
Meeting: Monday November 26th, 2012
Agenda: Nothing of importance.
Show: Cross Game (Kurosu Gemu)
Overview (Official Description): Ko Kitamura, whose family owns a sporting goods store, has known the Tsukishima girls since he was born. The Tsukishima family runs a batting center and cafe, and they have four daughters. There's Ichiyo, the responsible eldest; Wakaba, Ko's cheerful best friend; Aoba, who doesn't get along with Ko; and Momiji, the energetic youngest daughter. During the summer of their fifth grade, Wakaba leaves for camp after making a promise with Ko to go to the summer festival when she gets back. But she dies in an accident while at camp, and Ko goes to the summer festival by himself in mourning. When Ko enters high school, he aspires to lead his baseball team to the Koshien National High School Championship as their ace pitcher and make Wakaba's last dream come true.
Links: Official Site (English), Official Site (Japanese), Wikipedia, ANN, AnimeNfo, AniDB, MyAnimeList
Thursday November 22nd, 2012. No meeting due to the Thanksgiving holiday. Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
Monday November 19th, 2012. No meeting due to the upcoming Thanksgiving Recess.
Meeting: Thursday November 15th, 2012
Agenda: Happy Thanksgiving! There will be no meeting on Monday November 19th, 2012 due to the upcoming Thanksgiving Recess and the potential lack of members. No meeting Thursday November 22nd, 2012. Anime pot luck - Mindscrew round. One episode from the titles with the highest votes were viewed.
Show: Cowboy Bebop (Kauboi Bibappu)
Overview (Official Description): Meet Spike and Jet, a drifter and a retired cyborg cop. They've formed a partnership in a bounty hunting enterprise that specializes in adventure and cash. Using an old converted fishing ship called the Bebop, with the help of the intelligent data dog, Ein, the mysterious and vexing femme fatale, Faye Valentine, and Ed, the genius hacker -- Spike and Jet scour the galaxy to clean up space, one bounty at a time.
Links: Official Site (English), Official Site (Japanese), Wikipedia, ANN, AnimeNfo, AniDB, MyAnimeList
Show: A Country Doctor (Kafuka: Inaka Isha)
Overview (Official Description): A hapless country doctor describes with breathless urgency a night-time summons to attend a young patient. Events soon take on a surreal aspect as "unearthly horses" transport him instantaneously to the bedside. The doctor, preoccupied with personal distractions and grievances against those he is employed to care for, fails to find what is revealed to be a vile, fatal wound. He is humiliated by the villagers who are "always expecting the impossible from the doctor," and doomed to an endless return trip, losing everything.
Links: Official Site (English), Official Site (Japanese), Wikipedia, ANN, AnimeNfo, AniDB, MyAnimeList
Show: Genocyber (Jenosaiba)
Overview (Official Description): It is time for the Gundam Fight tournament! Each country sends a Gundam to Earth for this prestigious tournament in the hopes of winning power and glory for their homeland! But this time, there's an unseen evil lurking behind the scene. Domon Kasshu, Neo Japan's reluctant Fighter, is determined to uncover this evil and clear his family name!
Links: Official Site (English), Official Site (Japanese), Wikipedia, ANN, AnimeNfo, AniDB, MyAnimeList
Meeting: Monday November 12th, 2012
Agenda: Thursday will be anime pot luck - Mindscrew round. There will be no meeting on Monday November 19th, 2012 due to the upcoming Thanksgiving Recess and the potential lack of members.
Show: Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok (Matantei Roki RAGNAROK)
Overview (Official Description): Ah, how the mighty have fallen! Caged inside a little boy's body and banished to Earth by the almighty Odin, the still-proud and powerful Loki now runs the Enjaku Detective Agency. Joined by his trusted assistant Yamino and a beautiful (but accident prone) high school girl named Mayura, Loki earns a living probing the darkest corners of the paranormal, the occult, and the otherwise peculiar. And yet the one metaphysical mystery that involves him directly remains unsolved: what has he done to be exiled to Earth? How can he return to Asgard? Why do the other Norse Gods want him dead?
Links: Official Site (English), Official Site (Japanese), Wikipedia, ANN, AnimeNfo, AniDB, MyAnimeList
Meeting: Thursday November 8th, 2012
Agenda: Thursday will be anime pot luck - Mindscrew round.
Show: Kids on the Slope (Sakamichi no Aporon)
Overview (Official Description): The beginning of summer, 1966. Because of his father’s job situation, freshman high school student Kaoru Nishimi moves by himself from Yokosuka to Kyushu to live with relatives. Until then, Kaoru was an honor roll student who tended to keep to himself, but meeting notorious bad boy Sentaro Kawabuchi starts to change him. Through his devil-may-care classmate, Kaoru learns the attractions of jazz and finds the first person he can call a “friend”. He also discovers how much fun it is to play music with a pal.
Links: Official Site (English), Official Site (Japanese), Wikipedia, ANN, AnimeNfo, AniDB, MyAnimeList
Meeting: Monday November 5th, 2012
Agenda: There will be no meeting on Monday November 19th, 2012 due to the upcoming Thanksgiving Recess and the potential lack of members. Matt has won the Penny Wars competition and will be pied on Thursday. Anime pot luck will be held on Thursday November 15th, 2012, genre TBD. Congratulations to poster contest winners, with Julia & Lauren placing first, Tori second, and Sivvy third.
Show: The Irresponsible Captain Tylor (Musekinin Kancho Taira)
Overview (Official Description): Justy Ueki Tylor had his life all planned out: join the military, get a cushy desk job, and then retire with a big fat pension check. The perfect plan...until he wandered into a hostage situation and somehow managed to save an admiral! Now Tylor - a man who wouldn't know what discipline was if it bit him on the backside - has been made Captain of the space cruiser Soyokaze. The crew of this run-down ship is the craziest rag-tag team of misfits you're ever likely to see, and they're not too fond of their complacent new leader. But they'd better learn to work together, because they're about to go head to head with the mighty Raalgon Empire. For better or for worse, the Earth's fate has been placed in the hands of a man who's either a total idiot - or an absolute genius!
Links: Official Site (English), Official Site (Japanese), Wikipedia, ANN, AnimeNfo, AniDB, MyAnimeList
Meeting: Thursday November 1st, 2012
Agenda: BUMAC held its annual Halloween party. Thanks to
all those who dressed up, we had over a dozen members and officers come with a costume. Congratulations to Lauren who won first place with Fionna and Aaron who won second place with Lumberjack. Thanks to all those who attended!
Show: Texhnolyze (Tekunoraizu)
Overview (Official Description): Ichise's grief only allows him to enjoy the pain of the fighting pits in the underground city of Lukuss. However, when a gang punishes Ichise by cutting his arm and leg off, his will to live overcomes the odds and attracts the attention of the ruling Orugano syndicate that controls the cybernetic Texhnolyze technology which is usually reserved for the elite. Meanwhile, an outsider has come down to the city and, along with a young psychic girl, the dominos are beginning to fall in the seething unrest of the city as their paths slowly intertwine with Ichise's.
Links: Official Site (English), Official Site (Japanese), Wikipedia, ANN, AnimeNfo, AniDB, MyAnimeList
The Monday October 29th, 2012 meeting has been cancelled due to the closure of Bloomsburg University because of inclement weather.
Meeting: Thursday October 25th, 2012
Agenda: The poster contest will run until October 29th. Officer penny wars will run until October 29th. BUMAC will hold its annual Halloween Party on Monday October 29th, 2012. Members are encouraged to come in costume (not only cosplay, any costume is cool!). There will be a contest with small prizes for the best costumes! Members are encouraged to bring-in Horror anime/live-action shows for the meeting.
Show: AKB0048
Overview (Official Description): Year 0048: All forms of entertaiment have been banned... until now! A group of bold young women have resurrected a legendary J-Pop band to form an all new Band of Sisters – AKB0048! But these rocking rebels aren’t simply singers. Trained in combat as well as choreography, these musicians are ready to lay down their lives to combat this threat to intergalactic harmony. As the new recruits enter basic training and the veterans provide the musical soundtrack, batons and battle gear are about to be passed to a new generation of daring divas!
Links: Official Site (English), Official Site (Japanese), Wikipedia, ANN, AnimeNfo, AniDB, MyAnimeList
Meeting: Monday October 22nd, 2012
Agenda: The poster contest will run until October 29th. Officer penny wars will run until October 29th. BUMAC will hold its annual Halloween Party on Monday October 29th, 2012. Members are encouraged to come in costume (not only cosplay, any costume is cool!). There will be a contest with small prizes for the best costumes! Members are encouraged to bring-in Horror anime/live-action shows for the meeting.
Show: You Are Umasou (Omae Umasou da na)
Overview (Image and Description from AsianMediaWiki): By chance, a carnivorous Tyranosaurus Rex named Hatu is raised by herbivorous dinosaur Maiasaura. As Hatu grows bigger and bigger, his size starts to place his friends in fear. Finally, Hatu realizes who he is and leaves his home. Hatu decides to live alone, but one day, Hatu comes across a baby Ankylosaurus dinosaur. Hatu says out loud "Rawr! You look delicious" and opens his mouth to eat the baby dinosaur, but suddenly the baby dinosaur says "Dad! Is my name Umasou?" (which means literally looks delicious). Hatu is embarrassed and pretends to be Umasou's father. Day by day Hatu's mind expands like a father.
Links: Official Site (English), Official Site (Japanese), Wikipedia, ANN, AnimeNfo, AniDB, MyAnimeList
Meeting: Thursday October 18th, 2012
Agenda: The poster contest will run until October 29th. Officer penny wars will run until October 29th.
Show: Lupin III: Blood Seal - Eternal Mermaid (Chi no Kokuin - Eien no Mameido)
Overview (Description from Wikipedia): A pair of jewels hold the secret to an even greater treasure, but there are so many obstacles in Lupin's way. The smallest one is Maki, a precocious fourteen year old girl who wants Lupin to teach her to be a thief. But what is her tie to the treasure and the mysterious girl Misa, a girl who cannot die? The secrets behind the treasure reach back even into Lupin's past; will the Blood Seal be opened?!
Links: Official Site (English), Official Site (Japanese), Wikipedia, ANN, AnimeNfo, AniDB, MyAnimeList
Meeting: Monday October 15th, 2012
Agenda: Anime pot luck - Pre 1995 round. One episode from the four titles with the highest votes were viewed. The poster contest will run until October 29th. Officer penny wars will run until October 29th.
Show: Mobile Suit Gundam (Kido Senshi Gandamu)
Overview (Official Description): Universal Century 0079. The rebel space colonies of the Principality of Zeon launch a war of independence against the Earth Federation, using humanoid fighting vehicles called mobile suits to overwhelm the Federation Forces and conquer half of Earth's surface. Months later, the Federation has finally developed its own prototype mobile suits at a remote space colony. But when the colony suffers a Zeon surprise attack, these new weapons fall into the hands of a motley crew of civilians and cadets, and fate places a youth named Amuro Ray at the controls of the white mobile suit Gundam...
Links: Official Site (English), Official Site (Japanese), Wikipedia, ANN, AnimeNfo, AniDB, MyAnimeList
Show: Sailor Moon (Bishojo Senshi Sailor Moon)
Overview (Official Description): Sailor Moon is the story of a teenage girl who meets a magical cat who gives her super powers. She becomes the leader of a team of brave girls, known as the Sailor Warriors. Sailor Moon has long been justifiably renowned for the strength of its plot, its direct and honest treatment of romance and, in this uncut version, a realistic and unflinching acceptance of death as a necessary possible consequence of a righteous fight.
Links: Official Site (English), Official Site (Japanese), Wikipedia, ANN, AnimeNfo, AniDB, MyAnimeList
Show: Mobile Fighter G Gundam (Kido Butoden Ji Gandamu)
Overview (Official Description): It is time for the Gundam Fight tournament! Each country sends a Gundam to Earth for this prestigious tournament in the hopes of winning power and glory for their homeland! But this time, there's an unseen evil lurking behind the scene. Domon Kasshu, Neo Japan's reluctant Fighter, is determined to uncover this evil and clear his family name!
Links: Official Site (English), Official Site (Japanese), Wikipedia, ANN, AnimeNfo, AniDB, MyAnimeList
Show: The Irresponsible Captain Tylor (Musekinin Kancho Taira)
Overview (Official Description): Justy Ueki Tylor had his life all planned out: join the military, get a cushy desk job, and then retire with a big fat pension check. The perfect plan...until he wandered into a hostage situation and somehow managed to save an admiral! Now Tylor - a man who wouldn't know what discipline was if it bit him on the backside - has been made Captain of the space cruiser Soyokaze. The crew of this run-down ship is the craziest rag-tag team of misfits you're ever likely to see, and they're not too fond of their complacent new leader. But they'd better learn to work together, because they're about to go head to head with the mighty Raalgon Empire. For better or for worse, the Earth's fate has been placed in the hands of a man who's either a total idiot - or an absolute genius!
Links: Official Site (English), Official Site (Japanese), Wikipedia, ANN, AnimeNfo, AniDB, MyAnimeList
Meeting: Thursday October 11th, 2012
Agenda: See you at the Film Festival on Sunday! BUMAC will hold its annual Halloween Party on Monday October 29th, 2012. Monday will be anime pot luck - Pre 1995 round.
Show: Yobi, the Five Tailed Fox (Cheonnyeon-yeowoo Yeowoobi)
Overview (Image and Description from AsianMediaWiki): One night many, many years ago, long before anyone lived nearby, a very strange thing happened -- a flying saucer crash-landed into a hilltop, which happened to be the home of a curious young kumiho, or fox spirit. Today, even as the city crawls up the side of the mountain, they’re still there. And when Mr. Kang brings his class of misfits to a retreat up in the hilltop woods, the aliens from the saucer can’t resist giving them a scare, while the mischievous, shape-shifting kumiho, Yobi, can’t resist investigating the kids. In fact, she finds herself falling in love with one boy in particular, Geum-yee. Yobi’s masquerade is a barrel of fun, until a fierce and implacable hunter crashes into everyone’s lives. Things are about to get even stranger in Yobi’s world. And when the truth about her fate becomes clear to Yobi, maybe heartbreaking as well.
Links: Official Site (English), Official Site (Japanese), Wikipedia, ANN, AnimeNfo, AniDB, MyAnimeList
Meeting: Monday October 8th, 2012
Agenda: The Fall Film Fest will be on Sunday October 14th, 2012 from 10:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. in Centennial Hall Rooms 218, 244, and 245. BUMAC will hold its annual Halloween Party on Monday October 29th, 2012. Members are encouraged to come in costume (not only cosplay, any costume is cool!). There will be a contest with small prizes for the best costumes! Members are encouraged to bring-in Horror anime/live-action shows for the meeting. Monday will be anime pot luck - Pre 1995 round.
Show: Nichijou (Nichijo)
Overview (Official Description): Life in a small city needn't be boring. Not when your city is home to a host of deeply odd people. Granted some residents, like high-school buddies Mio and Yuki, are fairly normal. Yuki is a world-class space-case and Mio has an unusual mastery of wrestling and boxing, but... okay, so they're odd too. Together with fellow residents such as Nano, the frequently modified robot of five-year-old genius the Professor, talking cat Sakamoto (that's Sakamoto-san to you!), and their own friend, the poker-faced lunatic Mai, they lead provincial lives that are perfectly mundane and thoroughly bizarre.
Links: Official Site (English), Official Site (Japanese), Wikipedia, ANN, AnimeNfo, AniDB, MyAnimeList
Meeting: Thursday October 4th, 2012
Agenda: The Fall Film Fest will be on Sunday October 14th, 2012 from 10:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. in Centennial Hall Rooms 218, 244, and 245.
Show: Upotte!!
Overview (Official Description): Its going to be difficult for newly recruited human instructor Genkoku to adjust to working with a living arsenal of high caliber cuties- especially since many have hair triggers and there is no bulletproof vest that can stop a really determined coed! Get ready for explosive situations, armor piercing rounds, cheap shots galore and one very shell shocked homeroom instructor!
Links: Official Site (English), Official Site (Japanese), Wikipedia, ANN, AnimeNfo, AniDB, MyAnimeList
Meeting: Monday October 1st, 2012
Agenda: The Fall Film Fest will be on Sunday October 14th, 2012 from 10:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. in Centennial Hall Rooms 218, 244, and 245.
Show: Sword Art Online (Sodo Ato Onrain)
Overview (Official Description): In the near future, a Virtual Reality Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (VRMMORPG) called Sword Art Online has been released where players control their avatars with their bodies using a piece of technology called: Nerve Gear. One day, players discover they cannot log out, as the game creator is holding them captive unless they reach the 100th floor of the game's tower and defeat the final boss. However, if they die in the game, they die in real life. Their struggle for survival starts now...
Links: Official Site (English), Official Site (Japanese), Wikipedia, ANN, AnimeNfo, AniDB, MyAnimeList
Meeting: Thursday September 27th, 2012
Agenda: Anime pot luck - Comedy round! One episode from the five titles with the highest votes were viewed. The poster contest will run until October 29th. Officer penny wars continue.
Show: Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei)
Overview (Official Description): Nozomu Itoshiki is depressed. Very depressed. He’s certifiably suicidal, but he’s also the beloved schoolteacher of a class of unique students, each charming in her own way: The stalker. The shut-in. The obsessive-compulsive. The girl who comes to class every day with strange bruises. And Kafuka, the most optimistic girl in the world, who knows that every cloud has a silver lining. For all of them, it’s a special time, when the right teacher can have a lasting positive effect on their lives. But is that teacher Itoshiki, a.k.a. Zetsubou-sensei, who just wants to find the perfect place to die?
Links: Official Site (English), Official Site (Japanese), Wikipedia, ANN, AnimeNfo, AniDB, MyAnimeList
Show: Yondemasu yo, Azazel-san
Overview (Description from Wikipedia): After finding out her husband was cheating on her, a client seeks the help of demon detective Akutabe and his new assistant Rinko Sakuma to make him stop. Akutabe summons Azazel for the task, but he fails two times. To encourage him, he entices Azazel by canceling their contract if he succeeds. He finally does by making the cheater impotent from a suggestion made by Rinko.
Links: Official Site (English), Official Site (Japanese), Wikipedia, ANN, AnimeNfo, AniDB, MyAnimeList
Show: Shirokuma Cafe (Shirokuma Kafe)
Overview (Description from Wikipedia): Shirokuma Cafe follows around the everyday lives of a group of animals mingling with humans at a cafe run by a polar bear.
Links: Official Site (English), Official Site (Japanese), Wikipedia, ANN, AnimeNfo, AniDB, MyAnimeList
Show: Cromartie High School (Sakigake!! Kuromati Koko)
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.
Links: Official Site (English), Official Site (Japanese), Wikipedia, ANN, AnimeNfo, AniDB, MyAnimeList
Show: Detroit Metal City (Detoroito Metaru Shiti)
Overview (Official Description): Soichi Negishi dreamed of moving to Tokyo and starting up a bubblegum pop band, so what's he doing playing in Detroit Metal City, the most scandalous, outrageous and demonic death metal band on the Japanese music scene? Deep down inside, Soichi still dreams of acoustic guitars and trips to Paris, but when the makeup comes on and he transforms into his alter ego, Krauser II, not even the denizens of hell itself are safe from his soul-devouring heavy metal sound. By all accounts, Soichi Negishi is the last person on earth anyone would expect to be the front man for a death metal band: a meek little loser who's still a virgin and wants nothing more than to sing fluffy pop ballads in trendy neighborhoods. Can he reconcile his sensitive inner yearnings with his on-stage persona, Krauser II, the vilest hard rocker in Japanese (and possibly world) history?
Links: Official Site (English), Official Site (Japanese), Wikipedia, ANN, AnimeNfo, AniDB, MyAnimeList
Show: Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (Bobobobo Bobobo)
Overview (Official Description): He's soulful... He's dynamic... And he's HAIRY. Meet BoBoBo-Bo Bo-BoBo. With his golden afro and 5-foot nose hairs as weapons, he's out to protect hairdom from the authoritarian tyrant, Czar Baldy Bald IV, who has initiated a "Hair Hunt" to crack down on any citizens who wish to hold on to their curly locks. Join BoBoBo as he rescues Beauty, turns into fruit, sits inside a large burger bun, turns into a tank, cross-dresses, and introduces the would-be hair snatchers to his Honorable King Nose Hair, Bababa-Baba-Baba. Together, BoBoBo and Beauty team up with a similarly wacky group of allies - including the unpredictable Don Patch and Gasser, a sidekick who uses flatulence as a weapon.
Links: Official Site (English), Official Site (Japanese), Wikipedia, ANN, AnimeNfo, AniDB, MyAnimeList
Meeting: Monday September 24th, 2012
Agenda: The poster contest will run until October 29th. Thursday will be anime pot luck - Comedy round. Officer penny wars continue.
Show: Steins;Gate (Shutainzu Geto)
Overview (Official Description): The microwave is a time machine. Okarin proved it. The self-anointed mad scientist nuked bananas into some gelatinous version of the future. Or maybe it was the past. Doesn’t matter. No one thought he could do it, but he did it anyway. He sent text messages through time to people he knew. To his friends. Some of them female. Pretty. He should have been more careful. He should have stopped. Tampering with the time-space continuum attracts unwelcome attention. Clandestine organizations of nefarious origins take notice. SERN. Always watching. Okarin knows; he can feel their eyes. That's why he started the top secret Future Gadget Lab. To stop them. You should join. We get to wear lab coats, and it's dangerous. Danger is exciting because it’s deadly. The microwave is a time machine.
Links: Official Site (English), Official Site (Japanese), Wikipedia, ANN, AnimeNfo, AniDB, MyAnimeList
Meeting: Thursday September 20th, 2012
Agenda: Next Thursday will be anime pot luck - Comedy round. One episode from the five comedy titles with the highest votes will be viewed. Officer penny wars continue. Poster contest is now underway with prizes for the winners!
Show: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Kaze no Tani no Naushika)
Overview (Official Description): A thousand years after a global war, a seaside kingdom known as the Valley Of The Wind remains one of only a few areas still populated. Led by the courageous Princess Nausicaa, the people of the Valley are engaged in a constant struggle with powerful insects called ohmu, who guard a poisonous jungle that is spreading across the Earth. Nausicaa and her brave companions, together with the people of the Valley, strive to restore the bond between humanity and the Earth.
Links: Official Site (English), Official Site (Japanese), Wikipedia, ANN, AnimeNfo, AniDB, MyAnimeList
Meeting: Monday September 17th, 2012
Agenda: Officer penny wars continue.
Show: Kaiba
Overview (Official Description): What are memories? Souls? Spirits? This is a world where memories can be turned into data and stored. Even if the body dies, its memories live on and can be transferred to another body. Bad memories can be erased and good ones downloaded. However, this is something only privileged can do. In a world like this, our protagonist Warp (aka Kaiba) is travelling in another body while having no memories of his own...
Links: Official Site (English), Official Site (Japanese), Wikipedia, ANN, AnimeNfo, AniDB, MyAnimeList
Meeting: Thursday September 13th, 2012
Agenda: Anime pot luck! One episode from the five titles with the highest votes were viewed. Officer penny wars continue.
Show: Japanese Spiderman (Supaidaman)
Overview (Description from Wikipedia): Young motorcycle racer Takuya Yamashiro sees a UFO falling to earth, in fact a space warship named the "Marveller" from the planet "Spider". Takuya's father Dr. Hiroshi Yamashiro, a space archaeologist, investigates the case, but is killed upon finding the spaceship. The incident also brings the attention of Professor Monster and his evil Iron Cross Army, an alien group that plans to rule the universe. Takuya follows his father to the Marveller and discovers Garia, the last surviving warrior of Planet Spider, a world that was destroyed by Professor Monster and the Iron Cross Army. Garia explains that he was hunting Prof. Monster but now needs someone to carry on the fight and he injects Takuya with some of his own blood. The blood of a person from Planet Spider gives Takuya spider-like powers. Garia then gives Takuya a bracelet that can activate his spider protector costume, shoot web-lines, and controls the Marveller ship (which can also transform into a giant battle robot called "Leopardon"). Using his powers, Takuya, now called Spider-Man, fights Professor Monster's army and other threats to Earth under the name Spider-Man.
Links: Official Site, Wikipedia, IMDb
Show: Je t'aime
Overview (Official Description): Tokyo, the near future. As humanity has been wiped out from the planet after the final war, a lonely basset hound wanders around a deserted city. Its only wish is to feel the warmth of a human being once again. Then, one day a bewitchingly beautiful girl-shaped robot appears in front of the dog...Mamoru Oshii tells a story of ultimate love in a world without people.
Links: Official Site (English), Official Site (Japanese), Wikipedia, ANN, AnimeNfo, AniDB, MyAnimeList
Show: Star Driver (Suta Doraiba Kagayaki no Takuto)
Overview (Official Description): On the southern edge of Japan, the inhabitants of Southern Cross Island lead seemingly normal lives but far beneath the surface of this quiet island lies an ancient secret that lays dormant until Takuto Tsunashi washes ashore one night. Upon enrolling in Southern Cross Island High School, Takuto and his friends become embroiled in a conflict with a clandestine society to control giant machines, called Cybodies, sealed under the island and whose powers are bound by special shrine maidens. What secrets will Takuto dig up and how will he deal with the obstacles that lie ahead of him as this struggle will threaten to tear apart the entire island?!
Links: Official Site (English), Official Site (Japanese), Wikipedia, ANN, AnimeNfo, AniDB, MyAnimeList
Show: Daily Lives of High School Boys (Danshi Kokosei no Nichijo)
Overview (Official Description): Join Tadakuni, Hidenori and Yoshitake as they undergo the trials and tribulations of life in high school! Each episode presents the boys and their classmates in unique situations that you may or may not have faced in high school yourself! You'll laugh! You'll cry! (But hopefully laugh more.) You'll be astounded by the zany antics of the Sanada High School community!
Links: Official Site (English), Official Site (Japanese), Wikipedia, ANN, AnimeNfo, AniDB, MyAnimeList
Show: La Maison en Petits Cubes (Tsumiki no Ie)
Overview (Description from Wikipedia): As his town is flooded by water, an aged widower is forced to add additional levels onto his home in order to stay dry. But when he accidentally drops his favorite smoking pipe into the lower submerged levels of his home, his search for the pipe eventually makes him relive scenes from his eventful life.
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Meeting: Monday September 10th, 2012
Agenda: Thursday will be anime pot luck. One episode from the five titles with the highest votes will be viewed. Officer penny wars has started for the semester, the officer with the most money in the end will be pied by their freshman rep!
Show: Sword of the Stranger (Sutorenjia Mukohadan)
Overview (Official Description): What qualifies a man as good or evil? Is it the amount of political power one attains, the quality of his swordsmanship, or how well he serves his lord? With the fall of the second shogunate Japan has sunk into a state of disarray historians now call the Sengoku period, or the era of Warring States. Civil wars rage on throughout the many feudal holdings, where a man may raise his station in life simply by killing his superior. Whilst wandering this war-torn countryside a nameless ronin stumbles upon a young boy by the name of Kotaro, his dog, and the many Chinese assassins dispatched to claim the boy in some strange ritual for immortality. Seeing something of his own past within the child, the nameless swordsman chooses to act as his bodyguard, but can he truly keep Kotaro from the clutches of the Ming and their bloodthirsty blonde mercenary, Luo-Lang?
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Meeting: Thursday September 6th, 2012
Agenda: Next Thursday will be anime pot luck. One episode from the five titles with the highest votes will be viewed. Officer penny wars will be starting for the semester, the officer with the most money in the end will be pied by their freshman rep!
Show: Phi Brain: Puzzle of God (Fai Burein Kami no Pazuru)
Overview (Official Description): Kaito Daimon is a puzzle solving machine. So much is his mastery over all that is perplexing, that he suddenly becomes entwined in a lethal game of Riddle Me This. The contender? A deadly Philosopher's Puzzle, the creation of a sinister group named POG. Along with his "friend" Nanoha, he is pulled into a world of mysteries, where failing to find the solution could mean taking his last breath. Solving the puzzle is only the beginning of Kaito's problems!
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No meeting on Monday September 3rd, 2012 due to the Labor Day holiday.
Meeting: Thursday August 30th, 2012
Agenda: First regular meeting of the semester. With Michael not returning to Bloomsburg University, Ryan has assumed the position of President and appointed Nate to fill the now vacant Vice President officer position. Freshman representatives were appointed.
Show: The Tower of Druaga: the Aegis of Uruk (Doruaga no To ~ji Ijisu obu Uruku~)
Overview (Official Description): Scaling the sixty treacherous floors of the Tower of Druaga is no game. Infested with slimes, dragons, and tentacled beasts, very few survive its twisting corridors and lethal traps. Those who reach the top must face Druaga, the demon protecting the mysterious, treasured Blue Crystal Rod. It is a grueling campaign undertaken by only the bravest swordsmen and wisest sorcerers - and Jil. A young guardian with little experience, Jil raises his shield to play the role of hero, battling his way up to the level where Druaga waits.
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