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Andrew Elliott

2024-05-26T01:15:03Z

Moroboshi ataru: /* What people say */ add nickname

== Officer Positions ==
{| class="wikitable"
![[2014-2015]]
|Secretary
|-
![[2013-2014]]
|President
|-
![[2012-2013]]
|Librarian/Events
|}

==What people say==
*Resident SAOboy (Sword Art Online).
*Only one who voiced concern over showing Future Diary...and he was ignored...and consequently proven right.
*Drives an old-ass truck that people used to climb into to get dinner in.
*Also known as Jose.

[[Category:Members]][[Category:Former Officers]][[Category:Librarians]][[Category:Presidents]][[Category:Secretaries]]

Main Page

2021-07-21T04:21:51Z

Moroboshi ataru: Removing gallery link as it ran on obsolete software and hasn't been updated in over a decade.

New to MNA? Start at the [[2020-2021|current year]] for officers/shows/movies/events or go back to the [http://www.minnanoanime.org MNA homepage] for the latest news.

== Useful Links to All Things Minna no Anime ==
<div style="column-count:2;-moz-column-count:2;-webkit-column-count:2">
*Homepage: [http://www.minnanoanime.org link]
*Forum: [http://www.minnanoanime.org/forum/ link]
*DeviantART: [http://minnanoanime.deviantart.com/ link]
*Twitter: [http://twitter.com/minnanoanime link]
*Facebook Page: [http://www.facebook.com/MinnaNoAnime link]
*Facebook Group: [http://www.facebook.com/groups/2211151881/ link]
*Alumni Facebook Group: [http://www.facebook.com/groups/minnalumni/ link]
</div>

== Obligatory Disclaimer - Unofficial Site ==

This wiki is an UNOFFICIAL attempt by current and former members to record the history of Cal Poly's Anime Club. This page is not hosted on Cal Poly servers and is not administered by the officers of Minna no Anime. Some events mentioned on this site (all events occuring off of the Cal Poly campus not directly related to preparations for the Halloween Party or Open House) were informal and unofficial social gatherings arranged privately between students, and were not official club activities in any way sanctioned or endorsed by ASI or Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. As a wiki, this site is composed entirely of user-submitted content. As a result, the content of this wiki may not reflect the views of the administrators of this site, the views of the officers or members of Minna no Anime, or the actual history of events as they transpired. Some portions of this site may quite possibly have nothing to do with any version of reality as we know it. Consider yourself warned.

== Minna No Anime Club History ==
[[Image:PhyllisMegaTamago.jpg|thumb|right|320px|The chef at [[Goshi]] surprised President [[Phyllis Douglas]] with a very special tamago nigiri. (June 3, 2012)]]

[[Image:OpenHouse2011.jpg|thumb|right|320px|The MNA booth dressed as the Cat Bus at Open House 2011 (Apr 16, 2011)]]

[[Image:15thanniversary.jpg|thumb|right|320px|Group shot of attendees of MnA's 15th Anniversary party]]

This project is an attempt to document the history of Cal Poly's Anime Club for current, former, and future members and officers. It is still a growing wiki, so may not always have the complete story. If you have information not in the wiki, please make any changes or additions you desire (you must register on the [http://minnanoanime.org/forum MnA forum] and [[Special:Userlogin|log in]] to the wiki to edit pages or email other users -- we know it's a pain but it stops the spambots from taking over when we're not looking).

Please read [[MinnaHistoryWiki:Policies|our policies]] before uploading images or editing your own wiki entry -- we encourage you to do both within reason.

There are still several [[Special:Wantedpages|pages that need content]]. Information on these subjects is particularly welcome.

Consult the [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide User's Guide] for information on using the wiki software.

=== Years at a glance ===
* [[2021-2022]]
* [[2020-2021]]
* [[2019-2020]]
* [[2018-2019]]
* [[2017-2018]]
* [[2016-2017]]
* [[2015-2016]]
* [[2014-2015]]
* [[2013-2014]]
* [[2012-2013]]
* [[2011-2012]]
* [[2010-2011]]
* [[2009-2010]]
* [[2008-2009]]
* [[2007-2008]]
* [[2006-2007]]
* [[2005-2006]]
* [[2004-2005]]
* [[2003-2004]]
* [[2002-2003]]
* [[2001-2002]]
* [[2000-2001]]
* [[1999-2000]]
* [[1998-1999]]
* [[1997-1998]]
* [[1996-1997]]
* [[1995-1996]]
* [[Pre-1995]]

=== Other Things ===
*[[Special:Categories|View All Categories]]
*[[:Category:Shows|Shows]]
*[[:Category:Movies|Movies]]
*[[Simulnight]]
*[[Simulcast o' the Week]]
*[[:Category:Emotes|Emotes]]
*[[Fansub o' the Week]]
*[[:Category:Members|View the Club Roster]]
*[[MNA Logo]]
*[[Halloween Party]]
*[[Pictionary Parties]]
*[[Goshi|Quarterly Goshi (formerly Tsurugi) Trips]]
*[[Open House]]
*[[T-shirt Designs]]
*[[Challenges]] -- Wasabi and Soy Sauce aka Stupidity
*[[Conventions]] -- Fanime and AX memories
*[[:Category:Positions|Positions that Can Be Held in the Club]]
*[[:Category:Inside Jokes|Inside Jokes]]
*[[Minna no Anime Traditions]]
*[[MnA AIM screennames]]
*[[:Category:Secret Bases|Secret Bases]]

2018-2019

2019-05-29T18:33:18Z

Moroboshi ataru: Simulcast -> Simulcast o' the Week

{{yearnav|2018-2019|2017-2018|2019-2020|}}

[[Image:MNA 2019 Shirt Design.png|thumb|right|2018 T-shirt Design]]
== Officers ==
{| class="wikitable"
!President
|[[Brandon Dela Cruz]]
|-
!Vice President
|[[Kellen Dobson]]
|-
!Secretary
|[[Michael Hendricks]]
|-
!Treasurer
|[[David Le]]
|-
!Webmaster
|[[Shawn Budwal]]
|-
!Scribe
|[[Hannah Wilkins]]
|-
!Event Coordinator
|[[Corrie Brennan]]
|}

== Schedule ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Time
!Show
!Notes
|-
|colspan=3|
|-
!5:10
|[[Simulcast o' the Week]]
|
|-
! rowspan=2|5:35
|[[Kids on the Slope]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Sound of the Sky]]
|Winter-Spring
|-
|colspan=3|
|-
! rowspan=2|6.10
|[[Rideback]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Spice and Wolf]]
|Winter-Spring
|-
!6:35
|[[Trigun]]
|
|-
|colspan=3|
|-
!7:10
|[[BIG BREAK]] (aka diner)
|-
|colspan=3|
|-
!8:05
|[[March Comes Like a Lion]]
|
|-
! rowspan=2|8:30
|[[Tatami Galaxy]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Land of the Lustrous ]]
|Winter-Spring
|-
|colspan=3|
|-
! rowspan=2| 9:05
|[[Baccano]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Death Parade]]
|Winter-Spring
|-
!9:30
|[[Psycho Pass]]
|
|-
|}

== Movies ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Fall
|[[Cowboy Bebop - Knockin' on Heaven's Door|Knockin' on Heaven's Door]]
|-
!Winter
| [[The Night is Short, Walk on Girl]]
|-
!Spring
| [[]]
|}

== Specials ==
Two of the [[Sound of the Sky]] OVAs were shown to make up for empty slots in the schedule.

Alternative schedules were run on Open House and Fanime weekends to compensate for lower member attendance.

== Events ==
<ul>
<li>[[Halloween Party]]</li>
<li>[[Fall 2018 Goshis trip]]</li>
</ul>

== Notes ==
On April 18th, 2019, the very first "[[Photoshop Battles|Photoshop Battle]]" took place. Using an photo of [[Shawn Budwal]], several Minna members photoshopped Shawn into different memes, and the memes were displayed during Minna No Hangout and judged by popular vote to determine which was the best. This friendly competition was set up by member Isaiah Chavez.

[[Category:Timeline]]

2017-2018

2019-05-29T18:33:02Z

Moroboshi ataru: Simulcast -> Simulcast o' the Week

{{yearnav|2017-2018|2016-2017|2018-2019|}}

[[Image:Tshirt2018.png|thumb|right|2018 T-shirt Design]]
== Officers ==
{| class="wikitable"
!President
|[[Andrew Harris]]
|-
!Vice President
|[[Kian Gruszczynski]]
|-
!Secretary
|[[Michael Hendricks]]
|-
!Treasurer
|[[David Le]]
|-
!Webmaster
|[[Hannah Wilkins]]
|-
!Scribe
|[[Justin Rosescu]]
|-
!Event Coordinator
|[[Omar Rosales]]
|}

== Schedule ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Time
!Show
!Notes
|-
|colspan=3|
|-
!5:10
|[[Simulcast o' the Week]]
|
|-
!5:35
|[[Angelic Layer]]
|
|-
|colspan=3|
|-
!6:10
|[[Ouran High School Host Club]]
|
|-
! rowspan=2|6:35
|[[Non Non Biyori]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Sweetness and Lightning]]
|Winter-Spring
|-
|colspan=3|
|-
!7:10
|[[BIG BREAK]]
|
|-
|colspan=3|
|-
! rowspan=2| 8:05
|[[Kino's Journey]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Humanity Has Declined]]
|Winter-Spring
|-
! rowspan=2|8:30
|[[Rage of Bahamut: Genesis]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Kekkai Sensen (Blood Blockade Battlefront)]]
|Winter-Spring
|-
|colspan=3|
|-
! rowspan=2| 9:05
|[[Mob Psycho 100]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Tokyo Magnitude 8.0]]
|Winter-Spring
|-
!9:30
|[[Samurai Champloo]]
|
|-
|}

== Movies ==
{| class="wikitable"
! rowspan=2|Fall
| [[Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind]]
|-
| [[Jin-Roh: Wolf Brigade]]
|-
!Winter
| [[In This Corner of the World]]
|-
!Spring
| [[Sword of the Stranger]]
|}

== Specials ==
2 movies were shown as a double-feature at the end of Fall Quarter.

== Events ==
Goshis was renovating at the time of the Quarterly Goshis trip for Winter 2018. As such, we did not go to Goshis for Winter or Spring (we returned in Fall of 2018).

[[Minna no Discord]] was created for officer-only use

== Notes ==

Dinner time entertainment consisted of modifying pages on the history wiki, ripping apart officer MAL lists, watching random AMVs and evolution of studio openings, watching old-ass anime episodes controlled by [[David Le]], and whatever random shenanigans the officer who was in charge of the computer decided to do that night.
[[Category:Timeline]]

[[Category:Timeline]]

Category:Shows

2019-05-29T18:32:40Z

Moroboshi ataru: Simulcast -> Simulcast o' the Week

Notes: You can find out what "[[livesub|LIVESUB]]" is by going to that link.

[[2017-2018]]
{| class="wikitable"
!Time
!Show
!Notes
|-
|colspan=3|
|-
!5:10
|[[Simulcast o' the Week]]
|
|-
!5:35
|[[Angelic Layer]]
|
|-
|colspan=3|
|-
!6:10
|[[Ouran High School Host Club]]
|
|-
! rowspan=2|6:35
|[[Non Non Biyori]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Sweetness and Lightning]]
|Winter-Spring
|-
|colspan=3|
|-
!7:10
|[[BIG BREAK]]
|
|-
|colspan=3|
|-
! rowspan=2| 8:05
|[[Kino's Journey]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Humanity Has Declined]]
|Winter-Spring
|-
! rowspan=2|8:30
|[[Rage of Bahamut: Genesis]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Kekkai Sensen (Blood Blockade Battlefront)]]
|Winter-Spring
|-
|colspan=3|
|-
! rowspan=2| 9:05
|[[Mob Psycho 100]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Tokyo Magnitude 8.0]]
|Winter-Spring
|-
!9:30
|[[Samurai Champloo]]
|
|-
|}

[[2016-2017]]
{| class="wikitable"
! Show !! Notes
|-
|[[Inari Kon Kon]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Sound! Euphonium]]
|Winter-Spring
|-
|[[Mushishi The Next Passage]]
|
|-
|[[Yona of the Dawn]]
|
|-
|[[Shirobako]]
|
|-
|[[Ping Pong: The Animation]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Hourou Musuko Wandering Son]]
|Winter-Spring
|-
|[[Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans]]
|
|-
|[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Erased]]
|Winter-Spring
|}

[[2015-2016]]
{| class="wikitable"
! Show !! Notes
|-
|[[Last Exile]]
|
|-
|-
|[[Haikyuu!!]]
|
|-
|[[Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Barakamon]]
|Winter-Spring [[Livesub]]
|-
|[[Taisho Baseball Girls]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Noragami]]
|Winter-Spring
|-
|[[Your Lie in April]]
|
|-
|[[Tiger & Bunny]]
|
|-
|[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]
|
|}

[[2014-2015]]
{| class="wikitable"
! Show !! Notes
|-
|[[Log Horizon]]
|
|-
|-
|[[Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[The Eccentric Family]]
|Winter-Spring
|-
|[[The Devil Is a Part-Timer!]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU]]
|Winter-Spring
|-
|[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]
|
|-
|[[Kokoro Connect]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Kyousougiga]]
|Late Winter-Spring. Started from Episode 1
|-
|-
|[[From the New World]]
|
|-
|[[The Future Diary]]
|
|}

[[2013-2014]]
{| class="wikitable"
! Show !! Notes

|-
|[[Kurenai]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Bunny Drop]]
|Winter-Spring

|-
|[[Waiting in the Summer]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Kids on the Slope]]
|Winter-Spring

|-
|[[A Certain Magical Index]]
|

|-
|[[Binbogami-ga!]]
|Fall-Winter, [[livesub|LIVESUB]]
|-
|[[anohana|anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day]]
|Winter-Spring
|-

|[[Ghost Hound]]
|
|-

|[[Penguindrum]]
|
|-

|[[Guyver|Guyver (2005)]]
|

|-
|[[Another]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Bakeneko|Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales - Ghost Cat]]
|Winter
|-
|[[Mononoke]]
|Winter-Spring, [[livesub|LIVESUB]]
|}

[[2012-2013]]
{| class="wikitable"
! Show !! Notes

|-
|[[Princess Jellyfish]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Natsume Yuujinchou San]]
|Winter-Spring, [[livesub|LIVESUB]]
|-
|[[Kimi ni Todoke]]
|

|-
|[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]
|

|-
|[[Sound of the Sky]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[UN-GO]]
|Winter-Spring

|-
|[[Durarara!!]]
|

|-
|[[Gundam 00 Season 2]]
|
|-
|[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai]]
|[[livesub|LIVESUB]]
|-
|[[Katanagatari]]
|45 minute episodes, Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Angel Beats!]]
|Winter-Spring

|-
|[[C - Control - Money of Soul and Possibility]]
|Winter-Spring
|}

[[2011-2012]]
{| class="wikitable"
! Show !! Notes
|-
|[[Spice and Wolf II]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Zoku Natsume Yuujinchou]]
|Winter-Spring LIVESUB

|-
|[[Allison and Lillia|Allison & Lillia]]
|

|-
|[[Utawarerumono]]
|

|-
|[[The Irresponsible Captain Tylor]]
|

|-
|[[Skip Beat!]]
|LIVESUB

|-
|[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]
|
|-
|[[Birdy The Mighty: Decode]]
|
|-
|[[Oh! Edo Rocket]]
|

|-
|[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]
|
|}

[[2010-2011]]
{| class="wikitable"
! Show !! Notes
|-
|[[School Rumble]]
|
|-

|[[Spice and Wolf]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Natsume Yuujinchou]]
|Winter-Spring LIVESUB

|-
|[[Seirei no Moribito]]
|
|-
|[[Clannad]]
|
|-
|[[Toradora!]]
|
|-
|[[Fantastic Children]]
|
|-
|[[Claymore]]
|
|-
|[[Gungrave]]
|
|-
|[[Kaiji]]
|LIVESUB
|}

[[2009-2010]]
{| class="wikitable"
! Show !! Notes

|-
|[[Kamichu!]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu]]
|Winter-Spring

|-
|[[Emma]]
|

|-
|[[Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[FLAG]]
|Winter-Spring

|-
|[[Sousei no Aquarion]]
|

|-
|[[Yakitate! Japan]]
|LIVESUB

|-
|[[Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Sengoku Basara]]
|Winter-Spring LIVESUB
|-
|[[Darker than BLACK]]
|
|-
|[[Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad]]
|

|-
|[[Baccano!]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Eden of the East]]
|Winter-Spring LIVESUB
|}

[[2008-2009]]
{| class="wikitable"
! Show !! Notes
|-
|[[Ouran High School Host Club]]
|LIVESUB for eps 1-5
|-
|[[Moyashimon]]
|Fall-Winter LIVESUB
|-
|[[Cromartie High School]]
|Winter-Spring
|-
|[[Ranma 1/2]]
|
|-
|[[xxxHOLiC]]
|
|-
|[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]
|
|-
|[[Paradise Kiss]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Rozen Maiden]]
|Winter-Spring
|-
|[[Planetes]]
|
|-
|[[Jojo's Bizarre Adventure]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Black Lagoon]]
|Winter-Spring
|-
|[[Welcome to the NHK!]]
|
|-
|[[Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket]]
|Used to fill time at the end of the year
|-
|[[Yukikaze]]
|Used to fill time at the end of the year
|}

[[2007-2008]]
{| class="wikitable"
! Show !! Notes
|-
|[[Dokkoida?!]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[L/R]]
|Winter-Spring
|-
|[[The Law of Ueki]]
|
|-
|[[GUNxSWORD]]
|
|-
|[[Master Keaton]]
|
|-
|[[Mushishi]]
|
|-
|[[Otogi Zoshi]]
|
|-
|[[Noein]]
|
|-
|[[Le Chevalier D'Eon]]
|
|-
|[[Ergo Proxy]]
|
|-
|[[The Karas]]
|Used to fill time at the end of the year
|}

[[2006-2007]]
{| class="wikitable"
! Show !! Notes
|-
|[[Honey and Clover]]
|LIVESUB
|-
|[[Vandread]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]
|Winter-Spring LIVESUB
|-
|[[Kyou Kara Maoh!]]
|
|-
|[[Mai-HiME]]
|
|-
|[[Princess Tutu]]
|
|-
|[[Heat Guy J]]
|
|-
|[[Gankutsuoh]]
|
|-
|[[Mermaid Forest]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Ayatsuri Sakon]]
|Winter-Spring LIVESUB
|-
|[[Speed Grapher]]
|
|}

[[2005-2006]]
{| class="wikitable"
! Show !! Notes
|-
|[[Genshiken]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Midori no Hibi]]
|Winter-Spring
|-
|[[Twelve Kingdoms]]
|
|-
|[[Stellvia]]
|
|-
|[[Inuyasha]]
|LIVESUB
|-
|[[Kyou Kara Maoh!]]
|
|-
|[[Gad Guard]]
|
|-
|[[ROD TV]]
|
|-
|[[X TV]]
|
|-
|[[Shingetsutan Tsukihime]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Paranoia Agent]]
|Winter-Spring
|}

[[2004-2005]]
{| class="wikitable"
! Show !! Notes
|-
|[[Slayers Next]]
|
|-
|[[Patlabor TV]]
|Fall-Winter-Spring
|-
|[[Patlabor First OVA]]
|Spring
|-
|[[Inuyasha]]
|LIVESUB
|-
|[[Scrapped Princess]]
|
|-
|[[RahXephon]]
|
|-
|[[Last Exile]]
|
|-
|[[Kino's Journey]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Generator Gawl]]
|Winter-Spring
|-
|[[Texhnolyze]]
|Fall-Winter-Spring
|-
|[[Alien 9]]
|Spring
|-
|[[Banner of the Stars II]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Requiem from the Darkness]]
|Winter-Spring
|}

[[2003-2004]]
{| class="wikitable"
!Show!!Notes
|-
|[[Hana Yori Dango]]
|
|-
|[[Patlabor TV]]
|Fall-Winter-Spring
|-
|[[Patlabor New OVA]]
|Spring
|-
|[[Nadia: Secret of Blue Water]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Kokoro Library]]
|Spring LIVESUB
|-
|[[Inuyasha]]
|LIVESUB
|-
|[[Haibane Renmei]]
|Fall-Winter LIVESUB
|-
|[[Gunparade March]]
|Winter-Spring LIVESUB
|-
|[[Azumanga Daioh]]
|LIVESUB
|-
|[[Noir]]
|
|-
|[[Hellsing]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[SaiKano]]
|Winter-Spring LIVESUB
|-
|[[Crest of the Stars]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Banner of the Stars]]
|Winter-Spring
|}

[[2002-2003]]
{| class="wikitable"
!Show!!Notes
|-
|[[Hana Yori Dango]]
|
|-
|[[Nadia: Secret of Blue Water]]
|
|-
|[[Full Metal Panic]]
|LIVESUB
|-
|[[Inuyasha]]
|LIVESUB
|-
|[[Kimagure Orange Road]]
|
|-
|[[Mahoromatic]]
|Fall-Winter LIVESUB
|-
|[[Abenobashi Magical Shopping District]]
|Winter-Spring LIVESUB
|-
|[[Fruits Basket]]
|LIVESUB
|-
|[[Infinite Ryvius]]
|
|-
|[[Boogiepop Phantom]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[NieA_7]]
|Winter-Spring
|}

[[2001-2002]]
{| class="wikitable"
!Show!!Notes
|-
|[[Fushigi Yuugi]]
|
|-
|[[Steel Angel Kurumi]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Sexy Comando Gaiden Sugoiyo! Masaru-san]]
|Winter-Spring LIVESUB. Short eps, so 2 every week. Only eps 1-16 had been subbed at the time so that's all we showed.
|-
|OVA Slot: [[ROD]]
|Spring LIVESUB
|-
|[[Black Heaven]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|OVA Slot: [[Video Girl Ai]]
|Winter LIVESUB
|-
|OVA Slot: [[Here is Greenwood]]
|Spring LIVESUB
|-
|OVA Slot: [[Rurouni Kenshin Seisouhen]]
|Spring LIVESUB
|-
|[[Inuyasha]]
|LIVESUB
|-
|[[Kimagure Orange Road]]
|
|-
|[[His and Her Circumstances]]
|LIVESUB. First show that we considered for and tested livesubbing on.
|-
|[[Trigun]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Now and Then, Here and There]]
|Winter-Spring
|-
|[[Berserk]]
|LIVESUB
|-
|[[Gasaraki]]
|
|}

[[2000-2001]]
{| class="wikitable"
!Show!!Notes
|-
|[[FLCL]]
|Fall-Winter OVA
|-
|[[Maison Ikkoku]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Trigun]]
|Winter-Spring
|-
|[[Slayers]]
|
|-
|[[Fushigi Yuugi]]
|
|-
|[[All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku-Nuku]]
|Fall-Winter OVA
|-
|[[Kodocha]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Please Save My Earth]]
|Fall-Winter OVA
|-
|[[Rurouni Kenshin]]
|
|-
|[[Lodoss TV]]
|
|-
|[[Magic Knights Rayearth]]
|
|-
|[[Cowboy Bebop]]
|
|-
|[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]
|
|-
|[[Rurouni Kenshin Tsuiokuhen]]
|Winter-Spring
|-
|[[Key The Metal Idol]]
|Winter-Spring
|}

[[1999-2000]]
{| class="wikitable"
!Show!!Notes
|-
|[[Saber Marionette J]]
|
|-
|[[Serial Experiments Lain]]
|First DVD
|-
| [[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]
|
|-
| [[Marmalade Boy]]
|
|-
|[[Appleseed]]
|OVA
|-
|[[Armitage III]]
|OVA
|-
|[[Ruin Explorers]]
|OVA
|-
|[[Flame of Recca]]
|
|-
|[[Macross Plus]]
|OVA
|-
| [[Rurouni Kenshin]]
|
|-
| [[Kodocha]]
|
|}

[[1998-1999]]
{| class="wikitable"
!Show!!Notes
|-
| [[3x3 Eyes 1]]
|OVA
|-
| [[3x3 Eyes 2]]
|OVA
|-
| [[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]
|
|-
| [[Jojo's Bizarre Adventure]]
|OVA
|-
| [[Metal Fighters Miku]]
|Stopped half way when [[Phong Bui-Quang|Phong]] left
|-
| [[Martian Successor Nadesico]]
|
|-
| [[Rurouni Kenshin]]
|
|-
| [[Street Fighter II: V]]
|Stopped half way when Phong left
|-
| [[Vision of Escaflowne]]
|
|-
| [[Flame of Recca]]
|
|-
| [[Kodocha]]
|
|-
| [[Marmalade Boy]]
|
|-
| [[Shamanic Princess]]
|OVA
|}

[[1997-1998]]
{| class="wikitable"
!Show
|-
|[[Marmalade Boy]]
|-
|[[Metal Fighters Miku]]
|}

T-shirt Designs

2016-02-14T05:29:45Z

Moroboshi ataru: Added 2016 shirt

Minna no Anime club T-shirts show you are a proud member of this club!

== History of the T-Shirts ==
The first T-shirt we still have record of was designed and printed by [[Jann Fabrin]] in 1995. Yang, a member of PolyInk as well, was a gifted artist, and drew the "Knight of Gold" T-Shirt, seperations and all. These seperations are still in the posession of Minna no Anime officers. The design was taken directly from a promotional immage for [[Five Star Stories]]. The next year Jann started the t-shirt contest, and also instituted the rule that there would be no copyrighted images allowed.

Former presidents [[Ron Neal]] and [[Josh Holmstrom]] have mentioned that while there were no shirts for the 1994-1995 year, there were shirts before this. If anyone still has one of these, or of any other designs we are missing, we would LOVE to see pictures!

== Past T-Shirts ==
Unfortunately a few T-shirts have been lost to antiquity. But take a look at the ones we do have. Click on the picture to get a better look.

{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 style="border-collapse:collapse"
|- bgcolor=#eeeeee
! width="200px" | Image !! width="10%" | Year !! Artist !! Description/Notes
|- id="T-shirt-2016"
| [[Image:Tshirt 2016.jpg|200px]] || [[2015-2016|2016]] || [[Paul Guzman]] || TBA

|- id="T-shirt-2015"
| [[Image:Tshirt 2015.png|200px]] || [[2014-2015|2015]] || [[Emily Mullins]] || All going according to plan.

|- id="T-shirt-2014"
| [[Image:Tshirt 2014.jpg|200px]] || [[2013-2014|2014]] || [[Jessica Freitas]] || House Minna. Anime. For Everyone.

|- id="T-shirt-2013"
| [[Image:Tshirt 2013.jpg|200px]] || [[2012-2013|2013]] || [[Jessica Freitas]] || Minna no Yakuza!

|- id="T-shirt-2012"
| [[Image:Tshirt 2012.jpg|200px]] || [[2011-2012|2012]] || [[Phyllis Douglas]] || Design by [[Brandon Chow]], drawn by [[Phyllis Douglas]]. Little apps representing motifs, themes, and fandom-related items of anime come together to make the "Minna" kanji.

|- id="T-shirt-2011"
| [[Image:Tshirt 2011.jpg|200px]] || [[2010-2011|2011]] || [[Phyllis Douglas]] || The idea was provided by [[Andy Richardson]]. The shirt shows how no matter what kind of anime we show in club (moe or action), everyone can enjoy Minna no Anime!

|- id="T-shirt-2010"
| [[Image:Tshirt 2010.jpg|200px]] || [[2009-2010|2010]] || [[Brian Bathe]] || TBA

|- id="T-shirt-2009"
| [[Image:Tshirt 2009.jpg|200px]] || [[2008-2009|2009]] || [[Phyllis Douglas]] || A boy with a scythe jumping through the night sky, prepping to swing his mighty blade.

|- id="T-shirt-2008"
| [[Image:Tshirt 2008.jpg|200px]] || [[2007-2008|2008]] || [[Erika Peterson]] || TBA

|- id="T-shirt-2007"
| [[Image:Tshirt 2007.jpg|200px]] || [[2006-2007|2007]] || [[Annaliese Christman]] || TBA

|- id="T-shirt-2006"
| [[Image:Tshirt 2006.jpg|200px]] || [[2005-2006|2006]] || [[Max Noda]] || A classy looking high school girl in a blue and white uniform. She is saying "Minna to ikou!" which translates to "Let's go with everyone!" The character for "Minna" is prominently displayed in the background. Printed on a black T-shirt.

|- id="T-shirt-2005"
| [[Image:Tshirt 2005.jpg|200px]] || [[2004-2005|2005]] || [[Mark Valenzuela]] || A serene image of a goddess at night. The moonlight clearly shows a lake that she is hovering over. The character for "Minna" is carved into the moon. Printed on a black T-shirt.

|- id="T-shirt-2004"
| [[Image:Tshirt 2004.JPG|200px]] || [[2003-2004|2004]] || [[Toby Wilson]] || The yellow and orange theme add to this serene windy Fall scene. Mapple leaves fly about and her long scarf flutters beutifully in the wind. The characters on the side read "Minna no anime". Printed on a white T-shirt.

|- id="T-shirt-2003"
| [[Image:Tshirt 2003.JPG|200px]] || [[2002-2003|2003]] || [[David Ho]] || A young samurai woman holding both a katana and a kodachi. The flowers in the background and on her kimono, and her slightly embarased look hide the lethal power she weilds. The red characters on the right read "Minna no Anime" and the characters on the left is Dave's Chinese name. Printed on a white T-shirt.

|- id="T-shirt-2002"
| [[Image:Tshirt 2002.JPG|200px]] || [[2001-2002|2002]] || [[Nur Monson]] || A light hearted which has converted her broom into a large brush, and is showing off her caligraphy skills by drawing the "Minna" character on the T-shirt behind her. Due to a mis-communication with the printers, the Minna no Anime logo on the front of the shirt was printed extra large, and centered on the shirt. Printed on a white shirt.

|- id="T-Shirt-2001"
| [[Image:Tshirt 2001.JPG|200px]] || [[2000-2001|2001]] || Kristin ? || Kristin tries to embody the spirit of "Minna" in this shirt by drawing not one but three distinct characters: an honerable samurai in a protective stance, a mysterious high elf, and the profile of a timeless female anime character. The blue and white theme adds an air of cool seriousness to the characters. Blue characters to the right read "Minna no Anime". Printed on a black T-shirt.

|- id="T-Shirt-2000"
| [[Image:Tshirt 2000.JPG|200px]] || [[1999-2000|2000]] || [[Nick Bousman|Nick "Singe" Bousman]] || This shirt also captures the meany of "Minna" by displaying the crew of a battle ship light heartedly posing in front of their vessel. The immage is most like inspired by [[Martian Successor Nadesico|Nadesico]] which was shown the previous year. Nick also drew himself among the crew. He's the one on the right. The green text accross the top reads "Minna no Anime". Printed on a dark Grey T-Shirt.

|- id="T-Shirt-1999"
| [[Image:Tshirt 1999.JPG|200px]] || [[1998-1999|1999]] || [[Nick Bousman|Nick "Singe" Bousman]] || A sourceress in in the middle of casting a powerful spell. The spell's aura bath's her and her dress in a blue pool of light. She has her eyes clossed to use her sixth sense to find her target. The characters to the right read "Minna no Anime". Printed on a white shirt. However, Nick told the officers the next year that he would not let them ruin another of his designs by putting it on a white shirt again.

|- id="T-Shirt-1997"
| [[Image:Jann-Knight1.jpg]] || [[1996-1997|1997]]? || [[Jann Fabrin]] || The image of a Knight in shiny full plate armor, bowing. In the background is the large profile of an elf maiden, slightly saddened. Perhaps she is sending the knight out on a quest that will lead him to his doom? Printed in black and white on a white shirt. The date of this shirt has not been confirmed. This image was obtained from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine[http://web.archive.org/web/20020129214531/www.ee.calpoly.edu/clubs/ink/gallery/jann/jann-cel-gallery.html]

|- id="T-Shirt-1996"
| [[Image:Knight of gold shirt.gif|200px]] || [[1995-1996]] || [[Jann Fabrin]] || The Knight of Gold from the Five Star Stories. This was the only shirt we know of that broke copyright laws. This is not an actual photo of the T-Shirt but a recomposition made by scaning in the film positive separations and then combining them together on the computer. Printed on a black T-shirt.

|- id="T-Shirt-1993"
| [[Image:Tshirt 1993.jpg|200px]] || [[1992-1993]] || Raymond? || The very first Minna no Anime shirt. According to [[Karl Loeffler]], the artist was a ~14 year old high-schooler named Raymond. We believe this is the 'infamous' shirt mentioned by Ron Neal and David Demers on the [[Pre-1995]] page. Not a photo of the actual t-shirt, but of a press proof still in Karl's possession.
|}

== T-Shirt Contest ==
Every year [[Minna no Anime]] holds a T-Shirt contest and its members vote on the various designs that are submitted. Usually the contest is held sometime in late Winter Quarter or early Spring Quarter in hopes that the T-Shirts may be printed before [[Open House]]. This way we can all proudly wear and show our new shiny T-Shirts off to all the potential new members!

==== T-shirt Contest Rules ====
The rules have reverted starting the [[2012-2013]] year.

* You can use up to 4 colors with your T-shirt color being an additional 5th color. [https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BzV7wJdvnkrrMDE3NDgzMzItYzJlMS00ZGM2LWFkYmItZWFmY2UxZmY3NTc4 Link to Shirt Colors]
** Make sure that the edge of your image is the shirt color.
* Submit as many entries as you like!
* No licensed/copyrighted characters, please~
* There must be the club name on the shirt somewhere ("Minna", "MnA", or "Minna no Anime" in Japanese and/or English)
* Design dimensions: 12" width x 15" height

If you win, you get a free shirt and bragging rights! Submit your winning entry as a .psd to an officer.

==== 2010-2012 T-Shirt Contest Rules ====
* Submit as many entries as you like!
* No licensed/copyrighted characters, please~
* There must be the character "minna" from Minna no Anime, the words "Minna" or "Minna no Anime", or "Minna no Anime" in Japanese in your design.
* Make your background color in your picture the shirt color you'll be using.
* Send your entries in .psd format and at 300dpi to president@minnanoanime.org or give it to one of the officers at club before the deadline.

*'''Shirt Color: White (DTG Printing)'''
**You can use as many colors as you like in your design!
**Dimensions: 12" width x 16" height
**Submission: The colors can be mixed in each layer EXCEPT white - it has to be in its own layer.

*'''Shirt Color: [https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BzV7wJdvnkrrMDE3NDgzMzItYzJlMS00ZGM2LWFkYmItZWFmY2UxZmY3NTc4 Link to Shirt Colors] (Screen Printing)'''
**You may only pick 4 colors with your T-shirt color being an additional 5th color.
**Dimensions: 12" width x 15" height
**Submission: Submit with each layer being only one color.

Winner gets a free T-shirt and bragging rights!

==== Old T-Shirt Rules ====
* You get a MAX of four (4) colors. You can obviously use less, but the max is four.
* Make your design with a shirt color in mind. Think of it as a free fifth color. try not to make your design on white paper unless you plan on having it on a white shirt. The shirt colors you have to choose from can be found at this page. You can just turn in a design on white paper and choose a different color for the shirt, if you want. It just makes voting easier if everyone has a good idea of how it will look on the shirt.
*Ok, you don't need color separations unless your design is chosen. If your design is chosen, you will then have two weeks to get your seperations done for us. For that they need to be finished on a computer, in a relatively high resolution. if you can do it in a vector format that would be ideal, but not required.
*The designs are due, and will be voted on by the members, durring our meeting on the 15th of January (2005). This is the second weekend (and meeting) of Winter quarter. ''Editors note: This date changes every year.''
*Your design must include some kind of indicator that this is for Minna no Anime. You can use just the "Minna" kanji, "Minna no Anime" in Japanese or Romanji or some combination of them. That shouldn't be too hard.

== T-Shirt Prices and Choices ==
Starting in the [[2010-2011]] year, Minna started offering other garments to put the T-shirt designs on.

People can choose from ($5 more for non-members):
*Regular T-shirt ($15)
*American Apparel Unisex Shirt ($20)
*Women's Tee ($20)
*Hooded Sweatshirt ($25)
*Zipped Hoodie ($30)

People can only get the other garment types during pre-order.

The old pricing for shirts was $13 for members and $15 for non-members.

Recent T-shirts (past 4 years) are sold for $10 and Older T-shirts (5 years or older) for $5.

2015-2016

2016-02-14T05:24:12Z

Moroboshi ataru: Added 2016 shirt

{{yearnav|2015-2016|2014-2015|2015-2016}}

[[Image:Tshirt_2016.jpg|thumb|right|2016 T-shirt Design]]
== Officers ==
{| class="wikitable"
!President
|[[Isaac Cameron]]
|-
!Vice President
|[[Justin Michael Caballes Alday]]
|-
!Treasurer
|[[Eric Oatey]]
|-
!Secretary
|[[Curtis Hilgenberg]]
|-
!Webmaster
|[[Nicole Martin]]
|-
!Alumni Advisor
|[[Scott Melot]]
|-
!Club Artist
|[[Emily Mullins]]
|}

== Schedule ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Time !! Show !! Notes

|-
|colspan=3|

|-
! 5:10
|[[Simulcast o' the Week]]
|
|-
!5:35
|[[Last Exile]]
|
|-

|colspan=3|

|-
!6:10
|[[Haikyuu!!]]
|
|-
!rowspan=2|6:35
|[[Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Barakamon]]
|Winter-Spring
|-
|colspan=3|

|-
!7:00
|[[BIG BREAK]]
|
|-

|colspan=3|

|-
!rowspan=2|8:05
|[[Taisho Baseball Girls]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Noragami]]
|Winter-Spring
|-
!8:30
|[[Your lie in April]]
|
|-

|colspan=3|

|-
! 9:05
|[[Tiger & Bunny]]
|
|-
! 9:30
|[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]
|
|}

== Movies ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Fall
|[[Time of Eve]] 12/5

|-
!Winter
|TBA 3/12

|-
!Spring
|TBA 6/4
|}

== Events ==

== Notes ==

[[Category:Timeline]]

File:Tshirt 2016.jpg

2016-02-14T05:22:52Z

Moroboshi ataru: Drawn by Paul Guzman.

Drawn by Paul Guzman.

Isaac Cameron

2015-11-01T00:03:41Z

Moroboshi ataru:

== Officer Positions ==
{| class="wikitable"
![[2015-2016]]
|President
|-
![[2014-2015]]
|Vice President
|}

== Notes ==
The president who turned Halloween Party into CatCON 2015

[[Category:Members]][[Category:Officers]][[Category:Vice Presidents]][[Category:Presidents]]

2015-2016

2015-09-30T06:12:57Z

Moroboshi ataru: Officers are no longer -Elect

{{yearnav|2015-2016|2014-2015|2015-2016}}


== Officers ==
{| class="wikitable"
!President
|[[Isaac Cameron]]
|-
!Vice President
|[[Justin Michael Caballes Alday]]
|-
!Treasurer
|[[Eric Oatey]]
|-
!Secretary
|[[Curtis Hilgenberg]]
|-
!Webmaster
|[[Nicole Martin]]
|-
!Alumni Advisor
|[[Scott Melot]]
|-
!Club Artist
|[[Emily Mullins]]
|}

== Schedule ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Time !! Show !! Notes

|-
|colspan=3|

|-
! 5:10
|[[Simulcast o' the Week]]
|
|-
!5:35
|[[Last Exile]]
|
|-

|colspan=3|

|-
!6:10
|[[Haikyuu!!]]
|
|-
!rowspan=2|6:35
|[[Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Barakamon]]
|Winter-Spring
|-
|colspan=3|

|-
!7:00
|[[BIG BREAK]]
|
|-

|colspan=3|

|-
!rowspan=2|8:05
|[[Taisho Baseball Girls]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Noragami]]
|Winter-Spring
|-
!8:30
|[[Your lie in April]]
|
|-

|colspan=3|

|-
! 9:05
|[[Tiger & Bunny]]
|
|-
! 9:30
|[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]
|
|}

== Movies ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Fall
|TBA 12/5

|-
!Winter
|TBA 3/12

|-
!Spring
|TBA 6/4
|}

== Events ==

== Notes ==

[[Category:Timeline]]

Main Page

2015-05-02T00:18:27Z

Moroboshi ataru: added 2015-2016

New to MNA? Start at the [[2014-2015|current year]] for officers/shows/movies/events or go back to the [http://www.minnanoanime.org MNA homepage] for the latest news.

== Useful Links to All Things Minna no Anime ==
<div style="column-count:2;-moz-column-count:2;-webkit-column-count:2">
*Homepage: [http://www.minnanoanime.org link]
*Forum: [http://www.minnanoanime.org/forum/ link]
*DeviantART: [http://minnanoanime.deviantart.com/ link]
*Twitter: [http://twitter.com/minnanoanime link]
*Facebook Page: [http://www.facebook.com/MinnaNoAnime link]
*Facebook Group: [http://www.facebook.com/groups/2211151881/ link]
*Alumni Facebook Group: [http://www.facebook.com/groups/minnalumni/ link]
</div>

== Obligatory Disclaimer - Unofficial Site ==

This wiki is an UNOFFICIAL attempt by current and former members to record the history of Cal Poly's Anime Club. This page is not hosted on Cal Poly servers and is not administered by the officers of Minna no Anime. Some events mentioned on this site (all events occuring off of the Cal Poly campus not directly related to preparations for the Halloween Party or Open House) were informal and unofficial social gatherings arranged privately between students, and were not official club activities in any way sanctioned or endorsed by ASI or Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. As a wiki, this site is composed entirely of user-submitted content. As a result, the content of this wiki may not reflect the views of the administrators of this site, the views of the officers or members of Minna no Anime, or the actual history of events as they transpired. Some portions of this site may quite possibly have nothing to do with any version of reality as we know it. Consider yourself warned.

== Minna No Anime Club History ==
[[Image:PhyllisMegaTamago.jpg|thumb|right|320px|The chef at [[Goshi]] surprised President [[Phyllis Douglas]] with a very special tamago nigiri. (June 3, 2012)]]

[[Image:OpenHouse2011.jpg|thumb|right|320px|The MNA booth dressed as the Cat Bus at Open House 2011 (Apr 16, 2011)]]

[[Image:15thanniversary.jpg|thumb|right|320px|Group shot of attendees of MnA's 15th Anniversary party]]

This project is an attempt to document the history of Cal Poly's Anime Club for current, former, and future members and officers. It is still a growing wiki, so may not always have the complete story. If you have information not in the wiki, please make any changes or additions you desire (you must register on the [http://minnanoanime.org/forum MnA forum] and [[Special:Userlogin|log in]] to the wiki to edit pages or email other users -- we know it's a pain but it stops the spambots from taking over when we're not looking).

Please read [[MinnaHistoryWiki:Policies|our policies]] before uploading images or editing your own wiki entry -- we encourage you to do both within reason.

There are still several [[Special:Wantedpages|pages that need content]]. Information on these subjects is particularly welcome.

Consult the [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide User's Guide] for information on using the wiki software.

Visit the [http://www.sukiyakisoftware.net/mnagallery photo gallery] to view more pictures of all things Minna or to add your own.

=== Years at a glance ===
* [[2015-2016]]
* [[2014-2015]]
* [[2013-2014]]
* [[2012-2013]]
* [[2011-2012]]
* [[2010-2011]]
* [[2009-2010]]
* [[2008-2009]]
* [[2007-2008]]
* [[2006-2007]]
* [[2005-2006]]
* [[2004-2005]]
* [[2003-2004]]
* [[2002-2003]]
* [[2001-2002]]
* [[2000-2001]]
* [[1999-2000]]
* [[1998-1999]]
* [[1997-1998]]
* [[1996-1997]]
* [[1995-1996]]
* [[Pre-1995]]

=== Other Things ===
*[[Special:Categories|View All Categories]]
*[[:Category:Shows|Shows]]
*[[:Category:Movies|Movies]]
*[[Simulcast o' the Week]]
*[[Fansub o' the Week]]
*[[:Category:Members|View the Club Roster]]
*[[MNA Logo]]
*[[Halloween Party]]
*[[Pictionary Parties]]
*[[Goshi|Quarterly Goshi (formerly Tsurugi) Trips]]
*[[Open House]]
*[[T-shirt Designs]]
*[[Challenges]] -- Wasabi and Soy Sauce aka Stupidity
*[[Conventions]] -- Fanime and AX memories
*[[:Category:Positions|Positions that Can Be Held in the Club]]
*[[Inside Jokes]]
*[[Minna no Anime Traditions]]
*[[MnA AIM screennames]]

T-shirt Designs

2015-05-02T00:16:29Z

Moroboshi ataru: /* Past T-Shirts */ Added 2015

Minna no Anime club T-shirts show you are a proud member of this club!

== History of the T-Shirts ==
The first T-shirt we still have record of was designed and printed by [[Jann Fabrin]] in 1995. Yang, a member of PolyInk as well, was a gifted artist, and drew the "Knight of Gold" T-Shirt, seperations and all. These seperations are still in the posession of Minna no Anime officers. The design was taken directly from a promotional immage for [[Five Star Stories]]. The next year Jann started the t-shirt contest, and also instituted the rule that there would be no copyrighted images allowed.

Former presidents [[Ron Neal]] and [[Josh Holmstrom]] have mentioned that while there were no shirts for the 1994-1995 year, there were shirts before this. If anyone still has one of these, or of any other designs we are missing, we would LOVE to see pictures!

== Past T-Shirts ==
Unfortunately a few T-shirts have been lost to antiquity. But take a look at the ones we do have. Click on the picture to get a better look.

{| border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 style="border-collapse:collapse"
|- bgcolor=#eeeeee
! width="200px" | Image !! width="10%" | Year !! Artist !! Description/Notes
|- id="T-shirt-2015"
| [[Image:Tshirt 2015.png|200px]] || [[2014-2015|2015]] || [[Emily Mullins]] || All going according to plan.

|- id="T-shirt-2014"
| [[Image:Tshirt 2014.jpg|200px]] || [[2013-2014|2014]] || [[Jessica Freitas]] || House Minna. Anime. For Everyone.

|- id="T-shirt-2013"
| [[Image:Tshirt 2013.jpg|200px]] || [[2012-2013|2013]] || [[Jessica Freitas]] || Minna no Yakuza!

|- id="T-shirt-2012"
| [[Image:Tshirt 2012.jpg|200px]] || [[2011-2012|2012]] || [[Phyllis Douglas]] || Design by [[Brandon Chow]], drawn by [[Phyllis Douglas]]. Little apps representing motifs, themes, and fandom-related items of anime come together to make the "Minna" kanji.

|- id="T-shirt-2011"
| [[Image:Tshirt 2011.jpg|200px]] || [[2010-2011|2011]] || [[Phyllis Douglas]] || The idea was provided by [[Andy Richardson]]. The shirt shows how no matter what kind of anime we show in club (moe or action), everyone can enjoy Minna no Anime!

|- id="T-shirt-2010"
| [[Image:Tshirt 2010.jpg|200px]] || [[2009-2010|2010]] || [[Brian Bathe]] || TBA

|- id="T-shirt-2009"
| [[Image:Tshirt 2009.jpg|200px]] || [[2008-2009|2009]] || [[Phyllis Douglas]] || A boy with a scythe jumping through the night sky, prepping to swing his mighty blade.

|- id="T-shirt-2008"
| [[Image:Tshirt 2008.jpg|200px]] || [[2007-2008|2008]] || [[Erika Peterson]] || TBA

|- id="T-shirt-2007"
| [[Image:Tshirt 2007.jpg|200px]] || [[2006-2007|2007]] || [[Annaliese Christman]] || TBA

|- id="T-shirt-2006"
| [[Image:Tshirt 2006.jpg|200px]] || [[2005-2006|2006]] || [[Max Noda]] || A classy looking high school girl in a blue and white uniform. She is saying "Minna to ikou!" which translates to "Let's go with everyone!" The character for "Minna" is prominently displayed in the background. Printed on a black T-shirt.

|- id="T-shirt-2005"
| [[Image:Tshirt 2005.jpg|200px]] || [[2004-2005|2005]] || [[Mark Valenzuela]] || A serene image of a goddess at night. The moonlight clearly shows a lake that she is hovering over. The character for "Minna" is carved into the moon. Printed on a black T-shirt.

|- id="T-shirt-2004"
| [[Image:Tshirt 2004.JPG|200px]] || [[2003-2004|2004]] || [[Toby Wilson]] || The yellow and orange theme add to this serene windy Fall scene. Mapple leaves fly about and her long scarf flutters beutifully in the wind. The characters on the side read "Minna no anime". Printed on a white T-shirt.

|- id="T-shirt-2003"
| [[Image:Tshirt 2003.JPG|200px]] || [[2002-2003|2003]] || [[David Ho]] || A young samurai woman holding both a katana and a kodachi. The flowers in the background and on her kimono, and her slightly embarased look hide the lethal power she weilds. The red characters on the right read "Minna no Anime" and the characters on the left is Dave's Chinese name. Printed on a white T-shirt.

|- id="T-shirt-2002"
| [[Image:Tshirt 2002.JPG|200px]] || [[2001-2002|2002]] || [[Nur Monson]] || A light hearted which has converted her broom into a large brush, and is showing off her caligraphy skills by drawing the "Minna" character on the T-shirt behind her. Due to a mis-communication with the printers, the Minna no Anime logo on the front of the shirt was printed extra large, and centered on the shirt. Printed on a white shirt.

|- id="T-Shirt-2001"
| [[Image:Tshirt 2001.JPG|200px]] || [[2000-2001|2001]] || Kristin ? || Kristin tries to embody the spirit of "Minna" in this shirt by drawing not one but three distinct characters: an honerable samurai in a protective stance, a mysterious high elf, and the profile of a timeless female anime character. The blue and white theme adds an air of cool seriousness to the characters. Blue characters to the right read "Minna no Anime". Printed on a black T-shirt.

|- id="T-Shirt-2000"
| [[Image:Tshirt 2000.JPG|200px]] || [[1999-2000|2000]] || [[Nick Bousman|Nick "Singe" Bousman]] || This shirt also captures the meany of "Minna" by displaying the crew of a battle ship light heartedly posing in front of their vessel. The immage is most like inspired by [[Martian Successor Nadesico|Nadesico]] which was shown the previous year. Nick also drew himself among the crew. He's the one on the right. The green text accross the top reads "Minna no Anime". Printed on a dark Grey T-Shirt.

|- id="T-Shirt-1999"
| [[Image:Tshirt 1999.JPG|200px]] || [[1998-1999|1999]] || [[Nick Bousman|Nick "Singe" Bousman]] || A sourceress in in the middle of casting a powerful spell. The spell's aura bath's her and her dress in a blue pool of light. She has her eyes clossed to use her sixth sense to find her target. The characters to the right read "Minna no Anime". Printed on a white shirt. However, Nick told the officers the next year that he would not let them ruin another of his designs by putting it on a white shirt again.

|- id="T-Shirt-1997"
| [[Image:Jann-Knight1.jpg]] || [[1996-1997|1997]]? || [[Jann Fabrin]] || The image of a Knight in shiny full plate armor, bowing. In the background is the large profile of an elf maiden, slightly saddened. Perhaps she is sending the knight out on a quest that will lead him to his doom? Printed in black and white on a white shirt. The date of this shirt has not been confirmed. This image was obtained from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine[http://web.archive.org/web/20020129214531/www.ee.calpoly.edu/clubs/ink/gallery/jann/jann-cel-gallery.html]

|- id="T-Shirt-1996"
| [[Image:Knight of gold shirt.gif|200px]] || [[1995-1996]] || [[Jann Fabrin]] || The Knight of Gold from the Five Star Stories. This was the only shirt we know of that broke copyright laws. This is not an actual photo of the T-Shirt but a recomposition made by scaning in the film positive separations and then combining them together on the computer. Printed on a black T-shirt.

|- id="T-Shirt-1993"
| [[Image:Tshirt 1993.jpg|200px]] || [[1992-1993]] || Raymond? || The very first Minna no Anime shirt. According to [[Karl Loeffler]], the artist was a ~14 year old high-schooler named Raymond. We believe this is the 'infamous' shirt mentioned by Ron Neal and David Demers on the [[Pre-1995]] page. Not a photo of the actual t-shirt, but of a press proof still in Karl's possession.
|}

== T-Shirt Contest ==
Every year [[Minna no Anime]] holds a T-Shirt contest and its members vote on the various designs that are submitted. Usually the contest is held sometime in late Winter Quarter or early Spring Quarter in hopes that the T-Shirts may be printed before [[Open House]]. This way we can all proudly wear and show our new shiny T-Shirts off to all the potential new members!

==== T-shirt Contest Rules ====
The rules have reverted starting the [[2012-2013]] year.

* You can use up to 4 colors with your T-shirt color being an additional 5th color. [https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BzV7wJdvnkrrMDE3NDgzMzItYzJlMS00ZGM2LWFkYmItZWFmY2UxZmY3NTc4 Link to Shirt Colors]
** Make sure that the edge of your image is the shirt color.
* Submit as many entries as you like!
* No licensed/copyrighted characters, please~
* There must be the club name on the shirt somewhere ("Minna", "MnA", or "Minna no Anime" in Japanese and/or English)
* Design dimensions: 12" width x 15" height

If you win, you get a free shirt and bragging rights! Submit your winning entry as a .psd to an officer.

==== 2010-2012 T-Shirt Contest Rules ====
* Submit as many entries as you like!
* No licensed/copyrighted characters, please~
* There must be the character "minna" from Minna no Anime, the words "Minna" or "Minna no Anime", or "Minna no Anime" in Japanese in your design.
* Make your background color in your picture the shirt color you'll be using.
* Send your entries in .psd format and at 300dpi to president@minnanoanime.org or give it to one of the officers at club before the deadline.

*'''Shirt Color: White (DTG Printing)'''
**You can use as many colors as you like in your design!
**Dimensions: 12" width x 16" height
**Submission: The colors can be mixed in each layer EXCEPT white - it has to be in its own layer.

*'''Shirt Color: [https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BzV7wJdvnkrrMDE3NDgzMzItYzJlMS00ZGM2LWFkYmItZWFmY2UxZmY3NTc4 Link to Shirt Colors] (Screen Printing)'''
**You may only pick 4 colors with your T-shirt color being an additional 5th color.
**Dimensions: 12" width x 15" height
**Submission: Submit with each layer being only one color.

Winner gets a free T-shirt and bragging rights!

==== Old T-Shirt Rules ====
* You get a MAX of four (4) colors. You can obviously use less, but the max is four.
* Make your design with a shirt color in mind. Think of it as a free fifth color. try not to make your design on white paper unless you plan on having it on a white shirt. The shirt colors you have to choose from can be found at this page. You can just turn in a design on white paper and choose a different color for the shirt, if you want. It just makes voting easier if everyone has a good idea of how it will look on the shirt.
*Ok, you don't need color separations unless your design is chosen. If your design is chosen, you will then have two weeks to get your seperations done for us. For that they need to be finished on a computer, in a relatively high resolution. if you can do it in a vector format that would be ideal, but not required.
*The designs are due, and will be voted on by the members, durring our meeting on the 15th of January (2005). This is the second weekend (and meeting) of Winter quarter. ''Editors note: This date changes every year.''
*Your design must include some kind of indicator that this is for Minna no Anime. You can use just the "Minna" kanji, "Minna no Anime" in Japanese or Romanji or some combination of them. That shouldn't be too hard.

== T-Shirt Prices and Choices ==
Starting in the [[2010-2011]] year, Minna started offering other garments to put the T-shirt designs on.

People can choose from ($5 more for non-members):
*Regular T-shirt ($15)
*American Apparel Unisex Shirt ($20)
*Women's Tee ($20)
*Hooded Sweatshirt ($25)
*Zipped Hoodie ($30)

People can only get the other garment types during pre-order.

The old pricing for shirts was $13 for members and $15 for non-members.

Recent T-shirts (past 4 years) are sold for $10 and Older T-shirts (5 years or older) for $5.

2014-2015

2015-05-02T00:13:55Z

Moroboshi ataru: added t-shirt

{{yearnav|2014-2015|2013-2014|2015-2016}}

[[Image:Tshirt_2015.png|thumb|right|2015 T-shirt Design]]
== Officers ==
{| class="wikitable"
!President
|[[Cody Hunt]]
|-
!Vice President
|[[Isaac Cameron]]
|-
!Treasurer
|[[Jacky Tuking]]
|-
!Secretary
|[[Andrew Elliott]]
|-
!Webmaster
|[[Nicole Martin]]
|-
!Alumni Advisor
|[[Scott Melot]]
|-
!Club Artist
|[[Phyllis Douglas]]
|}

== Schedule ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Time !! Show !! Notes

|-
|colspan=3|

|-
! 5:10
|[[Simulcast o' the Week]]
|
|-
!5:35
|[[Log Horizon]]
|
|-

|colspan=3|

|-
!rowspan=2|6:10
|[[Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[The Eccentric Family]]
|Winter-Spring
|-
!rowspan=2|6:35
|[[The Devil Is a Part-Timer!]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU]]
|Winter-Spring
|-
|colspan=3|

|-
!7:00
|[[BIG BREAK]]
|
|-

|colspan=3|

|-
!8:05
|[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]
|
|-
!rowspan=2|8:30
|[[Kokoro Connect]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Kyousougiga]]
|Tail End of Winter, Spring. Started from Episode 1
|-

|colspan=3|

|-
! 9:05
|[[From the New World]]
|
|-
! 9:30
|[[The Future Diary]]
|
|}

== Movies ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Fall
| [[Patema Inverted]] 12/6

|-
!Winter
| [[Whisper of the Heart]] 3/14

|-
!Spring
| TBA 6/6
|}

== Events ==

== Notes ==
* Dropped a time slot in order to have 10 minute breaks and a 1 hour, 5 minute dinner break. Club starts on Cal Poly time, AKA at 5:10PM.
* Switched "Fansub o' the Week" to "Simulcast o' the Week" since a majority of anime that come out in Japan are simulcasted. There are few fansub groups that actually do their own translation due to simulcasts, so Minna switched to that format.
* Librarian/Events Coordinator position was dropped due to the position not having to do too much, no one using the library, and having the person in that position forced to go to Goshi as their event.
* Club Artist and Alumni Advisor were added to fill in the gap of the lost position as well as help broaden the range of anime available for Halloween Party trivia and eyes.

[[Category:Timeline]]

File:Tshirt 2015.png

2015-05-02T00:13:28Z

Moroboshi ataru: Shirt design for 2015, created by Emily Mullins

Shirt design for 2015, created by [[Emily Mullins]]

2015-2016

2015-05-02T00:08:53Z

Moroboshi ataru: (Created year, added officers-elect)

{{yearnav|2015-2016|2014-2015|2015-2016}}


== Officers Elect ==
{| class="wikitable"
!President
|[[Isaac Cameron]]
|-
!Vice President
|[[Justin Michael Caballes Alday]]
|-
!Treasurer
|[[Eric Oatey]]
|-
!Secretary
|[[Curtis Hilgenberg]]
|-
!Webmaster
|[[Nicole Martin]]
|-
!Alumni Advisor
|[[Scott Melot]]
|-
!Club Artist
|[[Emily Mullins]]
|}

== Schedule ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Time !! Show !! Notes

|-
|colspan=3|

|-
! 5:10
|TBD
|[[Simulcast o' the Week]]
|-
!5:35
|TBD
|
|-

|colspan=3|

|-
!6:10
|TBD
|
|-
!6:35
|TBD
|
|-
|colspan=3|

|-
!7:00
|[[BIG BREAK]]
|
|-

|colspan=3|

|-
!8:05
|TBD
|
|-
!8:30
|TBD
|
|-

|colspan=3|

|-
! 9:05
|TBD
|
|-
! 9:30
|TBD
|
|}

== Movies ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Fall
|TBA 12/5

|-
!Winter
|TBA 3/12

|-
!Spring
|TBA 6/4
|}

== Events ==

== Notes ==

[[Category:Timeline]]

2014-2015

2015-05-01T23:04:45Z

Moroboshi ataru: added 2015-2016 link to yearnav

{{yearnav|2014-2015|2013-2014|2015-2016}}


== Officers ==
{| class="wikitable"
!President
|[[Cody Hunt]]
|-
!Vice President
|[[Isaac Cameron]]
|-
!Treasurer
|[[Jacky Tuking]]
|-
!Secretary
|[[Andrew Elliott]]
|-
!Webmaster
|[[Nicole Martin]]
|-
!Alumni Advisor
|[[Scott Melot]]
|-
!Club Artist
|[[Phyllis Douglas]]
|}

== Schedule ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Time !! Show !! Notes

|-
|colspan=3|

|-
! 5:10
|[[Simulcast o' the Week]]
|
|-
!5:35
|[[Log Horizon]]
|
|-

|colspan=3|

|-
!rowspan=2|6:10
|[[Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[The Eccentric Family]]
|Winter-Spring
|-
!rowspan=2|6:35
|[[The Devil Is a Part-Timer!]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU]]
|Winter-Spring
|-
|colspan=3|

|-
!7:00
|[[BIG BREAK]]
|
|-

|colspan=3|

|-
!8:05
|[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]
|
|-
!rowspan=2|8:30
|[[Kokoro Connect]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Kyousougiga]]
|Tail End of Winter, Spring. Started from Episode 1
|-

|colspan=3|

|-
! 9:05
|[[From the New World]]
|
|-
! 9:30
|[[The Future Diary]]
|
|}

== Movies ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Fall
| [[Patema Inverted]] 12/6

|-
!Winter
| [[Whisper of the Heart]] 3/14

|-
!Spring
| TBA 6/6
|}

== Events ==

== Notes ==
* Dropped a time slot in order to have 10 minute breaks and a 1 hour, 5 minute dinner break. Club starts on Cal Poly time, AKA at 5:10PM.
* Switched "Fansub o' the Week" to "Simulcast o' the Week" since a majority of anime that come out in Japan are simulcasted. There are few fansub groups that actually do their own translation due to simulcasts, so Minna switched to that format.
* Librarian/Events Coordinator position was dropped due to the position not having to do too much, no one using the library, and having the person in that position forced to go to Goshi as their event.
* Club Artist and Alumni Advisor were added to fill in the gap of the lost position as well as help broaden the range of anime available for Halloween Party trivia and eyes.

[[Category:Timeline]]

Main Page

2012-12-05T00:37:17Z

Moroboshi ataru: fixed forum link in must register section

New to MNA? Start at the [[2012-2013|current year]] for officers/shows/movies/events or go back to the [http://www.minnanoanime.org MNA homepage] for the latest news.
*Homepage: [http://www.minnanoanime.org link]
*Forum: [http://www.minnanoanime.org/forum/ link]
*DeviantART: [http://minnanoanime.deviantart.com/ link]
*Twitter: [http://twitter.com/minnanoanime link]

== Obligatory Disclaimer - Unofficial Site ==

This wiki is an UNOFFICIAL attempt by current and former members to record the history of Cal Poly's Anime Club. This page is not hosted on Cal Poly servers and is not administered by the officers of Minna no Anime. Some events mentioned on this site (all events occuring off of the Cal Poly campus not directly related to preparations for the Halloween Party or Open House) were informal and unofficial social gatherings arranged privately between students, and were not official club activities in any way sanctioned or endorsed by ASI or Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. As a wiki, this site is composed entirely of user-submitted content. As a result, the content of this wiki may not reflect the views of the administrators of this site, the views of the officers or members of Minna no Anime, or the actual history of events as they transpired. Some portions of this site may quite possibly have nothing to do with any version of reality as we know it. Consider yourself warned.

== Minna No Anime Club History ==
[[Image:PhyllisMegaTamago.jpg|thumb|right|320px|The chef at [[Goshi]] surprised President [[Phyllis Douglas]] with a very special tamago nigiri. (June 3, 2012)]]

[[Image:OpenHouse2011.jpg|thumb|right|320px|The MNA booth dressed as the Cat Bus at Open House 2011 (Apr 16, 2011)]]

[[Image:15thanniversary.jpg|thumb|right|320px|Group shot of attendees of MnA's 15th Anniversary party]]

This project is an attempt to document the history of Cal Poly's Anime Club for current, former, and future members and officers. It is still a growing wiki, so may not always have the complete story. If you have information not in the wiki, please make any changes or additions you desire (you must register on the [http://minnanoanime.org/forum MnA forum] and [[Special:Userlogin|log in]] to the wiki to edit pages or email other users -- we know it's a pain but it stops the spambots from taking over when we're not looking).

Please read [[MinnaHistoryWiki:Policies|our policies]] before uploading images or editing your own wiki entry -- we encourage you to do both within reason.

There are still several [[Special:Wantedpages|pages that need content]]. Information on these subjects is particularly welcome.

Consult the [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide User's Guide] for information on using the wiki software.

Visit the [http://www.sukiyakisoftware.net/mnagallery photo gallery] to view more pictures of all things Minna or to add your own.

=== Years at a glance ===
* [[2012-2013]]
* [[2011-2012]]
* [[2010-2011]]
* [[2009-2010]]
* [[2008-2009]]
* [[2007-2008]]
* [[2006-2007]]
* [[2005-2006]]
* [[2004-2005]]
* [[2003-2004]]
* [[2002-2003]]
* [[2001-2002]]
* [[2000-2001]]
* [[1999-2000]]
* [[1998-1999]]
* [[1997-1998]]
* [[1996-1997]]
* [[1995-1996]]
* [[Pre-1995]]

=== Other Things ===
*[[Special:Categories|View All Categories]]
*[[:Category:Shows|Shows]]
*[[:Category:Movies|Movies]]
*[[Fansub o' the Week]]
*[[:Category:Members|View the Club Roster]]
*[[MNA Logo]]
*[[Halloween Party]]
*[[Pictionary Parties]]
*[[Goshi|Quarterly Goshi (formerly Tsurugi) Trips]]
*[[Open House]]
*[[T-shirt Designs]]
*[[Challenges]] -- Wasabi and Soy Sauce aka Stupidity
*[[Conventions]] -- Fanime and AX memories
*[[:Category:Positions|Positions that Can Be Held in the Club]]
*[[Inside Jokes]]
*[[Minna no Anime Traditions]]
*[[MnA AIM screennames]]

Category:Vice Presidents

2012-10-02T04:38:21Z

Moroboshi ataru: Cheney'd

*Much like the Vice President of the United States, Minna no Anime's Vice President doesn't have many real responsiblities except to help out the President.
*Unlike former Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney, MnA's Vice President is much beloved and appreciated (and has, to the best of our knowledge, never shot anyone in the face).
*Our current VP is [[Christopher Pagador]]

[[Category:Positions]]

Talk:Minna no Anime Traditions

2012-09-26T22:09:20Z

Moroboshi ataru: 'What links here'

Phyllis, this page is linked from the front page. (Near the bottom, "Minna no Anime Traditions").

EDIT: Also, for future reference, there's a "What links here" for any page at the top of the "toolbox" section on the left.
-[[User:Moroboshi ataru|Moroboshi ataru]] 14:58, 26 September 2012 (PDT)

Talk:2011-2012 Emails

2012-09-26T22:05:35Z

Moroboshi ataru: Allow me to retort.

But I will never leave, Mike! NEVER!!! MWAHAHAHAAAAA *starts sobbing* -[[User:Goofanader|Goofanader]] 13:59, 26 September 2012 (PDT)

Everyone leaves eventually, Phyllis. -[[User:Moroboshi ataru|Moroboshi ataru]] 15:05, 26 September 2012 (PDT)

Talk:Minna no Anime Traditions

2012-09-26T21:58:16Z

Moroboshi ataru: Where this page is linked from. ^^

Phyllis, this page is linked from the front page. (Near the bottom, "Minna no Anime Traditions").

-[[User:Moroboshi ataru|Moroboshi ataru]] 14:58, 26 September 2012 (PDT)

2011-2012 Emails

2012-09-26T21:56:30Z

Moroboshi ataru: Andrew and Evan gone now.

{{emailnav|2011-2012|2010-2011|2011-2012}}

Per MNA History Wiki Policy, these emails will be posted after [[Jessica Freitas]], [[Katherine Winegarden]] and [[Phyllis Douglas]] leave Cal Poly.

2010-2011 Emails

2012-09-26T21:55:56Z

Moroboshi ataru: Lots of people gone now.

{{emailnav|2010-2011|2009-2010|2011-2012}}

Per MNA History Wiki Policy, these emails will be posted after [[Phyllis Douglas]] leaves Cal Poly.

2009-2010 Emails

2012-09-26T21:55:23Z

Moroboshi ataru: Brandon is gone now. :)

{{emailnav|2009-2010|2008-2009|2010-2011}}

Per MNA History Wiki Policy, these emails will be posted after [[Ashley Berry]] leaves Cal Poly.

File talk:PhyllisMegaTamago.jpg

2012-06-05T01:27:29Z

Moroboshi ataru: Created page with "Picture courtesy of Scott Melot."

Picture courtesy of Scott Melot.

Main Page

2012-06-05T01:26:45Z

Moroboshi ataru: /* Minna No Anime Club History */ Mega Tamago!

New to MNA? Start at the [[2011-2012|current year]] for officers/shows/movies/events or go back to the [http://www.minnanoanime.org MNA homepage] for the latest news.
*Homepage: [http://www.minnanoanime.org link]
*Forum: [http://www.minnanoanime.org/forum/ link]
*DeviantART: [http://minnanoanime.deviantart.com/ link]
*Twitter: [http://twitter.com/minnanoanime link]

== Obligatory Disclaimer - Unofficial Site ==

This wiki is an UNOFFICIAL attempt by current and former members to record the history of Cal Poly's Anime Club. This page is not hosted on Cal Poly servers and is not administered by the officers of Minna no Anime. Some events mentioned on this site (all events occuring off of the Cal Poly campus not directly related to preparations for the Halloween Party or Open House) were informal and unofficial social gatherings arranged privately between students, and were not official club activities in any way sanctioned or endorsed by ASI or Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. As a wiki, this site is composed entirely of user-submitted content. As a result, the content of this wiki may not reflect the views of the administrators of this site, the views of the officers or members of Minna no Anime, or the actual history of events as they transpired. Some portions of this site may quite possibly have nothing to do with any version of reality as we know it. Consider yourself warned.

== Minna No Anime Club History ==
[[Image:PhyllisMegaTamago.jpg|thumb|right|320px|The chef at [[Goshi]] surprised President [[Phyllis Douglas]] with a very special tamago nigiri. (June 3, 2012)]]

[[Image:OpenHouse2011.jpg|thumb|right|320px|The MNA booth dressed as the Cat Bus at Open House 2011 (Apr 16, 2011)]]

[[Image:15thanniversary.jpg|thumb|right|320px|Group shot of attendees of MnA's 15th Anniversary party]]

This project is an attempt to document the history of Cal Poly's Anime Club for current, former, and future members and officers. It is still a growing wiki, so may not always have the complete story. If you have information not in the wiki, please make any changes or additions you desire (you must register on the [http://forum.minnanoanime.org|MnA forum] and [[Special:Userlogin|log in]] to the wiki to edit pages or email other users -- we know it's a pain but it stops the spambots from taking over when we're not looking).

Please read [[MinnaHistoryWiki:Policies|our policies]] before uploading images or editing your own wiki entry -- we encourage you to do both within reason.

There are still several [[Special:Wantedpages|pages that need content]]. Information on these subjects is particularly welcome.

Consult the [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide User's Guide] for information on using the wiki software.

Visit the [http://www.sukiyakisoftware.net/mnagallery photo gallery] to view more pictures of all things Minna or to add your own.

=== Years at a glance ===
* [[2012-2013]]
* [[2011-2012]]
* [[2010-2011]]
* [[2009-2010]]
* [[2008-2009]]
* [[2007-2008]]
* [[2006-2007]]
* [[2005-2006]]
* [[2004-2005]]
* [[2003-2004]]
* [[2002-2003]]
* [[2001-2002]]
* [[2000-2001]]
* [[1999-2000]]
* [[1998-1999]]
* [[1997-1998]]
* [[1996-1997]]
* [[1995-1996]]
* [[Pre-1995]]

=== Other Things ===
*[[Special:Categories|View All Categories]]
*[[:Category:Shows|Shows]]
*[[:Category:Movies|Movies]]
*[[Fansub o' the Week]]
*[[:Category:Members|View the Club Roster]]
*[[MNA Logo]]
*[[Halloween Party]]
*[[Pictionary Parties]]
*[[Goshi|Quarterly Goshi (formerly Tsurugi) Trips]]
*[[Open House]]
*[[T-shirt Designs]]
*[[Challenges]] -- Wasabi and Soy Sauce aka Stupidity
*[[Conventions]] -- Fanime and AX memories
*[[:Category:Positions|Positions that Can Be Held in the Club]]
*[[Inside Jokes]]
*[[Minna no Anime Traditions]]
*[[MnA AIM screennames]]

File:PhyllisMegaTamago.jpg

2012-06-05T01:20:17Z

Moroboshi ataru: The chef at Goshi knows Phyllis really likes her tamago sushi! XD

The chef at Goshi knows Phyllis really likes her tamago sushi! XD

2009-2010

2011-12-06T06:44:30Z

Moroboshi ataru: Tekkon Kinkreet was 3/13 per email, removing comment unsure of that

{{yearnav|2009-2010|2008-2009|2010-2011}}
[[Image:OpenHouse2010.jpg|thumb|right|320px|The MNA booth with Gundam at Open House 2010 (Apr 17, 2010)]]
[[Image:Tshirt_2010.jpg|thumb|right|2010 T-shirt Design]]
[[Image:Banner_2010.jpg|thumb|right|2010 New Banner Design]]

== Officers ==
{| class="wikitable"
!President
|[[Erika Severin]]
|-
!Vice President
|[[Juli Lehnen]]
|-
!Secretary
|[[Ashley Berry]]
|-
!Treasurer
|[[Brandon Chow]]
|-
!Webmaster
|[[Andy Richardson]]
|-
!Librarian
|[[Jesse Tyler]]
|}

== Schedule ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Time !! Show !! Notes

|-
|colspan=3|

|-
! 5:00
|[[Fansub_o'_the_Week#2009-2010|Fansub o' the Week]]
|
|-
! rowspan=2| 5:25
|[[Kamichu!]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu]]
|Winter-Spring

|-
|colspan=3|

|-
!5:55
|[[Emma]]
|

|-
! rowspan=2| 6:20
|[[Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[FLAG]]
|Winter-Spring

|-
|colspan=3|

|-
!6:50
|[[Sousei no Aquarion]]
|

|-
!7:15
|[[Yakitate! Japan]]
|LIVESUB

|-
|colspan=3|

|-
!7:40
|[[BIG BREAK]]
|

|-
|colspan=3|

|-
! rowspan=2| 8:10
|[[Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Sengoku Basara]]
|Winter-Spring LIVESUB
|-
!8:35
|[[Darker than BLACK]]
|
|-
|colspan=3|
|-
!9:05
|[[Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad]]
|

|-
! rowspan=2| 9:30
|[[Baccano!]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Eden of the East]]
|Winter-Spring LIVESUB
|}

== Movies ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Fall
| [[Sword of the Stranger]] 12/5 *Blu-Ray

|-
!Winter
| [[Tekkon Kinkreet]] 3/13
|-
!Spring
| [[Eden of the East Movie I: The King of Eden]] 5/6
|}

== Events ==

*ZOMG! Minna wins "Best Ethnic Food" Award at Open House 4/17/2010. Finally [[Awesome Sauce]] gets some recognition!
*Minna gets a deviantART page up and running! Started by [[Erika Peterson]] and maintained by [[Phyllis Douglas]]. [http://minnanoanime.deviantart.com/]
*Minna decides to get a new banner and runs an art contest for it. [[Phyllis Douglas]] wins the contest, and some of the other entries can be found [http://minnanoanime.deviantart.com/gallery/24525127 here].

== Notes ==

[[Category:Timeline]]

2011-2012

2011-12-05T20:54:14Z

Moroboshi ataru: /* Schedule */ fix error with ampersand in page name

{{yearnav|2011-2012|2010-2011|2011-2012}}

== Officers ==
{| class="wikitable"
!President
|[[Phyllis Douglas]]
|-
!Vice President
|[[Andrew Lee]]
|-
!Secretary
|[[Jessica Freitas]]
|-
!Treasurer
|[[Katherine Winegarden]]
|-
!Webmaster
|[[Evan Ralston]]
|-
!Librarian/Events
|[[Michael Whipp]]
|}

== Schedule ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Time !! Show !! Notes

|-
|colspan=3|

|-
! 4:30
|[[Fansub o' the Week]]
|

|-
! rowspan=2| 4:55
|[[Spice and Wolf II]]
|Fall-Winter
|-
|[[Zoku Natsume Yuujinchou]]
|Winter-Spring LIVESUB

|-
|colspan=3|

|-
!5:25
|[[Allison and Lillia|Allison & Lillia]]
|

|-
!5:50
|[[Utawarerumono]]
|

|-
|colspan=3|

|-
!6:20
|[[The Irresponsible Captain Tylor]]
|

|-
!6:45
|[[Skip Beat!]]
|LIVESUB

|-
|colspan=3|

|-
!7:10
|[[BIG BREAK]]
|

|-
|colspan=3|

|-
!8:10
|[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]
|
|-
!8:35
|[[Birdy The Mighty: Decode]]
|
|-
|colspan=3|
|-
!9:05
|[[Oh! Edo Rocket]]
|

|-
! 9:30
|[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]
|
|}

== Movies ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Fall
| [[Trigun: Badlands Rumble]] 12/3

|-
!Winter
| TBA 3/10

|-
!Spring
| TBA 6/2
|}

== Events ==

== Notes ==
*Switched from 5PM to 4:30PM start time starting this year.
[[Category:Timeline]]

Allison and Lillia

2011-12-05T20:52:35Z

Moroboshi ataru: moved Allison to Allison and Lillia: ampersands don't seem to work well in page titles

{| class="wikitable"
! Show Type
| TV
|-
! # Episodes
| 26
|-
! Vintage
| 2008
|-
! Shown By MNA
| [[2011-2012]] @ 5:25
|-
! Episodes Shown
| 1-26
|-
! Shown On
| R1 DVD
|}

== Capsule Description ==

It is the year 3287, and the countries of Roxche and Soux-Beil have been feuding for one hundred and thirty years. In the country of Roxche, the young air force pilot Allison has just reunited with her childhood friend Wil; and together, they are about to embark on a grand adventure. Whether it's ending the war between the countries with the help of a legendary treasure, traveling into hostile territory, or helping restore a princess's right to the throne, Allison and Wil will complete their missions with kindness and honor.

== Member Reviews ==

== Additional Information ==
* Anime News Network Encyclopedia [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=8988]
* Anime-planet [http://www.anime-planet.com/anime/allison-and-lillia]

[[Category:Shows]]

2011-2012 Emails

2011-11-16T20:36:55Z

Moroboshi ataru: remaining student officers

{{emailnav|2011-2012|2010-2011|2011-2012}}

Per MNA History Wiki Policy, these emails will be posted after [[Andrew Lee]], [[Evan Ralston]], [[Jessica Freitas]], [[Katherine Winegarden]] and [[Phyllis Douglas]] leave Cal Poly.

2010-2011 Emails

2011-11-16T20:35:43Z

Moroboshi ataru: remaining student officers

{{emailnav|2010-2011|2009-2010|2011-2012}}

Per MNA History Wiki Policy, these emails will be posted after [[Andrew Lee]], [[Brandon Chow]], [[Evan Ralston]], and [[Phyllis Douglas]] leave Cal Poly.

2009-2010 Emails

2011-11-16T20:34:34Z

Moroboshi ataru: remaining student officers

{{emailnav|2009-2010|2008-2009|2010-2011}}

Per MNA History Wiki Policy, these emails will be posted after [[Ashley Berry]] and [[Brandon Chow]] leave Cal Poly.

2011-2012 Emails

2011-11-16T20:32:50Z

Moroboshi ataru: policy

{{emailnav|2011-2012|2010-2011|2011-2012}}

Per MNA History Wiki Policy, these emails will be posted after [[Jessica Freitas]] and [[Phyllis Douglas]] leave Cal Poly.

2010-2011 Emails

2011-11-16T20:31:35Z

Moroboshi ataru: policy

{{emailnav|2010-2011|2009-2010|2011-2012}}

Per MNA History Wiki Policy, these emails will be posted after [[Brandon Chow]] leaves Cal Poly.

2009-2010 Emails

2011-11-16T20:30:28Z

Moroboshi ataru: added emailnav

{{emailnav|2009-2010|2008-2009|2010-2011}}

Per MNA History Wiki Policy, these emails will be posted after [[Ashley Berry]] leaves Cal Poly.

2009-2010 Emails

2011-11-16T20:29:11Z

Moroboshi ataru: policy

Per MNA History Wiki Policy, these emails will be posted after [[Ashley Berry]] leaves Cal Poly.

2008-2009 Emails

2011-11-16T20:27:58Z

Moroboshi ataru: added emailnav

[[Category:E-mails]]
{{emailnav|2008-2009|2007-2008|2009-2010}}

== Fall 2008 ==
=== Minna no Anime: Sept 27th 2008 ===
<pre>
Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week: Slayers Revolution
5:25 Ouran High School Host Club (Ep 1: You're A Host From Now On)
5:50 Break
5:55 Moyashimon (Ep 1: Agricultural Bacteria Tale)
6:20 Ranma 1/2 (Ep 1: Here's Ranma)
6:45 Break
6:50 XXXHolic (Ep 1: Hitsuzen- The Inevitable)
7:15 Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Ep 1: Penetrate the Heavens with Your Drill)
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Paradise Kiss (Ep 1: Atelier/Studio)
8:35 Planetes (Ep 1: Outside the Atmosphere)
9:00 Break
9:05 Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (Ep 1: The Evil Spirit)
9:35 Welcome to the NHK (Ep 1: Welcome To The Project!)

[Notes For This Week]

Enjoy Minna no Manga Next Week!
Thursdays from 6-10pm starting ~October 2nd~
Building 03-113
What is Minna no Manga? Minna no Manga is our social time on Thursday nights, where we bring manga(comics) to read/share, play games, and do whatever is fun!

Renew Your Memberships!
This fall is the beginning of a new year, and with that comes a new beginning! There are several benefits to being an "official" club member, including: The Ability to Run for Club Office, The Ability to Vote on Officers, The Ability to Win Prizes at Halloween Bash, and The Ability to Get Discounts on Annual Club T-Shirts! Membership Dues are $2 per quarter or $5 year-long (That's a Steal!).
(insert Law of Ueki reference here)

SUPER SPECIAL HALLOWEEN EXTRAVAGANZA!
Save the Date for November 1st!
Our Halloween is always a hit event, with supernatural anime, karaoke, dinner, and many, many contests. You may find yourself entering the trivia, AMV, pumpkin carving, cosplay, or a totally different contest! Win epic prizes! More information to come, but mark your calenders!

Annual MnA T-Shirts!
We'll be selling our '07-'08 T-shirts today in club! $15 for whoever, or $12 for paid-members!

[Ramblings]
It's so exciting to see the first week of Minna no Anime start! Working all summer to get this lined up is tiresome, buuuttt... omg. I am amazed at how much anime I've watched over the summer just because of club! What have you watched over the summer? Hopefully we'll pull in some good new series for Fan Sub O'.

This summer I was working as an office assistant for a NPO. One of my tasks was to go through Standard-of-Living papers of various East African beneficiaries. Do you have a bed? mattress? blankets? How many times a week do you have meat? Are your children in school? I suppose it's not helpful to get depressed over such things, but sometimes I reflect upon it, especially when I'm off in my own little busy nerd world. "What... does it all... mean?" Or...... something.
[/Back to your regularly scheduled programming]

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary
Lord of Spreadsheets and CAPSLOCK
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net

"Yo! Say, the summer sure makes my heart pound.
With all those bare-legged mermaids around tempting me.
I’ll strut my stuff and if I get some results,
Then I think real love will come my way for sure!"
~T.M. Revolution "Hot Limit"
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=== Minna no Anime: October 4th, 2008 ===
<pre>
Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo). Yay, we actually have the silo this time!

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week: Hayate the Combat Butler
5:25 Ouran High School Host Club (Ep 2: A High School Student Host's Job)
5:50 Break
5:55 Moyashimon (Ep 1: Agricultural Bacteria Tale)
6:20 Ranma 1/2 (Ep 2: School is No Place for Horsing Around)
6:45 Break
6:50 XXXHolic (Ep 2: Falsehood)
7:15 Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Ep 2: I Said I'm Gonna Pilot That Thing!)
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Paradise Kiss (Ep 2: Illumination)
8:35 Planetes (Ep 2: Like A Dream)
9:00 Break
9:05 Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (Ep 2: Hierophant Green)
9:35 Welcome to the NHK (Ep 1: Welcome To The Creator!)

[Notes For This Week]

Annual MnA T-Shirts!
We'll be selling our '07-'08 T-shirts today in club! $15 for whoever, or $12 for paid-members!

Renew Your Memberships!
If you missed it last week, don't hesitate! There are several benefits to being an "official" club member, including: The Ability to Run for Club Office, The Ability to Vote on Officers, The Ability to Win Prizes at Halloween Bash, and The Ability to Get Discounts on Annual Club T-Shirts! Membership Dues are $2 per quarter or $5 year-long.

SUPER SPECIAL HALLOWEEN EXTRAVAGANZA!
Save the Date for November 1st!
Our Halloween is always a hit event, with supernatural anime, karaoke, dinner, and many, many contests. Here are the contests, in brief: anime trivia, anime-eyes, anime music videos, pumpkin carving, cosplay, and guilty gear! Win epic prizes! More information to come, but mark your calenders!

[Ramblings]
I'd like to rant today about my Forest Surveying class. Don't get me wrong, that stuff is useful. However, the majority of the lab today was purely looking for small orange pegs. In tall grass. In a cal-poly cow pasture. With both fresh aaaand dried out pies. Luckily, I wasn't the one to accidentally step ankle deep in cow water. After that, theeeen we had to do measurements. I think the department is a little whack. I even have a saturday lab on the day of our Halloween party. Suuuuck!

There's also a girl in my Chem class who thinks it's a good idea to ask ~me~ for help. I don't know about you, but I don't trust me. Dangerous science will be had!

Oh, you should all start playing GROW games. Essentially, they are addicting. I admit to marathoning several hours in one day. I find it really interesting to see how the elements interact and I find these games innovative in the casual-game world. You can find many of them at http://www.eyezmaze.com/ They have other kinds of games as well, but I believe they got famous for GROW games.
[/Back to the basics]

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary
Lord of GROW Games

Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Enjoy Minna no Manga!
Thursdays from 6-10pm
Building 03-113

"I'm just being myself
Plus I gotta be me too
Silly of me to think that
I couldn't bring myself to be you"
~Gnarls Barkley-"Transformer"
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=== Minna no Manga: October 10th, 2008 ===
<pre>
Minna no Manga meets Thursdays from 6-10pm in building 3-113.
MnM is our social time on Thursday nights, where we bring manga (comics), laptops, games, and pretty much do whatever!

Manga-ka you should know: Mitsukazu Mihara.
Mitsukazu Mihara is an influential Japanese illustrator credited with helping shape the GothLoli look through her work in the "Gothic & Lolita Bible", as well as in other subsequent manga (notably her acclaimed "DOLL" series). In 1994, she won the first "Feel Young New Face Manga Awards" Judges’ Special Prize with her short work, "The Children Who Don’t Need Rubbers."

Series: Doll
DOLLs are human-like androids manufactured by the SG Corporation. A DOLL can fulfill many varied needs and serve any number of purposes, including personal assistant, secretary, cook, maid, laborer, companion, lover... and, of course, status symbol. Ichiro is a remodeller whose grandfather was president of the SG Corporation. Ichiro demonstrated his genius level I.Q. even as a child... which led to constant abuse at the hands of Ichiro's step-mother and her children. Ichiro's only relief came from a domestic DOLL that belonged to his family... and the DOLL showed Ichiro more warmth and kindness than any of his relatives.
Why you should read Doll:
Doll is BY NO MEANS related to Chobits (It actually came before the chobits manga). Doll, as the description of Mihara suggests, has a full fledged gothic lolita style. However, don't let that fool you, Doll is a very dramatic, psycological and veeery dark manga. Indeed though, this manga is ultimately about compassion, companionship, and society roles. Each chapter is a new story about people, and each tale changes your perspective about Dolls and Human Nature. You may not think it at first, but this series can be a real tear jerker, but not so much in a sappy was as in a beautiful way. I highly recommend this series.

The Embalmer
Shinjyurou Mamiya is an embalmer, a profession seen as ‘unclean’ in Japan. Shinjyurou has accepted the life of an outcast amongst most people, to him, it is a job and nothing more. He has gained an exceptional understanding of death and its consequences, as well as what it means to live.
Why you should read The Embalmer:
If the cyborg-human theme tires you out (but seriously, you should read Doll anyways), The Embalmer follows a similarly introspective style. You will definitely learn more about death, and maybe even see it a little differently. As always, Mihara's art is just plain beautiful and meticulous.

Other works:
# Beautiful People
# R.I.P. - Requiem in Phonybrian
# Haunted House
# IC In A Sunflower
Currently only in Japanese
* Happy Family volumes 1-3 & 'extra'
* Dokuhime (毒姫) "Poison Princess" volumes 1-2
* tamashii no futago (たましいのふたご) "The Twin Souls"

[Other Things]
I really wish that the whether started getting cooler. You'd expect such things, being autumn and all, but alas. Unfortunately, I'm a sweatshirt kinda girl, which tends to make things difficult. Come to think of it, last year at Halloween, it was also ridiculously hot. At least it wasn't raining?

Also, I'd like to plug the Minna no Forum, at http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
It's a good way to get in touch with other members, and talk about our shows (or whatever). It's especially useful if you want to express your opinions in a more written fashion. I know it's easier for me to respond comments or questions if it's nice and neat like that. Currently, Brandon is our top poster, but I'm sure one of you could beat him if you tried! (no hard feelings, bro!)

~Juli Lehnen, MnA Secretary
Lord of... gosu rori? Just kidding.
"Women seem wicked when you're unwanted,
Streets are uneven when you're down."
The Doors- People Are Strange

P.S. If you missed them, here are the announcements from last week:

Annual MnA T-Shirts!
We'll be selling our '07-'08 T-shirts today in club! $15 for whoever, or $12 for paid-members!

Renew Your Memberships!
If you missed it last week, don't hesitate! There are several benefits to being an "official" club member, including: The Ability to Run for Club Office, The Ability to Vote on Officers, The Ability to Win Prizes at Halloween Bash, and The Ability to Get Discounts on Annual Club T-Shirts! Membership Dues are $2 per quarter or $5 year-long.

SUPER SPECIAL HALLOWEEN EXTRAVAGANZA!
Save the Date for November 1st!
Our Halloween is always a hit event, with supernatural anime, karaoke, dinner, and many, many contests. Here are the contests, in brief: anime trivia, anime-eyes, anime music videos, pumpkin carving, cosplay, and guilty gear! Win epic prizes! More information to come, but mark your calenders!
</pre>

=== Minna no Anime: October 11th, 2008 ===
<pre>
Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week: Kuroshitsuji (aka Black Butler)
5:25 Ouran High School Host Club (Ep 3: Beware of Physical Examinations)
5:50 Break
5:55 Moyashimon (Ep 2: Three Billion Yen Aggie Life)
6:20 Ranma 1/2 (Ep 3: A Sudden Storm of Love, Hey Wait a Minute!)
6:45 Break
6:50 XXXHolic (Ep 3: Angel)
7:15 Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Ep 3: You Two-Faced Son of a Bitch!)
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Paradise Kiss (Ep 3: Kiss)
8:35 Planetes (Ep 3: Return Trajectory)
9:00 Break
9:05 Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (Ep 3: Silver Chariot and Strength)
9:35 Welcome to the NHK (Ep 3: Welcome To The Beautiful Girls!)

[Notes For This Week]
Remember to renew your memberships, so you can get t-shirt discounts($12) and (potentially) Halloween Prizes! $2 per quarter, $5 yearlong.

MnA Halloween Party!
Save the Date for November 1st!
As the date gets nearer and nearer, you may be wondering why we are reminding you, over and over and over. First and foremost, we want you to come, but there are a few competitions you will need to prepare for in advance: Anime Music Videos (if interested, see Andy/Webmasta), Cosplay (dress as a character!), Pumpkin Carving, and our latest addition, the Gong Show! In the gong show, it's much like a talent/performance competition, but it's focus is on ~entertainment~, not "quality". All you have to do is keep our attention!
Other Contests: Anime Trivia, Anime Eyes, and Guilty Gear!
And The Day's Entertainment: Halloween-themed anime, open-mic karaoke, and dinner.

[Ramblings]
Suprisingly, I don't have anything to rant and raaaage about this time around, except maybe the weather. It's supposed to get cooler over the weekend and hot on Monday and Tuesday? When will it end?

Instead of beating around the bush, I'll give you guys a link to more Flash games. Why waste away a couple minutes of your time when I can devour hours? (hey, that rhymes! Sorta...)
http://www.thethinkingblog.com/2007/04/top-5-most-addictive-games.html
[/Back to where we started from]

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary, Lord of coffee-boba-milk-tea
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Enjoy Minna no Manga!
Thursdays from 6-10pm
Building 03-113

"Oh you pretty things, don't you know you're driving your mamas and papas insane?"
David Bowie- Oh You Pretty Things
</pre>

=== Minna no Manga: October 16th, 2008 ===
<pre>
Minna no Manga meets Thursdays from 6-10pm in building 3-113.
MnM is our social time on Thursday nights, where we bring manga (comics), laptops, games, and pretty much do whatever!

[Manga-That's-Topping-The-List-Today]
I thought I'd try something different and check out myanimelist.com. Members add anime/manga they've read and rate it. Here are the top rated manga (according to their algorithm)

1) Berserk - Gatts, known as the Black Swordsman, seeks sanctuary from the demonic forces that persue him and his woman, and also vengeance against the man who branded him as an unholy sacrifice. Aided only by his titanic strength, skill and sword, Gatts must struggle against his bleak destiny, all the while fighting with a rage that might strip him of his humanity. Berserk is a dark and brooding story of outrageous swordplay and ominous fate, in the theme of Shakespeare's MacBeth.

2) Monster - When a Doctor makes the highly controversial decision to save a boy's life over the mayor's, it leads to the loss of almost everything he holds dear. His fiance, his career, his social standing. The only thing he keeps is his own feeling of self worth, knowing that he did the right thing in saving the boy, who came in first. Yet even that is threatened when he begins to learn that nothing is as it originally appeared. A trail of bloodshed pointing to the seemingly innocent child leaves him questioning even his beliefs. Whether, in the end, all lives are ever truly equal.

3) 20th Century Boys - Kenji and his friends start to notice a series of odd occurences related to their childhood. A mysterious cult-leader named "friend" is out to destroy the world, and it has something to do with Kenji's childhood memories.

4) Nausikaa of the Valley of the Wind - A millennium has passed since "Seven Days of Fire," an apocalyptic war that almost wiped out human civilization. Since then, the earth is covered with an ever-growing "Sea of Corruption," a vast forest of fungi that secretes poisonous miasma and invasive spores, along with large and deadly insects inhabit within.

5) Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou - Set in a post-apocalyptic Japan of the near future where the sea level has risen and flooded much of the coastal areas and Mt. Fuji has erupted within living memory. The population has been considerably reduced and political and technological institutions have broken-down. Local communities have become nations and telephone and television no longer exist (although coffee vending machines and streetlights stubbornly continue to work). There are strange new animals and plants (like flying fish and glowing streetlight trees). The remaining people have adopted a slower-paced, simpler way of life and rely more on each other. Along with the human population are some intelligent, humanoid robots. One of the robots, a female named Alpha, runs a cafe by the same name in the country outside of what remains of Yokohama. With her trusty motorscooter and her camera she travels around the area making friends with the humans and robots, having new experiences and observing the passage of time. (I've never heard of this before, and I will inevitably check it out now)

Have you read any of these? According to myanimelist.com, you should. If so, do you agree with this list?

[Ramblings]
Zimbra e-mail + faulty internet connection = way too long to just load a contact list. Boo. Makes me want to kick some babies. That

Ooh, my swatches came for my Black Butler cosplay! Delicious dupioni silk. So... awesome. So... pricey. www.silkbaron.com 4evars.

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary, Lord of Kickin' Babies.
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Enjoy Minna no Anime!
Saturdays from 5-10pm
Building 03-213 "The Silo"

"That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball"

Announcements, if you missed them last week:
Remember to renew your memberships, so you can get t-shirt discounts($12) and (potentially) Halloween Prizes! $2 per quarter, $5 yearlong.

MnA Halloween Party!
Save the Date for November 1st!
As the date gets nearer and nearer, you may be wondering why we are reminding you, over and over and over. First and foremost, we want you to come, but there are a few competitions you will need to prepare for in advance: Art Contest, Anime Music Videos (if interested, see Andy/Webmasta), Cosplay (dress as a character!), Pumpkin Carving, and our latest addition, the Gong Show! In the gong show, it's much like a talent/performance competition, but it's focus is on ~entertainment~, not "quality". All you have to do is keep our attention!
Other Contests: Anime Trivia, Anime Eyes, and Guilty Gear!
And The Day's Entertainment: Halloween-themed anime, open-mic karaoke, and dinner.
</pre>

=== Minna no Anime: October 18th, 2008 ===
<pre>
Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week: Xam'd Lost Memories
5:25 Moyashimon (Ep 3: Let's Brew With Microbes)
5:50 Break
5:55 Moyashimon (Ep 4: Everywhere is a Microbe Party)
6:20 Ranma 1/2 (Ep 4: Ranma and...Ranma? If It's Not One Thing, It's Another)
6:45 Break
6:50 XXXHolic (Ep 4: Divination)
7:15 Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Ep 4: Does Having So Many Faces Make You Great!?)
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Paradise Kiss (Ep 4: George)
8:35 Planetes (Ep 4: Part of the Job)
9:00 Break
9:05 Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (Ep 4: The Emperor and the Hanged Man)
9:35 Welcome to the NHK (Ep 3: Welcome To The New World!)

[Notes For This Week]
We are not showing Ouran Host Club this week because our faithful subber is b-b-busy! We're taking this opportunity to catch up on Moyashimon.

Remember to renew your memberships, so you can get t-shirt discounts($12) and (potentially) Halloween Prizes! $2 per quarter, $5 yearlong.

I forgot to put this in the previous notices, but there is also an Artist's contest during the Halloween party as well.

MnA Halloween Party!
Save the Date for November 1st!
As the date gets nearer and nearer, you may be wondering why we are reminding you, over and over and over. First and foremost, we want you to come, but there are a few competitions you will need to prepare for in advance: Art Contest, Anime Music Videos (if interested, see Andy/Webmasta), Cosplay (dress as a character!), Pumpkin Carving, and our latest addition, the Gong Show! In the gong show, it's much like a talent/performance competition, but it's focus is on ~entertainment~, not "quality". All you have to do is keep our attention!
Other Contests: Anime Trivia, Anime Eyes, and Guilty Gear!
And The Day's Entertainment: Halloween-themed anime, open-mic karaoke, and dinner.

[Ramblings]
Holy Crap Guys, Andy Updated The Website! [golfclap]

"RAAAAGEEEEEE LittleBigPlanet got delayed. All because people are too overprotective of their religion and such. I'm not against religion but people who get all freakin' pissed because a lyric from a game resembles a quote from the Qur'an just annoy me. And now I've got to wait longer. Thanks a lot assholes."
~Andy-kun

[/The End of the World as We Know It]

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary, Lord of Making-Andy-Rage-On-Cue
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Enjoy Minna no Manga!
Thursdays from 6-10pm
Building 03-113

"I wanna be where the people are."
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=== Minna no Manga: October 23rd, 2008 ===
<pre>
Minna no Manga meets Thursdays from 6-10pm in building 3-113.
MnM is our social time on Thursday nights, where we bring manga (comics), laptops, games, and pretty much do whatever!

Considering he's a #1 bestselling author, you'd think that Dean Koontz's latest creation, In Odd We Trust, would be a smashing hit. I've heard a lot about it because of that title, but haven't heard anyone's opinion of it yet. And so, here's a review which speaks the opposite of what you'd expect from this author:

Deb Aoki's review of: In Odd We Trust
Put together a bestselling author and an experienced global manga creator and you have the ingredients for a graphic novel with crossover appeal for manga fans and young adult novel readers. But even the best recipes are only as good as its cook and its execution. In Odd We Trust is good idea that's served up as a flavorless, half-baked dish that's unappetizing for any audience.

Odd and friends are drawn in a very odd style, with jutting chins and generic, mannequin-like expressions. For a suspense story, there's very little mystery or surprises here; from its awkward beginning to its anticlimactic end.

Pros
* A game attempt at translating a bestselling author's stories into graphic novel format
* Has a few entertaining flashes of unexpected humor and satire

Cons
* A mystery story that doesn't offer much suspense or many surprises
* Stiff, clunky artwork, with characters that look more like dazed mannequins than people
* Numerous missed opportunities to develop characters beyond just one-dimensional caricatures
* Famous ghosts like Elvis and Lyndon Johnson bring very little to their cameos
* Aussie artist Chan's rendition of a "quiet desert town" looks inappropriately Midwestern

[Announcements]
Remember to renew your memberships, so you can get t-shirt discounts($12) and (potentially) Halloween Prizes! $2 per quarter, $5 yearlong.

MnA Halloween Party November 1st!
Remember, there's an Art Contest, Anime Music Videos (if interested, see Andy/Webmasta), Cosplay (dress as a character!), Pumpkin Carving, and our latest addition, the Gong Show! In the gong show, it's much like a talent/performance competition, but it's focus is on ~entertainment~, not "quality". All you have to do is keep our attention!
Other Contests: Anime Trivia, Anime Eyes, and Guilty Gear!
Note: You MUST participate in the cosplay contest to win the Grand Prize.
And The Day's Entertainment: Halloween-themed anime, open-mic karaoke, and dinner.

I've also been in contact with the Japanese Cultural Exchange, and they will be mentioning our event at their meetings. If you see any n00bs, welcome them with open arms!

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary, Lord of Kickin' Babies.
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Enjoy Minna no Anime!
Saturdays from 5-10pm
Building 03-213 "The Silo"
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=== Minna no Anime: October 25, 2008 ===
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Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week: Toradora
5:25 Ouran Host Club (Ep 4: Manageress Invades)
5:50 Break
5:55 Moyashimon (Ep 5: Bizarre! Microbe Monster!)
6:20 Ranma 1/2 (Ep 5: Love Me to the Bone! The Compound Fracture of Akane's Heart)
6:45 Break
6:50 XXXHolic (Ep 5: Word-Chain Game)
7:15 Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Ep 5: I Don't Understand It At All!)
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Paradise Kiss (Ep 5: Mother)
8:35 Planetes (Ep 5: Fly Me To The Moon)
9:00 Break
9:05 Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (Ep 5: The Judgement)
9:35 Welcome to the NHK (Ep 5: Welcome To The Counseling!)

[Notes For This Week]
We are back to showing Host Club! Yay!

Remember to renew your memberships, so you can get t-shirt discounts($12) and (potentially) Halloween Prizes! $2 per quarter, $5 yearlong.

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG GUYZ IT'S NEXT WEEK, MMKAY?
MnA Halloween Party!
Save the Date for November 1st!
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG GUYZ IT'S NEXT WEEK, MMKAY? Capslock aside, there are tons of awesome things gonna happen. You can still prepare for the following competitions: Art Contest, Anime Music Videos (if interested, see Andy/Webmasta), Cosplay (dress as a character!), Pumpkin Carving, and the Gong Show!
Other Contests: Anime Trivia, Anime Eyes, and Guilty Gear!
Note: You MUST be a member to win prizes ($2/quarter, $5/year), and you MUST enter the cosplay to win Grand Prize.
And The Day's Entertainment: Halloween-themed anime, open-mic karaoke, and dinner.

[Ramblings]
Halloween Party Is Taking Over My Life. That. Is. All.
[/The Beginning of the End]

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary, Lord of Concise? Comments
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Enjoy Minna no Manga!
Thursdays from 6-10pm
Building 03-113
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=== Minna no Manga: October 29, 2008 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays from 6-10pm in building 3-113.
MnM is our social time on Thursday nights, where we bring manga (comics), laptops, games, and pretty much do whatever!

Remember to renew your memberships, so you can get t-shirt discounts($13) and (potentially) Halloween Prizes! $2 per quarter, $5 yearlong.

MnA Halloween Party THIS FREAKING WEEKEND OMG YOU BETTER COME, YOU BETTER.
You still have time to pull together some Art, Anime Music Videos (if interested, see Andy/Webmasta), Cosplay (dress as a character!), Pumpkin Carving, or a Gong Show performance!
Other Contests: Anime Trivia, Anime Eyes, and Guilty Gear!
Note: You MUST participate in the cosplay contest to win the Grand Prize.
And The Day's Entertainment: Halloween-themed anime, open-mic karaoke, and dinner.

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary, Lord of Apple Pie.
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Enjoy Minna no Anime!
Saturdays from 5-10pm
Building 03-213 "The Silo"
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=== Minna no Manga: November 6th, 2008 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays from 6-10pm in building 3-113.
MnM is our social time on Thursday nights, where we bring manga (comics), laptops, games, and pretty much do whatever!

MnHalloween is over guys! We put so much effort into it and I'm glad things went as smoothly as they did. With the consideration that we were all new officers, it was scary to think about at first. I think it was really neat that the members who have moved on from Cal Poly got to participate this time around!

Manga Review: Himitsu (Top Secret) Ch 1, by Shimizu Reiko
Himitsu is currently only out in Japan, but I think you'll see why I chose to review it.

Himitsu is a psychological mystery manga, with a Sci-Fi twist. In our scenario, computer chips are implanted into everyone's brains to fight off infectious disease. There is one side effect: This chip also records everything you've seen, for your entire life. This is an essential element to unlocking the key to murder crimes. It's like Minority Report, without the time travel/pre-cog ethics mess. The first chapter (which brings you to why I've chosen this for today) includes the current, fictional president, who is known to be the most honest president in history and many consider him to be a near saint (sound familiar?). This chapter delves into the idea of "the man behind the mask", in other words, what the media doesn't see about such figureheads. As a whole, Himitsu demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of perspective and point of view.

There is some rocky dialogue, which is likely an issue of translation. Aside from that, the art is clean and captures the emotion very well. I recommend this to anyone who likes crime-scene themes or exploration of the human mind and heart.

Other works by Shimizu Reiko: 22XX, Magic, Milky Way, Papillon, Tsuki no Ko, Wild Cats, Kaguya Hime, Ryuu no Nemeru Hoshi

You can download scanlations of the first 2 volumes at the following website:
http://dragonvoice.org/dv_himitsu.html

Remember to renew your memberships, so you can get t-shirt discounts($13), and potentially become a new officer this spring!

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary, Lord of Psychological animus.
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Enjoy Minna no Anime!
Saturdays from 5-10pm
Building 03-213 "The Silo"
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=== Minna no Anime: November 8th, 2008 ===
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Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo). WARNING: This weekend is Homecoming. As a result, parking will be difficult. Plan accordingly!

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week: Ga-Rei Zero
5:25 Ouran Host Club (Ep 5: Twins' Quarrel)
5:50 Break
5:55 Moyashimon (Ep 6: Enchanting! Miss Agriculture)
6:20 Ranma 1/2 (Ep 6: Akane's Lost Love...These Things Happen, You Know)
6:45 Break
6:50 XXXHolic (Ep 6: Indulgence)
7:15 Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Ep 6: All Of You Bastards Put Us In Hot Water)
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Paradise Kiss (Ep 6: New World)
8:35 Planetes (Ep 6: The Lunar Flying Squirrels)
9:00 Break
9:05 Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (Ep 6: The Mist of Vengeance)
9:35 Welcome to the NHK (Ep 6: Welcome To The Classroom!)

[Notes For This Week]
Remember to renew your memberships, so you can get t-shirt discounts($13, originally $15) and you will be able to vote/run for club office in spring quarter!

[Rantings]
Did you know that SLO Transit adopted a double decker bus? It was working routes 4 & 5. It's so freaking pimp, I hope they keep it. At 8am (especially on Fridays), these routes are overflowing and gah it makes me uncomfortable. If for no other reason, dude, it's a double decker bus.

Also, since when was Cal Poly football 3rd in the nation? You'd think there'd be more dancing in the street? I will blame it on the economy... for now. The only reason I know about it is because of the upcoming parking lulz.

By the way, Fanime pre-reg is well underway. At the beginning of this month the price went up to 50$. If you're planning on attending, pre-reg for a cheaper price! More info about dates/location at fanime.com.
[/facepalm]

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary, Lord of hecks yeah week 6 is almost over.
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Enjoy Minna no Manga!
Thursdays from 6-10pm
Building 03-113
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=== Minna no Manga: November 13th, 2008 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays from 6-10pm in building 3-113.
MnM is our social time on Thursday nights, where we bring manga (comics),
laptops, games, and pretty much do whatever!

There is a contest open for a new website background! It's due the last
MnA meeting of the quarter. The rules are that there cannot be any
copyrighted characters in your image, and only one submission per person.
Otherwise, feel free to use a photograph, drawn image, whatever you want.
But be sure that it relates to MnA and what we're all about.
Prizes: Top two or three images will be put up into a random rotation on
the website. The grand prize also includes two figures we've picked out.
Just in case, there will be a post about the contest on the website
(minnanoanime.org) and on the forum as well.

Remember to renew your memberships, so you can get t-shirt discounts($13),
and potentially become a new officer this spring!

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary, Lord of Psychological animus.
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Enjoy Minna no Anime!
Saturdays from 5-10pm
Building 03-213 "The Silo"
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=== Minna no Anime: November 15th, 2008 ===
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Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo). WARNING: This weekend is a football game between Cal Poly and UC Davis (aka rivalry). As a result, parking will be difficult. Plan accordingly!

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week: Earl & Fairy
5:25 Ouran Host Club (Ep 6: The Elementary School Student Host is The Mischievous Type)
5:50 Break
5:55 Moyashimon (Ep 7: Raising the Curtain! Agriculture University Spring Festival)
6:20 Ranma 1/2 (Ep 7: Enter Ryoga! The Eternal "Lost Boy")
6:45 Break
6:50 XXXHolic (Ep 7: Hydrangea)
7:15 Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Ep 7: You'll Be The One To Do That)
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Paradise Kiss (Ep 7: Buterfly)
8:35 Planetes (Ep 7: Extraterrestrial Girl)
9:00 Break
9:05 Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (Ep 7: Justice)
9:35 Welcome to the NHK (Ep 7: Welcome To The Moratorium!)

[Notes For This Week]
There is a contest open for a new website background! It's due the last
MnA meeting of the quarter. The rules are that there cannot be any
copyrighted characters in your image, and only one submission per person.
Otherwise, feel free to use a photograph, drawn image, whatever you want.
But be sure that it relates to MnA and what we're all about.
Prizes: Top two or three images will be put up into a random rotation on
the website. The grand prize also includes two figures we've picked out.

Remember to renew your memberships($2/quarter, $5/year), so you can get t-shirt discounts($13),
and potentially become a new officer this spring!

Also, Shannon is hosting Thanksgiving-before-Thanksgiving this year, so be sure to talk to her if you are interested.

Speaking of which, NO "Official" CLUB MEETINGS THANKSGIVING WEEK!

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary, Lord of Thanksgiving
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Also Enjoy Minna no Manga!
Thursdays from 6-10pm
Building 03-113
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=== Minna No Manga: November 20th, 2008 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays from 6-10pm in building 3-113.
MnM is our social time on Thursday nights, where we bring manga (comics),
laptops, games, and pretty much do whatever!

Sign-ups for our Fall-Quarter dinner at Tsurugi will be THIS Saturday (11/22) in club.
Dinner Date: Dec. 7th @ 7pm (This is the Sunday before finals begin.)
Note: Tsurugi is located in Downtown SLO (570 Higuera St # 20). If you need a ride, don't be afraid to ask.
Etiquette:
~Don't sign yourself up unless you are serious about it, because the seats are limited and in high-demand.
~If you've signed up and cannot come, cancel as soon as you know. I would like to make sure those on the waiting list get fair notice.
~No running, pushing, shoving or otherwise being impolite during sign-ups. No one wants to be "that guy".

There are 2 contests going on at this time:
Website Background:
~Using your artist skillz (Photo, drawing, whutev), make a background for minnanoanime.org. Top winner will receive 2 figures we've chosen, and the top few winners will have their entries on rotation in the background itself. No copyrighted characters, and 1 submission per person.
Due: Last meeting of Fall Quarter

T-Shirt:
~Also using your artistic skills, draw out a design for the front/back of this year's t-shirt! Top winner has their design printed. For COMPLETE rules (there are several important ones), see: http://www.minnanoanime.org/tshirt.html -- and t-shirt colors can be found at http://www.hanesbullseye.com/Catalog/MoreInformation/easycolor.aspx
Due: 3rd week of Winter Quarter (Final color-clean-up/vector will be due 5th Week)

Remember to renew your memberships, so you can get t-shirt discounts($13),
and potentially become a new officer this spring!

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary, Lord of Contest Announcements
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Enjoy Minna no Anime!
Saturdays from 5-10pm
Building 03-213 "The Silo"
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=== Minna no Anime: November 22nd, 2008 ===
<pre>
Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo). WARNING: This weekend is a football game between Cal Poly and UC Davis (aka rivalry). As a result, parking will be difficult. Plan accordingly!

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week: TBA
5:25 Ouran Host Club (Ep 7)
5:50 Break
5:55 Moyashimon (Ep 8)
6:20 Ranma 1/2 (Ep 8)
6:45 Break
6:50 XXXHolic (Ep 8)
7:15 Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Ep 8)
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Paradise Kiss (Ep 8)
8:35 Planetes (Ep 8)
9:00 Break
9:05 Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (Ep 8)
9:35 Welcome to the NHK (Ep 8)

[Notes For This Week]
Shannon is hosting Thanksgiving-before-Thanksgiving this year, so be sure to talk to her if you are interested.

Speaking of which, NO "Official" CLUB MEETINGS THANKSGIVING WEEK!

Sign-ups for our Fall-Quarter dinner at Tsurugi will be THIS Saturday (11/22) in club.
Dinner Date: Dec. 7th @ 7pm (This is the Sunday before finals begin.)
Note: Tsurugi is located in Downtown SLO (570 Higuera St # 20). If you need a ride, don't be afraid to ask.
Etiquette:
~Don't sign yourself up unless you are serious about it, because the seats are limited and in high-demand.
~If you've signed up and cannot come, cancel as soon as you know. I would like to make sure those on the waiting list get fair notice.
~No running, pushing, shoving or otherwise being impolite during sign-ups. No one wants to be "that guy".

There are 2 contests going on at this time:
Website Background:
~Using your artist skillz (Photo, drawing, whutev), make a background for minnanoanime.org. Top winner will receive 2 figures we've chosen, and the top few winners will have their entries on rotation in the background itself. No copyrighted characters, and 1 submission per person.
Due: Last meeting of Fall Quarter

T-Shirt:
~Also using your artistic skills, draw out a design for the front/back of this year's t-shirt! Top winner has their design printed. For COMPLETE rules (there are several important ones), see: http://www.minnanoanime.org/tshirt.html -- and t-shirt colors can be found at http://www.hanesbullseye.com/Catalog/MoreInformation/easycolor.aspx
Due: 3rd week of Winter Quarter (Final color-clean-up/vector will be due 5th Week)

Remember to renew your memberships, so you can get t-shirt discounts($13),
and potentially become a new officer this spring!

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Also Enjoy Minna no Manga!
Thursdays from 6-10pm
Building 03-113
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=== Anouncement Edit ===
<pre>
There is actually no football game today, so there should not be trouble with that. Sorry about the confusion/extra e-mail.

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Also Enjoy Minna no Manga!
Thursdays from 6-10pm
Building 03-113
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=== Minna no Manga: December 4th, 2008 ===
<pre>
Minna no Manga meets Thursdays from 6-10pm in building 3-113.
MnM is our social time on Thursday nights, where we bring manga (comics),
laptops, games, and pretty much do whatever!

[Notes For This Week]

There are 2 contests going on at this time:
WEBSITE CONTEST ENDING! This Week!
~Using your artist skillz (Photo, drawing, whutev), make a background for minnanoanime.org. It should be of decent/reasonable size (see the site for example). Top winner will receive 2 figures we've chosen, and the top few winners will have their entries on rotation in the background itself. No copyrighted characters, and 1 submission per person.
DUE: Last meeting of Fall Quarter (THIS WEEK!)

T-Shirt:
~Also using your artistic skills, draw out a design for the front/back of this year's t-shirt! Top winner has their design printed. For COMPLETE rules (there are several important ones), see: http://www.minnanoanime.org/tshirt.html -- and t-shirt colors can be found at http://www.hanesbullseye.com/Catalog/MoreInformation/easycolor.aspx
DUE: 3rd week of Winter Quarter (Final color-clean-up/vector will be due 5th Week)

Remember to renew your memberships, so you can get t-shirt discounts($13),
and potentially become a new officer this spring!

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Also Enjoy Minna no Manga!
Thursdays from 6-10pm
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=== Minna no Anime: December 6th, 2008 ===
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Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Ouran Host Club (Ep 8: The Sun, Ocean and Host Club)
5:25 Moyashimon (Ep 9: Cling to Soft Skin)
5:50 Break
5:55 Ranma 1/2 (Ep 9: True Confessions! A Girl's Hair is Her Life)
6:20 Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Ep 9: Just What Exactly is a Human?)
6:45 Break
6:50 Planetes (Ep 9: Regrets)
7:15 Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (Ep 9: Iggy the Fool and N'Dool the GEB (Pt. II))
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Welcome to the NHK (Ep 9: Welcome To The Dark Side!)
8:35 Break
8:40 Quarter Movie: 5cm
9:40 Break
9:45 Quarter Movie Part Deux: Tokyo Godfathers

[Notes For This Week]
We are cutting Fan-Sub-O, XXXHolic, and Parakiss to make room for our quarter movies. I definitely encourage you to stay for both movies! After all, it is the last meeting of the quarter! Speaking of which, we won't be having any meetings until Jan 7th and 10th! Let's hope there aren't any cliffhangers today, eh?

There are 2 contests going on at this time:
WEBSITE CONTEST ENDING TODAY!
~Using your artist skillz (Photo, drawing, whutev), make a background for minnanoanime.org. It should be of decent/reasonable size (see the site for example). Top winner will receive 2 figures we've chosen, and the top few winners will have their entries on rotation in the background itself. No copyrighted characters, and 1 submission per person.
DUE: Last meeting of Fall Quarter (TODAY!)

T-Shirt:
~Also using your artistic skills, draw out a design for the front/back of this year's t-shirt! Top winner has their design printed. For COMPLETE rules (there are several important ones), see: http://www.minnanoanime.org/tshirt.html -- and t-shirt colors can be found at http://www.hanesbullseye.com/Catalog/MoreInformation/easycolor.aspx
DUE: 3rd week of Winter Quarter (Final color-clean-up/vector will be due 5th Week)

Remember to renew your memberships, so you can get t-shirt discounts($13),
and potentially become a new officer this spring!

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Also Enjoy Minna no Manga!
Thursdays from 6-10pm
Building 03-113
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== Winter 2009 ==
=== Minna no Anime: January 10th, 2009 ===
<pre>
Happy New Year! There will not be a MnM meeting this week. I will send out the new room information next week.

However, Minna no Anime does meet this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week: Michiko to Hatchin
5:25 Ouran Host Club (Ep 9: The challenge of Lobelia Girls Academy)
5:50 Break
5:55 Moyashimon (Ep 10: Gothic Lolita Kiss)
6:20 Ranma 1/2 (Ep 10: P-P-P-Chan! He's Good For Nothin')
6:45 Break
6:50 XXXHolic (Ep 9: Promise)
7:15 Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Ep 10: What Kind of Person was Your Brother?)
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Paradise Kiss (Ep 9: Designer)
8:35 Planetes (Ep 10: A Sky of Stardust)
9:00 Break
9:05 Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (Ep 10: D'Arby the Gambler)
9:35 Welcome to the NHK (Ep 10: Welcome to the Dark Side)

[Notes For This Week]
T-Shirt Contest:
~Using your artistic skills, draw out a design for the front/back of this year's t-shirt! Top winner has their design printed. For COMPLETE rules (there are several important ones), see: http://www.minnanoanime.org/tshirt.html -- and t-shirt colors can be found at http://www.hanesbullseye.com/Catalog/MoreInformation/easycolor.aspx
DUE: 3rd week of this Quarter (Final color-clean-up/vector will be due 5th Week)

Remember to renew your memberships, so you can get t-shirt discounts($13),
and potentially become a new officer this spring!

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Also Enjoy Minna no Manga!
Thursdays from 6-10pm
Building TBA
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=== Minna no Manga: January 15th, 2009 ===
<pre>
We DO have a room on campus for MnM this week! Yay for "Quick Response Time"!

Minna no Manga meets Thursdays from 6-10pm in building 10-201.
MnM is our social time on Thursday nights, where we bring manga, laptops, games, and pretty much do whatever!

[Notes For This Week]

Open House Theme: Design Your Dream
~We need ideas for building this year's Open House booth. It should be a ""somewhat plausible"" design inspired by anime.
Ex. Going Mary (One Piece), Flying Pussyfoot (Baccano!)
Don't be afraid to think outside the realm of transportation and vehicles!
DUE: This Saturday!!!

The T-Shirt Contest is due in 2 weeks!!
~Design the front/back of this year's t-shirt! Top winner has their design printed. For COMPLETE rules, see: http://www.minnanoanime.org/tshirt.html -- and t-shirt colors can be found at http://www.hanesbullseye.com/Catalog/MoreInformation/easycolor.aspx
DUE: 3rd week of this Quarter (Final color-clean-up/vector will be due 5th Week)

Fanime Club Rooms:
If you are considering coming to Fanime 2009 (Memorial Day Weekend, San Jose, fanime.com), and would be interested in rooming with fellow club-mates, please express that interest this Saturday. We are looking for a benchmark for future planning.
In addition, if you are reserving a room and are considering opening some space to club members, let us know.
Thank you!

Remember to renew your memberships, so you can get t-shirt discounts($13),
and potentially become a new officer this spring!

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Also Enjoy Minna no Manga!
Thursdays from 6-10pm
Building 10-201
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=== Minna no Anime: January 17th 2009 ===
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Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week: Ride Back
5:25 Ouran Host Club (Ep 10: The Fujioka Household's Daily Life)
5:50 Break
5:55 Moyashimon (Ep 11: Shining Bacteria Future)
6:20 Ranma 1/2 (Ep 11: Ranma Meets Love Head-On! Enter the Delinquent Juvenile Gymnast!)
6:45 Break
6:50 XXXHolic (Ep 10: Light)
7:15 Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Ep 11: Simon, Please Remove Your Hand)
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Paradise Kiss (Ep 10: Rose)
8:35 Planetes (Ep 11: Boundary Line)
9:00 Break
9:05 Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (Ep 11: The Warrior of the Void: Vanilla Ice)
9:35 Welcome to the NHK (Ep 11: Welcome To The Conspiracy!)

Last Episode of Moyashimon! Next week we will begin watching Cromartie High School in its place. Paradise Kiss and Jojo will be ending soon after.

[Notes For This Week]

Open House Theme: Design Your Future
~We need ideas for building this year's Open House booth. It should be a ""somewhat plausible"" design inspired by anime.
Ex. Going Mary (One Piece), Flying Pussyfoot (Baccano!)
Don't be afraid to think outside the realm of transportation and vehicles!
DUE: Today!!!

The T-Shirt Contest is due in 1 week!!
~Design the front/back of this year's t-shirt! Top winner has their design printed. For COMPLETE rules, see: http://www.minnanoanime.org/tshirt.html -- and t-shirt colors can be found at http://www.hanesbullseye.com/Catalog/MoreInformation/easycolor.aspx
DUE: Next Week (Final color-clean-up/vector will be due 5th Week of the Quarter)

Fanime Club Rooms:
If you are considering coming to Fanime 2009 (Memorial Day Weekend, San Jose, fanime.com), and would be interested in rooming with fellow club-mates, please express that interest today. We are looking for a benchmark for future planning.
In addition, if you are reserving a room and are considering opening some space to club members, let us know.
Thank you!

Remember to renew your memberships, so you can get t-shirt discounts($13),
and potentially become a new officer this spring!

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Also Enjoy Minna no Manga!
Thursdays from 6-10pm
Building 10-201
</pre>

=== Minna no Manga: January 22nd 2009 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays from 6-10pm in building 10-201.
MnM is our social time on Thursday nights.

[Notes For This Week]

T-SHIRT CONTEST GUYZ! :D :D :D
~Have your MnA inspired t-shirt printed! For COMPLETE rules, see: http://www.minnanoanime.org/tshirt.html -- and t-shirt colors can be found at http://www.hanesbullseye.com/Catalog/MoreInformation/easycolor.aspx
DUE: 3 DAYS!!! (Final color-clean-up/vector will be due in another 2 weeks)

EXTENDED!
Open House Theme: Design Your Future
~Submit ideas for building this year's Open House booth. They should be ""somewhat plausible"" designs inspired by anime. Ex. Going Mary (One Piece), Flying Pussyfoot (Baccano!)
Don't be afraid to think outside the realm of transportation and vehicles!
DUE: This Saturday.

Fanime Club Rooms:
Coming to Fanime 2009 (May 22-25th, San Jose, fanime.com), and interested in rooming with fellow club-mates? There is a paper interest-list (ask Erica during meetings), but you can also do it on our forum.
(http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net/?mforum=minnanoanime&showtopic=51&st=0&#entry429)

Remember to renew your memberships, so you can get t-shirt discounts($13),
and potentially become a new officer this spring!

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Also Enjoy Minna no Anime!
Saturdays from 5-10pm
Building 3-213
</pre>

=== Minna no Anime: January 24th 2009 ===
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Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week: MARIA†HOLIC
5:25 Ouran Host Club (Ep 11)
5:50 Break
5:55 Cromartie (Ep 1 & 2)
6:20 Ranma 1/2 (Ep 12)
6:45 Break
6:50 XXXHolic (Ep 11)
7:15 Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Ep 12)
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Paradise Kiss (Ep 11)
8:35 Planetes (Ep 12)
9:00 Break
9:05 Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (Ep 12)
9:35 Welcome to the NHK (Ep 12)

This week we will begin watching Cromartie High School! Paradise Kiss and Jojo will be ending soon as well.

[Notes For This Week]

T-SHIRT CONTEST!!!!
~Have your MnA inspired t-shirt printed! For COMPLETE rules, see: http://www.minnanoanime.org/tshirt.html -- and t-shirt colors can be found at http://www.hanesbullseye.com/Catalog/MoreInformation/easycolor.aspx
DUE: Today!!! (Final color-clean-up/vector will be due in another 2 weeks)

EXTENDED!
Open House Theme: Design Your Future
~Submit ideas for building this year's Open House booth. They should be ""somewhat plausible"" designs inspired by anime. Ex. Going Mary (One Piece), Flying Pussyfoot (Baccano!)
Don't be afraid to think outside the realm of transportation and vehicles!
DUE: Today.

Fanime Club Rooms:
Coming to Fanime 2009 (May 22-25th, San Jose, fanime.com), and interested in rooming with fellow club-mates? There is a paper interest-list (ask Erica during meetings), but you can also do it on our forum.
(http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net/?mforum=minnanoanime&showtopic=51&st=0&#entry429)

Remember to renew your memberships, so you can get t-shirt discounts($13),
and potentially become a new officer this spring!

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Also Enjoy Minna no Manga!
Thursdays from 6-10pm
Building 10-201
</pre>

=== Minna no Manga: January 29th, 2009 ===
<pre>
Minna no Manga meets Thursdays from 6-10pm in building 10-201.
MnM is our social time on Thursday nights.

[Notes For This Week]

Fanime Club Rooms:
Coming to Fanime 2009 (May 22-25th, San Jose, fanime.com), and interested in rooming with fellow club-mates? There is a paper interest-list (ask Erica during meetings), but you can also do it on our forum.
(http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net/?mforum=minnanoanime&showtopic=51&st=0&#entry429)

Remember to renew your memberships, so you can get t-shirt discounts($13),
and potentially become a new officer this spring!

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Also Enjoy Minna no Anime!
Saturdays from 5-10pm
Building 3-213
</pre>

=== Minna no Anime: January 31st, 2009 ===
<pre>
Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week: Chaos:Head
5:25 Ouran Host Club (Ep 12: Honey-senpai's Three Unsweet Days)
5:50 Break
5:55 Cromartie (Ep 3&4)
6:20 Ranma 1/2 (Ep 13: A Tear in a Girl Delinquents Eye? The End of the Martial Arts Rhythmic Gymnastics Challenge)
6:45 Break
6:50 XXXHolic (Ep 12: Summer Shadow)
7:15 Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Ep 13: Everybody, Eat To Your Heart's Content)
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Paradise Kiss (Ep 12: Future)
8:35 Planetes (Ep 13: Scenery with a Rocket)
9:00 Break
9:05 Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (Ep 13: Farewell, My Friends)
9:35 Welcome to the NHK (Ep 13: Welcome to Heaven!)

This week, ParaKiss and Jojo are at their end. Next week, Rozen Maiden and Black Lagoon will take their places, respectfully.

[Notes For This Week]

Gurren Lagann Open House!
Save up your cardboard, because booth building is in our future! Any ideas for the design are appreciated.

Fanime Club Rooms:
Coming to Fanime 2009 (May 22-25th, San Jose, fanime.com), and interested in rooming with fellow club-mates? There is a paper interest-list (ask Erica during meetings), but you can also do it on our forum.
(http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net/?mforum=minnanoanime&showtopic=51&st=0&#entry429)

Remember to renew your memberships, so you can get t-shirt discounts($13),
and potentially become a new officer this spring!

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Also Enjoy Minna no Manga!
Thursdays from 6-10pm
Building 10-201
</pre>

=== Minna no Anime: February 7th 2009 ===
<pre>
Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week:
5:25 Ouran Host Club (Ep 13: Haruhi in Wonderland)
5:50 Break
5:55 Cromartie (Ep 5&6)
6:20 Ranma 1/2 (Ep 14: Pelvic Fortune Telling! Ranma is the No. 1 Bride in Japan)
6:45 Break
6:50 XXXHolic (Ep 13: Transfiguration)
7:15 Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Ep 14: Well Met, Everyone)
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Rozen Maiden (Ep 1: Rose Maiden - Fräulein Rose)
8:35 Planetes (Ep 14: Turning Point)
9:00 Break
9:05 Black Lagoon (Ep 1: The Black Lagoon)
9:35 Welcome to the NHK (Ep 14: Welcome To Reality!)

[Notes For This Week]
Pre-order t-shirts! $13 for members, $15 for non-members.

Gurren Lagann Open House!
Save up your cardboard, because booth building is in our future! Any ideas for the design are appreciated.

Fanime Club Rooms:
Coming to Fanime 2009 (May 22-25th, San Jose, fanime.com), and interested in rooming with fellow club-mates? There is a paper interest-list (ask Erica during meetings), but you can also do it on our forum.
(http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net/?mforum=minnanoanime&showtopic=51&st=0&#entry429)

Remember to renew your memberships, so you can get t-shirt discounts($13),
and potentially become a new officer this spring!

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Also Enjoy Minna no Manga!
Thursdays from 6-10pm
Building 10-201
</pre>

=== Minna no Anime: February 14th, 2009 ===
<pre>
Happy Valentine's Day! Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week: TBA (aka Mystery Surprise)
5:25 Ouran Host Club (Ep 14)
5:50 Break
5:55 Cromartie (Ep 7&8)
6:20 Ranma 1/2 (Ep 15)
6:45 Break
6:50 XXXHolic (Ep 14)
7:15 Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Ep 15)
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Rozen Maiden (Ep 2)
8:35 Planetes (Ep 15)
9:00 Break
9:05 Black Lagoon (Ep 2)
9:35 Welcome to the NHK (Ep 15)

[Notes For This Week]
Pre-order t-shirts! $13 for members, $15 for non-members.

Gurren Lagann Open House!
Save up your cardboard, because booth building is in our future! Any ideas for the design are appreciated.

Fanime Club Rooms:
Coming to Fanime 2009 (May 22-25th, San Jose, fanime.com), and interested in rooming with fellow club-mates? There is a paper interest-list (ask Erica during meetings), but you can also do it on our forum.
(http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net/?mforum=minnanoanime&showtopic=51&st=0&#entry429)

Remember to renew your memberships, so you can get t-shirt discounts($13),
and potentially become a new officer this spring!

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Also Enjoy Minna no Manga!
Thursdays from 6-10pm
Building 10-201
</pre>

=== Minna no Manga: February 19th, 2009 ===
<pre>
Minna no Manga meets Thursdays from 6-10pm in building 10-201.
MnM is our social time on Thursday nights.

[Notes For This Week]

Fanime Club Rooms:
Buy t-shirts! $13 for members, $15 for non-members.

Gurren Lagann Open House!
Save up your cardboard, because booth building is in our future! Any ideas for the design are appreciated.

Fanime Club Rooms:
Coming to Fanime 2009 (May 22-25th, San Jose, fanime.com), and interested in rooming with fellow club-mates? There is a paper interest-list (ask Erica during meetings), but you can also do it on our forum.
(http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net/?mforum=minnanoanime&showtopic=51&st=0&#entry429)

Remember to renew your memberships, so you can get t-shirt discounts($13),
and potentially become a new officer this spring!
~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Also Enjoy Minna no Anime!
Saturdays from 5-10pm
Building 3-213
</pre>

=== Minna no Anime: February 21st, 2009 ===
<pre>
Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week: Munto
5:25 Ouran Host Club (Ep 15: Karuizawa Refreshing Battle)
5:50 Break
5:55 Cromartie (Ep 9&10)
6:20 Ranma 1/2 (Ep 16: Shampoo's Revenge! The Shiatsu Technique that Steals Heart and Soul)
6:45 Break
6:50 XXXHolic (Ep 15: Release)
7:15 Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Ep 16: Entire Polysynthesis)
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Rozen Maiden (Ep 3: Mercury Lamp - Mercury Lampe)
8:35 Planetes (Ep 16: Ignition)
9:00 Break
9:05 Black Lagoon (Ep 3: Ring-Ding Ship Chase)
9:35 Welcome to the NHK (Ep 16: Welcome To Game Over!)

[Notes For This Week]
Buy t-shirts! $13 for members, $15 for non-members.

Gurren Lagann Open House!
Booth Building is upon us! Last Thursday, if you were assigned to meet at a build house, please make sure to do so next Thursday! If you are interested in helping out and have not yet expressed an interest, talk to Erica today!
If you have cardboard you can donate to the cause, talk to us today!

Fanime Club Rooms:
Are you coming to Fanime 2009 (May 22-25th, San Jose, fanime.com), and interested in rooming with fellow club-mates? There is a paper interest-list (ask Erica during meetings), but you can also do it on our forum.
(http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net/?mforum=minnanoanime&showtopic=51&st=0&#entry429)

Remember to renew your memberships, so you can get t-shirt discounts($13),
and potentially become a new officer this spring!

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Also Enjoy Minna no Manga!
Thursdays from 6-10pm
Building 10-201
</pre>

=== Minna no Manga: February 26th, 2009 ===
<pre>
BOOTH BUILDERS! This week is the start of Open House Prep! Meet at Team Rocket, Chinchilla Casa, or Joint Tax Return (JRT), depending on where you were assigned.

Minna no Manga meets Thursdays from 6-10pm in building 10-201.
MnM is our social time on Thursday nights.

[Notes For This Week]
Again, Open House preparations are underway for Thursday nights, so don't be surprised when you see missing people!

Buy t-shirts! $13 for members, $15 for non-members.

Fanime Club Rooms:
Coming to Fanime 2009 (May 22-25th, San Jose, fanime.com), and interested in rooming with fellow club-mates? There is a paper interest-list (ask Erica during meetings), but you can also do it on our forum.
(http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net/?mforum=minnanoanime&showtopic=51&st=0&#entry429)

Remember to renew your memberships, so you can get t-shirt discounts($13),
and potentially become a new officer this spring!
~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Also Enjoy Minna no Anime!
Saturdays from 5-10pm
Building 3-213
</pre>

=== Minna no Anime: February 28th, 2009 ===
<pre>
Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (Business Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week: TBA
5:25 Ouran Host Club (Ep 16: Haruhi and Hikaru, the Great First Date Strategy)
5:50 Break
5:55 Cromartie (Ep 11&12)
6:20 Ranma 1/2 (Ep 17: I Love You, Ranma! Please Don't Say Goodbye)
6:45 Break
6:50 XXXHolic (Ep 16: Reunion)
7:15 Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Ep 17: You Understand Nothing)
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Rozen Maiden (Ep 4: Jade Stone - Jade Stern)
8:35 Planetes (Ep 17: His Reasons)
9:00 Break
9:05 Black Lagoon (Ep 4: Die Rückkehr des Adlers)
9:35 Welcome to the NHK (Ep 17: Welcome To Happiness!)

[Notes For This Week]
Open House preparations are underway for Thursday nights, so many members will be working on the booth at the 3 houses instead of attending MnM.

Buy t-shirts! $13 for members, $15 for non-members.

Fanime Club Rooms:
Coming to Fanime 2009 (May 22-25th, San Jose, fanime.com), and interested in rooming with fellow club-mates? There is a paper interest-list (ask Erica during meetings), but you can also do it on our forum.
(http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net/?mforum=minnanoanime&showtopic=51&st=0&#entry429)

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Also Enjoy Minna no Manga!
Thursdays from 6-10pm
Building 10-201
</pre>

=== Minna no Anime: March 7th, 2009 ===
<pre>

Important Tsurugi info below! Also: Spots still available!
Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (Business Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week: One Outs
5:25 Ouran Host Club (Ep 17: Kyoya's Reluctant Day Off)
5:50 Break
5:55 Cromartie (Ep 13&14)
6:20 Ranma 1/2 (Ep 18: I Am A Man! Ranma's Going Back to China)
6:45 Break
6:50 XXXHolic (Ep 17: Circumstances)
7:15 Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Ep 18: I'll Make You Tell The Truth of the World)
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Rozen Maiden (Ep 5: Stairs - Die Treppe)
8:35 Planetes (Ep 18: Debris Section, The Last Day)
9:00 Break
9:05 Black Lagoon (Ep 5: Eagle Hunting and Hunting Eagles)
9:35 Welcome to the NHK (Ep 18: Welcome To No Future!)

[Notes For This Week]
Tsurugi Info (IMPORTANT):
If you would like to sign up to come to Tsurugi on Sun the 15th @ 7pm, we have half a dozen spots up for grabs (what a tweest!).
For those who've signed up:
Like last year, we are conducting pre-orders. In this e-mail are 2 attachments with the menu (note that some items (IE sukiyaki) are deleted because it's a take-out menu, but if you want something that isn't on there, let me know). Make sure to be specific about the extras (such as soup or salad dressing choice).
You will send your pre-orders to minna-no-anime@<removed>.edu or talk to me (Juli) in person. You will also pre-pay your part of the bill (including 28% for tax + tip). You will bring some extra cash to the restaurant to pay for drinks.
Pre-order due: Wednesday night. Include a list of your order (specifying soup/salad preferences if applicable) and a payment total (also show 28% tax/tip). I will e-mail the order to Tsurugi Thursday, so don't be late!
Pre-pay due: Next Saturday the 14th. If you do not prepay, I will cancel your portion of the order. Don't be late!

Buy t-shirts! $13 for members, $15 for non-members.

Fanime Club Rooms:
Coming to Fanime 2009 (May 22-25th, San Jose, fanime.com), and interested in rooming with fellow club-mates? There is a paper interest-list (ask Erica during meetings), but you can also do it on our forum.
(http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net/?mforum=minnanoanime&showtopic=51&st=0&#entry429)

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Also Enjoy Minna no Manga!
Thursdays from 6-10pm
</pre>

=== Minna no Anime: March 14th, 2009 ===
<pre>
Last meeting of the quarter everyone! I hope you are keeping up with your studying! Don't forget about Petit Cosette tonight! Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (Business Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Ouran Host Club (Ep 18: Chika-kun's 'Overthrow Hunny' Declaration)
5:25 XXXHolic (Ep 18: Hozuki)
5:50 Break
5:55 Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Ep 19: We Shall Survive By Whatever We Do)
6:20 Rozen Maiden (Ep 6: Tears - Tränen)
6:45 Break
6:50 Black Lagoon (Ep 6: Moonlit Hunting Grounds)
7:15 Welcome to the NHK (Ep 19: Welcome To The Blue Bird!)
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Winter Movie: Petite Cosette

[Notes For This Week]
Tsurugi Info (IMPORTANT):
Don't forget to Pre-pay your amount due today in club! You must provide the total, plus 28% in tax and tip.
Also, remember to bring extra cash for drinks to the restaurant.
If you need directions or a ride, please ask!

Buy t-shirts! $13 for members, $15 for non-members.

Fanime Club Room Interest Due APRIL!:
Coming to Fanime 2009 (May 22-25th, San Jose, fanime.com), and interested in rooming with fellow club-mates? There is a paper interest-list (ask Erica during meetings), but you can also do it on our forum.
(http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net/?mforum=minnanoanime&showtopic=51&st=0&#entry429)

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Also Enjoy Minna no Manga!
Thursdays from 6-10pm
Building 10-201
</pre>

== Spring 2009 ==
=== Minna no Manga: April 1st, 2009 ===
<pre>
Hello everyone! I hope your break was delightfully springy.

Due to Open House, many active MnMers are working hard at booth construction elsewhere. However, we do officially have a MnM room starting this Thursday. Minna no Manga meets Thursdays from 6-10pm in building 10-227 (Same bldg as last quarter, different room). MnM is our social time on Thursday nights.

[Weekly Notes]
Fanime Club Room Interest Due Saturday!:
Coming to Fanime 2009 (May 22-25th, San Jose, fanime.com), and interested in rooming with fellow club-mates? There is a paper interest-list, but you can also do it on our forum.
(http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net/?mforum=minnanoanime&showtopic=51&st=0&#entry429)

OPEN HOUSE ZOMG!
As our largest source of income, open house is a big deal for MnA. When things go well there, we can afford shiny things (like DVDs) for the benefit of the club. As members of this nearly-free organization, it would be super fantastic if you could lend a hand. Even if you can only attend a few things, help is appreciated.

9 easy ways you can help-
1) Complete the booth construction. This Sunday at noon, we ask that members ride up to Shannon's house and help put together/paint the booth. Contact Shannon or any of the officers for rides/details.
2) "Practice Chicken Prep", on Thurs April 16th. You should know what I'm referring to.
3) Lend out cooking supplies. We are making chicken skewers and rice, so we will need to borrow BBQ grills, rice cookers, and assorted kitchen tools.
4) Setup the booth on campus Friday/Saturday morning. This is when all the elements will come together, so many hands will make this go smoothly.
5) Cooking and Sales. If you know your way around a skewer, grill, rice-cooker, or don't, we need hands to move the assembly along. If you are good at handling money/arithmetic/not-dropping-things, you can help at the window as well.
6) Information and Greeting. If you would like to chat-up new-members/parents, you can help by answering questions and saying a little about the club. Hanging around the booth is easy!
7) Dressing the part. If you want to help during Open House, it's nice to show a "club uniform". You may wear our Club T-Shirts (which you should definitely buy anyways), Gurren-Dan T-shirts (Contact Erica), or you can cosplay from Gurren Lagann.
8) Buy our foods. Tasty, tasty foods. You're salivating right now, I can tell.
9) Help deconstruct the booth. You can't beat the god-like feeling of destroying hard work, and then playing ice hockey.

Buy T-Shirts!

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Also Enjoy Minna no Anime!
Saturdays from 5-10pm
Building 3-213
</pre>

=== Minna no Manga: April 8th, 2009 ===
<pre>
Hey everyone! This Thursday night, for MnM, we encourage you to help us with our Open House booth. Construction will take place at Erica and Mikael's apartment off-campus. Contact an officer if you have any questions.

[Weekly Notes]

OPEN HOUSE ZOMG!
As our largest source of income, open house is a big deal for MnA.

9 easy ways you can help-
1) Booth painting/construction this thursday at Erica & Mikael's.
2) "Practice Chicken Prep", on Thurs April 16th. You should know what I'm referring to.
3) Lend out cooking supplies. We are making chicken skewers and rice, so we will need to borrow BBQ grills, rice cookers, and assorted kitchen tools.
4) Setup the booth on campus Friday/Saturday morning. This is when all the elements will come together, so many hands will make this go smoothly.
5) Cooking and Sales. If you know your way around a skewer, grill, rice-cooker, or don't, we need hands to move the assembly along. If you are good at handling money/arithmetic/not-dropping-things, you can help at the window as well.
6) Information and Greeting. If you would like to chat-up new-members/parents, you can help by answering questions and saying a little about the club. Hanging around the booth is easy!
7) Dressing the part. If you want to help during Open House, it's nice to show a "club uniform". You may wear our Club T-Shirts (which you should definitely buy anyways), Gurren-Dan T-shirts (Contact Erica), or you can cosplay from Gurren Lagann.
8) Buy our foods. Tasty, tasty foods. You're salivating right now, I can tell.
9) Help deconstruct the booth. You can't beat the god-like feeling of destroying hard work, and then playing ice hockey.

Buy T-Shirts!

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Also Enjoy Minna no Anime!
Saturdays from 5-10pm
Building 3-213
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=== Minna no Anime: April 10th, 2009 ===
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WE HAVE T-SHIRTS! YAY!

It's 2 days until Open House, so this week is dedicated to Booth prep. If you are able, please help in any way, big or small.

TODAY: We need people to go up to Shannon's place to bring the booth itself down from Atascadero. If you are at 4pm, please contact Andy or Erica to let them know you are available. Meet at Erica's apartment or Team Rocket. They are leaving promptly at 4, so make sure you come on time. If you have a car of your own, we can give you directions to the location.

ALSO TODAY: Chicken Prep. Right after Booth-getting is Chicken Prep at 6pm at Erica's Church. Contact Erica if you need directions/rides.

If you can come to both tasks, you are the best person ever and deserve a cookie.

OTHER THINGS YOU CAN DO:
1) Lend out cooking supplies. We are making chicken skewers and rice, so we will need to borrow BBQ grills, rice cookers, coolers and assorted kitchen tools.
2) Setup the booth on campus Friday/Saturday morning. This is when all the elements will come together, so many hands will make this go smoothly.
3) Cooking and Sales. If you know your way around a skewer, grill, rice-cooker, or don't, we need hands to move the assembly along. If you are good at handling money/arithmetic/not-dropping-things, you can help at the window as well.
4) Information and Greeting. If you would like to chat-up new-members/parents, you can help by answering questions and saying a little about the club. Hanging around the booth is easy!
5) Dressing the part. If you want to help during Open House, it's nice to show a "club uniform". You may wear our Club T-Shirts (which you should definitely buy anyways), Gurren-Dan T-shirts (Contact Erica), or you can cosplay from Gurren Lagann.
6) Buy our foods. Tasty, tasty foods. You're salivating right now, I can tell.
7) Help deconstruct the booth. You can't beat the god-like feeling of destroying hard work, and then playing ice hockey.

Thank you everyone for your hard work. It's this sort of team work that keeps things going, so we really appreciate it.

~Juli Lehnen
jlehnen@<removed>.edu
MnA Secretary
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=== Minna no Manga: April 23rd, 2009 ===
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Minna no Manga is BACK! Minna no Manga meets Thursdays from 6-10pm in building 10-227 (Same bldg as last quarter, different room). MnM is our social time on Thursday nights.

[Weekly Notes]
Open House was a great success! Thank you to everyone who participated before, during, and after this event. You guys are the lifeblood of the club, pat yourself on the back.

FANIME 2009!!
Room sign-ups are over, but now we are organizing rides.
During club, talk to an officer if 1) you can volunteer spaces in your car for others or 2) haven't secured a ride. One way or another, we will bring the two together and fill some cars. In addition, if you post on our Yahoo!Group (MNAmembers), you can get responses that way as well.
Thank you!

Buy T-Shirts!

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Also Enjoy Minna no Anime!
Saturdays from 5-10pm
Building 3-213
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=== Minna no Anime: April 25th, 2009 ===
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Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (Business Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week: Eden of the East
5:25 Ouran Host Club (Ep 21)
5:50 Break
5:55 Cromartie (Ep 19&20)
6:20 Ranma 1/2 (S2: TBA)
6:45 Break
6:50 XXXHolic (Ep 21)
7:15 Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Ep 22)
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Rozen Maiden (Ep 9)
8:35 Planetes (Ep 21)
9:00 Break
9:05 Black Lagoon (Ep 9)
9:35 Welcome to the NHK (Ep 22)

[Notes For This Week]
Open House was a great success! Thank you to everyone who participated before, during, and after this event. You guys are the lifeblood of the club, pat yourself on the back.

FANIME 2009!!
Room sign-ups are over, but now we are organizing rides.
During club, talk to an officer if 1) you can volunteer spaces in your car for others or 2) haven't secured a ride. One way or another, we will bring the two together and fill some cars. In addition, if you post on our Yahoo!Group (MNAmembers), you can get responses that way as well.
Thank you!

Buy T-Shirts!

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Also Enjoy Minna no Manga!
Thursdays from 6-10pm
Building 10-201
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=== Minna no Manga: April 30th, 2009 ===
<pre>
Minna no Manga is BACK! Minna no Manga meets Thursdays from 6-10pm in building 10-227 (Same bldg as last quarter, different room). MnM is our social time on Thursday nights.

[Weekly Notes]

FANIME 2009!!
Room sign-ups are over, but now we are organizing rides.
During club, talk to an officer if 1) you can volunteer spaces in your car for others or 2) haven't secured a ride. One way or another, we will bring the two together and fill some cars. In addition, if you post on our Yahoo!Group (MNAmembers), you can get responses that way as well.
Thank you!

Remember to pick up a T-shirt if you pre-ordered one, or buy one if you haven't! Club members get a $2 discount!

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Also Enjoy Minna no Anime!
Saturdays from 5-10pm
Building 3-213
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=== Minna no Anime: May 2nd, 2009 ===
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Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (Business Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week: Sengoku Basara
5:25 Ouran Host Club (Ep 22)
5:50 Break
5:55 Cromartie (Ep 21&22)
6:20 Ranma 1/2 (S2: TBA)
6:45 Break
6:50 XXXHolic (Ep 22)
7:15 Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Ep 23)
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Rozen Maiden (Ep 10)
8:35 Planetes (Ep 22)
9:00 Break
9:05 Black Lagoon (Ep 10)
9:35 Welcome to the NHK (Ep 23)

[Notes For This Week]

FANIME 2009!!
Room sign-ups are over, but now we are organizing rides.
During club, talk to an officer if 1) you can volunteer spaces in your car for others or 2) haven't secured a ride. One way or another, we will bring the two together and fill some cars. In addition, if you post on our Yahoo!Group (MNAmembers), you can get responses that way as well.
Thank you!

Remember to pick up a T-shirt if you pre-ordered one, or buy one if you haven't! Club members get a $2 discount!

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Also Enjoy Minna no Manga!
Thursdays from 6-10pm
Building 10-201
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=== Minna no Manga: May 7th, 2009 ===
<pre>
Minna no Manga meets Thursdays from 6-10pm in building 10-227 (Same bldg as last quarter, different room). MnM is our social time on Thursday nights.

[Weekly Notes]

FANIME 2009!!
Room sign-ups are over, but now we are organizing rides.
During club, talk to an officer if 1) you can volunteer spaces in your car for others or 2) haven't secured a ride. One way or another, we will bring the two together and fill some cars. In addition, if you post on our Yahoo!Group (MNAmembers), you can get responses that way as well.
Thank you!

New banner contest! Create a 3'X6' design for MnA's new booth banner!

Remember to pick up a T-shirt if you pre-ordered one, or buy one if you haven't! Club members get a $2 discount!

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Also Enjoy Minna no Anime!
Saturdays from 5-10pm
Building 3-213
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=== Minna no Anime: May 9th, 2009 ===
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Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (Business Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week: TBA
5:25 Ouran Host Club (Ep 23: Tamaki's Unrealized Melancholy)
5:50 Break
5:55 Cromartie (Ep 23&24)
6:20 Ranma 1/2 (S2: Ep 9: Cool Runnings! The Race of the Snowmen)
6:45 Break
6:50 XXXHolic (Ep 23: Choice)
7:15 Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Ep 24: We Will Never Forget, This Minute and This Second)
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Rozen Maiden (Ep 11: Destiny - Schicksal)
8:35 Planetes (Ep 23: Debris Cluster)
9:00 Break
9:05 Black Lagoon (Ep 11: Lock n' Load Revolution)
9:35 Welcome to the NHK (Ep 24: Welcome To The NHK!)

[Notes For This Week]

FANIME 2009!!
Room sign-ups are over, but now we are organizing rides.
During club, talk to an officer if 1) you can volunteer spaces in your car for others or 2) haven't secured a ride. One way or another, we will bring the two together and fill some cars. In addition, if you post on our Yahoo!Group (MNAmembers), you can get responses that way as well.
Thank you!

New banner contest! Create a 3'X6' design for MnA's new booth banner!

Remember to pick up a T-shirt if you pre-ordered one, or buy one if you haven't! Club members get a $2 discount!

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Also Enjoy Minna no Manga!
Thursdays from 6-10pm
Building 10-201
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=== Minna no Manga: May 14th, 2009 ===
<pre>
Minna no Manga meets Thursdays from 6-10pm in building 10-227 (Same bldg as last quarter, different room). MnM is our social time on Thursday nights.

[Weekly Notes]

New banner contest! Create a 3'X6' design for MnA's new booth banner! Due last week of the quarter.

TSURUGI SIGN UPS ARE THIS SATURDAY! Don't miss out!

Remember to pick up a T-shirt if you pre-ordered one, or buy one if you haven't! Club members get a $2 discount!

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Also Enjoy Minna no Anime!
Saturdays from 5-10pm
Building 3-213
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=== Minna no Anime: May 15th, 2009 ===
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Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (Business Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week: Basquash!
5:25 Ouran Host Club (Ep 24: And Kyoya Met)
5:50 Break
5:55 Cromartie (Ep 25&26)
6:20 Ranma 1/2 (TBA)
6:45 Break
6:50 XXXHolic (Ep 24: Reminiscence)
7:15 Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Ep 25: I Accept Your Dying Wish)
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Rozen Maiden (Ep 12: Pure Ruby - Reiner Rubin)
8:35 Planetes (Ep 24: Love)
9:00 Break
9:05 Black Lagoon (Ep 12: Guerrillas in the Jungle)
9:35 Gundam 0080 War in the Pocket (OAV 1)

[Notes For This Week]
Tsurugi Sign-Ups are this Saturday. Don't miss out!

FANIME 2009!!
Don't forget that Fanime is next weekend, so we will not be holding an official meeting that Saturday. Minna no Manga will still be in session.

New banner contest! Create a 3'X6' design for MnA's new booth banner!

Remember to pick up a T-shirt if you pre-ordered one, or buy one if you haven't! Club members get a $2 discount!

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Also Enjoy Minna no Manga!
Thursdays from 6-10pm
Building 10-201
</pre>

=== Minna no Anime: June 6th, 2009 ===
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Last Week of the Quarter! Let's make it a good one! Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (Business Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Ouran Host Club (Ep. 26: This is Our Ouran Festival!)
5:25 Gurren Lagann (Ep. 27: All The Lights In The Sky Are Stars)
5:50 Break
5:55 Planetes (Ep. 26: And The Days We Chance Upon)
6:20 Gundam 0080 (OVA 4)
6:45 Break
6:50 Gundam 0080 (OVA 5)
7:15 Gundam 0080 (OVA 6)
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Yukikaze (OVA 4)
8:35 Yukikaze (OVA 5)
9:00 Break
9:05 Dead Leaves (OAV)

We are showing Dead Leaves as our Spring Movie! Check it out!

[Notes For This Week]
Tsurugi Pre-Pay is due this Saturday. Make sure you bring enough for your order + 28% tax/tip!
Also, dinner is at 7. IF you need directions/rides, talk to an officer!

Banner Contest Entries Due Today! Create a 3'X6' design for MnA's new booth banner!

We had a great year everyone! Let's all have a fun summer! Can't wait for next year!

~Juli Lehnen (jlehnen@<removed>.edu)
Minna no Anime Secretary
Visit our Website: http://www.minnanoanime.org
Join our Forum: http://minnanoanime.invisionplus.net
Also Enjoy Minna no Manga!
Thursdays from 6-10pm
Building 10-201
</pre>

2007-2008 Emails

2011-11-16T20:27:10Z

Moroboshi ataru: added emailnav

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== Fall 2007 ==
=== Minna no Manga Sept 20 2007 ===
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Hey everyone, it's that time again... Minna time! Woooo~! Minna no Manga is starting a week early this year, so we'll be having our first meeting tomorrow, the 20th. We will be meeting from 6-10pm in 21-235. If you came to MnM at the fall quarter of last year, I think we are in the same where we had our meetings then. You know, that tallish building near the construction.

No manga news/reviews/chatting today, I'll get that started next week.

~Annaliese
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=== Minna no Anime: 22 Sept 2007 ===
<pre>
This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 Dokkoida?! (1): Enter Dokkoida!
5:50 Break
5:55 The Law of Ueki (1): Kosuke Ueki - The Law of Justice
6:20 GUNxSWORD (1): Tuxedo Blowing in the Wind
6:45 Break
6:50 Master Keaton (1): Man in a Maze
7:15 Mushishi (1): Green Seat
7:40 Dinner Break: Announcements, Introductions, and the Yugioh Abridged Movie
8:10 Otogi Zoshi (1): Raikou
8:35 Noein - To Your Other Self (1): Blue Snow
9:00 Break
9:05 Le Chevalier D'Eon (1): D'Eon .:. Lia
9:30 Ergo Proxy (1): Awakening

Note: Dinner Break (and therefore the whole meeting) is likely to run late this weekend due to the sheer number of announcements and introductions and usual new year hooplah.

[random babbling]
Whoa. It's a new year. Not only is it a new year, it's my LAST year.

If all goes well.

How are everyone's classes going? Mine are okay so far. Actually, they're REALLY NICE. I get all my classes and work done Monday through Thursday, which means I have nothing to do on Fridays! Oh the joy! Oh the happiness! ...you're all going to lynch me on Saturday, aren't you? D:

Anyway, for those of you who don't know me, my name is Jennifer (Jenn for short) and I'm Minna no Anime's secretary. This is mainly for the sake of the Freshmen who, of course, don't know me yet. This is also for the sake of any returning members who are just as bad as I am with names. This is my third year as the club secretary, though last year I was vice president. Yes, I've been here for quite some time, though I'm not the only one. Our president is also an oldtimer. Don't worry about that just yet, you'll learn it all soon enough. We officers will all be introducing ourselves in the first meeting.

Hm. I'm having a little trouble concentrating. Mainly because I'm right in the middle of Minna no Manga right now and the people around me are loud. VERY loud. So I may be a little more random than I usually am. Quake in fear.

As a side note, because it's awesome, you should all know that this summer a group of people from our club competed and won (first prize, not quite grand prize) the Haruhi dance contest at this year's Anime Expo. They were awesome. For anyone interested, here's a link to our YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quYZ5rHTFY4

Eh. Anyway, I think I used up all my happy creative weird energy on the Freshman manga email. I only get so much of it per week. Gotta save some for the actual meeting on Saturday.

I'll need it to escape my lynching, after all.
[/random babbling]

Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
Minna no Anime Secretary

"Is it over, Caim"?
"It's over. We're together now."
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=== Minna no Manga Meeting: 27 Sept 2007 ===
<pre>
Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm in 21-235!

~Review of the Week: Detective Conan by Gosho Aoyama

When high school detective Shinichi Kudo runs across illegal dealings between a business man and two men in black he ends up being forced to take their new poison. Thankfully, the poison doesn't kill him, but instead reverts his body to that of a six-year-old! Now, in order to find the men in black and regain his regular form, he must secretly assist his childhood (girl) friend's father in his detective work under the guise of Conan Edogawa.

Have I talked about Conan before? Probably. But this series deserves another mention. Currently at 58 volumes (with 59 out in October), Detective Conan is one of the longest running series available. If you're new to the series, it can be quite daunting, but it's a task worth taking on.

Detective Conan has been a special series for me for a long time. I first discovered it when I was in high school after someone on a Pokémon forum I belonged to mentioned how good it was. I trusted her opinions in most other things, so I thought I would give this series a chance. I'm a big detective fan, a good portion of my manga collection is detective or mystery related, so this was right up my alley. The cases are generally realistic, so everything, save the mysterious drug that shrinks our hero, makes sense. It's fun and exciting to try to figure out whodunit for each case and how they did it. Basically, if you like detective stories, you'll like Conan.

The characters seem a little worn and plain at first, but they grow on you fast as you learn more about their personality and quirks. At first, I thought the bumbling detective Conan always helps, Mouri, was a fool, but he's really grown on me and I look forward to his parts in cases. The art isn't spectacular, but it isn't bad. Gosho, as all artists, improves as time goes on. His style is not super-detailed, but it is very polished. One of my favorite things about the art is that every one of his hundreds of characters looks different (unless they are supposed to look similar, of course). I find that extremely impressive.

I highly recommend this series to anyone who is looking for something fun to read. The cases are usually three to five chapters long, so it's really easy to get through a case or two in one sitting. Detective Conan has fun characters, nice polished art, and an interesting story that keeps getting more and more involved. This is good stuff.

As I said before, 58 volumes of the manga are available in Japanese. The first nineteen volumes are available in English from Viz Media under the title "Case Closed." One word of warning on the English volumes: the names have been changed to fit the English version of the anime. The anime is out to episode 486 in Japan. The first three or so seasons are available in the US from Funimation under the title "Case Closed." Again, beware of name changes in the dub. The subbed version keeps all original names.

~Enter Rant:

Whoa. I feel like that review went all over the place. Sorry.

I hope everyone enjoyed our lineup on Saturday! We've taken action to try to fix at least some of the video problems. I'm really happy with the lineup, I think it's fantastic.

This week in MnM, let's start talking about the Cosplay Game. I think the earlier we get started on it, the better it will be. If you are curious about the Cosplay Game and cannot make it to MnM, post something on our Cosplay Yahoo Group ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MnACosplay/ ) and I'll post about it after Thursday.

Not much to say today. I hope everyone is still surviving classes!

~Annaliese
"...just howling in the shadows..."
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=== Minna no Anime: 29 Sept 2007 ===
<pre>
This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 Dokkoida?! (2): Purple Hair, How Hip Can Ya Get?
5:50 Break
5:55 The Law of Ueki (2): Law of "Battle Start!!"
6:20 GUNxSWORD (2): Funny Stream
6:45 Break
6:50 Master Keaton (2): Little Giant
7:15 Mushishi (2): Eyelids' Light
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Otogi Zoshi (2): Sadamitsu
8:35 Noein - To Your Other Self (2): Runaway
9:00 Break
9:05 Le Chevalier D'Eon (2): The Four Musketeers
9:30 Ergo Proxy (2): Confession

[random babbling]
I'm going to have to find a set time to actually sit down and write these things. The problem, really, is that I'm really busy from Monday morning to late Thursday night. Still, I don't think Friday afternoon is an acceptable time to get the weekly email out, so I'll see if I can find some time earlier next week.

Of course, even when I FIND the time, it's only when I'm surrounded by people and getting severely distracted. Case in point, last week I wrote the weekly email at Minna no Manga. This week, I'm in the living room with Annaliese and Nat. And they're talking about Baccano! at the moment...to the surprise of NO ONE. XD For those of you not yet acquainted with Baccano!, have no fear. Within a couple of weeks it'll be fansub o'. It and a lot of other totally awesome shows. We seriously have an awesome fansub lineup planned.

Let's see. In other news, those of you who were at MnM last night know all about Cosplay Game. If you're interested in joining our cosplay YahooGroup, go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MnACosplay/ and request that you be allowed in. We're going to start seriously kicking off our preparations soon.

In other-other news, some of you may or may not know that my brother is a film major at Long Beach. He's made a lot of short films, most of which you can find here: http://www.youtube.com/user/NinjaRisu . His newest (and I think best) video is too long for YouTube and can be found here: http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=17597100 . Sorry guys, I just have to pimp my little bro's stuff. XD

Hm. I don't think I have other-other-other news. Also, I need to go get a shower so I can go into town with Annaliese and Nat and watch them take pictures of themselves doing things with nothing. This doesn't make much sense unless you've seen Dennou Coil and think Photoshop. See ya tomorrow!
[/random babbling]

Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
Minna no Anime Secretary

"Boku Satcchi!"
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=== Minna no Manga: 4 Oct 2007 ===
<pre>
Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm in 21-235.

~Review of the Week: Zelda ~Wind Waker - Link's Logbook~ by ???

Each Legend of Zelda game follows the same basic plot. Ganondorf=evil, and you as the hero have to defeat him and his minions to save the world. Wind Waker takes place in a sea-covered land where you sail around in your awesome talking boat and collect various items that will be used against Ganondorf.

Link's Logbook is a series of four-panel comics revolving around various parts of the story. The art is adorable, it looks like the game was pressed onto paper. The comic captures Link's wide variety of expressions with absolute perfection. Not all the comics are great, but each chapter has at least three comics that made me die with laughter. If you've played the game, I think it is easy to relate to the comics since they follow the story and touch on a number of things I wondered about or had trouble with.

Since the comics are four panels, it's really easy to whip through a chapter in five or ten minutes. I highly recommend this comic if you want a quick smile. =D

The first three chapters have been scanlated by Anime-Council. You can get it from their website (google it), or from me if you bring a flashdrive.

~Enter Rant

Oh! Edo Rocket and Dennou Coil are excellent anime series that do not get the love they deserve. I think you should go watch them and love them like I do. They are so very, very good.

Remember to request songs for karaoke! I can't promise I will be able to get the song unless you bring me an episode of the show or you rip it yourself. If you would like to bring an episode so I can rip the song off of it, just bring it to club on a flashdrive! I bring my laptop to both meetings, so I can do it right there!

I hope we have some Detective Conan fans in club... well other than the... three that I know about. I hope at least someone checked it out after that ginormous review I wrote about it last week. It seemed ginormous to me. Even if you're not a Conan fan, you may like this:
http://community.livejournal.com/detective_conan/271798.html

~Annaliese
"L button plus C-stick plus A = SIDESTEP!"
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=== Minna no Anime: 6 Oct 2007 ===
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Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 Dokkoida?! (3): Dokkoida vs. Edelweiss!
5:50 Break
5:55 The Law of Ueki (3): The Law of the Zai
6:20 GUNxSWORD (3): Heroes One More Time
6:45 Break
6:50 Master Keaton (3): Strange Tales of Lasagna
7:15 Mushishi (3): Tender Horns
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Otogi Zoshi (3): Tsuchigumo
8:35 Noein - To Your Other Self (3): Hunted
9:00 Break
9:05 Le Chevalier D'Eon (3): The Sword Of Resentment
9:30 Ergo Proxy (3): Mazecity

Notes: If you're at all interested in the Halloween party AMV contest, pumpkin carving contest, cosplay, or fanart contest, you had probably better get cracking on your submission(s). If you have any questions, check the YahooGroup or ask an officer!

[random babbling]
Look! It's Thursday morning and the email is being sent! Oh the joy! Oh the glee!

...okay, really the only reason it's going out this early is because I emailed my boss last night around 1am and said I wasn't coming into work until noon today and I'd make up the extra two hours tomorrow. But hey, my laziness works out well for you, so I don't expect any complaints.

You know that flu thing that's been going around? Yeah, I got that. Me and goodness knows how many dozens more people. Oddly enough, no one else I've talked to (besides Annaliese and the guy I share my office with) has been sick. Bah. This makes me feel like a weakling. XD

As for why I was up past 1am last night, I suddenly realized that I wanted to find a certain picture. And I could not find this image ANYWHERE. And then I thought to myself, some time around the middle of the night, "Where are there thousands of people who like really weird things and like to prove it?" It came to me then: 4chan! So off I went and, for the first time in my life, I made a request there. By the time I went to bed, there were no responses, but lo and behold I woke up this morning and checked and there was a reply with a SendSpace link!

You can imagine my delight, I'm sure. So now I have not only the picture I was looking for, but the entire CG set that it's from. Woot.

Of course, now you're all bored stiff, because I am a THRILLING storyteller (and for those of you who aren't so great at translating internet -> real life, that was sarcasm). So let's see if I can't find you a friendly little link to actually make all this reading worthwhile for you.

This article ( http://www.i-mockery.com/comics/longbox7/default.php ) is old, yes. It is also hilarious and I go and reread it every time I'm having a bad day. It might also be fun to browse around some of the more recent articles; every once in a while, I spot one that sets me snickering for several minutes. Hope you enjoy this site as much as I do!
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Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
Minna no Anime Secretary

"I'm the goddamn Batman!"
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=== Minna no Manga: 11 Oct 2007 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm in 21-235.

~Review of the Week: Historie by Hitoshi Iwaaki

"This story is about the boyhood of Eumenes, who would later become Alexander the Great's secretarial officer. Eumenes was present at countless famous battles found in the annals of history... he also planned many battle strategies. So why isn't his name found carved alongside those of Kings and Generals? Perhaps it's because this man was one of the "who recorded" the exploits of others? ...but one day he stopped recording things. At that moment the recorded became "one of those recorded," and stepped out onto the stage of history." (From the back and inside cover of the first volume)

I won't hide it, I love history. I also love manga. When I find a series that takes these two of my great passions, I get very excited. I'll admit that at first I was pretty weary. Some may recognize the style of the art since Hitoshi Iwaaki also created Parasyte, one of Tokyopop's early titles (now being published by Del Rey and very exciting read). I was pretty worried some of the fantasy elements may have snuck into a historical-based manga. It took a little while to separate Historie from Parasyte, but once I did, Historie began to really shine.

The art is really hit or miss. It's great if you like the style, but if you don't, you'll probably have a hard time reading the series. I like the art a lot, but I must confess that the cover scared me at first. Even looking at it now frightens me. Eumenes looks like he may beat the viewer with his globe. :(

Eumenes of Cardia was a real historical figure, and Wikipedia has a very interesting article on him. Is the manga an accurate telling of his life? Probably not. Does that effect the enjoyment of the series? Not one bit. Eumenes's exciting but simple adventures are very interesting and help build a fantastic character. He is a scholar whose brains are constantly used to get himself and others out of tough spots.

Historie began in 2004 and is currently at 4 volumes. The manga has been nominated for the Tezuka Cultural Awards twice and has made it to the finals both times. Kotohona has begun scanlating the series and has released the first 11 chapters.

~Enter Rant:

Historie is really good guys. Really, really good. Historical manga really gets no love. Give it some love. Parasyte is really good too. Del Rey's new release of it looks really nice. They are releasing the larger volumes, so instead of ten volumes, it will only be eight volumes. Maybe I'll talk more about Parasyte in the future.

So I finished lettering the latest volume of work, and I don't have either of the scripts I need to start the next volumes. I guess I'm so used to waking up and going straight to work, it just feels so strange to have extra time like this. Luckily, this is a really time to get a bit of a break from work... I have a website due in a couple weeks and I (like the majority of my class it seems) am completely feeling around in the dark for it. My site is about a company that sells robots. All sorts of robots. The concept is fun, but the coding is not.

I want to make historical manga now. =\

~Annaliese
"HISTORY HISTORY HISTORY HISTORY"
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=== Minna no Anime: 13 Oct 2007 ===
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Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 Dokkoida?! (4): The Strange Neighbor, Sayuri
5:50 Break
5:55 The Law of Ueki (4): The Law of Li Ho, the Flexible Man
6:20 GUNxSWORD (4): And the Rain Kept Falling
6:45 Break
6:50 Master Keaton (4): Immortal Man
7:15 Mushishi (4): Pillow Lane
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Otogi Zoshi (4): Rashomon
8:35 Noein - To Your Other Self (4): Friends
9:00 Break
9:05 Le Chevalier D'Eon (4): Followers Of The Revolution
9:30 Ergo Proxy (4): Futu-risk

Notes: If you're at all interested in the Halloween party AMV contest,
pumpkin carving contest, cosplay, or fanart contest, you had probably
better get cracking on your submission(s). If you have any questions,
check the YahooGroup or ask an officer!

[random babbling]
Look, it's Thursday morning again. I AM getting better at this.

Of course, it only occurred to me to send the email because I was desperately searching for something productive to do until it's time for me to leave for the job fair. Still, at least I thought of it.

The job fair seriously has me wondering what I've actually learned in the past four years I've been here, though. I mean, I know there's an awful lot of information in my head, but every time I try to think of something specific, it all just kind of floats away. This is not comforting, since I'll have to answer questions during my interviews.

I spent the last five or six days working on my resume, though, so at least that looks nice and professional. And I'm dressed up today, so at least *I* look nice and professional. Yeah, I know. Me in work clothes is a scary thought for me, too. Although of course, since I've been stressed, my face broke out into spots this week. *facepalm* It figures.

Hm, what shall I give you as an interesting link this week? How about the page that displays all of the top CSC471: Intro to Computer Graphics final projects?

http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~zwood/teaching/csc471/top_final.html

The first one on the page, the Zen Garden, is mine from last year. Each of the projects should have a download available and most likely a README file in the download telling me what you need to do to run it and the controls. Makes for good fun if you're bored.

Wish me luck at the job fair!
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Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
Minna no Anime Secretary

"Please could you stop the noise I'm trying to get some rest
From all the unborn chicken voices in my head."
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=== Minna no Manga: 18 Oct 2007 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays 6-10pm in 21-235.

~Review of the Week: Material Puzzle by Masahiro Totsuka

When Mikaze's village is threatened by a mountain-eating mushroom, it is up to him to retrieve a magician to destroy the dangerous fungus. After a grueling test, Mikaze is able to strike a deal with Agua, the magician he finds. As long as he protects her and returns her back to her home, she will go with him. To make sure he does not abandon his promise, she forces him to wear a mask that only she can take off. All is well until she ends up dying on the road back to Mikaze's village! What will happen to his hometown now? Will he ever get that ugly mask off?

Material Puzzle is a hideous series. Really hideous. But it's a great series at the same time. The characters are absolutely terrific. Mikaze grudgingly accepts his horrible fate to deal with Aqua and to wear all these horrible masks (they get drawn on often, so they get changed quite a bit). Tito has a great passion for art, but sucks at it. Everyone has strange little quirks and continue to get deeper and deeper as the story progresses. While the story may seem to be on Mikaze at first, it really focuses on the three magicians; Aqua, Tito, and Prisera. Each of them can use one specific type of magic, and so aren't really all that useful in many situations.

The series might not be eye-candy, but if you want something fun to check out, try Material Puzzle. The series runs in Shounen GanGan and is 13+ volumes long. AT-Translations has released the first 3 chapters (and chapter 0).

~Enter Rant:

You know, even though I said Material Puzzle is hideous, it's still a bajillion times better than anything I could ever draw. It makes me feel bad for calling it ugly. D=

Man, I hate it when I sleep poorly and wake up early whenever I don't have early class, but then I actually can sleep well but have to wake up early when I do have early class. What's up with that? I blame it on Murphy's Law.

~Annaliese
"If you eat cow, it's the same as eating grass and meat together!"
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=== Minna no Anime: 20 Oct 2007 ===
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Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 Dokkoida?! (5): Mission: Allowance Increase
5:50 Break
5:55 The Law of Ueki (5): The Law of Robert Haydn
6:20 GUNxSWORD (5): Twin's Guards
6:45 Break
6:50 Master Keaton (5): Paris Under the Roof
7:15 Mushishi (5): The Traveling Swamp
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Otogi Zoshi (5): Urabe
8:35 Noein - To Your Other Self (5): And Then...
9:00 Break
9:05 Le Chevalier D'Eon (5): Palais Royal
9:30 Ergo Proxy (5): TASOGARE

Notes: If you're at all interested in the Halloween party AMV contest,
pumpkin carving contest, cosplay, or fanart contest, you had probably
better get cracking on your submission(s). If you have any questions,
check the YahooGroup or ask an officer!

[random babbling]
Yay, Thursday! The end of my week! The end of my suffering!

...or is it?

Gah, I have no much crap to do this weekend. My jerk of a graphics professor just assigned us a new program with only one week to work on it. Normally, this wouldn't faze me much. However, when the instructor essentially uses all 1.5 hours of lecture to talk to himself and change his mind and contradict himself constantly, you tend to have to self-teach. Which is frustrating, not to mention time-consuming. This on top of all the books I have to read for architecture, the synopsis I have to write for English, and all the textbook reading I have to do for both of those classes.

Oh, and let's not forget the not-so-clearly-defined webmaster position I ended up taking for the CSC student fee committee. I'm more of a...liaison...to the webmaster? Gah. Curses. Confusion!

Also, it's sad that I've only been job hunting for a couple of weeks and I'm already utterly sick of it. I just want to know I'll be employed when I get out of here. And I want to know it now. Because I'm impatient and hate stressing over these things. D:

I should give you guys a link, shouldn't I? It's becoming a habit. And generally I like sharing. When I have things to share.

...well, I DO have this: http://ayumisaki.deviantart.com/art/Sleep-Cat-67627165

Can you feel the cavities forming as we speak? Okay, so that was kind of a cop-out I guess. Here, for those of you who don't already know about the awesomeness that is Jim Breen...

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/wwwjdic.html

See you guys on Saturday.
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Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
Minna no Anime Secretary

"A drowning man knows not the vastness of the sea, only its depth."
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=== Minna no Manga: 25 Oct 2007 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays 6-10pm in 21-235.

~Review of the Week: The Enchanted Spiritual Beast [Ga-Rei] by Hajime Segawa

"Boo! While many of us will probably scream at even the thought of a ghost being near us, Freshman Nimura Kensuke just thinks of it as a common everyday thing, seeing as how he has the uncanny ability to see so many of them on a daily basis. Things soon heat up for him when he meets a girl who changes his life from then on. Her name’s Kagura, and she has the power to summon a mighty “spirit devourer”–otherwise known as a “Ga-rei”–called Byakuei. So, what’s Nimura to do? Chase down the evil spirits and and have Kagura summon the Ga-rei to devour them, of course! Now, come feast on their adventures like some ravenous Ga-rei!"-Entropy's Ga-Rei project page

Ga-Rei is a fun story with fun characters. I really like the story and the characters, and the art is pretty dang awesome as well. I only have one complaint about the series. It's too light-hearted sometimes. For a series that eventually deals with world destruction and the destruction of a person's soul, it makes light of the whole situation far too often for my tastes. Don't get me wrong, I like the light hearted aspects, but it feels like the series wants to be serious and funny at the same time, and it doesn't quite work.

Otherwise, the series is great. I recommend it to anyone who likes series with demons and other big beasties!

Oh, I lied. There are two complaints. I don't like that ...there are only four volumes out so far. D=

The first four full volumes are available scanlated from Entropy.

~Enter Rant:

Arg, I've just had one of those days where everything just frustrates me! Man, sometimes life just angers me so much.

But otherwise, life is pretty cool. =D

Have a great week at club, everyone.

~Annaliese
"Cha-gi-ra-chi-cha!"
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=== Minna no Anime: 27 Oct 2007 ===
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Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 Dokkoida?! (6): The Pool Cycle Race
5:50 Break
5:55 The Law of Ueki (6): The Law of Farewell
6:20 GUNxSWORD (6): Light My Fire
6:45 Break
6:50 Master Keaton (6): White Goddess
7:15 Mushishi (6): Those Who Inhale the Dew
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Otogi Zoshi (6): Noroi-Jima
8:35 Noein - To Your Other Self (6): Dimension of Tears
9:00 Break
9:05 Ergo Proxy (5): TASOGARE
9:30 Ergo Proxy (6): Domecoming

There are two episodes of Ergo Proxy to make up for least week's two episodes of D'eon.

Notes: If you're at all interested in the Halloween party AMV contest,
pumpkin carving contest, cosplay, or fanart contest, you had probably
better get cracking on your submission(s). If you have any questions,
check the YahooGroup or ask an officer!

[random babbling]
Okay, so I'm sitting in the hallway waiting for manga club, and I realized a moment ago that the lady in the class in front of me is teaching French to a room full of girls...while the guy in the classroom behind me is lecturing about sex and power, presumably in literature, to a room full of men. For some reason, this tickles my funny bone. Perhaps I'm tired, or the sugar-filled coffee is starting to go to my head. Perhaps insanity finally has me in its grip. Perhaps...brace yourself, dear reader...the truth is a combination of ALL THREE.

And perhaps I enjoy being overdramatic for melodrama's sake. Anyone who's known me for any significant period of time is aware of THAT particular quirk. Sometimes I start to act like a stereotypical flaming gay drag queen...not in terms of wearing a dress or make-up, of course, but in the way I like to overact and carry on like the world's worst actor.

My mind is a little erratic at the moment, in case you couldn't tell. My most hated class got cancelled today, and my brain is enjoying a pleasant--if slightly inhibiting--half-coma. I'm probably going to stare and drool a lot in MnM (and won't THAT be a lovely sight) in between trying to think up more trivia questions for Halloween.

And by the way, almost all of the officers will be gone this week. Most of them are going to YaoiCon. I'M going to visit my dad for his birthday. I'm not terribly displeased about this. Conventions always stress me out, anyway.

Which, for some strange reason, brings me to the abrupt and rather precipitated end of my little "rant". I should give you a link to keep you happy, shouldn't I? Since I'm sure I've gone and spoiled you lot and if I DIDN'T include a link, someone would probably hunt me down and complain and perhaps cast rotten fruit (and possibly far less savory and sanitary things) in my direction. Here, and be grateful!

http://www.travian.com/
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Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
Minna no Anime Secretary

"Vampires in MY Vatican?"
"It's more likely than you think."
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=== Minna no Manga: 1 Nov 2007 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm in 21-235!

~Review of the Week: ....Spooky Recommendations!

In the holiday spirit, let's skip the usual review this week for recommendations of some Halloween-ish titles!

Pet Shop of Horrors by Matsuri Akino
This series is about Count D, the owner of a pet shop in San Francisco's Chinatown, the detective who suspects him of everything and anything, and the many customers that visit his shop. I was a bit weary of this series, but I have no idea why. The art is great and the story is highly addicting. I had to limit myself to reading a volume a day just so I wouldn't run out too quickly! All ten volumes are available in english from Tokyopop, and the sequel, Pet Shop of Horrors - Tokyo -, will be coming out stating in February.

Darren Shan by Takahiro Arai and Darren Shan
Darren Shan is about a young boy who becomes a vampire and must learn about becoming a creature of the night and dealing with the other creepy-crawlies of the world. The manga is based on a series of english novels. Each volume of the manga roughly equals one book, so it's nice and easy to compare the two. The manga isn't the best adaptation, but I like the art a lot and being able to go through an entire books worth of material in one volume of manga. The series is not available in the states yet, but there are five volumes out in Japan.

Vampire Knight by Matsuri Hino
Vampire Knight is a story about a school with two classes: a night class and a day class. The night class is made up of beautiful vampires, but very few know their secret. Yuki Cross is one of those people, and she acts as a guardian that protects the coexistence between the classes. I haven't read much of this series, but it's pretty popular. Viz Media has released the first two volumes in english.

~Enter Rant:

Sooooo, Halloween party this weekend! I hope you are all as excited as me!

Lord of V-Neck Sweaters,
~Annaliese
"Tonight, class, we'll be making snowflakes..."
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=== Minna no Anime: 3 Nov 2007 ===
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This week is Minna no Anime's Halloween Party!

Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 12:30pm-midnight in 3-213 (the Silo), 02-203, 02-204, and 02-210.

This week's schedule:

12:30pm - Anime Showings
03:00pm - Anime Eyes Initial Rounds
04:30pm - Trivia Initial Rounds
06:00pm - Anime Eyes Finals
06:30pm - Trivia Finals
07:30pm - SILO: Dinner, AMVs, Art Show
08:00pm - Karaoke until 10pm
10:00pm - Pumpkin Carving, Cosplay, Winner Announcements, then Karaoke until midnight or Anime Showings, depending on what people want

Note that this schedule isn't exactly set in stone...but we'll try to stick to it as closely as possible. Although most events don't start until 3:00pm due to lack of room, if you want to show up early we will be there and doing random awesome stuff!

[random babbling]
Oh man. So. Stuff.

Sadly, I have nothing intelligent, cool, or otherwise interesting to say. Mainly because I am completely scatterbrained at the moment.

However, I would like to point out that you should definitely come to the Halloween Party this weekend. Every event has prizes and even if you don't win anything, it's terribly fun! We'll have pizza and soda for dinner; $1.50 per slice of pizza and $.50 per soda. There will also be a Guilty Gear tournament and a room for Bemani gaming starting at 3:00pm.

Since I am tired and have nothing thrilling to add, I shall leave you with a link or two and shut up.

For anyone who wants to see Yugioh season 0, this person has most of the episodes, I think: http://www.youtube.com/user/nycaz10

And since the internet refuses to cooperate, that's all you get for the week. D:
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Jennifer, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
Minna no Anime Secretary

"Pinecone!"
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=== Minna no Manga: 8 Nov 2007 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm in 21-235. We have things to discuss this week. Yes. Things.

~Review of the Week: Space Traveler Robo and Usakichi by Kazue Katoh

Robo and Usakichi tells the story of a small robot named Robin and the adventures he has with a rabbit-like person named Usakichi. Robin is a sort of bio-robot who grows the more he eats, so it's interesting to see him grow up and watch his mannerisms change as he encounters new people.

I first found out about this series when Nur happened to pick up the magazine is ran in. It looked pretty interesting, but I didn't think much about it. This summer I found a couple chapters online that were simply blew me away, and was prompted to search for more. Unfortunately, the volumes aren't exactly easy to find.

Anyway, I was initially attracted to this series for the art, but the story is what really impresses me. Not many series make me spontaneously cry, but this is one of them. It's not that the series is sad, it's that I find it so emotionally powerful. Robin's blind faith in his friends and his struggle with himself brought me to tears on several cases. Now, I doubt this series is a tear-jerker for most people, I just cry over very strange things. Simply put, in my opinion, the story is very powerful and very moving. The characters are intensely interesting and it's fun to figure out the connections between everyone.

And if you really aren't moved by the story, there is the art! The first few volumes have a sketchy-look to them, which may make it difficult to focus on single panels, but as the series goes on, the art cleans up nicely. Especially impressive are the color pages, which are filled with vibrant contrasting colors that really set the mood of the chapters well.

Space Traveller Robo and Usakichi is complete in Japan at five volumes. There are currently no plans for an English release, and no groups have begun scanlating the series. A sequel, Star Gazers, started during the summer, but no volumes have been released yet.

~Enter Rant:

If you were wondering, the other series that make me spontaneously cry are Eyeshield 21 and Pluto.

Sorry to those people who didn't get the songs they wanted at the Halloween! I forgot to go through the list again to make sure I had the right songs and lyrics and everything. Please forgive me for not make sure that everything was in order for that.

Lord of Lack of Patience,
~Annaliese
"I'M TOO YOUNG TO BECOME A SCIENCE!"
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=== Minna no Anime: 10 Nov 2007 ===
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Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 33-286 (in Fisher Science).

NOTE: This is different than normal! Don't show up at the Silo; we won't be there!

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 Dokkoida?! (7): Kurika's Dream
5:50 Break
5:55 The Law of Ueki (7): The Law of Mr. K
6:20 GUNxSWORD (7): Vengeance Within
6:45 Break
6:50 Master Keaton (7): Memories of Summer Pudding
7:15 Mushishi (7): The Rain Comes, A Rainbow Forms
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Otogi Zoshi (7): Mansairaku
8:35 Noein - To Your Other Self (7): Precious Person
9:00 Break
9:05 Le Chevalier D'eon (7): Gargoyle
9:30 Ergo Proxy (7): re-1124c41+

[random babbling]
First of all, no, the title to this week's Ergo Proxy episode is not a mistake. I'm sure it has some meaning. I'm sure if you're possessed of about two brain cells and a modicum of common sense, you can probably make a decent guess as to what that is. I know I have.

I'm a bit grumpy at the moment. For a lot of reasons. I'm a bit stressed out and disappointed and listening to Counting Crows. ...you know what, I'm gonna switch to some Moxy Fruvous or They Might Be Giants or OK Go or...something.

There we go. Nothing quite like "King of Spain" by Moxy Fruvous to make you feel a little better about life.

I discovered that being a computer scientist is ruining my enjoyment of certain songs. I was listening to "A Long December" and heard the line "All at once you look across a crowded room to see the way that light attaches to a girl". The first thing my brain did was go, "Wait a minute, light doesn't ATTACH to things. Based on the angle between the light and the normal vector...(etcetc long dissertation on physics that no one wants to hear me talk about)...so that line is stupid."

...I think I need help. >_o

Unfortunately, my knowledge of the workings of light didn't help my pictures last weekend. ~_~

http://www.mediafire.com/?9nlxtw2jimp
http://www.mediafire.com/?c9lsxemilea

And I have new YouTube videos up.

http://youtube.com/profile?user=TayledrasAdept

Anyway, here's a Korean MMO; see you guys on Saturday.

http://corum.gpotato.com/ (I'm on the Poseidon server.)
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Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
Minna no Anime Secretary

"Once I was the king of Spain!"
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=== Minna no Manga: 15 Nov 2007 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm in 21-235. Let's actually talk about the Cosplay Game this week, okay? Bring your character's information!

~Review of the Week: Angel Densetsu by Norihiro Yagi

"The story is of Kitano Seiichirou, a very kind and pure-hearted young man, with a horrifying, monstrous face. People being what they are, they think he's a terrifying delinquent, and there are plenty of chance misunderstandings (coupled with Kitano's convenient inability to understand what's happening around him) that propel him into the position of "school guardian", a.k.a. head thug on campus." (From Manga-Sketchbook's project page)

If you just glance at this series, it's really easy to throw in a corner and never look at again. The art is pretty crude and definitely could use some improvement (which definitely comes as the series goes on), and the characters all look sort of frightening. Luckily, you don't need pretty pictures to tell a good story.

I began reading this series because it was recommended by someone whose tastes I hold in high regard. The story starts out with a bang and keeps running until the end. I can't remember the last time a series made me laugh as much as Angel Densetsu does. Jokes generally come from the same small handful of situations, but somehow they are hilarious every time.

Like I said, the art does get better, so don't let it turn you off. If you're looking for a laugh, check this series out.

Angel Densetsu is 15 volumes long, and the first 14 are available scanlated from Manga-Sketchbook.

~Enter Rant:

Blah. Projects suck. Papers suck. Finals suck. But the vacation will be awesome.

Oh, the mangaka for Angel Densetsu went on to create Claymore. But Claymore isn't funny like Angel Densetsu. Actually, Claymore makes me sad. What a change between series!

Lord of Mail Delivery Madness,
~Annaliese
"I can't text with bread!"
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=== Minna no Anime: 17 Nov 2007 ===
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Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 Dokkoida?! (8): Little Sister Love
5:50 Break
5:55 The Law of Ueki (7): The Law of Mr. K
6:20 The Law of Ueki (8): The Law of Onimon
6:45 Break
6:50 Master Keaton (8): The Negotiator's Rule
7:15 Mushishi (8): From the Sea Border
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Otogi Zoshi (8): Red Demon
8:35 Noein - To Your Other Self (8): Secrets
9:00 Break
9:05 Le Chevalier D'eon (8): An Audience with the Empress
9:30 Ergo Proxy (8): Shining Sign

We watched two episodes of GUNxSWORD last week because the replacement disc for Ueki wasn't in yet. Hence, two episodes of Ueki this week.

[random babbling]
You know, I was typing "The Negotiator's Rule" right after typing those two Ueki titles and my fingers almost typed "The Law of Negotiator" without my consent.

Anyway, we're back in the Silo this week. So don't show up at Fisher Science, even if it IS more convenient for you dorm people. I hope everyone liked the episode of Ayakashi we watched last week. I'm terribly in love with it, myself. Oh, Medicine Seller. ...why don't you have a name? XD

So I finished my paper for Japanese Architecture. It is the most awful paper I've written in a long, long time. I am ashamed of it. Thank goodness I still have about three weeks to beat it into not-sucking. I only have until Monday to prepare my presentation for it, though. *sigh* I hate presenting. At least I get to talk about love hotels and capsule hotels and stuff like that, though. Could be worse. I could have chosen dry gardens. Pretty as they are, there aren't a lot of interesting things you can say about them.

Bleh. I register for classes at 7am tomorrow. And then I have a phone interview at noon. I'm going to have to decide if it's worth it to go back to sleep after registering. The answer is, of course, probably "yes", but that doesn't mean I'll do it. I have a terrible time trying to fall back asleep after I'm awake, especially if it's light out. Wish me luck on that interview, by the way. It's with my number one choice and I really, REALLY need to not blow it.

I don't know how many of you roleplay, but if you're looking for a good place to do so over forums, this place has almost any fandom you can think of. As long as it isn't, you know, Loom. But damn, a Loom roleplay would be so awesome. I would cry. And if you not only know what Loom is but have played it, you are my new Favorite Person for the week.

http://www.acornrack.com/
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Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
Minna no Anime Secretary

"Destiny shall draw the Lightning down from Heaven; roll its thunder far across the Sea, to where I wait upon the Shore of Wonder, on the day the Sky is Opened, and the Tree is split asunder."
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=== Minna no Manga: 29 Nov 2007 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm, in 21-235.

~Review of the Week: 07-Ghost by Yuki Amemiya and Yukino Ichihara

"An elite is being trained. The "zaiphon" ability is being developed. Everyone's capabilities are different, and in many cases, reflect their nature... Shrouded in darkness, seven ghosts wait." (From Baka-Updates Manga)

What do you look for in a manga? Good art? Good story? Interesting characters? 07-Ghost has all of those. The art is fantastic, the story is interesting, and the characters are fun and engaging. But... it still feels like it is lacking somewhere. I think the creators are so focused on telling this story that they try to cram so much into every page the reader can easily get lost. Explanations don't explain much, and actions are often confusing. Still, the series stays pretty strong and each chapter leaves me anxious for more.

Nine chapters have been scanlated by Timcanpi and Supreme Sugar. There are five volumes available in Japan, and the series is still going.

~Enter Rant:

Okay, first let me apologize for the messy Baccano character selecting stuff I put on the Yahoo group. The following list should be the complete list of reserved characters as of the moment I am writing this. By request, I'm including the names of the cosplayers with the character they have selected. Please forgive any name spelling errors!

(Character - Cosplayer)

Issac - Jesse

Miria - Erika

Jacuzzi - Annaliese

Nice - Audrey

Ladd - David

Eve - Shannon

Rachel - Jenn

Czeslaw - James

Young Conductor - Brandon

Chane - Daniella

Ennis - (tentative?) Nat

Firo - (tentative) Andrew

*phew* I hope that's everyone that has talked to me!

So, I hope everyone is surviving dead week! I'm doing alright myself! Two project down, two to go! Finals will (hopefully) be a cinch after the other two are in! We won't have a meeting during finals week, and our room is changing for next quarter, so remind me to give out that info at this week's meeting!

Lord of Paperclip Masterpieces,

~Annaliese

"I will never destroy the world that you have believed in." -Claire Stanfield
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=== Minna no Anime: 1 Dec 2007 ===
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Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 The Law of Ueki (9): The Law of Onimon's Training
5:25 GUNxSWORD (9): Carmen Goes Home
5:50 Break
5:55 Mushishi (9): The Heavy Seed
6:20 Otogi Zoshi (9): Darkness
6:45 Break
6:50 Noein - To Your Other Self (9): Beyond Time
7:15 Ergo Proxy (9): Angel's Share
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Quarterly Movie: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

[random babbling]
Argh, tired! I turned in my senior project proposal today and just now registered for the class. I have to say, I'm definitely looking forward to the end of this quarter. Mostly. I'm not looking forward to several weeks without MnA. I hate leaving shows hanging for a month. Let's hope there aren't too many cliffhanger episodes, shall we?

We have our quarterly movie this Saturday and our quarterly Tsurugi trip on Sunday. Both will be fun! You should show up. But if you're going to come on the Tsurugi trip, LET US KNOW IN ADVANCE. We have to alter the reservation and can't do that without a couple of days' notice.

Sadly, I have nothing interesting to say. I am a sad, sad human being, I know. Actually, I'm just a tired, tired human being. And so I leave you, and drag my tired self to MnM. After leaving you with a slice of pure awesome.

http://www.songstowearpantsto.com/
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Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
Minna no Anime Secretary

"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."
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== Winter 2008 ==
=== Minna no Manga: 10 Jan 2008 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm, in 10-201. That's the Ag building near the Science and Math building, if you didn't know.

~Review of the Week: Akuma to Dolce by Suzuki Julietta

Ogura Mayuri is a loner in high school, with a pendant for cooking and magic that her mother taught her. She’s already summoned a little demon familiar to help her with baking and other small chores. But when she accidentally summons a high level demon named Beaut upon spilling tea on her skirt, he allows her to make one wish that he will grant. Mayuri wishes for the stain on her skirt to disappear in exchange for candy. The demon Beaut is outraged by the simple request, but the gets distracted by the smell of sweets - Beaut’s weakness. Mayuri now uses Beaut’s weakness to bind him to her and do her bidding. (From Aerandria)

Honestly, the art in this series is nothing new. It's quite reminiscent of Ouran High School Club with some Fruits Basket mixed in. That said, the art is definitely not bad, it's just not exactly incredible. The story isn't deep or all that engaging, but it has one incredible strength; it's amazingly adorable. I found my self being drawn into the characters and their lives and wishing for events to happen even though there was little possibility that they would. Sometimes I think it's important to get away from the series that are just awe-inspiring and leave you breathless with their sure brilliance and tuck yourself in with something fun and cute. And Akuma to Dolce is just the series for times like that.

The first three chapters have been scanlated and are available from Serenus Dreamers and Aerandria.

~Enter Rant:

I hope everyone had a nice break!

After four years and one quarter, my luck ran out. This quarter I have a class on Thursday nights. Alas, there is no way I can wriggle my way out of this one. Luckily, it only goes to 7:30. I wish it were a class that was interesting, but no. It's Human Resource Management. My lab teacher described it as the "warm fuzzy" class. Hmm, somehow I don't think that's a good description for the class. We'll see as the quarter goes on.

Don't forget that t-shirt designs are due a week from this Saturday!

Lord of the Duelfield,
~Annaliese
"I'm really good at playing card games, and that's what life is really all about anyway!" -Chazz Princeton, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
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=== Minna no Anime: 12 Jan 2008 ===
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Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 Dokkoida?! (9): I Like it Hot
5:50 Break
5:55 The Law of Ueki (10): The Law of Justice That Never Comes
6:20 GUNxSWORD (10): Thank You Ocean
6:45 Break
6:50 Master Keaton (9): Traveling with a Lady
7:15 Mushishi (10): White In The Ink Slab
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Otogi Zoshi (10): Shuten
8:35 Noein - To Your Other Self (10): A Stormy Night
9:00 Break
9:05 Le Chevalier D'eon (9): Lovers
9:30 Ergo Proxy (10): Cytotropism

[random babbling]
Argh, yes, I know. It's a bit later than usual. I meant to do it earlier, but my life is a wee bit hectic right now and I was too exhausted to do this last night.

How was everyone's break? Mine was mostly ok. Still offerless as far as jobs go, but I have my hopes. I'm going to Phoenix next weekend, so you won't see me then, but you will see me at club tomorrow if you come! ...you know. Just in case any of you...I dunno...missed me. I shall now give you the puppy eyes. See? I'm giving you the--oh wait...that doesn't work over email. Curses.

Well, I finally broke down and bought Samurai Champloo over break. And I am SO glad I did. Seriously. That show is so good. I would buy it again if I had to. I suggest you all get it while you can still find Geneon products.

Sadly, I really don't have a lot of other stuff to say. My life is busy, but not busy-interesting. So I shall leave you with these little gems in a two for one deal as my...er...Christmas gift to you! >_>;

First, for French hilarity:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1NhSQARojp0

Remember that Batman comic mockery? Here's part 2:
http://www.i-mockery.com/comics/longbox20/default.php
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Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
Minna no Anime Secretary

"You don't KNOW from SCREWED, you losers!"
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=== Minna no Manga: 17 Jan 2008 ===
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Minna no Manga meets THursdays 6-10 pm, in 10-200. That's 10-200. A NEW ROOM. There is now a class in the room we were in. Be kind and try not to bother them while their class is in session.

~Review of the Week: Majin Devil by Oh! Great
"The creature standing on top of the evolution system aren't human, but a creature named as Majin. Majin Devil is a story about a young nerd who fights against monsters of all sort, and eventually faces Majin who wants to take his body." (From Baka-Updates Manga)

Many people know Oh! Great from his series Tenjou Tenge and Air Gear, but Majin Devil seems to be often overlooked. The art is just as good and in my opinion is drawn with more imagination, which makes it more interesting for me. I like stories about demons and devils, so I'm probably biased, but this is my favorite and the most interesting of Oh! Great's works. I'm a sucker for strong yet smart characters, and Dekoppa is one of the greatest models for this type of character. Instead of fights based on physical strength, most fights are based on science and math. Still, the fights aren't difficult to understand, the characters clearly and smoothly explain how things are working and why they work.

So, if you could pull yourself through that muddy paragraph, Majin Devil is an extremely well-drawn series with an interesting storyline, an impressive main character, and creative battles. And hey, if you just read Oh! Great's works for the fanservice, don't worry, there's still lots in there.

The entire series is only two volumes long (alas), and has all been scanlated by SnoopyCool. The scans are pretty easy to find online.

~Enter Rant:

I hope all you Baccano! dancers are practicing. I know I am. Well, attempting to practice, at least. I'm having a lot of trouble at parts, but I'm looking forward to practice on Thursday!

I hope everyone is doing alright during this second week of the quarter!

Lord of Fingerless Gloves,
~Annaliese
"Crispin Freeman, get out of my bedroom!"
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=== Minna no Anime: 19 Jan 2008 ===
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Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 Dokkoida?! (10): Mogumokkuru's Make-Over
5:50 Break
5:55 The Law of Ueki (11): The Law of Robert's Ten
6:20 GUNxSWORD (11): Where the Goodbyes Are
6:45 Break
6:50 Master Keaton (10): Charlie
7:15 Mushishi (11): The Mountain Sleeps
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Otogi Zoshi (11): Relationship of Enmity
8:35 Noein - To Your Other Self (11): Out of Sync
9:00 Break
9:05 Le Chevalier D'eon (10): Poetry of the Royal Family
9:30 Ergo Proxy (11): Anamnesis

[random babbling]
Ok, everyone, this is big news. Big, scary, amazing news! For the first time in my Cal Poly career...I am missing a meeting for a reason other than con attendance. That's right. I, Jenn, am going to miss this week's meeting of Minna no Anime. I'm sure all of you will find this very sad. It fact, I doubt you will be able to enjoy the meeting at all without my presence. I am just that Awesome. I am just that Cool. I...am just that Necessary.

...or not. I'm sure most of you wouldn't have even realized I was missing if I hadn't just said something. lol Especially since so many of the people on this list are alumni who don't even go to club anymore.

What's that? "Where are you going, Jenn?" you ask? Well my friends, I am going to Phoenix, Arizona for an interview. Yep. They're flying me out there and everything. I'm 1/2 psyched and 1/2 terrified. Hahahaha.

Anyway, wish me luck with that. I need all of it that I can possibly get!

Oh, crap, almost forgot about this! Tsk, tsk.

So some of you may be wondering what webcomics I read to waste my time. Well, wonder no more, because here's the current list:
http://lackadaisycats.com/
http://xkcd.com/
http://www.penny-arcade.com/
http://www.qwantz.com/

And there you go. If I forgot any, I'll pick 'em up in next week's email, but for now, I'm too tired.
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Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
Minna no Anime Secretary

"Some sort of freak high-velocity ballistic goose-related accident!"
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=== Minna no Manga: 24 Jan 2008 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm in 10-200.

~Review of the Week: Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O'Malley

"Scott Pilgrim is about a loser (Scott Pilgrim) who plays in a band (Sex Bombomb) while he lives with his gay roommate. His luck changes when he meets a beautiful delivery girl skating through his dreams (literally). His problems start when he learns that the condition for dating this girl is that he must defeat all seven of her evil ex-boyfriends. Stupidly (of course) he accepts the challenge."(By Nur)

Just about when I had lost all faith in North American comics, Nur recommended Scott Pilgrim. At first glance, the books don't look very impressive. They utilize a simple yet bold style that would be easy to pass up if the covers didn't radiate with bright colors. Those who can get over their initial impressions of the art are in for a real treat. It's been a long time since I read something that made me feel good to be such a dork. It's sort of like Genshiken, except a little less believable. The books are filled with geek-culture references, if it's not American comics, it's games or anime. The characters are interesting and easy to relate to, and it's always interesting to see them interact. The cast is filled with incredibly interesting people... from the professional skateboarder, to the obsessive Chinese girl, to the biomechanically-armed drummer and the super-powered vegan.The style really grows on you after a while and as you finish each volume you'll find yourself salivating for the next one. Really, the only thing I don't like about the series is that one volume comes out each year.

Preview (first 25 pages of volume 1): http://www.scottpilgrim.com/index.php?id=previews

There are currently four volumes available from Oni Press. Nur will be bringing the volumes to club tomorrow, as long as we can find them.

~Enter Rant:

I like the rain. Being out in it is a bit of a drag, but I like being inside, wrapped in blankets. It's a good feeling.

You know what I've been marathoning? Hana Yori Dango. MnA was showing the second season my first year, and I finally got my hands on the series (thank-you RightStuf sales). I swear, this show is such a soap opera... but I can't stop watching it. I find myself yelling at most of the characters and pulling my hair out because they can't see how stupid they are being, but I keep putting the next disc in. I wish there were more "epic shoujo" series like this. I have to admit I'm not a fan of the H-game-turned-series stuff that seems so popular these days. =(

Lord of the Subspace Highway,
Annaliese
"Ssssccccoooooottttttt!"
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=== Minna no Anime: 26 Jan 2008 ===
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Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 Dokkoida?! (11): Cosmos House's Last Hour?
5:50 Break
5:55 The Law of Ueki (12): The Law of Heavenly Beings
6:20 GUNxSWORD (12): The Days of No Return
6:45 Break
6:50 Master Keaton (11): Special Menu
7:15 Mushishi (12): One-Eyed Fish
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Otogi Zoshi (12): Seimei
8:35 Noein - To Your Other Self (12): The Battle
9:00 Break
9:05 Le Chevalier D'eon (11): Rain in Holy City
9:30 Ergo Proxy (12): Hideout

[random babbling]
Oh man, guys, remember that interview I went to this last weekend? Well, apparently I did really well and Lockheed Martin is going to offer me a job. I'm...I'm so happy. Seriously, this job sounds awesome. >_> I don't have the actual physical offer yet (I just know that I should expect it), but I'm fairly certain at this point that I'll be accepting. Feel free to talk to me about it and let me spew my glee at you. XD

I'm writing this in class, by the way. Yep, back to bad habits. With any luck, I won't hit you with poetry. Yes, I've done that before. Once. A couple of years back. I think I might have promised I'd never do it again. ...and here's a funny story. I'm in this architectural history class and my professor is talking about...ah...well, to put it gently, "man parts".

...he's doing it again. O_o

Didn't see that coming. Hm.

Anyway, I'm seriously running out of cool/interesting links. Here, have something random. Here are some sites I studied for my interview:

http://maxnoy.com/interviews.html
http://www.allapplabs.com/interview_questions/java_interview_questions.htm
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Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
Minna no Anime Secretary

"Stop trying to control everything and just let go."
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=== Minna no Manga: 31 Jan 2008 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm in 10-200.

~Review of the Week: Eensy-Weensy Monster

EWM is about a young plain girl with two extraordinary friends. She's a very kind and happy person who gets along well with those around her... until she she meets the prince of the school and something inside her snaps.

Mmmm, what can I say about this series? It's by the same artist who did Kare Kano (His and Her Circumstances), so if you liked that series, you will probably enjoy this one. I can't say I'm a big fan of the character designs or even overly impressed with the artwork, but the story-telling is top-notch, and that's what really keeps me coming back.

The first three chapters of Eensy-Weensy Monster are available from en.tro.py.

~Enter Rant:

I hate it when I sleep horribly the night before an early class, but right before my alarm I'll fade into wondrously deep sleep. So, when I wake up, I'm exhausted. Then, when I don't have early class, I wake up early. Blah.

Lord of Spark Plugs,
~Annaliese
"They work hard to blend in, just a few to mention"
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=== Minna no Anime: 2 Feb 2008 ===
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Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 Dokkoida?! (12): Battle of Zealousness!
5:50 Break
5:55 The Law of Ueki (13): The Law of the Heavenly Beast
6:20 GUNxSWORD (13): Dream in Progress
6:45 Break
6:50 Master Keaton (12): A Case for Ladies
7:15 Mushishi (13): One-Night Bridge
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Otogi Zoshi (13): Hikaru
8:35 Noein - To Your Other Self (13): The Wish
9:00 Break
9:05 Le Chevalier D'eon (12): Rest in Thy Country
9:30 Ergo Proxy (13): Wrong Way Home

[random babbling]
So here I sit in the hallway of the education building, wondering exactly WHY the internet in this building sucks so hard. Anyone who's ever tried to connect to the internet in the Silo knows what I'm talking about. No connection, right guys? Or, frustratingly, you can see the MustangWireless network but you can't connect? Or even MORE frustratingly, you can connect, but only for about 10 seconds at a time?

Yeah. Sucks, huh? I don't want to leave and go to another building, because I have class in the room right behind me in about 35 minutes and I wouldn't be able to get anything done anyway; I'd just be more tired. And I AM tired, by the way. I don't normally write fanfiction, but a friend of mine was kind of unhappy yesterday and I wanted to cheer her up, so it turns out I was up 'til 1am last night writing her something. Between that and leaving myself time to shower and such, I got about 5.5 hours of sleep.

Bah. No regret, though. I'm glad I made her feel better.

Anyway, for anyone who's following the not-so-epic tale of Jenn's Impending Career, I accepted my job offer from Lockheed Martin yesterday. The final offer that says I'm graduating in June, not the original one with the typo that said "January". I was a nervous wreck all day Monday due to THAT little oopsy. Anyway, there's this little stipulation that says I have to have a drug test within three days of accepting, so I'm gonna go do a walk-in appointment on Friday at this place by Carl's Jr (nope, I didn't know there was something like that there, either).

So now I just need to graduate. Yeah, there's a lot of other stuff in between, but that's the big one: get out of this place with a diploma.

...I really should work more on my senior project, huh?

Game...taking over...mind...
http://rfshq.com/forum/games/virus2.swf
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Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
Minna no Anime Secretary

"Even though the ones who turned you into a demon are humans, demons that exist in the human world must be destroyed."
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=== Minna no Manga: 7 Feb 2008 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm in 10-200. Well, if you're not part of the build crew. The following is a list of who will be working where and when.

House of Awesome 8-10pm
-Annaliese
-Nur
-Joel
-Daniella
-Rachel

House of Doom 6-10pm
-David
-James
-Andy
-Jewels
-Kieth
-Craig

House of Yaoi 6-10pm
-Erika
-Shannon
-Andrew
-Jesse
-Brandon

If you do not know where your location is, leave a message on the yahoo group!

~Review of the Week: Detroit Metal City by

"Souichi Negishi is a shy young man who came from the rural Ota Prefecture to Tokyo for college and wished to become a kindergarten teacher. However, for some reason he became the singer and songwriter of a metal band named "Detroit Metal City," with a stage name "Johannes Krauser II." Whenever he wears the heavy makeup, Negishi becomes a completely different person, shouting the most vulgar profanities beyond anyone's imagination. With the popularity of DMC increases, Negishi starts worrying his double personalities can have negative effects on his (romantic) life off stage." -From ANN

I won't lie to you. This manga is pretty hideous. But if you can look past that, you'll be rewarded with one of the most entertaining music manga series I've ever read. Krauser's antics always crack me up, whether it is the strange attacks he launches onto his enemies or the schooling he does from the hood of a tractor. Or even when he's revealing the secret methods of grass cutting or cow care. Johann Krauser II is so incredible, he's is pitted against Guts of Berserk. GUTS. No kidding, there is an ad in the magazine they both run in. There is a lot of profanity and er... adult themes, but if you're alright with those, you'll most likely have a blast out of reading this series. And then, who knows? You may want to get a the high-class death metal hairstyle known as the "Public Obscenity Cut." And that would rock.

~Enter Rant:

I hate it when I get into those slumps where I know what I have to get done, but I just can't find the drive to get it done. Bleh. I've been working on illustrations for a project in my book design class, but there is only so much enjoyment I can reap from drawing ordinary objects! I sort of wish the book I chose to work on had more interesting creatures. I guess I can't complain though, I got to draw a dragon for the last project, and that was fun!

~Annaliese
"I also reign over all tests and colleges! Being the Emperor, there must be no knowledge that is out of my grasp!"
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=== Minna no Anime: 9 Feb 2008 ===
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Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 L/R: Licensed by Royalty (1): Be Traced
5:50 Break
5:55 The Law of Ueki (14): The Law of the Awakening Organ
6:20 GUNxSWORD (14): Swift Brownie
6:45 Break
6:50 Master Keaton (13): A Peaceful Death
7:15 Mushishi (14): Inside The Cage
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Otogi Zoshi (14): Tokyo
8:35 Noein - To Your Other Self (14): Memories
9:00 Break
9:05 Le Chevalier D'eon (13): Omen
9:30 Ergo Proxy (14): Ophelia

[random babbling]
Argh. Tired. Worked on senior project a bunch, worked on databases a bunch. Came home, ate food, watched people cut cardboard. Whee.

Honestly, I don't have a lot to say. I spent four hours on Monday night filling out paperwork for my security clearance. The week really didn't get any less stressful after that.

See you guys on Saturday.

Here, have a cat-breeding game. http://purefelinity.com/
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Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
Minna no Anime Secretary

"One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back."
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=== Minna no Manga: 14 Feb 2008 ===
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Minna no Manga meets on Thursdays, 6-10pm. Construction on the club booth will continue in the same locations as last week.

~Review of the Week: Kazan by Gaku*Miyao

"Kazan, the only survivor of the Red Sand clan, embarks on a journey to find the water demon that destroyed his people and kidnapped his best friend Elsie. Accompanied by his eagle companion and helper, Kazan meets a mysterious girl by the name of Fawna who has the power to create water from her hands."-ANN

Kazan is a mini-epic. It's like the Lord of the Rings, only with less characters and not quite as good. The seven-volume series carries the characters through trial after trial, some physical, some mental. The characters grow and adapt throughout their experiences. The cast starts out relatively small but by the end has a cast the size of an army. It's interesting to see how the author works with so many characters and nearly-seemlessly weaves their stories together. The artwork is double-shaded at time, using both hatching and screentones.

I'd say the series is quite good but unfortunately overlooked. The only thing I do not like about the series is that English releases are all flipped. Alas. I think these were printed before fans expected comics to be in their original right to left format, so I won't complain too much.

Kazan is all out from Comics One. Unfortunately, it (along with all other Comics One titles) is out of print. The volumes are pretty easy to come by online and through used bookstores though, and you'd probably be able to get them for pretty cheap.

~Enter Rant

I feel like I say the same things every time I talk about a series. I really don't mean to, it just sort of happens. Maybe it is because I usually only review series I like. Hmmmmmm...

Happy Valentines Day, everyone!

Lord of Heart-Tipped Arrows,
~Annaliese
"The bravest story ever told..."
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=== Minna no Anime: 16 Feb 2008 ===
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Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 L/R: Licensed by Royalty (2): A Taste of Secret
5:50 Break
5:55 The Law of Ueki (15): The Law of Rinko
6:20 GUNxSWORD (15): Neo Originals
6:45 Break
6:50 Master Keaton (14): Wall in One's Heart
7:15 Mushishi (15): The Exaggerated Spring
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Otogi Zoshi (15): Shinjuku
8:35 Noein - To Your Other Self (15): Shangri-La
9:00 Break
9:05 Le Chevalier D'eon (14): Robert Wood's Briefcase
9:30 Ergo Proxy (15): Who Wants to be in Jeopardy!

[random babbling]
Is it just me or does it sound like this week's Ergo Proxy is going to be a crack episode? I don't think it's just me. I'm not as crazy as I look. I think.

How is everyone's Valentine's Day going? Good? Bad? I don't really care that much. About Valentine's Day, not about you guys. Right.

Bleh. Stuff to do. Don't want to do anything. Is it naptime yet? Hn.

...argh, I have nothing cool left to show you guys! I fail! *sob* *emo tear* I'm sure you were all looking forward to seeing what I have to send you! I'm sure it's the highlight of your week! I'm sure I'm not overreacting and displaying an inflated sense of self-worth!

Seriously, though. I'm out. Maybe I'll have something for you next week.
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Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
Minna no Anime Secretary

"As for you and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all, when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits."
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=== Minna no Manga: 21 Feb 2008 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm in 10-200. Seriously. No train building this week, just regular meetings. This means dance practice will be going on as well!

Remember to bring your blank black t-shirts to club on Thursday or Friday if you'd like a Berserk curse seal shirt!

~Review of the Week: Rookies by Morita Masanori
"Professor Kawato is the new japanese teacher in the ill-famed Futagotamaga high school, whose baseball club is composed by thugs and bullies who have been suspended for a year from all school competitions for causing a brawl during an official match. Now that the suspension is over, the only club's members left are interested only in women, smoking and doing nothing until, under professor Kawato guidance, they discover a new dream called Koshien. The road to Koshien is far from easy, as they have to get back in shape, to learn how to play baseball and to win everyone else mistrust, including the principals and other professor's one, with only a few months available. Sweating and fighting, the baseball club will find his determination and strength, as they proceed towards their dreams, while Kawato's enthusiastic and non-conventional ways slowly change the attitude of everyone near them." -Ovendoor @ Livejournal

Think Ookiku Furikabutte crossed with GTO. Seriously. If you like GTO, you'll probably like Rookies. If you like Ookiku... well, it's more like the Anti-Ookiku, I guess. If Ookiku is the super cute baseball series, Rookies is the "I will throw you out the window then drag you down the street" baseball series. Nonetheless, it's inspiring and uplifting to see a group of delinquents overcome what people think about them and what they believe they are personally possible. It's good stuff.

Many groups have been working on this series, so it's pretty easy to find. The first 67 chapters are currently available.

~Enter Rant:

I'm having a fabulous time on our Role Play community. Are you? There are lots of characters still available!

Andy, I am highly disappointed in a specific choice you have made recently and am curious to hear your reasoning behind it. And if that reasoning is not good enough, the hammer of GAR shall fall upon you. DUN DUN DUUUUUN. You know what I'm talking about.

Lord of Poofy Pants,
~Annaliese
Okay, so some say Rookies is more like Slam Dunk plus GTO plus Baseball minus Basketball... I agree.
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=== Minna no Anime: 23 Feb 2008 ===
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Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 L/R: Licensed by Royalty (3): A Girl Goes to the City
5:50 Break
5:55 The Law of Ueki (16): The Law of Neo
6:20 GUNxSWORD (16): Electric Fireworks
6:45 Break
6:50 Master Keaton (15): A Long and Hot Day
7:15 Mushishi (16): Daybreak's Snake
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Otogi Zoshi (16): Shibakouen
8:35 Noein - To Your Other Self (16): Repetition
9:00 Break
9:05 Le Chevalier D'eon (15): Final Secret Orders
9:30 Ergo Proxy (16): Busy Doing Nothing

[random babbling]
Aw geez, I almost forgot about this. >_o

I hope Noein isn't just a recap episode. Because I haaaaate recap episodes. lol

Argh. It's rainy, it's morning, and I have stuff to do! Here, have a weather site, I have to go to work! (And no complaining that it's lame, I could have dropped another virtual pet breeding site on you. XD)

http://www.accuweather.com/
[/random babbling]

Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
Minna no Anime Secretary

"If I gave you your arm back, what would you do with it?"
"I'd terrorize the South Seas! I'd torture the living! I'd demolish the...er... What I meant to say was, I'd use it to pet kittens."
"Nope. You blew it."
"Drat."
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=== Minna no Manga: 28 Feb 2008 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm. This week we are working on the Pussyfoot. If you're not in a Pussyfot group, MnM will be in a different room this week, 02-204.

~Review of the Week: Penguin Revolution by Tsukuraba Sakura

"Fujimaru Yukari is a high school girl with the ability to see star-potential auras in the shape of birds' wings. Yukari sees small wings on the back of Katsuragi Ryouko, the vice president of the student body. But Ryouko is actually a boy, a talent from the showbiz company, PEACOCK. What kind of secrets does Yukari uncover?" -From the back of the first volume

Where should I start? Penguin Revolution is a very touching series that never fails to bring a smile to my face. I get overjoyed by the characters' accomplishments and development and every chapter brings new excitement. I find myself falling into the story and not wanting to leave it. I love the characters, they're interesting and fun. The main character is a girl, but she's not your stereotypical shoujo heroine. She's strong-willed, skilled, smart, but still maintains a feminine feel. She takes things in strides and looks out for the other characters.

The art in the series is very nice. I love seeing the characters' expressions, especially when they're happy. Their expressions fill me with a warmth that simply makes me feel good. I want to be able to convey expressions as well as Tsukuraba does in her artwork. If the art looks familiar, that's probably because the mangaka also created "Land of the Blindfolded," which is all available from CMX.

There are five volumes of Penguin Revolution available in english from CMX. I recommend buying it, but honestly, they use some sort of newsprint for the paper and that makes be angry. Why, CMX? Why? Use paper that will last a bit longer. So my true suggestion is to buy the Japanese volumes to support the series and find the scanlations that are readily available online (although they are actually behind the official release). Most of the time I'm all for buying the official english releases and supporting the company, but CMX does some strange stuff that I don't really want to promote.

~Enter Rant:

I've seriously reread all of Penguin Revolution that is out twice in the last week. It's been a bit of a bleh week, so it's been really useful in cheering me up.

You know what else cheers me up? Volume 5 of Baccano! arrived today. It's the first disc with a bonus episode on it, and the episode is fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. It'll be available online within the next day, if you know where to look. I love this series so very, very much.

Lord of Pointless Blathering,
~Annaliese
"Shout it out in your own unique style!"
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=== Minna no Anime: 1 March 2008 ===
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Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 L/R: Licensed by Royalty (4): Sweet Enemies in the Same Desert
5:50 Break
5:55 The Law of Ueki (17): The Law of the Two Powers
6:20 GUNxSWORD (17): Follow the X Spot
6:45 Break
6:50 Master Keaton (16): The Elm Tree Forever
7:15 Mushishi (17): Picking the Fake Cocoon
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Otogi Zoshi (17): Kourakuen
8:35 Noein - To Your Other Self (17): Dilemma
9:00 Break
9:05 Le Chevalier D'eon (16): Where the Soul Goes
9:30 Ergo Proxy (17): Terra Incognita

[random babbling]
ARGH. Must. Send. Email. Before. Work!

I was on campus yesterday from 8am to 11pm. Oh joy. I HATE school. lol Seriously though, the last 5 hours of that was me in the library, working on the same project. And now it's Friday and I have a senior project meeting at 1pm and I have to do at least 3 hours of work on it before then, between actually doing the work I'm SUPPOSED to be doing.

I cannot wait for next quarter when this all calms down.

Here, have a highly addicting flower game.

http://www.addictinggames.com/seed.html
[/random babbling]

Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
Minna no Anime Secretary

"Consider the common graveyard. There, the boundary between the living and the dead, is...indistinct."
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=== Minna no Manga: 6 March 2008 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm in 10-200... unless you're working on the train.

~Review of the Week: Hyakkiyakou Shou by Ima Ichiko

"This is a series of stories dealing with ghosts, demons, monsters, and things that go bump in the night.
Ritsu inherited his sixth sense from his grandfather, along with a demon guardian named Blue Storm. Strange things just seem to happen around these two, and it's left to them to get to the bottom of all these mysterious events. Each story is independent but features recurring characters you'll come to know and appreciate as they, each in his own way, try to deal with things 'not of this world'. "- Etc

I could go on an on for paragraphs about what makes this series awesome, but let me make this short. It's like Mushishi with a more shoujo-like style, set in a more urban place, and with gods and demons instead of mushi. So, it's pretty sweet.

The first 12 chapters are available from Etc.

~Enter Rant:

Fruits Basket is one of the best healing series ever.

Thursday is Jenn's birthday.

Lord of Pancakes and Syrup,
~Annaliese
"What becomes of snow?"
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=== Minna no Anime: 8 March 2008 ===
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Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 L/R: Licensed by Royalty (5): Tear Drop
5:50 Break
5:55 The Law of Ueki (18): The Law of Dogura Mansion
6:20 GUNxSWORD (18): Prayers are for Saudade
6:45 Break
6:50 Master Keaton (17): A Mansion of Roses
7:15 Mushishi (18): Clothes to Embrace the Mountain
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Otogi Zoshi (18): Ueno
8:35 Noein - To Your Other Self (18): Nightmare
9:00 Break
9:05 Le Chevalier D'eon (17): Medmenham
9:30 Ergo Proxy (18): Life After God

[random babbling]
%$^*^&*#%&#%^& GROUP WORK

...

Ok, got that out of my system. I feel better now.

In other news, today is my birthday. I am 23. Woohoo. I'm sure there are people on this list that remember me as I was when I first entered Cal Poly: a shy, quiet little Freshman 18 years of age, sitting silently in my same spot week after week and never interacting with anyone unless they started it. ...ha. How times have changed. I bet some of you wish I would shut up now, eh? Well too bad! I like talking. A lot. Because I have cool opinions, as you all know.

Well, anyway, the point I was trying to make with that bit of arrogance-laced prose up above is that I'm not the same person I was and that I have, in fact, improved quite a bit. Mostly. But we all have our character flaws.

I have no idea why I was even making this point, but meh. You write the weekly emails for long enough and they just sort of tend to become stream-of-consciousness babbling. I've learned not to scrutinize it. Much to your collective woe, I'm sure.

Anywho! Here's a site that, though it's currently down for maintenance at the time of this writing, is actually quite enjoyable.

http://www.wajas.com/

Yeah, it's another animal-breeding site. This one is for dog-like creatures called wajas. They come in all sorts of breeds, crazy colors, and mutations (like bird wings). If you join when the site's back up, either message me on the site at ID 67747 or email me with your ID and I'll send you a puppy. I'm having a litter explosion over the next few days.

See you guys at club!
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Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
Minna no Anime Secretary

"It's been over a decade since Jurassic Park opened, and I still size up buildings for their potential as shelter against velociraptor attacks."
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=== Minna no Manga: 13 Mar 2008 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm in 10-200 unless you're working on the train blah blah blah you know how it goes.

~Review of the Week: Lapras Makes a Friend by Kunimi Kawamura and Toshinao Aoki

SPOILER ALERT!

"Lonely Lapras befriends a little boy and his Pokémon pals." -From the back of the book.

What? WHAT? They totally spoiled the book for me. Well, it's a good thing I read the book before reading the back. "Lapras Makes a Friend" is one of the books in the "Pokémon Tales" series, from which other greats such as "Come Out, Squirtle!" "Meet Mew!" and "Diglett's Birthday Party" are part of. These compact books tell gripping tales and teach life lessons. Their stunning full-color illustrations fill the reader's heart with passion and awe as you dive deep in the wonderful world of Pokémon. At sixteen pages, it's a quick read, but one you'll enjoy and always remember.

All the "Pokémon Tales" books were once available from VizKids, but I believe they are all now out of print. If you want to read the incredible adventure of Lapras, you can always borrow my copy.

...what? you didn't enjoy my awesome review? Okay, okay, I'll do another quick one.

~Enter Review #2: Alive by Kawashima Tadashi and Adachitoka

"A high schooler named Taisuke Kanou is living with his older sister, Youko, after the death of his parents. He lives a relatively quiet life until a massive surge of suicides around the world known as the "Nightmare Week" begins.

From that moment on, weird phenomena begin to occur around Taisuke. He is victim of space travelling illusions. He sees a smiling girl who jumps to her death from atop a building. His best friend, Hirose, is framed for murder. His classmates are killing themselves for no apparent reason. Furthermore, the police always seem to keep an eye on Taisuke while investigating Hirose's case. At the same time, a psychotic murderer appears, and he sees our protagonist as his "comrade". Will Taisuke succumb to all of these crazy incidents? Or will he be able to someday return to his old peaceful lifestyle that he yearns for?" - From Dynasty Scans

Alive, also know as Alive: The Final Evolution, is one of those series that gives me mixed feelings. Not "is this good or bad? I cannot tell" sort of thing, but I can't figure out whether I should be happy or sad. The book jumps from depressing to jolly within panels that leaves me feeling both and very confused. I don't think this is bad thing, on the contrary, I think it takes a lot of skill to do something like that and have it feel right. Nothing in this series feel out of place. Nothing feels forced. The flow and the character's actions just feel so right that when the mood changes, it's so well done, it's scary.

I can't really find anything I don't like about this series. The art is really nice, the characters are interesting, and the story is intensely interesting. I even like the minor characters. The team that works on Alive will skillfully introduce a character and have you nearly bawling for them later. Oh, and the covers! I wasn't really attracted to the cover of the first volume, but the cover for the third volume is simply incredible! Ever so often I'll open the scan I have of it to get inspired.

So so so, Alive is really cool. I think you all should read it.

Alive is still running in Japan and is currently at 13 volumes. It is currently being released by Del Rey (they're doing a really nice job on it), but scanlations are easy to find online. The scanlations and official releases are pretty much at the same point as of writing this, so I recommend buying the volumes because you'll probably get a cleaner version that way. =D

~Enter Rant:

I will be so happy when this quarter is done. I am going to throw myself a party. You know, a geek party. Put some anime on, eat some junk food, play on my DS. It's going to be a blast.

There should be an article about us in Thursday's paper. Huzzah!

~Annaliese
"To catch them is my real test, to train them is my cause!"
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=== Minna no Anime: 15 Mar 2008 ===
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Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 L/R: Licensed by Royalty (6): Lost Recognition
5:25 GUNxSWORD (19): Prayer's End
5:50 Break
5:55 Mushishi (19): String of Heaven
6:20 Otogi Zoshi (19): Shibuya
6:45 Break
6:50 Noein - To Your Other Self (19): Reminiscence
7:15 Le Chevalier D'eon (17): Medmenham
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Quarterly Movie: Paprika

[random babbling]
Ugh. I'm starting to go crazy. I hate group projects. HATE. Especially when those group projects start to take time away from my senior project. -_-

Well, no rest for the wicked, I suppose.

For those of you who signed up, remember that our quarterly Tsurugi trip is happening on Sunday at (I believe) 7pm. Also, as I'm sure you've noticed, the schedule is weird this week because we're watching the quarterly movie. We're dropping Fansub, Law of Ueki, Master Keaton, and Ergo Proxy this week. Yes, I know, I can hear the moans of pain over dropping Ergo from here, but it has to be done. It's a short, short series and hey, we're running out of episodes. At least the last one didn't stop on a cliffhanger, right? And this way we won't be out of Ergo halfway through spring quarter.

In other news, I finally broke down and ordered Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan. That game is just too darn good NOT to own. I'm ashamed of myself for having not bought it before. Although I have to admit that it might have been the near-simultaneous influx of paycheck, tax return, and birthday money that tipped the scales. ...ok, not "might have been". It was.

Er. I can't believe I didn't share this link before. It totally skipped my mind. Here, welcome to imeem, a site like youtube but primarily for music:
http://imeem.com/

Yes, you need to have an account to use it, but signing up for one is a remarkably fast and painless process. I think that there have been maybe two songs that I've looked for that that site doesn't have. Granted, you have to be online to listen, but that's not exactly a huge handicap. Plus you don't have to worry about having gigs of mp3s on your machine, taking up zee spacez. (some of us are still using laptops with 20 GB harddrives, lawl)

See you guys at club.
[/random babbling]

Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
Minna no Anime Secretary

"Permission to speak freely, sir? I'm not sure you know what you're doing."
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== Spring 2008 ==
=== Minna no Manga: 3 April 2008 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm in 10-221. We will be train-building tomorrow, so please go to the usual houses if you are a part of that.

This quarter, instead of doing my usual manga suggestions, I thought I'd try something different. As manga fans, I believe there are certain artists it is important to know. Every week I'll pick a person who I believe is or was a prominent figure in the development of manga and say why I believe they should be known.

~Those You Should Know - Osamu Tezuka

Why You Should Know Him:
Osamu Tezuka is a god. He is the father of modern manga and anime. If you don't at least recognize his name, you should be ashamed of yourself!

Trained as a doctor, he decided after World War II that he could use manga to help convince the population to care for the world. Tezuka had always loved the environment and had a great fondness for insects, eventually naming his animation studio Mushi Production (mushi is insect in Japanese). He also used the kanji for insect in his pen name.

Tezuka was the one that made the large eye-style of drawing popular in Japan. He based it off of Betty Boop, Mickey Mouse, and Bambi. So next time you hear someone complain about large eyes in anime, you can tell them that it all comes from America.

Through out his life, Tezuka created 700 volumes or 150,000 pages of manga. His works vary wildly from children's tales to dark stories of deception and sexual awakening. His career was a series of firsts, he wrote the first shoujo, the first yaoi, the first yuri, and the first biographical manga. Some like to say that he invented everything worth anything, like ropes, chairs, and cats. This is, of course, not true, but it just goes to show the awe he put into his fans. His work became the basis for all manga and anime today.

Important Titles:
Astro Boy - My mother knows Astro Boy. My mother. Come on. It is a story about a robot boy in a time where robots co-exist with humans. Some is available in English from Dark Horse. A CG movie is in the works and scheduled to be released in 2009.

Jungle Emperor Leo (Kimba the White Lion) - My mom knows Kimba too. It is a story about three generations of lions that revolves around the interactions of wild creatures and mankind.

Ribon no Kishi (Princess Knight) - The first shoujo series. Princess Knight is about Princess Sapphire, a girl who pretends to be a boy and must straddle a male's and a female's life. One chapter was released by Viz as a celebration of Shoujo Beat's second anniversary, but there are currently no plans for a full release.

Phoenix - Said to be Tezuka's more profound and ambitious work, Phoenix was published from 1956 to Tezuka's death in 1989. It is an unfinished work that includes stories about immortality and reincarnation that range from the distant past to the distant future. Viz is bringing out Phoenix.

Ode to Kirihito - This work deals with despair, rampant racism, acceptance, and corruption. A young doctor, Kirihito, is infected with a strange disease that mutates his body to become almost dog-like and searches for the cure. Vertical released a gorgeous edition of Kirihito last year.

Black Jack - Along with Astro Boy and Kimba, Black Jack is the series that most people recall when Tezuka is brought up. Tezuka used his medical knowledge to help him create the story of Black Jack, a skilled but unlicensed surgeon who charges enormous amounts of money for his work. This is the longest of Tezuka's works. Viz published two volumes in the 90s, but Vertical will be bringing handcover versions starting in September. This is my personal favorite of Tezuka's works.

Buddha - An epic work which interprets Buddha's life. The 8-volume series is all available from Vertical in both hardcover and softcover editions.

MW - This is Tezuka's Anti-Tezuka work. In the seventies, many artists were striving to become anti-Tezuka. They were not against Tezuka, but they wanted to create works that were far from his usual style themes. Tezuka himself wanted to get away from the name he created for himself and so created MW, the story of a brutal unredeemable man who driven crazy after witnessing a chemical leak of the gas MW on an Okinawan island. This story has what is quite possibly the first occurrence of gay sex in manga and is ultimately a disturbingly moving tale of the darkest side of a person. It is available from Vertical

Also:
Pluto - This one isn't by Tezuka, but it is still well worth the read. Pluto takes one storyline from Astro Boy ("The World's Strongest Robot") and expands it into a 5+ volume tale. The main character is not Atom, but instead the robot detective Gesicht. If the retelling doesn't interest you, the artist should. Pluto is by Naoki Urasawa, the absolute genius behind Monster, 20th Century Boys, and Master Keaton (art only).

All in All:
If you enjoy anime or manga, Tezuka is a name to know. Even if you do not like his works, you should at least appreciate his contribution to today's manga and anime. His stories aren't widely available in the United States yet, but keep your eyes open, Vertical has been doing a spectacular job of releasing Tezuka's works and hopes are high that they will continue to allow us English-speakers to enjoy more and more of these works.

~ENTER RANT:

Hi guys, hope you had a good break. Mine was busy, but I got a lot done. This next part is a lot of rambling, so I suggest you don't read it.

I recently picked up a volume of the Darren Shan manga. It's a series that I've been collecting off and on. The manga is based off of the Darren Shan novel series about a young half-vampire. After finding out it was going to be adapted into a manga series, I read the first two volumes a year or so ago. Overall, I liked them (first book was pretty cool, the second one was not so cool), but the second book was such a let down, I didn't continue. The manga looked pretty cool (I love the style), so if I had a bit of extra money I would pick up a random volume. The system with the manga is really neat, one volume of manga equals one book in the series. It makes it really easy to figure out what part of the series I have when I buy a volume.

Anyway, that volume I picked up was volume 6, the last book of Vampire Rites, the second trilogy in the series. I had bought volume 5 some time ago, so I sort of knew what was going on, but I was completely blown away. This series is SO COOL. I knew I had to read more. Unfortunately, the SLO and Cal Poly libraries don't carry the books, and none of the used bookstores had copies, so I had to go to Barnes and Noble, but IT'S OKAY. I HAVE MORE DARREN SHAN TO READ. Now, this is a little embarrassing, I mean, the font size is huge and the covers are totally aimed at fifth graders! But I can't help myself. It's not even that these books are fantastic, they're just fun. Well, I think I'm done rambling. I think I can read another chapter before my next class starts!

Lord of Books Meant for Grade-Schoolers,
~Annaliese
"You should work doing the thing you like most of all." -Tezuka's Mother
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=== Minna no Anime: 5 April 2008 ===
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Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 L/R: Licensed by Royalty (7): Ivory
5:50 Break
5:55 The Law of Ueki (20): The Law of Cat and Mouse
6:20 GUNxSWORD (20): Wonderful Universe
6:45 Break
6:50 Master Keaton (24): The Day the Op Was Born
7:15 Mushishi (20): The Sea of Brushes
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Otogi Zoshi (20): Azabu
8:35 Noein - To Your Other Self (20): Once More
9:00 Break
9:05 Le Chevalier D'eon (17): Medmenham
9:30 Ergo Proxy (19): Eternal Smile

[random babbling]
Welcome to the last quarter of the year! My last quarter ever! Soon you will be rid of me! Don't cheer too loudly now. For anyone who's wondering I ALMOST got another 4.0 last quarter. Got an A- in ONE CLASS that dragged me down. I shall now flee before you all get the pitchforks.

Anyway, you might notice that the Keaton episodes will no longer be following a sequential order. Annaliese is just going to start picking the ones that she thinks are the best for the rest of the year. This should result in more enjoyment for all of us.

I'm pretty tired over here. See you guys on Saturday.
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Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
Minna no Anime Secretary

"Now, my blind eyes see what others cannot. That sometimes the hand of fate must be forced."
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=== Minna no Manga: 10 April 2008 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm in 10-221. There will be booth building and train building.

Those You Should Know: Shotaro Ishinomori

Ishinomori was a pioneer of the manga world, right after Tezuka. His series were incredibly long-running and popularized many themes still common in manga today. Some series have received multiple revivals in the forms of new anime, manga, and live-action shows.

Common themes in his series include heroes with totally awesome scarves (I kid you not) and characters torn between humanity and inhumanity.

Notable Series:
Cyborg 009 - If you don't know 009, you make me sad. Nine people are taken by the evil Black Ghost and turned into super-powered cyborgs. They escape and fight against Black Ghost. This is the first manga series with a superhero team. There are three anime series, and four movies, with a possible live-action movie in the future.

Kikaider - A robot with a soul fights against those who try to control him. There have been three anime series and three live action series.

Skull Man - A series about mass murderers in Japan committed by Skull Man and his shape-shifting assistant Garo. These are investigated by a certain detective agency. The original series was adapted by a different mangaka under the guidance of Ishinorimori in 1990 with a slightly different storyline. Both of these have cameos by other Ishinomori characters. Last year an anime series aired with a different story than all the previous ones.

Kamen Rider - Oh yes. He created Kamen Rider. There are about a million Kamen Rider series now (I think they're all live action), so the story varies with each one. Basically, most of the Riders are altered humans that rider cool motorcycles.

If you're interested...
...Check out Kamen Rider Spirits. This series has a couple chapters devoted to each of the Riders. The series is drawn by Kenichi Muraeda, and maintains a old-school feel. It's a really neat and well-drawn series, enjoyable even if you're not a Kamen Rider fan.

Okay, okay, one more thing. Does anyone remember the old Legend of Zelda comics that ran in Nintendo Power in the early 90s? The one with the first appearance of Wolf Link? Yes, you guessed it, Ishinomori's work.

~Enter Rant:

Wow is this late. I mean, jeez, so late. Sorry, I've been stuck between a mountain of work and a horrible streak of laziness. Not a good combination.

I've been watching Batman Beyond as I work this week. This show was SO COOL. It's a shame I only have seasons one and three... all my favorite episodes are in season two! Alas!

Lord of Dusty Shelves,
~Annaliese
"Eccentric Shonen Boy!"
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=== Minna no Anime: 12 April 2008 ===
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Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 L/R: Licensed by Royalty (8): Out of Phase
5:50 Break
5:55 The Law of Ueki (21): The Law of Seiichiro Sano
6:20 GUNxSWORD (21): Prayers to Heaven and Peace on Earth
6:45 Break
6:50 Master Keaton (25): Kalihman of the Desert
7:15 Mushishi (21): The Cotton Spore
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Otogi Zoshi (21): Ikebukuro
8:35 Noein - To Your Other Self (21): Illusion
9:00 Break
9:05 Le Chevalier D'eon (18): New World
9:30 Ergo Proxy (20): Goodbye Vincent

[random babbling]
Whew! Last quarter! Here we go!

Well, mine and Annaliese's last quarter, anyway. And webmaster Brian's as well!

For those of you who somehow managed to forget, we're having elections this week! Keep in mind that to run or vote, you need to be a paid member of club for this year. Bring $2 to become a member for this last quarter if you aren't a member and you'll be able to vote/run!

In other news, Batman Beyond is awesome and if you haven't seen any of it? You totally should. Especially the episode with the Batman Musical, where Robin is totally played by a girl. I almost died.

Guess what I got back into.

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com
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Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
Minna no Anime Secretary

"You hate me, don't you?
Lighten up, it's your birthday!"
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=== Minna no Manga: 17 April 2008 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm. This week is Open House, so we'll be having a busy weekend.

Thursday, 6-10pm: Food Prep Practice @ Erika's Church (SLO SDA). Bring knives and cutting boards!

Map: http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/4559/churchmaptl7.jpg (Sorry about the orientation, I must have forgotten to save after I rotated it!)

Friday, 5-?pm: Booth Set-up. We will be between the Library and the Math and Science building. This shouldn't take too long, especially if we have a good number of people helping!

Saturday, 5am-5pm: THE BIG DAY. We will be meeting at James, Eric, and David's apartment to lug parts of the train over. If you do not know where they live, come to my apartment (we'll have to move all of the food and cooking equipment from here anyway). If you do not know where I live, e-mail the list and I shall inform you. We will be spending from about 5am-10am setting up the train around our booth and prepping food. We start selling at 10:30. We will sell until 4:30ish or until we sell out. Whichever comes first. If you can come and help out, it would be greatly appreciated. You'll get a free meal if you work for an hour (no, you won't get a meal for each hour you work). The dance group will be performing at 1:40-1:50pm. Our time was changed, please make a note of them.

Please remember to bring sunscreen! I don't want anyone getting burned.

Cosplayers: You may want to bring a change of clothes and comfortable shoes. Even if you're cosplaying you'll need to work, so you may want to change into your costume after you work for a while. And I don't know about you guys, but I can only wear my Jacuzzi shoes for so long before they make my feet ache. =\

Let's all work hard to make this a successful Open House!

~Those You Should Know: Go Nagai

I'll keep this one short.

Wow, this is the first mangaka I've written about who is still alive. Huzzah, Go Nagai! Go Nagai was the person that created the concept of a giant robot with a pilot, sexual elements in manga, and transforming magical girl. Pretty neat.

Devilman - A mild-mannered man gains the power of a devil and fights against the other devils.

Mazinger Z - A piloted super robot is created as a weapon against evil.

Cutey Honey - The plot varies depending on the version, but basically Honey fights against evil by transforming into many different versions or herself, being able to change into anything from a biker to a camerawomen to a singer.

Violence Jack - Jack, a half-human, half-giant who is found in the ruins of a earthquake-wrecked city and is released upon the inhabitants. It's violent. I mean, the series is called VIOLENCE JACK.

Also:
Amon: The Darkside of the Devil - Based on Devilman, this series is illustrated by the incredibly skilled artist of Leviathan. The story is pretty strange and very gory, but it's absolutely gorgeous, completely worth the read.

~Enter Rant:

Wow, this week is buuuussssyyy. Next week regular MnM meetings start. WOOOO!

I'm watching Gargoyles right now. Freaking awesome series.

Lord of 90s Cartoons that ROCK
~Annaliese
"Shwaaaaay."
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=== Minna no Manga: 24 April 2008 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm, in 10-221. WHOA. REGULAR MnM MEETINGS AGAIN? Mind-blowing.

~Those You Should Know: Rumiko Takahashi

Honestly, we're talking about Takahashi. Please tell me you know her.

Rumiko Takahashi is one of the richest women in Japan. With series as popular as her's are, it's small wonder. Her series were not only hits in Japan, but also some of the first big series to be translated into English. She is the said to be the best-selling female comic artist ever, having sold over 100 million books. Trained under Kazuo Koike (Lone Wolf and Cub), she first started publishing in 1975 with doujin. It wasn't until shortly before 1980, when she started work on Urusei Yatsura and later Maison Ikkoku when her career really took off. She has won the prestegious Shogakukan Manga Award twice, once for Urusei Yatsura, and once for InuYasha.

Important Works:
Urusei Yatsura - A normal but perverted guy accidently proposes to an alien girl. The girl becomes obsessed with him, the poor guy loses interest and is shocked over and over again. Poor, poor guy.

Maison Ikkoku - The beautiful Kyoko takes over landlord duties at a broken-down boarding house and Yusaku, a student studying to get into college, falls head over heels for her. Unfortunately, he's not very good at confessing and he's not being helped by the meddlesome residents of the building.

Mermaid Saga - Eating mermaids' flesh really sucks after a while, because dying over and over again hurts a lot and is pretty lonely.

One-Pound Gospel - A boxer can't control his eating habits and is taken under the wing of Sister Angela, who is determined to break him from his gluttony.

Ranma 1/2 - A guy that turns into a girl when he gets hit by water. Oh come now, it's classic. You should know about it.

InuYasha - Time-travelling through a well, collecting Shikon shards, demons, romance?, action, you know what it's about.

So much awesome:
All of the previously mentioned series are available in the states from Viz Media. Unfortunately, I do not believe Urusei Yastura was fully released here, so I think you should tell Viz to finish putting it out. While you're at it, tell them to finish putting out Guyver too. =3

~Enter Rant:

I am so, so, SO proud of everyone that came out to help last weekend. We did very well and got many very nice compliments. You guys are really awesome.

I'll be announcing a bunch of upcoming contests this weekend, so make sure you show up. There will be some cool prizes for the contests!!

Lord of 'Why am I reading This Fanfiction?',
~Annaliese
"Out among the stars I sailed, way beyond the mood
In my silver ship I sailed, in a dream that ended too soon"
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=== Minna no Anime: 26 April 2008 ===
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Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 L/R: Licensed by Royalty (9): Suspended Game
5:50 Break
5:55 The Law of Ueki (22): The Law of Inumaru
6:20 GUNxSWORD (22): For Whose Sake?
6:45 Break
6:50 Master Keaton (30): The Highlands in Your Eyes
7:15 Mushishi (22): Underwater Shrine
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Otogi Zoshi (22): Ookubo
8:35 Noein - To Your Other Self (22): To the Future
9:00 Break
9:05 Le Chevalier D'eon (19): Until It's Colored in Crimson
9:30 Ergo Proxy (21): Shampoo Planet

[random babbling]
Oh man. I started feeling sick-ish last night and felt like crap all through the morning, too. I'm starting to feel a bit better now, which is good because I want to actually make sense during my senior project meeting.

Congratulations are in order for all of the new officers and thanks should be given to everyone who helped out last Saturday during Open House. You guys are awesome, we did well, and club survives yet another year.

Anyway, off I go to meet with my advisor. Hopefully she'll agree with my analysis: that I did WAY too much work this week.
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Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
Minna no Anime Secretary

"So, you're not upset about me killing you that one time?"
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=== Minna no Manga: 1 May 2008 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm in 10-221. Alas, the room seems internetless.

~Those you should know: Naoki Urasawa

If Tezuka is God, then in my opinion, Urasawa is Jesus. I don't believe there are many people out there as skilled in both art and storytelling.

Naoki Urasawa debuted in 1983 with the one-shot Beta!! His first breakthrough came in 1986 with Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl. Yawara won Urasawa his first of three Shogakukan Manga awards. In 1988, Urasawa began work on a work you should all know now, Master Keaton. From there his popularity grew and he slowly became the extremely talented mangaka he is today.

Urasawa's works have received nine prestigious awards; three Shogakukan Manga Awards, a Kodansha Manga Award, two Excellence Prizes at Japan's Media Arts Festival, and three Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prizes. His stories are very deep, bulking one running narrative with another and another and another. As the covers of Monster say, he is the "master of suspense," surprising and teasing readers at every twist and turn. It is also interesting to note that many of his series have ties with Germany (Keaton, Monster, Pluto...).

Important Works:

Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl - A skilled female judo champion is forced to compete when all she wants to do be a normal girl and have fun. The anime will be available shortly from AnimEigo.

Master Keaton - McGuyver + James Bond + Indiana Jones = Taichi Hiraga Keaton. Not only are the stories absolutely fascinating, but it's interesting to see the history woven in. I have yet to find a flaw in the accuracy of this series. The anime is available from the now-defunct Geneon.

Monster - A gifted surgeon, Tenma, is accused of murder and flees, trying to locate the true killer, a young man whose life he once saved. Now, Tenma is really awesome, but you know who my favorite character is? Grimmer. And Grimmer isn't even in most of the series! His story line is so touching and deep and just so amazing, it's mind-blowing to know that there is so much thought put into a minor character. Just think of the depth of the main characters! Monster won Urasawa his second Shogakukan Manga Award and his first Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. The manga is slowly (way too slowly) becoming available from Viz Media. They recently released volume 14 (of 18). With some good fortune, they may also bring out the anime.

20th Century Boys - Kenji's simple life fades away as he encounters a mysterious conspiracy tied to his childhood. Now he must rise up against this enemy to prevent a world-wide disaster. 20th Century Boys may just be the best thing I've ever read. No, not manga. Best thing. It has such incredible writing, such fantastic characters, and such a remarkable story, I found myself in tears over the genius of it. I've never read anything quite that amazing. 20th CB has won a slew of awards: the Kodansha Manga Award, the Shogakukan Manga Award, and an Excellence Prize at the Japanese Media Arts Festival. Rumors are Viz Media will be publishing 20th CB after they finish Monster, but even the editor for Monster doesn't know for sure. That, or he's lying to me.

Pluto - Based on a story from Tezuka's Astro Boy, Pluto follows the robot detective Gesicht as he tries to unravel a series of murders on robots and humans alike. The series constantly asks the question, "Have robots become too human?" Now, I absolutely adore everything I've read by Urasawa, but I think Pluto is my favorite. To see Urasawa humanize these robots hits a soft spot in my heart. There is a scene very early on in which Geischt gives a mass-produced robot her husband's memory chip after he has been destroyed, and although her face never changes, you can feel the sadness she feels. It gets me every time. Every single time I read that scene, I cry. Pluto has won its share of awards, including the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and an Excellence Prize from Japan Media Arts Festival. Also, one of my professors thinks Geischt is hot. I have to agree.

Naoki Urasawa is one of my favorite, if not my absolute favorite mangaka. Every work he has created has charmed and moved me, and it encourages me to improve my own work. I highly recommend checking out any one of his series, you won't regret it.

~Enter Rant:

Yay Urasawa! I really think the guy needs some more attention state-side. I knew I was going to write about him today, so I decided to watch some Monster as I worked on m senior project. I hadn't watched anything except the first episode, but since I'm reading the manga as it is released, I thought it would be fine to skip ahead a bit. I watched the episodes where Grimmer is introduced. For some reason, that put me in an incredibly good mood. So now I'm super freaking happy and it feels great.

And my senior project is nearly complete! I just have to tone two pages and letter three, and then my comic will be done! Words cannot express the happiness I'm feeling right now.

Life rocks.

Lord of the Reward System,
~Annaliese
"The Amazing Steiner!"
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=== Minna no Manga: 8 May 2008 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm in 10-221.

~Those You Should Know: Masakazu Katsura

While he didn't really break new ground with his method or win a million awards, Masakazu Katsura is an artist not to be missed. His work has long been eye-catching, but his recent series have been eye-popping incredible.

He s a big fan of super heroes, especially Batman, and it's obvious in his works.

Important Works:

Wingman - A story about a boy who creates a superhero and is given the opportunity to become that superhero to protect people.

Shadow Lady - Aimi leads a normal life until a demon named De-mo attacks her by brushing eyeshadow on her. This turns her into the thief "Shadow Lady!"

DNA^2 - Junta has an unusual allergy. He's allergic to women. One day he encounters Karin Aoi, who claims to be from the future and has come to his time in order to prevent the original "Mega-Playboy" from starting the world on a cycle of overpopulation. Unfortunately, she activates Junta's playboy tendencies and must get him together with his childhood friend in order to prevent the futue overpopulation.

Video Girl Ai - Yota Moteuchi checks out a video that somehow makes a girl come out of the TV! But Yota plays this tape on a broken VCR, causing this girl, Ai, to have emotions. This is a default, and the video store comes to take away the defective merchandise.

I"s - Boy has crush on girl, tries to tell her, but things always get in the way.

Zetman - This series talks about the origins of two heroes. Zetman (or Zet) is an awesome kid named Jin who can change into a powerful but slightly monstrous form. Kouga is a annoying twit whose family has the big bucks and creates him special suits to fight in. Obviously, Jin is better. Anyway, Jin grows up in three separate homes because tragedy keeps striking. He learns that he has been created to kill creatures named "players." His "creature form" is actually based off of an anime character created by the company that made him.

Read Zetman guys. Read it. It's really good. Kouga is pretty annoying, but Jin makes up for Kouga's fail.

~Enter Rant:

Two weeks to Fanime! I hope I'll be ready for it!

Lord of a Little Bit of Motivation,
~Annaliese
"I'm the king of the world, and to think, it's only May!"
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=== Minna no Anime: 10 May 2008 ===
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Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 L/R: Licensed by Royalty (11): Tug of War
5:50 Break
5:55 The Law of Ueki (24): The Law of Young Robert
6:20 GUNxSWORD (24): End of a Dream
6:45 Break
6:50 Master Keaton (21): The Thistle Emblem
7:15 Mushishi (24): The Journey to the Field of Fire
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Otogi Zoshi (24): Manseibashi
8:35 Noein - To Your Other Self (24): The Beginning (LAST EP)
9:00 Break
9:05 Le Chevalier D'eon (21): Honor's Compensation
9:30 Ergo Proxy (23): Deus Ex Machina (LAST EP)

[random babbling]
Wow, so how much do I suck? Somehow I totally, completely forgot about the email last week. I remember RIGHT as I was walking out the door for club. I'm...uh...kind of surprised no one reminded me on, say, Friday? You'd think someone might have gone, "Oh hey, that weekly email thing. You gonna do that?" and then I could have said "Frig!" and whipped up a quick email to please the masses.

In other news, I've already watched all the shows this week, so I know how they end! No, I didn't do that just because I simply couldn't wait. This weekend, for those of you who've forgotten, plays host to Mother's Day. I'm going to go visit my mom, because she sounded all sad over the phone. And sad moms are not a good thing! So yeah, no Jenn on Saturday. Be strong. I shall return the next weekend! Of course, by that time, we'll no longer be watching Noein or Ergo Proxy. Yes, it's true! Both shows are ending this week! In a way, Otogi Zoshi is ending too. This week is the "last episode" plot-wise, but there are (I think) two more episodes in a "special arc" after this week's episode.

So yeah, lots of endings. Speaking of which, senior project is coming right along. I might actually finish early. Of course, putting ~20 hours per week into it recently means that it's not like I've been slacking off. What about you guys? I'm curious: how many hours do you guys who've graduated think you put into senior project? I'm well over 100 hours total at this point.

Hm...must...think...of good website...

Bah. Forget it. Here's where I've been spending MY internet time lately:
http://www.move.com/
http://www.apartments.com/
http://www.apartmentratings.com/
[/random babbling]

Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
Minna no Anime Secretary

"When the forces of darkness descend, in the name of justice, this fist! In the name of truth, these muscles! In the name of honor, this blood! Ha ha! Champion of truth and justice, Grand Papillon! Ready to fight all evil-doers!"
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=== Minna no Manga: 15 May 2008 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm in 10-221. There, we create beautiful robots and discuss alternative fuel sources.

Those you should know: Hirohiko Araki

Araki is the king of Fabulous. Don't trust me? First, you should. I'm God. (Kidding, kidding). Second, have you seen any of his recent series? The homosexual vibes coming off of them can be spotted from miles off. Not that this is a bad thing, of course. And anyway, I can't think of any characters that he's created that are gay. Moving on...

Araki is famous for his unusual sense of fashion and style which has inspired multitudes of artists, designers, and even those in the fashion industry. His most popular work is truly an epic. Currently at 92 volumes, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure spans at least seven generations with a new JoJo in staring each one. The story mainly revolves around the Joestar family and their connection to the vampire Dio. Besides that, each arc (each arc is actually referred to as different series) vary quite a bit. The latest series, series 7 (Steel Ball Run), is about a cross-country horse race. Sorry, sorry, a FABULOUS cross-country horse race. I've never seen such fabulous jockeys!

JoJo isn't Araki's first work. He debuted in 1980 with Buso Poker. A few other short series followed, but none lasted more than a few years. In 1987 he began JoJo. Since then he has done a few one-shots, as well as covers and illustrations for magazines. Last September he drew the cover to Cell, a scientific journal.

Araki's work appeals to all ages. Early JoJo is filled with manly-men drawn in a very traditional style, and as time went on, his art style changed to fit (or perhaps inspire) the times. Don't worry, Steel Ball Run still has manly men, they're just fabulous.

If you pass up Araki's works, you're really missing out on a treat. He's a fine storyteller with a lot of artistic talent. Not many people can make a character wildly flamboyant but incredibly blood-chllingly badass at the same time.

Important Works:
Baoh - A young man has a parasite implanted in his brain by an evil organization. The parasite makes him immortal and allows him to transform into a beast. The organization plans to use him or world domination, but he has other plans... (This was available from Viz Media, but it now out of print.)

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure - I think I already gave the basics of JoJo. It's available in the states from Viz Media, but has only begun to release series three. It is currently unknown whether the earlier JoJo will or will not be released.

~Enter Rant:

Araki is fabulous~ FAAAAAABULOUS~! I have to say, out of the series I've read (only 1-3), my favorite has to be the latest, Steel Ball Run. It's so freaking awesome.

Here is a really cool lecture Araki gave a short while ago:
http://comipress.com/article/2006/06/30/387

I'm really, really, really sorry about not being able to show the rest of Giant Robo. I highly recommend buying it... you can buy it really cheap! In a poor attempt to make it up to you guys, I'll share the two OSTs with you guys. Just bring a CD or a flash drive to MnA or MnM, and I'll give them to you. If you like them though, please try to purchase them. They're also very cheap. =D

Lord of the Cosplay Gods' Scorn,
~Annaliese
"DIO DIO DIO DIO DIO DIO DIO DIO DIO"
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=== Minna no Anime: May 17 2008 ===
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Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 L/R: Licensed by Royalty (12): A Day in the Life
5:50 Break
5:55 The Law of Ueki (25): Resurrection! The Law of Mr. K
6:20 GUNxSWORD (25): Fool Comes by Armor
6:45 Break
6:50 Master Keaton (19): The Forbidden Fruit
7:15 Mushishi (25): Eye of Fortune, Eye of Calamity
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Otogi Zoshi (25): Kimon
8:35 Le Chevalier D'eon (22): NQM
9:00 Break
9:05 Birdy the Mighty (1): Double Trouble: Part 1
9:30 Birdy the Mighty (2): Double Trouble: Part 2
9:55 Break
10:00 Birdy the Mighty (3): Final Force: Part 1
10:25 Birdy the Mighty (4): Final Force: Part 2

[random babbling]
So...yeah. One week I forget the email entirely and the next I CC the list instead of BCCing it. Sorry guys, didn't mean for you to end up with the big clump of email addresses at the top of last week's email.

Also yes, I listed after hours this time. We're watching all of Birdy the Mighty this week.

Ugh, it's hot. Hooooooot. Sun, go awaaaaaay. It's so utterly ridiculous to be sitting in your apartment, DOING NOTHING, and sweating like a pig.

Anyway, weekend with my mom was fun. I picked up an audiobook of Dune and listened to the first three CDs while I drove home on Sunday night. Good thing too, because I didn't make it home until about 11pm and I was exhausted. I daresay that audiobook kept me awake and therefore kept me alive. It was especially bad because the 166 was PITCH BLACK. No moon, no stars, no nothing beyond my headlights. Scary.

In other news, whee, my senior project is pretty much done. I just have two half-hour demonstrations to do and that's it. I just finished the paper of doom today. What's that? You want to know how long it is? No? Well, I feel like bragging. Counting the cover page, TOC, bibliography, appendices, etcetc...64 pages.

Yes. You read right and I did not mistype.

Sixty. Four. Pages.

I'm tired.
[/random babbling]

Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
Minna no Anime Secretary

"Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was."
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=== Minna no Manga: 29 May 2008 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm, in 10-221. Fanime is over so... no practice?

~Those You Should Know: CLAMP

CLAMP began in 1989 as a twelve-person doujinshi (fan comic) group, but is now only four members. They first got their big start with RG Veda and have since published an incredible number of series.

Personally, I don't believe CLAMP has contributed much to the manga industry. I also think the quality of their works vary; some are truly breathtaking, some are recyclable material. I think that CLAMP's skill does not lie in their story telling or their art (which is often quite lovely), but their ability to create such a wide range of stories. Clamp School Detectives is bright and cheerful, while xxxHolic is dark and occasionally depressing. It's quite amazing that their artistic styles and storytelling styles can vary so much depending on the type of story they want to tell. That said, CLAMP's works are always popular and they have a enormous fanbase.

Important Works:
Card Captor Sakura - Probably the series that introduced most english-speaking manga fans to CLAMP, CCS tells the story of a girl who accidently releases a set of magical cards and has to capture them all. I have a crush on Yue.

Magic Knight Rayearth - Three girls get transported to a magical world where they must fight to protect it. I still have a crush on Eagle Vision. Oh, and don't watch the anime version. Please. Don't watch it.

Chobits - Appealing to a more male audience, Chobits is the tale of one man and the robotic girl he finds and falls in love with. I had a crush on— no, just kidding, in CLAMP's works, I only have crushes on Eagle and Yue.

X/1999 - The world as we know it will end in 1999. Kamui must decide which group to join, the Dragons of Earth or the Dragons of Heaven. One will protect the land, the other will protect the people.

Tsubasa-RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE - A group travels through different worlds in order to recover Sakura's memories, which are in the form of feathers. Each character has their issues, and has to overcome them to raise to the challenges presented throughout the series. Occasionally crosses over with xxxHolic and often involves CLAMP characters from other series.

xxxHolic - Watanuki attracts spirits and hates it. One day he stumbles into a strange shop where the shop owner offers to get rid of Watanuki's problem for a price—he basically becomes her housekeeper! Watanuki goes on missions for her, all the while encountering learning about different demons, spirits, and types of magic. Occasionally crosses over with Tsubasa-RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE.

My favorites (and the series I think are best) are xxxHolic and Legal Drug. xxxHolic, by far, I believe is CLAMP's most impressive work. The storytelling is very good and the art is breathtaking. Plus, I like demons and spirits, so it's a big bonus for me. Legal Drug isn't quite as good, but it has the same sort of feeling that xxxHolic does; a darker, slightly suspenseful touch with art that is very saturated in ink... many pages are soaked in black. I highly recommend both.

~Enter Rant:

FANIME! It was great! Minna no Nur-Puppy did very well and took Best Group Performance in the Masquerade. Thank-you to everyone who supported us!

We'll be signing up for our Tsurugi dinner this week. Remember, it's on June 8th at 7pm. Also remember that the Ergo Proxy contest and Law of Ueki contest entries are due on June 7th. That'll be a week from this upcoming Saturday.

[SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION] I'll be bringing Orichalcum, a comic anthology Nat and I created for our senior projects this week to Minna no Anime. It's an A5 size book, 151 pages, color cover with black and white interior pages. If anyone would like a copy, they'll be $10. Please don't try to get one for free, it'll make me feel bad, and I would really like to earn enough from this book to pay for its printing, because it cost me quite a bit of money. [OKAY IT IS OVER]

Lord of Shortly After Fanime is Finals? Oh Maaaaan!!,
~Annaliese
"China Dress Recognition System???"
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=== Minna no Anime: 31 May 2008 ===
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Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 L/R: Licensed by Royalty (13): Two Of Us
5:50 Break
5:55 The Law of Ueki (26): Terror! The Law of Anon
6:20 GUNxSWORD (26): Tuxedo Blowing in Tomorrow
6:45 Break
6:50 Mushishi (26): Sound of Stepping Grass
7:15 Otogi Zoshi (26): Minato
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Le Chevalier D'eon (23): Extremely Loved - Consequently
8:35 Break
8:40 Karas Disc 1: Karas Opens Its Eyes, Wheels of Flame, Destruction's Awakening

[random babbling]
Well, Fanime was pretty fun. Mostly. Some parts were almost unbearably annoying, but that's the story of my life.

School is winding down. Quickly. I'm really actually kind of swept away by the whole thing and I have a million tiny things I need to do, like calling the utilities and letting them know we're moving.

Schedule's all funky again this week. No Keaton and we're watching the first disc of Karas. The reason there's a break after D'eon is because the two discs of Karas are kind of more like tiny movies in their own right. There really aren't any episode delineations that you can easily spot; the episodes just run right into each other without a break. But yeah, Karas is truly awesome. You should all stay to watch it. ^_^

Geh. I have to go to my senior project meeting soon. and then I have to go home and finish my lab for class. >_o I am not looking forward to this. At all.
[/random babbling]

Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
Minna no Anime Secretary

"You look like a bear wearing a marshmallow."
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=== Minna no Manga: 5 June 2008 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm. This will be our last meeting of the year! T^T

Don't forget! This week in Minna no Anime we'll be having our "Bring Your Buddy to Minna" day with fabulous prizes. We'll also be collecting entries and announcing the winners of the Law of Ueki and Ergo Proxy contests, which have even more fabulous prizes. Trust me, they're worth it.

~Those You Should Know:

This week, I'm just going to list a bunch of random series that I think are cool and you should read. I don't think I've talked about these before, but who knows?

-Violinist of Hameln by Watanabe Michiake - A group of travelers head northward to defeat the demon armies in the north. Only... the main character, Hamel is a jerk, another character, Raiel, has major problems around girls, and the main female character is ruthlessly used by Hamel. I'd say the character with the most sense is the Oboe, the crow. Oh, did I mention that Hamel and Raiel fight with magic music? The series gives out heavy doses of crack while still managing to keep up with a dramatic story line. Protip: Don't watch the anime.

-Verdant Lord (Midori no Ou) by Takashige Hiroshi and Soga Atsushi - In the future, we don't have to worry about deforestation, because Mother Nature is fighting back. Flora have taken over cities and huge plant creatures named Arethusa rampage through the lands while scientists race to find some way to defeat the onslaught of nature. When Shin Souma visits his brother, he discovers a group of children being held for military means. He frees the children when an Arethusa attacks the base, but is severely injured in the process. His brother injects him with some DNA from an Arethusa and forces Shin down a long and hard path of slowly losing his humanity as he becomes a plant creature himself. Oh man, it's so good. So freaking good. There are any scanlations and it's not licensed, but it's worth it to read the raw Japanese volumes. The artist pays such incredible attention to Shin's slow transformation, you can see little tiny parts of him change from page to page. It's really neat. The art is gorgeous and (as far as I can understand the raws,) the story is interesting. Protip: If you're a plant person, don't stand in one place too long. You'll grow roots.

-Darren Shan by Darren Shan and Arai Takahiro - Darren Shan is a manga series based off of the popular english book series by the same title. It follows, that's right, Darren Shan through his life as a human and part of his life as a vampire. The original books are a lot of fun (I know I've talked about them before), and the manga have entertained me just as much. They're really nothing spectacular, but lots of fun. The way the manga is plotted makes it very easy to figure out what part of the books it is in. Every volume of manga is one book of the series. So, because the Darren Shan series is twelve books, the manga should be twelve volumes. Protip: "The Purge" is not some disgusting bodily function, it transforms shotaish boys into legal boys. And makes me feel less guilty.

-Tegami Bachi (Letter Bee) by Asada Hiroyuki - Letter Bees are couriers who deliver letters and packages all over the dangerous land, Amber Ground, a land of eternal night. The story follows Lag in his quest to become a Letter Bee and find Guche, the Letter Bee who saved and inspired him. First off, dear gods, this series is gorgeous. Second, dear gods, Lag is so cute (he sort of reminds me of Jacuzzi too!). Third, dear gods, this is a series about couriers so it's not wonder I love it so much. Letter Bees get partners called Dingos that help them in their missions. It's really fun to see all the different Dingos. But, I like Lag's best. Guche's Dingo was cool too. Protip: Guns are useless without the right emotions to fire them.

-Banya: The Explosive Delivery Man by Kim Young Oh - Thinking of good courier series, let's talk about Banya. The world is filled with monsters, but never fear, even through the deadliest forests, your mail will be delivered. The story revolves around Banya, his past, and his deliveries. I can't go into much detail without spoiling anything, so I'll let you read it to find out more. I will say this though, if you're thinking that this is just some peaceful little story about couriers, you're dead wrong. Banya is probably one of the bloodiest series to sit on my shelves. Also on that note, if you can't handle bloody series, this is not one for you. Protip: The mail will always be delivered.

-The Bride of the Water God by Yoon Mi-Kyung - Following the manwha trail, let's talk about gods. In order to bring an end to a long drought, Soah is sacrificed to the Water God Habaek. She's in for quite a surprise when the Water God not only saves her, but takes care of her. Now Soah's new life begins in the Water Kingdom. Not only is the art amazing and the story incredible, but Dark Horse has a beautiful release of the first volume out now (Dark Horse also had nice releases of Banya). Protip: Don't anger gods.

-Karakuri Circus by Fujita Kazuhiro - Okay, sorry, I'm getting tired. Here's a copied description from Blackout. "The protagonist, Masaru, has just inherited a big fortune after the death of his father. However, people are trying to get their hands on it by any means necessary, even if it means killing him. Narumi helped Masaru from being kidnapped after fighting some weird guys. He found out that they're not humans but wooden puppets with amazing strength. After a hard fight, Narumi was forced to admit that he's no opponent for them; and just when he started to think that Masaru would be captured, Shirogane, Masaru's watcher arrives from France with a weapon, the puppet Arlequin. Here, begins the story of Karakuri Circus." What can I say? I really like clockwork/puppet/geared things. I was familiar with this mangaka because he is the creator of Ushio and Tora, but Karakuri Circus blew me away. Like Ushio and Tora, Karakuri CIrcus is drawn with a very rough, almost scattered style. It really helps portray the heavy emotions throughout the series. The story is very, very strange. The description above is just the tip of the iceberg. Throughout the 43 volume series, so much happens to each of the characters, it might take a quarter's worth of MnM e-mails just to explain it all. If you have the time, definitely give this one a shot. It may not grab you at first, but give it a little time and I'm sure it'll grow on you. Protip: Maybe replacing you arm with puppet's arm isn't the best idea.

Well, I think that's good. I'm sure I could find many more series to talk about, but I've blathered on long enough, Frankly, if you've read all the way through to here I'm quite impressed.

~Enter Rant:

So, this is my last Minna no Manga e-mail. I'm quite saddened by this. I hope you guys enjoyed my rambling for the last four years! I wish I could go on for another four, but it's time to pass the baton and for me to face that scary thing called "the real world."

I wish you all the best of luck! Have a great summer! (I'll be back to bug everyone soon enough, heh heh heh...)

Lord of Nightly Dances and Ghostly Shadows,
~Annaliese
"Provoke the new era, become a big terror, but my only rival is my shadow"
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=== Minna no Anime: 7 June 2008 ===
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Minna no Anime meets this Saturday from 5-10pm in 3-213 (the Silo).

This week's schedule:

5:00 Le Chevalier D'eon (24): Origin of the Word
5:25 Break
5:30 Master Keaton (38): Hunting Season Part 1
5:55 Master Keaton (39): Hunting Season Part 2
6:20 Break
6:25 Karas Disc 2: The Human Otoha, The Fantastic District, The True Legend
7:55 Dinner Break
8:25 Tales From Earthsea

Other announcements:
*Don't forget the Tsurugi dinner this Sunday! If you are not on the list, then please DO NOT show up. Sorry, but that's the way it goes, guys.
*Also don't forget the Ueki and Ergo Proxy contests; all entries must be submitted BEFORE the dinner break!
*Ueki contest: What is your power and limiter, and what are your last two zai/talent?
*Ergo Proxy contest: What are you the Emissary of? What is/was your city like? How did/will you get rid of the people? Finally, what will you do when Ergo comes a'knocking?
*FINALLY, don't forget Bring a Buddy to Club Day. Bringing buddies will get you entered into a raffle for free stuff!

[random babbling]
Wow. It feels...really weird to say it guys, but this is my last weekly email. Ever.

I'm really looking forward to graduating. I've been looking forward to it for a while, actually. I think the appeal of school finally wore off to the point that going to classes was just painful. But even if it was distinctly un-fun at times, I always had club.

I've been coming to Minna no Anime for the past five years of my life, which is really pretty much longer than I've ever dedicated myself to anything other than breathing and writing. I've met a lot of really cool people in those five years, and a lot of them were through club. The people you meet shape who you are, I think, more than anything else except total catastrophes. I feel like I've really become a very different person because of club than I ever would have been if I hadn't started attending.

I want to thank you guys for being fun, interesting, and most of all for being my friends. For those of you who met me when I first started coming to club: thanks for talking to me when I was a shy little freshman huddled silently in a chair by myself. And when sophomore year hit and I started coming out of my shell, thanks to everyone who encouraged me and helped me figure out who I was and what, exactly, I had to say.

Now, at the risk of becoming all teary-eyed, I should probably stop there. I'll be at the meeting Saturday, of course, and at Tsurugi on Sunday. I'll see you guys there. And even though I'm heading off to Phoenix to join the world of life after college, I'll make sure to keep in touch.

Take care of yourselves; I wish you all the best of luck in everything you do.
[/random babbling]

Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
Minna no Anime Secretary

"Closing time
Time for you to go out to the places you will be from.
Closing time
This room won't be open 'til your brothers or your sisters come.
So gather up your jackets, move it to the exits
I hope you have found a friend.
Closing time
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."
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2006-2007 Emails

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== Fall 2006 ==
=== Minna no Anime Saturday, September 30th ===
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HI! Welcome to the new school year! Welcome back to all our returning
members and a big IRRASSHAI to our new freshmeats! I mean freshmen! Yes!
You're not edible at all..
Our schedule for the first meeting is really great; we worked hard on it,
so I hope you like it!
5:00: Fansub of the Week
5:25: Honey & Clover Episode 1: "... ... I just saw the moment when a
person falls in love for the first time. Oh boy... ..."
5:55 Vandred Episode 1: Boy Meets Girl
6:20 Kyou Kara Maoh Episode 27: Conrad's Arm
6:50 Mai HIME Episode 1: That is A Serious Matter for a Maiden
7:15 Princess Tutu Episode 1: Akt 01 - Kapitel des Eies: Ahiru and the
Prince ~ Der Nu_knacker: Blumenwalzer
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Heat Guy J Episode 1: Guy
8:35 Gankutsuou Episode 1: At the End of Our Travels, We Meet
9:05 Mermaid Forest Episode 1: A Mermaid Never Smiles
9:30 Speed Grapher Episode 1: The Corrupt City
After Hours: I don't want to know. (in other words, I hope you REALLY like
Urusei Yatsura and/or Cutie Honey)

Daniella here: Wow you guys! I remember last year I was just a little
freshman coming to the first club meeting (after not having one in high
school) and being so excited. And I'm STILL excited to come to club.
Honestly, I have found such great friends at Minna. I love you guys.

But enough about me! Let's hear more about me (your secretary if you don't
know me already and the other officers this year! We have 5 lovely ladies
and 1 guy. So I would expect a lot of fan girlish screaming.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v221/djmija/anime%20club/P1010800-1.jpg
First we have Annaliese, the most beautiful president in the world and
Graphic Arts major. Really, honestly, she's gorgeous. I found her picture
in an old Teen Vogue where they were dressing up these hot new models. She
may not look it but she's really a budding supermodel with a passion for
Detective Conan. She's also a part of one of the most awesome manga
circles ever to hit California, the 5 Pants Kicking Board Club. You'll see
her doodles on the doors of the silo every week. YES, she draws new ones
every single week and maintains a web comic at http://ensuing.comicgen.com
which I need to remember to start reading again.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v221/djmija/anime%20club/P1010803.jpg
Next we have Jenn, our vice president and resident Comp Sci major. I'm not
sure what she loves as obsessively as Annaliese loves Detective Conan, but
she loves it just as obsessively as Annaliese loves Detective Conan. (News
break: she apparently likes CLAMP's newer stuff a lot) Jenn's actually
really scary. I wouldn't cross her path, seriously. She could rip your
heart out through your eyeball! She's worse than the Bride!!! No, don't
let that squishy exterior fool you, my friends, she's a killing MACHINE
worse than Chuck Norris. If you ever hear her talking about orphans, she's
not talking coding, those are the kids whose parents she's killed.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v221/djmija/anime%20club/P1010802.jpg
Then we have Audrey, the treasurer and a business major. At least I think
she's a business major. She may actually be some kind of accounting or
finance major but it has something to do with the business school. She's a
really awesome girl. I should know, I spent all of last year nearly
attached to her hip. She changes her hair color a lot and almost went bald
last year because she kind of over did it with the bleach. Girl didn't
even remember her original hair color! She works at Ralph's where you
should never shop because she'll poison everything you buy. No really, I
was there last week and the canned tuna I bought made me so sick.(Just
kidding of course, There's nothing wrong with Ralph's I think)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v221/djmija/venusdemilo.jpg Next there's
me, Daniella, the club secretary, photographer and journalism major. I'm
19, sexy and single. (Hint, hint.) I like movies, shoujo manga, and
singing while no one's listening. (aka karaoke) I speak about 4 languages
but I can't promise much in anything but English. Unless it's the dirty
words, I know ALL the dirty words. I will cook for whoever gives me back
massages. Freshmen, you might want to think about that one, you have no
idea how much campus dining sucks yet. Or maybe you do but you definitely
don't know how sick you are of it yet. I also should be maintaining my own
web comic at http://loverseden.comicgenesis.com , but I kind of left all
my inking pens at home ::sob::

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v221/djmija/anime%20club/P1010804.jpg
Second to last is Holly, our librarian. I don't know what major she is
because she keeps changing it. At this rate she probably will never
graduate, but she's a sweet girl! And possibly more hyper than me! Which
says a lot. I lived with her sister last year in Trinity; really sweet
girls, both of them. Holly, how's your sister doing anyways? Tell her I
say hi! She's also the only officer that it's officially taken. (That I
know of anyways, met the boyfriend. We approve.) That's right; you don't
even get to try boys! You'll just have to take your pick from the sexier
remaining female officers!

Last, but certainly not least is Brian, the webmaster.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v221/djmija/anime%20club/Gunter025.jpg
I don't know much about Brian. Don't think I've talked to him much, but
DAMN HE'S HOT! I know for a fact that all the officers want to jump in his
pants. Too bad he's apparently ga- Just kidding, you shouldn't really
believe anything I say in this email. Let's hope that he does a good job
on the website and doesn't kill me for this!

My parting gift to you is a group photo of your highly attractive and very
loving officers taken at the WOW club fair or carnival or block party,
whatever you kids call it these days.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v221/djmija/anime%20club/P1010808.jpg

That's all for now! See you Saturday! (Sorry for the long winded post!)

Daniella
djmiajluv@<removed>.com

P.S. You will hear about a secret meeting called Minna no Manga, you will
go because it is awesome and you'll make tons of friends there and because
you secretly want to get into the Illuminati of Minna no Anime.
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=== Minna no Manga, 10/05/06 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm, in 21-204. That's Engineering
West, I believe, but don't quote me on it.

Recommendation of the Week: Nazo no Murasame-kun by Itoumi Kio

Kunai is a regular high school student, at least that's what he'd like
people to think. In reality, he is the son of the top spy in Japan and is
well versed in ninja techniques. His father swears Kunai to secrecy, and
well, if anyone finds out about his abilities... his dad won't think twice
about offing him! Now Kunai must save lives and kick butt... without
getting seen!

Do you like Harry Potter? Do you like ninjas? Then read this series. Okay,
okay, there is no magic in it, but Kunai looks like Harry Potter. If Harry
Potter was a ninja. Anyway, the story is a lot of fun, the characters and
interesting and the art is pretty cool. Kunai is always using his... kunai
for his attacks and abilities and it's always fun to see what he'll use
them to do next. This series was a really good replacement after the
Naruto manga started getting boring. I don't want to step on anyone's
toes, but I think most people will be hard pressed to say the that series
has unfortunately been going downhill lately. No, no, I liked it a lot
when it was good (I've got the fanart and the Temari costume to prove
it... hell, I even have one of the headbands hanging off my monitor), but
now it just feels like Kishimoto is pulling stuff out of the air. But you
know, bad air. I hope it goes back to being cool soon. I'm not here to
talk about Naruto though, I'm here to talk about Nazo no Murasame-kun, so
back to that. Hmmmmm... It's cool, it's.... really cool.... and you should
read it.

Nazo no Murasame-kun is about 15 chapters long and runs in Weekly Shounen
Jump. The first volume is out in Japan. Scanlations are available from
Jump-Scanlations.

~Enter the Rant:

Not much to say, life has been pretty cool lately. I'm finally getting
around to watching Dokkoida, and I'm loving it. The menus on the DVDs are
probably the best I've ever seen.

~Download Download Download:

Sorry guys, I have to say this to cover my tail. These files are for
sample only. Please delete after 24 hours. If you like what you hear,
please buy the CD.

Hateshinaku Tooi Sora Ni
b
The Stand Up- This is opening for Kyou Kara Maou. Do you want to be like
the cool kids and be able to sing along? Now you'll be able to! Yay!

http://www.sendspace.com/file/o4f8io

O-tsuki Sama
b
The Stand Up- Another song by The Stand Up. I can't tell you why I like
it, but I do. ^_^

http://www.sendspace.com/file/33wex3

Hope to see you at Minna no Manga!

Baker Street Irregular,
~Annaliese
"She can blowdart people... TO DEATH!"-Chloe, Sorcerous Stabber Orphen:
Revenge
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=== Minna no Anime, Saturday, October 7th 2006 ===
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Ohayo!
Here's this week's schedule!

5:00: Fansub of the Week
5:25: Honey & Clover Episode 2. I panicked a little when I saw
Hagu-chan... ... hey, wait" The two affections start to turn
5:55 Vandred Episode 2. And... I've Lost My Way
6:20 Kyou Kara Maoh Episode 28. A Brutal Reunion
6:50 Mai HIME Episode 2. Secrets After School
7:15 Princess Tutu Episode Akt 02 - Kapitel des Eies: Pieces of the Heart
~ Schwanensee: Schne finale
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Heat Guy J Episode 2.War
8:35 Gankutsuou Episode 2. Until the Sun Rises on the Moon
9:05 Mermaid Forest Episode 2. The Village of Fighting Fish (part one)
9:30 Speed Grapher Episode 2. Groaning Banknotes, Moaning Sack of Money
After Hours: I STILL don't want to know. (Please tell me its not LUM)

Club News: The first Minna no Manga of the year. Thursday 6-10pm Blg. 21
Room 304.You should come because its awesome and because I say so.

Pay your dues! If you pay your $5 you get discounts on stuff and access to
a gigantic library for less than you would pay to rent that many anime
elsewhere! I mean other than the obvious: this is how we get awesome stuff
for you to watch, you know you want to get my emails!

We have a facebook group! Join at:
http://calpoly.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2211151881 and invite your MnA
friends!

If you have any questions, don't reply to this email address. My personal
email is at the end and you can bug me all you want on that one.

D's rantings:

So my teachers are a little homework happy yes? Maybe I wasn't trying hard
enough last year, but I feel as if I am just that much more busy.
Maybe it's the extra time needed to walk to classes from Cerro Vista.
Maybe it's the blisters I got from walking to an interview in heels. (Ow
T_T)
Maybe it's the feature writing class that I don't have junior standing
for.
Maybe it's the column proposal I'm writing so I can get on the Mustang
Daily staff.
Maybe it's because I have to write this email! (Nah, I actually really
like writing this)

Anyways, I feel jam packed. But I'm really looking forward to Minna no
Manga, (my official weekend starter since I'm in my 4th quarter without
Friday classes) And to my weekend, which seems to be jam packed with
awesome. I must have a lot of jam around somewhere.

Also, I'm starting to get my webcomic, Eden, up off the ground so check it
out! (http://loverseden.comicgenesis.com) Its totally
work/school/home-safe. (for now.)

Yours Truly,
Daniella
djmijaluv@<removed>.com
AIM: <removed>
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=== Minna no Manga 10/12/06 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm in 21-204. All the cool kids come.

Recommendation of the Week: Nabari no Ou by Yuhki Kamatani

Ninjas in modern day Japan! Average student Miharu finds out one day that
he is the embodiment of the "Shinranbansho,"a secret art that is said to
be able to control the world. In a move that should surprise no one,
members of the ninja community that know of this hijitsu's power go after
Miharu. In order to protect himself from his own power and the ninjas
after him, he must learn the skill and abilities of the ninjas and ally
himself with the forces of good.

"Forces of good?" Sorry, that makes the series sound lame. Basically, he
teams up with a classmate, a crazy samurai girl, and his teacher. The
group has great chemistry, and even in the darkest situations one of them
will do something that makes me laugh. Well, almost. There are some really
dark times. The characters really are awesome and the story is a lot of
fun. This is probably my favorite ninja series. And the art! Oh, the art!
It's gorgeous. I was using Nabari no Ou wallpapers and displaying Nabari
no Ou pencil boards in my room way before I started reading the series.

Anywhooooo, check this series out, I doubt you'll be disappointed. There
are four volumes out in Japan. It runs monthly in GanGan Fantasy. The
first four chapters have been scanlated by Timcanpi.

~Enter Rant:

I'm not too fond of my art class. It's a lot of work and a lot of
pressure. but I'm too tired to complain about it today.

I hope to see everyone at five on Saturday to see our fansub. I'm so
excited to show it!! I'm so in love with this show it's driving me mad.
Mad I tell you! So please show up and check it out.

Baker Street Irregular,
~Annaliese, ensuing@<removed>.com
"They come forth along with the blue will o' the wisps... the 901
Anti-Tank Troopers..."
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=== Minna no Anime, Saturday October 14th 2006 ===
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This week's schedule:
5:00: Fansub of the Week
5:25: Honey & Clover Episode 3: Hey. Why me?" These were two unrequited
loves
5:55 Vandred Episode 3: This is the Path I Choose to Live
6:20 Kyou Kara Maoh Episode 29: A Hair-raising Prologue
6:50 Mai HIME Episode 3: A Hair-raising Prologue
7:15 Princess Tutu Episode 3: Akt 03 - Kapitel des Eies: A Princess`s Oath
~ Dornrvschen: Panorama
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Heat Guy J Episode 3: Bomb
8:35 Gankutsuou Episode 3: 5/22, Tempest
9:05 Mermaid Forest Episode 3: The Village of Fighting Fish (part two)
9:30 Speed Grapher Episode 3: Death by Photo, Murderous Photography,
Explosive Photography
After Hours: Well you'll just have to wait and see won't you?

Club News:
-Minna no Manga is Thursday 6-10pm Blg. 21 Room 304. You should come
because it's awesome and because I say so.
-Pay your dues! If you pay your $5 you get discounts on stuff and access
to a gigantic library for less than you would pay to rent that many anime
elsewhere! C'mon you know you want to get my emails!
-We have a facebook group! Join at:
http://calpoly.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2211151881 and invite your MnA
friends!
-If you have any questions, don't reply to this email address. My personal
email is at the end and you can bug me all you want on that one.

Bitch, Rant, Bitch:

Ok this might be a little personal for some of you. If you don't want to
really hear me whine, I suggest not reading further. (except for the part
about my online Mustang Daily column every Friday, check it out.) If you
haven't heeded my warning and you don't like it, tell ME not someone else
and don't say I didn't warn you

Let's start out with the fact that I have NO energy. There was someone I
wanted to talk to at club last Saturday but I was feeling so exhausted
that I just couldn't bring myself to do it. You know that's a bad thing
when someone as out there as me cannot bring myself to talk to someone I
really want to talk to.
I know why I'm so tired. I have a lot on my plate.
The column, my classes which all involve writing (save bowling which just
makes writing painful) and this.

Then there's my friends. Buttloads of my friends are dating. I'm not.
Seeing them make out in front of me is NOT fun because it makes me want a
guy of my own. I'd be totally cool with it if they just stopped molesting
each other in front of me. I would like someone to snuggle with, but I'm
here for my Bachelors, not my M.R.S. degree. (For my friends, I love you
and your snuggle buddies and all, but you could tone it down, please?)

The worst thing is I'm so shy around guys. I got dumped and rejected
really badly before college and while I'm over the boy, I'm still afraid
that any guy that I like will totally just reject me. I know none of you
can tell because I'm so boisterous, but that's me trying not to be shy, I
promise. It takes all my courage to ask a guy out let alone tell one that
I like them.

I'm sorry the personal-ness of this piece. Don't worry about me. Sometimes
you just got to bitch about things to feel better.

Yours Truly,
Daniella
djmijaluv@<removed>.com
AIM: <removed>
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Manga 10/26/06 ===
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Uhhhhh, it looks like polylog1 (aka, the thing we go through to send e-mails) is still down,
so I'm just going ot post the weekly MnM e-mail here. Oh boy oh boy!
_________

Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm, in 21-204.

~HALLOWEEN SCHEDULE:
(please remember these times are approximate!)
12-Anime starts in the silo
3-Trivia begins
6-Anime Eyes
7-Dinner (Karaoke starts!)
8-Anime Eyes Finals, Trivia Finals
9:30-AMVs, Pumpkin Carving judging (If you bring your carved pumpkin, talk to one of
the officers, we can store it for you until the judging)
10-Cosplay
10:30-Awards

There will be DDR all day! There will be Guilty Gear and there may be a GG tournament.
We'll probably have some controllers, but you may want to bring your own joystick. =D

~Recommendation of the Week: Pumpkin Scissors by Ryoutarou Iwanaga

You should have seen the first episode of this a few weeks back when we showed it for
Fansub O'. The anime follows the manga pretty well so far, so the story is the same.
Randal Orland, formally of the 901 Anti-Tank Troopers joins the war relief unit Pumpkin
Scissors three years after a devastating war. Orland blows tanks up. It's AWESOME.

As it usually goes, at least for me, I like the manga better than than anime. That's saying a
lot for this series because I adore the anime. The manga has a nice art and a steady pace.
The manga toys with my emotions. Sure, I love it when Orland turns on that crazy lantern
and goes all crazy, but it makes my heart ache to see the mental torture he goes through
because of it. These scenes are drawn in a very different style... Orland becomes a mass of
moving darkness, with only his eyes and scar glowing. It's quite powerful. The characters
are all delightful and I've come to love their little quirks. Orland with his slight slouch,
Alice with her extreme sense of justice, Oreld and his love of the ladies, Machs with his
timidness, Stekkin with her silly songs, and Mercury (the courier dog) with his random
biting of people's heads. If I had to say anything bad about this series, it would be two
little things. First, the art seems a little iffy at the beginning. Don't get me wrong, it's still
good, it's just a couple bits here and there look... off. Second, the color pages aren't great.
I'm not a fan of the colors chosen. But hey, if those two little things are the only bad
things...

There are five volumes of Pumpkin Scissors out in Japan. Volume six comes out in
December. No groups have released any scanlated chapters yet.

~Enter Rant:

I just turned in my first project in ART131. Finally. I think I spent about 50 hours on that
thing. @_@ Good thing the next one seems pretty simple.

I bought Jak 3 on Sunday. I'm really enjoying it, but I keep killing poor Jak. I don't mean to,
but the game is pretty difficult. I think by the end, I'm going to be really good at jumping
and driving. Dark Jak and Light Jak are really, really awesome. I want to draw them.

Baker Street Irregular,
~Annaliese
"Percursors, I've got it! Ah'mna Jak you up."
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Manga 11/02/06 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm, in 21-204. We may move from room to room,
but we'll be in the general area. And obviously we STILL can't send out messages through
polylog1. Curses!

I hope everyone had a good time at the Halloween party! I know I did. ^_^

Ugh, I'm tired. I'd write something about some manga series, but I'm feeling pretty out of it
and am trying to get the full Halloween 2k6 Set on Gaia Online. Curse that site! I joined so I
could do something when I reached "the end of the internet," but now I am one of the
millions that just has to get that certain shirt or hat. Just 3k more gold before I can get my
Shadow Spirit! *shame*

Remember that we're in the little room in Fisher Science again this week for Minna no Anime!
We should get the bigger room in two weeks.

Baker Street Irregular,
~Annaliese
"Help me believe, it's not the real me, someone help me tame this animal"
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Anime, Saturday, Nov. 4 2006 ===
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Hi guys! Sorry about the lack of my emails. Things have beenw weird
with polylog1, as you know, and I've been horridly busy. Still am
actually.

IMPORTANTE! This week we will be in FISCHER SCIENCE not the silo
thats building 33 room 287. DO NOT GO TO THE SILO WE WILL NOT BE
THERE!

5:00 Fansub O' Week
5:25 Honey and Clover Episode5. "... ... Yeah... ... I'm
home... ..." Thinking of mother back home
5:55 Vandred Episode 5. Sweet Temptation
6:20 Kyou Kara Maoh Episode 31. Land's End
6:50 Mai HIME Episode 5. Rain--. Tears.....
7:15 Princess Tutu Episode 5. Akt 05 - Kapitel des Eies: On the Eve
of the Fire Festival ~ Bilder einer Ausstellung: Die Katakomben
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Heat Guy J Episode 5. Doll
8:35 Gankutsuou Episode 5. Do you love your betrothed?
9:05 Mermaid Forest Episode 5. Mermaid's Forest (part two)
9:30 Speed Grapher Episode 5. Madam Diamond
After Hours: Don't know, don't care.

Rant:
Right now. I'm really hating writing. I mean its really cool that my
Media Law professor pushed back our midterm and term paper due date,
but that essentially gives me three days to write an 8 page profile
for my Feature Writing class (which I have to do massive research
about my subject for) and about two for my column. And how can I use
the weekend for wrting anything but studying for the midterm and
writing the term paper?

I'm one of those people who don't find writing to be hard. Whats
hard is writing so much in so little time thats stressful. So whats
a girl to do?

Go out.

I work well under pressure. The less time I have to do things, the
less I stress out and do other things to calm myself down. And of
course its not good for me, but hey it works.

Daniella
Don't bother me until next Thursday, please for the love of Yaoi.

Read my column tommorrow at www.mustangdaily.net (its called how to
survive and you can find it on the navigation bar on the left side)
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Manga 11/09/06 ===
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(Guess what I still can't log onto~)

Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm in 21-204. Last week I played Pokémon and
read about moon bunnies.

~Recommendation of the Week: Over Time by Amano Youichi

"A lazy ass kind of a baseball player, Taro, and A very serious crazy baseball player,
Takami, that want to make it to the top. They cross paths on a bus that crashes. Takami
dies and Taro lives. Taro visits Takami's grave and sees Takami's ghost. His ghost tells
Taro to take him to the koshien and fulfill his dream." (from Jump-Scanlations)

Koshien is the stadium where the Nation high School Baseball Championships are played
every August, fyi.

This is a pretty awesome series. I'm a big baseball fan, so this series really appeals to me. I
love the art, it's got this awesome rough edge to it and the characters are very distinct.
The story-telling seems a little iffy at the beginning, but it really seems to be getting it
together. If you like sports series, this is one that your shouldn't miss!

The color spread from the first chapter makes a nifty wallpaper too! Please try to ignore
the wrinkles in it, I didn't notice them when I was cleaning it for wallpaper use! U_U;;

(OverTime.jpg=1.3 megs)
http://img459.imageshack.us/img459/1133/overtimecc6.jpg

The first six chapters are available for download from Jump-Scanlations, and the series
runs in Weekly Shounen Jump.

~Enter Rant:
I ran out of work for Viz a number of weeks ago. The translator and I must have been
working overtime or something, because suddenly we were just out of volumes to work
on. I asked my editor about the script and due dates for the next volume, and she just got
the from the higher-ups last week. You'll never guess when. ....August. The next volume is
due in late August, 2007. The translator's work isn't due until almost June, so I have a
good seven months of no work. Ouch. The extra time is very nice, but the lack of money is
not. I've put in a request for more work from them, so maybe, maaaayyybbbeee I'll get
something good to work on. Then again, I don't know if you can get much worse than my
current series (knock on wood). Please wish me luck!

Ah, don't you hate it when suddenly all your teachers have big assignments for you?
Papers, projects, reports.... ugh. I wonder if there is some schedule.... "5th week:
Midterms; 6th Week: More Midterms; 7th Week: Big Projects/Reports/Papers; 8th Week:
Laugh." Well, it could me worse!

Baker Street Irregular,
~Annaliese, ensuing@<removed>.com
"Learn what you can from the beasts you defeat, you'll need it for some of the people
you'll meet."
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Anime, Saturday, November 11, 2006 ===
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Hi guys! Polylog1 is STILL DOWN so yeah whoever told us it
wasn't ::shakes fist::

IMPORTANTE! This week we will be in FISCHER SCIENCE not the silo!
Thats building 33 room 287. DO NOT GO TO THE SILO WE WILL NOT BE
THERE! If you don't know where the hell it is LOOK ON A MAP!

5:00: Fansub of the Week
5:25: Honey & Clover Episode 6. "... ... Hey, Yamada, how come you
fell in love with a guy like me?" The past, the tears, the confession
5:55 Vandred Episode 6. What a Wonderful World
6:20 Kyou Kara Maoh Episode 32. The Key to the Fragmented Memories
6:50 Mai HIME Episode 6. The Burning Age of 17 (^^;)
7:15 Princess Tutu Episode 6. Akt 06 - Kapitel des Eies: Aurora
Dreaming ~ Dornröschen: Prolog
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Heat Guy J Episode 6. Money
8:35 Gankutsuou Episode 6. Her Gloom, My Gloom
9:05 Mermaid Forest Episode 6. The End of the Dream
9:30 Speed Grapher Episode 6. Goodbye, Madam Diamond

Rant:
So my week of hell is over. Which is nice, but one of my deadlines
got pushed to Monday. Which is cool because that article was
seriously in need of work. But you know…. I thought it was all
over…. Oh well

And then my parents are going to be coming on Saturday. (With my
puppy! Yay!) There's nothing wrong with that but it kinda cuts into
my relax time and my homework time and I just know they're going to
be all up in my face about someone I went on a date with. >_<
God having Jewish parents sucks….. but then again I don't think I'd
want my real father (long story) instead of them. Whatever.

My week of hell was made even more hellish by my fish, Slim, dying
last Friday. I had two and she was my favorite. I was bawling, I'm
sure you all saw me be a little sulky at Anime club last week.
That's pretty much why…
T_T It still makes me sad. My poor little baby! I think my dad's
going to get me a new fish, which will be great. My other fish,
Wandsworth, is sulking too, so I think it'll be better for him to
have a companion as well.

I know I whine in these emails a lot, but I haven't really been
having the best life ever these past couple weeks so please bear
with me. I'm not the type to remain all sad and go emo anyways. ^_^

Ooo there's a Del-ray manga sale o_o ::scampers away::

Daniella
AIM: <removed>
Email: djmijaluv@<removed>.com
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Manga 11/16/06 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 5-10pm, in 21-204... but we'll probably move to 21-238
early on, since it is open and larger.

~Recommendation of the Week: ...

I'm fighting off some sort of sickness or something, and I can't think of anything I'd like to
recommend this week. Besides the Jak games. Oh baby, those games are really addicting. I
need to find some people who also love these games so I can fangirl to them and stop
bothering my roommates. ^_~

~Enter Rant:

See above. =3

Baker Street Irregular.
~Annaliese, ensuing@<removed>.com
"Hey! they have pants!"
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Anime Saturday, November 18, 2006 ===
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Hi guys!

IMPORTANTE! This week we will be in FISCHER SCIENCE not the silo!
Thats building 33 room 287. DO NOT GO TO THE SILO WE WILL NOT BE
THERE! If you don't know where the hell it is LOOK ON A MAP!

5:00: Fansub of the Week
5:25: Honey & Clover Episode 7 "Hagu, let's go together" We look for
a miracle
5:55 Vandred Episode 7 Easy Life
6:20 Kyou Kara Maoh Episode 33 Extreme Run! A Race in the Snow
6:50 Mai HIME Episode 7 The Lost Kittens
7:15 Princess Tutu Episode 7 Akt 07 - Kapitel des Eies: Raven
Princess ~ An der schönen blauen Donau
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Heat Guy J Episode 7 Circulation
8:35 Gankutsuou Episode 7 The Secret Nectar of the Flower Garden
9:05 Mermaid Forest Episode 7 Sacred Bone Princess
9:30 Speed Grapher Episode 7 Bizarre Drills

Rant:
::sighs:: It was so nice to have some time where nothing
particularly pressing was due. Sooo nice.

Anyways. I'm sure you've heard about Annaliese (and Jenn?) having
husbands and wives. Well I've found mine.

Everyone, meet Izark!
http://www.geocities.com/coolancelot/image/p21.jpg
Mmmm sekushi! So sexy, even Annaliese wants him. But no, he's mine.
He's even sexy as a monster!
http://www.geocities.com/coolancelot/image/p30.jpg

I met him a long time ago when I was teaching myself how to draw and
stealing pictures of the internet in order to do so. However this
was long long ago when I was still in middle school and the manga he
is in "From Far Away" was not yet published by Viz. I bought volume
one a long time ago, but since I was collecting other series and my
main manga source back at home kinda didn't stock it I didn't get a
chance to really get into it until now. Ooo I love it. I recommend
it to all of you. There's enough action to not make it a totally
sappy shoujo and enough romance to satisfy the shoujo fans. You
should read it. All of you. (Haha Annaliese, I have been into Izark
longer than you!)

And this is my wife: http://mana_shrine0.tripod.com/MM-Mana-Ice.jpg
Works out really well for me don't you think!! Ohohohohohohoho!

Anyways, read my column!
http://www.mustangdaily.net/media/storage/paper860/news/2006/11/17/Co
lumns/How-To.Survive.Getting.A.Date-2466228.shtml?
norewrite200611171755&sourcedomain=www.mustangdaily.net&&mkey=2370666

Its number two on the Mustang Daily website, lets make it NUMERO
UNO!

Daniella
AIM: <removed>
Email: djmijaluv@<removed>.com

More Izark sexy-ness:
http://www.geocities.com/coolancelot/image/p27.jpg

Mmmm yum.
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Manga 11/30/06 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm in 21-204. But not really. You know we'll
actually be spending most of the time in 21-238.

~Recommendation of the Week: My Cat Loki by Bettina Kurkoski

From the back: "As a child, Ameya had always considered his cat more a sibling than a pet.
As the years went by, their bond grew ever tighter. But the cay his feline "brother" died
was the day Ameya withdrew from the world.

Several years later, Ameya encountrs a drenched stray cat in the park. Little does he know
what fate has in store for him..."

My Cat Loki is an adorable tale about a bond between a cat and his owner. It's a gorgeous
tale that will be enjoyed by any cat lover. I've enjoyed Bettina's art for a long time, so
finally getting my hands on MCL made my day. Her art is gorgeous, filled with beautiful
details and fun little quirks. It's obvious that she loves these characters she's created. I
love watching Ameya being a huge dork while caring for Loki and Loki's great expressions
when dealing with Ameya. Each chapter cover is an amazing pencil drawing that never
cease to wow me. My only complaint is that a lot seems to be lost between her pencil
drawings and ink-and-tone comic pages. Well, that and the fact that I'll be waiting a while
before the next volume is released!

~Enter Rant:
Hope everyone had a great break! I spent most of mine watching my family have fun on
my brother's Wii and playing Phoenix Wright 2: Justice for All. The Wii is an amazing
gaming system! I can't wait to get one (and get Twilight Princess, but that goes without
saying). Phoenix Wright 2 is way too much fun. My sister, who was mocking me for playing
it the first half of the break ended up begging me to let her play it the second!
Unfortunately, with all the important game-playing, I didn't get any school work done!
Now I'm busy busy busy getting ready to turn in all sorts of papers and projects!

~Annaliese, ensuing@<removed>.com
"Meat and sarcasm, that's all I've got."
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=== [MNAMembers] MInna no Anime Saturday December 2, 2006 ===
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Hi guys! We're FINALLY BACK in the SILO. That's right. DON'T go to
the science building, GO TO THE SILO.

5:00: Fansub of the Week
5:25: Honey & Clover Episode 8 "Yeah... ... that's far... ..." I
couldn't leave you alone
5:55 Vandred Episode 8 Impossible!
6:20 Kyou Kara Maoh Episode 34 The Heated Battle of Colloseum!?
6:50 Mai HIME Episode 8 A Dearly Important Thing
7:15 Princess Tutu Episode 8 Akt 08 - Kapitel des Eies: The Fountain
of Warriors ~ Fantasie-Overtüre zu "Romeo und Julia"
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Heat Guy J Episode 8 Brother
8:35 Gankutsuou Episode 8 A Night in Boulogne
9:05 Mermaid Forest Episode 8 The Final Face (part one)
9:30 Speed Grapher Episode 8 Light of Kagura

Rant:
Oh man. My thanksgiving was a little crazy. Internet went down. Got
kidnapped and taken over the border by my parents to look at condos.
As if my parents didn't own enough property already… we might be
getting a condo in Rosarito Beach. Not that I really mind….I mean I
inherit all of that when they die. But that's the kind of stuff that
doesn't get me scholarships and stuff. (other than property my
family isn't really wealthy at all) And I'm the one who gets yelled
at for it. As if having too much money placed in investments is MY
fault. Other than that, looking at houses is just boring as fuck.

Luckily, I did get bribed. I got manga from my dad and A LOT of
clothes from my mom. Yay for clothes. Seriously. There's nothing I
like more than shopping and getting a bunch of cute new clothes.
Well nothing except shopping and getting a bunch of awesome manga,
but those are really separate (but not necessarily equal) categories
for me. I did a lot of shopping over the break. I got cds, a dvd
(Tower Records is going out of business, I suggest if there's one
near you, go shopping the sales are so good.) … there was a sale at
my favorite comic book shop so I got shitloads of manga (That's in
addition to the bribery manga) the clothes… converse high tops with
FISHES on them. So cute…
My fishes mean so much to me. They're my babies. So I just had to
get the shoes.

That was really the highlight of my holiday. (Ha! How pathetic!) I'm
not very fond of my mothers. My dad is fine… but my mom and my
stepmom… well I wish I could change their personalities. Yeah I have
two sets of parents. It's a long story.

Next weekend I was supposed to go to my step-brother's wedding in
Florida, but because its right before finals, my mom won't let me.
I'm kinda bummed out about not getting to go, but I realized that I
would miss Minna no Anime, the quarterly movie, and Tsurugi's so now
I don't feel so bummed I guess.

Daniella
Email: djmijaluv@<removed>.com
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Manga, 12/07/06 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm, in 21-238.

~Recommendation of the Week: Blue Dragon by Takano Tsuneo and Obata Takeshi

An Obata-drawn series (Death Note, Hikaru no Go, and Ayatsuri Sakon) based off of a
game with Toriyama art (DBZ, etc), in which a world is attacked by the "kage," creatures
who consume others by living in thier shadows. Raru is a boy who can control a dragon
which lives in his shadow. Led by his teacher, Mio, he protects the kingdom.

...Actually, I'm not too sure about the plot. The first chapter came out last week and my
Japanese is shoddy at best. But I can truthfully say that the art is really, really good. Obata
has a chance to draw lots of motion, where as DN, HnG, and AS involved more sitting and
mind games than running and fighting.

There are currently no scanlations for Blue Dragon, but you can download the raws from
Raw-Manga. The series runs in Weekly Shounen Jump.

~Enter Rant:

Ugh, dead week! I have so much work to do still! Plus, I just started playing Twilight
Princess (which is absolutely amazingly fantastic). Gahhh, it's hard balancing work and fun.
Luckily, we just have a week and a half more, then most of us get a nice three week break!

Brave Story this week! *dances*

~Annaliese, ensuing@<removed>.com
"Tell the devil it's time you gave him his due
He should go back to hell, he should shake in his shoes,
'Cause the mightiest, scariest creature is you"
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Anime Saturday December 9, 2006 ===
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Hi guys! We're FINALLY BACK in the SILO. That's right. DON'T go to
the science building, GO TO THE SILO.

5:00: Honey & Clover Episode 9
5:25: Vandred Episode 9
5:55 Mai HIME Episode 9
6:20 Princess Tutu Episode 9
6:50 Heat Guy J Episode 9
7:15 Mermaid Forest 9
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10-ish Quarterly Awesome Movie: BRAVE STORY!

Rant:

Oh man… stressful week right everyone? I slept for two straight
hours today after I got my classes done. Two straight hours… ok
maybe not that much but I was in bed for that long. ::snuggles her
bed:: soooo comfy. I lub my bed.

You guys… I'm going to miss you over the quarter… T_T I dun wanna go
home!
Last winter break I was so miserable going back home. Maybe because
I had nothing to do. I worked at the old theatre I used to work at
and all my high school friends sort of abandoned me.. But this time
I'll be in Vietnam so I guess I won't be so bored….
But I miss Minna no Anime during the breaks… you guys keep me
slightly saner than normal. I love you guys.

I hope you all have a merry Christmahannukwanzakah and Happy New
Year as well!

See you at Tsurugi's!

Daniella
Email: djmijaluv@<removed>.com
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== Winter 2007 ==
=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Manga, 01/11/07 ~New Room~ ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, in building 20, room 129. Hear that? 20-129.
Engineering East, the Electrical Engineering building. It's a new room! Yaaaaay~

~Recommendation of the Week: Guardian Dog by Akira Shirakawa and Shouko Fukaki

Guardian Dog is the story of a high school boy, Gengo, whose body is invaded by a six-
eyed water creature (he invades through his heart... keep your minds clean, people). This
gives Gengo pretty cool water-controlling abilities and six eyes. Luckily for Gengo, the
extra eyes are usually hidden. Unfortunately for Gengo, they are usually hidden. They
seem to come back at very bad times and give himself away to creatures that want to
attack the original six-eyed creature. He eventually takes in a woman who was sent to kill
him, helps out his plant-creature teacher, and it watched over by a strange man who
insists on being called "aniki." The story starts as a "on no, strange creatures are trying to
take over" story and evolves into a tale of trust, friendship, and identity. This is one of the
few manga series where the inside artwork looks much better than the cover, at least in
my opinion. This artist has launched himself towards the top of a short list of my favorite
mangaka. I highly recommend this series to any manga fan.

Guardian Dog is four volumes long and ran in Comic Rush. Unfortunately, no scanlations
are available at this time.

~Enter Rant:

Ahhh, break is over. I hope it went well for everyone.

I really hope everyone enjoyed Brave Story last quarter! I ended up taking the movie home
and showing to everyone I could tie down for two hours. Ahh, that movie makes me so
happy. I didn't get as much work done on my Wataru costume as I had hoped, but I got a
lot of materials together, so I guess it's a start. *coughcough shameless plug* If you're on
livejournal and liked the movie, you should join the community! http://
community.livejournal.com/brave_story/

Remember that we will be voting on t-shirt designs at the end of this month! The rules for
the contest are on the website!

~Annaliese, ensuing@<removed>.com
"When in pain, I wish we were able to confess that it hurts. We are but weaklings
pretending to be tough."
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Anime, Saturday, January 13th, 2007 ===
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Hi guys! Happy New Years! Etc. Hope you all had a nice break and I'm happy to see you all!

5:00 Fansub of the Week
5:25 Honey & Clover Episode 10 "... ...It is probably not that simple to release it... ..."
We cross the sky
5:55 Vandred Episode 10 White Love
6:20 Kyou Kara Maoh Episode 34 The Heated Battle of Colloseum!?
6:50 Mai HIME Episode 10 The Great Cake Battle!!!!
7:15 Princess Tutu Episode 10 Akt 10 - Kapitel des Eies: Cinderella ~ Aschenbrödel:
Walzer-Coda
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Heat Guy J Episode 10 Guns Tama (Bullet)
8:35 Gankutsuou Episode 9 I had a dream the colour of darkness
9:05 Mermaid Forest Episode 10 The Promised Tomorrow (part one)
9:30 Speed Grapher Episode 9 At the baths

Rant:
I had a really interesting break. I don't mean that in a specifically good or bad way because
it was BOTH.
First, a family friend whose child I babysat over the summer was killed in a car accident in
New Zealand.
Then I went to Singapore (on my way to my Vietnam) had high tea at the famous Raffles
(yummy, I suggest if if you're ever there) and promptly twisted my ankle.
Then I went to Hanoi and promptly got very sick. I skipped the next day, I was told I didn't
miss much.
Otherwise Vietnam was fun. Lots of interesting things (like Ho Chi Minh's embalmed body)
lots of good shopping (I now have more purses and scarves than any normal fan girl will
ever have in her lifetime) not so much good eating (I'm a picky eater and beef and chicken
aren't part of Vietnam's normal menu) but a LOT of good French pastries. (Random
Daniella Fact: I'm part-Austrian, Austrians are notoriously sweet-toothed. Then again,
anyone who lived with my mother and/or grandmother would be.)
Everything was fine until I came home (alone, my mother and the rest of her group went
onto Cambodia)

I found that I had no ride home. EVERYONE I knew in the LA, OC, and San Diego area was
going home on Saturday, (I had to pick up my parents very late on Saturday) I couldn't
take the train (a) they were sold out b) they wouldn't let me take my fish on)
Like I predicted, my dad and step-mom took me home. BUT not without my stepmom
having a bloody FIT about doing so. SHE wanted to go to Rosarito Beach again, but noooo I
just had to ruin things for her.

So when I got to school I was relieved, but not for long.
First, my room door wouldn't open because the entire lock shifted 90 degrees to the left.
Had to wait hours. Then the next day I lost my key (it was in my back pocket the whole
time) AND my computer broke. Tuesday was alright. Wednesday, I got sick and my
homework wouldn't print out. (LUCKILY my professor was forgiving.) Today was alright
too, I'm feeling better.

Anyways, I'm working in the package center in Sequoia. If you live on campus, expect to
see me there on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Its nice. I get 7.50 to do ten times less
than last quarter. Mwahahaha.

Daniella -djmijaluv@<removed>.com
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Manga, 01/18/07 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm, in 20-129.

~Recommendation of the Week: Kurogane by Kei Toume

"Avenging his father's murder is a matter of honor for the young samurai Jintetsu. But it
turns out that the killer is a corrupt government official -- and now the powers that be are
determined to hunt Jintetsu down like an animal. There's only one problem: Jintetsu is
dead.

Torn to pieces by a pack of dogs, the young samurai Jintetsu's ravaged body has been
found by Genkichi, outcast and master inventor. Genkichi gives the dead boy a new,
indestructible steel body and a talking sword-just what he'll need to face down the gang
that's terrorizing his hometown and the mobster who ordered his father's hit. But what
about Otsuki, the beautiful girl he left behind? Steel armor is defense against any sword,
but it can't save Jintetsu from the pain in his heart." -From Del Rey's Kurogane page

Kurogane is a wonderfully interesting story taking the possible to the edge of impossible.
The stories are packed with emotion, character development, and action, making it a great
series for just about everyone. I really enjoy the series, but what keeps me rereading the
volumes is the awesome artwork. It's drawn in a loose, almost sketchy style. Occasionally
the lines become a little too unruly and busy and things are hard to make out, but most of
the time the style adds to the depth of the series and gives it a wonderful slightly grungy
feel.

Volumes 1-3 have been released by Del Rey, and there are at least five volumes available
in Japanese from Open KC. A thiry-page preview is available here:

http://www.randomhouse.com/delrey/manga/kurogane/

~Enter Rant:

I lost my train of thought about four times while writing that paragraph on Kurogane, so I
apologize if it doesn't make much sense.

Did you have a nice vacation day? I did.

Don't forget about the t-shirt design contest!

~Annaliese, ensuing@<removed>.com
"Better believe in, better believe in yourself"
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Anime, Saturday January 20th, 2007 ===
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Hi guys! I can't wait to see you all this week!

5:00 Fansub of the Week
5:25 Honey & Clover Episode 11 "It... ...it was not enjoyable at all... ..."
Love pushes us around
5:55 Vandred Episode 11 Together
6:20 Kyou Kara Maoh Episode 36 Farewell, Conrad
6:50 Mai HIME Episode 11 Rondo of Light and Darkness
7:15 Princess Tutu Episode 11 Akt 11 - Kapitel des Eies: La Sylphide
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Heat Guy J Episode 11 Mirage Maboroshi (Illusion)
8:35 Gankutsuou Episode 10 A letter from Edmond
9:05 Mermaid Forest Episode 11 The Promised Tomorrow (part two)
9:30 Speed Grapher Episode 10 Suitenguu Comes (oo la la)

Announcements: We need a librarian! Requirements: You must have lots of space and you
must come to almost nearly every meeting (exceptions for cons, family emergencies, and
sick days of course. If you have a hot date... well you have to bring him/her)

Also, the T-shirt design contest ends in two weeks when we shall vote on our glorious new
T-shirt. For rules: see website. Its there somewhere. I want to see AWESOME for our new
shirts ok?

Rant:
Sorry about the mix up with KKM. I'm not sure how that happened but its totally my fault.
Anyways, all fixed, no biggie.

Immediately after I came home from Minna no Anime last week, I realized I was sick. I had
a cold all weekend. I just know one of you guys gave me your germs. But now I'm better so
no worries.

Other than the fact that some of my favorite manga will be ending this month, so far
things are good. A little bit heavy on the homework front but thats what spending hours
freezing in the package center are for!

I'm trying to sell my Copic markers right now. If any of you are interested, I'll be selling
them for half of their retail price. Or I'm willing to barter for something(s) or some kind of
service (I'll let you make that dirty on your own) I've got a lot of colors!

-Daniella
djmijaluv@<removed>.com
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Manga, 01/25/07 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm in 20-129.

~Recommendation of the Week: Emma by Kaoru Mori

Emma is the story of a young upper-class man who falls in love with a maid and the
troubles in creating and maintaining a relationship in Victorian times.

I do think that's my shortest summary ever. Sweet. Emma is a adorably cute romance. I
usually shy away from series like this, but I could not help but love this one. The setting is
wonderful, the characters are wonderful... I didn't care much for the art at first, but it grew
on me.

It's a bit early and my brain is still warming up, so I'll end it there.

CMX has licensed Emma and the first volume is out in stores everywhere.

~Enter Rant:

I started downloading a couple series that have been out for a while: Kikaider and Demon
Lord Dante. Dante is pretty interesting in a messed-up way, and Kikaider is a lot better
than what I remembered (and I remember it being pretty cool). I'm looking forward to
seeing more of both of them.

T-shirt designs due this week. I'm looking forward to seeing them!

~Annaliese, ensuing@<removed>.com
"Now look up at the sky! Break open that unknown door!"
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Anime, Saturday, January 27, 2007 ===
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5:00 Fansub of the Week
5:25 Honey & Clover Episode 12 "You idiot, what are you thinking?!" The sudden kiss, the
unexpected parting
5:55 Vandred Episode 12 They Don't Care About Us
6:20 Kyou Kara Maoh Episode 37 Whereabouts of the Box
6:50 Mai HIME Episode 12 An Angel's Smile
7:15 Princess Tutu Episode 12 Akt-12---Kapitel-des-Eies-Banquet-of-Darkness--
Scheherazade
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Heat Guy J Episode 12 Visitor Hikari (Light)
8:35 Gankutsuou Episode 11 Engagement, Broken
9:05 Mermaid Forest Episode 12 Mermaid's Scar (part one)
9:30 Speed Grapher Episode 11 A Sudden Change in Mother's Sickness
Mother's ill; Come Back Immediately

Announcements:
Also, the T-shirt design contest ends this week when we shall vote on our glorious new T-
shirt. For rules: see website. Its there somewhere. I want to see AWESOME for our new
shirts ok? (because you're up against me and a lot of other AWESOME)

Rant:
Ooo last weekend was stressful. Teachers and their evil evil homework assignments.
This weekend will be only slightly better. Someone remind me, I have like ten million
surveys for you guys to fill out. This time its for the Mustang Daily and its about RELIGION!
Thats like the anti-thesis of most of you guys I'm sure, but you should really fill it out
because I say so. I'll give you free hugs if you do!

Anyways this Saturday is Shannon's birthday! She'll be 20 and bringing us cupcakes so you
BETTER treat her like she's the shit! Because she is!

Other than that, I'd like chocolate. Specifically somewhere around mid-Feburary....

-Daniella
djmijaluv@<removed>.com
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Manga, 02/01/07 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm in 20-129. We'll be discussing Open House plans
this week!

I'm not really feeling up for writing a "review" right now (if you can call what I write a review),
so no long, boring recommendation this week. I will say that I've been catching up with 666
Satan (O-Parts Hunter in the US), and I'm enjoying it quite a bit. If you're feeling bored with
Naruto, check this series out. It's done by the brother of the Naruto artist, so the style will
feel nice and familiar.

Enter Rant:

Ahhh, Color Theory. It's really interesting to spend three or fours hours every couple days
painting swatches. At least in the art class I took last quarter you could see something
coming together. This quarter? No. After so many hours, I'm left with dozens and dozens of
little color swatches and a think coat of paint all over my arms. Joyous, really. However, there
is one upside to this! The tasks of mixing paints and painting swatches is pretty simple (just
amazingly time consuming), so I can watch anime while I work. Last week I finished Orphen:
Revenge. This week I'm planning on finishing Dai Guard. Woo!

~Annaliese, ensuing@<removed>.com
"Even a salaryman can save the world!"
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Anime, Saturday Feburary 3rd 2007 ===
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5:00 Fansub of the Week
5:25 Honey & Clover Episode 13 "... ...What kind of answer am I expecting... ...from her"
All I wanted to hear was that little thing
5:55 Vandred Episode 13 To Feel the Fire
6:20 Kyou Kara Maoh Episode 38 Guenter VS Conrad
6:50 Mai HIME Episode 13 Night of the Tamayura
7:15 Princess Tutu Episode 13 akt-13 kapitel-des-eies-swan-lake schwanensee
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Heat Guy J Episode 13 Encounter Geki (Shooter
8:35 Gankutsuou Episode 12 Encore
9:05 Mermaid Forest Episode 13 Mermaid's Scar (part two)
9:30 Speed Grapher Episode 12 Sleeping, Embraced on the Left
Sleep, Embraced by the Left Hand

Announcements: Uh...... we're going to be talking about Open House again. We have quite
a few people already cosplaying, but we've made a list of characters we REALLY want you
guys to cosplay. (So don't get any ideas, Luffy, Shanks, and Nami are already taken)

Oh and a lot of your favorite series are ending! You better come if you want to see the
end!

Rant:
UGH! I have so much work! I am so pissed off! And of course this is the weekend my
mother decides to visit >_< At least I get to see my puppy!
I'm more pissed because I have to redo an assignment that most of the rest of the class
doesn't have to do. Grrrrrrrrrrr.

On another note, I joined weight watchers because to be honest, its damn hard to eat
healthy and I need to lose weight for my heart. I'd like to have my next surgery in TEN
years when the technology could possibly evolve and be better rather than... mmm 2-3
years. (I'm really scared of surgery) Plus, you know, it'll give me a better chance of living
through the damn thing!

Ummmmmm I've come to realize, I barely know the words to any songs in English. They're
all in Japanese, Spanish or Hebrew.

How Scary.

Daniella
djmijaluv@<removed>.com
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Manga, 02/08/07 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm in 20-129. We'll be talking more about Open
House this week!

I wanted to start complaing/glorifying/talking about my opinions on manga publishing
companies this week. I'd love to get feedback! If you disagree with me, please tell me!

Industry Watch: Tokyopop

Tokyopop, formally known as Mixx, is one of today's biggest english-language manga
publishers. They have brought series such as Sailor Moon, Saiyuki, Cowboy Bebop, and
Mars to us. Many American artists have been able to get their start as professional comic
creators through their Rising Stars of Manga program. Recently, they expanded their
company by creating their "Blu" imprint which focuses on boys' love comics.

Ah, Tokyopop. While I appreciate all the titles they bring out and the great variety of the
titles they license, there are many things I dislike about their company. First off, being a
graphic communication major, it really bothers me that the paper they use is pretty low
quality. Second, their print jobs are generally low quality. With this I refer to the quality of
the image on the paper and how well the page fits/is centered/trimmed/etc. For example,
I enjoy the series "Threads of Time" by Mi Young Noh. I would start buying the volumes,
but many pages in the first volumes are trimmed incorrectly. This makes the text run off
the page. It's not hard to figure out what it being said, but it is a cause of annoyance. And,
what actually bothers me the most about this problem is that when I asked if it would be
reprinted because it greatly detracts from the quality of the book, I was basically told that I
made it up. Granted, it was one guy in a large company, but it doesn't take much to make
someone turn off of an entire company.

Third, I hate it when a company licenses a title but does not finish releasing it or takes an
extremely long time releasing it with no stated reason. With a company that has so many
titles, it's not shocking that some would be left in the dust, but that doesn't make it okay.
Hey Tokyopop, why the 18 month wait for Qwan 4?

Fourth, BAD DESIGN. Some of those logos and covers are SO poorly designed, it hurts my
eyes... and I'm not a good designer.

Fifth, page quality. It seems like that pages that were in color when published in
magazines are often fuzzy in Tokyopop books. It's not a huge problem, but it's annoying
to look at.

I do have to compliment Tokyopop for bringing out the Twelve Kingdoms and Kino no
Tabi books. Granted, they're not the first company to bring out books like this, but they
did a pretty good job with the first volume of Kino. Unfortunately, my fourth complaint
comes in again with this. They took the beautiful picture of the Kino off the cover and
switched it with a vector image of one of the chapter pictures. Wait, chapter pictures?
Sorry, they scaled those down and repeated, because having six tiny copies of an
illustration is obviously better than having it full-sized. ...what genius thought that up?

Sorry Tokyopop, until you improve the general quality of your books, I will not recommend
then to anyone.

Enter Rant:

rant rant rant.

I'm sorry if I was being strange last week. Stranger than usual, I mean. I was really tired
from working on that flag all day. Because of our water being shut off the past two days,
my attitude has not improved much, if at all... until today. Jenn and I finally watched the
end of Host Club, which was very, very awesome, and I finally got off my butt and ordered
my Wataru figure.

...the fact that there was no note saying that they were going to turn off our water again
yesterday didn't hurt either. ^_~

~Annaliese
"Waking up dead inside of my head... I've had a chance to be insane, asylum from the
falling rain"
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Anime, Feburary 10, 2007 ===
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IMPORTANTE! We are in BUILDING 33 (Fischer science) ROOM 287 (thats not the nice big
room ok?) DON'T GO TO THE SILO! We WILL NOT be there!

5:00 Fansub of the Week
5:25 Honey & Clover Episode 12 "You idiot, what are you thinking?!" The sudden kiss, the
unexpected parting
5:55 Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Episode 1 Mikuru Asahina's Adventure Episode 00
6:20 Kyou Kara Maoh Episode 39 Your Name is Maou
6:50 Mai HIME Episode 14 Targeted School
7:15 Princess Tutu Episode 14 Akt-14: kapitel des junges monster raven blumenwalzer
part one
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Heat Guy J Episode 14 Arrow Tamashii (Soul)
8:35 Gankutsuou Episode 13 Haydee
9:05 Ayatsuri Sakon Episode 1 Vengeful Demon of the Abandoned School Part I
9:30 Speed Grapher Episode 13 Ginza Prison A Gentleman of Smiles Comes

Announcements: REMEMBER!!!! Building 33, Room 287!!!

Rant:
I really hate being busy and lazy and stuff. Really really. Oh well.

I've been in a hazy funk for about a week. I feel mentally stoned. Physically as well. Not
that I've been smoking anything... but argh.

And I've lost all my talent and inspiration for drawing. ::sigh:: that makes me sad.

Also....

ALL OF YOU HAVE TO GO TO THE MINNA NO ANIME WIKI!

http://www.mnalibrary.org/mnahistory/Main_Page

Go forth and make awesome. (Or I kill you)

Daniella
djmijaluv@<removed>.com
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Manga, 02/15/07 ===
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Whoops, life got a little bit busy so I didn't have time to type up something long and
rambling!

Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm in 20-129. We'll be talking about Open House
stuff again. We will be talking about Open House stuff until Open House actually happens.
^_^

~Annaliese
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Anime Saturday, Feburary 17, 2007 ===
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This week we are in the SILO, just so you guys don't forget.

5:00 Fansub of the Week
5:25 Honey & Clover Episode 13 "... ...What kind of answer am I expecting... ...from her"
All I wanted to hear was that little thing
5:55 Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Episode 2 The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya I
6:20 Kyou Kara Maoh Episode 40 For the Bond
6:50 Mai HIME Episode 15 School Girl ? Through the Galaxy
7:15 Princess Tutu Episode 15 Akt 15 Kapitel des Junges Coppelia (KYA!!! COPPELIA!)
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Heat Guy J Episode 15 Angel Toriko (Hostage)
8:35 Gankutsuou Episode 14 Wandering Heart
9:05 Ayatsuri Sakon Episode 2 Vengeful Demon of the Abandoned School Part II
9:30 Speed Grapher Episode 14 God of Death. The Girl Who Won't Look Back

Announcements Announcements: JENN'S ALIVE! (for how long she doesn't know and she's
being facetious) and I'm excited for the Coppelia episode of Princess Tutu. Coppelia is my
FAVORITE ballet EVER.

Rant: This week sucked pretty badly in terms of homework, no matter what Jen said.
But its OVER NOW! And tomorrow I'm going SHOPPING.
Nothing makes a girl (like me) feel better than something that makes her go wheeeee
pretty!
We'll just avoid the subject a certain holiday this past week.

Thank you everyone who gave me chocolate at minna no manga! The last thing I ever need
is sugar (apparently its totally poisonous for my heart condition) but THANK YOU because I
looooove chocolate!! Yum.

Moving on, I've fallen in LOVE with this little ninja romantic comedy called Tail of the
Moon. Its AWESOME and soooo cute. Kya. I've got volumes one through three. If you want
to borrow them, feel free, just don't ruin them :3

Umm what else.... nothing I guess. I'm just sleepy.

Oh, make the wiki awesome.

Daniella
djmijaluv@<removed>.com
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Manga, 02/22/07 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm in 20-129.

Industry Watch: CMX

CMX, a branch of DC Comics, is one of the "bad guys" of the manga industry. It's not
hard to see why. The company insists it releases manga the right way. No really, it's on
their website. "...And it's manga — 100% the way the original Japanese creators want you
to see it. In English!"

Really now, CMX? What about Tenjou Tenge? Did Oh Great want you to cut up his work to
get rid of some of the panty shots and sex scenes? What about the changes in Ragnarok
(Sword of the Dark Ones)? I don't think the mangaka would take the removal of Leroy's
manbits lightly. Poor Leroy.

Now, I wouldn't have a big problem with this if that was really the whole problem. But it's
not. Fans have come forth with ideas to keep series untouched but safe from younger
audiences in stores, but CMX seems to reject them. Why? These ideas have helped other
companies keep their mature manga away from younger readers.

The design of their logos and the redesign they do on a number of covers is pretty ugly.
And what's with changing cover designs halfway through a series? At least their print
quality is generally pretty good.

It makes me sad that a company would be so stubborn on censorship, while other
companies have been slowly stopping censorship on their titles. After hearing company
workers practically spit on the opinions of fans, I decided to stop buying their books. It
may not effect the company at all, but in my opinion, it's important to take a stand against
stupid censorship. It really hurts me too... I really like a lot of the titles they have. I guess
I'll just have to read them in stores!

Enter Rant:

Meh. I'm really tired. These last few weeks have been really busy. I think I get to have some
fun this weekend though! ...well, besides the fun I have at club every week. ^_~

My Overman King Gainer order came in today. I finally have my own copies of the first
three discs. I think I'm going to spend the rest of my evening posing my King Gainer figure
as I rewatch the first disc. YESSSSSS.

~Annaliese, ensuing@<removed>.com
"Kitty at my foot and I want to touch it~"
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Anime Saturday, Feburary 24, 2007 ===
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ATTENTION ZOMG THIS IS IMPORTANT! WE WILL BE IN 33-287!!!! THATS THE FISCHER
SCIENCE BUILDING NOT THE SILO!!! WE WILL NOT BE AT THE SILO!!!!

5:00 Fansub of the Week
5:25 Honey & Clover Episode 15 "... ...Rika-san. Is it possible that Harada Design might
still have work for me?" An unfair me begins to run
5:55 Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Episode 3 The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya II
6:20 Kyou Kara Maoh Episode 41 Conrad's Return
6:50 Mai HIME Episode 16 Parade?
7:15 Princess Tutu Episode 16 Akt 16 kapitel des junges prayers of a maiden gebet einer
jungfrau
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Heat Guy J Episode 16 Target: Hana (Bloom)
8:35 Gankutsuou Episode 15 The End of Happiness, the Beginning of Truth
9:05 Ayatsuri Sakon Episode 3 Vengeful Demon of the Abandoned School Part III
9:30 Speed Grapher Episode 15 Woman of Hell/Hell of the Soaked Woman

Announcements Announcements: Remember 33-87, not the silo.

Rant/Review:
Thats right, I'm going to start a review section here. Of whatever the fuck I want!

Rant part: so I want to stay in SLO over the summer and take classes and work and stuff.
It'll help me graduate on-time and I won't have to spend time with the evil bitch that is my
mother. (she's a nice lady if you don't have to LIVE with her)

But my parents won't let me.

I'm not losing this one, sorry Mommy.

Music Review: The Dresden Dolls-self-titled debut.
This CD has been out for awhile and the Dolls have since put out other LPs, but this
one is the best! For those of you who don't know the Dolls, they're a two-person punk-
cabaret act.

Keyboardist/Vocalist Amanda's lyrics are very fucked-up-girl-angry-at-the-world,
but she does it with such wonderful turn of phrase that they're unique. And she covers
everything from ex-boyfriends, (Good Day, The Jeep Song, Truce) sucky parents and the
stuff you inherit inadvertently from them, (Half-Jack) cutting, (Bad Habit) and rape.(Slide)
You listen knowing you've experienced one or two of the thing she sings about.

Of course the beats are good too, but lets face it, I know nothing about music. Just
that its either good or bad in my humble opinion.

Movie Review: Music & Lyrics
Ok, yes its a chick flick. Now get over that because its not your normal chick flick. Its
not The Notebook which can emasculate any grown man into tears, but it actually has
good valid REASON behind it! Drew Barrymore's character is depressed because her old
mentor wrote a book portraying her as a (fictional) horrible person. Hugh Grant's character
really an 80's era pop musician who can't write songs without his old partner and is totally
high on his own has-been stardom and he revels in it. They get into fights for GOOD
REASONS. And guess what, the music in it is totally catchy! I'm not the one for movie
soundtracks, but I want to buy this music soundtrack! Besides, Drew Barrymore and Hugh
Grant are totally cute. (respectively as well as together.)

Hope you've had a good week!

Daniella Orihuela-Gruber
djmijaluv@<removed>.com

It's just the way the operation made me
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Manga, 03/01/07 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm in 20-129.

Ahh, I'm getting increasingly later with these! Well, I was planning to talk about Viz
tonight, but New York Comic Con happened last weekend with a slew of new licenses, so I
thought I'd say a couple words about a few of them.

Del Rey:Pumpkin Scissors
Yes, that's right, Del Rey has the Pumpkin Scissors manga. If you enjoy the anime, I think
you'll love the manga. The art is a little shakey at first, but it gets better as the series goes
on.

Yen Press:Zombie-Loan
A serries by the same creators of Rozen Maiden and Dears, Z-L is a story about two boys
who die but want to regain their lives. To do so, they pay off the loans on their lives by
killing other (evil) zombies. Good action and art with just enough comedy to keep you
smiling all the way through.

Yen Press: Spiral: Suiri no Kizuna
A teenaged detective tries to solve cases surrounding the Blade Children in order to locate
his missing older brother. A fun story whose anime counterpart has been in the states for
a while. If you like mysteries, you'll enjoy Sprial.

Viz Media: Muhyo and Rosie's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation
This is a story that seems to be generally overlooked. Muhyo and Rosie work together to
defeat demons that plague humankind. Muhyo, who has very little skill, works hard to
prove his worth. The regular art really doesn't catch me very well, but the color pages are
spectaular. I've been enjoying this series for a short while with no one to talk to about it,
so I'm happy that I'll finally have some fellow fans!

Viz Media: Pretty Face
A rough fighter is in a traffic accident and the only thing the doctor repairing him has to
go on is the picture of his crush that was found in his pocket. Now he has to pretend to be
his love's twin sister! This series mixes fanservice with many sweet moments to create a
very enjoyable read.

Viz Media: Millenium Snow (aka A Thousand Years of Snow)
Bisco Hattori's earlier work. You should know her from such series as... Host Club... and...
Host Club. Millenium Snow is about a sickly girl who is rescued from the brink of death by
a strange vampire and his bat side-kick. The story is utterly adorable and all-around fun
that will probably be enjoyed by anyone who loves Host Club.

Viz Media: Togari.
TOGARI! TOGARI! TOGARI! OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG TOGARI.

Ok, I'm calm(er). Togari is the amazingly awesome story of Tobe, a killer from the early
Tokugawa shogunate who gets a chance to escape hell by destroying 108 sins(Toga) back
on earth. He must do this with the sword Togari. But the world is not the same as it was
when he was first alive! He must learn how to live in the modern world and collect these
sins while not commiting any of his own. The art in this series is completely awesome, the
artist draws some spectacular brush paintings for it and the expressions are amazing. I'm
really excited that Viz is bringing Togari to the states, it really deserves more attention
that it currently gets.

Ayatsuri Sakon:
HAHAHAHHAHAHA, no, it wasn't licensed. ....alas... but I did tell some people I would
upload the manga version of the arc we skipped, so just follow this link:
http://ensuing.livejournal.com/159760.html

Rant:
So I'm really excited about Togari. Really really excited. I can finally show off the version of
Togari (the sword, not the manga) my dad and I made, and people might get it. Well, until
then, it's still a cool sword. =3
~Annaliese
"I'll fight them with a Dying Will!"
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Anime Saturday, March 3, 2007 ===
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5:00 Fansub of the Week
5:25 Honey & Clover Episode 16 "The third answer doesn't even reach my lips... ..." The
moon is calling her
5:55 Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Episode 4 The Boredom of Haruhi Suzumiya
6:20 Kyou Kara Maoh Episode 42 Distant Promise
6:50 Mai HIME Episode 17 Lying Lips
7:15 Princess Tutu Episode 17 Akt 17 - Kapitel des Junges: Crime and Punishment ~
Carmen Aragonaise (Part 1)
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Heat Guy J Episode 17 Survival
8:35 Gankutsuou Episode 16 Scandal
9:05 Ayatsuri Sakon Episode 4 The Izu Two-Faced Oni - Part I
9:30 Speed Grapher Episode 16 Half-Period Balance Sheet Report

Announcements Announcements: SILO TIME

Rant/Review:
Ugh this has been another week of hellish proportions.
I'm rapidly losing my grip on optimism.
Except when I'm among friends <3
Manga review: Red River
Ok so its shojo. WHO CARES?
Its actually about a Japanese girl somehow coming up in bronze age Mesopotamia. Once
she gets there she is promptly chased by guards and makes out with a prince. Said prince
protects her because his step-mother is the one who actually brought her to Mesopotamia
in order to chop off the girl's head in order to make her own son the king. LOVELY. What
winds up happening is the girl somehow becomes a reincarnation of Ishtar (if only to
protect her from certain death) and prince and girl have crazy adventures. (she becomes
his concubine sorta)
IN BRONZE AGE MESOPOTAMIA. ITS GOT FIGHTING AND WAR AND ROMANCE.
Anyways, its totally cool, check it out. If you want to borrow it from me I've got up to
volume 13 (and expanding)
Oh yeah... why is the title of this week's Princess Tutu say Crime and Punishment when the
German title is Carmen of Aragon? (Thats an opera you guys and if you've seen Phantom
of the Opera, you know that thats where ballet got it's start.)
Daniella ~Dr. D~
djmijaluv@...
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Manga, 03/08/07 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm, in 20-129.

Ramble, ramble, ramble~

Industry Watch: Viz Media
Viz Media was one of the earliest manga publishers in the US. They are owned by three of
Japan's largest publishers/creators/licensors of anime and manga: Shueisha, Shogakukan,
and ShoPro Japan. They currently bring some of the most popular manga series to
American readers, like Naruto, Bleach, and Fullmetal Alchemist.

I used to hate Viz. I really did. They made stupid changes and censored random things and
the anime they released was HORRIBLE. My goal was to work for them and work towards
helping make the company that people would be happy to buy from. Unfortunately for me,
by the time I did have a job there, they were already an excellent company.

I say unfortunately, but I was really amazed and impressed at the care that goes into
working on some of these series. When an editor gets a series, chances are they'll really
get into the series. I assisted the editor for Rurouni Kenshin on a project and every time
he'd come by to see how it was going he'd tell me all about this or that character or show
me his latest figure. It was really fun. I have no right to say that other companies don't
have people like this, but I have no idea if they do either.

I do have my complaints about Viz. I don't agree with a lot of the censorship, I think a
number of the logos are quite ugly, and I am still disgusted by the quality of the anime
they put out.

As for censorship... I hate it, but I now understand it. When CMX censors something like
Air Gear to avoid the Mature rating, that's a stupid move. But when you have a series that
is aimed at young children and something needs to be censored, it's stupid to wrap the
volume in plastic and slap a mature rating on it instead of censoring it. And if you don't
censor it, the mommy so-and-so is likely to complain to everyone who will listen. Take
Konjiki no Gash Bell (Zatch Bell) for example. When Gash enters the series, he is not
wearing anything. It's not particularly offensive, but he is naked. So what did Viz do? Put
pants on him. Not the best thing to do, but it's not an edit that changes the story, so it
works. Not all censorship is to get rid of possibly offensive situations, There is also
corporate censorship where corporate logos are removed. But there is hope! Viz has
changed their censorship policy, so there should be much, much less censorship from now
on.

I believe Viz is one of the leaders in the US manga industry. They bring out quality titles
with quality printing and great care is taken to make sure things turn out right (although
mistakes do occasionally slip through the cracks). Their pricing is the best in the industry;
they have many different imprints at different prices. For example, I believe Shounen Jump
and Shounen Jump Advanced books at $8, at least two dollars less expensive than most of
the other series being published by other companies.

Viz has recently started to branch out from manga and anime to produce other types of
merchandise that fit with their manga titles, like novels, character books, and art books. If
you've seen the character or art books, you know how high quality those releases have
been.

Ahhhh, to sum this long thing up, Viz Media has some problems but in general a very
good company that prints high-quality books.

This may have been biased. >_>;;

Enter Rant:

VIIIIZZZZZZZZZ. Those were some good times.

It's Jenn's and Holly's (ex-librarian) birthday today. =3

Elections this Saturday!

Lord of Everything Awesome,
~Annaliese
"You get to play the serpent."
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Anime Saturday, March 10, 2007 ===
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5:00 Fansub of the Week
5:25 Honey & Clover Episode 17 "What I don't have is a destination..." I don't even know
how I feel
5:55 Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Episode 5 The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya III
6:20 Kyou Kara Maoh Episode 43 Alliance Castle Baby Panic!
6:50 Mai HIME Episode 18 --The Beginning.
7:15 Princess Tutu Episode 18 Akt 18 Kapitel Des Junges Wandering Knight Egmont Ouvert
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Heat Guy J Episode 18 Independence
8:35 Gankutsuou Episode 17 Confession
9:05 Ayatsuri Sakon Episode 9 Sakon's Puppet: The Ghost Chapter - Chapter Two
9:30 Speed Grapher Episode 17 Angel of Death Newly Rich

Announcements Announcements: Elections are this week! If you want to run for officer,
now would be the time to start working on a speech!

Rant/Review:
My only thing right now is that my work schedule SUCKS. I only work at the package center
on Fridays.... I really liked working at the package center... and my back is going to be
killing me all quarter....Its so unfair.... ::sob::

Manga: Flower of Life by Fumi Yoshinaga

Yoshinaga-sensei is usually a boys-love mangaka, but this time she went into a totally
different direction. Ok so there's like one teacher (its a gakuen (school) manga) but that
ends quite hysterically and not in a way you'd expect it to!

The plot is basically this guy named Harutaro entering school (a month late) after battling
with leukimia. He quickly finds a niche for himself, etc etc. Its really a school life manga,
but Yoshinaga-sensei has this wonderful way of making it very interesting and engrossing.
Plus she's a great artist.

Overall, its an upbeat, feel good manga. Its great.

Song: Survivalism by Nine Inch Nails

Ok I LOVE NIN. I really do. I don't like older men much and I'm not too into industrial
music THAT much, but Trent Reznor is gorgeous AND a genius! Unfortunately their last
album (With_Teeth) wasn't that great.

They're next disc, Year Zero, isn't out yet, but many of the songs have already been
leaked. (much to my delight)
And much to my delight (again) Survivalism is MUCH BETTER than anything off of
With_Teeth. It just sounds like the NIN everyone knows and loves but with that twist that
makes them sooo good to listen to.
If you're not familiar with much of NIN's work or you're just starting to listen to them,
whats so great about NIN is Reznor's very structured songs with a pop background (he still
keeps it metal, of course) and his racy lyrics. If you haven't heard Closer then you
obviously don't know what I mean.
IKKIMASHOU!
Daniella
djmijaluv@...
(VOTE FOR ME! I'll tell you why at club)
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Manga, 03/15/07 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm in 20-129.

Industry Check: Go Comi

Let's end the quarter on a high note!

Go Comi is one of the newcomers in the American manga industry, having been in the
industry for less than two years. They began with four titles; Crossroad, Cantarella, Tenshi
Ja Nai, and one of my personal favorites, Her Majesty's Dog. They now have eight series
(After School Nightmare, Night of the Beasts, Train + Train, and Black Sun Silver Moon),
and are slowly expanding their comic lines.

Truthfully, I can't find anything that bugs me about this company. They constantly impress
me. They listen to their consumers, they have pretty nice logos, they don't censor (as far
as I know)... In my opinion, they produce some really good books.

When I was still an intern, I happened to come across one of their blog entries about
lettering. (http://www.gocomi.com/blog/index.php?ID=120) I was so amazed at the
thought they put into this. I've never seen a manga publisher explain why they do
something like this before! I wish all manga publishers would put this much thought into
their series.

Their blog is really interesting and I recommend it to anyone who is bored at work or
wants to learn a little bit more about the industry. I really liked when they talked about
getting their books printed. ( http://www.gocomi.com/blog/index.php?ID=136 ) If you
want to stay sane, don't look at their Comiket posts... they make me mad with jealousy!

Hmm. Well, I guess there really isn't much else to say. Go Comi is my favorite manga
publisher and I highly recommend their books!

Enter Rant:

I'm still blown away about everyone's kindness last Saturday! Thanks again everyone! <3

I finished the body pages for a the volume of a new series I'm lettering, so I've been
checking out a lot of new series. I can't wait to talk about them! If you have the time, I
highly recommend Gentou Club, Tegamibachi (Letterbee), Gi-Rei, and D-Live. I'll try to talk
about them later.

If you've been looking for the next volume of series ____ for ages but haven't seen it, it
may have been cancelled. MangaCast has posted a list of probably cancelled titles. You
can see it here: http://community.livejournal.com/mangacast/486726.html
That list makes me very, very sad.

~Annaliese
"I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell."
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Anime Saturday March 17, 2007 ===
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5:00 Mai HIME Episode 19
5:25 Princess Tutu Episode 19
5:55 Heat Guy J Episode 19
6:20 Gankutsuou Episode 18
6:50 Ayatsuri Sakon Episode 10
7:15 Speed Grapher Episode 18
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 -10:00: End of Quarter Movie: Dectective Conan 1!!!

Announcements Announcements: Last meeting of the quarter. Awww I be miss you guys.
But this time its short! Anyways Tsurugi's on Sunday and then... FINALS! Good luck you
guys.

Rant/Review:
I'm really pissed that the police escort van didn't let us in. Thats just not cool. There was
room for all of us too. But no.. on-campus people have to walk.
I've been having some heart trouble lately. (I have a heart condition, long story, lets get
over it.) When I breathe in it hurts. I'm pretty sure its just stress but its been bothering me
especially when I've been walking back up to Cerro. I was really tired last night and it was
like the straw on the camel's back you know? Curse you police escort van!! We'd be in and
out of your car so damn quick but you can't give us a bloody ride?? Fuckin' douchebags.

Manga Review: The Gentleman's Alliance Cross by Arina Tanemura

Now I'm a fan of Tanemura-sensei but this manga is soooo fast paced. Thank god for her
explainations.... At first its like huh why is this person important? but it usually works
itself out... But that all comes a little TOO late you know? I honestly don't know how I feel
about this manga. Its certainly interesting, but its lacking in many areas. If I had written it
Gentleman's Alliance would have been way different. I would recommend it. Plus you get a
bad ass poster.

Manga Review 2: Princess Princess

Most people are like: this is a yaoi/shonen ai manga. Its not. Quite the opposite. The worst
that happens is that these guys are forced to crossdress to lift the spirits of those poor
souls in their all-boys school. Its actually quite amusing.
Lets put it this way: its more of a pretty-guys-being-forced-into-crazy-situations manga.
Anyways, if you're not afraid of your masculinity (or you have one) I'd totally check it out.
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== Spring 2007 ==
=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Manga, 04/05/07 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm, in 20-129.... usually! But for the next couple
weeks, we will be at Murray Station #79 working on Open House materials! You are free to
go and use the usual MnM room to hang out though.

So, boat construction at our apartment this week. Please bring any materials you think we
could use. We have a couple box cutters, four rolls of duct tape, and a little bit of
cardboard, but that's it. We obviously can't make our usual Campus Market run, but there
are lots of other places to get food within walking distance of our apartment. If you want
to bring something to heat up here, that's fine too.

It is highly likely Audrey will have T-shirts during this time! If you ordered one and would
like it then, bring your money! $13 for members, $15 for non-members.

If you're cosplaying for Open House, please come in or bring your costume to club
Saturday. We will be taking pictures for our promotional material. If your character has a
scar/tattoo/brith mark that you can't have on Saturday, we'll probably be able to
photoshop it in. ...at least I hope so, because I won't have my scar or stubble on Saturday!
=3

If you have any questions, just post them here or e-mail me (ensuing@<removed>.com). It's
probably better to post them here. I check this more often.

Enter Rant:

Hope school is going well for everyone. Hope you had a great break!

~Annaliese
"The world is not beautiful, therefore it is."
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Anime, Saturday, April 7 2006 ===
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5:00 Fansub of the Week
5:25 Honey & Clover Episode 17
5:55 Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Episode 5
6:20 Kyou Kara Maoh Episode 43
6:50 Mai HIME Episode 20
7:15 Princess Tutu Episode 20
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Heat Guy J Episode 20
8:35 Gankutsuou Episode 19
9:05 Ayatsuri Sakon Episode 11
9:30 Speed Grapher Episode 19

Announcements Announcements: Sorry there are no episode titles! Anime
News Network is down and I'm having trouble finding episode lists
elsewhere. To be honest, I'm exhausted. I really don't have the
energy to go and dig through the internet for them. I'm sorry!

Rant/Review:
Guh. I am so tired. I haven't been getting enough sleep because I
keep waking up accidentally at 7 am! Its affected me so much that I
actually forgot to do this completely. Until I went on facebook. Guh
once more.
I'm working on the Mustang Daily this quarter so watch out for my
articles. They will start popping up in there early next week.

Music Review: Muse- Black Holes and Revelations
I really like Muse. Honestly I do. But this album disappoints me.
Where are all the awesome vocals? The funky techno-piano? Why
couldn't I stop thinking how much better their last album was? I
still like some of the songs, but the album as a whole… not so much.

Eternally tired,
Daniella
djmijaluv@<removed>.com
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Manga, 04/12/07 ===
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Same deal as last week guys, meeting at the Apartment of Awesome for boat building!
~Annaliese
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Anime Saturday, March 14, 2007 ===
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5:00 Fansub of the Week
5:25 Honey & Clover Episode 17 * "What I don't have is a
destination..." I don't even know how I feel
5:55 Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Episode 6 Remote Island Syndrome
(Part 1)
6:20 Kyou Kara Maoh Episode 44 Mysterious Girl
6:50 Mai HIME Episode 21 * Black One, It is Time to Awaken
7:15 Princess Tutu Episode 22 * Kapitel des Junges: Wandering Knight
~ Egmont Ouvertüre
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Heat Guy J Episode 21 Tears Tomo (Friend)
8:35 Gankutsuou Episode 20 Farewell, Eugénie
9:05 Ayatsuri Sakon Episode 12 The Blood Rain of the One Hundred
Foxes of Shinshu - Part II
9:30 Speed Grapher Episode 20 Good Vibration

*note: our schedule has been so f-ed up lately, I don't know if some
of these episode numbers are correct or whether or not we are
actually showing these anime due to various lack of discs.

Announcements Announcements: Uh Get your t-shirts. And Open House is
next week!

Rant:

Um, well. Lets see.

My fish is dying. I can't do anything about it. Just hope for the
best.

I'm really depressed about it and my day hasn't been going the
greatest in any other way.
Some guys literally yelled at me for my Stanford sweatshirt. I
started bawling.
I've been crying at work too. I don't normally cry in public. The
last time I did I was a lot different from what I am now.

I'll see you guys Saturday.

Daniella
djmijaluv@<removed>.com

Hm Peach Girl is an anime now. Why do they have a Super Pop Love
Hurricane?
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Manga, 04/19/07 ===
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Hey guys, it's chicken practice prep night! That's right, our favorite MnM meeting of the year!
It'll be at the regular time, 6-10pm at the Apartment of Awesome (that's Murray Station #79).
We'll be spending out evening practicing chicken prep for Saturday, making Awesome Sauce,
and putting some of the finishing touches on the boat.

If you have them, please bring cutting boards and knives! Yes, this is the one time we let you
guys play with knives. However, attacking anything but chicken is prohibited.

We'll also need some extra rice cookers for Saturday. If you can let us use yours for that day,
we'd really appreciate it!

Hope to see you all tomorrow!
~Annaliese
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Open House Saturday April 21, 2007 ===
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There is no Minna no Anime! Its Open House!! (So come to the booth and
be our kitchen minions!)

On a sadder note: one of my fish died today. Oddly enough it wasn't
the fish that is dying from kidney failure. So both of my fish could
be dead soon. So if you see me crying, just give me a hug and a
tissue, it'll cheer me up massively.

Daniella
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Manga 04/26/07 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm in 21-129. Now we can start discussing con
stuffs!

Wow. We're back. Short post, as I'm in the middle of a very important discussion about book
titles for 5pkbc's Bleach Doujin. Winning titles right now are "Clorox," "Supernova Disaster,"
"Shinigami Showdown," and my personal favorite, "OBITO'S CRUSHED DREAMS." Pay no
attention that the last title has nothing to do with Bleach at all. The doujin will be awesome
though. Actually, it will be beyond awesome. (/self-pimping)

Once upon a time, I wrote reviews of books and publishers. I'll start doing that again next
week, I've just been lazy, er, um, too busy.

I hope everyone stopped by last Saturday to see our AMAZING BOAT. It was seriously
awesome. We'll show lots of pictures this week at MnA.

~Annaliese
"This book is PANTSTASTIC!"
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Manga 04/26/07 -Whoops ===
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When I said building 21, I meant building 20. Sorry guys!
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Manga 05/03/07 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm, in 20-129.

Industry Check:
This week let's look at at a quickly improving company, Dr. Master. When DM started
putting out books, I was highly disappointed at the quality of the book. Low density ink
coverage and cheap paper made it feel like I was holding a bound newspaper more than a
book. With such ugly books, I couldn't bring myself to read them, even though they were
putting out titles I was interested in. So, for a long time, I ignored all Dr. Master releases.

A few weeks ago I happened to notice that some company was brining out Kia Asamiya's
new series, "Junk." I was pretty weary after seeing the DM logo on the side, but I thought
I'd give it a chance. I was pleasantly surprised to see a high-quality embossed cover that
mimicked the original book's dust jacket. The entire cover was exactly like the Japanese
version, except with in english and with a few small additional logos. The paper inside,
while still not all that great, was leaps and bounds better than the newsprint they had been
using before.

After seeing Junk, I decided to check out a few other DM titles, just to check if Junk had
gotten some kind of special treatment. I was happy to see that other books are being
printed better on better paper. They may not be the best, but I know from now on, I won't
be just passing up DM books any more.

Enter Rant:
Some days you just feel like dresing like a Pokemon. Yesterday was one of those days.

~Annaliese
"Don't believe in yourself, believe in me, who believes in you!"
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Anime Saturday May 5th 2007 ===
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5:00 Fansub of the Week
5:25 Honey & Clover Episode 19 "Mayama loses sight of me, every time
this happens" Time begins to move again
5:55 Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Episode 9 Someday In The Rain
6:20 Kyou Kara Maoh Episode 47 Proof of Life
6:50 Mai HIME Episode 24 Love is a Battle
7:15 Princess Tutu Episode 24 Kapitel des Junges: The Prince and the
Raven ~ Danse Macabre
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Heat Guy J Episode 23 Play
8:35 Gankutsuou Episode 22 Counterattack
9:05 Ayatsuri Sakon Episode 14 Curse of the Egyptian Pharaoh Part I
9:30 Speed Grapher Episode 22 Give Me Money
After Hours: Live Action Cutie Honey… I think? I can't remember!
OMG! ::spazz out::

Announcements Announcements: uhhhh uhhhh uhhhh (she's currently brain
dead, folks)

Rant: Ok so I got some press for our club right? I was so excited….
It came out in Friday's paper….
(Click here:
http://media.www.mustangdaily.net/media/storage/paper860/news/2007/05/
04/Spotlight/everybodys.Animated.In.Poly.Mna.Club-2894506.shtml )

BUT THE GUY WHO WROTE THE ARTICLE MADE SO MANY MISTAKES…

I feel like my major has failed me. My world is coming crashing
down….EXISTENTIAL CRISIS!

Or I could just blame the writer. Which I do.
Isaiah, I'm disappointed in you. I wrote down the Jenn was the VP
when I gave you the contact info! ::wags a finger at him:: You should
have caught that! Bad journalist!

Daniella "I got a press pass for Fanime" Orihuela-Gruber
djmijaluv@<removed>.com

By the way, those of you who didn't come to the performance of
Coppelia last Sunday missed out on squealing when half of Princess
Tutu's soundtrack came on.
It. Was. Awesome.
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Manga 05/10/07 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm in 21-129. You know, the usual place.

Anyone still looking for a room for Fanime? Talk to me!

Review: 20th Century Boys by Naoki Urasawa

I've been a fan of Naoki Urasawa's work for a while. I respected Monster, although I've seen
and read very little. I love Master Keaton dearly. Pluto has been recommended to me. But I
never thought I'd find myself so in love with one of his works I had heard to little about.

20th Century Boys is about a group of friends who must save the world by from an
unknown person, a mysterious figure who goes by the name "Friend." Now, this might not
be such a bad thing if "Friend" hadn't decided the world would end on December 31st,
2000. Now Kenji, an average liquor store worker must gather his childhood pals in order
to stop the strange "Friend."

It doesn't sound like much, does it? If curiousity hadn't grabbed hold of me, I would have
never even picked it up. I am very happy I am a curious person. This isn't a story about a
group of people who try to save the world. It's a story of friends, family, mystery, politics,
prophecies, and music. This may just be the most amazing thing I have ever read. Not
many things have sparked so many questions, so many wild theories, and so many fits of
excitement. This is fangirl level ten.

Urasawa's artwork is not like your typical shounen style, but then again, this is not your
typical series. Each character is distinctly different, but everyone is completely believable.
He doesn't need to give them wacky hairstyles or strange markings. The story jumps
between time periods constantly, but it's not hard to tell the younger versions of all the
characters from the older versions. Color pages have a nice light touch to them that bring
a good feeling to the story. It's hard to explain. How Urasawa does things is beyond me.
All I can say is... the man is a god.

I'm a pretty emotional person. I cry easily, I have a short temper, and I'm often excited. So
I really shouldn't have been surprised when I found myself crying while reading 20th
Century Boys. But... I wasn't crying because I was sad or happy, it was because I was so
amazed and so anxious to know what would happen. I've never experienced anything like
that before.

My incoherent rambling doesn't do a lick of justice for this series, but I hope someone will
be curious enough to give it a chance. I doubt you'll be disappointed. This is a series that
comes with nothing and gives you everything.

20th Century Boys is 22 volumes long. It's sequel, 21st Century Boys, is currently running
and looks like it will be two or three volumes long. You can download almost all of the
series form StopTazmo.com, but Viz has the rights to it and will be bringing it out after
they finish releasing Monster at the request of Urasawa.

Enter Rant:
Whoa. Life is really busy. I took the time to read Pluto, which is also by Urasawa, this
afternoon, and maaaaan... you'll be hearing about that one soon too. So very good.

Oh, and sorry to those who read my LiveJournal and this... I really just copied and pasted it
from there with a few small changes.

~Annaliese
"Feel the darkness smiling, every note is dying, silence is refining every thought in his
heart."
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Anime: Saturday, May 12, 2007 ===
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5:00 Fansub of the Week
5:25 Honey & Clover Episode 20 "Isn't it YOUR job to care for that!?"
I pray to the moon hovering in the night sky
5:55 Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Episode10 The Melancholy of Haruhi
Suzumiya IV
6:20 Kyou Kara Maoh Episode 48 Counterattack, large Shimaron
6:50 Mai HIME Episode 25 Towards the Time of Fate
7:15 Princess Tutu Episode 25 Akt 25 - Kapitel des Junges: The Dying
Swan ~ Romeo und Julia
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Heat Guy J Episode 24 Alteration
8:35 Gankutsuou Episode 23 Edmond Dantes
9:05 Ayatsuri Sakon Episode 15 Curse of the Egyptian Pharaoh Part II
9:30 Speed Grapher Episode 23 A Grave Made of Money

Announcements Announcements: Nope

Rant: I kept pushin the wrong button while doing this email... and I
kept losing it.

At least midterms are over.

Daniella
djmijaluv@<removed>.com
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Manga 05/17/07 ===
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Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm, in 21-129.

Industry Watch:
Mmmm, it's almost 11pm on Wednesday night... no time for a review tonight!

Enter Rant:
Robin Williams (the designer and writer, not the actor, hahaha) will be giving a seminar
tomorrow night from 7-8pm in Phillips Hall. I think it's free and there will be a reception
afterwards. A lot of my teachers seem to worship the ground this woman walks on so I'll be
going. It also helps that I get extra credit in two classes for it. Anyone is welcome to come!

DON'T FORGET! This Saturday is the deadline for the Speed Grapher contest entries! I'm really
looking forward to seeing all of them. ^_^

~Annaliese
"You think you'll win, but soon you'll see, you can beat some but you can't beat me!"
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=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Anime, Saturday, May 19th, 2007 ===
<pre>

5:00 Fansub of the Week
5:25 Honey & Clover Episode 22 "... ... When I got out of the tunnel,
the view was beautiful."
5:55 Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Episode 11 The Day Of Sagittarius
6:20 Kyou Kara Maoh Episode 48 Counterattack, large Shimaron
6:50 Mai HIME Episode 26 shining*days
7:15 Princess Tutu Episode 26 Akt 26 - Kapitel des Junges: Finale ~
Der Nußknacker
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Heat Guy J Episode 25 Revolution
8:35 Gankutsuou Episode 24 By the Seashore
9:05 Ayatsuri Sakon Episode 16 Curse of the Egyptian Pharaoh Part III
9:30 Speed Grapher Episode 24 Roppongi Crisis

Announcements Announcements: OH EM GEE GUYS! Mai Hime, Princess Tutu,
Gankutsuou AND Speed Grapher are ENDING. This would be THE WORST week
to miss. Seriously

Rant: My sick fishie died today. I thought he might pull through, but…
well at least he's no longer in pain. He survived 5 weeks with a
seriously deadly illness when he was only supposed to last about 2. I
miss him because he was my first fish, but it broke my heart to see
him struggling.
Rest in Peace Wandsworth.
Oh by the way: Fish are good pets too. I really don't care what you
may think about fish not being the same as say a dog or cat or
whatever because you're wrong. SO, don't say that fish aren't real
pets, there are other fish in the sea, whatever you might have against
fish…or I will hurt you. Seriously.

Webcomic review: Last Blood by Bobby Crosby and Owen Gieni

Zombies and Vampires. DOOOOOOOOOOOD!
Yes I get excited over shit like this! I'm not a total shojo nerd!!
(Ok yes I am.. and this comic has a drop of romance, so I am quite
satisfied.)
Its pretty new so there aren't too many pages, but I got hooked
instantly. The stories pretty interesting. The creators got pretty
creative with creating their post-zombie apocalyptic world! I'm going
through the process of creating a world with my current comic project
so I really appreciate a good story background. The art is sketchy as
hell, but I don't mind. (Even though I prefer cleaner lines.) If you
can pull off sketchy, then I will worship you.

Anyways you can find Last Blood at: http://lastblood.net/
CHECK IT OUT!

Daniella
djmijaluv@<removed>.com
(Wow, I actually got this email out on time!! Lolz)
</pre>

=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Manga 05/31/07 ===
<pre>

Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10 in 21-129.

This week we have lots to do! Current officers and new officers don't forget about our
meeting! Haruhi dance members, we have our usual practice! Raven Dancers, we need to
chat about our costumes! Plus, Magic: The Gathering games, YGO games, great manga,
awesome company, and Fanime videos!

Industry Update:

Well, at the Funimation panel this week I didn't see any MnA members, and I know there
are a lot of fans out there, so I thought I'd pass on the information we were given at the
panel.

One Piece:
-Funi's version will air starting at episode 144. Sanji's lolipop will be back (smoking
cigarettes is not allowed on tv), but cigars and pipes will be back in the show.
-New dub cast! It sounds like regular Funi voice actors are crawling over each other to get
parts on One Piece. Everyone wants to be in it. =D
-Actual contact will not be shown in the broadcast version. You'll see a swing and hear the
impact, but not see it hit.
-Sooo, some editing, but not as much as 4Kids. But...
-The broadcast version will never see a DVD release.
-Uncut versions will be sets of 13 episodes for about $50 (suggested retail price). They
will be released every 2-3 months.
-It is unknown whether they will start releasing sets with ep 144 or ep 1, but all eps will
get released.
-There will be a big One Piece event at AX. No details were given, but we were told that we
would know right as we came in.

Beck:
-There were something like 600 legal issues in this show, mainly band and product logos.
-Some logos had to be removed, some were kept in. Each case had different
circumstances.
-The box will be released in July and looks like a mini amp. It will come with a set of vinyl
stickers that can be placed and re-placed all over.
-Each volume will come with a different guitar pick

Mushishi:
-There will be short releases, one disc every 6-8 weeks.

General:
-You can now get episodes of some Funi shows from iTunes for $1.99 an episode or
$34.99 a season. Unfortunately, they are dub only.
-The unskippable previews will stay pretty much unskippable. You can skip them by
hitting the title button on your remote... if you have one.

Enter Rant:

Fanime was a blast, even with my costume issues. Why did the costume I work the most on
turn out the worst? In other news, did you know that Daisaku's (Giant Robo) costume looks
just like Light's (Death Note), but with short-shorts? It didn't help that I couldn't style my
wig right, so it looked like Light's hair... >_>;;

Congrats to Andy for winning a Judges' Award for his AMV! Congrats again to David for
making it to the finals with his amv and to Jesse for his awesome performance at the
masquerade!

I have way too many costumes planned for next year... a good number of group cosplays
I'm excited for. Anyone want to join a Cyborg 009, Team Magma (Pokémon), or Soul Eater
cosplay group? =D

God of everything I want to be god of,
~Annaliese
"WRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!"
</pre>

=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Anime, Saturday June 2, 2007 ===
<pre>

5:00 Fansub of the Week
5:25 Honey & Clover Episode 23 "... ... And once again, I begin to
run."
5:55 Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Episode 12 Live Alive
6:20 Honey & Clover Episode 24 "... ... I'm here."
6:50 Kyou Kara Maoh Episode 49 The Lion and the Wolf
7:15 Kyo Kara Maoh Episode 50 My beloved Julia
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Heat Guy J Episode 26 Guys Otoko (Real Man)
8:35 Ayatsuri Sakon Episode 17 Curse of the Egyptian Pharaoh Part IV
9:05 Jing: King of Bandits Jing in 7th Heaven.

Annoucements: Second to last week guys! Heat Guy J and Ayatsuri Sakon
are ending!!! Plus we have a special showing of Jing King of Bandits.

Rant:
I just pulled an all nighter. Well mostly. I can't actually stay up
all night long unless I'm constantly eating and I didn't want to
actually do that so I just took naps every few hours or so.

I think I got about 5 hours of sleep?
This is going to sound prissy, but I can't survive on that little
sleep because I've got those loads of health problems, anemia being
one of them. So I either have to go back to sleep every few hours or
start stuffing my face (which really isn't a substitute for sleep) to
avoid fainting.

The problem is I have work from 12-1, a final project presentation
from 1-4, and then work again from 4-6.

Just wait, I'm going to be doing something at the presentation and
I'm going to collapse to the floor.
I will happen, I promise.
People are going to freak out.

God, my body sucks!! (And I don't mean my figure.)

Love,
Daniella
</pre>

=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Manga 06/07/07 ===
<pre>

Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm. You know. In the place we always meet. This
will be our last meeting of the quarter.

Well, I'm not feeling up to writing much tonight, so I'll just suggest some series for
summer reading.

Summer Reading:
Brave Story- You guys should know the basic plot of this one. The manga (being released
by Tokyopop) is quite a bit different, definitely worth a look. The novel is coming out from
Viz in July- you should definitely pick it up. It'll be over 800 pages, hardcover, and with a
really cool cover.

His and Her Circumstances (Kare Kano)- Tokyopop has been bringing this out for a while,
so there's lots to read. It's definitely one of my favorite shoujo titles.

Mars- Ahhh, my first real shoujo series. It's not your average fluffy love story, it's a very
realistic tale of two very different people who fall in love and the realistic struggles they go
through in their relationship. No faries or genies to help them out. ^_~ The mangaka is
amazing, her art inspires me to improve my own. If you like shoujo, you can't go wrong
with Mars.

Yu-Gi-Oh GX- Yes, I know. It's Yu-Gi-Oh. But you should know that I do love YGO, if just
for it's mindless fun factor. The manga may not be as "epic" as the original, but the
original did not have young super-adorable Juudai/Jaden. Truthfully not a spectacular
series, but it is mindless fun. And summer is all about being mindless. =3

Zatch Bell!- This series revolves around demon children and their bookkeepers who are
involved in a battle to become the demon king. Awesome characters, awesome story,
absolutely hilarious... It's really great. Unfortunately, this title is often overlooked. Give it
some love guys, it deserves it. Plus, this is where Chichi wo Moge came from.

Enter Rant:

One of the big perks about working for Viz is that occasionally, veeeerrrry occasionally, I
get to see things before they are released to the public. And let me tell you, that cover
looks SO AWESOME in real life. I'm really, really excited. You obviously can't see me right
now, but I'm waving my hands up and down like I do whenever I get excited.

Sorry if this post doesn't make sense at parts, I'm not completely awake right now. Come
on, body, it's only 10pm!!

~Annaliese
"Whenever your light shines, I can always find something more of life"
</pre>

=== [MNAMembers] Quick Reminder- AS Contest ===
<pre>
The Ayatsuri Sakon Contest entries are due tomorrow BEFORE THE DINNER BREAK. I want to
announce winners during the dinner break. I'll be announcing winners of the Speed Grapher
contest as well.

Soooo.... don't forget to bring your Ayatsuri Sakon entires! The winner gets to see Sakon
smash a light bulb WITH HIS BARE HAND. And see Sakon GO BACK IN TIME. And see Sakon
PLAY WITH MECH FIGURES. And see Sakon ATTACK A MAN WITH A SNAKE. And... see Ukon...
BEING GENERALLY AWESOME.

Looking forward to seeing your entries!
~Annaliese
</pre>

=== [MNAMembers] Minna no Anime Saturday June 9 ===
<pre>

5:00 Fansub of the Week
5:25 Honey & Clover Episode ???????? o_o "... ... I'm here."
5:55 Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Episode 13 The Melancholy of Haruhi
Suzumiya V
6:20 Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Episode 14 The Melancholy of Haruhi
Suzumiya VI
6:50 Kyou Kara Maoh Episode 51 Revenge? Makshin
7:15 Kyo Kara Maoh Episode 52 The ground on which Conrad stands
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10-10:00 End of Quarter Movie: Origin ~Spirits of the Past~

Announcements: Last meeting of the quarter!!!
Tsurugi's Dinner Sunday at.... uh ask Jenn.

Rant:
I've got nothing.
I'm gonna miss you guys.
Good luck on finals and have a good summer.

Daniella Orihuela-Gruber
~FOR THE HEART SHAPED NIPPLES!
</pre>

2005-2006 Emails

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== Fall 2005 ==
=== MnA: 24 Sept 2005 ===
<pre>

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 Genshiken - 1: Study of the Modern Visually-Oriented Culture
5:50 Break
5:55 Twelve Kingdoms - 1: Shadow of the Moon, Sea of the Shadow - The
First Chapter
6:20 Stellvia - 1: Welcome
6:45 Break
6:50 Inuyasha - 99: Kouga and Sesshoumaru: A Dangerous Encounter
7:15 Kyou Kara Maoh! - 1: Flushed Away To A Strange World
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Gad Guard - 1: Gazing at the Same Sky
8:35 Read or Die: the TV - 1: The Papers Have Landed
9:00 Break
9:05 X TV - 1: A Reunion
9:30 Shingetsutan Tsukihime - 1: Inversion Impulse

[random babbling]
Well, well! How is everyone? Did you have fun this summer? Miss it yet?
Just think: the despair can only build from here! Of course, that's a
somewhat depressing outlook. Or rather, it /would/ be depressing...if I
hadn't written it in an upbeat way! :D

Since I'm sure you're all dying to know what I did this summer, I feel
compelled to share (and for those of you who just muttered something
sarcastic, I should let you know that I /am/ psychic, and I /do/ know who
you are and where you live).

This summer, like so many others in the mere two decades of my (largely
squandered) life, was dull and went by far, far too quickly. This makes
it simultaneously like and unlike the rest of the year, which is dull but
goes by /much/ too slowly. I tried to get jobs in all sorts of
places...and none of them wanted me. Big bloody shock there. Kind of sad
when Wal-Mart looks down its dirty ghetto-store nose at you, ne? Well,
between my dad growling at me for "not trying hard enough to find a job"
and my mom trying to guilt me into spending more time with the family
(because, you know, I wasn't working and should logically have a lot more
time to be a nice person), the summer really couldn't end fast /enough/.

Actually, I'm a little hard on my parents. They have their good traits.
Being around them, however, wears my patience very thin very fast. From
what I've heard, it's like that for most college students, though. That's
what moving out permanently is for.

I have to say, though, planning the schedule this summer was pretty fun.
We're watching some shows I really couldn't care less for this year, but
we're also watching some shows that I adore. Kyou Kara Maoh! is one of
them. Soooo much love for KKM. Now! Here's the thing! Some of you may
not like it at first. I seriously want you guys to give it a chance,
though. Seriously. I don't want to hear any whining. I /do/ own hiking
boots, and I haven't any qualms about viciously kicking a few complainers'
shins. And since I'm the secretary, not only will I do you bodily harm,
I'll also write mean things about you in the weekly email. :p

Well...not really, since that would be an abuse of power, but it amuses me
to joke about it.

...my morals are so malnourished.

Speaking of malnourishment! My goal this year is to eat at least once a
day! Yes, it's difficult, but I will do my best! (insert typical anime
"determination" pose here) Of course, the massive student loans will
probably help me out there. If I don't end up buying any /more/ anime or
manga with them. >_< I don't actually buy without thinking...my brain
actually does this "which is better: food or anime?" thing. The real
problem here is that it answers "anime".

Bah.

Anyway, before I go, I'd like to take this moment to pimp Advent Children.
If you haven't seen it, DO. It's worth it just for the music, if nothing
else. And Zack. Zack is Love.
[/random babbling]
</pre>

=== Minna no Manga 09/29 ===
<pre>

Minna no Manga meets every Thursday, 6pm-10pm, in Building 21, room 205.

~>Manga of the Week: Verdant Lord (Midori no Ou), Story by Hiroshi
Takashi, Art by Atsushi Soga

I read one chapter of this series in a back issue of Magazine Z I bought
for buck earlier this year. The art looked good and the story, something
about plants and plant-people, looked interesting. Three or four trips to
Kinokuniya later(that's a Japanese bookstore for those who don't know)
ended with me breaking down and buying the Chinee. Disgusted at the
thought of keeping children in barred rooms because they MAY have a
connection or be able to communicate with these plant creatures, Shin
leaves. Meanwhile, one of the plant creatures has been caught and brought
to the lab, where it breaks free and starts destroying the complex. Shin
hurries to the child-cages to help free the children, but he can't get
them out. The creature smashes one of the walls, and the children are
free. This confuses Shin, it seems the creature helped him free the
children, it wasn't just random wrecking. Shin hurries the children out of
the complex and there is an explosion. Luckily, it blows a hole in their
last obstacle; a fence. Unfortunately, it also blows a metal bar into
Shin's chest and mangles his left arm. Hiding his injuries, he gets the
children out and collapses. His evil brother finds him and thinks, "SWEET!
Test subject!" He injects Shin with something and leaves.

Shin wakes the next day to find it's a little harder to move around. He
glances to his feet to see roots growing out of his feet. Understandably,
he freaks out. What ever his brother has injected into him has transformed
his mangled arm into something similar to what the creatures have and has
replaces the right side of his face with more plant material. It'(Jack, I
think) comes, and Shin, Daina, and Jack go off to learn more about Shin's
curse. ...at least I think. Seeing as my copy of the first volume is in
Chinese and the other two are in Japanese with no furigana, I know I'm not
getting the whole story. Any way, the series rocks and I recommend it to
anyone who has the time. Like previously mentioned, it runs in Magazine Z
and is published by Kodansha Comics Z. There are currently three volumes
out. Unfortunately, it is not being scanlated. I'll bring all three
volumes to Minna no Manga.

~>Enter Rant

I apologize for my poor writing skills.

I guess I'll introduce myself again. I'm Annaliese, president of Minna no
Anime. I'm a third year Graphic Communication major and I spend my time
out of class drawing, working on my webcomic, reading manga, or watching
anime. I love talking to people about anime, manga, and just stuff in
general, so if you see me around, don't hesitate to say hi or ask me
things.

Well, I hope everyone had a wonderful summer. I had a very nice one. I
spent most of my summer working at VIZ Media as a design intern. It was a
great experience that I recommend to anyone interested in the manga or
anime fields. Only downside is.... no pay. Alas. It was worth the time,
and I learned way more than I would have ever thought... like, how many
ways can you get QuarkXPress to crash? Or, how many possible versions of a
subscription card does one magazine need? Oh, why does it feel like I'm
killing babies when I change the Japanese sound effects to english ones?
And, why do I enjoy it? No, but in all seriousness, I had a great time.

Has anyone seen Sousei no Aquarion? I was a bad fangirl and stopped
watching it during the summs are glaringly stereotypical, but somehow I
don't care. There is enough originality to keep me happy, the voices are
good, the animation is good, and the music is TO DIE FOR. Yoko Kanno and
AKINO team up to create the two best OSTs I have ever heard. I especially
like the song 'Genesis of Aquarion,' a slight remix of the first opening
using a mixture of the original Japanese and its English translation. I
play it all the time. Ask Jenn, it drives her mad. ^_~

If you want me to bring some certain manga, e-mail me at
ensuing@<removed>.com, and I'll see if I have it.

WATCH AQUARION!
~Annaliese
</pre>

=== MnA: 1 Oct 2005 ===
<pre>

This week's scheudle:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 Genshiken - 2: Comparative Classification of the Modern Youth Through
Consumption and Entertainment
5:50 Break
5:55 Twelve Kingdoms - 2: Shadow of the Moon, Sea of the Shadow - The
Second Chapter
6:20 Stellvia - 2: Lost Bearings
6:45 Break
6:50 Inuyasha - 100: The Truth Behind the Nightmare: Battle in the Forest
of Sorrow
7:15 Kyou Kara Maoh! - 2: Decisive Battle! Beautiful Boy vs. Baseball Boy
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Gad Guard - 2: Joining the Fragments
8:35 R.o.D: the TV - 2: Rise Up, Oh Dregs of Mankind
9:00 Break
9:05 X TV - 2: A Nightmare
9:30 Shingetsutan Tsukihime - 2: The Black Beast

[random babbling]
Just to let all you newcomers know: this week's email is going out a
little later than I usually send it. Normally, if all goes well, you
should get it by midnight on Thursday. My plan went a bit pear-shaped
yesterday.

I tend to write the weekly email while at Minna no Manga, you see. MnM
is, by the way, rockin'. You should come, if you aren't. Anyway, we got
a turnout at least twice the normal size for MnM yesterday, and I ended up
entertaining most of the group for about half of the time with the pretty
things on my computer. Woo, go little computer, go. The other half the
time, I told everyone to bugger off so I could actually fix the Advent
Children subs I have.

Speaking of which! Advent Children! We're thinking after-hours tomorrow,
people! Clear your schedules! If you're a comp sci major, finish your
programs early! ...or, you know, put them off 'til the last minute like
the rest of us. It's always easier to procrastinate than it is to take
initiative, and I am a lazy, lazy bastard. Though I've never quite been
clear on whether or not it's correct in colloquial English to refer to a
woman as a bastard. I mean, I know that in official English it's
perfectly fine. And look, I've gone off on a tangent.

Anyway, as I was saying, stay for after-hours tomorrow! If you know
anything about Final Fantasy VII, you'll like this movie. After all,
Annaliese hasn't played the game (just knows who the characters are) and
she got every bit as fangirly over it as I did. XD Of course, she didn't
quite freak out like I did over Zack, but then, who does?

Ahhhhh...I could write for pages and pages about Advent Children, but I'd
like to blame that on the fact that I'm listening to the soundtrack right
now. Pretty music tends to make me want to write about pretty things.
*grin* This OST just reinforces my opinion that Uematsu isn't human.
Either that or he sold his soul to some devil or another. Normal people
just don't ascend to creating god-like music composition.
Hm...Uematsu-ism. It sounds a bit awkward, but it would probably make
more sense than /most/ religions out there.

Let's see...before I let you all go (those of you who haven't already fled
far, far away at any rate), I think I will take the opportunity to bitch
about something. On the average, I piss and moan a fair bit less than the
last couple secretaries have in the weekly emails. I'm entitled to a bit
more, methinks.

So, anyway, the CSC department is driving me nuts. I'm working three jobs
(grading, tutoring, lab monitoring) for them this quarter, and they're
making me fill out three identical sets of paperwork--one for each job.
That wouldn't be so bad...if I could just /find/ all the damned people who
have to sign the things. I doesn't help that /no one/--not me, the
coordinator, or the office people--have the slightest clue what to do
about getting my tutoring paperwork signed. >_< ARGH. I'm making over
$100 a week with these jobs. I want to be able to receive my damned
paycheck!

Feh! Enough of that. I'm sure none of you really care about that crap.
I just like to embarrass myself in a public manner every once in a while.
Apparently it's good for me. Although if it's good for me in the
"suffering builds character" way my dad is always preaching to me, I think
I'd prefer to do what's bad for me. >_>
[/random babbling]

This bit of news+useless info brought to you by:
Jenn, Hunt-and-Peck Typer Extraordinair
AND
Pants! Because "pants" is a fun word to say.
</pre>

=== MnM Oct 6th, 2005 ===
<pre>

Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6pm-10pm, in Building 21, room 205!

~>Manga o' the Week: Animal X-Aragami no Ichizoku by Ami Sugimoto

Enter Yuuji Ayukawa. This guy is as lame as you can be. He has no
backbone, he's studying to be a doctor but faints at the sight of blood,
he's scraggly, and has a weak personality. So when he is offered the
opportunity to test out a new drug, he can't refuse. I mean, really, he's
'too nice' to refuse.

Enter Minato Asaba. Minato is a member of a lost type of people called the
Dinosauroids who can turn into, that's right, dinosaurs. He goes to Tokyo
for one reason or the Dinosauroids. They also discovered Yuuji was born
with funky chromosomes, XXY. His parents opted for reconstruction at
birth, which is why he had been male for so long. So, those pills are
turning him back to his original state. Poor poor Yuuji.
Minato and Yuuji must run from evil Dinosauroids and scientists and try to
cope with the feelings they have for each other!

Okay, I can see it now, "Eeewwwww!!! They're both guys!" Well... yeah...
kinda... I really doesn't matter. The series has a good, fun plot, and the
art is nice. The chapters are nice and looooonnggg(about 60 pages each),
which allows the story to be more fluid. 13 chapters have been scanlated
by DokiDoki.

Animal X-Aragami no Ichizoku is four volumes long and originally ran in
Asuka DX. It is now available from Chara Cly been resparked. I was finally
able to get the third Detective Conan movie after three years of looking
and then waiting for FUNImation to release it. Why did I want the third
movie so much? KID, baby, KID. You see, I have a thing for phantom
thieves, and KID is my favorite. Yeah yeah, Dark is cool, but he doesn't
have a gun that shoots playing cards. RAZOR-TIPPED playing cards. IT'S BAD
ASS.

I'm so addicted to the series now. I made Erin and Nur watch a disc of it
with me the other day. It's great fun to try to figure out who did it and
how they did it. Sometimes it's amazing how close stupid suggestions are.

...maybe I'm just trying to fill the hole left when Sousei no Aquarion
ended.....(the ending sucked, btw)

~ Kaitou Annaliese
</pre>

=== MnA: 8 Oct 2005 ===
<pre>

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 Genshiken - 3: Problems and Merits of Local Culture Promotion
5:50 Break
5:55 Twelve Kingdoms - 3: Shadow of the Moon, Sea of the Shadow - The
Third Chapter
6:20 Stellvia - 3: I'm Sorry!
6:45 Break
6:50 Inuyasha - 101: The Snow from Seven Years Past
7:15 Kyou Kara Maoh! - 3: Shibuya Yuuri, I am Maoh!
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Gad Guard - 3: On A Street Corner in Night Town
8:35 R.o.D: the TV - 3: Let's Meet at Jinbo-cho
9:00 Break
9:05 X TV - 3: A Pledge
9:30 Shingetsutan Tsukihime - 3: Demon Eyes of Direct Death
Planned Afterhours: ReDeath

[random babbling]
Well, I'm officially exhausted. Darned MnM takes a lot out of you. ~_~
Well, it was a busy day, too, really. I ran my butt off trying to get a
mountain of errands and homework and crap done. And yet I still have so
much left to do...*sigh*

It's never a good sign when your roommate's alarm goes off at 6:20am and
you stand up to turn your own off...then stand next to your shelf, staring
stupidly at your own clock for the next twenty seconds until you realize
that YOURS isn't the one beeping.

And so began my day. From there went the aforementioned errands and such.
Noteworthy among the things I did today was my Japanese independant study
with Annaliese. We feel retarded. We really haven't studied enough. We
really should study more...but somehow I know we probably won't.

So yeah...MnM...cool stuff there, guys. If you don't come, you probably
should, at least for a short while. We left a lot of very weird crap on
the board for the first poor class who gets that room tomorrow morning.
... They're probably going to think we were smoking crack in there or
something. e.e;;

Anyway, I think I'm pretty much totally braindead at this point. It has
been a long, long day. This weird heat is sucking the life from my poor,
abused body. It's kind of sad...I can't even come up with something witty
to say in the weekly email. I have shamed myself. I may have to go
swallow a frisbee now. (and by gods, if you know what that's from, you
need help as much as I do)
[/random babbling]

Brought to you by Jenn and the following badly-emoted comic:
"Sou desu ka?" :D
"Sou desu ne!" :D
C_C <.< <.<
_< o_o o_o
XO PUNCH! x_x O_O
.< X_X ._.

PS: If you know what the hell that thing I just typed was, congrats from
showing up to MnM.
</pre>

=== MnM Oct, 13th 2005 ===
<pre>

Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm, in Building 21, room 205!

~>Manga O' the Week-Nora: The Last Chronicle of Devildom by Kazumari Kakei

What would you to if the great demon queen, Satan, sent Cerebus to you?

Kazuma, an extremely bright student with a cold disposition picks up an
abandoned cellphone one day to be told that he will be taking care of
Nora, a demon from Hell. It is his and Nora's job to defeat any bad demons
in the human world. Kazuma has control commands over Nora, such as
"Kinzuru" whhing like that. How can anyone expect them to defend humanity
like this? Luckily, they have one ace up their sleeves. Nora is the great
guardian beast, Cerebus!!

Nora is one of those series that caught my eye on the shelf. I like
stories about demons and devils a lot, so when I saw the word devildom on
the cover, I immediately became interested. The art looked pretty good, so
I picked it up. Now I hooked enough to get the new volumes right when they
come out. The characters of the story are a lot of fun (one look at
Kazuma's parents and you can see where he gets his evil streak) and really
drive the story. The art is pretty good, the mangaka does some interesting
stuff with tones and solid shading. The overall story seems a little
bumpy, but it's still well worth the money I put down for it every four or
so months.

Nora: The Last Chronicle of Devildom runs in Shounen Monthly Jump. The
first three volumes have been released, but no groups are currently
scanlating the series.

~>Enter Rant

The new anime season has started! There are some shows that look
interesting coming out. I'm very intrested in five in particular; Jigoku
Shoujo, Noein, Shakugan no Shana, Solty Rei, and Black Cat(I'm a big fan
of the manga and I've seen the first episode... it's pretty good). Of
course, I don't think anyone can beat last spring's offerings. I've never
seen such a great lineup. Sousei no Aquarion, Law of Ueki, Speed Grapher,
Trinity Blood, Eureka 7, and of course the "second season" of Kyou Kara
Maou. Ah, my life is constantly filled with anime goodness.

So, I've finally gotten started on my second job(the first being a TA for
two GrC labs). I like it a lot, but it causes me such frustration! Gah!

In other news, KID is still majorly sexy, and I just got six Detective
Conan OSTs. I am a happy fangirl.

~Annaliese

If you have anything to say, don't be afraid to say it! ensuing@<removed>.com!
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=== MnA: 15 Oct 2005 ===
<pre>

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 Genshiken - 4: The Sublimating Effects of the Dissimilation Brought
on Through Makeup and Costume on Mental Obstacles
5:50 Break
5:55 Twelve Kingdoms - 4: Shadow of the Moon, Sea of the Shadow - The
Fourth Chapter
6:20 Stellvia - 4: Good Luck
6:45 Break
6:50 Inuyasha - 102: Assault on the Wolf-Demon Tribe!
7:15 Kyou Kara Maoh! - 4: Now it's the Ultimate Weapon!?
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Gad Guard - 4: With Bright Eyes
8:35 R.o.D: the TV - 4: The Seventh Grade Course
9:00 Break
9:05 X TV - 4: A Sacrifice
9:30 Shingetsutan Tsukihime - 4: The Cradling Garden
Planned Afterhours: ReDeath ( and maybe this time it'll work! :D )

[random babbling]
Hyuu...I can't help but love the titles of the Genshiken episodes. They
sound like...theses. XD I need to write a paper some time and just steal
one of those titles.

Okay, I'm going to say it now: if you don't come to MnM, you NEED to. We
watched dubbed Bastard, and it was utterly hilarious. Horribly,
wonderfully, HORRIBLY hilarious. ...I think there isn't any better way to
describe it.

Anyway, this week has been the Week of Things in the Mail. I got my Wild
Adapter 1 and 2, as well as the translations for them. And! I got my
Yubinbasya FFVII doujinshi! God, Akizuki Ryo is my favorite artist EVER.
Everything she draws is just so damned /gorgeous/. I wish I had her
talent. Or, you know, ANY talent.

Does anyone else out there read/watch Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle? Is
anyone else pissed by all the changes? Bah. Maybe I'm an elitist. Or a
purist. Or some kind of -ist. The music is still friggin' awesome,
though...dare I say...the second OST is ever MORE awesome than the first.
Seriously. I shit you not. Kajiura Yuki is wonderful, and the songs she
creates are just my kind of music. For those of you who don't know, she
also did the music for .hack//SIGN and Noir, as well as music from
Mai-HiME.

Can you tell I love my music? Music can make or break a show or movie, in
my opinion. Case in point: Batman Begins, Tsubasa, and Advent Children
all have kickass music (though my music major friend isn't terribly fond
of the music for the latter two...I say: BAH!). Batman Begins didn't
really need its music to make up for any shortcomings, but Tsubasa's music
makes up for its bad timing and lackluster Syaoran voice (and changes from
the manga), and AC's music makes up for a plot that sounds like it was
pulled straight from a fanfic. ...scratch that, I've read better fanfics
than AC. Not that AC doesn't totally kick ass, because it does, but it
kicks ass for the music and the graphics, not for plot.

Aaaaaanyway, I need to go check on the status of some paperwork. I'll see
some of you tonight at the Pictionary party (where, hopefully, no blood
will be drawn this time) and I'll see the rest of you tomorrow!
[/random babbling]

Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com

When someone has been poisoned and the only way for you to save them is to
suck the poison out, don't sit there and babble on about how you will.
Stop talking and start sucking.
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=== MnM Oct 20th, 2005 ===
<pre>

Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6pm-10pm, in 21-205. It's HOT HOT HOT!

~>Manga of the Week: Katekyo Hitman Reborn by Akira Amano

Tsunayoshi has nothing going for him. He's not that bright, he's weak,
he's not good at sports, no one likes him... His life sucks. His mom gets
worried and hires a tutor from an ad she received. This tutor turns out to
be the baby Reborn, a high-class assassin from the Italian mafia family
the Vongolas. He is there to tutor Tsuna, but not to do better into
school. He's going to teach him how to run the Vongola family, because
Tsuna is supposed to be the 10th boss (they explain how he's the boss, but
you have to read it to see). Reborn uses a special bullet, the Dying Will
bullet to teach Tsuna. This bullet will enable the victim to do whatever
they were doubting as they died with a dying will. The effect wears off
after five minutes, and Tsuna turns back to normal. Poor Tsuna must deal
with his fate and learn to become a good boss!*
As the story goes on, a cast of awesome characters are introduced. You
have my favorite, Hayato, the "Smoking Bomb" who uses dynamite like no
other; Yamamoto, the happy-go-lucky-bat-toting-loyal friend; Lambo, the
hilarious loser baby who is after Reborn's life; Bianchi, a woman who
kills with her poisoned cooking; and on and on...

I was really curious about the series after seeing a chapter of it in a
Weekly Shounen Jump. Nur picked up the first volume and we fell in love
with it. The art is nice, the story is fun, and there is so much in it
that leaves you dying with laughter. I can't remember the last time a
manga series made me laugh so much! It's an amazingly cool series that I
recommend to everyone.
Katekyo Hitman Reborn is published by Jump Comics. Volumes 1-5(maybe 6)
have been released, and three chapters have been scanlated.

*I am SOOO lazy, I'm not even trying this week...

~>Enter Rant

Man. I am SO tired. I spent a good portion of last night dealing with my
work's office, trying to get the right files on the server. It turns out
the files I need to work on and finish by Friday have not even been
properly formatted. Greeaaaattt. So I get to hope they get finished by
today(highly unlikely) in order to have them finished by Friday. Blurg.

The Halloween party is in a week and a half! Yay! I hope you are all
cosplaying. If you are making an AMV, please try to have it done and bring
in a copy by this Saturday. If you can't finish it by then, it's alright,
just talk to James on Saturday.

I am so so dead. I think I need some sugar. See you tomorrow.
~Annaliese (ensuing@<removed>.com)

P.S. BASTARD! epsiodes 3 and 4 this week! =^_^=
</pre>

=== MnA: 22 Oct 2005 ===
<pre>

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 Genshiken - 5: Limits of Rejection and Reception as Observed in
Autonomous Behaviour
5:50 Break
5:55 Twelve Kingdoms - 5: Shadow of the Moon, Sea of the Shadow - The
Fifth Chapter
6:20 Stellvia - 5: Chance
6:45 Break
6:50 Inuyasha - 103: The Band of Seven, Resurrected!
7:15 Kyou Kara Maoh! - 5: Sailor Uniform and the Irrational Child
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Gad Guard - 5: And Then the Rain Will Fall
8:35 R.o.D: the TV - 5: They Make Noise
9:00 Break
9:05 X TV - 5: A Destiny
9:30 Shingetsutan Tsukihime - 5: The Arrow of the Sky
Planned Afterhours: Fanboy Bebop (the funnier sequel to ReDeath)

[random babbling]
Saaaa....

Ever had one of those years? I think 2005 is just one of those years. I
mean, in some ways, it's been great. In others...not so much. This has
not been a great year for getting my work done. It HAS been a great year
for eating, on the other hand. I make enough money now that I'm actually
eating two to three meals a day. It's kind of nice. >_>

Hn. Wow, I have SO much to talk about this week. Let's see...I threw in
the obligatory reference to my ridiculously stupid eating habits...I
whined about how I hate doing schoolwork...what else is left? Hm...didn't
mention my eBay addiction, so here it is: I am addicted to eBay. DAMN
you, eBay! ... I don't mean it. x_x I love you, eBay.

Let's see...Halloween's coming up! Here at my apartment, we're gonna end
up with...oh...five or six extra people. Aside from the four that already
live here. ... It's going to be hellish.

Obviously, I am not having one of my better days. >_o Check with me
tomorrow at club. Club always makes me a little happier.

...I feel like watching Cat Soup...
[/random babbling]

Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
"Ringringringringringringring, banana phone!"
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=== MnM Oct 27th, 2005 ===
<pre>

Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6pm-10pm. It like Genshiken... in real
life.

~>Manga o' the Week: Dogs by Miwa Shirow

Have I talked about Dogs yet? I hope not.

Dogs is a collection of stories about characters who all live in the same
town. You have the assassin-turned-everyday nice guy, the psycho nicotine
addict, the guy who has been experimented on... It's a hodge-podge of fun.

I like the Dogs stories because they are random fun and some times, but
can turn around and become completely serious. It's quite interesting. The
style is eye-catching and every chapter leaves me wanting more. There is
tons of action and pretty boys in every chapter, so it's a good story for
whichever of those you want. ^_~

Dogs is a one volume series which has been scanlated. A second series
following the same characters, Dogs: Bullets and Carnage, recently started
running. It is being scanlated by mangatranslation.com. Also released(and
scanlated) is the one-shot, Dogs: Hardcore Twins(don't get excited, it's
not porn).

~>Enter Rant:

You know how Jenn said that 2005 is just one of those years in last week's
email? I totally agree. I don't know if it's my job, or the classes I'm
taking, or what, but I come home everyday feeling completely drained.

To make matters worse, I'm trying to buy stuff on ebay, and my PayPal
account starts freaking out. You want my credit card info? Ok, here you
go. What? My card is already in your databanks? Well yeah, It should be in
my account. Now, can I use it? What? You don't understand? Enter my credit
card info? YOU LITTLE PIECE OF- ...yeah. I've been struggling with that
for the last 20min, and it was driving me mad. Stupid paypal.

Halloween is this weekend! yaaaay! Cosplay! It's good for the soul! The
party is going to be a blast, I hope to see you all there!

You know what is an awesome show? Guyver: the BioBoosted Armor. I've been
going mad over this show since I finally checked it out last week. Sooo
good. The opening and ending rock my socks, and I love the characters.

...and I have to get back to work.

~Annaliese, ensuing@<removed>.com
Lord of All Things Awesome

P.S. No BASTARD!! This week, but we'll have something else to show...
something cool...
</pre>

=== MnA: 29 Oct 2005 ===
<pre>

This week's schedule:

There isn't one! Well, not in the strictest of senses, anyway. Tomorrow
is the party of all parties: Minna no Anime's Annual Halloween Party! I
hope you guys are cosplaying. I am. Because Annaliese would hurt me if I
didn't. >_> It's sort of a cop-out costume, though. lol There's no way
anyone's gonna recognize me. ...if you DO recognize me, I think you will
be my new best friend.

Anyway, apart from cosplay, there'll also be trivia, anime eyes, pumpkin
judging, an AMV contest, a game room, a GGXX tournament, and anime playing
all day/night long. There'll also be pizza for sale for really cheap, so
make sure you get yourself some of that.

Remember: the party starts at noon and contests start at about 2pm. We'll
keep going until some time around 11pm (midnight, tomorrow...), so come
prepared to NOT pass out after the usual five or six hours. We're going
to have fun! :D Also, keep in mind that if you want to win anything, you
have to be a member. Bring $5 to join for the whole year if you haven't
already!

[random babbling (as if the above was something else)]
We have SO many people coming to spend the weekend at our apartment. Four
of us already live in this two-bedroom place. We're going to have five or
six people from out of town all crashing in various floor spaces. ... I
foresee strife. Ah, well. Hopefully there won't be any killings here.
That would be messy. And there would be lots of paperwork.

I hate paperwork.

And blood in the carpet.

That shit NEVER comes out. >_>
[/random babbling]

Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com

"Tomorrow will come, without prayers.
The end will come, without hurrying.
I live only to be worthy of the corpse
I shall leave behind on that day."
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=== MnM Nov 3rd, 2005 ===
<pre>

Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6pm-10pm, 21-205. Here there's only our
hearts and a wish like an endless black hole.

~>Manga o' the Week: KurozaKuro by Yoshinori Natsume

You may recognize this mangaka, it's the same person who did Togari. Did
you like Togari? You'll love Kurozakuro.

"Humans are on the top of the food pyramid. If this pyramid was made up of
only humans, I would most certainly be on the very bottom," thinks Mikito.
He's weak and often gets picked on. His childhood friend, Saki hate that
he is so weak and always tells him to stand up for himself. One night
Mikito accidently consumes an orb and has an odd dream. In his dream,
young boy named Zakuro tells him he'll grant him any desire if he fills a
tree with flowers. Mikito decides he wants to be stronger, so Saki won't
be so ashamed of him. The next morning, Mikito wakes up, felling better
and hungrier than ever. At school, he doesn't give in to the bullies, he
actually fights them. And wins. After smashing on bully's face into the
wall repeatedly, he sees the blood stains. "It's rather strange," thinks
Mikito, "Until now, I always hated seeing blood. But now I think it's very
pretty. Almost like... a tree in full bloom..."

Mikito becomes more and more irritable and hungry as time passes. Soon,
he's eating raw meat and looking at humans as a possible food source. He
realizes something is wrong and tries to run away, but just can't manage
to do it. What will happen as his urges for blood and flesh increase?

Oh, Kurozakuro. You make my day filled with joy. Seeing the torrent for
the first half volume or so made me so happy... oh, I can't describe it.
Ever since I finished reading Togari last year, I had been hoping that
this mangaka would start something new. Kurozakuro is just as twisted and
awesome as Togari, and I hope it will evolve with a similarly wonderful
story. It is easy to see the Togari characters in the Kurozakuro
characters, but that is to be expected. This is a amazingly cool series,
and I can't chapters have been scanlated by Hanashi.

~>Enter Rant:

Man, I HATE HATE HATE canker-sores. I have this huge on just inside my
lip, and it is taking a very long time to heal. I'm contributing the
reason to stress. Bah! I want this quarter to be over already! It's not
like my classes are that hard, but I'm taking this writing class....
erg... it's a hundred-level class, but he makes us work like it is a three
hundred-level class. AT LEAST. It's a WRITING CLASS, but we have to give a
speech, participate in a debate... plus waaaayyy to many random
assignments. Ugh. I give my speech(Evolution vs Intelligent Design: What
should bio students learn?) next Tuesday, so I've been stressing over
that. Plus work, other classes, Ensuing... blah blah blah.

I'm waiting for two HUGE manga orders to come in... One from a seller in
Japan and one from ADV(they just had an awesome sale... $3.50 for a volume
of manga? I'm SO in.). I ended up spending about $150 together(enter
weeping wallet), but I'm getting a ton of good stuff... From Far
Away(1-14, raw), Outlaw Star(1-3, raw), Psychometer Eiji(1-5 raw), Wild
Half(five raw vols to complete my set), Desert Coral(1-3, translated),
Louie the Rune Soldier(1, translated), First King Adventure(1+2,
translated), Kagerou(1, translated), Gate(1, translated) and Vaizard(1,
translated). Yaaaaaay for new manga!

...that reminds me... If anyone wants to borrow any of my manga or anime,
just ask. For most cases, I will gladly let you borrow it. Maybe I'll put
up a list of stuff later. All I ask is that you TAKE CARE OF IT. =^_^=

Well, work calls and essays won't write themselves!
~Annaliese, ensuing@<removed>.com
My hell is drowned in music
</pre>

=== MnA: 5 Nov 2005 ===
<pre>

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 Genshiken - 6: Theory of the Individual Outside the Boundaries of the
Subculture
5:50 Break
5:55 Twelve Kingdoms - 6: Shadow of the Moon, Sea of the Shadow - The
Sixth Chapter
6:20 Stellvia - 6: I Won't Lose
6:45 Break
6:50 Inuyasha - 104: The Stealthy Poison Master, Mukotsu
7:15 Kyou Kara Maoh! - 6: The Cannibal Maken. The Fear of Morgif?
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Gad Guard - 6: The Five Masks
8:35 R.o.D: the TV - 6: The Right Stuff
9:00 Break
9:05 X TV - 6: Kouya
9:30 Shingetsutan Tsukihime - 6: White Dream
Planned Afterhours: Kakurenbo (which Annaliese tells me kicks major booty)

[random babbling]
I have come to the conclusion that, once people reach the age of sixteen,
their brains take a year-long vacation (at least). I figure this, because
every sixteen-year-old I've ever met has been utterly fucking retarded.
With this new understanding, I find that I feel really, really bad for
high school teachers. I sort of felt bad for them before, but I now feel
the same pity for them that I feel for anal-wart inspectors. And yes,
that's a real job.

Anyway, I can't wait for winter break. It'll be nice to have my life
back. I'm sick and tired of this "wake up do work pass out eat in between
if you have time" crap. ~_~

Feh. I'm grumpy. Ah, well. Kare Kano tonight! *squee* I predict that I
shall be in a MUCH better mood afterwards. I'll see you all tomorrow.
[/random babbling]

Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
"Mein Name ist Lucifer! Ich bin der Antichrist!"
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=== MnM Nov 10th, 2005 ===
<pre>

Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6pm-10pm, in 21-205. ...just a group of
kids with huge imaginations...

~>Manga o' the Week: Wild Half by Yuuko Asami

When Yuuko Asami decided she wanted to create a manga series, she knew she
had to make it about her dog. Thus, Wild Half was born.

Wild Half is a detective who always solves his crimes. No one has ever
seen his face... Taketo is a ordinary high school student living with his
detective brother. Taketo thinks the tales of Wild Half are awesome, but
his brother despises them. One day, while walking, Taketo sees a dog. He
ignores it, but it follows him. So he feeds it. And it follows him home.
At home Taketo finds out that his brother has been attacked at work and
had his gun stolen; an act that could cost him his job. Taketo freaks out,
he doesn't know how to help. The dog offers his assistance. Yes, the dog
talks. This surprises Taketo as well. He introduces himself as Salsa(you
read that right, it's Salsa), aka Wild Half. Together, they end up solving
many crimes!

Wild Half eventually turns into a story about relationships. No, it's not
yaoi, it's not shounen-ai. The bonds between people and pets, friends,
family members, etc. It's very sweet, but the series ends on a bittersweet
note. While Wild Half is by far the best thing I've ever read, it's very
enjoyable and well worth your time. It's a great rainy-day series.... sit
all bundled up with hot cocoa and a pile of volumes... yeah....

Wild Half ran from 1996 to 1999 for a total of 17 volumes. The series is
currently being scanlated by Manga Koejeke.

~>Enter Rant:

Ok, so I had to give a speech Tuesday. I worked hard Friday through Monday
memorizing and practicing. I get to class Tuesday morning(at
seven-fricking-am) to see my teacher LEAVING. He had a doctor's
appointment or something.... SO HE SAYS. So I didn't get to give the
speech. I get to have it hang over my head until tomorrow morning at
seven-fricking-am.Joy. I am sorely tempted to being my speech with, "I was
completely prepared for this on Tuesday, but..."

I worked really hard last night trying to finish up the volume I'm
assigned to for work. I worked about five hours straight, barely moving
from my computer chair. And that's just five hours straight. I had worked
a number of hours before that as well. Anyway, I worked until 10:30pm...
no shower, no dinner until then. But I finished! It was done! Thank
Tezuka! Life goes on, I ftp the files to work this t the next InuYasha
discs? Is it my Animenation order? NO. It's 80 pages of corrections for
work. *sigh* It never ends. Don't get me wrong, I love my job. I hate the
series I'm working on right now, but I love my job.

I'm looking forward to this friday quite a bit. After my stack of
corrections is complete, I'm going to bike over to Borders and get Her
Majesty's Dog, a series I've been looking forward to for months. Then I'll
relax with it, maybe watch a couple more episodes of Arc The Lad(Go
Pandit!), take a nice long shower... It'll be heaven... I can't wait!

~Annaliese, ensuing@<removed>.com
Go Sven, Gentleman Run!
</pre>

=== MnA: 12 Nov 2005 ===
<pre>

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 Genshiken - 7: Aspects of Behavioral Selection in Interpersonal
Relationships
5:50 Break
5:55 Twelve Kingdoms - 7: Shadow of the Moon, Sea of the Shadow - The
Seventh Chapter
6:20 Stellvia - 7: Vexing
6:45 Break
6:50 Inuyasha - 105: The Ghastly Steel Machine
7:15 Kyou Kara Maoh! - 7: Gone Wild? Straying? Maken Activated!
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Gad Guard - 7: If I Could Fly
8:35 R.o.D: the TV - 7: In A Grove
9:00 Break
9:05 X TV - 7: Civer Cyber
9:30 Shingetsutan Tsukihime - 7: Blue Tracks
Planned Afterhours: Cat Soup...maybe?

[random babbling]
You know, I sometimes wonder if maybe I'm doing something weird to screw
up my karma. Or if there IS a God and He thinks it's just really freakin'
hilarious to watch me squirm. Bastard.

I ended up feeling a little sick by the end of club last week. Just a
little sore throat; nothing major. I usually have a very slight sore
throat right before bed and right after I wake up in the morning. It goes
away during the day, though, so I don't generally give it much thought.

Until it explodes into an excess of pain and suffering, that is. Take last
weekend for example. I felt a little sore-throated on Saturday night, went
to bed, and woke up with my throat so swollen that I was literally choking
on my own trachea as I struggled to breathe. The excessive nausea,
headache, and pathetic weakness were a nice touch, too.

Lucky me, I had planned to spend the entire day programming, since my
project was due at midnight. Well, I couldn't very well NOT do the
program, so I ended up spending every waking minute on that damned program
(minus the two hours I was tutoring) until midnight finally came.
Unfortunately, I still wasn't done, so I emailed my professor, asked him
for a late day, and promptly went to bed.

Monday was a tiny bit better, but not by much. My sore throat had
trasformed (mostly) into the worst congested sinus problem I've had in
years. Oh, the nausea and weakness stuck around, too. With a lot of help
from Nur, I managed to smack my program into some semblance of correctness
and turned it in.

The next day, the nausea was gone and the sinuses cleared--slightly--but
they were still a problem and I still felt weak as a kitten. I spent a
little time studying and did my best to turn in a little early to get some
extra sleep before my midterm at 10am the next day.

Well, because the thought of a Systems Programming midterm terrified me, I
woke up at 6am so that I could get in some extra studying. Eventually 10am
came and I took my test...and I actually think I did well. I may not have
failed.

Unfortunately, the clarity that came to me yesterday seems to have sucked
its extra strength out of TODAY, because in Japanese independent study
today I did a lot of staring and made a lot of stupid little grammar
mistakes. I could not for the life of me figure out why Yuya-sempai was
asking me what time I'm going to have class on Fridays next quarter when I
thought I'd just explicitly told him that I WON'T have class on Fridays.
Turns out I was retarded at that moment and said "arimasu" ("exists")
instead of "arimasen" ("does not exist") when referring to class on
Fridays. *sigh*

Speaking of which, I registered this morning and my schedule ROCKS. No
class Fridays! No class 'til 4pm Mondays and Wednesdays! Of course, it's
only 13 units, but...*shrug* I honestly put the schedule together to open
up a maximum number of hours during which I can work. I definitely would
like more lab mon hours. Money is goooooood~<3.
[/random babbling]

Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
"Due South! It's...it's like...a cross between Crocodile Dundee and
MacGuyver! ... Sort of. But Canadian. And stuff."
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=== MnM Nov 17th, 2005 ===
<pre>

Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6pm-10pm, in 21-205. The rooms have a hint
of asbestos and just a dash of formaldehyde, and the habit of decomposing
right before your very eyes, along with the people inside!!

What a wonderful caricature of intimacy.

~>Manga o' the Week: Outlaw Star by Takehiko Itoh

Yes, yes. We've all seen the anime, and it's awesome. But this isn't the
anime. You know how Gene likes women? He REALLY likes them in this. the
first real scene opens up on him having sex with some girl. He does this
often. The basic story seems the same otherwise.
Gene Starwind hates flying because of an incident from his childhood, but
is forced into space where he gets an experimental ship and travels the
universe as an Outlaw(bounty hunter, if you will). He meets all sorts of
fun characters in his odd adventures.

Uuummmm... I can't say too much about this, as I've only read four
chapters. I'm desperately waiting for my copies to come in the mail. I
like the art and the flow of the panels a lot. It gives the series a very
"action feel" which I like. The volumes themselves are a bit bigger than
usual and have color pages. Yes, pretty color pages. And it has Gene. Am i
the only one who likes Gene? No one back in my high school seemed to like
him. I think it's his sexy scars. Rwar. Well... It's a cool series, check
it out.

The first four chapters have been scanlated, but it might be a bit hard ot
find them, as the series has ben licensed by . The series is 3 volumes
long(I think) and was originally published by Young Jump(again, I think).

~> Enter Rant:

Can you tell I'm tired?

I gave my speech Thursday morning and promptly got a cold. Actually, I
started feeling the symptoms of the cold on Wednesday night.Yeah, it was
fun. I've been exceedingly lazy this week... I find it hard to make myself
do paying-work or school-work. I can only use the sickness excuse for so
long. I've been waiting for that huge manga order to come in, and it is
driving me mad. I want my series! >.<

I finally started getting to work on a LiveJournal community for the
artist circle I belong to. Check it out, the comm name is 5PKBC. My lj
name is ensuing, for the curious. ^_^

In other news, we finish Bastard!! this week. ^_~
~Annaliese, ensuing@<removed>.com
Arigatou o kanade kanade
</pre>

=== MnA: 19 Nov 2005 ===
<pre>

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 Genshiken - 8: Comparative Research in Production Models and
Processes
5:50 Break
5:55 Twelve Kingdoms - 8: Shadow of the Moon, Sea of the Shadow - The
Eighth Chapter
6:20 Stellvia - 8: It's Me?
6:45 Break
6:50 Inuyasha - 105: The Ghastly Steel Machine
7:15 Kyou Kara Maoh! - 8: Conspiracy in the Moonlight
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Gad Guard - 8: Wandering Pair
8:35 R.o.D: the TV - 8: Seduced by the Night
9:00 Break
9:05 X TV - 8: Gemini
9:30 Shingetsutan Tsukihime - 8: Origami
Planned Afterhours: Dunno yet! :D Wanna suggest something?

[random babbling]
First of all, we're really sorry about Inuyasha last week, guys. The
script fell through and there was just nothing we could do. We could have
showed the episode in digisub, but that would have sucked. Therefore, we
are showing it this week instead. Hopefully you guys enjoyed watching
Guyver last week. *grin* C'mon. Boob-lasers. You know you love it.
Personally, I'm really hoping he doesn't get some kind of crotch-laser
later in the series, though. I really wouldn't put it past them. >_>

Anyway, I spent pretty much all of Sunday subtitling half of this
quarter's movie. It's not really hard, just time-consuming. And no, I
won't tell you what the movie is. :p You'll just have to show up to club
this week and listen to announcements if you want to know.

Hm...it feels weird to be writing this thing on Monday. Especially since I
know I won't be sending it out until about Wednesday. Getting things done
early really isn't my style, but I know my free-time is going to be pretty
much shot this week. I have a program due in a week (which shouldn't be
too bad...it looks kind of easy this time) and a speech to give on
Wednesday. Yech, speech. It's not that I worry about speaking in front of
people. I've really gotten a lot better at that. Believe it or not, you
guys are kind of like...practice. :D Hell, if I can play Minesweeper in
front of a room full of (oddly) interested fellow-nerds (come on, if
you're at club, you're a nerd...admit it; embrace it), then I can blab
about something that no one in the room cares about for five-to-seven
minutes. The only thing about the speech that I don't like is that it
involves working. Bah. I am lazy.

Speaking of which, I realized yesterday that I have something of a weird
philosophy on life. I try to work and get things done on time, but in the
end, what happens happens and all I really care about is that I'm alive. I
went to the CSL to work on my paper yesterday and I ended up sitting down
outside, staring up at the sky for an hour and a half. It was pretty
outside, the breeze was nice, and I was breathing. It just felt like the
right thing to do. I don't know if that means I'm lazy, or if it means I
appreciate the things that REALLY matter instead of the things that we all
work so hard to convince ourselves matter.

...I'm probably just lazy.
[/random babbling]

Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
"I love my computer, you're always in the mood. I get so turned-on when I
turn on you."
</pre>

=== MnM Dec 1st, 2005 ===
<pre>

Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6pm-10pm in 21-205. We'll be changing
rooms next quarter, just fyi.

~>Manga o' the Week: Chii's Sweet Home by Konami Kanata

Chii is the story of a kitten who gets separated from her family and is
adopted by a human family.

This series is the epitome of cute. Chii has the most perfect expressions,
and her actions constantly remind me of my kittens back home. The pages
are lush with color(the whole thing is in color) and the art style fits
the story very well. The books have very few words, so it is a wonderful
series for beginning students of Japanese.

If you stopped by our table at the Club Faire this year, you might have
seen this out with the rest of random collection. ^_^

Chii's Sweet Home is at least two volumes long, and is slowly being
scanlated by dokidoki.

~>Enter Rant:

Waaa~h, Dead Week. Thank goodness it's almost over. Looking back, I didn't
have a horrible quarter. Life was chaotic as could be, but I got through
without too many scars, so I consider myself lucky. Now I just have to
pull myself through a debate and three finals, then I will be free from
learning about arguing, ancient buildings, and sheetfed presses. I guess I
enjoyed learning about the ancient buildings though... ooh, but break...
I'm going to relax, sleep, catch up on the series I've fallen behind on,
go see The Lion. the Witch, and the Wardrobe, sleep, draw, sleep,forward
to that.

Jenn and I went over the movie with the subtitles last night, and
everything looks very sweet. I'm really excited about this movie, I hope
you'll enjoy it.

Hmmm... it seems like I send these out later and later every week... sorry
about that!

~Annaliese, ensuing@<removed>.com
"It's these substandard motels on the corner of 4th and Fremont Street.
Appealing, only because they are just that un-appealing;
Any practiced catholic would cross themselves upon entering."
</pre>

=== MnA: 3 Dec 2005 ===
<pre>

This week's schedule (it's a little weird because of the movie!):

5:00 Twelve Kingdoms - 9: Shadow of the Moon, Sea of the Shadow - The
Ninth Chapter
5:25 Stellvia - 9: I'm Off
5:50 Break
5:55 Kyou Kara Maoh! - 9: The Stolen Treasure
6:20 Gad Guard - 9: Snow Melts the Heart
6:45 Break
6:50 R.o.D: the TV - 9: Heart of Darkness
7:15 Shingetsutan Tsukihime - 9: Death
7:40 Dinner Break
8:25 Fall Quarter 2005 Movie: Shin Angyou Onshi
Planned Afterhours: None! Go home and study, you procrastinators!

[random babbling]
Woohoo! Break is done and now we're back to Minna! And the
end-of-the-quarter meeting, no less. Could life get any better? Dare I
say--no. :D

Well, okay, I admit that maybe it could. If, say, next week wasn't finals
week? Hm...in a way, that IS good, though, because after next week, it's
all over and we don't have to think about the crap we learned this quarter
ever again. Maybe I should rephrase that. We can forget everything we
learned in GEs and support courses, but we must desperately cling to the
knowledge we gained from our major classes in the lingering fear that
someday, in another class, it will become useful. Or even (gasp) be useful
in our post-school futures. Of course, I speak as a computer science
major. Maybe the rest of you actually have support courses that you'll
need to use again at some point in your lives. Calculus and physics are
pretty worthless to me.

Anyway, who else went and saw Harry Potter over the break? Hoo, baby, I
really liked that movie. XD Twins? Squee. The entire study hall scene?
*Big* squee. The fact that Daniel Radcliffe learned to cry on camera
between the last movie and this one? MAJOR squee. Excuse me while I
fangirl for a moment. But then, my favorite scenes were the ones with
Snape in them. :D Yep, I'm one of those Snape-fans. And I adore Alan
Rickman. XD

Lessee...lessee...Tsurugi's on Sunday! I believe we may end up witnessing
a bloody struggle full of pain and despair...when we try to fit everyone
in the tatami room. Ah, well. Pain and despair are good for disgestion.
...well, mine, at least. But I'm one of those people mommy told you not to
make eye-contact with and started walking faster to get around. Don't be
fooled by the innocent look. I'll eat your babies. Or, well, mochi.
Because mochi feels like baby flesh but tastes better and doesn't smell
funny. *I* think it's a suitable substitute.

Oh, I almost forgot to talk about the movie! If you like pure AWESOME,
you'd best come to club and watch Shin Angyou Onshi. Er...and don't mind
Annaliese and I if we giggle like morons every time someone gets hurt.
It's an inside joke that I'll explain to you after the movie if you really
want to know.
[/random babbling]

Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
"So, can anyone tell me if all orphans are destined to become zombies?"
</pre>

== Winter 2006 ==
=== MnM Dec 5th, 2005 [ed: actually for Jan 5, 2006] ===
<pre>

Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm, in bldg 13, room 110. WE ARE IN A
NEW ROOM! Do not go to the old stuffy room in building 21! ...Hopefully
this is a smartroom... I think the building is the engineering bldg behind
the library.

~Manga of the Week: Woo, two his week!

Before break, instead of studying all the time, I looked for new manga. It
was worth it when I found two news series, both currently scanlated by
Maximum7. They are both fairly new series, so unfortunately, there are
very few chapters for both, but these are both worth watching for.

Mieru Hito by Iwashiro Toshiaki
Mieru Hito is a story of a girl named Himeno who goes to live in Tokyo in
order to go to school there. She ends up meeting this huge evil
ghost/spirit and is saved by a "guide" named Myoujin. Being a "guide"
Myoujin can touch ghosts, send them to the afterlife, or destroy them if
need be. Himeno discovers that this guy also happes and watching Myoujin
fight evil spirits!

The story is very cute and seems to become a lot deeper as the series goes
on. I personally like series about ghost and spirits, especially when they
are filled with action and have the right amount of comedy. Mieru Hito
does just that. There is enough drama to prevent the comedy from taking
over, and enough badass spirit fighting to make everyone happy. The art is
a fun style, although perhaps a wee bit generic. It looks like a Midori no
Hibi mixed with Konjiki noyou without spoiling too much. Let me just say,
Riku is awesome, Neene is adorable, and Jinki powers rock.

When I first began reading it, I was amazed at the amazing art. There are
a few colored pages in the first chapter, and they blew me away. The art
is clean and smooth, and the coloring is very...warm. It gives you a very
calm feeling. Looking at it, you might recognize the style. That would be
because the mangaka is Daisuke Moriyama, the mangaka for Chrno Crusade.
World Embryo is his new work. There are only 8 chapters out in Japan (they
are all scnalated), and I am on my toes hoping for the next one to come
out soon. Moriyama has a way of having EVERY chapter end with a
cliffhanger, and it'll kill you waiting for the next.

~Enter Rant:

Hope everyone had a nice break. Mine was pretty cool. The highlight was
hanging out at the apartment and doing nothing productive.... unless you
consider reading copious amounts of manga and watching many many episodes
of anime productive. The trip to the used manga store in Los Angeles was
awesome too. Come on, 63 volumes of manga for about $120? I think it's an
awesome deal.

Unfortunately, school has started once more and life is back to stinking.
I hope this quarter does not turn out to be as bad as it seems it will! =\

I am desperately looking forward to both MnM and MnA!
~Annaliese, ensuing@<removed>.com
Gravion has a lot of plot, but not much talent.
</pre>

=== MnA: 7 Jan 2005 ===
<pre>

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 Genshiken - 9: Concerning the Existence of an Expository Requirement
under Special Non-social Circumstances
5:50 Break
5:55 Twelve Kingdoms - 10: Shadow of the Moon, Sea of the Shadow - The
Tenth Chapter
6:20 Stellvia - 10: Welcome Back
6:45 Break
6:50 Inuyasha - 106: Kagome, Miroku, and Sango: A Desperate Situation
7:15 Kyou Kara Maoh! - 10: The Demon Hand Approaching!
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Gad Guard - 10: Rolls of Money in the Sunset
8:35 R.o.D: the TV - 10: A Christmas Carol
9:00 Break
9:05 X TV - 9: Onmyou
9:30 Shingetsutan Tsukihime - 10: The Crimson Moon
Planned Afterhours:

[random babbling]
So! Guess what Erin and I did over the break...c'mon! You can do it!
Guess! That's right! We subtitled almost the whole next quarter of
Inuyasha! We are very crazy people.

Hm...when I wasn't subtitling, I was playing World of Warcraft. Ah, ys
curious, I have a Hoarde character on Dethecus and an Alliance character
on Medivh...but my Dethecus character is my main. ^_^

Wow...I don't have a lot to say...oh! I'm reeeeeally looking forward to
Twelve Kingdoms...that show is just SO awesome. Honestly, more than any of
the other shows, it's why I come to Minna. Well, that and you people. Most
of you. :D
[/random babbling]

Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
"If she speaks to me ONE more time, I will END her!"
</pre>

=== MnM Jan. 12th, 2006 ===
<pre>

Minna no Manga meets Thursdays 6-10pm in 13-110. Listen to the Beat of the
SOUL!

~Manga o' the week: Soul Eater by Atsushi Ookubo

Imagine a world where people use other people.Not to hard, eh? What about
using those people as weapons? Soul Eater is about a group of Weapon
Technicians and their weapons. Soul Eater is a demon scythe whose
technician is a girl named Maka, who is the daughter of Death Scythe,
another demon scythe, who is the main weapon of Shinigami-sama, who rules
over the world they all live in. Confused? The weapons can take at least
two forms, a human form and a weapon form. There are all sorts of
weapons... sickle and chains, guns, swords, etc, etc.

Soul Eater is about a group of young students who attend Shibusen
(Shinigami Weapon Techicians Vocational School). Weird stuff happens, and
they are sent out to take care of it. At the beginning, most of them are
just fun quests, but later they become very serious. The weapons and
their technicians greatest enemies are the witches and, guess what! A
witch has infiltrated Shibusen! Now everything is going to hell, there are
dangerous creatures everywhere, Soul gets sick, Maka loses her ability to
wield Soul, Black Star gets beat up by villagers, the demon blade Tsubaki
must fight her older brother, Sid-sensei gets turned into a zombie, Death
the Kid goes crazy over the lack of symmetry... and on and on and on.
Soul Eater is a wonderful series. The chapters are very fun and the story
keeps you always wanting more. Curse you for being a monthly! The series
are a very King of Bandits Jing-feel, so if you like Jing, you'll probably
like Soul Eater. The art is fun and the artist puts little amusing things
into the story and drawings. When walking down the path to talk to
Shinigami-sama, the arches are actually guillotines. When calling
Shinigami-sama, the phone number is 42-42-564, which can be roughly
translated to "die die kill." It's fun to see random little touches like
these in the series.

Soul Eater is being scanlated by Manga Rain. They have released through
chapters 1-5 and the three prologue chapters. The series runs in Shonen
GanGan (alongside Fullmetal Alchemist and 666 Satan). The fifth volume has
just been released.

~Enter Rant:

I really shouldn't try to write these when I first wake up. @_@

I hope you guys are surviving school better than I am. It's only the
second week and I already feel overwhelmed! But the worst part...
definitely the worst part, is working on this stupid series. I enjoy my
job, but this series is retarded. Like I just mentioned, I love it when
artists put little things for you to discover in their work. This artist
puts everything on the table in a sloppy manner, hoping someone will enjoy
his lazy organization. I can usually find some good things to say about a
series, but I can't find any for this one. I just hope I get assigned a
different one soon!

Jenn just started reading One Piece. It's really hard to get work dane
when she's reading awesome chapters of Sanji and Zoro kicking butt. When
she gets to the part where Chopper comes in I'll never get work done!

Don't forget your T-shrit designs this week! If you know where those PS2
controllers disappeared to, please bring them back or tell me! Thanks!

~Annaliese, ensuing@<removed>.com
Just for the record,
The weather for today
Is slightly sarcastic
With a good chance of
A) Indifference
B) Disinterest to what the critics say
</pre>

=== MnA: 14 Jan 2006 ===
<pre>

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 Genshiken - 10: Leisure Time Expenditures on Fetishism Considered as
an Economic Result
5:50 Break
5:55 Twelve Kingdoms - 11: Shadow of the Moon, Sea of the Shadow - The
Eleventh Chapter
6:20 Stellvia - 11: The Real You
6:45 Break
6:50 Inuyasha - 107: The First Time We See Inuyasha's Tears
7:15 Kyou Kara Maoh! - 11: Across the Dimensions, a War Begins
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Gad Guard - 11: No Return to the Town of Rainbow
8:35 R.o.D: the TV - 11: Goodbye Japan
9:00 Break
9:05 X TV - 10: Inuki
9:30 Shingetsutan Tsukihime - 11: Night of Disaster
Planned Afterhours: Nothing that I know of. Let's watch mold grow! :D

[random babbling]
In the lab is where I am;
Don't want to write this dumb program.
A hundred lines of assembly...
It only takes ten lines in C!

...you can tell I don't want to be here, right? I hope so. I don't want to
be here SO BAD that I actually wrote a POEM about it. Ugh. I feel
fourteen. Fear my lab-induced angst! (Hey, Annaliese! E-MO's!)

Bah. Anyway. As Annaliese mentioned, I've been reading One Piece, which
ROCKS. Zoro is <3. As is Sanji. And Ace. And Chopper. GAH. I love them all
WAY too much. I think I'm on about chapter 150 now...I'd be caught up with
what's out (chapter 400 or so), but I only started reading a couple days
ago and I haven't had much free time recently. Curse you, school.

For those of you who predicted World of Warcraft would steal my life, HA,
it hasn't. In fact, I only play a few times a week and only for about two
hours or so on school days. I find it odd that so many people seem to sell
their souls to it. Either I have really strong willpower or the world's
most pathetic attention sp-AH, a kitty! >_>

Okay, that was a bad joke. I admit it. Don't hurt me for stealing jokes
from Robin Williams. If you've seen the Robin Williams Broadway show, you
are awesome and automatically get...about...8 kudos. What exactly a kudo
is, how it can be quanitfied, and whether or not you can exchange it for
porn and/or food are questions that only you (and maybe the
internet...especially about that porn part) can answer. There really
should be a kudo system. That would be awesome. I would exchange my kudos
for really cool things. Like soda. And anime. And manga. ...really, the
same stuff I generally exchange money for, but kudos are easier to get.
And sound cooler than "dollars".

Yes, I realize I'm probably sounding a
bit...off?...flighty?...hyper?...today. I blame the 1.5 giant-ass mugs of
coffee I had this morning. Waking up at 4:30am, however, means that I have
to stay awake somehow. Unfortunately, that much coffee on an empty stomach
has three results for me: shaky hands, upset stomach, and the inability to
focus too hard on anything for an extended period of time. Side effects
include an amount of sarcasm proportional to the number of hours before my
regular waking time that I was forced to drag my ass out of bed, thereby
facilitating the utilization of caffeinated beverages and resulting in the
aforementioned effects and side-effects. Oh,
super-high-level-arrogant-egotistical-bastard writing, how fun you are.
Remember kids, I'm not an elitist; I just have higher standards than you.

On that rather swell-headed note, I think I feel my stomach staging an
uprising (oh personification, how useful you can be), so I'd better go and
actually eat something. If I don't dilute that damned coffee a little
more, I'm going to end up with a migraine the size of this rant.
[/random babbling]

Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
"When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful,
A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical.
And all the birds in the trees, they could sing so happily,
So joyfully, oh playfully, watching me."
</pre>

=== MnM Jan 19th, 2006 ===
<pre>

Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm, in 13-110. This e-mail is better
late than never, right? Right? ... :(

~>Manga o' the Week: Shin Angyou Onshi

You guys should know what it is about, and you should know that I love it
to death. So, I'm not going to write a review on it. Instead, at Mark's
request, have a YSI link to everything that has been released.

http://s17.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3Q3IOHGYT3ZVH2K1EGFJWFEMZU
That link is good for 7 days or a limited number of downloads. It if goes
down, just e-mail me and I'll put it back up

...and because I'm feeling generous, here is the first chapter of Nabari
no Ou, as requested by Shay. This series is where the club computer's
current wallpaper comes from. It's about ninjas... and stuff.

http://s6.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0DCRR32GGO8VM3U8NSYME86DV0

~>Enter Rant:

Ok, ok, so I get volume 11 of Ultimate Muscle in the mail today. For those
who don't know, I am the current letterer and touch-up artist for this
series. That means I take the japanese text and sfx out and replace them
with english "equivalents." This is the first volume I've completed, so I
was pretty excited to see how it came out.

OH
MY
TEZUKA.

I don't think I've seen an uglier volume of manga anywhere. The series
itself is ugly enough, but I helped it out quite a bit. The sfx are
blurry, the touch-up is hideous, it's quite embarrassing. It gets much,
much better as the volume goes on, but it is good for a laugh. I'm
surprised they still let me work!

I got Shadow Hearts Covenant this weekend. ...it's very, very awesome.
I've put way too much time into it already. 12 hours in two and a half
days! But I must continue to collect souls in order to gain more fusion
forms! Go go Yuri!

...I wish Jenn wouldn't read so much One Piece, because now I'm fangirling
over it all the time. U_U

~Annaliese, ensuing@<removed>.com

I don't mind the sun sometimes
The images it shows
I can taste you on my lips
And smell you in my clothes
Cinnamon and sugary
And softly spoken lies
You never know just how you look
Through other people's eyes
</pre>

=== MnA: 21 Jan 2006 ===
<pre>

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 Genshiken - 11: The Theory of the Existence of Malice Within Urban
Crimes
5:50 Break
5:55 Twelve Kingdoms - 12: Shadow of the Moon, Sea of the Shadow - The
Twelfth Chapter
6:20 Stellvia - 12: Confession
6:45 Break
6:50 Inuyasha - 108: The Secret Of The Pure Light
7:15 Kyou Kara Maoh! - 12: The Chain of Love and Fate
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Gad Guard - 12: Bluebird
8:35 R.o.D: the TV - 12: The Paper's Twilight
9:00 Break
9:05 X TV - 11: Border
9:30 Shingetsutan Tsukihime - 12: Moon World
Planned Afterhours: Maybe? Who knows. I might try bringing a disc of Yami
no Matsuei if no one comes up with anything better. And if I'm not feeling
sleepy on Saturday. >_>

[random babbling]
Hey kiddies! Guess where I am...again. That's right, computer architecture
lab (ohgodpleasekillmenow). ... I suppose it's not as bad as all that,
really. I'm just a horrible little procrastinator. So it seems worse than
it is.

Anyway, did you know that this week is the last episode of Tsukihime?
After this week, we'll be showing Paranoia Agent. In retrospect, I
actually sort of like PA. A helluva lot more than Stellvia, at least.
*cough* >_>;; The opening is pure awesome. And it's all f-ed up, which is
fun. I probably just disliked it originally because I watched it all in
one night when I first saw it. Speaking of Tsukihime, you go, Shiki! Woo!
Score! Goal! ...all this bad shit happens to him, so I suppose it's about
time he got some lovin'.

...correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this week's episode of KKM may be
kicking off my favorite arc of the show. (Annaliese, dolphin? KG? :D) If
this is the arc I'm thinking of, I shall be a very happy fan on Saturday.
Although I'm already a pretty happy fan, since I'm getting all squee-ish
over Twelve Kingdoms. Jeez, I love that show WAY too much.

Since I seem to be hitting a few things from last week, I have to ask: was
Inuki-puppy not the absolute cutest thing ever? It almost makes me want a
dog again. XD I still prefer cats. And birds.

Getting away from the topic of what we watching last week (but not quite
away from the topic of cute things), I finally caught up with all of One
Piece that's been released. Two words: FREAKIN' AWESOME. I need to watch
some of the anime. The subbed anime. I wouldn't watch the dub if you paid
me. I really adore characters that have multiple personality levels. For
example, Zoro. He seems like the kind of character that really only has
the potential to be a selfish, stupid badass. In reality, he is (and I kid
you not) the mother hen of the group. XD He worries, tells people to be
careful, and always seems to be trying to make things work out. Except
with Sanji. Their relationship is so foul-mouthed. e_e Still, that seems
to be the way they relate best, and in some of the more recent chapters,
Zoro is obviously worrying about Sanji being by himself on a train full of
bad guys. :D

In short, I love One Piece and I adore Zoro. If you've started to write OP
off because of the weird-ish art style, DON'T. This is seriously the most
completely awesome series I've read in a long, long time. Just give it a
chance. I'll burn you the first 400 chapters or so if you ask for them or
you can go to www.stoptazmo.com. Do it. The power of awesome compels you.
:O
[/random babbling]

Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
"One-Nostril Nat, Cat-Eye-Cannon Jenn, and eBrow Annaliese?! A winning
combination indeed!"
</pre>

=== MnM Jan 26, 2006 ===
<pre>

Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm, in 13-110. ...for those who feel
like being social!

~>Manga o' the Week: W Juliet by Emura

"Sixteen-year-old tomboy Ito Miura has been chosen to play Romeo in Romeo
and Juliet! The problem? She doesn't want the male role! So, who will be
Juliet? The favorite for the part, beautiful and vain Tsugumi, must
compete with the cute new transfer student, Makoto Amano.

Makoto not only has the looks, but her audition proves that she has the
acting chops to play any role assigned. But Makoto has a secret, and if
rival Tsugumi, or anyone in the school, finds out, it could ruin Makoto's
life, dragging Ito down as well!" (stolen ruthlessly from Rightstuf)

What's Makoto's secret? Well, she is a he! In order to pursue his dream to
become an actor, he had to fulfill this requirement from his father; spend
the rest of his high school days as a girl. If anyone finds out, he must
return home and take over the family dojo. Ito, after stumbling on
Makoto's secret, promises to help protect it, and a series of fun and wild
adventures follow.

It is series like this that remind me that shoujo series can kick ass too.
The story is so much fun and so cute, I always find myself needing the
next volume right away. It's a lot of fun to see the art evolve over the
volumes, and even more fun to read the artist's thoughts on her earlier
work. Finally, I have found an artist that suffers the same problems as I
do! ...of course, she's about a million levels above me, but it's still a
comforting thought. ^_^

W-Juliet is licensed by Viz, and the first eightvolumes (out of 14) have
been released. Some group was scanlating it ages ago, and you can find the
first four volumes in IRC channels if you look hard enough.

~>Enter Rant:

I think I have the writing level of a second-grader.

Arg, I hate school. I don't have any classes I enjoy this quarter, and it
makes spending the 6-10 hours a day in class a very painful experience. I
guess every major has a series of classes that suck, but I didn't think it
would be this painful! *sigh*

I've been trying to make myself happier by playing lots of Shadow Hearts
Covenant. I've put about 25 hours into it since buying it on the 15th and
am now on the second disc. I swear this game gets better and better. I
broke down and ordered the third game, which comes out in early March. I
had to, the pre-order bonus was a copy of the first game. Now I'm going to
have to decide which to play first... Zelda: Twilight Princess or Shadow
Hearts: From the New World. Choices... choices... (pah, I love SH, but
Zelda games are always #1 in my heart!)

I have two papers and a speech to write, so I'm trying not to play and
games until Friday in an attempt so get maybe two of them done. Alas, the
pain is great, but I only have to hold out a couple more days!

~Annaliese, The GodSlayer ensuing@<removed>.com
What kind of game has mistletoe as a weapon??
</pre>

=== MnA: 28 Jan 2006 ===
<pre>

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 Genshiken - 12: The Countermeasures for the Issues that Occur during
the Reorganization of a Group
5:50 Break
5:55 Twelve Kingdoms - 13: Shadow of the Moon, Sea of the Shadow - The
Final Chapter
6:20 Stellvia - 13: Winter Break
6:45 Break
6:50 Inuyasha - 109: Hidden in the Mist: Onward to Mt. Hakurei
7:15 Kyou Kara Maoh! - 13: The Bride and Yuri and Gwendal
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Gad Guard - 13: The People Who Live in Darkness
8:35 R.o.D: the TV - 13: Twilight of the Papers II
9:00 Break
9:05 X TV - 12: Alternative
9:30 Paranoia Agent - 1: Shounen Bat Has Arrived!
Planned Afterhours: None that I know of. I'm sure someone will bring
something.

[random babbling]
Well, hello again. First once, I am not in lab while writing this email
(yes, I know, shocking). The reason for this is that I had a midterm today
in that class, and therefore we have no lab to do. Yay. I'm sure you all
care so much. >_o

Bah. I'm feeling bitchy today. This may have a lot to do with the fact
that it's only 10:15am, but I've been awake for over four hours, I still
have a three-hour lab and a three-hour CSL shift today, and I have to go
to Minna no Manga tonight for four hours. I hate Thursdays, because they
require me to leave the apartment at 7:45am and not return until 10:15pm.
That's a lot of time away from home, and I am very, very tired. Already. I
still have twelve hours before I can go home.

Shit.

Maybe I'll skip MnM tonight. Fun as it usually is, I really don't want to
be here any longer than I have to be. I meant to go to bed really early
last night and, like an idiot, ended up staying awake 'til 10:30pm anyway.
Dammit. I feel like taking another one of those 21-hour naps, like the
time in Freshman year I fell asleep at 7pm and woke up the next day at
4pm. Good times. ...unfortunately, Annaliese probably won't let me skip
MnM, despite the fact that I'll be miserable. *sigh* =_=

And aren't I just a little ray of sunshine? Grrrr. At least this weekend
I'll FINALLY have the time to spend to level my character up in WoW. I've
been neglecting that game far too much lately (and yes, "neglecting" as in
"holy crap, I haven't been on for a week?!", not the standard WoW "I
haven't been on for 24 hours? omg"). I ain't payin' $15 a month to
accumulate rest for 28 days out of the month...though that makes leveling
decidedly less painful when I actually get around to it.

Anyway, yeah...don't die, see you guys on Saturday.
[/random babbling]

Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
"Dear Lord, please grant me the ability to punch people in the face over
standard TCP/IP." - an internet prayer
</pre>

=== MnM Feb 02, 2006 ===
<pre>

Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm in 13-110.

~>Manga o' the week: Rise R to the Second Power by Maki Hakoda

"Young Kenta Akagi has never been anywhere except for his hometown of
Lutzheim, where he currently ekes out an existence as a pizza delivery
boy. Faraway places, strange foreign folks, the wars they fight, and the
adventures they have are just stories to him, until he meets a young girl
- the kind of girl that wars are fought over!

People seem afraid of her, but Kenta doesn't understand why. All he knows
is that he seems to remember her from somewhere, and that he has to
protect her no matter what!"-ripped off of rightstuf.com

R^2 is a wonderful series with beautifully simple art. The story is
interesting, the character are interesting, and Kenta wears rollerblades
and goggles. You can't beat that.

R^2 is being released by ADV Manga. They released volume 1 about 19 months
ago, and we're still waiting for vol 2. Bah to you, ADV Manga.

~> Enter Rant:
Yay! I gave my second big speech today in SCOM101. It's over! It's done!
I'm happy. I did not allow myself to play Shadow Hearts 2 all weekend in
order to help me prepare for it. So guess what I did this evening! Damn
straight, got my SH2 playing in. Ah, I love it so. As I get further and
further in, I seem to be playing less and less... I still have a month
before the next one comes out!

Does anyone keep up with Reborn? The livejournal community (hitman_reborn)
just released chapter 79, and ooooohhhh baby is it awesome. This series
just keeps getting better. I'm a huge Hayato fan, but Tsuna has actually
become number one to me. GAHHHH! Please read this series! You can get
scans for the current arc (chapters 62-79) at the lj comm:

http://community.livejournal.com/hitman_reborn/7441.html

I helped edit chapters 62-64, so you can see my uuggglllyyy quick editing
skills. Ooh, the ugly!

http://s6.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2VBSCEZ7CJRKV1QR1BJJ1CVXND
This is a link for the three prologue and five regular chapters of Soul
Eater that have been released, as requested b Keith. The chapters that end
in a P are the prologue chapters. ^_^

~Annaliese
Baa Baa Black Sheep...
</pre>

=== MnA: 4 Feb 2006 ===
<pre>

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 Midori no Hibi - 1: Right-Hand Girlfriend
5:50 Break
5:55 Twelve Kingdoms - 14: Shadow of the Moon, Sea of the Shadow - Chapter
of Recollection
6:20 Stellvia - 14: Dreams and Reality
6:45 Break
6:50 Inuyasha - 110: Enter Bankotsu, The Lead of the Band of Seven
7:15 Kyou Kara Maoh! - 14: Yuri, Doing Hard Labor
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Gad Guard - 14: Seeking Lost Time
8:35 R.o.D: the TV - 14: Paper Leaf Wood
9:00 Break
9:05 X TV - 13: Return
9:30 Paranoia Agent - 2: The Golden Shoes
Planned Afterhours: Dunno. >_>

[random babbling]
In all honesty, it's 11:45pm and I'm too tired to write much here. Let's
just say that bioengineering 213 (mainly the bio part) is the worst course
I've had to take here at Cal Poly, because the teacher is
in-fricking-sane. Seriously. I'm not kidding. He writes maybe five words
on the board during the entire two-hour class and fills the rest of it
with diagrams (which, by the way, I think you just might have to be on
drugs to make any sense out of). It sucks. A lot.

Apparently I have a cold, which also sucks. I went to the health center
and wasted an hour and a half of my life just to be told to get some rest
and drink my fluids. Gee, thanks Captain Obvious.

Like I said, I'm tired, my contacts are burning, and I'm grumpy as hell.
See you guys later.
[/random babbling]

Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
"Shadow Hearts--putting the 'gay' in 'game'."
</pre>

=== MnM Feb 9th, 2006 ===
<pre>
Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm, 13-110.

~>Manga o' the Week: From Far Away by Kiyoko Hikawa

On her way home from school one day, Noriko is unexpectedly plunged into a
strange and extraordinary fantasy world. Her troubles compound
exponentially when she is rescued and befriended by a handsome young man
by the name of Izark.

He may be brave and courageous, but inside Izark lurks the darkest evil
imaginable. And according to an ancient prophecy, Noriko possesses the
power to unleash that evil. Now, inexorably bound together, these two
unlikely allies must navigate a world both wondrous and hostile."
-Yoinked from Rightstuf, as usual

From Far Away seems like your typical shoujo series on first glance. The
story is so-so and the art is alright. But the real charm in this series
is in the variety of poses and the emotion the artist puts into her work.
It's easy to see what each character is feeling, just by looking at them.
This is especially apparent in Izark(wait, they call him Izark in english?
It's Izaku in Japanese... wouldn't that make him Issac or something?).
I've gotten so much art-practice just by studying the poses in manga.
Plus... later there is a demon. Mmmm, I like demons. The story gets really
awesome a couple volumes in too. It's an excellent 14-volume series being
brought out by Viz Media.

~>Enter Rant:

Okay, I spent about seven hours writing a paper for my speech class this
last weekend. Let me tell you, it was not fun. But, I wanted to get it
done early so I could step away from it for a while and edit it later.
Today, my professor announces it is not due next week as it says on the
sheet, but this Thursday. A little lame and mean if you ask me, but since
I had mine pretty much done, I'm good. BUT NO! It turns out I had
misinterpreted the instructions and written on the wrong thing. GREAT. So
I trudge ho me keep what turns out well.

In other news, I beat Shadow Hearts Covenant. The last boss was incredibly
hard; I needed to gain about five levels before I could beat him. I
probably could have beaten him after about two levels, but he hurt my
characters and my pride the first time I fought him, I needed to give him
a taste of his own medicine. Holy hells, I love that game to pieces. It
had a bittersweet ending, but it was awesome anyway. Luckily, I got the
good ending. I downloaded the bad ending, just to check it out. Yeah, it
sucked. It really was a bad ending. Just one month until the third game
comes out!

Ahhh, new Reborn chapter came out today. DGM and Bleach are still at slow
parts for me, so most of my manga-excitment is being drawn out of Reborn.
...and this series does not let me down.

~Annaliese
Dying Will Flame!
</pre>

=== MnM Feb 16th, 2006 ===
<pre>

Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm, in 13-110.

I was going to talk about a manga about a hermaphrodite, fangirl about
Digimon, and express my happiness from the lack of school on Friday, but
I'm too tired.

~Annaliese
*dead*
</pre>

=== MnA: 18 Feb 2006 ===
<pre>
This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 Midori no Hibi - 3: Discovery Days
5:50 Break
5:55 Twelve Kingdoms - 16: Sea of the Wind, Shore of the Labyrinth - The
Second Chapter
6:20 Stellvia - 16: Under Suspicion
6:45 Break
6:50 Inuyasha - 112: The Barrier at Hijiri Island
7:15 Kyou Kara Maoh! - 16: Maoh7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Gad Guard - 16: The Day We Bare Our Fangs
8:35 R.o.D: the TV - 16: Fahrenheit 451
9:00 Break
9:05 X TV - 15: Guardian
9:30 Paranoia Agent - 4: A Manly Way of Life
Planned Afterhours: Same as usual~~~

[random babbling]
I really don't have much to say. CPE315 has been eating my soul. I'll see
you all on Saturday.
[/random babbling]

Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
"The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame."
(Hellsing is awesome)
</pre>

=== MnM Feb 23rd, 2006 ===
<pre>

Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm, in 11-110. It has been
scientifically proven that MnM atendees are 11.4% cooler than other MnA
members. Oh my.

~>Manga o' the Week: Boku no Futatsu no Tsubasa (My Two Wings) by Yui
Toshiki

Well, I has a feeling some people might want to know about the manga I
mentioned last week. Yes, the one about the hermaphrodite.

So you have your main characters, Hiro, and her cousin Mako. Mako comes to
live with Hiro to attend her school. ...and it just so turns out that Mako
is a hermaphrodite. Hiro has trouble dealing with this at first, but the
story quickly turns into a "we must hide your secret together" sort of
thing. Then it discusses social and gender walls, finally leading into the
characters exploring sex. No, not with each other....after the first
time... which wasn't really anything but an accident... *cough*

I'm not a big fan of the art, and sometimes the story just seems like the
mangaka wanted to draw porn but couldn't completely bring themselves to do
it. Don't get me wrong, this is no porn series (sorry =P). While these two
points really do take a lot from the series, I really do enjoy how they
blindly break down these walls society has put up about gender. So, I
guess I recommend it. Just don't read it around people under the age of 17
or parents who won't see past some of the more sexual scenes.

Chapters 1-17 have been released by ADTRW.

~> Enter Rant:

I'm always so tired after I finish my Wednesdays. I could never figure it
out, seeing as I only have one three-hour lab and a two-hour lecture.
While walking back, I think I finally figured it out. In the lecture class
I have I have to write a 3000-word paper. It's due in two weeks and I have
about 350 words written. Not cool. Going to the class reminds me how soon
it is due and how bland my topic is and wears me out. This gets me
thinking about the hundred other things I have to do and it's like getting
smashed under the Hiedelberg Speedmaster in building 26. For you none
GrC-ers, that's a multi-ton press. Mmmm, smashy. I'm not saying I have
more than anyone else to do, I think I just stress out about it way too
much. Every Wednesday I come home now thinking about all the work I should
do on my paper, but I'm so worn out I end up taking the night off and
watching anime. This weekend I think I'll pour the majority of my energy
into it and get most of it written. Oooh, I'm excited. Just about as
excited as a girl can get when faced with a paper about as excited as a
girl can get when faced with a paper about the different methods of
Gravure cylinder engraving. Woo.

I've been fangirling over Digimon all over again lately. I've been
watching the series since it aired in the states back in the day. It beats
the pants off of Pokemon, yo. Now don't get me wrong, I love Pokemon (some
of the best video and card games I've ever played),but it can't beat
Digimon. Out of the four seasons that have aired, I'd have to say my
favorite is the fourth, Digimon Frontier. It's all about Kouji and
Kouichi. but the best Digidestined ever? Takeru(TK). Best Digimon ever?
Patamon and his digivolutions. Sorry. Fangirling. Anyway, they're bringing
out a new series, Digimon Savers! I'm just about dying with excitement.
I'm now looking forward to it more than the Host Club anime. The
characters look a bit older than usual which make me wonder if it'll be
aimed at older audiences. Well, I guess we'll see when it comes out.
...We'll also see if the main character gets the goggles he's supposed to
have!

I'm going to put my paper off and watch disc 5 of Heat Guy J. It's an
awesome series, and WAY cheap if you look hard enough. The whole thing
cost me a bit under $50. That's seven discs, three in a lame plastic
slipcase, four in a pimp box. Mmm. And they are shiny cases. I like shiny
things.

~Annaliese, ensuing@<removed>.com
"You disturbed, wicked heart, it would be best for you to sleep, covered
in darkness. By this Digivice, be purified! Digicode Scan!!"
</pre>

=== MnA: 25 Feb 2006 ===
<pre>
This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 Midori no Hibi - 4: Secret's Exposure!?
5:50 Break
5:55 Twelve Kingdoms - 17: Sea of the Wind, Shore of the Labyrinth - The
Third Chapter
6:20 Stellvia - 17: Battle
6:45 Break
6:50 Inuyasha - 113: The Holy Dokko and the Secret of the Mummy
7:15 Kyou Kara Maoh! - 17: I7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Gad Guard - 17: Gun - Sword - Beast
8:35 R.o.D: the TV - 17: Sweet Home
9:00 Break
9:05 X TV - 16: Slaugher
9:30 Paranoia Agent - 5: Holy Warrior
Planned Afterhours: Crackhead homocidal kangaroos battle it out for your
amusement! ...and their next hit. (don't ask)

[random babbling]
Fuuuu...so this week has been crazy for me...how about for all you people?
I had a CPE315 midterm this morning (though technically it still IS "this
morning"...though it probably won't be when you read this. Unless you
check your mail like crazy. Like me.

Anyway, the midterm only took me one of the three allotted hours, so
hopefully this a good sign. I know I missed the first problem (for those
of you comp sci out there, I miscalculated the CPI of a new microprocessor
with an altered instruction set by forgetting to subtract the appropriate
frequency of instructions from the MIPS R-type set, therefore incorrectly
finding a 1:1 correlation in the old and new machines' frequencies), but
it's only worth 15 points and I think I'll probably get at least five of
those. The rest of the test was really easy, so it's possible I might even
get a 90%.

You know, I have NO idea Ouendan had a Ready Steady Go level. Dammit. Now
I need to go and play the game for the next couple of hours before I have
to give it back to Steebu. lol At least I'll have a better excuse for
playing that than I did when I got on WoW this morning to finish one quick
quest. XD
[/random babbling]

Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
"A hundred feet above the landing
There's a girl gliding down.
She's floating towards me now,
Her sleeves are all stretching out,
The jet is following behind.

Wake up."
</pre>

=== MnM March 2nd, 2006 ===
<pre>
Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm in 11-110. It's week nine and it
feels like the sky is falling! X_x

~>Manga Checkup: Mieru Hito

So I talked about MH earlier this quarter, but I thought it was time to
give it another look. I don't get my hopes up thinking that everyone who
reads these little reviews will suddenly go out and download/buy/check out
the series I talk about. When I do hear about people checking stuff out,
you can't imagine how happy it makes me.

Anyway, back to MH. Chapter 30 just came out in Japan last week and let me
tell you, I was amazed. It is really incredible how much an artist can
improve in such a short time. The story has really gained some depth and
the characters have been fleshed out a bit more.

I still highly recommend it. Maximum7 (www.maximum7.com) has the
scanlations for ch1-10, and sources say 11 has been released as well. If
anyone wants the raws I have (ch16-20, 28-30), I'll be happy to upload
them.

~>Enter Rant:

It really is amazing how one thing can lead to another which leads to
another which leads to- well, you get the point.

When I work on Ultimate Muscle pages, I like to take short breaks between
every couple pages. So I decided to re-read Alien Dice
(www.aliendice.com). It's really a fun comic with a great cast (Rwar, Lexx
<3).Anyway, I decided to read a month's worth of comics between each page.
Hey, some of these pages take almost an hour and I can get through a
month's worth of AD in about 5min. So somehow I make it through all five
or so years worth of comics. Still feeling in the Tiffany Ross mood, I
decided to re-read one of her 7 other comics. Yeah, she's pretty dang
busy. So I start reading Akalae and re-reading Campus Safari. Now these
stories focus on anthro-characters, so I go to bed thinking about them. I
believe this lead me to have a dream about a guy who could turn into a
winged-wolf named Wolf. Odd. I go to my lab to hear my teacher drone on
and on and end up doodling Wolf in my notes. A friend saw and actually
complimented me on it, so we got to talking and I ended up deciding to put
him in future chapters of the story I'm working on for the 5pants Kicking
Board Club project. Woo.

5pkbc is, btw, the NorCal artist circle I belong to. Don't know if I've
ever mentioned it.

Yeah, sorry about the long and random story. My brain is feeling like
scrambled eggs. Too much to deal with right now. I just want to relax
tonight and watch more Heat Guy J, but I have 70 pages worth of Ultimate
Muscle corrections to go through, my gravure paper to fix up, and other
odds and ends that have piled up.

~Annaliese, ensuing@<removed>.com
"You're sitting there thinking your thoughts. They are not about what is,
but what is not. You are sitting there, breathing in your breath. You are
seldom breathing life, but mostly death." ~Commissioning A Symphony in C
by Cake
</pre>

=== MnA: 4 Mar 2006 ===
<pre>
This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 Midori no Hibi - 5: Love Strength
5:50 Break
5:55 Twelve Kingdoms - 18: Sea of the Wind, Shore of the Labyrinth - The
Fourth Chapter
6:20 Stellvia - 18: Distant Voice
6:45 Break
6:50 Inuyasha - 114: Kouga's Lonely Fight
7:15 Kyou Kara Maoh! - 18: For That Love
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Gad Guard - 18: The Logic of Those Who Leave
8:35 R.o.D: the TV - 18: Confession
9:00 Break
9:05 X TV - 17: Wish
9:30 Paranoia Agent - 6: Hesitation Over the Attack
Planned Afterhours: More o' the same...

[random babbling]
So, you know, I've been reading a book this week in the minutes I manage
to spare between classes and homework and internet and such. I haven't sat
down and read a good book in a long time, and I'm shocked to realize just
how badly I miss it. The book, incidentally, is "The Last Unicorn". Yes,
it's sort of a "young adult" level book. Bite me. It's totally awesome.
Beagle uses some of the most amazing written imagery I've ever come
across, and his style is such that you end up going for a ride and don't
even realize you were on one until it's time to get off. I have to re-read
some of the paragraphs he's written at times, because some of it is just
too completely awesome to only read once. I definitely recommend picking
it up if you like fantasy and enjoy reading well-written material.

Anyway, I was thinking of blabbering on about school and other fun things
like that, but I don't feel like it. So mnyeh.
[/random babbling]

Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
"How can you see without eyeballs?"
"How can YOU walk around without a brain? Some things no one can answer."
</pre>

=== MnM March, 9th, 2006 ===
<pre>
Minna no Manga meets 6-10pm on Thursdays in 13-110. Last meeting of the
quarter, ladies and gentlemen!

~>Manga(kinda) o' the Week: Sorcerers and Secretaries by Amy Kim Ganter

S&S is one of Tokyopop's bajillion Original English Language series. OEL.
hahaha. OEL. It sounds silly. Anywho. Amy had won some place in Rising
Stars of Manga v3, and this is a continuation of it.

Nicole is a dreamer. When she wakes up, she rights her dreams in her dream
log, and flushes the story out during the day. School sucks, her friend is
a ditz, her work sucks... but at least she has this dream log. Her dreams
are about a character named Ellon, and his quest to retrieve the part of
his soul that was stolen from him. In the real world, Josh, a guy who
lived near her earlier, has started to flirt with her. Should Nicole go
for the guy or remain planted in her fantasy world? Will Annaliese ever
learn how to write interesting reviews? Who knows?

S&S is a wonderfully charming story. I've been a fan of Amy's work since
she was still updating her webcomic, Reman Mythology. The characters are
very realistic and they make me feel like they are people I could run into
on the way to class. I understand how Nicole feels with her love for her
characters and how important they become to her. The art is simplistic but
very well done. It's a lot of fun to look for the little details that she
puts into it...like book titles that are other Tokyopop OEL titles...

Sorcerers and Secretaries volume 1 is out. The release date for volume 2
is undetermined, but it will be the final volume.

~>Enter Rant:

Arg, it's been a busy week. Everyday this week something special is going
on, good or bad.

Monday: Jenn's birthday! WOOOOOOOO!
Tuesday: Group Speech... Booooo! Shadow Hearts 3, Howl's Moving Castle,
and Whisper of the Heart released! YAAAAAAY!
Wednesday :Project and Gravure Cylinder Engraving Paper of DOOOOOOOMMMM
due. The paper chewed my soul up. I'm so happy to get these turned in...
Thursday: ....nothing here except MnM.....
Friday: Sales and Marketing presentation... BOOOO!!! BOOOOOO!

See? Bleh week. I'm hoping that Shadow Hearts will get here soon... I've
had it preordered for over a month, and I'm really dying to get it. I
guess it is good it won't be here until after everything is due. But
still~~~~ *whimper*

Well, work calls!

~Annaliese, ensuing@<removed>.com
"Wake up the voiceless! Wake up the revolution! We are alive tonight!"
</pre>

=== MnA: 11 Mar 2006 ===
<pre>
This week's schedule (note the movie-induced weirdness):

5:00 Midori no Hibi - 6: Shiori's Love Love Battle
5:25 Twelve Kingdoms - 19: Sea of the Wind, Shore of the Labyrinth - The
Fifth Chapter
5:50 Break
5:55 Stellvia - 19: Crybaby Hothead
6:20 Kyou Kara Maoh! - 19: Hero vs. Maou (part 1)
6:45 Break
6:50 Gad Guard - 19: A Road Companion
7:15 R.o.D: the TV - 19: Family Game
7:40 Dinner Break
8:25 Winter Quarter 2006 Movie: Appleseed
Planned Afterhours: No clue. ._.

[random babbling]
So, you know...it was my birthday on Monday. And Annaliese's birthday is
tomorrow, on Thursday. I got lots of cool stuff. I love my roommates. And
Steebu. Because Steebu, you're awesome. Thanks to Annaliese, I think I now
have more One Piece doujinshi than any other series. O_o Intriguing, that.
Anyway, it's 8am and I'm dead tired. I need to go to lab and try to do a
week's worth of four peoples' work in only six to ten hours. I feel
exhausted just thinking about it. I cannot die before Tsurugi's! Must
press on! :O
[/random babbling]

Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
"Watashi no pantsu no naka ni hi ga arimasu. Soshite, sono hi wa anata no
tame ni moete iru yo!"
</pre>

== Spring 2006 ==
=== MnM, March 30th, 2006 ===
<pre>

Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm, in 13-110! Four day week, woo!

~>Manga o' the Week: Soul Rescue by Aya Kanno

It's a story about a crazy-violent angel who gets sent to earth with a
partner and must destroy the darkness from 10,000 people in order to be
able to return to heaven.

The series is really short, it's only two volumes. The story seems like it
was canned, because cool stuff starts to happen in the second volume but
never completely gets cleared up. Curses! All the good ones are canned!
Anywhooo.... the art is pretty good, I especially like the end of chapter
pictures. Plus, crazy angel? Awesome. He's pretty cute too. Later, demons
come into the story. Woo, demons. Too bad they aren't as cool as the
angels in this story. Pity, really.

...
..........mmmmmm, yeah.

~>Enter Rant:

Hope everyone had a great break. Mine was busy. Like,
super-psychotic-insanely busy. I spent a lot of time lettering pages and
working on my story for the 5pants Kicking Board Club book, but most of
the time was put towards the Ruler of Badassity.

Yes, the Ruler of Badassity. This is more commonly known as Syaoran's
staff from Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle. I don't know if he ever has it in
the anime, but he has it maybe... twice in the manga? And that's just in
extra pictures.

My dad and I decided to take some liberties with our version of it.
Never, NEVER, have you seen a cooler staff. This thing is about eight
feet tall and could run a man through. It's going to have a "cage" of
copper wire around the pole...Oh, it's so cool. Maybe I'll bring it to
club some time.... maybe....

Erin wants me to inform everyone, especially those who live on campus to
be aware that the hours for food places on campus will be funky this week,
seeing as Friday is a holiday. Make sure to pay attention to signs that
are posted!

~Annaliese
rise like lions after a slumberin'
in greatly unknowable numbers
free the blood that must ensue
we are many and they are few
</pre>

=== MnA: 1 April 2006 ===
<pre>

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 Midori no Hibi - 7: First Date
5:50 Break
5:55 Twelve Kingdoms - 20: Sea of the Wind, Shore of the Labyrinth - The
Final Chapter
6:20 Stellvia - 20: The Future's Up to You
6:45 Break
6:50 Inuyasha - 115: Drawn in by the Black Light
7:15 Kyou Kara Maoh! - 20: Hero vs. Maou (part 2)
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Gad Guard - 20: The End of This World
8:35 R.o.D: the TV - 20: Bonjour Tristesse
9:00 Break
9:05 X TV - 18: Newborn
9:30 Paranoia Agent - 7: MHz
Planned Afterhours: Stuff and whatever. :p

[random babbling]
Well, hello! It's been a while, hasn't it? I don't know...I feel kind of
blasphemous for saying it, but break was too long. I got really bored and
really missed everyone here in SLO. I was so bored, in fact, that I ended
up subbing six episodes of Inuyasha. Yes, that IS a lot of Inuyasha. I
feel a little better knowing that we haven't even had the first meeting of
the quarter yet and I'm mostly done, though.

Anyway, I get the distinct impression that I am going to hate math with a
violent passion after this quarter. I'm taking PHYS133, CSC349, and
MATH206. Bleh. All heavily math-based. Or entirely math, really.

Speaking of painful things, our shower was busted for the past several
days. And by "busted", I don't mean "it didn't work at all". No, I mean
"there was no hot water". This is bad because (disgusting as the thought
is) it doesn't give you an excuse not to shower at all. No, you CAN
shower, you just won't like it. So now my neck has the most horrible crick
in it from all the crazy shit I've tried to do to keep most of my body out
of the water while washing my hair. Thankfully, they finally got it fixed
today. At the same time, our garbage disposal got fixed and the dead
lightbulb in mine and Annaliese's room got replaced. So now we can see,
grind things, and not freeze any essential bodyparts off. Life is looking
up! Except for the whole psycho-classes thing.

Oh! Has anyone else been watching Blood+? If you haven't, you are
seriously missing out. I think that show may be elbowing the competition
out of the way and clawing up into my Favorite Anime spot. They're FINALLY
giving us more information about the main character's past, and if you've
seen the raws of episode 24, you know what I mean when I go, "Oh. My. God.
o_o"

I hope this makes you all curious. You need to see this show. It is Pure
Awesome. By the way, if you have any idea what song it is that Diva is
singing (if it's an actual opera song or something), I will love you
forever if you tell me the name of it.
[/random babbling]

Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
"The funny thing is, you have 28 year-olds arguing with 12 year-olds and
you can't tell which is which."
"Internet: the great equalizer."
"Never was a truer thing said on WoW."
</pre>

=== MnM April 6th, 2006 ===
<pre>

Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm in 13-110.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Elections this weekend!
Open House on the 22nd!-We need tables and grills grills grills!

~>All about Sukisho! (...And that's more like "ski-show" than
"su-key-show")

Today I do not want to write about a manga series. I'm just lazy. Instead,
check out the Sukisho manga. It's a one-volume series which has been
completely scanlated by Aku-Tenshi. You can find the chapters here:
http://www.aku-tenshi.com/manga/sukisho.php

Sukisho, also known as Suki na Mono wa Suki Dakara Shouganai!!(I like what
I like, so there!!), is a series of yaoi games... I think there are three
out right now. It's also a novel series and had a 12-episode TV show
(obviously, hahaha). The games are PORN. Don't download them if you don't
want to play a PORN GAME. The manga is NOT porn, and the anime has a few
"in the dark" sex scenes. Don't watch after the snow in episode 6, and
you'll have yourself a sex-free show.An OVA (aka episode 13) recently came
out, and it is well worth the watch. Whereas the series got bogged down
with stupid issues, the OVA takes a completely comedic turn and left me on
the floor with laughter. The whole Sukisho world is pretty fun, and the
characters are interesting, so I recommend you check some of it out.

The anime is licensed by Media Blasters, and all three volumes have been
released.

Unrelated but still awesome, check out this interview with Alvin Lu:
http://www.comicworldnews.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?column=flipped

Alvin is a really nice guy, he taught me that it's okay to wear ratty
shirts and gym shorts to work. ^_^

~>Enter Rant:

Hey MnMers, you know that picture I spent the entire meeting working on
last week? I was drawing it for a contest that ended on the 31st. So I
scan and fix my picture up and send it in, and what happens? The deadline
gets extended! ~_~ I inhaled amazing amounts of marker fumes for nothing.
@_@

~Annaliese, ensuing@<removed>.com
My heart's a battleground
</pre>

=== MnA: 8 Apr 2006 ===
<pre>

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 Midori no Hibi - 8: Right-hand Seiji
5:50 Break
5:55 Twelve Kingdoms - 21: Sea of the Wind, Shore of the Labyrinth -
Chapter of Reminiscence
6:20 Stellvia - 21: Invisible Wall
6:45 Break
6:50 Inuyasha - 116: Exposed by the Face of Truth
7:15 Kyou Kara Maoh! - 21: The Dangerous Visitor
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Gad Guard - 21: Blue Slumber
8:35 R.o.D: the TV - 21: D.O.D -DREAM OR DIE-
9:00 Break
9:05 X TV - 19: Inferno
9:30 Paranoia Agent - 8: A Bright Family Plan
Planned Afterhours: Braaaaaaainsssss!

[random babbling]
So yeah...you know...it's a funny story why this week's email is so late.
Or, well, maybe not funny so much as just plain stupid. It's not that I
forgot completely. Oh, no. It's that I forgot EVERY TIME I WAS NEAR A
COMPUTER. Brushing my teeth? Remembered. Walking to school? Remembered. In
class? Remembered. At my home computer or in lab? TOTALLY skipped my mind.
Bah! I'm only twenty-one! I'm too young to be senile!

Anyway, Annaliese and I totally made a $95 manga order from this email
seller yesterday. I'm getting the rest of the X manga, a Matoh Sanami
series called Ten-ryu: The Dragon Cycle, and the first volume of Blame!,
because it looks awesome. Annaliese is getting a lot of stuff I don't
remember, including Dark Angel, Devil&Devil, and other things. >_> So
yeah, $95 for 35 volumes. A good deal? I'll say.

Don't forget that we're having elections this week! You NEED to be there
if you want to run and/or have a say in the leadership of Minna! Remember,
to run for all positions (except, I believe, webmaster (which is an
appointed position) and librarian), you need to be a student at Cal Poly.
Good god, I just nested a parenthetical statement within another. To run,
you just need to come down to the front of the room when we call the
position you want to go for, say a bit about yourself, and then threaten
people with either large blunt objects or varying sizes of pointy ones. I
find that, surprisingly, the large blunt objects are easier to conceal,
because no one thinks of them as weapons until the things are whistling
toward their heads.

Er. Right. Don't mind me. I'm a little buzzed from the andreline rush that
has pretty much permeated my entire day so far. I've been skittering
about, trying to finish homework by class time and trying to find my
grading boss to ask him questions about how he wants things done and such.
Not to mention FINALLY remembering I had to write this thing while in the
vicinity of a computer.

Well, class in a half an hour, so I should go soon...you know, I joked to
someone (Annaliese, maybe?) that we should have weasel fights instead of
voting to determine officers. I mean, honestly. It'd be pretty
entertaining. Yeah, it's not that funny a joke at first...but for some
reason, I find the mental image of Annaliese coming to club with a kitty
carrier full of angry weasel hilarious.
[/random babbling]

Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
"Yes, but can you dance?!"
</pre>

=== MnM, April 13, 2006 ===
<pre>

Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm in 21-205. That's the same room as
first quarter! Woooo....

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
-We're in the old room now, so don't go to our other (awesome) room.
-Grills grills grills
-Tables!
-TRIBUTE CONCERT! SEE DETAILS IN RANT!

~>Manga o' the Week: High School Planet Prowler by Isutoshi

I'm always looking for new series to get into, so when I see a title that
looks midly interesting and has a working torrent/direct downloads, I
usually jump on it. "High School Planet Prowler" was one such title.

Let's see... the cover has a very busty demon-woman in a lab coat with a
little girl and a high school tom boy. Busty's shirt looks like it's made
up of... leather straps? I'm not too sure, but it looks very tight and
painful.

The story starts pretty quickly, it seems the tom boy and the little girl
are being forced to travel with Busty. Why? I wish the story would tell
me. Randomness ensues until they decide to stop for the night. Then a man
comes up and attacks Busty.... and they have sex. Right there. Why? Who
knows, I wish the story would say. Let's go to chapter two...

Ohh, chapter two is filled with sexual inuendo and... you guessed it, more
random sex scenes. Is this supposed to be some bastard child of a hentai
and an adventure series? I don't think I dare go to chapter three.

The art is nice enough, but the story is really not there. It seems like
the mangaka couldn't make up his/her mind on which type of series to do.
The result is interesting, but just hentai enough to keep my away. I
prefer my yaoi, thank you very much. ^_~

Chapters 1-3 of High School Planet Prowler have been released by
Thor-Hammer (distro by Yummilicious Pantsu).

~>Enter Rant:

Somedays are just plain odd. I've been extremely happy today, even with
the huge load of reading, comic pages, and UM pages I need to work on.
I've also gotten myself an annoying cold, but I'm in such a good mood!
Maybe the sun being out has something to do with it... I do like the rain
though... And if my day couldn't get any happier, my Escaflowne box set
came in today! I've been looking forward to getting this for a while.

I started inking comic pages today. I got 8 done in about three hours, so
I'm hoping I can get them all inked by Sunday. We'll see. I'm pretty happy
with how they are turning out. I hope this good-inking streak continues!

TRIBUTE CONCERT ANNOUNCEMENT! Tickets are going as low as $12. Of course,
a couple fees are being added onto that, so the real lowest price is
$17.50. Since we will most likely be cutting club short and we would like
to encourage people to go to the concert, Minna no Anime will contribute
$5.50 on twenty tickets, bringing your cost back down to $12. If you would
like to go to the concert, please tell us so we can order the tickets.
Please bring $12 to club either Thursday or Saturday. e-mail me at the
address below. I swear I'll actually check that account this week. ^_^

~Annaliese, ensuing@<removed>.com
"Come on let's show them your love, rip out the wings of a butterfly
For your soul, my love, rip out the wings of a butterfly"
</pre>

=== MnA: 15 Apr 2006 ===
<pre>

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 Midori no Hibi - 9: Takki Days
5:50 Break
5:55 Twelve Kingdoms - 22: Sea of the Wind, Shore of the Labyrinth -
Chapter of Correspondence
6:20 Stellvia - 22: Each Separate Path
6:45 Break
6:50 Inuyasha - 117: The Man Who Disappeared into the River of Flames
7:15 Kyou Kara Maoh! - 22: Man of Fate
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Gad Guard - 22: Spiral Dance of Glass
8:35 R.o.D: the TV - 22: Seize
9:00 Break
9:05 X TV - 20: Ripple
9:30 Paranoia Agent - 9: ETC
Planned Afterhours: You guys almost done with Gokudo? lol

[random babbling]
Now honestly...how many of you read this? Maybe we'll find out.

Did you see Annaliese's Manga email? If not, here's the most revelant bit,
verbatim:

TRIBUTE CONCERT ANNOUNCEMENT! Tickets are going as low as $12. Of course,
a couple fees are being added onto that, so the real lowest price is
$17.50. Since we will most likely be cutting club short and we would like
to encourage people to go to the concert, Minna no Anime will contribute
$5.50 on twenty tickets, bringing your cost back down to $12. If you would
like to go to the concert, please tell us so we can order the tickets.
Please bring $12 to club either Thursday or Saturday.

Okay? Got that? Email me at the address at the bottom of this email if you
want us to get you a ticket! Then bring us the money today or on Saturday!

Hm. Anyway, it's really odd to think that I only have a few more emails
left to write for you guys. Daniella's taking my job next year...I suppose
you guys are kind of relieved. >_> After all, it's not like I ever say
anything particularily interesting or important. Except this time. That
stuff up there? Important! VERY important.

Oh! And also, the world is going to end next week. You've been warned and
it's your own damned fault if you don't know because you don't read the
weekly email. *sniff*
[/random babbling]

Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
"Bless me with the
Leaf off of the tree.
On it I see
The freedom reign.

We are falling
The light is calling.
Tears inside me
Calm me down.

Midnight calling.
Mist of resolving.
Crown me with the
Pure green leaf.

Praise to my father,
Blessed by the water,
Black night, dark sky
The Devil's cry."
</pre>

=== MnM April 20th, 2006 ===
<pre>

Minna no Manga is meeting at the house of awesome this week. That's Murray
Station apartment #79. I'll be home at 3:40ish, so feel free to come over
after then. We'll put on some movies/anime/whatever to watch while we have
fun... You can bring your own DVDs if you'd like.

<< The party will be awesome. We will all be wearing bathing suits. There will be
free lollipops! Any and all haters will be sent to another dimension. Making a
special guest appearance will be Princess Zandra and her cousins. >>

So, it's going to be Open House weekend. We'll need as much help as we can
get, so please come by on Saturday. Work for an hour, get a free meal PLUS
feel good about helping the club. It's a good deal. We'll be at the booth
(it'll be set up between the math/science and ag/englsh buildings) from
about 7:30am-6:00pm.

Thanks guys!
~Annaliese, ensuing@<removed>.com
"Beat me up and break me down, hoping I don't come around, kick me when
I'm on the ground"
</pre>

=== Editor's Side-note ===
MinnaHistoryWiki went live on April 21, 2006.

=== MnA: 22 Apr 2006 - Open House! ===
<pre>
This week's schedule:

No shows! Instead, we have a bit of an Open House schedule.

Thursday 20 Apr: Party at The Officer House
Friday 21 Apr 4:30pm~6:00pm: Booth set-up between ag-english building and
math-science building
Saturday 22 Apr 7:00am~6:00pm: Open House!

Basically, we need people to show up for ALL of this! Remember, if you
come on Saturday, bring water bottles and sunscreen...we don't want any
dehydration/sunburn victims on our hands...we're bound to have enough
problems. lol

Keep in mind that, if you come and help out for an hour on Saturday, you
get a free meal! Feel free to come, skewer chicken, and scare incoming
Freshmen. Actually, don't SCARE them. We DO want them to show up next
year.

See you guys there!

Jenn, kenning.raven@<removed>.com
"Protect me from what I want."
</pre>

=== MnM April 27th, 2006 ===
<pre>

Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm, in 21-205.

~>ANNOUNCEMENTS:

~Thank-you for all your help at Open House! We were quite successful! A
huge thanks goes out to Shannon's parents, who let us use their grill and
car port!

~The Tribute concert is this Saturday at 8pm! If you haven't bought
tickets through us, be sure to buy tickets soon!

~>Manga o' the Week: To-LOVE-Ru by Hasemi Saki and Yabuki Kentaro

A new series by the Black Cat artist? Count me in!

Enter Rito, who is usually aggressive unless he is around Haruna-chan, the
girl he likes. While contemplating his woes in the bathtub one evening, a
nude girl suddenly appears in the tub with him! Her name is Lala, from the
planet Deviluke. (Devil-uke? teehee....) It turns out she is being chased,
so Rito does his best to get her away from her persuers. But they're not
there to hurt her, they just want to bring her back. Lala uses some of her
crazy inventions to make them go away, accidently attacking Rito in the
process. Rito survives and attempts to confess his love to Haruna, but
Lala gets in the way! Now she's set on marrying him! What's a boy to do?

If you like stereotypical, average manga series, check this one out.
Otherwise, it's not really worth it. The art is very good, but that story
is so average it ruins the entire series. I give it one and a half thumbs
down. On the other hand, Nazo no Murasame-kun, which started in Jump the
week before To-Love-Ru, is worth your time. Maybe I'll talk about it next
week...

~>Enter Rant:

Ahhh... never have I looked forward to taking midterms. Last weekend was
Open House (duh) and the deadline for my comic. My comic had been taking
up more time than school, so finally getting it done, collecting everyone
else's comics, and getting them to the printer really took a load of my
mind. Now I feel like I can do anything I want! I can draw anything
without feeling guilty, I can play games if I want, I can do ANYTHING! So
I'm really, really happy.

[pimp]My comic, by the way, is going to be part of the first publication
of the 5pants Kicking Board Club, the NorCal artist circle I belong to.
The book is called Tricycle Box, and we'll be selling it at Fanime. Our
artist circle is five members, and they include Nur and Nat, who you may
or may not know. [/pimp]

~Annaliese, ensuing@<removed>.com
"Thunder bolts and lightning, very very frightening!"
</pre>

=== MnA: 29 Apr 2006 - Tribute Concert Version! ===
<pre>

This week's schedule:

5:00 Twelve Kingdoms - 23: A Great Distance in the Wind, the Sky at Dawn -
Chapter One
5:25 Stellvia - 23: That's Why You Exist
5:50 Break
5:55 Inuyasha - 118: The Neverending Depths of Mt. Hakurei
6:20 X TV - 21: Current

[random babbling]
Yes, the schedule IS weird. That, for those of you who haven't been
keeping up, is because we're cutting things short to go to the anime and
game music concert "Tribute". We announced it several times in club, so if
you haven't heard about it, you haven't been coming.

Anyway, the way this works is that we'll have club until X ends at about
6:45pm. Doors to the concert open at 7pm, I'm told, and the music starts
at 8pm.

In other news, I am very tired and I have to wake up at a crappy hour of
the morning tomorrow so we can stop by the post office when it opens, so
I'll cut this thing off right here. See you guys on Saturday!
[/random babbling]

Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
"Your MOM has two "T"s!"
</pre>

=== MnM May 4th, 2006 ===
<pre>

Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm in 21-205. Only cool MnM people get
the heads up about awesome events... like movie watchings.

~>ANNOUNCEMENTS!
...none really, except that Tribute was AWESOME and our 15th anniversary
party is on the 13th, from 12-5pm.

~>Manga o' the Week? NO! Movie o' the Week!

(sorry if you read my livejournal, this is the same review ^_^)

Munto2

After ages of torrenting, I finally got my hands on Munto2. I've been
looking forward to seeing this since they announced it. I loved Munto, so
I had high hopes for this one.

Unfortunately, it was an mkv file, and VLC wasn't too ble to take any
screencaps. It's a shame really, because I believe this is one of the most
beautifully animated things I've seen in a long time... possibly ever.
There is always the awkwardness of CG and animation, but it works well for
the majority of the time in Munto2. Only once was I really bothered by the
CG. The actual animation (by Kyoto Animation, same group that did the
animation for Generator Gawl orse than the first.

Yes, that's right. Worse than the first. If you've seen Munto, you know
how bad that was. This one is several times worse, leading me to hope
there will be a TV series, like Nik speculated last time he visited.

All in all, I really enjoyed Munto2 and highly recommend it. It's out on
DVD in the states, and well worth the money. ...I really need to go buy it
now. ^_^

~>Enter Rant:

So everything she went over in class. Silly me! Going to class? She's not
going to test us on the materials she lectured on in class! She's going to
test us on her 12 articles and book she assigned throughout the quarter. I
tried. I REALLY tired to read them. But after dragging myself through
twenty pages about Japanese construction, fifty pages on how Japan is
different from the US, and 150 pages on family li my next class I had
another midterm. I'm not angry that I had a midterm, I'm angry because
that test was written SO MUCH BETTER than the first one, it just pissed me
off even more!

Yes, I'm a very angry person.

In other news, Viz Media just announced a million new licenses. They have
some good stuff. I just wish they'd let me work on it. ^_^

Also, it looks like a new subbing group has maaaayyyybbbeeee picked up
Ayatsuri Sakon, one of my favorite series. <3

Lord of the Night Lands,
~Annaliese, ensuing@<removed>.com
"And if I pushed, would you all fall down?"
</pre>

=== MnM CORRECTION! ===
<pre>

Thank-you, Pine, for eating half my e-mail. *kicks it* Psh. I didn't say
that Munto2 is WORSE than Munto, I said the ENDING IS WORSE. Anywho, here
is the FULL UNEATEN review of Munto2.

Munto2

After ages of torrenting, I finally got my hands on Munto2. I've been
looking forward to seeing this since they announced it. I loved Munto, so
I had high hopes for this one.

Unfortunately, it was an mkv file, and VLC wasn't too happy with it, so I
was not able to take any screencaps. It's a shame really, because I
believe this is one of the most beautifully animated things I've seen in a
long time... possibly ever. There is always the awkwardness of CG and
animation, but it works well for the majority of the time in Munto2. Only
once was I really bothered by the CG. The actual animation (by Kyoto
Animation, same group that did the animation for Generator Gawl and
animation production for The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya) is beautiful
and fluid. I loved how some of the more "magical" characters had a sort of
glow around them. It was very slight, just barely noticeable, but a very
cool touch.

The story is very similar to the first; the heavens are having a crisis,
and Yumemi, a girl from earth is needed to prevent the destruction of the
future. This time, Yumemi is willing to held, but Munto, pimp king from
the heavens, is reluctant to get her. He fears that his contact with her
will destroy her. He's a sweetheart deep down. Stuff happens, and the
story ends worse than the first.

Yes, that's right. Worse than the first. If you've seen Munto, you know
how bad that was. This one is several times worse, leading me to hope
there will be a TV series, like Nik speculated last time he visited.

All in all, I really enjoyed Munto2 and highly recommend it. It's out on
DVD in the states, and well worth the money. ...I really need to go buy it
now. ^_^

AH! It looks fine now. Sorry about that.
Munto2 lover, Pine4.5 hater,
~Annaliese
</pre>

=== MnA: 6 May 2006 ===
<pre>

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 Midori no Hibi - 10: Distance of the Hearts
5:50 Break
5:55 Twelve Kingdoms - 25: A Great Distance in the Wind, the Sky at Dawn -
Chapter Three
6:20 Stellvia - 23: That's Why You Exist
6:45 Break
6:50 Inuyasha - 119: Heavenly Malice of the Saint
7:15 Kyou Kara Maoh! - 23: The Race of Flames
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Gad Guard - 23: The Atoning Man
8:35 R.o.D: the TV - 23: Lie to Me
9:00 Break
9:05 X TV - 22: Betrayal
9:30 Paranoia Agent - 10: Mellow Maromi
Planned Afterhours: Nada?

[random babbling]
So! Tribute concert? Totally awesome. If you weren't there, you missed
something GOOD. Not just good. AWESOME. There aren't words in the English
language to describe that level of awesome. Steebu and I were squealing
like fangirls...boys...(fanpeople? what's PC here?) the whole time.

Oh, I should point out that we showed two episodes of Twelve Kingdoms last
week, because we didn't have the right DVD for Stellvia. Just in case you
weren't there and you're wondering at the jump. Also for the sake of my
recordkeeping. 'Cause, you know, I like keeping records. And stuff.

You'll have to excuse me, I'm braindead. My head is filled with about 30
linear algebra definitions, all rolling and tumbling and sliding about. I
blame any and all typos in this email on that. And on Bush. 'Cause it's
really easy to blame stuff on that guy and the world needs scapegoats. One
more accusation won't really make a difference, right?

Which reminds me...is anybody else pissed off at those signs around campus
that say "LIBERAL HYPOCRISY" on them? Maybe it's just me...but even if I
weren't "liberal", I'd be pissed by those signs. I think. Or maybe it's a
prerequisite of being "conservative" to be a complete asshat. If any of
you consider yourself "conservatives", you'll have to let me know if they
make you sign something. I'm curious.

Politics. Bah.
[/random babbling]

Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
"One for sorrow, two for joy
Three for a girl, four for a boy
Five for silver, six for gold
Seven for a secret never to be told."
</pre>

=== MnM May 11th, 2006 ===
<pre>

Minna no Manga meets Thursday, 6-10pm in 21-205. Come this week and get
high off of Annaliese's marker fumes! @_@

Don't forget that this weekend is our 15th Anniversary party! Your
scavenger hunt pictures are due at noon!

~Manga o' the Week: Umm...

While looking for a series to talk about, I kept getting side tracked by
Naono Bohra yaoi and other BL one-shots. I'm pretty sure you don't want to
hear about those... >_>;;

~Enter Rant:

I hate my humanities teacher.

I got Munto2 on DVD. And Spriggan. Spriggan is so fansubable.

I'm going to go draw chibi characters to sell at Fanime now... *skips off*

~Annaliese
"There is only one truth!"
</pre>

=== MnA: 13 May 2006 ===
<pre>

This week's schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' the Week
5:25 Midori no Hibi - 11: Fated Reunion
5:50 Break
5:55 Twelve Kingdoms - 26: A Great Distance in the Wind, the Sky at Dawn -
Chapter Four
6:20 Stellvia - 24: Darkness Once More
6:45 Break
6:50 Inuyasha - 120: Farewell, Jakotsu's Requiem
7:15 Kyou Kara Maoh! - 24: The Man Who Cannot Be Forgiven
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Gad Guard - 24: The Will to Strive for Heaven
8:35 R.o.D: the TV - 24: You Know Me
9:00 Break
9:05 X TV - 23: Earth
9:30 Paranoia Agent - 11: Entry Forbidden
Planned Afterhours: No clue, as per the norm.

[random babbling]
So...yeah. You'd think I'd have something interesting to say. But, you
know, I DON'T. So there.

Bring your scavenger hunt pics by noon on Saturday. Or else, you know,
they don't count. Make sure you follow the submission rules on the handout
we gave you!

Tsubasa volume 14 is awesome. Pure awesome.
[/random babbling]

Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
"When all the stars are falling down into the sea and on the ground and
angry voices carry on the wind...a beam of light will fill your head and
you'll remember what's been said by all the good men this world's ever
known."
</pre>

=== MnM May 18th, 2006 ===
<pre>

Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm, in 21-205.

What should we talk about today?

Manga o' the week: Wild Life by Masato Fujisaki

"Tesshou is your typical high school delinquent with a special skill. He
has a perfect sense of hearing. This skill enables him to hear things most
people wouldn't. After saving a small dog, Tesshou realises his calling in
life is to become a Vet! Wild Life is currently running the the serial
magazine, Shounen Sunday, and has had 15 volumes released." ~Description
from sugarmanga.com

The characters of Wild Life were in a recently-subbed episode of Yakitate
Japan, which inspired me to reread what I had of it.

It's a fun series, not really deep or overly dramatic, but very
entertaining. The art style is kind of simple, but the story and
characters are well done, and the main character wears googles. WINNER!!

As far as I know, the series is still going. Boku-Tachi is scanlating it
and has released through chapter nine. For a while, Raw-Manga was
releasing the raws.

Enter Rant:

So what kind of crazy professor makes you write a single-spaced 5-7 page
paper analyzing and comparing two of the movies we watched in class? CRAZY
ONES DO! I can tell you some interesting things about the movies I chose,
but not enough to fill five pages. I've had to BS more than usual for this
assignment, and I've run out of BS material! Arrg! At least it's not due
for another week. I think between now and then I can come up with another
half page... I hope.

I was catching up with Avatar: the Last Airbender this week. Jenn happened
to catch the latest episode with me, and decided to watch everything she
missed. The last two days we've watched soooo much Avatar! Not that I'm
complaining... I rather like the series. Go Uncle Iroh!

~Annaliese, ensuing@<removed>.com
"I'm a complex system, I'm a line of code"
</pre>

=== MnA: 20 May 2006 ===
<pre>

This week's schedule:

5:00 Midori no Hibi - 12: Sudden Parting
5:25 Twelve Kingdoms - 27: A Great Distance in the Wind, the Sky at Dawn -
Chapter Five
5:50 Break
5:55 Stellvia - 25: Goodbye
6:20 Inuyasha - 121: Decisive Battle! The Strongest and Last of the
Shichinintai!
6:45 Break
6:50 Kyou Kara Maoh! - 25: Past and Future
7:15 Gad Guard - 25: Time Towards the Sky
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 R.o.D: the TV - 25: Not a Big Problem
8:35 R.o.D: the TV - 26: From There On
9:00 Break
9:05 X TV - 24: Legend
9:30 Paranoia Agent - 11: Entry Forbidden
Planned Afterhours: Yar!

[random babbling]
Before you even start: I KNOW. There is no fansub this week! I know! Let
me repeat: I KNOW THERE ARE TWO EPISODES OF R.O.D AND NO FANSUB THIS WEEK.
There. Now hopefully I won't have to brutally maul half a dozen people
this weekend for all asking the same question over and over and over.

Hopefully.

I seem to be disappointed by this type of thing a lot, though. *sigh*

So, yeah. The party last week wasn't as fun for me as I'd have liked it to
be. The reason being that a lot of things really frustrated me. The stuff
above will probably give you a pretty good hint what those things were.

I'm tired. I have a midterm tomorrow. 'Night all.
[/random babbling]

Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
"The sun is a mass of incandescent gas--a gigantic nuclear furnace--where
hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees."
</pre>

=== MnM May 25th, 2006 ===
<pre>

Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm, in 21-205. Why does everyone think
there is no meeting this week?

Manga o' the Week: Magic Kaitou by Gosho Aoyama

Do you like Kid from Detective Conan? Read Magic Kaitou to learn about his
origins!

Kid is a famous phantom thief who can steal anything he puts his mind to.
After finding a secret room in his home, Kuroba Kaito takes his dad's
place as Kaitou Kid!

Man, though... the art in this series is so nasty. It was started in the
late 80s, so Gosho-sensei's style is not nearly as polished as it is now.
Ugh. Really ugly. It gets better by the last volume, but not all that
much... The series is three volumes long and scanlations can be found all
over the place. No one group has picked it up, but a lot of people will
scanlate a story or two.

Enter Rant:
Ugh, I'm supposed to be sending pages back to Viz, but I can't log in to
their servers and no one knows why.

In other news, FANIME! The 5pants Kicking Board Club will be in the back
of the Artist Alley selling our first book, Tricycle Box. You can see more
about it here:
http://ensuing.livejournal.com/96465.html

Wheeeeeeeee!!!! I'm so hyper right now! X_x

~Annaliese, ensuing@<removed>.com
"So let me please introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste."
</pre>

=== MnA: 27 May 2006 - FANIME! ===
<pre>

This week's schedule:

5:00 Stellvia - 26: A Voice of Brilliance
5:25 Paranoia Agent - 12: Radar Man
5:50 Break
5:55 Twelve Kingdoms - 28: A Great Distance in the Wind, the Sky at Dawn -
Chapter Six
6:20 Twelve Kingdoms - 29: A Great Distance in the Wind, the Sky at Dawn -
Chapter Seven
6:45 Break
6:50 Twelve Kingdoms - 30: A Great Distance in the Wind, the Sky at Dawn -
Chapter Eight
7:15 Twelve Kingdoms - 31: A Great Distance in the Wind, the Sky at Dawn -
Reminiscence Chapter
7:40 Dinner Break
8:10 Twelve Kingdoms - 32: A Great Distance in the Wind, the Sky at Dawn -
Chapter Nine
8:35 Twelve Kingdoms - 33: A Great Distance in the Wind, the Sky at Dawn -
Chapter Ten
9:00 Break
9:05 Twelve Kingdoms - 34: A Great Distance in the Wind, the Sky at Dawn -
Chapter Eleven
9:30 Twelve Kingdoms - 35: A Great Distance in the Wind, the Sky at Dawn -
Chapter Twelve
Planned Afterhours: Go home!

[random babbling]
It's almost time, guys! The school year's almost over! Can't you feel it?
Can't you TASTE it? Or are you too busy being terrified out of your mind
to savor the coming calm? Hm. I don't blame you.

Anyway, you bunch of lucky dogs get to watch eight episodes of Twelve
Kingdoms this week! If you're going to Fanime, have no fear! You'll be
able to catch all those episodes at the house of Erin-Jenn-Annaliese next
Friday! No, not THIS Friday. Don't show up; no one will be here.

As for those of you going to Fanime as a part of our collective mass of
humanity, don't forget all the crap on the list Annaliese mailed out. I'm
certainly not about to lend you MY toothbrush.
[/random babbling]

Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
"Silva in lumine
Lunae arcana est
Domus mea
Silva in lumine
Stella rum est."
</pre>

=== MnM June 1st, 2006 ===
<pre>

Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6-10pm, in 21-205. Last meeting of the
year!

Because of busy schedules and my bad memory, our quarterly Tsurugi dinner
will be at 8:30pm this Sunday. Sorry it is so late!

I hope you had a wonderful weekend, I know the Fanime crew did! For those
who want to catch up on 12 Kingdoms, we'll be showing the episodes at the
House of Awesome on Friday at 6pm sharp. You know the deal, bring your own
food and don't expect us to entertain you! We'll probably be working
upstairs. The address is 1262 Murray Street #79.

Otherwise, I'll see you on Saturday for our last meeting of the year!
Thank-you for putting up with all of my stupid e-mails!

And now, it's time for a nap!
~Annaliese, ensuing@<removed>.com
"Manga is something where everyone's dreams are depicted."-Eiichiro Oda
</pre>

=== MnA: 3 June 2006 ===
<pre>

This week's schedule:

5:00 Midori no Hibi - 13: The Days of the Couple
5:25 Twelve Kingdoms - 36: A Great Distance in the Wind, the Sky at Dawn -
Chapter Thirteen
5:50 Break
5:55 Inuyasha - 122: Powerful Banryuu! Mt. Hakurei's Duel to the Death!
6:20 Kyou Kara Maoh! - 26: At the End of the Life Cycle
6:45 Break
6:50 Gad Guard - 26: Young Traveler
7:15 Paranoia Agent - 13: Final Episode
7:40 Dinner Break
8:30 Inuyasha Movie 4: Fire on the Mystic Island

[random babbling]
First of all, Fanime was awesome. I spent WAY too much money on doujinshi,
though. I'm very bad. Bad Jenn. >_> I really didn't buy a lot else. I
picked up a couple of adorable Tsubasa figures and a pair of sai. Yes, I
know, I don't know any martial arts or anything. I just adore sai and I've
always wanted a pair. I also got a Weiss Kreuz photobook for a really
great deal at the swap meet. We had a lot of fun, but I was utterly
exhausted afterwards and I still haven't managed to sleep enough to make
up for it. I blame homework. And that damned algorithms paper of mine that
due tomorrow morning...that I just finished this afternoon. It's my own
fault, of course, since I just started the stupid thing yesterday. No one
ever said I was good at getting things done early.

This week's Inuyasha episode isn't even started, by the way. The
subtitles, that is. I had expected Erin to do it, but it turns out her
senior project is swamping her more than expected, so I decided to take it
back today. No worries, though. An episode only takes me about three hours
tops and two hours if I'm lucky. I can do it tomorrow while I'm at work.
Since I took Joe's five hours (which occur right after MY five hours), I
have a ten hour shift. I'll have plenty of time.

Hummm. I feel like I'm rambling. I probably am. I have one of those nasty
right-behind-your-eyeball headaches and my back is killing me. Not to
mention the fact that I'm completely exhausted. Not exactly a graceful way
to write my last email as secretary, but you get what circumstances
permit, ne?

I'm feeling a little introspective. Maybe it's because my first real year
as an officer is coming to an end...the first year where I really had much
of an effect on club, at any rate. It was a long and harrowing ride, my
friends, let me tell you. Half the time I felt just about ready to yank
out all my hair and run babbling into the hills. But the other half the
time...well, it was nice. You guys (well MOST you you :p) are awesome, and
I really appreciate that you all trust me enough to have elected me as
next year's vice president. I learned a lot this year, and I'm looking
forward to putting that knowledge to use next year.

Minna, arigatou!
[/random babbling]

Jenn, dancing.serpent@<removed>.com
"The color of infinity inside an empty glass
I'm squinting my eye and turning off and on and on and off the light.
It's for this experimental film
Which nobody knows about and which
I'm still figuring out what's going to go
In my experimental film."
</pre>

== Summer 2006 ==
=== Summer Minna Meetings! ===
<pre>

Hey Minna!

I went to ASI yesterday to check on our room status for the summer. I have
good news and bad. Good thing is that we do have a room every Saturday
June 24th through August 26th. Unfortunately, we only get the Silo for
half that time!

No worries! From 06/24 to 07/22, MnA will be held in 02-203. It is a smart
room, but either tapes will have to be played, or someone will have to
have to bring a DVD player. From 07/29 to 08/26, we will have the silo.

Please don't get angry at ASI for not letting us have the silo the enitre
time. There is nothing they can do about it, the room has been closed by
the school for maintenance. They were really nice about the whole thing. I
may complain about ASI a lot, but they really do have some nice people
there. ^_^

Have a great summer, I hope finals went well for everyone!

~Annaliese, ensuing@<removed>.com
"From the first day I knew you, my hell was drowned in music"
</pre>

2004-2005 Emails

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Moroboshi ataru: added emailnav

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== Fall 2004 ==
===Minna No Anime first meeting 9/25/04 ===
<pre>
Hello anime fans,
Welcome to Minna No Anime, Cal Poly.s Japanese animation club.
As for what the club is and does, it is very simple. You are all invited
to join the officers and everyone else, from Cal Poly and elsewhere, in
their enjoyment of the Japanese cartoon style. The club is a social club
not affiliated with any particular college with no other purpose than to
band together and enjoy a different type of entertainment than the normal
fare of American television.

Now to the very crux of the matter, the Schedule:

5:00 . Fansub O. the Week (a different episode form a different series each week)
5:25 . Slayers Next . Episode 1

5:50 . 5 minute break . mingle, sit-in-awe, rant, complain, but be back in a few

5:55 . Patlabor
6:20 . Inu Yasha . Some ungodly season like 4 or 5

6:45 . more mingling, screaming, yelling or general lethargy (whatever suits you)

6:50 . Scrapped Princess . Episode 1
7:15 . RahXephon . Episode 1

7:40 . Dinner Break (30 minutes) . dart out and scrounge up munchies or
stay for the interim entertainment . by-the-by the entertainment, assuming
there is any, is always a mystery.

8:10 . Last Exile . Episode 1
8:35 . Kino.s Journeys (Kino no Tabi) . Episode 1

9:00 . recover from the screaming, mingling and stuff and prepare.

9:05 . Texhnolyze . Rogue (aka Episode) 1: Stranger
9:30 . Banner of the Stars II . Episode 1

9:55 - .and we.re done. You are now free to carry on your lives as you
best see fit and we hope to see you next week.

Now on to the meat of the weekly newsletter.
I have to admit that I went through a great deal of internal monologues as
to what I would say in the first newsletter.maybe something bitter with
lots of venom and hate.maybe something reassuring about life and Cal Poly
for the new ones...maybe a story either fictional or true.or maybe I would
just let my ego flow and talk about myself. But no, I have decided to go
for a more simplistic approach this week.an introduction of sorts. Please
allow me to introduce you to the officers that are attempting to ward off
chaos to make the club what it is.

President . Matt . He will be doing a lot of talking and will be the focal
point of the club and ultimately is the final say on what happens and is
shown. Essentially, every thing that happens in the club and is shown is
his responsibility. The perks of being in power. Let.s hope he can live
up to the billing.

Vice-President . Annaliese . Her duties are vague sinTreasurer . Erin .
She will be our money launderer, er, handler. She gets to buy new anime
titles for the library and deal with all the internal finances of the
club. You would be surprised to see how much business a club like this
can generate.

Secretary . Me

Librarian . Robert . For all of you who are eager to explore other titles
than the ones presented on the big screen, feel free to bother him. He is
in charge of our massive . and I do mean massive . VHS and DVD anime
collection. He can even help you pick out titles you might be interested
in and, in some cases, fill in back story for some shows. Now how do you
check out shows? I shall leave that up to him but a precursor question
should be just what shows we have available for your viewing pleasure.or
torture which brings us to our.

Webmaster . Stephen . Our website, http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub, comes
with a link that lets you, the member, browse our collection of titles of
anime from the comfort and security of your personal computer. If you
find broken links or various problems with the site, feel free to let him
know. Also, if you think that the site would be better served by
additions or subtra
As for me.at present, I will remain anonymous to the new people. You may
hear rumors of stories and me but be careful what you hear. I will let
you all in on a secret. I will be largely absent from the viewings this
year it appears. Why? This week is not the time to worry about it. Odds
are you will hear more from me from my weekly rant (this section of the
newsletter) than from real life. We.ll see how that works.

Anyway, I hope you all enjoy the line up and continue to come and please
feel free to invite others that might be interested to come. After all,
we don.t charge to watch and we have never had a seating problem.
Enjoy the year.
</pre>

=== Minna no Manga, 09/30 ===
<pre>
Hey All! If you didn't see my frantic messages on the Yahoo Group, the
room for MnM has been changed to Building 20, room 140. That's the
Engineering East building. We will be there from 6pm-10pm.

Eh, I've never really done one of these mass e-mails before, but I'll try
to make it mildly interesting. Hopefully. So, allow me to attempt to
entertain you with a "Manga of the week" sort of thing.

Shounen Manga of the Week- Devil Devil(or Devil and Devil)

Devil Devil is a 15-volume series that ran from the late 90's to... not so
long ago. It focuses on a demon, Sword, and his nemesis, the angel Ios.
During their 101st battle, the two are mortally wounded and retreat to
earth, where they possess two humans, Souma and Kanna. Not only is Sword
horrified to be in such a weak body it turns out that Kanna, whom Ios has
possesed is Souma's twin brother! *gasp!* Now they have to deal with the
pain of their new bodies and with each other until they can regain their
true forms.

I found the second volume of this series in French, and I have a thing for
demons, so I quickly became interested in the story. I don't love the art,
but it's pretty dang good. The story goes all over the place, and deals
with Archangels, Satan, and a little bit oflove. I recommend this series
if you have some time. It's definately worth it.

Scanlations are available at Dual
Translations(http://www.dualtranslations.org), and they have scanlated the
entire series.

Shoujo Manga of the Week-Mekakushi no Kuni

Introduction(taken from the first volume):
'When Otsuka Kanade touches someone, it's like a "blindfold" falling, and
she's able to see the person's "future." she tires her best to change her
friend's future, but Arou, the person who sees the "past," doesn't agree
with her. what is Arou thinking---? Tomorrow never knows?'

MnK is a series I found randomly on some IRC channel. It's very cute, and
is stocked with wonderful bishounen. Although the story is a bit fuzzy at
times, it's easy to understand and the author does a good job allowing the
reader to understand how the characters are feeling.

Scanlations are available from AnimeWaves(http://animewaves.net), and are
on their IRC channel, #animewaves@irc.rizon.net. they have scnalated
Through volume 2, chapter 6.

Hope that wasn't too boring! I hope to see you Thursday @6pm in 20-140!
^_^

~Annaliese
</pre>

=== MNA 10/2/04 ===
<pre>
Hello anime fans,
Welcome to Minna No Anime, Cal Poly.s Japanese animation club.
As for what the club is and does, it is very simple. You are all invited
to join the officers and everyone else, from Cal Poly and elsewhere, in
their enjoyment of the Japanese cartoon style. The club is a social club
not affiliated with any particular college with no other purpose than to
band together and enjoy a different type of entertainment than the normal
fare of American television.

Now to the very crux of the matter, the Schedule:

5:00 . Fansub O. the Week (a different episode form a different series each week)
5:25 . Slayers Next . Episode 2

5:50 . 5 minute break . Wait for the greatness of Patlabor

5:55 . Patlabor . another fun-filled episode
6:20 . Inu Yasha . Monster of the week anime

6:45 . Marvel at the singing voices of mecha in Rahxephon

6:50 . Scrapped Princess . Episode 2
7:15 . RahXephon . Episode 2

7:40 . Dinner Break (30 minutes) . mmm.time for dinner.if you wee
wondering I was the one that came and wondered around aimlessly during
this time last week and then left when the shows resumed.

8:10 . Last Exile . Episode 2
8:35 . Kino.s Journeys (Kino no Tabi) . Episode 2

9:00 . Wince from the pain of multilation in Texhnolyze and no, it does
not get less graphic.

9:05 . Texhnolyze . Rogue 2: Forfeiture
9:30 . Banner of the Stars II . Episode 2

9:55 - .Whew. We.re done. Another weekend spent feeling the agony,
amusement, torture, pity, pleasure and pain that our favorite characters
feel every week. Thank god none of us live some of these lives but then
we do cosplay as them, don.t we?

What to write this week..always difficult.

I have decided to wait a while longer until I really start in on the hate
mongering. After all, many of you don.t have a clue who I am or what I
like. Well, if it is any indication, I saw one show last week. Any guess
which one it is? No, it was not Inu Yasha or Scrapped Princess. It was
Texhnolyze. After that I left for the evening. I came from work after
picking up burgers to eat there. Actually, I timed it so I would miss all
the previous shows and arrive just in time to hit the social period. I
See, after one episode of Texhnolyze (which I saw during Fansub O.), I was
hooked. I was not concerned with the ending or anything else. I simply
had to have the rest of it and such is the case. As it comes out, I
acquire the newest disk. Let me tell you that Episode 10 has been the
best, and most surprising, episode for me to date. I can only imagine how
great it gets later on although I hope that somI feel you.the audience.
should know what we are not showing. We are not showing Ghost in the
Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Excel Saga, Those Who Hunt Elves and a slew of
others that were in contention until the very end. As a matter of fact, I
had no idea what was being shown until, I think, Wednesday before club
began. I gave up on making any decisions and I regret it greatly. I
guess I should have buste
Did I mention I like to write? See back in college (I graduated from the
oh-so-well to do Orfalea College of Business way back when the world was
young and idealism was something to be cherished) I had this great idea to
write a book. Truth is, I am on page 18. Yes, it has been very slow
going. Sorry, I had to deal with psycho roommates and mental breakdowns
that rather hampered the long-term creative p
Currently, I sit here typing this trying to keep my comments from being to
hateful or dwelling too deeply on anything. Oh yeah, I mentioned work
before I came to club last weekend. I actually have two jobs.
Unfortunately I am not at liberty to discuss my primary job but on the
weekends, and during club, I work at the City of Pismo Beach in their
finance office doing some of the accountant duties. I used to work there
up until June 18 when I accepted this other job but I returned as a
part-time employeeagain when they needed the help. I feel this is a much
better use of my time than watching most of the anime that is being
shown.that and wandering the hills of Cal Poly with a friend of mine
looking for whatever catches the eye. Yep, some officer I am. I don.t
even show up for the shows but somehow I am an officer. Isn.t voting
wonderful? Look at what happens when we vote..which reminds me.Being an
offiHmm, I think I.ll hold off on more politics and stuff until later. I
have written more than enough for this week so I will leave for the week
to ponder my feelings for the club. And I thought this year would be
great too.
</pre>

=== Minna no Manga, 10/07 ===
<pre>
Hey all you manga fans! It's time for your weekly Minna no Manga reminder!

Minna no Manga is this Thursday in building 20(Engineering East), room
140, from 6:00-10:00. Well, that's what our papers say. There will be a
class in the room until 6:30, but I know I'll be there around 6. Oh come
on, don't everyone get excited at once!

bShounen Manga of the Week- Bleach by Kubo Tite

Plot- Main character Ichigo can see/talk to/ touch ghosts. Enter the
Shinigami Rukia. Ichigo and Rukia bicker. A Hollow, a very evil spirit
attacks Ichigo's family. Stuff happens, and the only way to save his
famliy and Rukia is to stab himself with Rukia's sword and absorb half her
shinigami power. He accidently takes it all and there is great ass-kicking
and rejoicing. Since Rukia's powers have been taken, Ichigo takes over her
job. And then the series gets a +1million awesomeness level-up.

Bleach is definitely one of my favorite series. Kubo Tite's style is
beautiful and the story really keeps you hooked. For girls, it's got
Ichigo and the ultra-bishounen Ishida. For guys(and girls who like it),
it's got big swords, blood, some of the best action I think I've ever seen
in a manga. Kubo Tite is a god, and his manga is something to be
worshipped. He puts the tiniest details that really add a lot to the
series(like foreshadowing character appearances by having them in the
background at random points for several chapters before they are actually
introduced).

Bleach is licensed by VIZ and they have released the first three volumes
and each is extremely worth the $7.95 they charge. Unfortunately, there
are some interesting translations, like 'Soul Reaper' for Shinigami.
Comparing what they did to what they could have done, it's a pretty good
job.

In Japan, Bleach is published weekly in Weekly Shounen Jump and the
graphic novels are published by Jump Comics. They have recently released
the fourteenth graphic novel and in W.S.J. they just released chapter 152.

The Bleach anime premiered in Japan on the 5th. It's worth checking out,
but I think the manga is much better.

Shoujo Manga of the Week- Gravitation by Maki Murakami
Plot- Shuichi wants to be a rock star. One day he runs into this creepy
guy who makes fun of his lyrics. Shuichi tracks this guy down and becomes
obsessed with him. The guy, the famous novelist Yuki Eiri, doesn't like
this much.

... I know what you are thinking... But really, Gravi is great stuff!
Yeah, you got the bedroom scene here and there... and here again, but you
will not be disappointed if you stick with the series. I seriously doubt
I've laughed at a manga so much. And! if you like music, I think you'll
love this series.

Gravitation has been licensed by Tokyopop and they have released through
volume 7(?).

In Japan, the series is published monthly by ... I dunno. The graphic
novels are published by Gentosha comics Inc. I believe they have released
through 12 or 13, and I am unsure if the series is still being released.

The Gravitation anime(available subbed and ear-bleedingly dubbed from
Right Stuf) is ok, but you should really check out the music from the
series. It's excellent.

If you're a Maki Murakami fan, you may want to check out Gamerz Heaven,
her other series. It will be released soon by ADV Manga, and is published
by Blade Comics in Japan. If Gravi is a bit too... eh... for you, check
out Gamerz Heaven. It's about gamers. Obviously.

____________

Er... wow, I can't write. Sorry. I kind of went off on tangents there.
-_-;; Laziness + Braindead= crappy e-mail!

Read Bleach!
Watch Bleach!
Love Bleach!

~Annaliese
-Something Wicked This Was Comes!-
</pre>

=== MNA 10/9/04 ===
<pre>
Hello anime fans,
Welcome to Minna No Anime, Cal Poly.s Japanese animation club.
As for what the club is and does, it is very simple. You sit around for
most of the night watching Japanese animation occasionally talking and
moving. Otherwise the officers have your souls as your eyes are
transfixed to the big screen in front of you with its bright and colorful
images. Isn.t television wonderful?

Now to the good stuff, the Schedule:

5:00 . Fansub O. the Week (a different episode form a different series each week)
5:25 . Slayers Next . Episode 3

5:50 . 5 minute break . I.m so tired this week.

5:55 . Patlabor . More of what we love.mechas
6:20 . Inu Yasha . What will Inu Yasha kill this week?

6:45 . Another wonderful 5 minute break.so, so tired.

6:50 . Scrapped Princess . Episode 3
7:15 . RahXephon . Episode 3

7:40 . Dinner Break (30 minutes) . Did I mention that in addition to being
tired I am also feeling very lazy and I want to go to sleep?

8:10 . Last Exile . Episode 3
8:35 . Kino.s Journeys (Kino no Tabi) . Episode 3

9:00 . Another 5 minute stretch.if you can stand that is.

9:05 . Texhnolyze . Rogue 3: Texhnophile
9:30 . Banner of the Stars II . Episode 3

9:55 - .Time to disperse and go to sleep in your nice, comfy beds or go to
a party, get drunk, and maybe pass out in a gutter. Whatever floats your
boat.

You know, I realize that the last line there was pretty mean, wasn.t it?
I should warn you now that I have a bad feeling that this whole newsletter
is going to be filled with horrible and mean content. I felt you should
all know and I am not in a bad mood either.

We don.t do parties, do we? After all, we are anime people. That and
some of you may be too young to experience the horrors of alcohol. Let me
tell you about them and no, this is not a public service announcement.
After all, if any of you kill yourselves drinking or doing other stupid
things then that is one less person I need to worry about taking a job
from me or competing for other precious, precious
I recommend that any of you that consider drinking to reconsider it. I
see no point in it. Most of the people I have drank with make lousy
drinking partners and are no fun for the rest of the evening. It is
expensive if you supply the booze or go to a bar and can land a person in
a load of unnecessary trouble. Sure, I guess one could always argue that
it makes a person manlier to consume copious amountsnking proves anything.
The only reason I have drunk, and this is a poor reason, is curiosity. I
wondered what my threshold was and what different beverages tasted like.
Let me tell you that Albertson.s brand charcoal filtered vodka is akin to
acid. A little bit of it burnt all the way down but boy was mouth,
throat, and stomach sanitized. Drinking serves no point and I can think
of nothing worthwhile toIn other news, I am going to tell you what I did
last Saturday instead of watching anime with all of you fine people (no,
really.you are probably more of a decent person than I am). I left my
house around 3pm and headed for the Arroyo Grande movie theatre. I saw no
movie since everything playing just doesn.t excite me or is utter crap, in
my humble opinion. No, I went to wait for a friend to arrive so thol II
(Limited Edition) at Best Buy. No, I did not buy it.yet. We then left
SLO and headed back to Arroyo Grande where we got a cup of coffee and
talked for a while. A quite enjoyable evening actually. Definitely worth
missing anime club for, I think.

So, I missed another club meeting and I likely will this week to. It
depends entirely on how long I feel like working alone at Pismo Beach and
if I can find other people to do things with. The interesting thing is
that I still enjoy anime I just can not stand most of the shows being
showed. Thus, I just do not bother going. Anime club has become
something of a last resort on a really slow Saturday night.
Here is some history you might find enjoyable. A number of years ago,
Minna no Anime showed the series Black Heaven. In retrospect, the show
was mediocre but it had a great opening and some of the songs in it were
excellent. As a matter of fact, the opening was so great that I
head-banged the opening. At this time, I had long, straight blond hair
about half way down my back that just added to the whole head banging
experience. It was a glorious time and on the last episode I stood down
at the front of he stage, faced the audience, pretended I could play the
guitar, and head banged as hard as I could. I made a fool out of myself
but, god, was it fun and I think the audience enjoyed the spectacle as
well as I enjoyed doing it. If anything, I hope this goes to show that I
do not hate everything.only about 95% of everything. Why do I dislike so
much stuff you ask? For simplicity.s sake, lets just say thatSo that is
all I have to say. I have work tomorrow and have been sleepy for the last
two hours so I think I will send this to all of you eager anime fans and
get some sleep after watching the Rock .n. Roll Excel Saga episode. I
like that episode mainly because of the opening part of Key.s song but to
each their own.
</pre>

=== Minn no Manga 10/14/04! ===
<pre>
Let's All Bake Bread!

Minna no Manga 10/14/04
18:30-22:00, Bldg 20, room 140

Did you know that it is really a nice feeling to fall asleep on a lawn in
some dappled shade while listening to Frou Frou? It is very relaxing(until
you wake up and realize it's nearly class time!).

~Shounen Manga of the Week- Yakitate!! Japan(Freshly Baked!! Japan) by
Takashi Hashiguchi~

Do you like bread? I sure do. This may be because of my extended time
tending to the Great Bread and Donut King, Cubby*, but it cannot change
the fact that most people love bread. Azuma Kazuma(Oh, how I love fun
names) loves bread. He travels from his hometown to Tokyo to compete for a
job at Pantasia's main store. How do they compete? By making bread of
course!

Kazuma's great goal in life is to make JaPan**. France has a bread that
represents their nation, as well as Germany and England(among several
others), but Japan does not. Kazuma's wants to make a bread to represent
Japan.

Yakitate!! Japan is one of those series you start to read because it's
just so out there, you have to see it. When I found out there was a manga
about bread, I just knew I had to read it, and I have not been
disappointed yet. Not only am I constantly amused by the antics of the
main characters, I am always learning new things about bread, and tips and
techniques to help bake better.

This series is also full of fun cameos(one character is dressed as Lum at
one point, Gash of Konjiki no Gash Bell is in a good four pages in one
volume), but it is also full of fun puns. Everybody loves puns.

Yakitate!! Japan runs in Weekly Shounen Sunday and nlated by Aku-Tenshi's
doujin department, Impending Doujinshi. It is a 19 page one-shot. Enjoy!

_________________________

I guess I feel bad. For the few weeks I've written this, I've always had a
shounen series in mind, but I always have to go through my bookshelf or my
scanlations to find a shoujo series. I do really like shoujo stuff, but
I'm just more partial to shounen series. I like watching stuff blow up, I
guess. ^_^

Thank-you for putting up with my poor writing skills for another week!
~Annaliese

If you want me to write about a series(or if you'd like to say something
about a series), e-mail me at dragynstorm@<removed for spam reasons>. Please put
something about Minna no Manga in the title. thanks!
</pre>

=== Minna no Manga 10/14 part 2 ===
<pre>
Wow, somehow my 'Shoujo Manga of the Week' just didn't send. Odd, very
odd. Maybe it's telling me something. ^_^

~Shoujo Manga of the Week- Carnival II, 2002(Harry Potter doujinshi)
produced by Ronru Pearl~

Yeah, so it's a doujin. Big deal. Yeah, it's Harry Potter. Big deal.

Many people know I have very bad luck with doujinshi. I always look at the
covers and are attracted by the pretty artwork, while inside something
dirty and generally wrong awaits me! Noooo! I really lucked out with this
one. While there is a guyxguy pairing, it is clean. Wo-hoo!

Carnival is actually a series of some 15-odd one- or two-page comics about
Ron and Harry(most take place around book 3). While most deal with Ron's
unrequited love for Harry, a pairing I'm not too fond of, I was nearly on
the floor laughing the entire time. The story is funny, the art is pretty,
and you really couldn't ask for something better to lighten your day. Now,
I say this as a big HP fan, so I am biased.

If you want to check out Carnival, it is scanlated by Aku-Tenshi's doujin
department, Impending Doujinshi. It is a 19 page one-shot. Enjoy!

hmmm... this makes me wonder, did the Shoujo Manga of the Week from
previous weeks send?

Sorry about the problem!

~Annaliese
</pre>

=== MNA 10/16/04 ===
<pre>
Hello anime fans,
Welcome to Minna No Anime, Cal Poly's Japanese animation club.
News...and actual content...no hatred from me this week. I guess the
world is ending.

Current Halloween Schedule:
Silo: Noon to Midnight Anime, anime, anime and an occasional contest (but mainly anime).
Room 1: Guilty Gear X Fighting Tournament and then free gaming - Beginning
at 2pm and going until your fingers bleed or Cal Poly turns the power off (midnight).
Room 2: DDR Competition and free dance - Beginning at noon and going until
your legs give out or the room monitors of Cal Poly tell us to pack up and go home (midnight)\par
Room 3: Everyone's favorite game: The anime trivia contest. Test your
mental acuity against that of your friend and see who really does know more
anime trivia - yolike that can haunt people...but hey, dress up as you like. It is bound to
be fun regardless.
Pumpkin Carving: 10:30pm - For those artistic types out there, time to
transform that ugly orange blob of a Jack-O-lantern into a beautiful
portrayal of anime greatness.

Dinner, AMV's, Cosplay, and the pumpkin carving contest will be in the Silo
at the aforementioned times*.
*Times subject to change.

Now to the good stuff, the Schedule:

5:00 - Fansub O' the Week (a different episode from a different series each week)
5:25 - Slayers Next - Episode 4: An Ancient Pledge! He Who Seeks Immortality!

5:50 - 5 minute break - I'm thinking of attending the WHOLE session this week...

5:55 - Patlabor - I hope to have titles for this next week since I don't
what ep we are on.
6:20 - Inu Yasha - Episode 78: Aiming for Sango, Only you

6:45 - Another wonderful 5 minute break...maybe I'll be here at this time...

6:50 - Scrapped Princess - Episode 4: The Concerto of Acquaintance and Parting
7:15 - RahXephon - Episode 4: My Clock-Watch the Year Hand

7:40 - Dinner Break (30 minutes) - I should almost positively be there by
now, shouldn't I?

8:10 - Last Exile - Episode 4: Zugzwang
8:35 - Kino's Journeys - Episode 4: The Land of Adults

9:00 - Another 5 minute stretch...I should still be here assuming I arrived
earlier, that is...

9:05 - Texhnolyze - Rogue 4: Synapse
9:30 - Banner of the Stars II - Episode 4: The Hunters

9:55 - Again, time to depart...or you can stay a little longer and watch,
yes, here it comes...MORE ANIME, Ithink...

CHICKENS!

Did you know that I have chickens where I live? Yes, I do. Way too many
for my tastes. I just don't have enough BBQ sauce for all of them and
killing, cleaning, and gutting them takes so much time and effort. No,
seriously though, I do have live chickens where I live. Mind you they are
not mine but my brother's but still, chickens live on the same plot of land
that I live on. Let me tell you something else. These chickens smell.
They smell bad in normal weather but they smell truly rank in hot weather or
after a rain. Now, in the interest of being nice, I will not go into why
they stink so much more horrendously onfrom the fact that they are filthy
animals.

Yep, that is part of the reason why I am so late in writing the newsletter
this week. I had to put the smelly (did I mention that they are sticky from
time to time as well) creatures away for the night because we have WILD
ANIMALS here as well. Mountain lions, foxes, turkeys, crows, vultures,
gophers, snakes and a whole plethora of other critters. Oh. Oh, I forgot.
We also have cute, adorable, sex-craved TENTACLE MONSTERS at my house. Just
kidding. We have no tentacle monsters or Cthulu-esque type demons either.
We do, however, have a number of RABBIITS with their sharp, pointy teeth.

Yes, I have just randomly capitalized nouns because I felt like it. No
other reason than that. Forgot to mention the zombies...I mean killer
tomatoes...er, random assortment of totally harmless, healthy fruits and
vegetables that also grow out here where I live. A veritable smorgasbord of
salad ingredients just outside my door and what do you think I eat a lot of?
You guessed it. Uh oh...capital word coming on...Prepare yourself...
...
.. MEEE----AAAT. Boy, do I like meat. Speaking of meat, I think I will
have some jerky right now to help wash down the hamburger I found in the
fridge with my name on it. I miss my hamburger. Actually it was a double
cheeseburger made even better with two, count them, TWO, types of cheese on
it. And now VNV Nation's Dark Angel is playing. So far it has been a good
dinner and with my parents and brother mysteriously gone (hence the reason
for putting the chickens in their coops), this night is turning out to be
pretty good.

Last night was pretty good as well come to think of it. After getting home,
I found out that Mr. Cohen was having a get-together and I just could not
say no to that. True, it was not a raging party but it was subdued and
friendly with good conversation and friends. I only wish that more of you
had come and thus we could have conversed together and I could have met more
of you. Fortunately, we had INVADER ZIM on DVD to keep us occupied when
conversation went flat. I remembered why I liked that show (besides Jhonen
Vasquez's work on the show). It is insanely over-the-top and disturbing
(re: disgusting) in some parts. I submit the episode Rise of the Zitboy as
an example of its horrific-ness...and then the giant zit does something
(sorry, but if I said any more it would be a spoiler and that would be mean
of me as well) and the results are disgusting but hilarious as well. What
entertainment.

Speaking of entertainment, I was planning on writing something with more of
a political bend to it since national elections are almost upon us but I
decided against it since I have been rather harsh the last few weeks. That
and I still have a week or two to write that particular blurb. I was also
considering writing about my job but I realized how short that might be
since I am not at liberty to talk to you about my work. Whatever anyone
else may tell you about my employment are all LIES. They seek to deceive
you and sway you to the dark side of the force...oops, I forgot. I am the
DARK side. So evil am I, at least that is what people around me tell me.
It's not like I ever killed anyone or anything. Sheesh, just because I
graduated in four years as a business major and for my last few quarters
only had classes on Tuesdays and Thursday after noon, this makes me evil.
Oh well...

Do not forget that actual CONTENT exists in this newsletter. I hope to have
more every week. This week is info on the MINNA NO ANIME HALLOWEEN
EXTRAVAGANZA OF AMUSING GAMES AND DARK AND CREEPY ANIME. Too long of a
title but you get the point. Let's not forget about those of us that have
no shame and partake in the greatest (re: geekiest) of all contests...THE
COSPLAY CONTEST. I intend to be in costume. Can you guess who or what I
am?

Anyway, I need to be off to do STUFF. I'll say something else (maybe
without capitalized words all the time) next week. Until then, enjoy the
shows and the activities.
</pre>

=== MnM 10/21 ===
<pre>
Florists by day, Assassins by night!

Minna no Manga is this Thursday, 10/21, from 6:30pm-10:00pm in Building
20, Room 140!

To get things started, I'd like to remind everyone that if you'd like to
be in the AMV contest, you have to get your AMV to me BEFORE the Halloween
party. I don't care if you drop it off 3am the morning of, but I need it
before the party. If you have any questions or want to meet me someplace
to give me your AMV next week or something, e-mail me at ensuing@<removed for spam reasons>
or talk to me at Minna no Manga or Minna no Anime.

Shounen Manga of the Week- Bichi by Atsushi Ookubo

Bichi is a poor poor manga that no one knows about. Until now!

I first encountered Bichi when buying some issues of Shounen GanGan last
year(for the sweet sweet Fullmetal Alchemist chapters in them).
Unfortunately, the one issue that contained Bichi had the last chapter of
the series. Oooh Boy. Well, a number of months later, I happened to be in
a lot of emotional pain because of Kinokuniya's lack of FMA to satisfy my
fangirl cravings. But suddenly, as if a manga god had seen my suffering, I
happened to notice the first two volumes of Bichi begging to be bought.
And bought they were.

Shut up, Annaliese, and what the hell is this series about? Bichi is about
a boy, Showtaro, who can gain characteristics of different types of
animals from biting on one of their bones. So, with a bird bone he can
fly, a snake bone his body becomes very flexible, and on and on. From what
I gather, most people are afraid of him and others with odd powers(think
the mutants and humans from X-Men). But, he meets a girl(Mana) and for
some reason or another they start traveling together, and run into all
sorts of trouble. Meanwhile, Showtaro's childhood friend, Enime, has
become an extremely powerful individual working for the bad guys. Dun dun
dun!!

Now, there is most likely more to this story, but this is all I can tell
you from my own pathetic attempts at translating it. You don't have to
fully understand the story to love the series. The art is playful yet
awkward, and sometimes even creepy. The characters are very fun and
enjoyable to watch as they go on their misadventures. The mangaka really
makes Bichi a complete story with the detail of the characters, vehicles,
accessories, and cities(my favorite being Toykyo). If you like the style
of King of Bandits Jing, I think you'll like Bichi.

Ooh, ooh.... This took me six months to figure out. The title is B(as in
the letter) Ichi(kanji). B-ichi. Ichi can mean one. B-One. Take out the
hyphen and it becomes Bone. Showtaro uses... bones! Hey, I thought it was
cool.

Bichi is not availably in english yet, but Manga-Rain plans on starting it
soon. You can get it at Kinokuniya in it's lovely Japanese format. All
four volumes have been released. If you are interested, Manga-Rain is
scanlating Soul Eater, Atsushi Ookubo's new series, which is awesome.

Shoujo Manga of the Week-Weiss Kruez

Four young men are florists during the day and assassins at night! These
are the tales of their missions!

Okay, so you got four pretty boys- Aya; the quiet mean one, Ken; the cool
older-brother type, Youji; the playa, and Omi; the young and insecure one.
They kill people. But they are also florists. And maaaannnn... the yaoi
fan fiction for this series is through the ro-... mmm... nevermind...

Sorry. Truthfully, I can't say much about this series, because I haven't
really read much. I just love the fact that they are assassins AND
florists. It cracks me up. I will say the art is beautiful, the boys are
pretty, and from the little bit that I have read, it is really good.

I really don't know how many volumes or side stories there are of this
series, but the entire anime series is out(warning-it's really
depressing), and the sequel, Weiss Kruez Gluhen(aka Let's Masacre
Character Designs!) is being released now. The english title for both is
Knight Hunters... which is lame.

Enter Rant

I really think these things just go downhill every week. Sorry. I don't
think it's good to write this at very odd hours of the day. But, I keep
ending up doing it, so meh.

As October slowly turns into November, I am reminded that Fullmetal
Alchemist will be starting on Adult Swim shortly(the count down clock on
FUNimation's site says about 16 days now). Now, if it hasn't been
blatantly obvious, I am a FMA fangirl. Fullmetal Alchemist is the best
series. Ever. Of course, this is all just my opinion, but I have met few
people who can say they dislike it. With the dub being broadcasted to the
masses, I am afraid of a DBZ-ish fandom taking over. I am also worried
about some poorly done job, where Ed is somehow made Anthony, and he
actually is the younger brother. These things can keep a fangirl up at
night, sadly enough.

FUNimation, the license holder, has done some real crap. But they also did
Fruits Basket, which I thought was done wonderfully. So, we have two
possibilities. It's a coin toss. Lucky for us fans, the company seems to
love the series as much as we do, and generally seem to want to do a good
job on it. The cast list has been announced, and things looks a-okay.

For the voice of Ed you have Vic Mignogna. You may remember him as Kurz
Weber from Full Metal Panic or Gawl from Generator Gawl. Though I have not
seen FMP dubbed, Vic did a great job as Gawl, and from clips I've seen,
he's going to try to put the same energy into Ed. Now no one can surpass
Paku Romi-sama's voice for Ed, but Vic may be the closest you can come. I
give him two thumbs up!

Al doesn't sound cute enough. I don't know what his VA is thinking.

Roy is voiced by Travis Willingham, a guy that is so bishie himself, some
Roy Fangirls are becoming Travis Fangirls.

Hughes has Krillin(DBZ-BLEH)'s voice. Oooh, I get shudders thinking about
it.

Hawkeye's VA's voice has the last name Clinkenbeard. tee-hee. She's also
the co-director.

Last but not least(no way I'm going through the entire cast list)-Let's
talk about ailey. Who else did Laura Bailey do? The first thing that comes
to mind is... TOHRU FROM FRUITS BASKET. I hope you can see where I'm going
here. Tohru is sweet and innocent, while Lust is well... she's evil! She's
a sin! She's Lusty! Nevertheless, I can't wait to hear her.

So, the cast doesn't look too bad. Now what I'm really worried about are
the directors... This is on an interview I have seen:

What is Fullmetal Alchemist?
"A super awesome action adventure show" <- Alright... That's kind of a
retarded way of saying it.

What makes Fullmetal Alchemist so cool?
"Well, they're Alchemists!" <-Oh wow! really? I thought they were
economists!

Did you actually read that entire thing? If so, wow, thanks, I feel
honored. If not, well, I don't really blame you. I now leave this ranting
e-mail for the moment. You'll probably hear more about FMA later. MMMM
Boy.

~Annaliese

Did I mention Vic is a total fanboy? Sweeeet.
</pre>

=== MNA 10/23/04 ===
<pre>

Hello anime fans,
Welcome to Minna No Anime, Cal Poly's Japanese animation club.
News...and actual content...part II. I noticed some parts were missing from
last weeks newsletter.

Current Halloween Schedule:
Silo: Noon to Midnight - Anime, anime, anime and an occasional contest (but
mainly anime).
Room 1: Guilty Gear X Fighting Tournament and then free gaming - Beginning
at 2pm and going until your fingers bleed or Cal Poly turns the power off
(midnight).
Room 2: DDR Competition and free dance - Beginning at noon and going until
your legs give out or the room monitors of Cal Poly tell us to pack up and
go home (midnight).
Room 3: Everyone's favorite game: The anime trivia contest. Test your
mental acuity against that of your friend and see who really does know more
anime trivia - you...or the other guy sitting on your other side! Beginning
at 4pm and going until 8pm roughly (includes the Finals).

Other events of great popularity:
Dinner: 6 pm - Pizza (need I say more?).
AMV's: 9pm - Our first AMV contest.
COSPLAY: 10pm - And guys, a word to the wise...unless you want to go down in
infamy, DO NOT dress up like a girl. Cameras will be present and photos
like that can haunt people...but hey, dress up as you like. It is bound to
be fun regardless.
Pumpkin Carving: 10:30pm - For those artistic types out there, time to
transform that ugly orange blob of a Jack-O-lantern into a beautiful
portrayal of anime greatness.

Dinner, AMV's, Cosplay, and the pumpkin carving contest will be in tweek, I hope)
5:25 - Slayers Next - Episode 33: Follow! The Phantom Dragon

5:50 - 5 minute break - Give your eyes a chance to blink...

5:55 - Patlabor - Episode 23: Kanuka's Report
6:20 - Inu Yasha - Episode 79: Jaken's Tetsusaiga ,snatching Operation

6:45 - Another 5 minute break...It sure is bright all of a sudden...

6:50 - Scrapped Princess - Episode 5: Lullaby of the Minstrel
7:15 - RahXephon - Episode 5: Nirai Kanai-On Earth as it is in Heaven

7:40 - Dinner Break (30 minutes) - So much light and more stuff to
watch...with light too...

8:10 - Last Exile - Episode 5: Positional Play
8:35 - Kino's Journeys - Episode 5: Three Men Along the Rails

9:00 - The last 5 minute break...The light - It burns my eyes, it does...

9:05 - Texhnolyze - Rogue 5: Loiter
9:30 - Banner of the Stars II - Episode 5: Rebellion

9:55 - Ah...another night, and more wonderfully inexpensive entertainment.

Politics...ah, how I enjoy ploitics..the biggest joke on the planet.

See, I am an apathetic voter and an anarchist to boot. I do not believe an
all-powerful, encompassing government is the solution to society's woes. I
am also not naive enough to believe that true anarchy will ever flourish in
America in my life. See, in order for my vision of anarchy to exist,
humanity has to become better than they are and have to be willing to accept
that they can not have everything and that they do not even need most
things. If anarchy were to happen today, it would result in sheer chaos and
I can not support that. After all, I am also relatively non-violent
person--just do not push me too hard. The closest I can get to controlled
anarchy is libertarianism so instead of the normal choices for president I
will throw my vote away, according to everyone else, and vote libertarian.
The sad thing is that, at heart, I am a republican but Bush has steadily
been pissing me off and Kerry is no better.

On to the local issues...
Damn we have a lot of propositions to vote on this year in California. Let
me tell you some more personal history...
I voted for the recall but against Schwarzenegger. I voted for the schmuck
that wanted to bring about armageddon. A perfectly adequate platform for
such a ridiculous election as that was. After all, I was only interested in
voting Davis out. I also voted for the $15 billion bond refinancing since
the state did need it but I also said I would vote against all other bond
measures for the next handful or so of years. I do not like the concept of
debt financing for eternity. It has to fail eventually. The bonds have to
be paid off eventually and the bond holders will want payment eventually.
Thus, this election my motto is: "If the Proposition asks for money, vote
no. If it doesn't, something is likely wrong, vote no." And yes, I have
read the Propositions and know that I should not base my vote on if they
don't ask for money. IF they do, I will vote no. NO NEW DEBT!! Unlike the
federal government, CA is not authorized to print its own currency unless it
succeeded from the country and went its own way...

So, you are wondering, how am I going to vote? Well, let's see...I'll only
do a few...
Prop 59: Yes - Reason...I used to work for a government, still do as a
matter of fact, and thus if any member of that government is stupid enough
to write or say something in general assembly that they do not want any one
outside to see, we should know and let them know what we think.

Prop 61, 63, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72: All of these are likely t obe a no
vote. First of all they want money or rasie taxes and I do not like that
idea. If the state ever wants to cut the budget and actually bring spending
under control, we, the populace, need to hold them in check. Do not let
them take more money or borrow more with no increased revenue streams.
Also, the Indians (Native Americans) are not normal citizens like some of us
so why are we forcing them to pay the same as us? Lucky them that they
were forced out of their original land (much like California's treatment of
the Japanese as they were interned during World War II). California is
steamrolling some of these measures down people's throats. To tell you the
all the truth, Grover Beach has a casino. Hell, gambling outside of
reservations is nothing new. These are established businesses...just not as
big and gawdy as the Indian casinos. Some of these propositions pose
unfortunate problems for me. I am not against human cloning or stem cell
research but I am against government paying for the research. I am also
opposed to having my DNA on record (if I cais on record. This reminds me
of Gattaca only without the spaceships and
genetically-engineered upper class. What is Gattaca you ask? It's a movie
from about 1997, I think. I liked it anyway.

Honestly, if I had more faith in government (some of my distrust comes from
dealing directly with governments), I would likely allow them more leniency.
Unfortunately, bureaucracy needs funding and we need to stop giving it to
them. They can only expand as far as we wish them to. True, some services
do get cut back. My response is why do you think fire, parks, police and
the like are the ones that suffer first? They tend to expand faster than
other services but they are also necessary. Also, cuts in these areas are
always made out to be unfortunate and political. The real reason is that
these services are not special interest groups and they are union
controlled. Yes, I have a problem with unions as well. They have outlived
most of their usefulness and, in many cases I would like to say, are a
hindrance. This, however, is a rant best left for another time.

I encourage all of you who are going to vote, to vote for the candidate who
will do the most good for the country. May the best ideal win.
</pre>

=== Minna no Manga 10/28! ===
<pre>
Something wicked this way comes...

Minna no Manga is this Thursday, 10/28, from 6:30pm-10:00pm in Building
20, Room 140!

Once Again, because I mean it:
To get things started, I'd like to remind everyone that if you'd like to
be in the AMV contest, you have to get your AMV to me BEFORE the Halloween
party. I don't care if you drop it off 3am the morning of, but I need it
before the party. If you have any questions or want to meet me someplace
to give me your AMV next week or something, e-mail me at ensuing@<removed for spam reasons>
or talk to me at Minna no Manga or Minna no Anime.

Shoujo Manga of the Week- Harlem Beat wa Yoake Made by Kazusa Takashima

" Prince Kaito of the Kingdom of Hell has leaped the Gate to

the Human World in order to escape the burdens of royalty.

Three minions, a clueless zombie, a skirt-chasing vampire,

and a harrassed werewolf, are sent to give chase and bring

the Prince back to his domain. Meanwhile, Kaito and the

cat Levun find themselves newly incarnated into new and

strange bodies; Kaito pursues a new life as a high schooler

while Levun watches over him as the new school doctor.

Wacky hijinks as the supernatural meets the trials and

tribulations of high school life.

-cibo(of Shi-Ran)"

What can I say about HBwYM... This series is probably my favorite Shoujo
series. I like demons and the such, so this is right up my alley, the art
is breathtaking, so score another point for the series, and the story is
fun, so why not check it out!

The main character is really cute. Not exactly your usual bishounen, more
like... a puppy. Seriously. He's a puppy. It's cavity- educingly cute.

My only problem with the series is the lack of it. It rarely comes out, so
you have to wait months for the next installment. And! When you want to
see some of the mangaka's work, you find that the only scanlated things
she has done is yaoi. Not exactly what I want hanging around on the family
computer in the middle of the summer. Oh no.

All in all, this series is awesome. Please check it out. The first three
chapters are available from Shi-Ran, and the fourth is available from
Sweet-Lunacy.

Shounen Manga of the Week- Death Note-story by Tsugumi Ohba, art by
Takeshi Obata

As I attempt to keep with a Halloween-ish theme(betcha couldn't tell!
^_^), the first good Halloween-ish Shounen manga that comes to mind is
Death Note.

Death Note is the story of a shinigami who drops his Death Note(a notebook
where you write the names of people. And they die.) in the human world for
fun. After a short while, he goes to the person who has found it. Raito,
the new owner of this Death Note has taken it upon himself to exterminate
the criminals of the world. The story quickly evolves into an in-depth cat
and mouse game between the investigator "L" and "Kira," Raito's killing
name.

Never have I read such an incredibly advanced manga. The story is so
involved, you can never tell what will happen next. If the story isn't
enough, the artwork is incredible. It has gone past the point of 'manga
art' and has entered into the realm of something new. It is more realistic
than usually seen, but still retains some of the manga feel.

The first 40 chapters are available from Orange Tangerine, and the first 4
chapters(plus a very interesting one-shot) are available from Toriyama
World. If the art looks a little familiar, it may be because the artist
also did the art for Ayatsuri Sakon and Hikaru no Go.

Enter Rant

Man, midterms really drain you. And if midterms were not enough, a few
professors decided to also assign huge projects and presentations. *joy*
Thank goodness Halloween is knocking at our door!

My beloved computer, MackeyII(named after my bonsai who I nearly killed
who was named after Mackey from Bubblegum Crisis 2040), has gotten a few
upgrades recently that make me a happy camper. My brother gave me his old
DVD drive and his old sound system. I haven't hooked up the drive yet, but
the sound system makes me a happy happy music lover. The subwoofer makes
my desk vibrate and acts like a good massage-thing for my feet. And the
sound! The sound! I can hear things clearly now! My music is no longer
pretty sounds but actual music! I am a very happy camper.

~Annaliese
Off to go blast Shining Collection on these...
</pre>

=== MNA Halloween 10/30/04 ===
<pre>
Hello anime fans,
Welcome to Minna No Anime, Cal Poly's Japanese animation club.
News and only content but a lot of repetition.

Current Halloween Schedule:
Silo: Noon to Midnight - Anime, anime, anime and an occasional contest (but
mainly anime).
Room 1: Guilty Gear X Fighting Tournament and then free gaming - Beginning
at 2pm and going until your fingers bleed or Cal Poly turns the power off (midnight).
Room 2: DDR Competition and free dance - Beginning at noon and going until
your legs give out or the room monitors of Cal Poly tell us to pack up and
go home (midnight).
Room 3: Everyone's favorite game: The anime trivia contest. Test your
mental acuity against that of your friend and see who really does know more
anime trivia - you...or the other guy sitting on your other side! Beginning
at 4pm and going until 8pm roughly (includes the Finals).

Other events of great popularity:
Dinner: 6 pm - Pizza (need I say more?).
AMV's: 9pm - Our first AMV contest. I thought of a great AMV idea but I
don't have the time, ources, or equipment to do it. So sad.
COSPLAY: 10pm - And guys, a word to the wise...unless you want to go down in
infamy, DO NOT dress up like a girl. Cameras will be present and photos
like that can haunt people...but hey, dress up as you like. It is bound to
be fun regardless.
Pumpkin Carving: 10:30pm - For those artistic types out there, time to
transform that ugly orange blob of a Jack-O-lantern into a beautiful
portrayal of anime greatness.

Dinner, AMV's, Cosplay, and the pumpkin carving contest will be in the Silo
at the aforementioned times*.

*Times subject to change.

One other note - In order to win prizes, you MUST be a Minna No Anime
member. You are more than welcome to compete in any of the contests
otherwise but in order to win, you must be a member. Membership is only $5
for the whole year.
One other important note - In order to win the Anime Expo tickets, you must
at least participate in the COSPLAY contest. Winning it helps ut is not
absolutely necessary in order to win the tickets.

Now to the good stuff, the Schedule:

Oh no..where's the schedule!? There is no schedule. This is what we like
to call free viewing. We watch what people bring and thus what you want to
watch. Be reasonable people. I know all of your stuff is great but others
would like a chance to watch their great stuff as well.
Anyway, you are more than welcome to bring shows in that are Halloween
related and see if any one else wants to watch it as well so sit back and
enjoy the show(s) or be one of the shows.

You know, the biggest problem about doing this newsletter in Notepad
(technical reasons relating to posting the newsletter in Cal Poly's email
system) is that I have no spell checker. Now I try to not to make mistakes
but I have a tendency to think three sentences ahead of where I am and my
typing does not keep up so I misspell a word or two.

Otherwise, I have a massive headache right now. See, at my job...yes, I
have an 8-5 job and then a second part-time job on the weekends when I am
not communing with you wonder folks (no, really) or galavanting around with
other people I know... has become very interesting in the last month.

My project lead has been hospitalized after having an anuerism and a few
other complications. She is recovering nicely though as we speak. When
this happened I was thrust into a role I wanted - a project lead. I get to
make decisions all day and report to all the people in charge and answer the
questions they have. I then get to make decisions that afffect the smooth
operation of the organization without trying to make too many people
irritated. Trust me when I say that the last part is no easy task for me.
I have to keep quiet about a lot of things I may not particularly agree
with. So, recently all of this jobs stress, existing problems, and new ones
are mine to deal with and so far I think I have managed well. The thing is
that I have heard rumors that I am going to be getting some temporary help.
If they are placed above me, I will be greatly dismayed since I like making
decisions, especially after being on the job for approximately four months.
If someone comes in beneath me, I will not know what to do with them. Since
I was always the fallback person when people higher up screwed up, I got
used to cleaning up messes and never turning an assignment down. Delegation
is entirely foreign to me and I would not know what to give them to do that
I think I could do just as easily.

Another thing is that I might leave this job for greener pastures closer to
home in Arroyo Grande and a higher paying job with more security and
management responsibilities. The only problem with this is that I am not
gauranteed this job although I am the front runner at this point.
Essentially they want me and I feel I want to go back but they need to go
through a formal application process and that introduces the chance that I
will not get the job again.

Coupled with this is the idea (and that is all it is at this point) that I
might try to move out of this house soon. By soon I mean around the end of
February I might actually considering getting a condo in Santa Maria. The
thought of me living on my own in all respects sends shivers down my spine
like never before. The prospect actually scares me.

All these factors, and me not eating consistently, are giving me a monster
headache. One I have had from time to time for the last week. So much
authority, so many decisions, so little experience...I hope I don't get
someone in trouble or miss a really important deadline. Oh well, I am off
to sleep and watch Disk two of my brothers Platinum Evangelion collection.

Nighty-nite...
</pre>

=== Minna no Manga, 11/04 ===
<pre>
Minna no Manga is in Bldg 20, room 140, thursdays, 6:30-10:00

Ahh, after a good run of rolling in Katamari Damacy, I drifted off to
sleep with thoughts of, "GAH! MnM e-mail!" So, sorry for the late e-mail.

Shounen Manga o' the week: Black Cat by Yabuki Kentaro

Train and his partner Sven are cleaners, a type of bounty hunter. They are
doing their usual work when they get a job offer from a thief to capture a
mafia-type leader. They accept, and the whole story is thrown into action.
The tale jumps from their personal work to the fate of the world, blah,
blah, blah. So how do two guys, a thief, and a little girl(who enters
shortly into the series) save the world? Let's just say that it is a good
thing Sven has an 'eye of premonition'(please pardon my bad translation),
Eve(the little girl) was built with nano technology, and Train is actually
the legendary sweeper, the Black Cat.

What is so good about the thief? Nothing much. She gets them good info,
but she's pretty worthless. ^_^

I am a huge cat lover, so it was very hard to pass on a series titled
Black Cat. The story is a little odd, and I am not a fan of the artist's
coloring style, but the art is good, the characters are charming, and it
is a fun read.

You can get the series pretty easily from Chronos Time Guardians,
Akatsuki-Manga, and Toriyama World. The furthest group has released up
through chapter 130ish. In Japan, the series runs in Weekly Shounen Jump.

Shoujo Manga o' the week: Vampire Vampire by Yukako Iisaka

Vampire Vampire is a short(3 chapter) series. It focuses on a shy girl and
the boy she likes, who becomes possessed by a kind vampire. Her mission is
clear! She must separate the two! But wait, now a vampire hunter comes
into the picture? What is this madness?

VV was just something I happened to see online and decided to check out.
It's a good thing that I did, because instead of the horror story I
thought it's be, it's a cute feel-good story. The art style seems a little
old, but there is nothing wrong with that. As the whole story(at least to
my knowledge) is three chapters long, it will not hurt to take half an
hour out of your day to check it out.

All three chapters of Vampire Vampire are available from ShoujoMagic

Enter Rant

On rainy days such as this, I like nothing better than being nice and warm
inside. It feels very nice to be able to relax and watch as the world is
purified in in the cold rain. Of course, it sucks when you are out there,
getting drenched.

Katamari Damacy is an excellent game. I can roll up people now. >=D

~Annaliese
</pre>

=== MNA 11/06/04 ===
<pre>
Hello anime fans,
Welcome to Minna No Anime, Cal Poly's Japanese animation club.
NEWS FLASH!!! Mark your Calendars.

December 5, 2004 at 7pm - Fall Quarter Tsurugi's Restaurant outing.
Thereservations have been made for the tatami room at Tsurugi's. The tatami
room can technically only fit 16 people but we have fudged that number
before although I would guess Tsurugi's personnel would rather we not cram
too many people in it so I advise all interested to sign up as soon as the
sign up sheet is available. Trust me, craziness is likely to ensue.

Now to the good stuff, the Schedule:

5:00 - Fansub O' the Week (a different episode from a different series each
week, I hope)
5:25 - Slayers Next - Episode 34: Be Eternal! The Day Prince Phil Died

5:50 - 5 minute break - Give your eyes a chance to blink...

5:55 - Patlabor - Episode 24: Farewell Kanuka
6:20 - Inu Yasha - Episode 80: Sesshomaru and the abducted Rin

6:45 - Another 5 minute break...It sure is bright all of a sudden...

6:50 - Scrapped Princess - Episode 6: Perplexed Song of the Knights
7:15 - RahXephon - Episode 6: Obliterated Cities-Lost Songs Forgotten Memories

7:40 - Dinner Break (30 minutes) - So much luminescence and more stuff to
watch...with the lights on too...

8:10 - Last Exile - Episode 6: Arbiter Attack
8:35 - Kino's Journeys - Episode 6: Coliseum Part 1

9:00 - The last 5 minute break...The light - It burns my eyes, it does...

9:05 - Texhnolyze - Rogue 6: Repetition
9:30 - Banner of the Stars II - Episode 6: Abh Hell

9:55 - Ah...another night, and more wonderfully inexpensive entertainment.

Fate... many of the shows we view have ties to this concept but it is all a
matter of perception. As such free will and fate/destiny/predetermination
(whatever you call it) are rather meaningless concepts since, we, as mere
humans, cannot see beyond the veil of the present...at least not that I know
of. We can not know if our actions are governed by our own will and we do
what we do unto each other out of some sense of conviction or if what
happens is just supposed to happen. Is right and wrong really a concept if
fate exists? The actions that these people did were supposed to happen then
and, devoid of human sentimentality and rationalizations, therefore the
actions can not be moral or amoral.

See, this brings me to a problem that has been bothering me for a very long
time...roughly four years now (since I was in Cal Poly). Ethics. How do we
define what is right and wrong? If we shoot a person on the street for
money to survive and they should die from blood loss (they were shot in the
leg but were a hemophiliac and thus bled to death), the shooter, assuming
they are caught will likely go to jail for murder and other crimes. Now, if
a person is shot in the street in the middle of a war zone (be they enemy
soldier or civilian), why is the shooter not tried for murder? Another
problem is that the shooter (let's assume a soldier did the shooting) is not
entirely allowed to determine who they shoot at. Generally, someone else
gives them a target and the soldier then pulls the trigger. So why are both
parties (the soldier and the person telling the soldier what to do) not held
accountable?

When people go about slaughtering each other, how can one mandate that
certain rules are followed? I find "Rules of Engagement" and "Rules of War"
to be flawed. Both sides are out to protect something equally precious in
their minds as well as their own lives (suicide bombers being an exception
to the last part sincethe theory is that something more precious in value is
placed over theri own life). If you were on the losing end of a dispute,
would it not be conceivable that you might consider fighting dirty?
Sabotage? Snipering? Terror? Any means necessary to fight back and win or
return things to the way they were before? How can a war truly be fought if
both sides refuse to fight 'fairly'? How heinous is any act committed in a
war when someone's lives are on the line? This does not include the
opportunist (a different entity in a Machiavellian world) that takes
advantage of a situation merely to exploit it to their own ends. A lot of
the problems in execution (not reasons behind the dispute) arise from one
sides leaders not being able to stoop as low as someone else. There is some
truth in the saying that "desperate times call for desperate measures." And
why not? Odds are you have nothing more to lose than your life.

Let's bring this back to fate and free will. If we have the conscience
ability to decide every action (except for autonomous actions like breathing
unless in the process of committing suicide where one tries to stop one's
own autonomous functions in some way aka death), then how can we not find
soldiers as deplorable as the random mugger/killer? On a side note, I feel
that self-preservation trumps someone else's right to life. If a life is
being threatened, I feel one can take steps to end the threat even if those
steps end another life. Such a situation should not have arisen in the
first place. In short, when shot at, shoot back. These people (unless they
themselves, through no fault of their own, are in the wrong place at the
wrong time) should be held accountable for what they do. Another question
is just how responsible is the person that might be responsible for sending
them into such a situation where they have to defend themselves? Not at
all...some...as much...more? I don't know but some responsibility should
rest with them.

On the other hand assuming our actions are destined to lead to some point,
then murder, violence, the horrible things we have laws against to
supposedly protect us from everything, are irrelevent. The killers are
suposed to kill and the victims are supposed to be victimized. That would
be the order of the universe. My problem is that I can not bring myself to
accept either possibility or neither or hold both together in the same
thought as both being simultaneously possible. Now why do I dwelof all
things? That is hard to answer. At times I get this feeling that I
am almost, if you will, destined for great yet horrible things. They are
only horrible in that society views them as such but maybe they are
necessary at the time. Again, what the feeling pertains to I do not know
nor do I have any idea what might happen. All I know is that I seem to be
drawn to problems and they keep getting larger it seems. Going into them
would take a long time to explain and I have rambled enough as it is. So I
leave with wondering if we are random instants within time or are we here to
end up at some point regardless of our actions. I sort of wish I could get
a convincing answer to this and then again, what would I think about in the
dark and cold and lonely expanses of night?

If any one was wondering, I am not so much as opposed to war as I am to
violence in general, possibly. If violence is a conscious decision (one
might argue insanity and the lack of discernment to know right from wrong
but then if one were to argue fate controlled actions, the insanity argument
is also irrelevent), then that in itself (unless defending oneself from
violence) is deplorable and I am against that. Violence should not have to
be a resort. Yes, it is an ideal. Yes, it is wholly unrealistic for the
world to get along. Still, the question remains, is right right and wrong
wrong or is it a matter of opinion and perception? If everything is
destined to culminate at some point, then I can not be against violence in
any form because it the order of things. I personally don't like that
philosophy because it is very fatalistic. On the other hand, free will
should encompass the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do
unto you. So if you cut someone off, you should expect that theyreturn and
do the same. What makes a person so superior to others that it gives them
the right to treat someone rudely and then not expect reciprocation?
Unfortunately, I am not yet able to even come up with a satisfactory
rationalization for myself, let alone any of you.
</pre>

=== No Minna no Manga 11/11 ===
<pre>
Unfortunately for the club but fortunately for our weary minds, there will
be no Minna no Manga this week. ASI will not allow us to have a meeting on
a national holiday. Meh to them.

Manga o' the week: Imouto wa Shinshunki by Ujiie Tozen

This is a series 4-panel comics. Think Azumanga Daioh on more crack than
usual blended with hentai thoughts. Yeah, it's a messed up series. Imouto
wa Shinshunki is a tale about Shinji, your average high school guy, and
his odd sister, Kanami. Kanami enjoys... making moves... on her older
brother, watching hentai with him, and generally doing dirty things.

I told you, it's messed up. ...but it is really funny. I must have broken
a rib or two reading it this summer. And of course, being nearly stranded
in a house full of people who could care less about manga or anime, there
was no one to share my glee with. So now you all suffer.

Furinkazan is working on this project, and as far as I know, they have
released the first 19 chapters. Unfortunately, these chapters are
extremely short, I think the longest is 8 pages(so, 16 comics).

Enter Rant

Eh, because I'm a generally lazy person, and there really isn't any
meeting this Thursday, I only did one manga series this week. I really
don't know if anyone reads it, and my writing is so bad, I don't blame
those who do not.

I beat Katamari Damacy Sunday with a 767m Katamari. I don;t know if there
is anything more satisfying than rolling up thunder gods and islands....

~Annaliese
</pre>

=== MNA 11/13/04 ===
<pre>
e to Minna No Anime, Cal Poly's Japanese animation club.
NEWS FLASH!!! Mark your Calendars.

December 5, 2004 at 7pm - Fall Quarter Tsurugi's Restaurant outing.
The reservations have been made for the tatami room at Tsurugi's. The
only way to witness the Wasabi Challenge, be it as a bystander or
participant, is to attend. Remember seating is technically limited.
Limited to 16...

Now to the good stuff, the Schedule:

5:00 - Fansub O' the Week (a different episode from a different series each week)
5:25 - Slayers Next - Episode 35: Hidden Ambitions! The Shocking
Confession?

5:50 - 5 minute break. Grab yourself a drink.

5:55 - Patlabor - Episode 25: Storm of Spring
6:20 - Inu Yasha - Episode 81: Finally Broken Naraku's Mystery

6:45 - Another 5 minute break. Get up and stretch.

6:50 - Scrapped Princess - Episode 7: The Waltz of the Cast Away Dog Girl
7:15 - RahXephon - Episode 7: Day of Assembly-Phantom in the Clouds

7:40 - Dinner Break (30 minutes) Get some dinner. Replenish your fuel reserves.

8:10 - Last Exile - Episode 7: Interesting Claus
8:35 - Kino's Journeys - Episode 7:

Work.
I work for many hours during the week.
I am virtual zombie.
I get money to go without sleep.
I get money to deal with other people's incompetence.
I have more work to do because people are incompetent.
I have better things to do at work.
I no longer have a task lead at my full-time job.
They had an anuerism.
They had a stroke during the anuerism surgery.
They caught pneumonia after the surgeries.
They got better.
They are in physical rehabilitation now.
My supervisor is in Colorado.
I work in an office all alone.
I am a solitary person.
I work alone on the weekends, normally.
I have two jobs.
I work for two government entities.
I have health coverage and two retirement plans - Don't ask.
I have literally been working seven days a week.
I am thinking of leaving my current job.
I am trying to get a higher paying job with health coverage.
I am a workaholic.
I tend to avoid the world.
I have little interaction with people outside of work.
I am isolated.
I like isolation.
I am able to work in peace on problems others have created.
I am supposed to create peace for those I work with by fixing problems.
I am not at peace.
I am not eating properly.
I go a day or so without food occasionally.
I sleep irregularly.
I am unused to natural light.
I seldom see the daylight except through my front windshield.
I am a corporate slave, a vampire.
Nice to meet you and thank you for your soul.
Welcome to the real world.
</pre>

=== MnM 11/18 ===
<pre>Minna no Manga 11/18, 6:30pm-10pm, bldg 20, rm140

There will be no meeting next week. Then again, I really hope you didn't
think there would be one, it being Thanksgiving and all.

->Manga o' the Week: Psychometer Eiji written by Yuma Ando and drawn by
Masashi Asaki

Psychometry is the ability to divine information about people or events
from an associated object/person by merely touching it/them.

Psychometer Eiji is about a young rebel who is a psychometer(and is named
Eiji, if you are too dense to figure it out). He teams up with a detective
and together they solve gripping mysteries.

I downloaded this on a whim, and I was generally pleased with what I have
read. If you don't like detective stories, chances are, you won't be
changing your mind just because of this series. But, for the detective
fan, this will be quite enjoyable. The art took me a little while to get
used to, but the quality improves as the series progresses, as would be
assumed. The writing is really what draws me to this series. It has the
ability to grasp you and hold you for insane amounts of time, like any
good novel. The story will change from silly to scary... one case had me
checking my window several times a day, just in case someone was hiding
there.

My one complaint is the number of similar characters. There are a few
sub-characters that look too much alike for me to tell apart easily. In
fact, when I bought volume 25(yes, the one volume I own... I didn't know
it was the last volume... >_<) , the art had changed a bit, and I could
not tell Eiji's sister from Shima, the detective. @_@

Psychometer Eiji was released by Shounen Comics and ran for twenty-five
volumes. It is being scanlated by Omanga and every chapter through volume
11 chapter 8 has been released.

->Enter Rant

Man, it has just been one of those weeks... two projects, two
presentations, a midterm, a quiz, homework, Ensuing, stress, stress,
stress... Bleh. Just four more days of class and then a break!

I splurged and bought Tactics volume 1 last Sunday. Oh... it is very, very
good. Tengu + Rice Bowl + Lots of Sake= Amusement

~Annaliese
... my flintstones vitamins have a warning label on them. this disturbs
me.
</pre>

=== MnM 12/02 ===
<pre>
Minna no Manga is 6:30-10:00pm in bldg20, room 140 nearly every Thursday!

There will be not meeting during finals week. If you are really desperate
for a meeting, you can come chill with me in my dorm room in Cerro Vista.
It'll be a rockin' party.

Just a side note... we were lucky enough to get the same room for next
quarter. yay to that! Also, Sorezore no Hisou from Peacemaker Kurogane
sounds like it was ripped straight off of ER.

-> Manga o' the Week: Jigoku Sensei Nube(Hell Teacher Nube) by Okano
Takeshi

Trust me, I was definitely one happy fangirl when I found this series. I
had been looking around for it for about a year, and just happened to
stumble upon it quite recently.

Nube is a little old, as it began in 1994. This causes all sorts of
problems when you want to start reading it, and they never have volume one
because it is out of print. DAMN YOU, PEOPLE YOU DECIDE THOSE THINGS! even
if you do begin the series, you'll spend half your life trying to get the
rest of the out-of-print volumes. Yeah, all 31 of them.

Sorry, sorry, I'll talk more about the actual series. JSN stars a young
teacher with paranormal abilities. He works as both a teacher and an
exorcist. One day, he fights an Oni which he then seals into his left
hand. As a teacher, he is constantly made fun of for his odd ways, but his
students that have seen his true work really respect him. He passes each
chapter with defeating demons that harm or posses his students.

Poor Nube! Always looking like an idiot, especially to the woman he has a
crush on. You can't help but feel sorry for this awesome loser. But Nube
won't let that get him down(too much)! The story for this series is fun,
the art is playful, and the series is worth your time.

Jigoku Sensei Nube is from Weekly Shounen Jump and ran for 31 volumes. The
first three are available from Nensha. There was also an anime made, but I
have not been able to locate any information regarding the location of
episodes.

-> Enter RANT!

I don't know what is worse than going into finals week sick. Well,
nevermind, I bet I could come up with a great number of things, but this
is pretty bad. How do you remedy this? Good anime, good manga, sanity, and
ramune. That's right, ramune.

What is ramune? It's that marble drink. You know, the one they often have
in RahXephon(and several other series). It's some good stuff. Imagine
Sprite Remix tasting awesome. That's about what ramune tastes like. The
stuff is not just a great drink, it's also fun to drink! you have that
annoying little marble that always comes unhooked when you try to get
those precious last drops, that fun shape, the ummm.... coolness of it
all... It's really great stuff.

Good Luck on Finals! Have a great break everyone! Happy Holidays!
~Annaliese
</pre>

=== MNA 12/04/04 ===
<pre>

Hello anime fans,
Welcome to Minna No Anime, Cal Poly's Japanese animation club.
An ending...well, Fall Quarter is over.

December 5, 2004 at 7pm - Fall Quarter Tsurugi's Restaurant outing.

More News...
Until further notice, I will not be doing a newsletter for the next
several weeks due to Winter Break...yay, time away from school and classes
unlike me where I shall continue to work...and work...and work...
Also, we will be showing the Slayers Movie this week so the schedule is
different than usual and may differ even from this...

Now to the good stuff, the Schedule:

5:00 - Slayers Next - Episode 37: Voices from the Darkness! Slash 'em to
Bits, Laguna Blade!
5:25 - Patlabor - Episode 27: A Calling Voice in the Dark

5:50 - 5 minute break. Time to say...

5:55 - RahXephon - Episode 9: Small Shrine of Time Sanctuary
6:20 - Last Exile - Episode 9: Calculate Alex

6:45 - Another 5 minute break. ...goodbye...

6:50 - Kino's Journeys - Episode 9: Land of Book
7:15 - Texhnolyze - Rogue 9: Wiggle

7:40 - Dinner Break (30 minutes) ...to graduating friends and
classmates...

8:10 - Slayers Movie

9:55 - Until next quarter...

I thought I would share some holiday cheer this week. Well, at least what
passes for cheer in my life of misery, pain, and endless torment...

MOVIES!!

I can think of four movies that really get me in the mood for Christmas.
Maybe you will see why but I doubt it since you may not have even seen
some of them. My favorite four Christmas movies are "Edward
Scissorhands", "Addams Family", "A Nightmare Before Christmas" and "How
the Grinch Stole Christmas" (the animated, Dr. Seuss version - not Jim
Carrey's attempt). See I apparently have a streak that runs in me where I
gete ending occurs on either Christmas eve or very close to but what an
ending it is...death and unrequited love. Next we have the "Addams
Family". At the beginning of the movie Christmas Carolers are singing on
the front porch of the Addams Family house and perched above them is the
Addams Family with a pot of boiling tar waiting for the carolers'
unsuspecting heads. Absolutely great. True, the rest of the
The above sure make "It's a Wonderful Life" look sickly sweet...especially
"Edward Scissorhands"...no happy ending in sight. Yes, I know I'm not
supposed to take parts out of the movie and I am supposed to take it as a
whole so fortunately, despite happy endings for three of them, I like them
all in there entirety.

As for Christmas itself, I find it way to capitalistic for my tastes. A
few people I know are compelled to ask for gifts (myself included) not
because I really care to get a lot of the stuff (some of the things on my
list I actually do need though) but because people giving the gifts feel
obligated to get people gifts. I have gone so far as too explain my point
to my parents about how I dislike trinkets an for it but I would prefer to
just sit and watch my family open each other's presents while not
fighting, making snide comments, or complaining in some fashion about each
other. That would be fine for me. A compulsion exists though to get me
stuff so I make a list of stuff I either need or want.

Now, please don't misunderstand. I am not against family togetherness and
comaraderie and good cheer but I do ast 5 credit cards and carry a balance
for a few months on at least one if not two. I mean what the hell
happened to fiscal responsibility!? I just assumed this guy was a
crackpot but unfortunately he is likely right, which infuriates me.

Sorry for being such a humbug there but this season always brings it out
in me more than others it seems. I hope you all have a safe, happy, and
good Christmas/Winter break and New Year and that you all come back
refreshed and ready for more animated entertainment. Who knows? Maybe we
will finally achieve world peace this year...
</pre>

== Winter 2005 ==
=== Minna no Manga 01/06 ===
<pre>
Hope you all had a great break!

Minna no Manga is Thursdays from 6pm-10pm in building 20(engineering
east), room 140. Usually, only cool people come, so if you want to join
the cool kids, I'd better see you there.

Manga Series of the Week:

Ah, I had such a good break manga-wise, it was hard to choose what to fill
your inbox with.

D-Grayman by Katsura Hoshino

D-Grayman is the story of exorcists and akumas. The main character is the
young Allen Walker who has an Anti-Akuma weapon; his arm can transform
into a large white clawed hand in order to destroy akuma. Allen's left eye
also helps him in his line of work, it allows him to see the suffering
soul of the akuma. Akuma are not evil creatures, they are lonely souls
transformed into hideous things b the real bad guy, the Earl of
Millennium.

It's true that I get into series extremely easy, and can fall out of
series just as easily. But this is not your average cool series. This
series is AWESOME. The art is too good for someone's first series(although
I have read that this mangaka has not done any others), and the characters
are lovable. Allen is strong and pretty good at what he does, but he is
also a kid. A human kid. A lot of things scare him and he knows he has a
lot of growing to do in order to defeat the evil of the world. It also
helps the story that Allen is extremely cute and has a really cool scar
over his left eye. Also, there are shades of other series casted here and
there, which makes it interesting. In one scene, someone calls Allen a
bean sprout to which Allen gets angry, a la Fullmetal Alchemist.

D-Grayman is being scanlated by Yanime and Tincampi. Yanime has released
through chapter 3, and Tincampi has just released chapter 7. I prefer
Tincampi's version, which is scanned from Weekly Shounen Jump, because the
Jump version has a slightly different look to Allen's scar(which makes it
look even cooler than it already was). Plus, Tincampi is pretty quick.

Volume 1 of D-Grayman was released(raw) in October, and I believe volume
two is coming out in February/March.

Enter Rant

Besides the absolute lack of money, I love not working. Not working this
break allowed not only enough time to get almost a quarter's worth of
pencilled Ensuing comics done, but it also allowed me to read a ton of new
manga.

For many years, I didn't dare touch shoujo series. They were too
sugared-down and similar to each other to be worth reading. Fairly
recently, with the help of many friends, I have plunged into back into
shoujo to find an entire world of wondrous series I had been missing over
the years. While I feel ashamed for ignoring this 'other world,' it also
makes me happy. Now I have lots to catch up on. =3

New(er) recommended shoujo:
Mugen Spiral
Demon Sacred
Metamo Kiss
Hiyakoya Store
Yoru ni mo Makezu!(St. Lunatic High School)
Gatapishi!
Trinity Blood

Hope to see you all Thursday evening!
~Annaliese
</pre>

=== MNA 1/08/05 ===
<pre>
Hello anime fans,
Welcome to Minna No Anime, Cal Poly's Japanese animation club.
A beginning...a new quarter and a new year.

News...
Yes, I have information to impart unto you.
January 15, 2005...Time to pick the T-Shirt design that will symbolize MNA
for the next year. The rules are available on the web site so go there if
you don't know the requirements. I won't bore you with them here.

Now to the good stuff, the Schedule:

5:00 - Fansub Of the Week
5:25 - Slayers Next - Episode 38: The Unexpected End? The Shocking Truth!

5:50 - 5 minute break. Yes,

5:55 - Patlabor - Episode 28: Suspicious Duo
6:20 - Inu Yasha - Episode 83: Girl Yorojok and the Great Promise

6:45 - Another 5 minute break. ...club...

6:50 - Scrapped Princess - Episode 9: Requiem for the Heretics
7:15 - RahXephon - Episode 10: War in the Remembrance-Sonata of
Reminiscence

7:40 - Dinner Break (30 minutes) ...is...

8:10 - Last Exile - Episode 10: Swindle
8:35 - Kino's Journeys - Episode 10: A Tale of Mechanical Dolls

9:00 - The last 5 minute break. ...happening.

9:05 - Texhnolyze - Rogue 10: Conclusion (God, this is a great ep)
9:30 - Banner of the Stars II - Episode 9: The Time to Put the Bows Down
(one ep after this..then what?)

9:55 - So tired...must go home...but might miss great after hours show...

I'll keep it short...shorter than usual anyway.

I need to apologize for being so late in releasing this. I have been very
lethargic this week. I guess I am still recovering from the holidays and
then work decides to ramp up again after being so mellow almost all of
December.

Speaking of that, I interviewed for another job during the break. Yep, six
months at my current job and I am already looking for other work. I figure
at this rate I can jump from job to job with no real experience but making
be making an awesome sum of money in a few years.

I am so tired...physically and mentally. I just have not been able to get
my self motivated to do anything other than work, eat (sometimes I don't
even bother) and sleep (the easiest thing to do). On the subject of food,
let me say it is amazing what one can pick up at Trader Joe's. I had
teriyaki chicken on rice and miso soup for dinner tonight...not gourmet but
quite filling.

Driving was a pain today. Not because of the rain per se but because my
windshield wiper kept overextending its arch and would wipe off of the side
of my window. Stupid older car with its little problems. Had to pull over
twice to reset the danged thing abd snapped a covering off it in the process.

At least I no longer get sore after working out anymore. The first two
weeks were pretty miserable. I was very sore. What, didn't I mention that
the place where I work has a gym in it? Oh, I didn't...well, it does.
Unfortunately, it won't be coming with us when we move to a new building.

The thing is that no matter how much I work out, I can't get too ripped. If
you've seen me, then you know I am a scarecrow. Simply put, I lack the body
mass necessary to get ripped.

Also while working out, I was watching Monty Python's Flying Circus and let
me say that there is some random yet amusing stuff. Nowhere near as
horrible as Monkey Dust (I think) which is animated horror...sorry, you need
to see it to believe it what with the socialites turning into werewolves and
the human brain eating and other stuff. I also decided I will own the whole
Monty Python Flying Circus collection someday...someday...yeah, and someday
I might move out of my parents house.

Mmm, I like my new leather reclining computer chair. Beats sitting on the
cold, hard ground. So comfortable...anyway, I'll leave you for this week
and hopefully I'll be quicker to get this out next week.
</pre>

=== Minna no Manga 1/13 ===
<pre>Hey Minna! Minna no Manga is 6-10pm, Thursdays in building 20, room 140.

Manga of the Week> RahXephon and Outlaw Star by people I don't know

Do you think RahXephon lacks fan service? I mean, I think the show is
great, but I often hear that a bit more fan service would make is awesome.
First, you guys are crazy. Second, apparently you haven't read the manga.
The RahXephon manga is a odd attempt to appease the fanboys yearning for
that common panty shot and embarrassing moment. Every chapter, Ayato
manages to get into a position where girls take off nearly all their
clothes. Rwar, I guess. Unfortunately for fangirls like myself, Ayato is
not cute, so when you also looses his clothes, it's not cool. He should
think about keeping those things ON.

Beyond fanservice, the manga kinda sucks. I am a huge RahXephon fan, and
this is almost a mockery of the series. It does have one redeeming factor,
though... A RahXephon-in-a-sailor-outfit-panty-shot. Now that is awesome.

Outlaw Star... I liked the series, watched it three or four
times(unfortunately all from Cartoon Network), thought casters ruled, etc,
etc. So, like any other fan, I wanted to find the manga.

HO-LEE CRAP.

Ever wonder what would happen is Outlaw Star became a hentai(I really hope
you didn't)? Check out the manga. Gene is with a new girl everynight, and
brags about it explicitly. Granted, it could be dirtier, but What happened
to my nice little images of the characters? SMASHED! I think Gene's true
goal in life is to get with every girl in the city. I think he gets about
halfway there by the time the first few chapters are done. Oh, my poor
poor mind...

Well, meh, this is really just me complaining. Sorry. RahXephon 1 and 2
are out from Viz, and 3 is supposed to be coming out shortly. Outlaw Star
was licensed a number of months ago, but I do not know when it will be
coming out.

Enter Rant

Shinzo is on ABC family again starting Saturday. I think it is 7:30am
Sat/Sun. It's a pretty cool and underappreciated show.

Don't forget to bring your T-Shirt designs to Minna no Anime this
Saturday! We will be voting! =3

~Annaliese
</pre>

=== MnM 01/20 ===
<pre>
Minna no Manga is Thursdays, 6pm-10pm, BLDG 20, room 140.

(Not really a) Manga of the Week...?

In Which Annaliese Talks About Howl's Moving Castle:

So, if you have ever even attempted to keep up with anime news in the past
few years, you probably know that the newest Miyazaki masterpiece is
Howl's Moving Castle, based off of Diana Wynne Jones' book.

In Which the Characters are Made Known:

Sophie- the oldest of three sisters, who knows her life is not going to be
very successful, for the eldest never is. She is a smart, hard-working
girl who is turned into an old woman by angering the Witch of the Waste

Howl- Teh sexiness. The evil and lecherous wizard who is said to kidnap
young girls and devour their souls in his moving castle.

Michael- Howl's young apprentice.

Calcifer-the fire demon who makes the castle move.

The Witch of the Waste- The evil witch who turns Sophie into an old woman.
She does not like Howl.

In Which the Plot is Mentioned:

So, if you read about the characters, it is not hard to imagine the plot.
After being turned into an old woman, Sophie leaves her home and
eventually breaks into the moving castle(hey, old ladies need to rest in
warm places, and if that's all that is around...). She tells Howl,
Calcifer, and Michael that she will be their maid, and they don't have the
will to make her leave, so she stays with them, all the while trying to
find out more about this evil wizard and the life he leads.

In Which There is Much Fangirling:

Not only is the book very amusing, Miyazaki has managed to breathe so much
life into the characters, if the plot doesn't intrest you, the characters
will not let you stop watching. Howl's moods vary wildly within each
scene, and watching him can really bring a smile to anyone's face.

The movie varies quite a bit from the book. Sophie seems to only have one
sister, Michael is at least five years younger, and the main conflicts are
totally different. But all the important things still play out, and if
anything, the movie is just as enjoyable(if not more enjoyable) than the
book. This also means if you read the book, the ending of the movie is not
spoiled, and vice versa.

In Which Annaliese Complains About Availability:

HMC came out in Japan on 11/20/04, so it is relatively new. Disney has the
rights, and it is said that it will be in theaters this June. ...And for
those who cannot wait, a raw, sometimes blurry, sometimes out-of-focus,
never on the full screen, pirated version is available from an obscure
chinese torrent site. It's nearly a gig of goodness.

...I shouldn't type things when I'm tired....
~Annaliese

howl=love
</pre>

=== MnM 1/27 ===
<pre>
Minna no Manga is Thursdays, 6-10pm, bldg 20, rm 140

Manga of the Week: W-Juliet

W-Juliet is the story about a tomboy, Ito, who is always assigned the male
parts in her drama club. One day a beautiful girl, Makoto, joins, and the
two quickly become friends. After a rain storm drives the two into Ito's
home, Makoto accidently reveals her big secret... She is a he!

Makoto and Ito quickly grow close. They must protect Makoto's secret from
the remainder of high school, or Makoto's father will not let him become
an actor, which is his dream.

W-Juliet is a fun, comedic series that is well worth the time put into
reading it. The first volume is available from Tokyopop(?).

Enter Rant:

-_- I've become way too obsessed with Howl's Moving Castle. It is just too
good. Unfortunately loving it as much as I do has greatly taken away from
my studying time, and with midterms on the horizon, life has not been
fun...

~Annaliese
i love howl =3
</pre>

=== MNA 1/29/05 ===
<pre>
Hello anime fans,
Welcome to Minna No Anime, Cal Poly's Japanese animation club.

News...
No more news from me. Apparently, what I thought was happening, happened
previously plus, as a non-attendee, I have no desire to give out false
information so I will refrain from any further news and hope that you all
attend club to hear the upcoming events in person. Sorry for any trouble
caused by bad or late news.

Now to the good stuff, the Schedule:

5:00 - Fansub Of the Week
5:25 - Slayers Next - Episode 41: A Big Crash? The Battle of Artemay Tower!

5:50 - 5 minute break. Hope...

5:55 - Patlabor - Episode 31: Tragedy in Rain
6:20 - Inu Yasha - Episode 86: The secret of the Emblem Lady

6:45 - Another 5 minute break. ...everyone...

6:50 - Scrapped Princess - Episode 12: Fight Song of the Two Princesses
7:15 - RahXephon - Episode 13: Human Speciman 1-Sleeping Beauty

7:40 - Dinner/Randomness Break (30 minutes) ...enjoys...

8:10 - Last Exile - Episode 13: Isolated Pawn
8:35 - Kino's Journeys - Episode 13: A Kind Land (Another ending)

9:00 - The last 5 min. break
9:05 - Texhnolyze - Rogue 13: Vista
9:30 - Requiem from the Darkness - Episode 02: Willow Woman

9:55 - I am being proactive this time. This was all written Sunday (just
not posted immediately).

Ah, to be a vagabond, a drifter, a hobo, a nomad (call it what you will).
Yes, secretly, this is my desire. Just like the Metallica song Wherever I
May Roam. Not power. Not persuasion. Nothing actually. Just to drift
from one place to another, from nowhere to nowhere forgetting everything
about me..the past, the present, and future.

I know, not the typical aspiration of a person that currently has a rather
bright future in dealing with government problems, but then I have never
considered myself typical. Long hair, trench coats, seething hatred
towards all and an overwhelming feeling of apathy are somewhat common but
generally not in one person. Anyway, Kino's Journeys reminded me of this
longing (albeit I would wander without the talking motorcycle and I would
not be in search of anything). See, for me, like Kino, I feel trapped
bNow (and this is the fanciful part), if I was immortal (like a
highlander), then I would have set out with nothing on me - no ID, no
money, no ideas, and no directions. I would just wander under my own
power for the sheer joy of being free from everything. I apologize for
being unable to better articulate the frustration I feel with our modern
times and way of life and the desire to forget it all and just leave.

I have talked with some people about this (idly, mind you) and the
reaction has been interesting. One person actually did not want me to do
it or consider leaving everything behind. They would miss me a bit.
Others assumed such a disappearing act was a sure sign of depression and
suicide and were fearful for my well-being. The thing is that I am quite
inconsiderate. I have no problem leaving everything and everyone behind
without considering the effect it might have on others. After all, that is the p
And no, I am not running from anything. After all, things in my life are
looking up after two years of part time employment and other things. I am
just tired and sick of everything. I feel I can do no right by anyone but
myself and that, by dealing with others, I merely cause more problems (an
inefficient system exists). Apathy only takes me so far. I may not care
but others do and when others complicate things unnecessarily for me, it
bothers me (inefficiency and being unable to comprehend others'
Now, how do I wrap it all up? I don't know. I have wandered into my own
mind and soul and revealed more of myself to you like I normally do. I
guess all I can say is that we all have to live as we see fit and maybe
your dreams will happen. Oh, I know how to end this rant. May the world
come to an uncontrollable state of chaos and thus, I can disappear with
society and be free.
</pre>

=== MnM 02/03 ===
<pre>
Minna no Manga is Thursdays, 6pm-10pm in bldg20, room 140.

->Manga o' the Week: Eyeshield 21 by Ichirou Inagakiri and Yuusuke Morata

Sena has just made it into high school. On his first day, he is singled
out to be bullied by Hiruma, the worst guy around. This just puts one more
bully to pick on him on his long list. Sena is an easy target, small and
too kind to try to fight back. Things happen and Hiruma notices Sena's
incredible sprinting speed. He recruits Sena to be the star running back
and secret weapon of the Deimon Devilbat's American football team!

Yeah, yeah, it is a sports manga. Whoop-de-doo. No, no, no! This isn't
some random run-of-the-mill series. The art is fun, the story is fun, and
watching Hiruma torture pretty much everybody in the series is quite
amusing. Granted, it's not the best series ever, but this is worth
checking out. Of course, I wouldn't write about a series I didn't think
would be worth reading.

Eyeshield 21 has been recently licensed by Viz and will be released this
summer. The anime will be beginning in Japan in April!

->Enter Rant

Man, I hate midterms. I'm the type of person who has a hard time sticking
to one thing for a while, so studying is a major challenge for me. It is
really annoying when you find you've been sitting at your desk for three
hours, determining the method your textbook was printed with. Not cool.
Thank goodness for anime and manga to keep me sane!

I randomly bought Boktai2 this week with some of my food money(aka Campus
Express, yay). I was going to get Minish Cap because I am a huge Legend of
Zelda fan, but I figured it would take too much away from studying. Never
have I ever tried to buy a game that isn't that intetesting. So, Boktai2
has been interesting. A lot more engaging than I thought it'd be. I have
to use actual sunlight to charge up my energy, so it is hard to play,
especially at night. But it provides a nice break from studying about
River Empires and the Stoics. Go, Solar Boy Django, Go!

~Solar Girl Annaliese
</pre>

=== MnM 02/17 ===
<pre>Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6pm-10pm in bldg20, rm140. Join us and
experience the power of awesome.

~>Manga...ness...
Kekkaishi is pretty cool. It's about capturing evil spirits and stuff.
Snoopycool was scanlating it before Viz licensed it. They may still have
the chapters on their site.

~> Enter Rant
Sometimes you don't feel like doing anything. Today is one of those days.
~ACE
</pre>

=== MnM 2/24 ===
<pre>Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, bldg 20, room 140, 6pm-10pm

~Manga o' the Week: Zetman by Katsura Masakazu(Studio K2R)

Once upon a time, the creator of Video Girl Ai, DNA^2, I"s(among others)
wanted to create an American-Style superhero comic. So, he tried. And
failed. Life went on. Eventually, he was given another chance to realize
this dream. Thus, Zetman was created.

Zetman opens on "Zetman" injured and held at gun point by an unknown
character, dialogue is exchanged and then.... fade to black. The story
opens again, several years prior to the first few pages. It tells of a
young boy and his guardian and their life. Interesting? Doesn't sound like
it, but it is. Eventually bad stuff happens, and the story begins to
develop as a superhero tale.

Gah! This series drives me mad! Some how, every chapter ends on a
cliffhanger. It's some crazy talent, I tell you, when you can end a
chapter about earning money and eating soup with a cliffhanger. While
"Zetman" is shown in the first couple pages, he does not show up again
until the end of volume two, and it only really around for two or three
chapters.

In addition to all the normal things I gush about, like the amazing art,
engaging story, blah blah blah, something that really impresses me with
this book is the incredible quality of the book itself. The two volumes I
own average about 250 pages each, so they are nice and thick. The pages
are higher quality paper than average manga volumes, and each volume has a
few beautiful color pages in the beginning. The book jackets are
extraordinary; the type is raised and the images have raised sections. The
entire thing is absolutely wonderful.

Zetman is available from Young Jump. The first four volumes are out, and
the first four chapters have been scanlated by ToriyamaWorld. Chapters
5-17 have been scanlated by Evil Genius.

~Enter Rant

The quarter is almost done... wooo....

~Annaliese
</pre>

=== MNA 02/26/05 ===
<pre>
Hello anime fans,
Welcome to Minna No Anime, Cal Poly's Japanese animation club.

The Texhnolyze courier will be absent this week, so something else may need
to be shown...unless someone else also has Texhnolyze.

The good stuff, the Schedule:

5:00 - Fansub Of the Week
5:25 - Slayers Next - Episode 44: The Temple of Sand! The Secret of the Giga
Slave!
5:50 - 5 minute break. Flying...

5:55 - Patlabor - Episode 34: The Battle of the Gate
6:20 - Inu Yasha - Episode 89: The Visitation-Confrontation Between "That
Guy" and "Him"!

6:45 - Another 5 minute break. Flying...

6:50 - Scrapped Princess - Episode 15: Opera of Power and Plot
7:15 - RahXephon - Episode 16: Island of Others-The Moon Princess

7:40 - Dinner/Randomness Break (30 minutes) Eastward we go...

8:10 - Last Exile - Episode 16: Breakthrough
8:35 - Generator Gawl - Episode 3: Curiosity

9:00 - The last 5 minute break. To the cold, frozen wastes...

9:05 - Texhnolyze - Rogue 16: Strain ???TENTATIVE
9:30 - Requiem from the Darkness - Episode 5: Shio no Chouji

9:55 - Don't worrplane crashes...

More News bashing.

One day while I was working out, I was passively listening to the news
program that smeone had turned to. Bill O'Reilly was talking as usual but
this time about a gang bust in Oklahoma (if memory serves). He is of the
theory that gangster rap music makes these kids become gang members and live
such a life. The police oficer he was talking was more reluctant to draw
such a connection between rap and gangs. All of sudden something was said
along the lines that gangs are a direct result of parents not rasing kids
right and that it was a new problem found in places like LA mainly.

This statement made me smile. First of all, street gangs are nothing new.
Gangs have been a part of the American urban life for a very long time.
Immigrants would form enclaves and rally around a comonality like religion
or location or even turf. The older gangs fought each other as modern ones
do today.

Gangs go even farther back if one takes the side of the losing party. One
could probably classify Viking raiding parties as gangs - hoodlums and
criminals in the eyes of the people they bullied. The main difference in
what is considered a gang is that the generally accepted modern gang tends
to prey on other gangs and not, if you will, the general citizenry as the
Vikings did. Even the definition of gang is vague...a group of associated
people or a group of hoodlums and criminals. A gang is not necessarily a
bad thing. As a case in point, the anime club is a gang, banded around a
common interest and goal but it does not mean that gangster rap is
responsible for the clubs behavior. On a side note, I wonder how many of
you actually listen to that gangster rap? I, for one, prefer heavy metal,
techno, industrial and the like. I generally dislike rap and counrty.
Enough of that though...

Essentially, violent gangs have been around for a very long time...before
gangster rap. Since the existence of violent gangs predates the advent of
gangster rap, it is impossible to conclude that gangster rap has anything to
do with it. It may make a convenient excusebut it is not the cause.
Violence has existed well before rap. Gangs have existed well before rap.
Violent gangs have existed before it too.

The question then is what causes gangs, especially violent ones, to form? I
am willing to say that it not because of rap music unless someone wants to
argue that violent gangster rap accompanied marauders as they pillaged and
plundered and gave them the ideas to massacre the people theytheir
violence seems, to me, to be a a sure sign that any one saying
something like that is even less qualified to ponder it than I am.

One other possiblilty surfaces though. While gangster rap is not the cause
of gangs, does it help to perpetuate them or influence their activities?
Part of that would assume that the gang members are too unimaginative to
divine that violence is one possibility of a gamusic and it seems that rap
music does not necessarily cause people to be
violent in groups either. In short, I think Mr. O'Reilly should consider
restating his opinion on a link between gangster rap and violent gangs.

I shall leave you now as I head for colder climates.
</pre>

=== MnM 03/03 ===
<pre>
Minna no Manga meets Thrusdays, 6-10pm, bldg20, room 140

Blarg. Finals are coming up, so I'm going to play the busy/lazy card. Go
read Togari, it is the coolest thing since.... last Sunday. No, really, it
kicks serious tail. It makes me want to play with my bouken more.

GIVE ME ALL YOUR SINS!
~Annaliese
P.S. Trust me, read it, the whole thing is out and available via direct
download from Manga Scanners and Blackout.
</pre>

=== [MnA] 03/05 ===
<pre>
Sorry about that! I forgot to put a subject on this the first time I sent
it. Please don't kill me. Or mock me. I'm very sensitive.

Minna no Anime Episode Schedule: March 5, 2005

5:00 - Fansub o' the Week
5:25 - Slayers Next: Episode 17: They're Talking About a Girl Named Zelgadis?!
5:50 - Break (Something tells me I'm better off not thinking about that
title until I actually see the episode.)
5:55 - Patlabor: Episode 38: Underground Labyrinth Case
6:20 - Inuyasha: Episode 90: Sota's Brave Confession of Love
6:45 - Break (Sota's so cute! And we get to see more of Inuyasha's Clark
Kent powers in this one. If you don't get the joke, feel free to ask.)
6:50 - RahXephon: Seventeenth Movement: Return to the Labyrinth / Ground Zero
7:15 - Scrapped Princess: Episodes 15 and 16: Opera of Power and Plot //
Duet Near the River
7:55(ish) - Dinner Break (Yes, Rah and Scrapped Princess are switched this
week. Read on to find out why.)
8:10 - Last Exile: Move 17: Making Material
8:35 - Generator Gawl: Episode 4: Future Memory
9:00 - Break (You know you love both those shows.)
9:05 - Texhnolyze: Episode 17: Dependence
9:30 - Requiem from the Darkness: Episode 6: Shibaemon Tanuki

Well, I promised I'd explain about the RahXephon/Scrapped Princess switch.
You might remember that SP had a bit of difficulty last week. So we're
playing the last half of that episode and all of the next episode.
Therefore, SP is going to extend about 10 or 15 minutes into the dinner
break. Matt will announce more on this at the meeting.

[random babbling]
Hello there. My name is Jenn. I am not your regularly-scheduled email
writer. Well, as "regularly-scheduled" as it's been recently. Anyway, I
was asked to do this week's email (and possibly future ones if no one
lynches me, who knows?). I was trying to think of cool and interesting
things to talk about here, but of course, my brain fails me when push
comes to shove.

So maybe I should tell you a little about me, eh? As I already stated, my
name is Jenn. Here's an interesting tidbit for you: Sunday is my
birthday. I'm going to be 20 years old. Yes, I know I'm young. Younger
than a lot of my friends, which is strange because in high school, I had
mostly younger friends.

The scary part is that I feel OLD. Honestly, have you ever sat down and
thought about how fast your life is going by? We don't even notice it
most of the time. We're too busy getting things done to realize that days
are turning into weeks, with are turning into months, which in turn become
years. You don't notice it until you consciously think about it, or it
comes along to slap you upside the head. Then you sit there and think,
"Where the hell did the last couple years go?"

Three days after I turn 20, my little brother is turning 17. I remember
being in Iceland (yeah, military family) and holding him a few days after
he was born. That, my friends, is a crazy, freaky feeling. The kind of
feeling that sort of makes you sit back, don the old Keanu Reeves voice
and say, "Whoa."

I can't help but wonder how this is going to feel when I AM old. When I'm
70 (if I live that long), how am I going to feel? I can't even begin to
imagine the kind of vertigo a person that old feels.

Well, there's a little food for thought. Do with it what you will; I'll
see you all tomorrow!
[/random babbling]
</pre>

=== MnM 03/10 ===
<pre>
Minna no Manga meets Thrusdays, 6pm-10pm, in bldg20 room 140! Be there
or... don't!

~Manga of the Week: Ouran Koukou Host Club by Bisco Hatori

Host Club is the story of Haruhi Fujioka who accidently stumbles into a
random music room while looking for a quiet place to study. Instead of
instruments and musicians, Haruhi finds the famous Host Club. As a
scholarship student who otherwise would not have the money to pay for
tution at this 'pedigree first, money second' school, Haruhi feels very
out of place. In an attempt to leave the Club's room, a eighty-miler Rant

Oy... My mind has been clouded with facst and figures, and it's getting
hard to think straight! I just want break to be here now!

Hope everyone has a fun and safe spring break! See you all next quarter,
same time, same place!

~Annaliese
</pre>

=== MnM 3/10 Fixed ===
<pre>
BLARG!!!! The internet didn't like me last night, and messed up the
e-mail. Here's the (hopefully) full version, whoopdeedoo....

Minna no Manga meets Thrusdays, 6pm-10pm, in bldg20 room 140! Be there
or... don't!

~Manga of the Week: Ouran Koukou Host Club by Bisco Hatori

Host Club is the story of Haruhi Fujioka who accidently stumbles into a
random music room while looking for a quiet place to study. Instead of
instruments and musicians, Haruhi finds the famous Host Club. As a
scholarship student who otherwise would not have the money to pay for
tution at this 'pedigree first, money second' school, Haruhi feels very
out of place. In an attempt to leave the Club's room, a eighty-million yen
vase is broken, and someone gets to be the Host Club's dog to pay it back.
Shortly into this sentence, The King of the Club, Tamaki(aka Tono),
notices Haruhi's good looks, and so Haruhi is quickly cleaned up and made
into the seventh member of the Host Club. Fun ensues until the truth is
revealed; Haruhi is really a girl!

Now the Host Club must keep this fact a secret so their newest member can
continue to be with them. Unfortunately for them, Haruhi doesn't really
care one way or the other!

Host Club is a recent find for me, I must thank Rebecca for getting me
into the series. I really love everything about this series, the art, the
characters, the story... And it doesn't hurt that all the Host Club guys
are cute! ^.^

Host Club was being scanlated by Aku-Tenshi, but was recently licensed by
VIZ. In Japan, it runs in LaLa, and the 5th book is out(I think).

~Enter Rant

Oy... My mind has been clouded with facst and figures, and it's getting
hard to think straight! I just want break to be here now!

Hope everyone has a fun and safe spring break! See you all next quarter,
same time, same place!

~Annaliese
</pre>

=== MnA 3/12 ===
<pre>
5:00 - Slayers Next: Episode 18: The Temple of Sand! The Secret of the
Giga Slave!
5:25 - Scrapped Princess: Episode 17: Brief Chanson
5:50 - Break (Anybody know what a "chanson" is?)
5:55 - RahXephon: Eighteenth Movement: Bond of the Blue Blood / The Memory
of the Lost City
6:20 - Last Exile: Move 18: Promotion Sophia
6:45 - Break (Nothing witty to say here.)
6:50 - Generator Gawl: Episode 5: The Best of Both Worlds
7:15 - Texhnolyze: Rogue 18: Throne
7:40 - Uber-Long Dinner Break of Doom (aka Big-Ass Break)
8:30 - Inuyasha Movie 3: The Sword of World Conquest

Club News: Elections are going to take place during the second meeting of
spring quarter! Remember: if you want to run for office, you have to be a
Cal Poly student.

[random babbling]
So, how is everyone? Surviving dead week, I hope? Hang in there! Only
one more week and it's all over (for better or worse...hopefully the
former). Personally, I'm trying to be optimistic (in other words, I'm
purposely ignoring software engineering in favor of other classes).

Anyway, the birthday went well. Thanks go to Steebu, Mike, Des, and Joe
for forcing me to leave my room and go out to eat. You guys are the
greatest. Oh, and happy birthday wishes should go to Annaliese, too,
because her birthday was yesterday.

Anyway, partially because I'm at Minna no Manga and partially because I
have a lot of homework to do (still not thinking of software
engineering...), I'm going to cut this email short. See you all on
Saturday!
[/random babbling]
</pre>

== Spring 2005 ==
=== MnA 4/2 ===
<pre>
This week's schedule:

5:00 - Fansub o' the Week
5:25 - Slayers Next: Episode 19: Disclosure at Last?! Xellos' True Form!
5:50 - Break
5:55 - Patlabor: Episode 39: Economy Model Plans
6:20 - Inuyasha: Episode 91: The Suspiscious Faith Healer and the Black
Kirara
6:45 - Break
6:50 - Scrapped Princess: Episode 18: Elegy of the Back Alley
7:15 - RahXephon: Nineteenth Movement: Blue Friend / Ticket to Nowhere
7:40 - Dinner Break
8:10 - Last Exile: Move 19: Sicilian Defense
8:35 - Generator Gawl: Episode 6: Hiding Ability
9:00 - Break
9:05 - Texhnolyze: Rogue 19: Heavenward
9:30 - Requiem from the Darkness: Episode 7: Katabiragatsuji

Reminders:
- elections next week
- bring t-shirt money if you plan on buying one

[random babbling]
How has your week been? Mine wasn't so bad. My dad brought me back on
Sunday and I dragged him and my brother up to Poly Canyon to look around
and stretch their legs after the three-hour car trip. We went out to eat
and then they left, and I breathed a sigh of relief.

It's not that I dislike my family or anything. I generally get along with
them a lot better than some of my friends get along with theirs. It's
just that, every time I go home, I learn to like living on my own a little
bit more. I like seeing them, but living with my parents is really rather
stifling. Of course, I'm sure most of you have figured this out for
yourselves already, so moving on.

I've been having some really weird dreams this week. If you've ever met
me and had the topic wander to dreams (for reasons beyond comprehension),
you likely think I'm either on drugs or insane. As I am neither (though
the latter is debatable, I suppose), even I'm amazed by some of the
things that pop into my head at night. I wonder what Freud would have
made of my dreams. ...on second thought, nevermind. I can guess.

In other news, classes don't seem like they'll be terrible this quarter.
CSC300 looks like it'll be a helluva lot of writing, but I can live with
that. Here's my quarterly class female count. CSC300: one other girl.
CPE229: two other girls. CPE269: no other girls. JPNS103: one other
girl. Something's screwed up when even my GE class contains only one
other female. I almost feel sorry for you male CSC majors.
[/random babbling]
</pre>

=== MnM 04/07 ===
<pre>
Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6pm-10pm, bldg20 room 140. Be There!

Announcements:
-We're voting for officers this week at MnA, so be there to run or at
least vote!
-Open House is the 16th! We need volunteers! Work a couple hours, get free
food. It's really good food too.
-Did I lend anyone Bleach volume 15? My copy seems to be missing.

~>Manga o' the Week: Eatman by Akihito Yoshitomi

Eatman is the story of Bolt Crank, an unusual man who eats nearly
everything except regular food. Besides his unusual eating habits, he has
a special power; he can recall anything he has eaten to be used later!

Eatman is an interesting read. I don't love it, don't hate it, but it's a
good way to pass the time. The art style is very nice, I really like the
artist's depiction of Bolt's world. The story is very episodic. I think in
one volume, it is said that this is supposed to be a series where you can
read one story a night and be happy. I must agree. I've been getting
through the series a couple volumes a day, and it satisfies me.

The series is 17+ volumes long(I'm not completely sure, I only have
through 17 though). It is licensed by Viz, but I haven't seen a new volume
in years, so who knows if they've dropped it or not. You can find the
volumes online fairly easily(I didn't tell you that).

Erg, sorry about the lame review. Eatman is just what I happened to be
reading when I decided to write the e-mail.

~>Enter Rant

I consume manga like Bolt eats. Seriously. I like reading at least a
couple hundred pages a day. It's like a drug, keeps me happy and all... I
admit, I have a problem....

~Annaliese
</pre>

=== MnA 04/09 ===
<pre>
This week's schedule:

5:00 - Fansub o' the Week
5:25 - Slayers Next: Episode 20: No Other Choice! Set Course for Dragon
Valley!
5:50 - Break
5:55 - Patlabor: Episode 40: Shore Watch Out Order
6:20 - Inuyasha: Episode 92: Plot of the Walking Dead
6:45 - Break
6:50 - Scrapped Princess: Episode 19: Mother's Sad Aria
7:15 - RahXephon: Twentieth Movement: The Battle of the One Who Controls /
Interested Parties
7:40 - Dinner Break
8:10 - Last Exile: Move 20: Grand Stream
8:35 - Generator Gawl: Episode 7: Secrets & Lies
9:00 - Break
9:05 - Texhnolyze: Rogue 20: Hades
9:30 - Requiem from the Darkness: Episode 8: Nodeppou

Announcements:
- Elections this week!
- We still need volunteers for Open House on the 16th. Work a couple
hours and get free food!
- There will be no meeting Open House weekend.

[random babbling]
Wow, is it just me, or did last week depress anyone else? Specifically
RahXephon and Scrapped Princess. Maybe it's just me, but character death
is really depressing. Brought a tear to my eye, it did.

Hm. Anyway, I've been reading a lot of manga recently. Specifically
D.Grayman and Trinity Blood. If you pay any attention at all to
Annaliese's Minna no Manga emails, you've probably heard about both of
them before. And of course, the reason I've read them is because
Annaliese is really, really good at pushing them. So I end up sitting
down, starting to read, and looking up four hours later with a dazed
expression on my face. Typically.

I've also been writing a lot more recently than I have in the past few
months. I've just been more inspired recently. I think the manga might
actually have a lot to do with that. ...of course, this means bad, bad
things for my schoolwork.

Honestly, I don't have much else to say. Have a good rest-of-the-week,
everyone. I'll see you at club!
[/random babbling]
</pre>

=== No MnM 4/14 ===
<pre>
Minna no Manga does not meet this week! Instead, we are having a rockin'
Chicken Practice Party at Matt's place. Matt lives at Kris Kar apartments on Grand
Ave. His apartment is #20. It is pink. Chicken fun starts at 5pm Thursday,
so BE THERE!

Open house is this weekend! Come and visit, or better yet, come and
volunteer! We'll be setting up the booth Friday 4pmish-sometime later than
4pmish, and working at the booth Saturday 7amish-5pmish. Come anytime you
are available. Work two hours and get free food!

Now I'm off to sleep. It's been a long day.
~Annaliese
</pre>

=== MnM 4/21 ===
<pre>
Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6pm-10pm, in bldg20, room 140.

~Manga o' the Week-> A Thousand Years of Snow(Sennen no Yuki) by Hatori
Bisco

"One nigt, Chiyuki, who was born with heart trouble that stays with her
the rest of her life, meets with Touyo, a vampire who hates blood. Because
of this, Touya has decided to live his entire life alone without a
partner. His real intents are...!? And then, Chiyuki's decision!! This is
the story of an "instantaneous romance" when your childhood friend turns
out to be a changed person." ~From the back of the first volume

A Thousand Years of Snow is a cute story with a fun style. The actual
story is a little odd, like it was not fully thought out, but it still
makes for a good read. Hatori Bisco is better known for her current work,
Host Club, which runs in LaLa. A Thousand Years of Snow has the same
playfulness as Host Club, but with a bit less comedy and a bit more drama.
Plus, this manga has a vampire, and a werewolf! OOOO!

Chapters 1-3 are available from Impossibility and Shoujo Magic. The series
is two volumes long, and printed by HanatoYume comics.

~Enter Rant->

Karma sucks. I was have a great couple of weeks, and then WHAM! It all
comes back to me like a boomerang. Bah! Now if the Fanime panel people
would e-mail me back and Speed Grapher 2 would come out subbed, life would
be good again.

~Annaliese

P.S. If you are a crazy Kino fan like me, or just like pretty wallpapers,
check out desktopanime.com. There are some of the prettiest anime
wallpapers I have seen! be sure to check out the Kino section, there are
tons of pretty papers there!
</pre>

=== MnM 04/28 ===
<pre>
Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6pm-10pm in bldg20, room 140.

~Manga o' the Week: Midori no Hibi by Kazurou Inoue

I know way too many people who have written this series of because of what
is IMPLIED. Jeez people, what is your problem?

Midori no Hibi is a very cute story about a guy who cannot get a
girlfriend and the girl with a crush who secretly watches him from afar.
One day, he wakes up to find that she is on his right hand! OMG. His right
hand. SOOOO dirty. Pah. Whatever. This series is only eight volumes, but
each one is filled with tons of comedy and just a tiny bit of drama. It's
cleanly drawn with a playful style. I HIGHLY recommend it.

It has been licensed by Viz(I think), and will be coming out this summer.
The anime(12 eps) is being brought out by Media Blasters(again, I think),
and the first disc is out and available with a box and a t-shirt.

~Enter Rant:

Trinity Blood comes out this week! Yay! Bah, but before I can indulge in
the watching of it, I need to makes sure all my housing stuff is okay,
study for a horrid government test, send in my cover letter and resume to
Viz, work on comics, write about a Scientific American article, and read
two chapters about paper. It's going to be a fun week.

~Annaliese
</pre>

=== MnA 4/30 ===
<pre>
This week's schedule:

5:00 - Fansub o' the Week
5:25 - Slayers Next: Episode 21: The Thousand Year Old Truth! The
Traitorous Chaos Dragon
5:50 - Break
5:55 - Patlabor: Episode 42: Return of the Men
6:20 - Inuyasha: Episode 94: The Sacred Jewel Maker Part I
6:45 - Break
6:50 - Scrapped Princess: Episode 20: Overture of Holy Destruction
7:15 - RahXephon: Twenty-First Movement: Mark of Xephon / Goodbye My
Friend
7:40 - Dinner Break
8:10 - Last Exile: Move 22: Queen Delphine
8:35 - Generator Gawl: Episode 9: Skin Deep
9:00 - Break
9:05 - Texhnolyze: Rogue 21: Encephalopathy
9:30 - Requiem from the Darkness: Episode 11: Funayuurei

[random babbling]
First of all, yes, I did forget the email last week. In my defense, it's
Steebu's fault.

Or maybe it's my fault for being more interested in making money and not
letting my boss down. If any of you are in CSC236, you have no right to
complain. If you want your grades, hush. >.>

Anyway, what a week. It actually went kind of fast. I attribute that to
the fact that I actually didn't hate any of my classes this week. This is
very odd, considering that I had midterms in both Japanese and
Professional Responsibilities and got back a midterm from Digital Design.
I think I'm numb to my grades at this point. Back in the day (aka last
year), a 70% on a midterm would have made me freak out and study more.
Nowadays, it just makes me shrug and go back to watching Naruto.

Great student, aren't I? Feh. I've a 3.2 GPA. I don't have to watch out
for AP just yet. I can afford a little laziness. ... I'm SUCH an
American, huh?

By the way, if you don't come to Minna no Manga, I mock you. Who wouldn't
want to hang out with a half-dozen geeks on a Thursday night and talk
about silly, pointless things for four hours straight? Honestly, we
shouldn't call it "Minna no Manga". We should call it "Get Together and
Watch All the Silly Crap Jenn Has on Her Laptop on a Given Night". 'Cause
seriously, my computer seems to be the club's Most Valuable Member.
Creepy.

In case you haven't noticed, I'm babbling a bit more than I usually do. I
blame the fact that I got absolutely nothing useful done today, and so my
brain must make up for this useful email-sending act by reducing it to
little more than a mental doggy-bag. Congratulations, you're getting my
neural scraps. You'd better appreciate them. There are people drooling
in Texas.

I'm also being a bit meaner than usual. I blame THAT on the fact that I
was in a good mood all day and must now fill my Asshole Quota in record
time. I guess just embarrassing my brother without his knowledge in front
of people he doesn't even know exist just doesn't do it anymore. If you
don't go to MnM, you won't get that joke, but I'll be nice and give you a
hint. It involves him recording himself lipsynching and then being
foolish enough to actually send me the file. *cough*

Anyway, I'm going to wrap this up before I end up offending someone (if I
haven't already) and getting my ass chewed off on Saturday.

See you all then.
[/random babbling]
</pre>

=== MnM 05/05-Cinco de Mayo~! ===
<pre>
Minna no Manga is the coolest group of manga fans this side of Japan. We
meet Thursdays, 6pm-10pm, in bldg20, room 140. Come, join us. ^_^

~Manga o' the Week: Moonlight Spice by Saitou Ken

Moonlight Spice is the story of Blank Panther, the 'lord of the jungle.'
Since he is a panther, he is violent, hold a monopoly over his land, and
feared by all the tribes around him. One day, Alice the Rabbit crosses
into his territory. He ties her up and brings her to his home, but doesn't
have the heart to eat her. He's not really a bad guy, he just has a bad
reputation. As the days pass, he becomes more and more hungry, so he asks
the witch of the forest to make it so he can eat anything, and will not
have to eat Alice...

This is a very cute one-shot I was able to come across last year. The art
is cute and the story warms your heart. The characters grow on you
quickly, and you'll find yourself loving Black Panther within a few pages.

Moonlight Spice(aka Gekkou Supaisu) is about 45 pages long and available
from Sweet Lunacy. It is not licensed.

~Enter Rant:

Okay, so I felt a little bad after the negative response from Law of Ueki,
so I decided to punish myself by watching a couple more episodes. Did I
say punish? Well, maybe, but I was curious too. First and foremost, I
blame 85% of the confusion on the translation. Episodes 2-4(from Shinsen
Subs and Animeseal) were very straightforward(I was confused at one part,
but it was explained in the next episode). The style of the animation and
the character designs remind me strongly of Konjiki no Gash Bell, which I
personally enjoy quite a bit. The story continues to be ridiculous, but I
believe it is supposed to be that way. In that fashion, the story is able
to maintain a sense of lightness, even in times of despair for our main
characters.

All in all, I really enjoyed episodes 2-4 of Ueki, and am eagerly awaiting
more. I must know about the arm guard shown in the opening, and all the
attacks he uses in the first scene of the first episode. I guess this case
is similar to the saying, "don't judge a book by its cover." Don't judge a
series by its first episode. ^_^

~Annaliese
</pre>

=== MnA 5/7 ===
<pre>
This week's schedule:

5:00 - Fansub o' the Week
5:25 - Slayers Next: Episode 23: The Menacing Swordsman! A Journey of
Reunion!
5:50 - Break
5:55 - Patlabor: Episode 43: Working Ladies
6:20 - Inuyasha: Episode 95: The Sacred Jewel Maker Part II
6:45 - Break
6:50 - Scrapped Princess: Episode 22: Time Exceeding Waltz
7:15 - RahXephon: Twenty-Second Movement: Mission to Annihilate Jupiter /
Downfall
7:40 - Dinner Break
8:10 - Last Exile: Move 23: Castling Lucciola
8:35 - Generator Gawl: Episode 10: The Janus
9:00 - Break
9:05 - Texhnolyze: Rogue 22: Myth
9:30 - Requiem from the Darkness: Episode 12: Shinigami, or rather the
Shichinin Misaki Part 1

[random babbling]
So. I'm supposed to write something interesting here, huh? ... This
could be difficult.

Recently, it seems like my brain has been blue-screening a lot. One
minute, I'll be completely normal; maybe even (gasp!) witty. The next
minute, BAM! Braindead. It's quite disturbing. Not to mention bad for
my schoolwork. Case in point: I should be grading right now, since he
wants the scores by early tomorrow morning and the thought of waking up at
6am to write a C++ grading script makes me want to cry.

Does anyone else have this problem where they sit in front of their work
and say, "I really should be doing this. I've run out of ways to goof
off. I'm really bored, because I honestly have no more ways to waste my
time. So why can't I make myself start my work?" I mean, honestly. This
is getting ridiculous. I'm starting to wonder if I'm not getting the
proper nutrition or something. Can that result in a complete
unwillingness to do one's work?

...rain makes me happy. I've had this weird urge to just go out and stand
in it lately. No umbrella. No jacket. Not to dance in it or anything
silly like that. Just the urge to go stand in the middle of the rain and
soak for a while. Very strange. Then again, I think I had the same urges
last year. Must be that "I've always lived in deserts and this strange
water-falling-from-the-sky event must be experienced because it might
never happen again!" thing. I guess continually living in places with
almost 0% humidity will do that to a person. Unless you count Iceland.
But I only remember a few things really vividly from that time, since I
was only 2 or 3 years old when we were stationed there.

Hm. Like I said, I'm pretty braindead right now. Hopefully I'll be able
to get my act together sometime soon and do this grading so I don't have
to be miserable in the morning. See you all on Saturday!
[/random babbling]
</pre>

=== MnM 05/12 ===
<pre>
Minna no Manga is the best thing since Paku Romi-sama did Hip-hop. We meet
Thursdays, 6-10pm, bldg 20, room 140.

If ya liked Trinity Blood, I'm bringing a number of volumes of Asuka,
which Trinity Blood runs in. ^_~

~Manga o' the Week: Akumetsu written by Aki Tabatayoshi, drawn by Yuuki
Yogo

Akumetsu is the story of a young man who decides to destroy the corrupt
parts of the Japanese government. He likes to do this by excessive amounts
of violence. One day, we breaks into a building where one of his roommates
is selling her body to a politician. She recogizes him and is shocked by
what he is doing, but is even more shocked when she sees his head blow
up!! She goes to school the next day, and sees him there in class! What's
going on?

Akumetsu is a series I stumbled on a few weeks ago. The art is pretty cool
and the story is interesting. If you want to see a cool mask and a lot of
badass expressions, check this series out.

Akumetsu is being scanlated by Mahou. The first three chapters are out.

~Enter Rant:

In the latest Low of Ueki, Ueki does hip-hop. It must be the most amusing
thing since Azumanga Daioh.

The year is winding down! Thank Tezuka! This means Fanime approaches
quickly! I'm currently working on re-drawing a number of comics for the
con. I'm going to print them as bookmarks to give out to promote Ensuing.
These stupid drawings are drawing me MAD. Simply mad! Since I've been
taking a class on paper and ink, I'm worried about getting them printed
right as well. It sounds dumb, but I've been losing sleep over the paper
selection. So, if I seem a little crazier than usual, you know what to
blame. ^_~

~Annaliese
</pre>

=== MnA 5/14 ===
<pre>
This week's schedule:

5:00 - Fansub o' the Week
5:25 - Slayers Next: Episode 24: Sinister Trap! The Mysterious City of
Ghosts!
5:50 - Break
5:55 - Patlabor OAV: Episode 2: Longshot
6:20 - Inuyasha: Episode 96: Jaken Falls Ill
6:45 - Break
6:50 - Scrapped Princess: Episode 23: Limited Ones' Oratorio
7:15 - RahXephon: Twenty-Fourth Movement: Door to Tuning / Twin Music
7:40 - Dinner Break
8:10 - Last Exile: Move 24: Sealed Move
8:35 - Generator Gawl: Episode 11: Rage
9:00 - Break
9:05 - Alien 9: Episode 1: Daikyu Elementary Anti-Alien Squad
9:30 - Requiem from the Darkness: Episode 13: Shinigami, or rather the
Shichinin Misaki Part 2

[random babbling]
I imagine I'm not the only one hoping that some of the shows we're
watching are going to cheer up a bit before they end. Personally, I think
that the last thing I need is to be horribly depressed during finals time.
That time is depressing enough.

Anyway, guess where I am! Believe it or not, I'm in the middle of a
class. Yep, I'm sitting in the back of the class, laptop open, writing
the club email instead of paying attention. Sometimes I wonder why I even
bother coming. If I'm not on my laptop, I'm playing with my PDA, looking
things up on the Japanese-English dictionary I have on there or doodling
random crap all over my notes. Ah, education.

Huh. The guy in front of me and to the right has an anime wallpaper. I
don't recognize him from club, though. Ah, well. I guess not every anime
fan on the campus is going to be interested in Minna.

You know, I spent at least ten hours of my life this week grading. This
isn't necessarily a bad thing, I suppose, since I got to turn my timesheet
in today and I've apparently earned a little over $200 this past month. I
knew I had a fair bit of money coming, so I splurged a bit on food these
past couple weeks. I feel a bit bad for buying more than I strictly need,
but I figure everyone has to treat themselves some of the time, no?

Anyway, I'll see you all on Saturday! Oh, and Steebu, bring the cards,
huh? I want to beat you some more. ^_^
[/random babbling]
</pre>

=== MnM 05/19 ===
<pre>Minna no Manga meets Thursdays, 6pm-10pm, BLDG20, room 140.

~Announcements: We'll be having our quarterly Tsurugi's dinner the weekend
before Finals Week, so make sure you sign up if you plan on joining in the
fun. =3

~Manga of the Week: WāqWāq by Fujisaki Ryu

WāqWāq is the newest manga by the same person behind Houshin Engi and the
Sukisho manga. If you disliked the style in those two, WāqWāq should be more
to your liking. The proportions aren't as crazy, but the
same wonderful feeling is there. The story ended quickly, with only 40+
chapters, but contains beautiful art and bewtiching storytelling.

WāqWāq is the story of a future where the people have black blood. The only
person who has red blood is their god. People are forced to live in
clusters of communities to protect themselves from the attacking machines.
The machines summon a high school girl from a time much like ours to help
them win over the people. As someone from a time like our own, she has red
blood and thus is the god of the black-blooded people. Enter Shio, our
cute little hero. His dad was a Sakimori, some one who can bond with a
special machine to become a protective soldier. When his dad passes away,
it is Shio's duty to take over. He must protect their newfound god from
the machines!

WāqWāq is available from Aku-Tenshi.

~Enter Rant:
Bishies love me because they know that I can rock.

~Annaliese
</pre>

=== MnA 5/21 ===
<pre>
This week's schedule:

5:00 - Fansub o' the Week
5:25 - Slayers Next: Episode 25: The Souls of the Dead! Lina's Final
Decision!
5:50 - Break
5:55 - Patlabor OAV: Episode 3: The 450 Million-Year-Old Trap
6:20 - Inuyasha: Episode 97: Kirara Come Home!
6:45 - Break
6:50 - Scrapped Princess: Episode 24: Protectors' Symphony
7:15 - RahXephon: Twenty-Fifth Movement: The Uncertain Sound of God / Deus
Ex Machina
7:40 - Dinner Break
8:10 - Last Exile: Move 25: Quiet Move
8:35 - Generator Gawl: Episode 12: Out of Time
9:00 - Break
9:05 - Alien 9: Episode 2: Boredom, Spaceship and Overgrowth
9:30 - Alien 9: Episode 3: Summer vacation, Borg and Death

[random babbling]
Well, you can definitely tell the year is winding down. Requiem from the
Darkness ended last week, so we're going to show two episodes of Alien 9
this week. Also, this week we're watching the last episodes of Scrapped
Princess and Generator Gawl. Ahhh...so much good stuff.

Speaking of good stuff, how many of you have seen the new Advent Children
trailer? You know, the one that actually has a RELEASE DATE
(omgwtfFINALLY). Apparently, my friends, we are due a simultaneously
release with Japan in mid-September. Now, I don't know if this is set in
stone or not (they said it was gonna be out way before then, originally),
but I really, really hope it is. I also really hope this isn't just for
the PSP. I don't think it is, but I haven't heard a call on that one way
or the other. If you have and can point me to any sources, I will...okay,
maybe not love you, but you will get Like Points, at least. >.>

Anyway, I should probably get back to work on my term paper at this point.
I need to get a good chunk done by bedtime and I keep letting myself get
distracted. Not long now...
[/random babbling]
</pre>

=== MnM 5/26 ===
<pre>
Minna no Rocking Manga meets every fantabulously-rocking Thursday for a
stupendacular-rocking four hours starting at 6pm in a somewhat-rocking
room(140) in an electrically-rocking building(20). It rocks.

~Announcments:
-Remember it will be BYOA week for MnA. So bring your anime and fight for
it to be shown! And please take pictures of the fighting. ^_^
-Sunday before finals will be our Tsurugi's dinner! Please sign up or post
on the yahoo group if you plan on coming!

~Manga o' the Week: Global Garden by Saki Hiwatari

Global Garden is the story of a girl, Rukia, who was involved in an
accident with her brother. Her brother was killed in it and she was badly
injured. In order to cope with the loss of her brother, she was given her
brother's favorite hat. When she goes to visit her mother, her mother
believes her son has come back to her and is overjoyed. Rukia spends her
time living as her brother, and it begins to effect her body. One day, a
young man named Hikaru comes before her and says that she is the person he
has always dreamed of, the one to create Einstein's dream, the Global
Garden. Did I mention that Hikaru is actually 60, but is kept young by a
pill given to him by Einstein and has some telepathic-like abilities?

In one word, this series is ohsopretty. I had seen some of the final
chapters in the Hana to Yume phonebooks Rebecca lent me, but I never
thought the series could be so engaging. Yes, the plot is a little screwy,
but it's so fun and the character interactions make this fangirl eee and
squee. No, gentlemen, it's not yaoi. It's pure wonderous shoujo. The story
has the power to send me into alternating fits of adoration and anger. I
think Rukia has a horrible mother, but Hikaru and Robin(a REALLY cute mute
kid) make up for her.

Global Garden ran in Hana to Yume but ended its run in late 2004. Shoujo
Magic is scanlating the series and has at least 15 chapters out.

~Enter Rant:

FANIMEFANIMEFANIMEFANIMEWOOOOOOOOOO. Two days left...

Saki Hiwatari... makes me think of Satoshi Hiwatari from DNAngel. Teehee.

~Annaliese
</pre>

=== MnA 5/28 ===
<pre>
This week's schedule:
Who knows? BYOA night. That's right. Bring your own anime. Tons of
people (including most of the officers) are off at Fanime, which means the
rest of us get to watch whatever we like. There will be blood and tears.
I may bring a camera, since Annaliese seems to like the thought of me
taking pictures of the biting/clawing/hair pulling/jan-ken-po-ing/etc.

[random babbling]
So...have you ever noticed that ADV is evil? I know this, because they
have massive sales for every occasion imagineable. And these sales are
far, far too tempting for my health. The urge to just buy all of Gawl for
$20...or the RahXephon movie boxset for only $14...ah, but I know that if
I bought one thing, I'd buy others. ADV knows it, too, I think. They
know it, and they wait for my poor, thin soul to collapse and give in.

Speaking of evil, grading is evil. Specifically, grading people whose
code is full of seg faults and incorrect exception-throwing is evil. For
those of you less computer-savvy club members out there, both of those
things I just mentioned are enough to send me off into fits of gibbering
after they keep popping up over and over again as I slowly manage to grade
eight people in five hours. I still have four people left to go. ...I
really don't get paid enough.

Hm. So this message is a wee bit later than usual, in case you hadn't
noticed. I blame the addictive drug that is Tsubasa Chronicle. Oddly
enough, I keep rewatching the show just for the music. I'm definitely
getting my hands on that OST as soon as possible. ...am I the only person
who noticed that the names of the characters in TC actually correspond
directly to the names of Card Captor Sakura characters? No? Good. I
wonder if CLAMP just isn't very inventive when it comes to names or if
they did that for a real reason.

Anyway, it's 2am and I'm tired. Remember to bring your own anime tomorrow
(er, today?), and try to make it something we'll all enjoy. For example,
you won't see me bringing Yami no Matsuei, so please follow my lead and
don't bring something that will make us all groan and then drag you
outside and gangstomp you. It's for your own good.
[/random babbling]
</pre>

=== MnM 06/02 ===
<pre>
Minna no Manga fills people with love and joy, with just a touch of evil.
To be a part of this enlightening gathering, please visit us on Thursdays
from 6pm-10pm in room 140 of building 20.

~Manga o' the Week: Soul Eater by Ohkubo Atsushi

Meet Maka and Soul. Their goal? To get 99 human souls and 1 witch soul!
what will they do with them? Eat them, of course! sorry, let me back up.
Maka is a weapon technician, and Soul is her weapon, a scythe that can the
form of a human. If Soul eats his 99 human and 1 work. Personally, I like
it a lot better, and I loved Bichi. Soul is always going on and on about
how he is/wants to be cool, Black Star(a ninja) is a complete show off
always looking for the spotlight, and Death the Kid(the head honcho's son)
is obsessed to the point of insanity with the symmetry of items. If you
like weapons, odd characters, and an awesome art style, Soul Eater is for
you.

Soul Eater rus in Shounen GanGan and the third volume has recently been
released. Manga Rain has scanlated the first two volumes.

Listen to the Beat of the Soul!!

~Enter Rant:

Sorry about the late e-mail this week! Suddenly it was 8pm Wednesday and I
had a comic to scan and color, a paper to write, and an e-mail to send.
Not cool.

I had a great time at Fanime last weekend, I think everyone who went did.
I am disappointed to hear there was no fighting at MnA last Saturday. I
wanted pictures. We took lots and lots of pictures of the con. ^_^

This will be our last MnM meeting of the year, but we shall be back with a
vengeance next year!

~Annaliese
My wallet is sad. :(
</pre>

=== MnA 6/4 ===
<pre>
This week's schedule:

5:00 - Slayers Next: Episode 26: Go to NEXT! And Then Again...
5:25 - Patlabor OAV: Episode 4: L's tragedy
5:50 - Break
5:55 - Inuyasha: Episode 98: Kikyo and Kagome: Alone in the Cave
6:20 - RahXephon: Final Movement: Into Infinity / Time Enough For Love
6:45 - Break
6:50 - Last Exile: Move 26: Resign
7:15 - Alien 9: Episode 4: The end of the beginning
7:40 - Dinner Break
8:10(ish) - Spring Quarter Movie: Beyond the Clouds

[random babbling - migraine edition]
So, yeah. School's coming to a close. Good stuff there.

.hack//SIGN music is still to die for. It's been keeping me good and sane
the past few weeks. Actually, it's been one of the only things that
HASN'T been contributing to my impending insanity.

Migraines suck. Ibuprofen doesn't. Go drugs, go.

Obviously, I'm not-quite-all-here. So to spare you more of my crazy, I
think I'll scoot off to bed now. See you all tomorrow.
[/random babbling]
</pre>

2003-2004 Emails

2011-11-16T20:23:59Z

Moroboshi ataru: added emailnav

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== Fall 2003 ==
===[MnA] Sat, Sept 27 Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Wed Sep 24 13:18:01 2003)
Konnichiwa Minna-san!

I know, I know. It's another newsletter by that guy, isn't it? Well-have
no fear! I promise 137.4% more enjoyment from this year's newsletters over
last years.

First, the news!

First meeting of the quarter is THIS Saturday, September 27. Come back to
the Silo for what may just be one of the most ass-kicking years we've had
in a while.

I don't know how, but someone (I think Nik) sold his soul to the devil to
get us Patlabor for the year. Also, Inuyasha continues with another year
of amazingness (as it will for forever). And finishing up this year is
Hana Yori Dango, the best show no one's ever seen.

If it wasn't for Nadia you wouldn't get your Gainax fix. And of course,
the man-Yoshitoshi ABe with Haibane Renmei, the most beautiful show in the
world.

Rounding out our later hours we've got the unbelievable Azumanga Daioh,
followed by Noir (girls, guns, no zombies-but two for three ain't bad).
And finally some Hellsing and Crest of the Stars.

Halloween decorations already? Yes, I was walking through Wal-Mart (evil
den of commercialism and well-priced nerf guns) and saw the Halloween
decorations and was suddenly reminded that we're having another huge
Halloween bash. Start making your costumes today before midterms kick in!

Okay, time for the Schedule:

5:00 Fansub O' : Read Or Die the TV - ep 1
5:30 Hana Yori Dango - ep 26 : The Couple's Sleepless Night!

Break : How long has it been since you heard "ten minute break?"

6:00 Patlabor - ep 1 : Second Unit, Move Out!
6:30 Nadia : The Secret of Blue Water - ep 26 : King's On His Own

Break : I went to Japan this summer and all I got was this lousy scar.

7:00 Inuyasha - ep 51 : Inuyasha Who Lost His Heart
7:30 Haibane Renmei - ep 1 : Dream Of Falling From The Sky

Break : My new school year resolution is to be less angry (note last
message about scar).

8:00 Azumanga Daioh - ep 1 : Child High School Student - She's A Genius -
Frightening Isn't It? (phew!)
8:30 Noir - ep 1 : The Maidens With Black Hands

Break : I'm a little too excited about Azumanga and Patlabor and Haibane
and...

9:00 Hellsing - ep 1 : The Undead
9:30 Crest of the Stars - ep 1 : Invasion

That's all folks!

Here now, you didn't think I'd forget to rant my insanity to you, did you?
Well, as I sit here repeating my new mantra "i don't need this anger"
repeatedly to myself, I realize-maybe I doooo need this anger.

Sure my Jamba juice tastes great, but damn that guy took like 25 minutes
making it. I could've planted my own damn apple tree in that time and
crushed the ice by foot in time to receive my now ripened apples.

So yes, what's new in the news that you guys need to hear? First-Japan is
expensive. Let no one tell you otherwise. I mean, sure-I voted to sleep in
parks but the guys I was travelling with were all about 'beds' and stuff.
Damn princesses, I tell you.

Second, and possibly more imporant than the money issue-the Japanese
Toilet is a complete mystery. I tried more than thirty positions, none of
which seemed to work. I'm beginning to think they really keep western
toilets around the corner behind signs that foreigners can't read, and
that the Japanese toilets they lead you to are all a big practical joke
against westerners. Either that or I just can't figure out how to use
them.

Finally-has anyone seen Lee around? I've got something for him (not like
how a puppy leaves you a present-but how someone who went to Japan got
something) and I have no idea where to find him.

Okay, onto the stuff on the web I need to show you. I've had three months
off from this gig, and I've been thinking-there is a lot of f***ed up
stuff on the web that I could easily subject you all to, so why haven't I
thought of this sooner?

Besides the club webpage (which you should all visit now and bookmark)
there are a lot of things out there that maybe, just maybe you would all
find interesting.

I think I found out about this through either Megatokyo or Penny-Arcade
(both of which you should probably hit up also), but it's the National
Geographic Picture Of The Day. There are some pretty damn amazing pictures
in there among all the crap with sunsets and oceans or old wrinkly people
who are rrrreally wrinkly.

http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/pod/

Second, The Parking Lot Is Full web-comic. Sure they stopped making new
ones, but that doesn't mean you can't go through the 5 or 6 years of
archives and have a good (if not great) laugh. If there is anything more
twisted and sick than this, then please let me know.

http://www.plif.com

Of course, there's always Redmeat by Max Cannon, and Derfcity by a close
friend of Dahmer, and the Boondocks (best comic being published daily) by
Aaron Macgreuger (sp?).

Hmm... that was a lot of comic talk, wasn't it? I guess I should talk
about something more manly or macho here.

So uhh... oh yeah! Our out-of-club social event this quarter/year!

A Catapult! How about it minna? A Minna No Anime Catapult!! I think we'll
be a smash hit at Open House. Just imagine it; we think a show sucks-we
put it, along with a few pounds of mild explosive, into the bucket and
them BAM! Somewhere kinda far from where we are standing it goes boom.
Perfect, no?

Just, think about it for now. I think you'll come around to my side.

Anywhoo-I guess I should get back to class now. Graduate level math bites
my undercarriage. Well, not literally-'cause that would hurt, but you get
the idea. I sure hope this 'way of the semi-pissed off peaceful warrior'
thing works out for me.

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna no Anime Secretary (the other officers make fun of me... sniff...)
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===[MnA] Sat, Oct 4 Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Wed Oct 1 15:09:28 2003)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

First, the news. Then, the schedule. Lastly, information worth dying for.

News:

Our schedule has been rearranged a bit this week. We're trying
something out, that we think will work-and hope you all accept. We're
shortening our breaks down to 5 minutes between hours so we can supply a
half-hour break right in the middle of club.

Yep, we gave you dinner time. Now you don't have to choose a show to miss
so you can go eat. Also, we hope that with the lights on for a whole
thirty minutes maybe you'll mingle among each other and figure out a plan
to overthrow our current elected officials (El Presidente and me among
other) come spring time and elections and whatnot.

Who has costumes ready? Who has costume ideas ready? 'Cause there's no
way we're gonna let Josh beat us up in the CosPlay contest AGAIN. Spike
Spiegal, Gatts from Berserk, who knows what he's gonna be this year.
However, if anyone wants to team up on a costume, or get some help making
one I'm down. Just e-mail back and we'll put up a fight against the man of
a thousand costumes. Otherwise, the rest of us should get cracking on our
costumes right away (you will love my magical girl transformation,
especially when you see my cute, furry little sidekick).

Oh, and the CosPlay contest is held during our
mega-halloween-bash-meeting. You'll be hearing all about that every week
as it draws closer. Also, if I can, I'll try and leak some of our secret
prize info your way.

And now, the Schedule!

5:00 Fansub O' : You'll have to come to find out! Actually, it just hasn't
been decided yet.
5:25 Hana Yori Dango - Ep 27 : Doumyouji Goes To New York!

Break: Maybe I'll cosplay as Doumyouji? Mess up my hair and get a red
sweater that says "Pris"

5:55 Patlabor - Ep 2 : Kanuka Has Arrived
6:20 Nadia:The Secret Of Blue Water - Ep 27 : Island Of The Witch

Break : Captain Nemo, that would be a good costume. Everyone would think I
was captain Global, though. I could go as King? But I'd have to wear
pants.

6:50 Inuyasha - Ep 52 : Irresistable! The Youkai's True Nature!
7:15 Haibane Renmei - Ep 2 : Streets & Walls - Touga - Haibane Renmei

7:45 BIG BREAK: Get some food. Find out who sits behind you and munches on
snacks during your favorite shows. Hug an officer!

8:15 Azumanga Daioh - Ep 2 : Today With Osaka - PE & Volleyball - Hiccups
- Her Brain - Newbie (phew!)
8:40 Noir - Ep 2 : Our Daily Bread

Break : Maybe I can come as one of the girls from Noir? You guys think my
hairy legs would look good in a miniskirt w/ a Beretta in one of those
stocking-holsters?

8:45 Hellsing - Ep 2 : Club M
9:10 Crest Of The Stars - Ep 2 : Kin Of The Stars

That's All Folks!

Man, I hope I did all the math correctly when putting those shows in those
time slots. I got a memo with times from El Presidente, but apparantly
they don't teach mathematics over in the computer science department or
something. Wow, I just alienated most of the readership of this newsletter
with that comment, didn't I?

Okay-THANK YOU to everyone for showing me the proper usage of a Japanese
Toilet. E-mails and links on the club webpage have not gone unnoticed. And
it is true, the "cool graffiti" is not cool in anyway what-so-ever. That
aside, please don't help me with that anymore. I think I understand how to
use one, thanks.

Last week I sent you guys links to some excellent web-comics. I don't know
if you checked them out or not, I hope you did, but either way I'm going
to link-ify this rant again this week. First thing, and this one really is
so simple that it's forgotten over and over again that many people never
go to this website :

www.animeondvd.com

Really, check that one out. I had a nightmare involving the Navy and thus
my thoughts turned to Dylan out in the 3rd level of hell learning how to
be a seaman or something, and thus I was reminded of informing all of you
about this website of wonders.

Okay, here's something more serious. This last summer I went to Japan (as
you all know from having read my book "The Wacky Mis-Adventures Of Gaijin
Jimmy in Tokyo" or my weblog on blogspot) and a mere two and a half weeks
before my departure date someone asked me one of thse most important
questions in the world.

You see, I consider myself smart, but not smart. I think of things like,
"I'll need socks. Yeah, those ones," and, "I wonder if I should take my
GBA for those long train trips?" However, until my friend asked me "hey,
where's your passport?" I had completely forgotten that such ill-begotten
slips of paper existed. Needless to say, I paid a hefty fee to the US
gov't so they could get off their lazy asses and process my paperwork in
record time. So, here is vital information for all of YOU who want to
leave the country sometime in the next ten years.

http://travel.state.gov/passport_services.html

Also, if you look around a little on google or whatever you can find a
place in NY that gets you passports in ONE DAY-no questions asked, cash up
front. That place worries the fuck out of me. Big Tony can apparantly
leave the country any day of the week, but us mere mortals must apply
weeks ahead of time. Many weeks, actually.

Okay, here's a question. Is it just me and my friends that do this, or
perhaps do you also participate in this age-old practice of odd
friendship?

Do you also keep around a friend who you all make fun of, but are never
really mean to? I mean, we've got a friend (two actually, each in a
different circle of friends) who we make fun of because he's one step shy
of being the stupidest man alive.

We were discussing keeping him around when we all realized that he was OUR
idiot, and not anyone else's. We protect the little gimp from other fishes
swimming by who want to bite off his empty head, ya' know? An example of
his foolishness (for he is both foolish and stupid), we are watching
"Terror Toons"-the most god-awful movie ever created by man or satan. One
guy gets a 9" needle to the head and "W" (we shall call him) turns away
from the screen and squirms.

Me: What are you doing?
W: I hate needles, ewwwwww!
My Brother : Aren't you a paramedic? EMT or something?
W: No, I'm a fruit juice blender!

::pause for 2.87 seconds::

Me: What the f*** did you just say? You're a FRUIT JUICE BLENDER?!
W: No, I said I'm a first responder.
Tony (also there) : I heard fruit juice blender.
W: Dude!
Nick (also, also there) : Yeah, I didn't understand what you said but it
really did sound like you said fruit juice blender.
My Brother : Yeah, fruit juice blender.

::laughter at our friend, the fruit juice blender::

W: I said first responder!
Me: Yeah, whatever fruit juice.

So, yes. If you have this friend, treat them well. Well, I mean-as well as
you can stand to treat him/her. We realied these people are worth keeping
around for the comical value if nothing else, oh-and there's the whole
"friendship" thing too, I guess. Oh, and yes-"W" picked the movie of the
night - "Terror Toons." If you want to see a bad, bad movie that's so bad
it's bad and not good because it's bad, really really bad mind you (you
have been warned this movie is bad) then this is the movie for you.
It's... probably for rent at Hollywood video. That's where we found this
bad movie up north in the Bay Area anyway, but of course that was the
Hollywood with the largest adult film selection in the Bay Area.

Needless to say, all of us who own cellphones have him listed under "fruit
juice blender." And yes, we are currently trying to convince him that our
local junior college can't give him a Masters degree in engineering. You'd
be amazed at how true this all is, if you ever met him.

Well, I think we've covered all the bases. Anime website,
how-to-leave-the-country website, and a bit of my friend "W" for humor.
Next week I guess I'll tell you about the worst (or best?) drinking game
ever. Hint : It involves LOTR:Fellowship of the Ring and drinking when the
word "RING" is said, or in print on screen. Needless to say, three of us
nearly died that night. And we still haven't found the cat. Poor Gizmo.

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime Secretary
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
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===[MnA] Sat, Oct 11 Meeting===
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(Minna No Anime, Wed Oct 8 14:12:21 2003)
Konnichiwa Minna-san!

Things are in full swing now that we're heading into the third week of
Fall quarter. For those of you new to the mailing list, welcome and I'm
sorry, I'm so sorry.

NEWS:

Well, our schedule is still in that experimental range where we somehow
allocate 5 minutes to show 25 minute shows. I've got an updated version
for this Saturday that checks out and damn there is some good stuff coming
your way this weekend.

The half-our dinner break seems to be a great success, but we're still
hoping for feedback from your end of things. Come up to one of us during
any break and let us know what you think about the shorter breaks in
exchange for a dinner break.

Also, I keep plugging this because it's important! The Halloween
Mega-Party-Thingie! Yes, when else do you get to see us officers dress up
like our favorite anime characters? And don't forget to find a costume for
yourself-how else can you win our grand prize if you don't at least enter
into the CosPlay contest?

And if you doooo win, don't pull a Gendo. Don't leave early, the results
get tallied later and your overall score is what determines your ranking
(and officers can't win so you have a damn good chance) and then we have
to hunt you down and let you know that you're going to AX this year on us.

Enough news.

THE SCHEDULE:

5:00 Kaleidostar - Ep 1 : I have no idea, but I hope it doesn't involve
those little girls with the big heads and the sand in their brains.
5:25 Hana Yori Dango - Ep 28 : Tsukushi Goes To Canada!

5 Minute Break : Just enough time to spray febreeze on that guy next to
you who kinda smells like octopus.

5:55 Patlabor - Ep 3 : We're Special Vehicles, Section 2
6:20 Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Ep 28 : The Floating Islan

5 Minute Break : Does anyone remember last years trivia question about
King's most prominent feature?

6:50 Inuyasha - Ep 53 : Father's Mortal Enemy! Ryuukoytsusei!
7:15 Haibane Renmei - Ep 3 : The Temple - Lecture - Pancakes

7:45 BIG BREAK : Go get some food or hang out and get to know your
neighbors, or both? I'm thinking of starting a food run to Kona's or
something, anyone interested? Preferably someone with a car?

8:15 Azumanga Daioh - Ep 3 : Nyamo - Factional Rivalry - Yukari Showed Up
- It's Not My Problem - Through Thick And Thin
8:40 Noir - Ep 3 : Assassin's Game

5 Minute Break : I never knew the story of high school girls in Japan was
so... cracked out.

9:10 Hellsing - Ep 3 : Sword Dancer
9:35 Crest of the Stars - Ep 3 : Daughter of Love

That's All Folks!

Let's talk about something real, shall we? Like the worm in my roomates
head that we named Roy Allen. Here we go!

It's hard to determine what this thing is in my roomates head, but I'll
give it a shot. Well, I'll try to keep this description timid, but be
warned that the reality hiding behind these soft words is so horrid, that
one would shriek in terror at the very memory of such a sight. Ahem. Let
us begin.

My roomate (of which there are many and have been many over the years)
came to me with a large towel folded and held against this forehead. Not
taking any particular attention to it I continued to fix his computer (god
I hate my life) and attempted small talk. Eventually I had to ask about
what was underneath the towel, a move I would later regret as I would be
unable to sleep soundly for a week.

I was asked not to overeact or scream and then the towel was removed. In
plain sight, just left of the center of his forehead was an object. There
is hardly sufficient time to describe the sheer terror of this white,
solid, multi-faceted horn protruding from his temple. My mouth agape I
slowly shifted positions to better view it from multiple angles.

"I'm going to die, aren't I?"

Well, I did want to say yes, but then what would have happened if he did
perish? I would have to do something.

"Pull it out. I'll get a wrench."

"No! I'm not pulling it out, are you crazy? There's a hole in my head!"

"Well, there's actually something sticking out of the hole in your head.
Pull it out, it'll heal."

"No. You were bit by a spider once, right? Did this happen to you?"

I shouldn't have laughed, but I couldn't help it as I replied.

"Fuck no. I was bit by a black widow on my shin and that messed me up, but
not like that."

"What should I do?"

"Pull it out. I mean, it might hurt a bit but it's better then letting it
grow."

I cannot recall what happened immediately after that, however, he did go
see a doctor. Two, in fact. First he waiting 24 hours and went to the
Health Center here on campus where a doctor told him he had very little
time left and that there was nothing he could do to stop his immediate
shuffling off of this mortal coil (I kid you not. The doctor was the same
one I had when I got bit by a spider and he's a complete f***).

The doctor then recommended he visit an emergency room, which my roomate
did after much woe and sorrow given to him by his current predicament of
brain tumor/worm/fever and/or alien implant. Upon arriving at a REAL
hospital, the doctors grabbed his head, leaned him back and with tweazers
performed a "plucking" motion which resulted in a most interesting "pop"
sound being heard within his head. A band-aid was applied, then they asked
if he had his Tetris shot. He said, what? Oh, sorry-Tetanus.

The nurse, playful with her patient threw him stomach first on a
table, and skillfully produced a medium-sized needle attached to near
half-a-liter of fluid, all of which was injected in my roomate's rear end.
They then asked him to leave and not return unless more worms were
growing, in which case they planned to gather their silk and start a
company.

Okay, I hope that distracted you long enough so that you wouldn't realize
I'm in a most delirious state of hunger right now. I could really, really
go for one of those "lunch" things.

You guys ever use this website? It's pretty bad-ass, especially since I'm
an engineer (no ability to spell):

www.dictionary.com

Hmm... well. Yeah, I've got a few links here I'd like to show you guys but
I don't feel like explaining any of them this week so expect some good
stuff in the next newsletter.

Also, expect a lot less story in the next newsletter. I just wanted to try
changing it up and felt like being creative 'n stuff. Not creative like "I
like to break pottery then color it pretty colors!" but creative like "how
many ways can I throw this pencil at my monitor and have it bounce back to
me?" As Cobain once sang, "maybe I'm dumb."

Here is where I whore out my own agenda:
Here's a casting call for anyone out there with a GBA/GBASP or
will have one by the beginning of next year. I'm looking to gather a party
of rough adventurers for RPG'ing weekly in Crystal Chronicles. Also,
you'll need to own a TV and a house. I don't have either. I do, however,
have a GC and will be in possession of... wait a second.

Why don't we just make a club and play in the Silo or something? Hell
yeah!

Ten foot tall monsters sucking on a fireball, ahhh... nothing could be
sweeter, except maybe sugar. Lots of sugar.

How long has this letter become? Oh-one last note! If you're still reading
this then good for you, I'm impressed. I'd be bored by the end of the
story and just give up. However, someone asked me about my 'blog. I
mentioned it last week and forgot to include a link (perhaps forget is a
lie, but still-I didn't think anyone would actually ask for it). Here it
is, in all it's glory.

sloaero.blogspot.com

That covers my trip to Japan, my ability to see
demon-nightmare-type-horses, some sherpa's on Everast (or it will when I
get my next post on there up), and all sorts of just stupid stuff that
happens in my life. Interesting? Funny? Romantic? Well, definitely not
romantic. As Cage once said, "...because I am lonely. So very lonely." But
hopefully funny/interesting and informative about Japan and all the pretty
sights and all the things your friends could possibly to do you so that
you are stranded 5000 miles from home, in a completely foreign culture,
without the knowledge of the usage of their facilities.

Okay, time to end this letter. My fingers are tired. Well, actually I need
to go solve the pressure distribution over a Tangent-Ogive section
nosecone at multiple Mach #s with various calibers and for slightly
modified geometry.

OH! Yes, one last link then I will leave you alone for a week, I swear.

www.bubbahotep.com

I love Bruce Cambell, and this... this is genius! The Oscars must finally
recognize one of the greatest unknown actors of our time. I recommend the
"king size" trailor, by the way.

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna no Anime Secretary
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
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===[MnA] Sat, Oct 18 Meeting===
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(Minna No Anime, Wed Oct 15 14:02:41 2003)
Konnichiwa Minna-san!

Of course-the news, the schedule, and the rant, right? Of course, unless I
made some stupid choices about time management and only have time right
now for the News and the Schedule? Perhaps some guest commentary?

But, and here's the but-if one of my fellow officers sends me their rant
I'll have to ship to all of you as a second newsletter. I hope you don't
mind receiving two times the mail from us this week as you normally do,
but on the bright side you get to hear someone other than me talk. And I
guarantee you that I'm a lot more vulgar than my counterparts-meaning the
guest rant/commentary would probably have nothing at all to do with the
worms coming out of my roomates head, or how to use a Japanese toilet, or
even the logistics of building the MnA catapult to launch rival club
members at Open House.

So without further ado, lets talk news.

NEWS:

As far as I know, we're still trying our 'experimental' schedule. People
are enjoying the 30 minute break for dinner and we feel that once we all
get accustomed to a 5 minute break things will just feel right. We hope so
anyway, and if you don't like the way things are then let us know soon.

Halloween? Yes, our super-dooper, Mega-big, Gianto-strongu Halloween
Meeting is slowly approaching. In case you haven't heard, there will be a
Trivia contest (jeopardy style this year! Wao!), GuiltyGearX2 tournie, DDR
room, viewing room, CosPlay contest, and of course-prizes for competing in
these fun contest.

Weird aspect to the halloween meeting this year? I believe homecoming is
kicking us out of the Silo on Nov. 1 (the perfect day for our meeting!
Nooo!), and letting us back in on November 8.

Good aspects of that? You get one more week to make a costume! And if you
need the help I need the friends... sniff snif... so lonely...

Another good aspect? I think we're currently the holders of one
reservation of a tatami room in the back of Tsurugis for a Minna No Anime
Tsurugi-dinner/lunch trip. We've traditionally been able to fit around 16
people in that room, I think. It get crowded the more people just crash
our dinner party, so please sign up early and get yourself a seat!! And,
if you're new to the club this is a great way to get to know some of us
who have been around and spent more money on anime VHS then you will spend
on your entire college tuition.

And my favorite part of the Tsurugi dinner... THE WASABI CHALLENGE. Is it
wrong? Yeah. Does it burn like no other? Yeah. Did I cry? Like a baby. I
walked away the proud winner, holding two wind-up things (one shaped like
a monkey that flipped and the other moving sushi which I almost ate one
night). The Wasabi challenge, mind you, is not for the faint of heart. It
involves ordering Wasabi rolls, and placing Wasabi ON the wasabi rolls.
Then, without the aid of anything other than your sheer will power you
must eat them. Sure, it may sound painful. Sure, maybe you've had wasabi
on your sushi before, or maybe you thought it was green tea ice cream, but
this is the extract of the extract of pure nostril-burning pain. It has
been diluted and purified for your un-enjoyment. So, those looking to
de-throne me, come. I accept all challengers except Paul. Paul's not
human.

THE SCHEDULE:

5:00 Fansub O': I think I smell Macross on the wind. No, wait-that's F3.
5:25 Hana Yori Dango - Ep 29 : His Warmth

5 Minute Break : Enjoy the last minutes of autumn sunlight.

5:55 Patlabor - Ep 4 : Head To The Evil Mountain!
6:20 Nadia : The Secret of Blue Water - Ep 29 : King Vs. King

5 Minute Break : Did you remember to wear deoderant?

6:50 Inuyasha - Ep 54 : Tessaiga's Ultimate
7:15 Haibane Renmei - Ep 4 : Garbage Day - Clock Tower - Birds That Fly
Over The Wall

7:45 BIG BREAK : Get dinner, meet people (it is a club after all), enjoy
some music vids or redvsblue. We'll try to find at least one thing to
entertain you.

8:15 Azumanga Daioh - Ep 4 : A Fun Job - Pool Pool Pool - Ribbon - Just
The Two Of Us - A Good Person?
8:40 Noir - Ep 4 : Sound Of The Waves

5 Minute Break : Oh, in case you are all wondering. My roomate is fine.
The worm was removed from his skull (worm? Well, it was something) and
he's healing pretty well.

9:10 Hellsing - Ep 4 : Innocent as a Human
9:35 Crest Of The Stars - Ep 4 : Surprise Attack

That's All Folks!!!

(There will either be a rant arriving later this week, or perhaps I should
just double up on the rant next week and really let you guys know who I
think needs their head chopped off by Ninjas.

Mind you, these would be really cool ninjas.)
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===[MnA] Sat, Oct 25 Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Wed Oct 22 14:47:31 2003)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

As usual, the news is followed by the schedule. This week, however, we are
returning to our usual "news/schedule/rant" where I get to talk you people
about whatever is crossing my mind. OOh, this week is a special treat
because I've been pretty high on cough syrup. Well then, let's get
started.

NEWS:

On November 8, we will be hosting our big-ass Halloween party-meeting
thing. We expect some support from and members to show up from the
Atascadero Japanese Animation Society (despite the fancy name I think
there are only like 5 guys in it-at least that's all I've ever seen).
They'll be around doing the contests just like everyone else, and you'll
recognize them because you'll never have seen them before and they'll have
some pretty good costumes.

The contests that we're holding are going to be a GuiltyGearXX tournament,
a Trivia Contest, there's going to be some rounds of Lee's Anime Eyes
contest, I'm not sure if the DDR room is holding a contest, and of course
our big one-the CosPlay Contest. Yes, oh yes. You need to participate in a
few (3 I think?) in order to win our "GRAND PRIZE" which is always
something really nice. Previous years have had prizes such as tickets to a
convention and some spending cash when you're there. Pretty good for
dressing up like Kenshin, huh?

The week before our big halloween party, during halloween weekend we're
going out to Tsurugi as a club. That's right, we've reserved the back room
(the tatami room with rice-paper sliding walls 'n everything!) for up to
16 people. If there's still room on the signup sheet this Saturday then
get your name on there! You can't miss one of our few out-of-club
activities, and you especially can't miss the WASABI CHALLENGE. That is, I
think, my favorite part of the Tsurugi outings.

Uf.. even more news! This is more current than both of those.

Minna No Anime Members Mailing List? Yes, that's right. We've sold out and
made a yahoogroups mailing list for all you lovely people. Please, please
sign up so I have someone to talk to via e-mail besides the MnA officers
(dreadfully boring conversations about sandwhiches).

So, if you want to join in on our conversation and whatnot here's the
address to send a letter to:

MNAMembers-subscribe@<removed for spam reasons>

Okay, and the final, final last finally last piece of news.

We, the officers, are either a) dumb or b) too smart. We've got some
trivia questions (by some I mean we've got more than you could shake a
stick at) and are looking for more. So, we're offering YOU the chance to
make trivia questions. How does this benefit you? Well--you make a trivia
question - you send it to us - we like it - we use it - you sign up for
the trivia contest - your question comes up - you just earned 100 points
or more. Yes, is it cheating? No. The odds of your question coming up
while you're on the board are very small. And if everyone sent in a
question on two then the playing field would be even.

Oh, and some people seem intimidated by our bad-ass trivia contest. Let me
tell you right now, and this is from personal experience having hosted
this before: The person sitting next to you is not smarter than you are,
unless it is Dylan or I. Dylan is off learning how to be a Navy Nuclear
Engineer or something, and I'm hosting this. Therefore-the person sitting
next to you is not, and I'll repeat this because I don't think you
understand me yet-NOT smarter than you.

Example? Sure-here are some questions I remember being answer incorrectly
last year:

In Macross/Robotech who did Hikaru/Rick Hunter look up and call his
sempai/older brother?
Correct Answer: Roy Fokker
Answer given by Contestant: Minmei?

In Trigun, what is the bounty on Vash?
Correct Answer : $$ 60,000,000,000
Answer given by contestant: The Humanoid Typhoon! Wait... no!

See what I mean? The person sitting next to you is not smarter than you,
and they never will be. Now send me some questions you'd like put into
this years contest (nothing is too simple and nothing is too hard). Either
respond to this and e-mail me here or find me on Saturday and hand me your
questions in person. Remember, your questions may be altered since we're
trying to do a Jeopardy style game this year-and that means your answer
must be in the form of a question.

The Schedule!

5:00 Fansub O' : You know. I never really have a clue as to what we're
showing in this time slot. I only wish to see that Trava Fist Planet of
Doom thing again.
5:25 Hana Yori Dango - Ep 30 : Wanna Be Friends?

5 minute Break : Should I put the HYD titles in english or nihongo? Either
way they never make sense to me.

5:55 Patlabor - Ep 5 : Rampaging Labor X-10
6:20 Nadia : The Secret of Blue Water - Ep 30 : The Underground Labyrinth

5 minute Break : The wacky-silly part of Nadia is nearly over. Sniff. Good
times, good times.

6:50 Inuyasha - Ep 55 : Flower Stones and Shippo's First Love
7:15 Haibane Renmei - Ep 5 : Library - Abandoned Plant - The Beginning of
the World

7:45 BIG BREAK : Get some dinner. Get something to drink. Get some fresh
air. Sign up for contests, and think of a winning costume (Senorita
Grandis would get my vote and my unwanted affection-of course, so would
Nausicaa).

8:15 Azumanga Daioh - Ep 5 : Summer Holidays - Welcome to Chiyo's Room -
Invitation - An Experienced Person's Tales - It's All Too Much (phew!)
8:40 Noir - Ep 5 : Les Soldats

5 minute Break : I swear, Azumanga is some sort of illegal crack.

9:10 Hellsing - Ep 5 : Brotherhood
9:35 Crest Of The Stars - Ep 5 : The Battle of Gosroth

That's all folks!

Ouch. I'm sick. Not just sick like, "oh jeez, poor baby." No, I'm sick
like "Zombie! Run!!" Yes, perhaps the T-virus vaccination shots I took are
taking effect? Who knows.

Either way, I ache. I've got a fever. My chest hurts from coughing so
much, and so does my back. I pray that none of you picked this up from me
last saturday. Of course, that's not help for this Saturday when I'll be
in the Silo with all of you again. At least on the bright side as of today
I'm kicking this things ass. I'm nearly over it from what I can tell.
These have got to be the last 24 hours that I'll be sick. Yeah! That puts
me in slightly under a week. Ugghh.

You listen to Radiohead much? No? Oh, well-check them out sometime. Just
not Kid A. That's just a weird album concept.

So it has recently come to my attention that people are beginning to doubt
my encounter with the undead over by the house of Josho. I tell you this
now, and I tell you this in earnest-if she was not undead then she was
soon to become a ghoul. I had no choice but to dispatch her to the best of
my abilities. It was messy, sure. And maybe the cleanup sucked. But when
you're dealing with the undead, nothing's ever easy.

Switching gears.

Anyone seen the second Battle Royal yet? I was in Japan and was planning
on watching it but stuff came up and I didn't get a chance to see it.
Actually, the truth is I got lost in the neighborhood around my hotel and
walked around in circles for 2 hours before finally finding my way back
via underground passages and subways.

The first Battle Royal(e?) was just amazing. I loooved it. There's all
this stuff going on and underneath there is this sort of message to the
entire film of "if you think you're worth it then go for it." Of course,
most people can't get past the violence (and there is a lot of) in this
film, but if you can then you've got a chance of seeing what is really
underneath it.

So yeah. I've seen trailers for the second BR movie. WOW. So I guess
instead of losing army guys they're taking the classes now and sending
them out after Shuya and his magnificent 7 or something. The little girl
with the teddy bear is back in the sequel (the one who was there right in
the beginning of the first film) and there are some other people of
interest. Most importantly-I didn't see what's-her-name in the trailer for
the sequel (Nanahara? No, that's Nanahara Shuya... what's that girl's
name-No.. Nobuu... something). Second, Kitano's daughter is in this years
class. Weird? Yes, but she's apparently bad-ass. I mean, she is Kitano's
daughter after all. Oh, and there's this really hot chic with a sniper
rifle. Or maybe it was a guy, but he looked like a hot chic in the few
seconds of trailer footage. So... I'm just going to keep my hopes up for
that one.

Moving on. You have free time, don't you? You're very, very lucky. I
remember free time. I even seem to have some on weekends every now and
again. Mostly I'm studying or something. Late and night into the early
morning I'm working and working.. and then-BLAM. It's saturday. I take the
day off and enjoy minna. And then, just like a dream-it's over and back I
go to the slave-mines of Grad School. Or at least, trying to be grad
school. I realized pretty much everything depends on how well I do in
classes this quarter. Wow. That's a lot of responsability on my shoulders
considering I'm taking 18 units, 8 of which are in two classes that
probably two of the most difficult I've ever taken.

Math 501: Overview of what we've learned so far. Fourier Series (review
for me) with applications. Fourier Integral and Transform with
applications. Sterm-Liouville Problems in solutions for PDEs. Galerkin's
method for approximating flutter solutions to PDEs of aircraft skins in
flow. Yes, 5 feeks are down... five to go. Midterm next week, another
project soon to hit the table. And of course, more topics to learn.
Oh-wait, forgot the separation of variables techniques (multiple) that we
learned. So yeah, it's been a pretty hectic class.

Aero 521: Missile and Reentry Vehicle Aerodynamics. Need I say more?
Well-if you know nothing of aerodynamics know this--it's not easy. If you
do know something of aerodynamics know this -- it's not easy. Yes. That's
about all I can say about that.

Am I done bitching about my life yet? No. I have one last, final thing to
say about the crappiness of existance for people such as me : The job
market sucks right now. Even if I did graduate I'd have to fight for a job
only to be fired in a few months anyway. Maybe I should just start a
clothing line inspired by the fact that college students don't change
their clothes very often?

Yeah, that'd be great. Except that the entire line would be nothing more
thant white t-shirts and pants. And nothing would make them special to
wear for three days. Maybe built-in deoderant? But that would eventually
run out, I guess.

Hey-I've got it. I'll sell my kidney. Then clone myself. Then do it again,
and again, and again! Yes-I'm sure people need kidneys! Is cloning
illegal? Can I clone myself in Canada or Mexico? Maybe Russia. But I don't
speak Russian. I'd like to learn, but I'd have to learn how to speak Mat
also. Mat is the russian language of swearing, in case you didn't know
(don't I sound all intellectual-really I'm just high on cough syrup and
don't know what to talk about and my fingers wont stop hitting keys).

Hey, so-if a million monkeys were on a million typewriters and they were
typing for all time, wouldn't one eventually type out Hamlet? And wouldn't
one eventually type out the series of events known to us as reality? I
mean, a script for reality. Not improbable, right? So-somewhere right now,
in our infinite universe of infinite possibility, there is a monkey-on a
typewriter, writing down that I'm writing this down. It kinda blows your
mind. Well, after you've had as much dextromethorphan hydrobromide as I
have in the last 24 hours... well... woo!

Yes. Woo. Hey you think John Woo introduces himself as, "Woo. John Woo?"
Okay, I think its time to bust out the AirSoft gun and start shooting at
things. No, not the cat. I'm afraid of it's owner, my roomate, the scary
one... she'll kick my ass. No, I think I'll shoot things like this old
Pac-Man tin or maybe some empty soda cans or... old manga I don't want
anymore? Nah. I think I'll just give those away sometime. Do a mini-raffle
or something. OOh, that actually sounds like a good idea. Door prizes via
a raffle at the Halloeen Party? Yeah-I think I'll ask the other officers
about that.

Because I know that while many of you will CosPlay I know that even more
of you will not (because you are laaame!!! or busy?) and I feel sad
letting you leave without a chance at winning something. Well, it'll be
more than just stuff we dont' want anymore. If we do the raffle/door-prize
thing then it will probably be new stuff-but Manga does sound like a good
idea for raffle prizes. Maybe even give away a DVD or two. Hmm... perhaps
this is a good idea, and perhaps the other officers will beat me down for
mentioning this in public w/o consulting them first.. hmm... Yes. Well,
we'll just have to wait and see, wont we?

Oh-and I forgot to give everyone a great link to go check out this week.
Hmm... something, related to anime this week?

www.anipike.com

It's been around a while, it's been down-but not out, and it's really,
really... well. It's just anipike.com. I've found it to be useful somedays
and I've found it to be the biggest pile of shit ever produced by the web
on other days. I recommend checking it out, though, if you've never heard
of it. It's a great way to find fansites for your favorite shows. Also, it
looks like they finally (sometime in the last two/three years?) updated
their site. But, yeah-the anipike is still the anipike. I just wish it was
a little better, more like google-but with only anime. Except that google
already returns good anime searches... hmm...

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna no Anime Secretary
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
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===[MnA] Sat, Nov 8 Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Fri Nov 7 12:58:16 2003)
Konnichiwa Minna-san!

Okay, everything is falling into place, like a giant Tetris game. We're
near the dead line, and we Finally got that long piece that will destroy
four lines worth of blocks. Yes, oh yes. Can you hear the happy russian
music playing?

Well, as usual-the news is first. The schedule is special this week, but
you already knew that. There might be rant/more news space after I explain
to you how we're going to rock out this weekend. Or there might not, I
still have to a) think up a costume b) create this costume c) realize that
my costume sucks and think up an entirely new and 'badass' costume d)
create that costume e) realize my new 'badass' costume looks like a giant
penis and place it in my closet never to be seen by human eyes again f)
grab some duct tape, paint, electrical tape, a laser, and then make a 2.5
hour costume that everyone thinks is pretty spiffy. Phew. Okay, here we
go!

NEWS:

Okay. It's here. Finally, November 8. Our Halloween meeting!! Yeah!! We
have our Jeopardy-style trivia set up and ready to run, we have our DDR
room, our Game-contest room, and of course-the big prize--the CosPlay
contest w/ Awards being handed out immediately afterward.

Now, quite story here. I'll tell you the moral first, then the story.
Moral : DO NOT LEAVE AFTER THE COSPLAY CONTEST IF YOU ENTERED IT. The
story? Our first place "gendo" walked off because he's Gendo or something,
you know-all moody and isht. Or maybe he just thought he didn't do well?
Well, we found him next week and yeah. So, since repitition is key, Do Not
Leave After The Cosplay Contest If You Entered It.

Oh, and if you show up for the Cosplay contest in Cosplay, at least enter
the damn contest! Last year? Two years ago? I think I saw a Deedlet show
up, and then she disappeared into the wind, much like the real, er,
animated one.

So, I think this is where I plug our rooms.

We have a DDR room! Yes, I believe this is a contest, but don't quote me
on that. Either way, I will attempt to bust my mad-suckage-moves on their
DDR systems, so be there. You'll never see me do anything like this again.
Ever. Well, unless you manage to make to AX and we find a place with
Guiness.

GGXX? Why... GuiltyGearXX? Spawn of spawn of the badass fighter? Of
course, did I mention this is also a contest? Yes, and after watching
everyone's fighter game skills last weekend (pretty fighter, sailor moon
fighter) I think that anyone, literally anyone, has a decent chance of
making it to the finals. Also, maybe El Presidente will honor us and step
down from his throne to show us how the game should be played. If I
remember correctly, last time I played him at this game he kicked my ass
with one hand, on an upside down turned around controller.

Of course, there's still rumor of Lee's eyes game, but I'm not sure where
this has started? So, we may have this and if we do let me explain it to
you. First off, its one of the most fun contests we have. Second off,
everyone is in the same handbasket when it comes to this game. The game
runs like this, Lee comes to the front of the room, points at all of you
and laughs at your pity human brains, then the game begins. An eye is
projected on the screen, or normally 2 actually. Everyone sits at their
buzzers stupified. The picture widens a little, and now you can see some
cheek or eyebrow, or maybe a fluff of hair. Still confusion. Finally the
picture widens enough to give the answer away to anyone who has ever seen
this character. People buzz in. Sometimes, and this is rare-people buzz in
on the first picture. Sometimes wrong, but mostly right when they do. I
mean, c'mon-how hard was it to guess that eye belonged to Sharon Apple? Of
course, that one guy from Gekiganger was pretty hard.

Oh yeah, there's a trivia room. Is it badass? Yeah. Is it too late to sign
up? Probably not. This years trivia will involve a jeopardy style
video-gameboard with buzzers (oooh, we're almost professional) and of
course-lots and lots of anime questions. We've gotten a good response of
questions from members, so expect to see one/two of your questions or
maybe more depending on how many you sent in. Also, as I mentioned
previously-the person sitting next to you is not very smart.

So, if you like direct competition then the GGXX and DDR rooms are going
to be where its at for you, otherwise our multi-player (up to 12? Probably
only accept 8-10 a round) Eyes/Trivia games are going to rock your world.

Okay, and finally. The Cosplay and Pumpkin contest! Yes, we will judge
you. No, we're not mean little schoolyard kids. Well, El Vice Presidente
is, sorta, but the rest of us are pretty nice guys/girls. Mind you-one or
the other, not both. Back to the topic? Pumpkin carving contest! Yes,
never too late to sign up for that either. If suddenly inspiration strikes
you at 3am tonight and you run out to a local pumpkin patch and return
with a pumpkin and some barb-wire scars, then feel free to carve the
coolest design (anime related?) ever and bring it in! I'm carving Gema, or
was it Black Gema Gema? I can never tell.

Okay. Uf. Finally the CosPlay contest? Yes. It will, as tradition
mandates, take place in the Silo-where we normally have our meetings.
Also, during all the other contests the Silo will be hosting spooky, scary
anime! Or something like that, we hope.

So there is your explanation of the night. In brief. A very large brief
actually. Man, that reminds me of this time in Ross that we found this
giant pair of boxers and then started laughing 'cause we were just talking
about windsocks. Then we realized that, like an iceberg, we'd only found
the tip of the shorts-there was an entire other leg waiting to be
discovered. Cavernous I tell you, cavernous.

So, yes-here is our basic schedule of the night (so you know when to show
up!!):

THE SCHEDULE:

~3:00pm - DDR Mania begins. Why early in the night? So you're not tired
from carrying around that damn 10' sword of yours that is part of your
costume. Lasting an hour and a half, think you can last a few round and
make it to the finals? Think you can still stand by the time the finals
roll around?

~4:30pm - The Trivia Preliminaries. Yes, a few rounds of jeopardy between
friends? We'll get the finalists from the rounds we play here.

~6:00pm - We're thinking Eyes Preliminaries. If you can make it through
here, then you're gonna have a lot of fun/anguish in the finals (but
aren't fun and anguish the same thing Gendo?).

~7:00pm - GGXX. The one. The only. The game tournament. Is it going to
kick ass? Hell yeah. Is it going to kick your ass? Only time will tell...
only time will tell.

~8:30pm - Trivia Finals. If you've made this far then obviously the guy
next to you wasn't smarter than you. However, now you're in finals-where
only the knowledge gained from eating the brain of someone smart can help
you.

~9:30pm - Eyes Finals. Oh boy are you gonna stumped. If its half as
obscure as it was last year only one man I know could recognize these
eyes-and that's the guy who made the contest.

10:00pm - Judging for Costumes and Pumpkins!! Finally. The grand finale of
the night. We line you up, we vote, we find our finalists, you three take
it outside and duke it out while we vote for you, then we call you back in
and have everyone sit around remembering good times while we tally votes
and scores in the contests and find our grand-prize winner.

Grand prize this year? I think, and I'm sorry for not being sure right at
this moment-but I am pretty sure we're looking at one, maybe two tickets
to Anime Expo or FAnime. ::insert wicked laugh:: You have no idea what we
had to do to people to get those.

Of course, the fine print: You have to be a club member to win the grand
prize ($2/quarter, $5/year). You have to enter at least 2 other contests
beside the CosPlay contest. No, you don't have to kick major ass in
everything you enter (I think that's a bit impossible to DDR in a gundam
cardboard outfit), but think of this as the beauty contest among
anime-fans. There's the swimsuit competition, the talent competition, the
BS competition, only here its the CosPlay, GGXX, and Trivia contests.

If anyone has questions regarding this Saturday's mega-meeting go ahead
and shoot and e-mail right back here and I'll try and respond as I finish
making gameboards for the uber-badass trivia contest.

Oh-yes.

Prizes? Besides grand prize there will be a prize for each respective
contest, and a few more here and there. You'll just have to show up to
find out what you can win. ^_^

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime Secretary
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
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===[MnA] Sat. Nov 8 Extra Notes===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Fri Nov 7 13:04:49 2003)
Okay, I forgot a few things.

Food:

We have cheap, CHEAP prices on some pizza. ASI decided they'd help fund us
for some food and we figured we'd count their cash as your cash and that
way you'd bring less cash and use less cash for the same thing which costs
the ... The pizza is cheap. We're looking about $1/slice or $2 for 2
slices and a drink! Best deal in town? Hell yeah it is.

Viewing room:

In case you're in some downtime, or just not feeling up to posing for more
pictures in your costume then have a seat in the Silo. We'll be in the
rooms surrounding the Silo for all the contests, leaving the Silo free to
be showing spooky, scary anime the entire night!!

I think we've made a tradition of showing that one movie.. uhm... uh...
vampire girl... sword... killings... Uhm... !!!! Blade? Something like
that. Blood! Not blade, that's Wesley Snipes. Ha ha... ooh. Was I wrong.

Okay, that is all. Enjoy the meeting this Saturday! And enter the
contests, you will enjoy them-trust me. I know from personal experience,
and from watching the laughter of someone who sucks at DDR slowly fall
onto their opponent, thereby destroying both their scores.

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime Secretary
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===Halloween, one last thing (really this is the last one...)===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Fri Nov 7 16:41:26 2003)
Hey everyone,

Jamshid forgot to mention one small thig in his last two e-mails...

We'll start the party at 2:00
Again, we start at 2, even though the first competition
is at 3:00.

We want you all to show up a little early so that I can fill you in on all
the rules and what-not.

If you plan on participating in ANYTHING, please show up around 2:00 or
2:30.

-Nik
President, Minna No Anime
</pre>

===MNA 11/15/03===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Fri Nov 14 22:39:42 2003)
Hey MNA members!

Our secretary K has been late with the e-mail this week so I'm gonna do it
(even though it's friday night).

First, if you're interested in joining our MNA members mailing list send
an e-mail to...MNAMembers-subscribe@<removed for spam reasons>

We have interesting anime related conversations via this mailing list, so
if you feel like discussing stuff along with us and other ex-members like
the notorious Dylan Hall, then join the list.

Now for the schedule...

5:00- Sakigake Cromartie Highschool (Eps 1 & 2)
5:25- Hana Yori Dango ep.31

5 min break

5:55- Patlabor ep.6
6:20- Nadia ep. 31

5 min break

6:50- Inuyasha ep.56
7:15- Haibane Renmei ep. 5

Big-Ass 30 minute break

8:15 Azumanga Daioh ep. 6
8:40 Noir ep. 6

5 min break

9:10 Hellsing ep. 6
9:35 Crest of the Stars ep. 6

Normally K would insert a random rant here, but since boring old me is
doing the mail, there will be no rant this week.

-Nik
President, Minna No Anime

P.S. Check out the website (www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub) for pictures from
halloween!
</pre>

===[MnA] Sat, Nov. 22 Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Wed Nov 19 15:58:31 2003)
Konnichiwa Minna-san!

Ah yes, the "weekly" newsletter. Well, mostly. Here we go with the
standard format; news, followed by the schedule, followed once again by a
blurb-of-somewhat-unbelievable-length.

The NEWS:

Room Change? No, not permanent-or even for the entire night. The first 1-2
hours of club we may be in room 112, right around the corner from where we
normally meet. I believe, room 112 was either the Trivia room or the
Gaming room for our Halloween contest, so if you were there for halloween
you know where to look. If not, then come up to the Silo from the bottom
doors and then turn toward the bathrooms and walk past them. I'm sure
you'll hear/see us.

The library! Yes, our librarian has an e-mail address in case you need to
get ahold of some tapes for the upcoming thanksgiving break, or winter
break. Just shoot a letter over to:

mnalibrary@<removed for spam reasons>

And you can check the website for what is in the library currently, and
feel free to make suggustions for what you might want in the library (any
suggustions for MKR and I will personally hunt you down atomic-elbow your
head so far into your chest that...)

Okay, but what about before Saturday? You can't wait that long to see my
pictio-master-nary-ing? Then have we got something for you, a Pictionary
Party at Ben's place. Will it be tame? Sure. Will it be wild? Once I get
my head-butt rampage going, sure. Will it so damn fun we'll be talking
about it on Saturday? Yes, for weeks.

So don't miss out, come and join us for some Pictionary and some chill
hang-out time. Drinks/Snacks will be provided by both those of us over and
underage for those both over and underage, so we're definitely not
pressuring anyone into anything (except for drawing silly pictures on
paper). Oh yeah, it's at Ben's place.

Directions? They are on the club webpage : www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
But if you don't trust them I guess you could use rand-mcnally or
yahoomaps or whatever, here's his actual address:

2374 Flora St.
San Luis Obispo

Mind you, I think his directions are a little whack. Not like
whack-a-mole, but like whack-on-crack.

Oh jeez, how could I forget this 'till last? T-SHIRT DESIGN CONTEST!! I
believe on the web page there are rules for the contest, but in brief we
generally want something that looks bad-ass, doesn't break any copyright
rules, and is original artwork. I think there are some rules for color
limitations and the date all designs will be put in front of the club and
voted on by everyone.

Also, the winner gets something nice every year. You get a free T-shirt,
and the respect of your fellow club members.

THE SCHEDULE:

5:00 Fansub O' : If I had my way we'd be watching Blizzard cutscenes.
5:25 Hana Yori Dango - Ep 32 : Doumyouji... don't come?

5 Min. Break : Laugh, it's good for you. Too bad it's not good for that
guy you're laughing at.

5:55 Patlabor - Ep 7 : Model 97's New Replacement
6:20 Nadia : The Secret of Blue Water - Ep 32 : Nadia's Lover

5 Min. Break : This one time... at band camp... I smoked opium while
watching GITS, and it all made sense.

6:50 Inuyasha - Ep 57 : Everything about the night at the Dougenkyo - Part
1
7:15 Haibane Renmei - Ep 6 : End of summer - Rain - Loss

30 Min. Break : Get some dinner. Enjoy some company. Say hi to your
teammates from Pictionary, and laugh at the losing team again.

8:15 Azumanga Daioh - Ep 7 : Fairy Class - Man Of Character - Let's Go! -
Mascot Rival
8:40 Noir - Ep 7 : Black Thread Of Fate

5 Min. Break : I wonder if I'll get to draw a catapult in Pictionary.

9:10 Hellsing - Ep 7 : Duel
9:35 Crest Of The Stars - Ep 7 : Fortunate Revolt

That's All Folks!

Not much rantage this week. I'm helping my roomie and some others with
various engineering crap this week. They have a presentation at Boeing
this Friday and I hope they pull together and do well.

Otherwise, I'm just trying to finish my damn Math work so I can enjoy
Friday night without feeling guilty for taking the night off. It looks
like I've been added to the MnAmembers list, which is a good thing-I was
planning on signing up for it eventually but kept forgetting.

Hey, any of you listen to KCPR? We're having an Auction right now. Just
tune into 91.3 between 9am-5pm. I just won a Tattoo. ^_^ Maybe I should
let the future of a small patch of my skin rest in the hands of Minna?
Yeah, that doesn't sound like a bad idea... no wait, it sounds like a
horrible idea. But that's never stopped me before.

Okay. Well, if I get the resolve to do this, then it will probably break
down like this : You give me a design, I put said design on my body, I
show said design to parents (who currently have no idea I'm even thinking
of getting a tattoo), and then I save the world from the evil machines who
came back in time from the future (thanks to your tattoo design).

Of course, maybe I'll just figure out my own design. I mean, if you said I
should put a spider on my face and I did... well, that would suck.

Well, I guess I'll see you all down at Ben's place on Friday night for
some Pictionary? Check the news up at the beginning for his address, or
just visit the web page and get directions.

You know what? Recently I started reading "A Heartbreaking Work Of
Staggering Genius," and all I can say is that it is exactly what the title
says it is. This may be one of the only books I've ever bought a spare
copy of just so that I could loan it to friends and force them to read it.

So what's the book about? Well, I haven't finished it yet but I can give
you a brief overview. It's amazing how this guy writes, and how his
emotions are directly translated into you. He's going through this period
in his life where both his parents have died of cancer five months apart
and he is no in charge of raising his little brother. This isn't some
"chicken soup" story or anything, there is a lot of pain and very little
of 'moral of the story' type feeling when you're reading this. I mean,
he's just a twenty-something who comes out to Berkeley to try and raise
his kid brother, and his digressings and musings and ability to write to
anyone who's ever felt any sort of helplessness or joy or any sort of
extreme emotion.

Okay, I'll get off my soapbox. But if I were you I'd check it out. It made
it to the Pulitzer finals, but someone else walked away with the big prize
that year.

Well then. I must be going now, I believe there are locusts invading our
backyard. I've got quite a bug-crushing job ahead of me. Oh, no... nooo!
Its the earwigs! Fuck! Did we tell you about the grandiose war between the
five of us (the Atomic Penta-Circle Of Power And Doom!) and the EARWIGS
(death and decay in bug form) last winter?

Damn... I thought we'd wiped them out. Okay, well-think of it this way.
What are the odds, the statistical odds of finding an Albino Earwig? Okay,
well we saw two last year within two weeks of each other. Of course, there
were earwigs everywhere, everywhere, everywhere you could think of. Wake
up in the morning, they fall out of your alarm clock. Turn on your
computer, they fetched your keyboard. Cook dinner, set the table for
five-million.

Only this year... they have those damn roly-poly things with them. It's an
alliance. An eeeevil alliance. I'll keep you guys updated weekly on this
conflict here on Tassajara. Hopefully we'll be able to throw them out
again. Remember the Alamo!!

Oh, and yes-December 17th. Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King is
out. It is also the centennial of flight, 100 years exactly to the day
when man first displayed powered flight. So you have 2 reasons to party,
which are both less than a month away!

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-MnA Secretary
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===[MNA] Fri, Nov 20 Pictionary Event===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Nov 20 21:45:22 2003)
Minna,

I wanted to give everybody one last reminder about the Pictionary Event to
be held at my house tomorrow evening.

We at Minna no Anime like to think of this club as a social club; a good
place to meet some great friends with the same interests as yourself. And
that is what tomorrow night is all about.

So come on by and join us for a good game of Pictionary and get to know
the other members in the club! Help out by bringing a snackfood or two,
and we'll see what we can do about getting pizza. I was talking with Mike
today about getting one of those 30" pizzas from the new place that just
opened up. Heck, it's worth it just to see how huge this thing is if you
haven't seen one yet!

People will start showing up at 6 and hopefully the game will start by 7.
Instructions on how to get to my place are on the website:
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub . If you need a ride or something, I
suggest sending an email to the member's list. I'm sure we can
accomodate.

Hope see you all tomorrow!

-Ben
</pre>

===[MnA] Sat, Dec. 6 Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Dec 4 04:06:02 2003)
Konnichiwa Minna-san!

I hope you all enjoyed thanksgiving, whether it was time spent with family
or time off from work/school. Hell, even if you worked that night I hope
you at least enjoyed that much.

NEWS:

Last meeting of the quarter is this saturday. I guess that's the most
important piece of news, really. As is our tradition, we will have a movie
in our schedule so we have to bump a few shows. There was nearly
some violent bloodshed over this, but we eventually worked out what is
going to stay on the schedule this week and what is merely going to take a
breather for a week (and the resulting four weeks of vacation immediately
thereafter).

Also, the pictionary party was a success. Of course, any party I can walk
away from I consider a success, but the fact is we had a nice turnout at
Ben's place of about... uhm... well, we had two teams of about 7 or 8
each? So something like 16 people, I guess the math works. And damn, with
that many people there I still managed to kill half that 12 pack and
coerce Rebecca into giving me a ride so we could get more. And for those
of you who didn't show up, you missed a lot of circles with squiggly lines
attached to them. More on this in the rambling/rant/review section below.

And although I don't know what the official policy is, I'm just taking a
guess that you should probably return any tapes to the library that are
currently in your possession so you can borrow the next ones over the
verrrry long break.

And there's an ONLINE TREASURE HUNT THING! On our website! Find all the
answers and one of us will reward you with a shower of anime presents! A
very short, and dry shower of anime presents. Of course, I wonder what
we'll do if you find all the wrong (really wrong) answers... I guess we
didn't think about that. Maybe we'll just corner you in an alley and
throw our old fansub tapes at you or something.

THE SCHEDULE:

5:00 Hana Yori Dango - Ep 33 : Makino Still Can't Decide!
5:25 Nadia : The Secret of Blue Water - Ep 33 : Jean writes a song. A
really, really bad song.

5 Min Break: Come as me about the pictionary party, I have gossip.

5:55 Haibane Renmei - Ep 7 : I really hope you didn't miss last weeks
episode.
6:20 Azumanga Daioh - Ep 8 : More pigtail dreams, Lupin cameo, Chiyo's
father isn't human, Sakaki riding a white horse to the rescue. No,
really-I'm not kidding with this title.

5 Min Break : Does anyone like the musical, RENT? We're thinking of going
to Vegas to see it again...

6:50 Noir - Ep 8 : Much blood was spilt to bring you this week's episode.
7:15 Hellsing - Ep 7 : Much blood was spilt in this week's episode.

30 Min Break : Dinnertime. Maybe we should organize getting a pizza or one
of those 7-footlong sandwhich things that come with steak knives so you
can eat your coffee?

8:15 Crest of the Stars - Ep 8 : No other show is this good.
8:40 Millenium Actress - Beautiful. Simply beautiful, read review below.

That's all folks!

There are two parts to this rant today. 1) the story of how I found love,
and then god laughed at me. 2) Millenium Actress 3am Review!

1) the story of how i found love, and then god laughed at me.

First off, I think I need to ask you about your Thanksgiving
day/weekend/extended weekend. So, how was it? Mmm-hmm. Oh, that's nice.
Really? I'm happy she didn't pull that trigger, then.

Well, my break? Oh, how kind of you to ask. I fell in love. Yep. Totally,
completely, head-over-heels, first-sight-at-love. Er, love-at-first-sight.
Does this mean I'm getting soft? No, it means I've found the woman I want
to spend the rest of my life with.

If perfect were a person, she would be it. Except that people can't be
perfect, such is the nature of man. And how is she not pefect? Well... I
have to somehow get past the fact that she's got a kid. And is married.

Now, I haven't met the husband. So he might be a really big guy, but I'm
assuming that you have my back if we were to get into a rumble. I mean,
who is this random guy to just step back in my timeline, find the woman
that he knows I'm going to love one day, and then marry her? The audacity
of this little-punk infuriates me.

Of course, like any good recon scout I have returned mostly-verified
information. The kid? Probably hers. Well, okay-98% chance it's hers. But
he's ugly. And not just like, "your kid looks like a fish"-ugly, but "is
that your... kid?"-ugly. Like a chihuahua on two legs, I kid you not.

And the husband thing? Well, I'm of that retarded age where I need to
start checking left hands and ring fingers when I meet women whom I might
have to lay the "anime-geek-charm" on. Guys, mind you-said "charm" has no
effect I've noted so far.

Oh yeah, so the husband thing. I didn't seeee a ring on her ring finger,
but then again-I didn't see any jewelry on her at all now that I think
about it. And as my roomate pointed out, no-I wasn't undressing her
mentally and yes-I played it cool when the kid walked up next to her and
that whole thing went down.

Now, I think the situation is almost clear enough for you to understand
how crappy this whole thing was. Now that you've got those details, let me
give you the backdrop to this whole fiasco.

This is a woman who I haven't seen in ten years, and back in the day we
used to hang out a decent amount. So, I see her at a big family
thanksgiving dinner party (no she's not my cousin, although I did have to
think about that for a while before convincing myself) and I'm just
stunned by how gorgeous she is now.

Time to move in, slowly say hi to people until I'm near her. We're like,
hey-I haven't seen you in ten years, I'm very happy to see you again. Mind
you, our dialogue is much more full of wit than this. So we're talking,
sorta (I think I was drooling, but I might have just been staring at her
open-mouthed like a moron) when this kid walks up and she calls him by his
name and picks him up. I'm like, "okay. she's holding someone else's kid.
I wonder who's kid? I know every family here except hers. well, her
parents haven't had a kid since her brother, and he's my age almost. he's
not married at all. shit. isn't not hers, is it? damn-i can't ask, that'd
be too obvious. play it cool, ask her brother."

So we kinda split, grab drinks, food, talk to other people-party stuff.
I'm hanging out with her brother and I sorta ask him, 'who's kid is that
over there?' Like you know, so it's all covert 'n shit. CIA type stuff.
His response, "well, I am an uncle ya' know."

Perhaps you've seen the Princess Bride? Remember that scene when Cary
Elwes is screaming in true pain? That's the sound of a breaking heart. Not
just one that was broken in two, or five, or a million pieces, but one
that was vaporized by the heat of an atomic bomb that exploded over the
sanctity of your happy place.

Okay. So. Well, it wasn't until after the party was over and I was still
stuck thinking about my uber-woman (she's got two eyebrows this time! I'm
so happy!) when I realized... she's got an older brother. No, I wasn't
thinking that, perverts. Maybe... just maybe, she took care of this kid
all night, nurtured it like a mother, watched over him, and ... and... and
maybe it's not hers! Maybe it's her brothers! Who didn't show up! But left
his kid with his sister who was going out to a party to look after!

Right? 'Cause then the younger brother would still be an uncle, and ...
and... I can feel hope dying as I type this.

2) Millenium Actress 3am Review!

Satoshi Kon, ever heard of him? Yeah-well you probably know his work, but
not the name. It's kinda how things are here in the states. If your name
isn't Miyazaki or Hayao then most fans don't really recognize your work.
Satoshi Kon directed an amazing psychological thriller a few years ago
known as Perfect Blue.

I know you've heard of it, or probably seen it. Well-needless to say, that
movie was excellent in its animation and use of non-linear time. Other
good examples of non-linear time in movies bring Pulp Fiction and Memento
to mind right away. Now, Satoshi Kon can work time as well as anyone on
this planet. Perfect Blue showed us this, and Millenium Actress (his
sophmore work in feature films, I believe) takes us beyond what we expect
in style, emotion, and execution.

Beyond how story is told we have all the other features of this beautiful
movie. Acting, animation, music, and an unfolding plot all come across
together and blend perfectly. The movie slips from scene to scene and
sometimes you don't even notice how seamless the integration of the entire
film is.

But you want some of the story and plot, right? Well-I will attempt to
leave spoilers out, but be warned-there may be some semi-spoilers.

About thirty years ago Japan's most famous actress disappeared and went
into hiding for unknown reasons. A reporter finally tracks her down and
secures an interview with her about her past. The movie follows her
recounting her history from why she became an actress to why she
mysteriously left one day. As the story is told we follow through
flashbacks that are woven into, with, and around her life on and off the
screen. Her on-screen flashbacks into movies she starred in begin to
reflect her real life and very quickly you'll notice that it is all one
long narrative between her reality and her films (which reflect her
reality so much that despite the changing time periods of her films the
narrative is coherant and told linearly through the periods of her life).

Okay, I think I said the same thing twice there, but I think you'll
understand it. How does the movie end? Well-I hate spoilers, but I'll try
to explain at least a little to you.

This is the same explanation I had to give my 11 year old cousin (who
didn't quite understand why time periods were shifting throughout the
film) : No, she didn't die in space you idiot.

So, if anyone thinks that anyone in this film dies in space I hereby
deputize you with the ability to smack that person. I mean, really. Once
you see the film you'll completely understand what I mean by that, and
just how confused this kid must have been to ask me that question.

Phew. Okay. Another 3am movie review under my belt! I love writing these
things instead of my lab reports; although, my lab partner is probably
going to kill me tomorrow.

Have a nice break if I don't see you this saturday! And if you're one of
those lucky enough to be an engineering student-I feel your pain. Or, more
acurately you feel my pain-a small, small tiny portion of it.

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime Secretary
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

== Winter 2004 ==
===[MnA] Sat, Jan 10 Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jan 8 11:29:04 2004)
Hi, and stuff.

So, no newsletter has been sent yet and I don't even know if Jamshid is
still alive. Because of this, I am sending the newsletter. Don't be
alarmed, I'll try not to say anything too insulting.

Im poretant news: I can neither spell nor type! (keep this in mind)

More important news:

All you artistic-type people out there have only one week left to finish
your t-shirt designs. In otherwords: it's time to get started! Keep in
mind that if you design is selected you will be required to create
seperations and you will only have two weeks to do so (not that it's very
hard, just tedious). So if you think your design is particularly hot
and/or complex, you may want to start working on seperations as soon as
you complete your design. If you do win and need help with seperations,
Ben has said that he will help you (the sucker). One last important bit of
information to keep in mind as well: if you win and seperations do not get
completed in the two weeks allotted, not only will a runner-up be chosen,
but I will also punch Ben in the face.

Next week! We will be re-starting Minna no Manga. Come, there will be
manga to read/look at/drool over. Bring something from your collection if
you like. There is no specific agenda. As I have said on the web page,
we've been know to do everything from translate manga, and doing homework
to watching strage Japanese gameshows and playing video games. It's big
fun for the whole family. We haven't got the room nailed down yet but it
will likely be in the computer science building (building 14) and it will
be on Thursday nights from 6pm - 10pm. You don't need to stay the whole
time obviously.

Ok, now the schedule (I don't have titles because titles I do not have,
and stuff):

Schedule for 1/10:
--------------
5:00 - TBD ep #1

5:25 - Hana Yori Dango ep #34

5:55 - Patlabor ep #8

6:20 - Nadia ep #34

6:50 - Inuyasha ep #58

7:15 - Haibane Renmei ep #9

7:45 - Big-Ass Break ep #GGX

8:15 - Azumanga Daioh ep #9

8:40 - Noir ep #9

9:10 - Hellsing ep #9

9:35 - Crest of the Stars ep #9

No real rant, I just want to say that my break was much better than yours.
I moved boxes and was shot in the knee by my cousin with an MP5 airsoft
gun from one foot away. Beat that!

-Nur
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub/
</pre>

===Room Change for this week===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jan 8 20:08:38 2004)
Hi everybody, this is Nik.

An important fact was left off of the newsletter this week and so I am
sending this to all of you to make sure you know.

We're going to have the first 2 hours of the meeting in a different room
this week (114 I believe). So we'll start off in one of the side rooms we
used for halloween. It does suck, but ASI is god here at Poly so there's
not much we can do about it.

See you allt Saturday!
-Nik
President, Minna No Anime
</pre>

===Minna No Manga 01/15/04===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Tue Jan 13 18:13:03 2004)
Just wanted to let you all know that our first official meeting for MNM
will be this thursday.

Where? Computer Science building, room 252 (14-252)

When? 7-10 pm (or until they kick us out)

Hope to see you all there.

-Nik
</pre>

===[MnA] Sat, Jan 10 Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Fri Jan 16 17:24:11 2004)
Konnichiwa Minna-san!

Okay, sorry for being late. Absolutely-friggen-late. We wont get into that
here, suffice it to say if you ask me next week why I was late I'll tell
you an amazing (and completely false) story.

NEWS:

T-shirt contest! Yes, we've heard about it over and over, but why are you
hearing it again? Because it's important. We're not very stylish people
for the most part, and we trade style for devotion to our favorite
shows/clubs. So, it's important for one of us to design a shirt that all
the rest of us will vote on and make our club T-shirt for the year. The
rules are on the Web Site (www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub) and please be there
tomorrow w/ your design.

Uhm... other news... I'm looking for cosplayers for this years AX so we
can go as a cosplay troupe. I'm thinking like, Azumanga or Haibane or
maybe even Nadia-although I'd really prefer Macross (like that'll ever
happen).

The Schedule!

5:00 Fansub O' The Week : I heard a rumor about ninjas, but I doubt it.
5:25 Hana Yori Dango - Ep 35 : Doumyouji! Sex Change!

5 min Break : Ahhh... episode titles rock.

5:55 Patlabor - Ep 09 : The Demon of Atama Yama!
6:20 Nadia - Ep 35 : I promise you that Jean wont sing again.

5 min break : Naaaaadia... Naaaaaadia... la la la la la la...

6:50 Inuyasha - Ep 59 : Sango's Young Apprentices
7:15 Haibane Renmei - Ep 09 : Well - Rebirth - Pose A Riddle

5 min break : Anyone know how to fix a PS2 that was kicked across the room
by a 13-year old having a tantrum?

30 Min Break : You could either a) get food or b) beat all of Megaman 2

8:15 Azumanga Daioh - Ep 10 : Draft Names - Class Change - Wolf - Putting
On Airs - Marco
8:40 Noir - Ep 10 : La Fin Du Monde

5 min break : Actually, that last one is a Canadian beverage that ain't
half bad.

9:10 Hellsing p Ep 10 : Master Of Monster
9:35 Crest Of The Stars - Ep 10 : Just The Two Of Us

That's All Folks!

No really, that is all this week. I'll attempt to send a rant out this
weekend from Reno. And if it's a good weekend, then I wont even remember
having ever sent it out.

Good luck with those T-shirt designs!

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime Secretary
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===Minna No Manga 01/22/04===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Wed Jan 21 21:16:23 2004)
Just another reminder to you all that we will have another MNM meeting
tomorrow (thursday) night in building 14 room 252 from 7-10 pm.

If you're interested in learning Japanese, reading manga, becoming an
officer, or just want to hang out with us cool people, then head on over.
If you're a little timid and prefer a smaller more casual setting to talk
to us please do stop by, it's a great way to relax after a long day of
school.

-Nik
President, Minna No Anime & Minna No Manga
</pre>

===[MnA] Sat, Jan 24 Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jan 22 17:24:37 2004)
Alooooooha? Er, Konnichiwa.

Wish I had some new news for you, but I can't think of much you don't
already know. A quick plug though, check out the website for any info
including e-mail addresses for the librarian (you could get tapes/dvds of
old shows you've always wanted to see but never found at best buy!) and
extra news that doesn't get posted here.

OH. Yes, the winning T-shirt will be on the website sometime... uhm...
well, I can't read the future but sometime soon-to-not-so-soon.

THE SCHEDULE:

5:00 Fansub O': Unknown as of this point, but I promise no more
Kaliedostar.
5:25 Hana Yori Dango - Ep 36 : Tsukaka's Mother's Secret Plan

5 min. break : Looking to sell/buy used DVDs? We should hold a MnA swap
meet-any feedback?

5:55 Patlabor - Ep 10 : Eve's Trap
6:20 Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Ep 36 : The All-Purpose Battleship
- New Nautilus

5 min. break : Ah, if only the all-purpose battleship came with a
all-purpose cat-girl.

6:50 Inuyasha - Ep 60 : The Dark-Miko - A Fifty-year Curse
7:15 Haibane Renmei - Ep 10 : Kuramori - Haibane of the Abandoned Factory
- Rakka's Job

30 Minute Break : GGX? WTF? It promises to be fun.

8:15 Azumanga Daioh - Ep 11 : Cosmopolitan City - Confrontation - Don't
Hit It - Covered In Cats - Don't Run Away
8:40 Noir - Ep 11 : Tea In The Moonlight

5 min. break : I don't think the U.S. will ever catch up with Japan when
it comes to Inuyasha

9:10 Hellsing - Ep 11 : Transcend Force
9:35 Crest of the Stars - Ep 11 : Sufugnoff Gateway Battle

That's All Folks!

First of all, some of you might think that MnA is like a two-, nay-three
headed monster which pulls in multiple directions. For those of you who
wish to be officers, think of it more as a pack of wolves where every now
and then one of us :: cough cough me cough :: will completely zone out and
just go wander off in some direction without having a damn clue as to
what everyone else is doing. Also, there's a complete loss of time thanks
to a messed up schedule and the occasional Blue Sparks.

On another note, you played Prince of Persia? I checked it out and damn is
it fun. I could loan it to you if you can find me and get me to remember
you, but I guess the hard part of that might actually be the finding me
part. Viewtiful Joe, Mario Kart (should we play this in the Silo? ^_^),
and a few other Cube games are also pretty damn good. Perhaps worth your
investment of time and money, although time is money so it's really just
an investment of money. And I must admit, there are a few X-Box games
that're pretty great, too-but they shall remain nameless until I can
remember which ones they are.

The funny thing about me typing my stream of conscious is that either a) I
can't keep up with my thoughts and forget what I was trying to type about
or b) I get distracted whenever some pretty girl walks by (I'm in the
reserve room).

So yeah, I had something to say but forgot it again. Okay, focus. Focus.
Oh-I got a copy of Battle Royale on DVD that's really nice and has subs. I
think it's R2 from europe, but that whole PAL/NTSC is easily overcome
nowadays-I think?

Anyone wanna get together and have a big-ol' BR movie night? Perhaps we
could snatch a copy of BR2 and leave with a will to go shoot each other
and then pine about our lost high-school loves, before shooting/stabbing
each other some more? Nah, probably not gonna be that fun.

You like bagels? With the
creamy-creamy-cheese-cream-cheesey-creamy-cheese? Yes, I have been
infected by illwillpress.com, sorry. Someone was telling me that the
squirrel on that website and I had lots in common, to which I replied with
a loud and hearty "WTF?" I checked it out, and I guess that's... uhm...
yeah, I dunno. I'm either cool with the whole thing 'cause me and that
squirrel share similar senses of humor or I'm annoyed 'cause I'm damn sure
my voice doesn't sound like that.

Rest assured, I know what I my voice doesn't sound like-although it's hard
to tell what it does sound like. I've spent enough time on-air at KCPR to
know that my voice is, well-not that squirrels.

Hey-I nearly forgot. Or maybe I didn't? Perhaps you've heard my problems
with Mikado up in JapanTown S.F.? I'm thinking of never shopping there
again due to their CD return policy. I stopped by there during a Friday
and picked up 3 cds ('bout $100 worth, ouch) and when I got home I
realized that my hand-eye coordination is complete crap and that I grabbed
a CD which I really didn't want. Of course, I realized this after putting
it in my CD player.

So, I bring it back exactly a week later and ask for some store credit or
something, and all I get is some fat store-clerk telling me they can buy
it back. But get this, not for like 50% or something decent-no. We're
talking 20%. That's $6. Yeah, he'll give me $6 for a CD I bought a week
ago and realized was my complete fault. I even asked him why the CD policy
if I hadn't scratched the CD and even kept all the packaging. Why? Because
he flat out told me that he doesn't know if I'm a theif or not. Maybe I
burned the CD and sold 100 copies, he doesn't know me so maybe I'm a
theif. Of course, since then I've subsequently found a few places that
share this same "you bought it, you're a theif, you can't return it"
policy."

Borders is another one. This time I was purchasing an Opera CD. Yes, I
listen to Opera, Metal, J-pop/J-rock, OSTs, Classical, and allll sorts of
Big Band and Jazz music. Oh, and a small dab of indie rock.

So anyway, the problem with buying Opera CDs is that you never know if
it's a good analog-to-digital transfer. I'm not talking about the original
quality of the recording, I'm talking about tracks that are cut off early
and start late. Ever listen to a CD where two songs are supposed to track
into each other? Yeah-well, I can guarantee you there are no Operas where
one song ends in the middle of a phrase and the next one begins on the
second note. So, I'm talking to the manager at Borders and I guess it
sorta went like this:

Me : Okay, so I need to know your CD return policy.

Cashier : Only if it's unopened.

Me : So, how would I know if it's any good or not? This is like $15 bucks
that I'm giving you guys.

Cashier : Oh, if it's opened than only if it's defective. And then we'll
replace your CD with a new one.

Me : No, I mean-what if this CD sucks? I pick up Opera CDs and I know that
there can be shitty analog-to-digital transfers. What if EMI classics
really sucks at this? I've never picked anything up by this label before.
Also, this "made in holland" sticker is not very confidence inducing.

Cashier : Well, sometimes old recording aren't recorded with the higest
qualit--

Me : No. I mean, I've picked up CDs before and the end of one song doesn't
quite track into the beginning of the next song. What if EMI produced a
not-so-steller CD?

Cashier : Let me get my manager.

:: wait for 5 minutes as she explains whatever the hell she explains to
him::

Manager : Hello. So, you're wondering about our CD return policy if the CD
is opened?

Me : Yes. I need to know that if I buy this CD and it's got this
horrendesly crappy sound and production value that I can return it and
spend my money instead on a quality product.

Manager : Well, as long as you don't open the CD you can return it at
anytime.

Me : So, how would I listen to it?

Manager : Yeah, that's a problem.

Me : **silence**

Manager : **silence-but he is smiling ^_^**

Me : So if I open it and the CD has horrible production and sound?

Manager : Well, alot of old recording were made on less than modern-day
quality equipment.

Me : Yes, that's true but not what I'm talking about. I buy records and I
know what old recordings sound like. I also know that on my records the
tracks have never been cut-off. I've got a CD where the tracks sort of
cut-off early and the next one starts late. It sounds like the CD is
skipping, but it's really just the production value is absolute crap.

Manager : Well, if the CD is defective we'll take it back and trade it for
a brand new one.

Me : And if it's not defective? What if the CD simply has poor production
value? What if I don't like it? I can't return it and get another?

Manager : No, sorry. We can't do anything about that.

Me : So... I'm buying this CD for $15 as a complete gamble. I mean, this
could be a poorly produced CD with shitty sound and I'd just be screwed
out of $15?

Manager : Yes.

Me : Uhm... okay. I'll take it I guess?

Damn music industry is on it's ass. No, maybe it's on it's head, sitting
on it's head. With it's ass in the air. Perhaps everytime we talk to one
of those music reps at a music store we're really talking to the ASS of
the RIAA or something? That might explain the bad breath of the sales reps
at Best Buy and our inability to buy something and return it upon
realizing that we'd rather spend our money on heroin for the poor than the
p.o.s. disc in our hands.

Derf over at derfcity has a comic strip about this, but I think he's taken
it down already. Another of his true-stories that either he-or one of his
readers witnessed. Some big guy walks into a record store to return some
CDs that he thinks are crap and the record clerks can't do a damn thing
unless the CDs are defective. The big guy, in frustration, breaks the CDs
and leaves the shards on the counter before leaving the store mumbling
something about them being defective now. Funny? Only if you've ever had
to sit there talking to some clerk-monkey about how you'd like to return
something that damn well should be returnable-in fact, music should be the
MOST returnable item. Tastes change and a CDs suck. I'm sure just about
everyone reading this has at one point or another purchased a CD and
realized that they made a stupid/embarrassing choice later.

After all, it's not like you can bump the blue danube from your honda when
you're driving downtown, but it does sound great on Vinyl on your home
system. Whereas, that new Nas record is alright at home, even with having
to switch sides every 2-3 songs-but that CD would be pretty sweet when
you're driving down the strip trying to yell out the window at your
friends. Either way, the CD isn't returnable and I don't think BooBoo's
(the only place in town that sells records besides CheapThrills/Nemo's and
who shops there?) takes back Vinyl either. Of course, you could always
sell it back (in brand new condition I might add) and get between 20-40%
for it. This, in my damn pissed-off opinion, is absolute crap.

That's it. From now on I'm not buying music from places I can't return it.
In fact, perhaps this whole anti-RIAA music thing that I've been hearing
word about on slashdot.org and other places is catching on with me? Maybe
I should start being a bit more vocal about this? yeah... a letter to the
editor here... some airtime on KCPR there... aggrivate the anime community
with stories (true and falsified) of geek injustices... egg-selent... soon
the mighty pig-dog music overlords will be dropping to their knees to beg
us to buy the next Madonna cd! We'll show them just how much the next
3Doors Down album means to us when we can't return it after realizing just
how mediocre their rock really is!

Ahh... who am I kidding? As soon as I walk by Boo's again I'll probably
walk into the Jazz section and pick up the newest craziest remastered
version of Duke Ellington at Fargo in 1940... at least I KNOW that CD is
worth my money.

Ever stuck your fingers together with superglue? I just did that last
Tuesday with 20 minute epoxy. Yeah. Lots of fun. I get to do it again
tonight as I go into the composites lab and do what was originally MY SOLO
project with 3 guys who are all making senior projects out of the work
that I am doing. I'm gonna work those kids like sleigh-dogs. Hya! Hya!
Does that whipping noise I type turn you on? Goodnight folks!

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna no Anime Secretary (and mega-flake)
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

-(I sure hope it doesn't.)
</pre>

===Minna No Manga 1/29/04===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Wed Jan 28 18:34:51 2004)
Again we're having our weekly MNM meeting in 14-252.
Wanna know what we're gonna do? Then show up and find out.

-Nik
</pre>

===[MnA] Sat, Jan 31 Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jan 29 16:22:17 2004)
Konnichiwa Minna!

You have been selected for this weekends Battle Royale! Well, not
really-but if we were to have one you'd be in.

News? Yeah, something like that. There's rumors of an AX CosPlay troupe.
It appears as though PatLabor mechanics is the costume of choice so far,
but if you're going to AX and want to hang out with us/CosPlay with us
then drop an e-mail or speak up at any meeting.

T-shirt design is up on the web page, or so I hear. Check out the
decidedly Canadian drawing that will be our rockin' t-shirt for the coming
year, or this year... I never really remember how that works.

Oh-and really important-Officer Elections are coming up! I don't think
they are this weekend, but if you're planning on running then ask any
officer about what is required, expected, and what you'll probably end up
really doing (like sitting a room 'talking' about how Princess Nine is way
better than Hyper Police). It's fun to be an officer! No, really-it is.

THE SCHEDULE!

5:00 Bobobobo Bobobo - Ep 1 : WTF is up with that Afro?
5:25 Hana Yori Dango - Ep 38 : I Will Train You!

5 min. break : What happened to HYD ep 36? We... uhm... accidentally
skipped it, sorry.

5:55 Patlabor - Ep 11 : Eve's Shudder
6:20 Nadia: Secret of Blue Water - Ep 37 : Emperor Neo

5 min. break : We're right in the final story arc for a few shows: Nadia,
Hellsing, & Haibane. Don't miss out!

6:50 Inuyasha - Ep 61 : Kikyo Appears, The Use of Shikigami
7:15 Haibane Renmei - Ep 11 : Parting - Darkness in the Heart - An
Irreplacable Thing

30 Min. Break: Yoshitoshi ABe, who's amazing art is behind Haibane, also
worked on Lain, Niea_7, and Technolyze.

8:15 Azumanga Daioh - Ep 12 : Chiyo-chan's Day - High School Friends -
Lunch - Afternoon - Skipping Rope
8:40 Noir - Ep 12 : Assassin Training

5 min. break : I'd love to see a Noir/Azumanga crossover. Chiyo-chaaaaan!
Watch out!

9:10 Hellsing - Ep 12 : Total Destruction
9:35 Crest of the Stars - Ep 12 : Lady of Chaos

That's All Folks!

Surprised? You should be. Worried? Perhaps not so much. Confused as to
what the hell I'm writing about? Good, let me fill you in.

It appears that WETA (the badasses who brought us the LOTR graphics) is
working in conjunction with GAINAX (the badasses who brought us Nadia,
FLCL, EVA, Abeno, KareKano, Honneamise...) to bring us a live-action EVA
movie.

Happy? Sad? Ecstatic? Fearful of complete corruption of something good?
Whatever you're feeling, don't worry-we'll hold you and then let you
borrow our old EVA vhs copies if it'll make you feel better. It might even
clear up some of that stuffy-headed congestion you've been feeling lately.
EVA's good for that sorta thing, you know-clearing your head.

Evangelion live action, wow. What an idea. It, of course, brings back the
question of what anime would you like to see made into a full-blown
American big-budget film? And the follow up question, yeah-but could they
do it right?

Instead of giving you my spiel on whether this is good idea or not-let me
instead digress into the depths of video game hell.

Yes, Video Games die and I believe they have a Hell. While some may argue
on the specifics of what is required to pass the entrance exams to VGHell
(tactics had shitty long menus, persia was too short, onimusha f'd your
grandmother) I think it's really easier than we all think.

After all, the distinction between VG Heaven and VG Hell is probably the
difference in whether some kid had fun w/ it or if he used it to beat his
little brother into submission (me, my brother, 1989, and Q-Bert is all I
gotta say about that).

Let's start with a game that walks the thin blood red line between fond
memories of time well spent and time well spent wishing you'd purchased
$50 of pudding instead a piece of plastic crap. Skate Or Die! (or for that
matter, Skate Or Die 2!) seems to fit this mold perfectly.

Sure, when you're 9 years old and have no idea the future of video games
involves anything more than 16-bit this game is amazing! There's like-this
place you can skate in a pool that's like a half-pipe, then there's this
actual half-pipe, and this other thing which resembles-but isn't quite...
a half-pipe. At least in SOD2 you can throw tacos at each other. Or at
least, that's what I remember about it. Was the game fun? Sure, for about
2 days. Then it just got put on the shelf next to Q-Bert and the Barbie
Mall Shopping Game where it would stay until sold at your next garage
sale. SOD and SOD2 make it to VG Hell.

And to top it all off, where are the hot, 2-D imaginary non-real
completely fictitious in their measurements girls?

Ahh, but for that we'll need Dating Sims! No, not the Sims with their
stupid garbled language. I'm talking dating simulators. Yeah, so maybe we
all play these in secret, late at night with the bedroom door locked and
the music turned up so no one knows what we're doing, but who will admit
to it? Not I. Ahem.

So, a quick google search of what is available online and in English
(lemme tell you, those Japanese babes don't understand a damn word typed
to them in English) gives the page:
http://www.newgrounds.com/collections/datingsims.html
Now, just because I typed the address does NOT mean you should go there
(esp. if you're under 18). With "dating sims" like "the lusty bar fly" and
"maid of horror" I think we've found a genre of game that can either
appeal to the lonely fanboy or to the lonely fanboy. Depending on whether
you're all about the Hentai action or the "i'm actually being social with
a girl!" action. And yes, I've heard it a thousand time "the art is
beautiful!" Finals comments? Here's a piece from the page: "Frank's
Adventure 2:Another magazine needs nude photos! You are called in to do
what you do best!"

Ahh, a game that goes traight to hell, does not pass go, and sure as hell
didn't collect my $200 : Dark Angel. I think this was a PS2 release that
was originally made for the PS1. I'm sure when it was originally made the
quality control division at Sony decided to burn the CDs, burn the
computers they were programmed on, and then burn the programmers just to
make sure the virus was contained.

It wasn't. Sometime after the release of the PS2 we received a copy of
Dark Angel... and about 4 hours later (I played it for 4 solid hours help
me god i want those moments back to live differently!) I stood up and I
was physically hurt by the game. My ass, which has taken all sorts of
punishment over the years, was physically beat. I was walking funny and
swearing at the PS2 for the rest of the night and early into the next
morning.

The story of Dark Angel? Well-the game starts up, some text flashes on
screen about how some terrrrrible evil is going to kill all human kind in
like, three years, and then the game starts with you, a sword, and a
shitload of guys around you who are there to kill you. From here you find
out that you're some not-quite-3D girl with a sword, some magic, and a
willingness to hack-and-slash for longer periods of time then it would
take to code Diablo III. My sister loaned me this game saying "this isn't
very good" whereas if I had understood double speak I would've heard her
say "I place a gypsy curse upon your ass! Pain! Pain for all eternity!"
Yeah, go sis.

What makes this game go straight to hell? Well, besides the
not-fun-in-any-way-gameplay, not-so-great-graphics, and
complete-lack-of-story? How about the not-fun-control system,
huge-ass-pains that come about from even viewing footage of gameply, or
lack of purpose to what you do in the game? You go to town. You leave
town. You fight. Days pass. Evil isn't here yet! Go back to town. Leave
town. Figh. Days pass... evil still not ready... lather, rinse, repeat for
as many times as you can stand to do so.

Honestly, Barbie Mall Shopping might even be more fun than that one. Not
like I ever played or owned the Barbie mall shopping game, I'm just
saying. You know. It might be more fun.

But this is an anime club newsletter, right? Where are all the anime-based
games? Well. For the most part they suck, I'm sorry. Robotech came out a
bit ago and while it's fun, if you're not hardcore Macross fan then you
probably wont get a big kick out of it. The .Hack games? Well-I hear those
are actually beyond decent and in the land of "good," but what do I know
about a game I haven't even played yet? ArctheLad is well... yeah,
nevermind it. The Gundam games looked cool, but I didn't see the point
to running around a desert with what seemed infinite ammo and countless
targets.

Oh my god, I'm late for a class that was cancelled! Ahhh, back to the
point of this newsletter.

**SHAMELESS PLUG**
(i hope you enjoy this as much as i do)

Like anime/video game soundtracks? J-pop? J-rock? Weeeelllll, KCPR 91.3FM
has a show for you! Arigato Tokyo! Tuesdays, 5-6pm. Anime & Videogame
Soundtracks, Japanese pop and allll sorts of things from the island that
brought you your favorite addiction-anime.

**END OF SHAMELESS PLUG**

Ooh, that felt good. I'm not even hosting it this quarter and I figured
I'd let you all know about it. Listen next Tuesday and give Cowboy Andy a
call (or two). I'm sure he'd appreciate it for about 15 minutes.

See you all in club this Saturday! Avoid the Noid!

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime Secretary
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
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===[MnA] Sat, Feb 7 Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Fri Feb 6 01:25:23 2004)
Konnichiwa Minna-san!

Another week... another 168 hours lost to a)sleeping b)gaming c)anime
d)schoolwork e)eating f)classes. Yes, in that order. Although, sometimes
gaming outdoes sleeping, but that's rare.

NEWS:

I'm going to announce this again, because it was so cool. We have a
winning T-shirt design for the year, and if you want one I think we'll be
researching prices sooooon... and taking orders VERY soon after that. So
check out the website www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub for the design.

Library is still open! I think most of you don't realize the treasure
chest this club has, in terms of what is in the library. Check out the
website for info on what we have (3000 miles in search of mother!!! and
Black Heaven!!!) and send a letter to the librarian if you need anything
from that list.

Officer Elections are around the corner. Yep, it's that time of year
again. The current officers are planning on moving on, graduating,
leaving, or perhaps just taking some time to ourselves so we can drink
more. It's really just that if a club doesn't have new leadership cycle
through then it becomes stagnant and we rrreally don't want that.

We, the current officers, really do love this club (for various reasons
I'm sure) and we want some people who think they can run this club to step
up to the plate. Sure, maybe you've never been VP for a club before, but
this isn't a management position at a big-time store, this is just a club.
Remember that you're doing this because you want to do this, and if you've
got even a little amount of spare time during the week you'll be great in
this position. The only time that things get crazy is when you're at a
pictionary party and up being forced to draw Conneticut blindfolded.
Otherwise, it's a blast.

THE SCHEDULE:

5:00 Yamamoto Yohko TV - Ep 1 : Okay, "...exceptional physical prowess and
videogaming skills." 'Nuff said?
5:25 Hana Yori Dango - Ep 39 : Devil's Triangle

5 min. break : One of these days we're just gonna HAVE to show an ep. of
Golden Boy for FansubO' again.

5:55 Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Ep 37 : Emperor Neo
6:20 Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Ep 38 : ... To Space

5 min. break : Despite the website's ominous fortelling, Nadia will end
NEXT WEEK. A final, last, and kinda sad (but fulfilling!) episode.

6:50 Inuyasha - Ep 62 :
7:15 Haibane Renmei - Ep 12 :

30 Minute Break : Probably not this week, but maybe next week it looks
like we'll have some AMV's from a former club member.

8:15 Azumanga Daioh - Ep 13 : No Guard Strategy - S - Midterm Test -
Formation - Ability
8:40 Noir - Ep 13 : Season of Hell

5 min. break : What the hell do the lyrics to Noir's opening theme mean?
Then again, what the hell do the lyrics to Berserk mean?

9:10 Hellsing - Ep 13 : Hellfire
9:35 Crest of the Stars - Ep 13 : Trouble Soaring Through Heaven

That's all folks!

So earlier today I was hopped up on caffeine. You should've been there - I
headbutted a concrete wall, a soda can (it was empty, don't worry), and
realized how cool I look when I pose in the mirror.

Ever had that feeling of utter and complete doom? I felt that last night.
I was in the lab (like most nights, actually) getting work done-or-trying
to get work done. It was a bit rowdy in there, and so I pull out my
handy-dandy-super-trusty MiniDisc player. And then I dropped it.

Yep. My only savior in the island of chaos, and I betrayed it to the
forces of gravity. I plugged in my headphones, hit play, and then silently
cried the tears of a broken and utterly defeated man. I nearly walked out
to the balcony (we're on the 3rd floor) and threw that piece of very
expensive electronics very, very far.

Instead I decided to bite my lip, pour one for my fallen comrade, and move
on with my life. It also helps that Sony is coming out with a new MiniDisc
format that is no less amazing then the rumors of your mother's
performance in bed (if those rumors are true then I don't feel so bad for
laughing).

Sorry, I'm not supposed to be mean. It just sorta slipped. Sigh...
mantra... "I don't need this anger... I don't need this anger..."

Okay, all better.

I think we'll be able to throw on some AMV's by an old club alumnus either
this week or next. I have no idea if he/she's got any skills, but either
way you gotta support your comrades-in-arms, especially when your option
is yet ANOTHER GuiltyGear tournament video.

Of course, I'd still love to see how they got those monkeys to fly in the
Wizard of Oz. I mean, wow-have you seen that film? Or more importantly,
have you seen that film while listening to the dark side of the moon (Pink
Floyd)? Or even MORE importantly, have you seen that film, with the Pink
Floyd album playing, while "relaxed"? Well, yeah... okay, I can't claim to
be that cool either, but having done all three separately I think it'd be
pretty cool to combine them. You know, like that time when I was a kid and
I combined a Chocolate Chip Cookie, Mustard, Wheat Bread, Mayonaise,
Lettuce, Swiss Cheese and made the sandwhich to whoop all other
sandwhiches.

The first bite tasted pretty good actually, but I think that was just my
body attempting to rationalize the flavor in my mouth. The second bite...
yeah. I immediately went to the trash can and vowed never to play God
again, lest I vomit mustard and chocolate all over my pants a second time.
There's really just no explanation you can give people for brown and
mustard-colored stains. I mean... you try, but they really don't believe
you.

And for the last fucking time:

HERE IS THE STORY OF HOW I GOT MY SUPER-MYSTICAL NICKNAME "K"

Freshman year. Fall quarter, 1998. I am living in Sierra Madre (on-campus
housing). I write a quote on the whiteboard on my door, "yadda yadda yadda
Lord Of Chaos." This of course, causes all the people on my floor to begin
calling me the Lord Of Chaos.

Now, don't get me wrong-that's a fucking cool name when you're 18 and a
freshman in college. My friend, however, thought it was too long to use in
casual conversation (at least he didn't start calling me the Warthog) and
began to call me "K" as in the first syllable of "chaos."

Pretty damn simple, eh? I SHALL NEVER UTTER THIS STORY AGAIN.

Thank god, it's finally over. Five years... or is it six now? Anyway, many
many many retellings of the story later, I'm fed up with it.

I'd love to have a new nickname, but it's hard to stop the inertia of a
name.

Also, to set the record straight-despite rumors to the contrary, I never
owned that damned-straight-to-hell Barbie Mall Shopping game.

Although I do own a nintendo, with a bunch of games, and some were my
sisters... ahem...

What was my point?

Oh yeah, the damn cat pee'd on the thing! He's neutered now. Fucker. I
mean, he can still pee I guess, but not on my classic NES system! Not
again, anyhow. So... I guess I'll pay someone to comeover and clean it and
the games? And... uh... for the slave labor I might even pay you in
something worthwhile, like food or drinks... probably not cash though,
I've got about $5 to last me (and my anime/manga addictions) for another
week or two.

And if you do find that Barbie Mall Shopping game in the bag full of
cat-smelling old-school games, uhm... just lemme know and I'll go hide it
somewhere deep in my room and promise me you wont tell anyone 'bout it.
Thanks.

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime Secretary
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
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===Minna No Manga Feb. 12===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Wed Feb 11 22:54:01 2004)
Hi everybody!
Sorry about the lack of an e-mail last week, I was about to then that
silly little thing called sleep stopped me. Anyway MNM will always be run
even when I forget to do the e-mail. If for some reason MNM is cancelled,
I would write an e-mail saying so.

Anyway, Nur and U are still hunting for the big surpruse video we're
saving for MNM, if we find it, we'll be sure to bring it. Or else we can
just watch another ep of Futurama off of Josho's laptop.

-Nik
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===[MnA] Sat, Feb 14 Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Fri Feb 13 00:14:15 2004)
Okay. If you're at this weekends meeting you're as big a dork as we are.
That, or your girl/boy friend is really, really cool.

Konnichiwa Minna-San!

News! Alcohal. For thsoe ofyou at Tsurugi's tonight-you understand that
statement. Let me tell you, 11:49PM AND IT'S STILL GOIN STROING! Yes. Oh
yes.

Officer elections are coming up. If you thought VP was easy wait 'till you
hear about secretary! Except they'll probably expect you to doooo work,
unlike lazy-ass me. Those fliers were pretty cool though. You gotta admit
that, and the weekly newsletter has come out pretty much, well... weekly.
I try to get it out by Wed., but I had a take-home midterm that has been
kicking my ass for the past 48 hours. Otherwise, some subtitling (we'll
show you how-it's real easy) and an hour/two to write the weekly
newsletter each week and you're done. A flier at the beginning of the
quarter can always be pawned off on your photoshop friend, if need be.

THE SCHEDULE!!
(no ep titles this week, must write letter then go save save Neverwinter!)

5:00 Fansub O': I really, really liked last week's Yamamoto Yohko.
5:25 HanaYori Dango - Ep 40

5 min. break : So... I skipped class today at 4pm so I could go make
myself into the literary genius I am right now.

5:55 Nadia : Secret of Blue Water - Ep 39 : The grand finale. No really,
it's the ending and there's no more. It's pretty daaaamn sweet also.
6:20 Kokoro Library - Ep 1 : What the hell is this? I don't know either,
but it's pretty 'king sweet.

5 min break : Kokoro is talked about by EVERYONE. Well, everyone who's
anyone. Maybe you dont' know anyone who's anyone? Hmmm....

6:50 Inuyasha - Ep 63 : Goddamn kick that things all already!
7:15 Haibane Renmei - Ep 13 : Another ending series. You may need to bring
tissues.

30 Min. Break! Yeah, yeah yeah. Time to get food, right? Maybe we should
tell you about the officer positions, or mabye just waste your time
watching more megamanII videos?

8:15 Azumanga Daioh - Ep 14 : Shopping - Meeting - The Beach! - Capturing
Operation - An Adult's World
8:40 Noir - Ep 14 : Girls, guns, now all we're missing are Zombies!

5 min. break : Seriously, that's the holy triad-of movies. Girls, Guns,
and Zombies. Resident Evil had it all!

9:10 SaiKano - ep 1 : This is called "She, The Ultimate Weapon" or "The
last love story on this little planet" or something like that.
9:35 Banner of the Stars - Ep 1 : Staring after Crest ended, this
amazing story continues. Well, I think- I haven't seen this...

That's All Folks!

Okay-so tonight at Tsurugi (for those of you on the other mailing list,
the minnanomembers@<removed for spam reasons> you knew all about this meeting!!) we
had a dinner get-together.

A good amount of people showed up, including me! Unfortunately, as I
realized pretty quickly-I was the only one who was so amazingly shitfaced
when he showed up that i can't even remember half the dinner.

I have vague recollections of leaning on a freshman and pointing and
laughing at TomDave, but besides that I think Imight have made an ass out
of myself in front of Rebeca. Damn. Not cool, right? Exacly-except that
tomorrow is the big naughty-gothic-schoolchildren party!

Don't ask. If you're not invited, you're probably not welcome. Of course,
would you want to be invited to the naughty-gothic-schoolchildren party
anyway? I'm going 'cause of a girl.

A fiiiiine girl.

We're not talking the kind of girl who makes your head turn when she walks
by, we're talking the kind of girl who makes your jaw drop and your heart
stop and your brain stop working regularly. Stupind things come out of my
mouth when she's around, and I can feel my face contort into some sort of
"smile" type facsimile when she looks at me. I need to get over this
retardedness otherwise I'll never lure her close enough to get to know me
and my amazingly smoooooth self.

So yeah, party tomorrow night. I'm kinda stoked I might see this girl
again.

Problem? Yeah, of course there's a problem. She's a bit younger age-wise.
Not too much, but enough for me to say that I've been out of the dorms for
many years and she's just finishing up her 2nd year in them.

So what to do? Continue along and hope for a romance that will make me the
laughing stock of all my friends or do I give up and remain the laughing
stock of all my friends (yeah, they're really not all that nice).

I say... go for it! I think I might actually be able to have a
"valentine's day" for the first time in years in which I actually had a
valentine on said day!

Of course, if you show up on Saturday and I'm looking pretty bummed that
means nothing happened and I maybe prone to hugging you during the break
and asking for your hand in marriage (don't worry, it happens alot, it
passess pretty quickly).

Problem is I don't know your ring size, so I guess I'll just have to
propose half-assed when I ask you for your hand in marriage.

Ouch my throat hurts.

I think I might have caught something? Or maybe I shouldn't have drank all
those drinks followed by all those other drinks... really, shots followed
by Martini Chasers. Yeah, smart idea. Real smart.

Needless to say, I'm feeling pretty okay right now. I wish I was saving
Neverwinter, but sleep may be calling me right now. I do, after all, have
to make it to all of my ZERO Friday classes. ^_^ Woo-hoo! Oh yeah, 4 day
weekend for me.

If noone hadmentioned that this Saturday was Valentine's day I wouldn't
have notic4ed-at all.. Instead, someone had to mention it and now I am
wishing I wasn't such a damn loser! Perhaps next year I'll rock out with
two girls on my arm to make up for this year? Or maybe I'll be working
next year's Valentine day early-getting ready for rejection 365 days
early.

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna no Secretary
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
-woo I'm tired, I'm seeping triple! This is amazing!yy
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===MNM, FF Crystal Chronicles, Pictionary===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Wed Feb 18 20:33:07 2004)
Here, three, three, three announcements in one.

As usual MNM will be meeting this week in 14-252, what's special about
this week's meeting is that we will (hopefully) be playing Final Fantasy
Crystal Chronicles in the room a couple of doors down. If you have a GBA
and a link cable come join the caravan!

Also, this is kinda short notice, but pictionary is on at Ben's place this
FRIDAY (2/20/04), there's no definate start time, but I guess people
should be there by say...6 PM

If there are any questions shoot an e-mail to the member's list on
yahoogroups.

Hope to see you there!

-Nik
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===[MnA] Sat, Feb 21 Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Feb 19 14:11:09 2004)
Konnichiwa Minna-san!

Ahhh... a week of exceptional midterms, exams, presentations, papers, and
the occasional Pint Night. I hope school isn't getting you down, and if
you're out of school well, I'm sorry-really I am.

THE NEWS:
(all the news that's print to fit? I'm not a witty person, d'oh!)

Pictionary Party! Yeah, I'm guessing you already got that message, but
I'll repeat it because as they told me over and over, "Repetition is Key!"
So if you don't know where Ben's place is then e-mail around (either us
here or the Minna-no-members list that you should be on!!) and get
directions. It's really deceptively simple, except for actually finding
his house behind this gigantic hedge-maze thing. I swear, I rolled up to
his house and spent half-an-hour walking up and down the street looking
for his house, only to realize it was behind what I thought was some sort
of cancerous-green-growth.

Officer Elections! I, uh, think they're this week. No, wait-I'm SURE they
are this week! Come, stand in front of everyone and let them know exactly
how much better than me you can write! Trust me... I really, really would
love to see one of you doing this job instead of me. I'm sure some of you
feel the same way.

As far as I know, all the officer positions are up for grabs! So, if
you're a Poly student and you've never held a position in a club then this
is a great place to cut your chops. Learn what it means to have SAY in
something as awesome as this club.

That's right, Officers pick shows. (did you like the capital "O") You like
KittyGrade? MasterCookingBoy? FullMetalPanicFumoffu? Mahoro Season 2
(pleeeeaaasseeee!!)? Technolyze? PrincessNine (f**k yeah!)? Anyway-this
list goes on a while. Just remember, it'll be up to YOU to decide what
gets shown on our THEATER size screen. It's kinda like being king-geek,
without being a geek... so it's really like being king! Or, you know-queen
if you're not a kingly type.

THE SCHEDULE:

5:00 Fansub O: (hopefully) the Return of Kaliedostar!
5:25 Hana Yori Dango - Ep 41 : The Beginning of New Ways

5 min. break : I'll admit it... i like soap operas... involving Hanawaza
Rui...

5:55 Kokoro Library - Ep 1 :
6:20 Patlabor - Ep 14 : You win!

5 min. break : Although, I've never seen Meteor Garden (friend has like, a
bunch of these Taiwanese live-action HYDango VCDs)

6:50 Inuyasha - Ep 64 : Tahoutou's Huge Demon (heeheehe....)
7:15 Gunparade March - Ep 1 : The Visitor

30 Minute Break : Officer Elections! You know you want the power of
holding the gray cash-box. Or you could be El Presidente!

8:15 Azumanga Daioh - Ep 15 : Kimura's Family - Did You See That? - The
Unconfirmed Wife - Frozen Solid - Results Announcement
8:40 Noir - Ep 15 : Heartless Assassin Act I

5 min. break : I say we toast our new officers! And then wish them all the
luck in the world in attempting to figure out a schedule before August,
suckers.

9:10 Saikano - Ep 2 : I'm growing...
9:35 Crest of the Stars 2 : Operation Phantom Flame

That's All Folks!!

Sniff... sniff... did you SEE Saikano last week? You ever gotten ahold of
that manga? Damn that's the saddest last love song on this little planet.
Anyway, moving on past my sensitive side-and on to the "i can't feel my
face" side of things.

Pictionary this Friday? Perhaps you've heard legends tell of this mighty
game capable of bringing people together in less than a weeks notice. I've
seen gigantic block parties in full swing which are less energetic then a
bunch of people yelling at someone "it's a goddamn frog! you're drawing a
frog! what the hell is it!? It's a froooog!" As if by merely yelling at
them that what you see is a frog shall make it so, even if what you're
really drawing is a rifle.

Added bonus to Friday's Pictionary Party? Well, besides the fact that
yours truly shall make a much needed (and sober) appearance, is that
you'll be there also. The more people actually decide to show up the more
fun things become! So don't be that person who thinks "well... no one's
gonna be there..." because last time we had upwards of nearly 2-dozen
people. That's right. And not all of them are your usual Club members. We
had people who were like "yeah, i like anime, but i don't go to club.
However, I Luuuuv Pictionary!" And if you're old enough we'll let you into
the "good" fridge. Otherwise, well... I guess we'll let you into the good
fridge anyway, we're kinda relaxed like that. And like last time, I will
gladly exchange rides for physical contact (massages, headbutts, hits on
people, embarrising loss of thumb-war to a 5'1" 95 lb. girlie-girl) or
whatnot.

Hey-okay... now we're getting serious here. After sending out the invite
we got invited ourselves into someone else's Caravan-which we're very cool
with. In fact, we're thinking of joining, but it looks like we're pretty
much only free on Wednesdays from about 7-11(maybe midnight). So, if
anyone else out there wants to join us in our merger of caravans let us
know! We could use someone to carry the chalice for us, after all.

Ahem... time for my improvised State of the Consumer Address.

This is a great time for buyers of anime, such as you and me. However, we
must still be wary of where our hard-earned money is headed. Perhaps you
realize too late that you like the manga for KareKano more than you like
the anime or vice-versa? Where does that leave you? Or even worse, a deal
so good on that Bebop soundtrack that it's too good to be true? Probably
is, unfortunately.

For quite some time the older anime crowd has been using the wonders of
the internet to purchase anything we needed, since that used to be the
only way to get anything (besides SailorMoon and DBZ). Now? Well, now you
can head down to Suncoast in your local mall and peruse their GIGANTIC
anime collection. The amount of titles coming out in America is amazing.
It used to be you'd only dream of a show like FMP ever making it
mainstream enough to be released in the states, and now shows like R.O.D.
the TV are licensed before they even air in Japan.

This is good for the consumer. We have access to more shows at a cheaper
rate. After all, Region 2 DVDs imported from Japan are about 2-to-1 in
price compared to their American counterparts (if not more). Sometimes
there is quality with that increase in price, and rarely will you feel you
got the shaft.

This is also a problem. With an increased market size and value, anime has
seen more and more bootleg videos appear in more commercial stores.
Previous to this gigantic explosion of popularity one could head to
Chinatown (SF) and find what they were looking for on VCD if they were
lucky. It was a bootleg and it was accepted as such, no disclaimers
otherwise. Today though, fancier packaging and "complete ultra!" box-sets
featuring entire 26 episode shows (which are normally on 3 DVDs or
something just as insane) can be found at local mom-'n-pop stores and
sometimes in the non-chain stores in your local mall.

But it's cheaper, so it's better for you, right? Well, what you're
effectively doing by spending your money on a bootleg is telling the
company that produced, marketed, licensed, and distributed the official
product that you don't want their item while at the same time informing
bootleggers that you agree with their cheaper, non-licensed way of doing
business. I really don't want to get into intellectual property rights,
copyright law, or paying the creater arguments. I just want to lay it out
for you what is happening.

Sometimes its hard to tell between the official and bootleg version, and
a lot of people don't even know what's going on with respect to this. A
quick way to check is inspect the box for copyright markings by the
company that produced the show (Bandai, Sunrise, Pioneer, etc.) or a known
bootlegger (SonMay-although I think they only do music, etc.). Chinese
subtitles are also pretty common among bootleg discs, as most bootlegs
originate in Taiwan (they have the weirdest copyright laws).

So, for us poor college students this puts us in an odd place. On one hand
most of us feel fine downloading songs to our hearts content, after all
music is over-priced and the record industry is corrupt. Sure, the artist
in that case makes even less money off of CD-sales since people normally
download and then burn the album without giving it a second thought. Okay,
now movies are similar, right? After all, if $16 a CD is too much to pay,
$26 is too much for a DVD, right? If $16 is too much to pay for a CD which
I will listen to over and over again, then $26 is definitely too much to
pay for a Movie/Show I will watch a few times every few months.

At the same time, however, you're avoiding the fact that someone (a lot of
someones, actually) had to create the entertainment you're enjoying. A CD
is created by a lot of people, not just the artist. At least the studio
techs, marketing people, talent scout (to find the artist in the first
place), business people, etc. A lot of people worked to bring you that
product. Now think about that DVD you just got bootleg. You bypassed all
those people who worked on mastering that disc. Instead your money is
being routed to someone who took a finished product (without making any
investment into it) and sold it as their own. If you don't find this
morally wrong then I have no other argument you will likely listen to.

The issues of quality control and bonus extras also come to the front when
discussing bootleg discs. However, most people are willing to sacrifice
these in order to save the price of a meal or two at a fast food
restaurant.

Okay, sorry-didn't mean to rant about bootlegs. I just saw some
less-than-legit discs the other day and got a little annoyed. I had to
slap one of my roomate's hands to keep her away from the bebop discs she
was eyeing.

Anyway, here's a joke to loosen things up. If you're not an Aero engineer
you might not get it, and even if you did you'd probably throw a tomatoe
at me for good measure.

So, flow walks into a difuser and starts looking around. The diffuser
walls yell at it, "Hey! Stop stalling!" [insert nerdy laugh]

Goodnight folks!

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime Secretary
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

-p.s. my bad cookie fortune was "Your heart is impure, and your mind
clouded, and your soul evil." Upon opening another fortune cookie I
received "it may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a
warning to others."
</pre>

===[MnA] Pictionary Friday===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Fri Feb 20 03:41:06 2004)
Minna-san,

Because none of the officers seem to remember where I live, and I
apparently have nothing better to do at 3:30 in the morning (*sigh*), I'm
going to make sure that everybody knows my email address so that they can
contact me for directions:

benl@<removed for spam reasons>

I'd say not to give it out to spammers, but judging by the amount of spam
that I already get, I don't think that's really an issue anymore. Thank
God for spam filters that actually work!

-Ben
-MNA Pictionary Party Host
</pre>

===MNM 02-25-04===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Wed Feb 25 23:23:07 2004)
I'll keep this one short and sweet (mostly because I have a big, nasty
midterm tomorrow)...

Thursday 7-10
Building 14 room 252

We'll do stuff...cool stuff.

-Nik
</pre>

===[MnA] Sat, Feb. 28 Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Feb 26 22:08:49 2004)
Konnichiwa Minna-san

Not much pre-letter stuff to say. Check the rant for the, uh, rant.

NEWS:

Officers have been elected! Yes, a democracy at work elected new officers
for all positions.

El Presidente : Mike "kinda-reminds-us-of-Santa"
Vice Presidente : Annaliese "Sonya-Blade-For-Those-In-The-Know"
Treasurer : Ashlee
"I-Don't-Know-This-Person-Enough-To-Be-In-The-Least-Witty"
Secretary : David "Mr. Opinion" Bathe
Librarian : Rob "With-That-Hat-Used-To-Have-That-Hair"
Webmaster : Stephen
"Real-Quiet-But-I-Still-Wouldn't-Get-In-A-Fight-With-Him"

Phew. Okay, sorry-had to give you an idea of just exactly which "stephen"
or "ashlee" I was talking about since the club is filled with these people
of regular/common names. I mean, just last week I ran across 17 stephens
sitting on the right side of the silo alone. Keeping their names straight
was hard when I found out one was lying to me and in fact, her name was
really Stephanie. That just blew my mind.

Ahh... the end of the quarter is soon upon us! Yep, with spring break
arriving we'll be showing you guys an amazing movie at our last meeting!
We're still deliberating the finer points of our possible choices, but by
next week we should have a decision hammered out.

THE SCHEDULE:
(sorry, super busy this week-no ep titles, ask me on Sat. and I'll tell
you about my depression/counselor meeting thingies! Oh yeah... manic baby!
Manic!)

5:00 Fansub O': Something you know is gonna be good
5:25 Hana Yori Dango - Ep 42 : Doumyouji does something stupid again

5 min. break : On Friday afternoon I'll be playing baseball if anyone
wants to join

5:55 Kokoro Library - Ep 2 : Why Kokoro, you look good enough to eat!
6:20 Patlabor - Ep 15 : Damn those mecha are cool

5 min. break : And I need an x-acto knife. These damn models aren't coming
off the plastic as well as they could be... sandpaper too...

6:50 Inuyasha - Ep 65 : About time for another comical episode, I think?
7:15 Gunparade March - Ep 2 : If you missed last weeks episode, I'm really
sorry. It was cool.

30 Minute Break : I wonder how many members in club own airsoft guns? We
should get together, form a club/league, and then go shoot each other
until our friends think we're all idiots.

8:15 Azumanga Daioh - Ep 16 : Combination - Advent - Cute - Order -
Advertising Impact
8:40 Noir - Ep 16 : Duuude-that guy/girl thing with the knives was pretty
cool

5 min. break : Ahh... my third of being in the caravan. Diary Entry #
3572.b - Today I met a caravan from place X. They were in need of item Y.
I gave them the finger. I hope to meet them again.

9:10 Saikano - Ep 3 : If you can find the manga for this show, do it!
9:35 Crest of the Stars 2 - Ep 3 : I'm still in the air about what to call
this show. Amazing or really amazing?

That's All Folks!

No time for a rant! I must get back to work! Yes... Thursday night... and
I'm still working. I bet you're wondering "But... how can a slacker like
you actually DO anything?"

Well, it's not easy. First you've gotta actually have something to do.
After that, well-it all sorta falls into line. You set aside some time for
whatever you have priorities set for, and then when that time comes you
simply begin what you need to do.

Example: showering. Now, I know that I don't put a high priority on this
and I really don't care much how I smell or how clean my flesh is. Truth
is, this is lower on the priority scale than playing just about any video
game (except for Barbie Mall Shopping...), and it will probably stay that
way until a lot of people yell at me for smelling like cat-urine or
something equally despicable. But-in the morning when I think about it
sometimes, the priority level of showering rises enough to warrent time
before video games. So-I put the controller down, turn off the Cube, and
proceed immediately to the closest bathing-station. As for how long I take
in the shower and how it is unrelated to how clean I come out, well-like I
said-it's still low on my priority list.

Another example: Retaining my sanity and keeping out of manic-depressive
curves which I am currently in. Okay, so-you'd think you'd want to keep
your mind nice and clean if you don't keep your body clean, right? RIGHT.
This is high on my priority list, hence-the associated video games and
anime high priorities, but it doesn't mean I'll always get it done! It is
high on the list and so I try to set aside a lot of time making sure I
stay happy and noone gets killed or nothing. Sometimes, however, it just
doesn't work out that way. I end up moving the base-priorities of this
(anime, vid games, movies, music, sleep, food, etc.) lower and lower on
the list as I end up doing more and more work, nothing, coughing, feeling
like I have mono, etc.

Hmm... okay, nevermind. I think I just ran out of time for my writing this
letter. I have to get food and then back to work...

Just wanted to say one last thing which you all had better understand, and
if not-then go out and figure it out immediately-it's really funny. "Touch
my TV and your 'king dead!"

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime Secretary (not for much longer...)
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNM 3/4/04===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Wed Mar 3 19:23:29 2004)
Again Minna no Manga meets in CSC bulding (14) room 252 from 7-10 pm

Perhaps we may watch more Japanese TV shows

-Nik
</pre>

===[MnA] Sat, Mar. 7 Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Mar 4 00:19:29 2004)
Konnichiwa Minna-san

1)news
2)schedule
3)rant(?)

THE NEWS:

Uhm... well... it's been a slow week. But next week we're done for the
quarter. There will be a 2 week break during March 20 and 27 Saturdays,
and we'll be back April 3 or something. Expect a badass movie on the 27th
for our final meeting of Winter Quarter. I hope to see you all there this
weekend or next!

Also-Tsurugi's Dinner Outing! Yes, it's that time again. Come, sign up for
our quarterly dinner outing to Tsurugi-the badass Japanese food place in
town. I think we'll be reserving the Tatami room (sweeeeeeet!) for Mar.
14, but you need to sign up with us or we're booting you out of that room
when we run out of room (and I promise you-we always do).

Come this Saturday to club and signup to come eat with us. Eat,
Drink, And Be Merry... (for tomorrow we die-is the rest of the quote, I
think-but it didn't seem appropriate)

THE SCHEDULE:

5:00 Fansub Of The Week : I rrrreally liked Stellvia last week. If you did
too then let the officers (new or old) know!
5:25 Hana Yori Dango - Ep 43 : Kokoro no Kizu wa Fukakute Omoi

5 min. break : I'll try to implant Japanese titles this week if I can find
them.

5:55 Patlabor - Ep 16 : The Unit Crosses The Sea
6:20 Kokoro Library - Ep 3 : The Secret Miss Kirin

5 min. break : I swear, if Kokoro doesn't hole up in a clock-tower with a
sniper rifle then this show is NOT going the direction I was hoping it
would.

6:50 Inuyasha - Ep 66 : Naraku no Kekkai Kagura no Kesshin
7:15 Gunparade March - Ep 3 : Fireworks

30 Minute Break : Okay, finding Japanese titles wasn't as easy as I
thought... or, finding them and figuring out how to navigate sites wasn't
as I thought.

8:15 Azumanga Daioh - Ep 17 : Osaka's Scary Story - Something about
Pandas? and some Karaoke and Santa Claus. I think.
8:40 Noir - Ep 17 : Return to Corsica

5 min. break : Azumanga Daioh is one of the purest forms of crack
available on the black market, did you know that?

9:10 Saikano - Ep 4 : (okay... there was no title for this ep on the pages
I found and I'm tired...)
9:35 "I'm-Sick-And-Ben-Is-An-Idiot Of The Stars" - Ep 4 : The First
Campaign

That's All Folks!

Yeah, sometimes you do a search for a show and find that despite the net
being "vast" and "full of information" you can not find what you're
looking for.

Of course, do a search for KillBill and you find that Amazon is announcing
April 16th as the release date for Volume 2. Yes... finally... my prayers
have been answered and the world is good again.

For those of you who didn't see KillBill Vol.1 and have no idea what I'm
talking about, let me try to be as concise as possible in educating you.
KillBill kicks ass. If you like Tarantino and you like movies, and you
don't have a problem with movies that are about revenge of the very human
sort, then... well... yeah, this is gonna be one of your favorite films.

If you're David though, then you'll fail to see the badass-ness of this
film and continue to berate me about how Pulp Fiction was about the
violence and the "cool" while this film was not. Mr. Bathe, you are
incorrect. Pulp Fiction was extremely well done violence in the fact that
very little violence was actually on screen and a good portion of it was
alluded to very, very well. Maybe, 5 scenes in the film show some
violence, while Kill Bill is in fact-much bloodier and sadder. I'm all
about the blood and the sad and the fact that Production I.G. did a scene
in the film. Will they return in Volume 2? Fuck if I know, but I'm sure
Tarantino would rather have us wowed by something new.

Now, perhaps some of you might vie me as being "mental" or in more
clinically used terms "fucked up in the head." But, how many of you know
that in fact-I truly AM mental? Well, today I got a call from the Cal Poly
Health Center. They're in charge of their Mental Health Services and
apparently they treat these "visits" (if you will) as appointments of a
sort, reminiscent of your dentist.

"Hello, is Ahmad there? Yes, well-we just wanted to remind you that you
have a dent-er, mental-health counseling appointment tomorrow at 1:45pm."

My reply, of course was, "umm... thanks. Bye."

I mean, what do you say to the person who is neither your doctor, nor your
friend about your tendancies to... well, I'd better not tell you guys
either; however, this phone jockey was a bit disturbing. I mean, do I say
"why thank you! I'll inform myself later after I've finished the chicken
sacrifice!" or do I simply reply with "Jamshid no home! jamshid lie in
hole... afraid of boogey-man-sun-goober-popcorn!"

Truly, perhaps between the combined mental-ness of everyone on this
mailing list we can come up with something really, really memorable to say
to this person-NAY-ALL PHONE JOCKEYS!! Yes, I say we come up with a list,
and whenever anyone of us gets a call we reply to these telemarketers and
secretaries with something insanely witty. Something they'll be telling
their children that night over dinner it'll be so amazing the stuff we
come up with.

"Actually, no... I'm sorry, he can't make his mental health exam this
week. No, you see he's left for the Hoover Dam. Something about
cliff-diving, I think?"

"Dentist appointment? Shiiiiit, that would've been great a week ago before
he got those fucking molars knocked out. Yeah, this car was backing up and
he didn't see it..."

"Long distance companies? No, I'm sorry-I actualy PREFER your competitor
because they're more expensive. You see, it's like this-you guys are
fucking bastards. They, however-are nice guys. I know them, they're
cool-we play poker sometimes. You are like the kid down the street who
harrasses me 'cause of my funny hair, and now that I've grown up and am
dating your sister I can walk into your room and piss on your bed."

I dunno... those are off the top of my head, so maybe they'll be alright.
Rating system anyone? 1=shit. 2=uhm, no. 3=okay, maybe if you said it
correctly. 4=that's pretty good. 5=that's really good-I'm stealing that as
my own next time I'm around that cute guy/girl.

You know what I would love to see on the Silo's screen? Beach Spikers
Volleyball! Yeah. That would rock. Rocketh. That would rocketh. Sega makes
some amazing games, and the best part is you can pick it up and within
five minutes know all the controls-considering there's only one button to
press-two if it's really complicated.

None of this tap punch, forward, forward, half-circle back, kick,
punch+kick+double-forward dash crap. No, I'm talking Monkey Ball here
people! Simple, pleasureable, fun. Of course, I'm not bad-mouthing complex
games or nothing. It's just that Bible Adventures was stupid. Sorry,
tangent-but I had to get it off my chest-that game sucked.

Hey-who wants to learn Japanese? I've let my studies rrrreally fall behind
and I was thinking about how much fun I had when I went to the Land Of The
Rising Sun last summer and how I love run-on sentances. So yeah, anyone
want to get together and study/learn Japanese? I can teach you
basic-basics. But other than that, I can just tell you stupid stories of
how we took body-shots off of cute japanese girls and then got laughed at
by other cute japanese girls, oh-and apparently the words "fuck this
underwear is riding my ass" are universal. That or their high-school
English teachers are a lot cooler than ours.

So yeah, if anyone wants to get togehter-like... during Minna No Manga or
something and actually learn some foreign language skills (I can,
however-teach you how to hit on girls in Japan. It's even easier if they
speak English!) like how to hold your own in Japan at all sorts of things
ranging from food & drink to beating up old ladies who steal your luck
while playing Pachinco (or whatever that stupid game is called).

Oh-and of course, there are a few key phrases you neeeed to know to
absolutely, positively impress any and all Japanese folk. If you can blurt
these things out and say them with a good accent or even sound like you're
remotely attempting an accent-then like yeah... you're in the club, man.
Or woman, sorry for being so gender biased. Hmm... okay, to un-gender-bias
myself I guess I should start saying things like, "Guys or girls I shall
teach you how to hit on guys or girls."

Oh, and if I've never mentioned their fireworks before-dude... Japan has
fireworks. What we've got here in the states? No, we've got bottle
rockets. I'm just saying, it may be time to repeat my fireworks/sex
analogy. Ever notice how with fireworks things sorta just start? You're
hanging out, knowing it's gonna happen, but not sure when. And then...
poof. The first one flies through the sky. From there it's just natural
progression into the next ones and eventually you have this rythm going
on. Everything's good and it's going along just fine, and then it picks
up. And it picks up some more and then we're approaching the climactic end
of the night and it's just going crazy and we're there and the sky is lit
up like crazy for just a brief few seconds. And then we're spent. In the
states this is about a 30-minute cycle on the 4th, maybe 45 minutes if
you're somewhere really nice. In Japan, this is like-1 hours and 45
minutes. There are intermissions-it's fucking crazy.

Anyone been to Germany? I was thinking about that country the other day.
It seems like a cool place to go, although-most of Europe sounds fun when
you're in SLO and you hate everything around you. Except for Taj
Palace-those guys/girls rock. Best damn Indian food for at least 250 miles
(or however far Cerritos is).

Whoa-I better keep this short. Don't forget the dinner at Tsurugi's-you
need to sign up!! And the movie-it'll rock! I guarantee a rockin' movie!

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime Secretary
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNM 03-11-04===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Wed Mar 10 22:54:39 2004)
Meeting...7-10 pm...14-252

That is all.

-Nik
</pre>

===[MnA] Sat, Mar 13 Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Mar 11 14:06:45 2004)
Konnichiwa Minna-san

It's our last week of the quarter, so it's movie time! Since we're
currently showing Patlabor we decided to show the first Patlabor
film-which is amazing. Even if you're only sorta-into the tv-series you'll
probably love this precious gem of animation and story. So, check out our
altered movie-schedule and enjoy this weeks super cool meeting.

NEWS:

We're still taking T-shirt sizes, I believe, so we can get a rough
estimate of how many shirts we need of each size. If you're thinking of
getting a shirt then let us know your size on the sign-up sheet! You can
also check the design on the web-page, www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub if you
haven't done that yet.

Movie this week. Patlabor first movie! It's really great. I can tell you
that for a fact you will probably love this film. Other then that, don't
forget our schedule is mixed up because of the movie. We'll be showing an
altered version of our schedule up until around 8pm, at which time we'll
throw on the movie. In fact, here's the schedule.

SCHEDULE:

5:00 Kokoro Library - Ep 4
5:25 Gunparade March - Ep 4

5 min. break : Kokoro March? Hmm... librarians who fight to save the
world? Or Gunparade Library-soldiers who double as cute librarians?

5:55 Azumanga Daioh - Ep 18
6:20 Noir - Ep 18

5 min. break : I'll pistol whip the next person who says shenanigans!

6:50 Saikano - Ep 4
7:15 Banner of the Stars - Ep 4

7:40 - 30 Minute Break! Yep. Time to get some food, heat up some pop-corn,
and drop another 50cents into the soda fund. Kick your feet up, relax, and
enjoy the film.

8:10 - Patlabor 1 - Movie

That's all folks!

So, it's dead week. Right? Next week is finals. And the week after that is
spring break. This leaves us with only this to say - wooooohhoooooo!!!
Break time! Finally! We'd better enjoy it while we can. I mean, after
graduation what are the odds you'll find yourself in a job where your boss
tells you, "hey-why don't we just take a week off and go hang out in TJ?"
It ain't gonna happen, buddy.

I think we all need to realize just how coo' that is. I mean, breaks. You
know-like spring break or summer break or winter break. As much as some of
us hate (and I do mean hate) school, these breaks are the best. What are
yooouuuu gonna do with your free time? Havasu? Tahoe? The beach? Or...
like me-nothing. Absolutely, positively nothing. Just laze around the
house, maybe finish some gaming, maybe do some cleaning, maybe get around
to washing my clothes for the first time in 6 weeks. You know-nothing.

Not to change the subject, but let's change the subject. Who else is going
to AX this year? We're thinking of going as a CosPlay troupe. Yep, the
mechanics from Patlabor. Who else would like to support Special Vehicles
Section 2? I do! I do! Yeah, I'm a dork-but I'm only a dork inspired by
the collective geekiness of the club. Otherwise I'd probably be working
harder on my Final Fantasy:Crystal Chronicles CosPlay idea. You know, the
one were I get to dress as my character from the caravan and be all "cool"
and "hip" and whatnot. Of course, It'd also give me a weapon to beat
anyone who decided to start feeling me up (I have a female character).

Speaking of feeling up and beatdowns, we're gonna be at Tsurugi on the
14th. I think? Yeah-there was signups last weekend for it, but there might
still be a seat or two available. Check it out this week in club. I mean,
it's one of our few social events outside of club meetings and it's a
blast. You actually get to MEET other club members! Go figure! Despite our
meetings lengthy hours and really good turnout, no one really goes up to
anyone else and meets them. I don't think this happens, anyway. How many
times have YOU walked up to another member and just asked them "hey, so...
come here often?" or even just a simple "hi. my name is _____. what's
yours?"

Clubs are about people who enjoy similar activities getting together and
meeting each other. So-our outside of club activites are aimed at doing
just that. Like, how many of you know Nur? Our resident A.I.C. would be
super-pleased to meet you. Despite his quiet demeanor and constant
glare-of-hatrid he's really a sweet guy who likes to receive hugs and get
to meet new people. Of course he'll deny this as soon as you walk up and
try to talk to him-but try harder! Then there's Erin. She's really quiet
also-but compliment her on her costume from last halloween and BAM-instant
conversation! El Presidente? He is a lonely, lonely man in need of
companionship. Hang out with him during the big 30 minute break and you
can learn all sorts of wisdomy type stuff. Ben? He's probably approached
you already-he's pretty outgoing like that. Oh-and of course, David. He'll
talk to you about anything as long as you're not a rock. And even then, I
think I've seen him befriend rocks before. Just don't walk up and try to
talk to me-I'll probably head-butt you or something. I've been known to do
so during new encounters with people who scare me. That's just most of the
officers-there are still more of us elderly types around (mike for example
is really friendly if you offer him money) and lots of club members who I
still do not know. Like-that girl who sits on the far-back-right side with
the hammer. She scares me.

Anyone listen to opera? Or is that just me? Anyway, whatever.

Yeah, this is a short rant this week. I'm on meds and I have a lot of work
to do-neither of which allows me the mental-state or time to sit back and
let you guys know my feelings on politics, philosophy, favorite cheese and
why, or love. Yes-I have a heart! It's mostly cold and made of iron-but
it's all mechanical in it's pumping of blood-except when cute lil'
coke-head girls are around. What? You don't have that problem? Okay -
maybe I'm mental.

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-minna no anime secretary (not for much longer, sniff)
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

== Spring 2004 ==
===MNM No meeting this week===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Apr 1 00:19:41 2004)
Due to me being forgetful and such, there will be no MNM this week.
Hopefully I can get a room for this quarter in the same building during
the same time. I'll be sure to let you all know when I get a reservation.

-Nik
</pre>

===Minna No Manga 4-8-04===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Wed Apr 7 20:30:25 2004)
Unless ASI says otherwise, we will have a MNM meeting this thursday in
building 14 room 248 from 7-10 PM.

A reminder to those that went last quarter, this is a different room from
the other one, remember we're in 14-248

-Nik
</pre>

===Minna No Anime 4-10-04===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Fri Apr 9 21:29:32 2004)
Good news! T-shirts are in and they look awesome! So bring in your $15
(or $13 if you're a member) and come buy them this saturday.

Here's the schedule:

5:00 Fansub'o (what it'll be even I don't know!)
5:25 Hana Yori Dango 45

5 min break

5:55 Patlabor 18
6:20 Kokoro Library 6

5 min break

6:50 Inuyasha 68
7:15 Gun Parade March 6

30 min break

8:15 Azumanga 20
8:40 Noir 20

5 min break

9:10 Saikano 7
9:35 Banner of the Stars 7

See you tomorrow!
-Nik "El Presidente" Kamachi

No rant this week, if you're angry let Jamshid know so that he'll remember
to write the newsletter.
</pre>

===Minna No Anime No meeting 4-17-04===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Apr 15 01:04:17 2004)
Since we have open house this week, there's no meeting. Instead come by
our booth and buy some really good chicken teriyaki! We'll be located
accross from the library next to the math building.

See you there!

-Nik "El Presidente" Kamachi
</pre>

===Minna No Monga 4/22/04===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Apr 22 11:14:49 2004)
Since open house has ended, we can go back to our normal(?) weekly MNM
meetings. For those that forgot we now meet in building 14 room 249 from
7-10 pm.

See you tonight!
-Nik
</pre>

===[MnA] Sat, Mar. 24 Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Apr 22 13:22:18 2004)
Konnichiwa minna-san!

Yes, oh yeah-I'm back in the writing groove. I didn't forget about you
people! I've just been busy with this rockets class and building a rocket
engine (pointy end up, firey end down) and lots of downtown adventures.
but that's all gonna be in the rant (and it will be one hellova rant).

NEWS:

Open House was bad-ass. For all of you who came by and supported us either
by volunteering, giving us money/supplies, or just by saying 'hi' and
making us feel a lot cooler than the nail-driving guys, THANK YOU!

Also, more news-it looks like animeexpo is getting ready to start
confirming guests and they claim weekly updates to their guest list. Right
now it's not very impressive (except for the Under17 music group which I
mistakingly understood as feeding into my pedophilic tendancies). So, if
you're planning a trip to AX this year ask around in club, we might make a
carpool type thing or maybe a mass hotel-reservation. It's what we do.

The SCHEDULE!

5:00 Fansub O' The Week: Learn about the wonders of zero-gravity.
5:25 Hana Yori Dango

5 min. break: sorry for the lack of episode numbers this week, I'm still
getting back from spring break.

5:55 Patlabor
6:20 Kokoro Library

5 min. break: My conputer is squealing... wtf?

6:50 Inuyasha
7:15 Gunparade March

30 Minute Break: It's starting to smell like smoke in here... and it's not
me this time...

8:15 Azumanga Daioh
8:40 Noir

5 minute break: I better write the rant in a separate e-mail . It will be
long, and I am worried about my computer right now....

9:10 Saikano
9:35 Banner of the Stars

That's all folks!

Okay, once I get this smoke under control and I'm positive my machine is
okay I'll send out the rant. I have a looot to say this time. Three weeks
of silence has raised the pressure within me to some sort of critical
level.

Expect another -mail later today with news on my computer and allll sorts
of rantage!

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime Secretary
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===[MnA] Sat., Apr. 24 Rant (not March!)===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Apr 22 17:28:05 2004)
Konnichiwa Minna-san!

*DISCLAIMER*
This is solely a rant. The news/schedule should have already arrived in
your precious little spam-filled mailboxes by now. Also, I have a lot to
bitch about today.
*END DISCLAIMER*

Okay, lets get right down to business. My computer is fine now, but the
whining hasn't fully gone away. It appears that if you let papers collect
near an open box with 7200rpm fans bad things might happen. The stray
wires didn't help, either.

Now, some of you may know my political stances and some of you may not. If
you don't know, I'm a republican. Now-what exactly does that mean? That I
eat my young? No-I'm all anti-government and moral-legislation, for fiscal
responsability... I guess if you compare me to modern republicans I'm not
very republican at all, but whatever-they're all a bunch of old
ready-to-die-been-holding-on-to-the-country-for-too-long
something-or-others.

Now, three weeks without a rant I can't even begin to let you know my
conspiracy theories! Yes, it is true there is House Bill 163 and Senate
Bill 89 about reinstating the draft, although it's on crack this time.
We're looking at 2 years of mandatory military (not line-of-fire, just
military) service, or something about homeland security (it seemed vague
on that part when I read the briefs). We're pretty much the last
westernized country without mandatory military service, or so I hear many
people say. Would it be good for people? I'm still deciding on the wording
and what I think about it.

Now, the conspiracy theory arises from the fact this bill has been flown
under the radar last year through congress and left to rot in committee...
or has it... Let's go farther back in the way back machine, professor!
Oooh, no child left behind?

Yeah, that sounds great-EXCEPT THERE'S NO GODDAMN FUNDING! So yeah,
despite Bush being all high-and-mighty with his 'education reform' bill,
we have to figure out what he's trying to do with this thing. Oh, what's
that Mr. President? You want all high school juniors and seniors'
information to automatically be handed over to the military, even without
an ASVAB or consent? Oh, right-consent to NOT hand over information
requires a signature from the parent and not the child, I believe
(under 18 you're not a human being, you're a dependant clinging onto your
parents or that's how they look at you). So, we've got a two-year
mandatory service bill aimed at men, AND WOMEN (equallity for ya') of ages
18-26. Hmmm... conspiracy afloat? Oh, and don't forget we're in a war on
an idea, folks. An idea is pretty fucking hard to beat and declare victory
against.

Mind you, I don't like what Clinton did with restructuring the military to
be more dependant on reservists, and I don't like how our boys and girls
out in Iraq and Afghanistan (bet you forgot where it is already-HINT:not
in Africa) are in some seriously dangerous shit, but damn I support every
single one of those soldiers and hope they make it home in one piece, and
not as one of the 11,704+ casualties or 700+ fatalities.

So, you've been watching FoxNews or CNN lately-what do you think about all
this? Have you realized that with the Pentagon's US Soldier body count of
100+ since April started that we've lost 5 boys a day? When you wake up,
when you arrive at work/school, when you eat lunch, when you get off
work/school, and when you eat dinner just think that those are my fucking
friends from high-school who grew up too fucking poor to go to school and
those are my roomates' brothers' friends who were on leave for Easter and
were shipped back and then told they're indefinitely being held.

Am I for pulling out of Iraq and leaving the country to destabalize? No.
Am I about whining about the president? Sort of. In my opinion, he's done
a lot worse than cheat on his wife-and look at the trouble Clinton got
into for that.

Now, Is the war for oil? Money? Revenge on the guy who tried to kill Mr.
Prez's daddy? It's about stability. Satellite stability in an unstable
region. Now, Saddam was a bad man. No questions or doubts there. But you
need to recognize the major players here and tip your hat to a regime that
is pretty radical, very open about it, and has the best fucking media
spins ever. We're looking at Wolfowitz who will (and has) openly
discussed stability in the middle east, protecting US interests and speaks
in phrases that allude to, but don't come out and say, that the American
Empire must be protected/expanded.

Oh-back to the draft thing: On April 20th (what, two days ago?) Chuck
Hagel, Republican Senator, urged the Senate Foreign Relations committee to
reinstate compulsory military service. I wonder what he thinks of the
mandatory service bill.

Jesus fucking Mary and Joseph I am still writing and bitching and haven't
even gotten to the fact that we're sponsoring WarLords in Afghanistan.
That's right, feel like helping the Afghan economy get back on it's feet?
Buy an extra 50lb.s of heroin this season. You'll be doing just about
every farmer in the country a favor. Of course you could try to donate to
an international aid organization, except that we're (as in the coalition
over there-not the US alone) not doing a very good job of keeping them
safe. We've gone from over 26 to FIVE international health/aid
organizations in Afghanistan in the last year alone.

So, with soldiers on every continent in the world (except Antarctica,
since we seriously doubt Osama is hiding out down there) how many
resources do you think we have left to fight a war on terror? Oh-shit, I
almost forgot-we're currently in a war on drugs! Fuck... anyone know how
that's going? I mean, we won-right? No more drugs are gonna be
infiltrating our schools and fucking up the heads of our little neo-con
children? Hmm... fighting the war on drugs... I think Bush was doing that
when he paid the Taliban $50 fucking Million dollars and then they gave us
teh finger when we asked for Osama Bin Laden in both May, and August of
2001. Mind you, we just gave them $50 million so they were really nice
about giving us the finger-after all, under the Taliban rule Afghanistan
barely produced any heroin at all. And shit, they even managed to keep
order or some fucked up variety. This year? This year looks like the best
heroin producing crop in Afghanistan ever recorded.

Worst part of it? I'm hearing stories of our marines staring addictions
and then being flown to Germany and Washington (Walter Reed) for
addictions/mental problems and the cause being Marijuana and Alcohol (both
capital letters because they are my friends or something, I guess I'm too
lazy to hit the "backspace" key). From the news reports I've read it
appears that local Afghan workers on bases are just bringing shit in with
them. In their pockets, backpacks, whatever. Of course, when you're on
base for a long time with nothing to do there is always your friend and
mine, heroine. Is there supposed to be an "e" at the end or not? Quayle
never got back to me on that (ooooh-old joke for the old timers!).

Hey-did anyone ever hear that Prescott Bush (G.W.'s what... great-great
grandfather or something?) was aligned with some seriously big Nazi money?
Look it up-okay, enough sensationalizm. Fuck, I can't spell that either.
Oh, and king George the first, from what I understand from his signature
being on certain pieces of legislature and checks written to certain
fucking organizations, is a biiiig eugenics fan. In case you're wondering
what that is all about... well... it's pretty hardcore. I mean, really. I
can tell you that the Iraqi civilian fatality count is between 8900 and
10700 and I would really rather not go into our Country's shady racist
past (and present). Needless to say, the US started the first real strong
nationwide eugenics movement and the Nazis were so impressed they copied
California's laws and eventually took it a bit further and committed
genocide. By the way, eugenics is still a common theme in government-you
just don't realize it.

ARGH. So many fucking things!! Now, for those of you out there thinking of
joining the military (which has crossed my mind quite a bit in the last
six months) or have already enlisted I fucking commend you. I hope you all
make it back alright. Now, if you don't mind-I'm going to go enjoy my
slacker-ass college student life and enjoy a Thursday night going to
Farmer's market and yelling at the democratic/republican party booths
downtown about how stupid their leaders are. Oh, and then I'll be going to
SLOBrew for pool. Mmm... and around midnight... oh yeah, I'm letting my
hair down and going to Denny's to get back into studying.

And I hope you all found the article in the Mustang Daily about whether
Jesus would vote republican or democrat. A laugh riot a la L.A.-style
riots.

Peace out.

Love one another.

Peace out... actually, yeah-peace is sorta out the window right now, isn't
it? God I hope our military commanders in Iraq find a decent strategy to
keep our troops safe (I heard we lost control of major roadways/whatnot a
few days ago but that was complete fucking hear-say from a stoned friend
of mine). Same with Afghanistan. Although, I'm kinda worried about both
countries slipping into the same conditions you find in most
post-civil-war countries that can't rebuild themselves and don't want
anyone else there to help them (because they know they're being used and
that's why they had the civil war in the first place).

Fuck, gotta go before I start to go off on domestic policies involving
racism and economics.

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Lone Wolf In Pub
-How many of you don't actually understand the lone wolf in pub joke? I
think it's actually quite clever and witty.
</pre>

===[MnA] Sat, May 1 Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Wed Apr 28 21:54:33 2004)
Konnichiwa Minna-san!

I am in a lot of pain right now (walked into a tree tuesday night, broken
glass incident, hit by hardball, hit in nuts THREE GODDAMN TIMES in the
last week, back is sore, left hand covered in band-aids from various
activites that will tear skin off, oh-and allergies from the plant-filled
fields of hell) so we'll keep this letter to the point. Or, mostly to the
point.

NEWS:

I believe last week in club we might have possibly accidentally mentioned
that we're out of our old black club t-shirts. We might press more of this
and other cool designs, but we need to know your size if you want one!
Otherwise... yeah, good luck fitting into that baby-tee that El Presidente
ordered as a joke but doesn't have the balls to wear. Ahem, so if you want
a shirt let us know at the meeting at Saturday and we'll see what we can
arrange. Also, the black t-shirts rock.

Open House stuff-once again, thank you everyone! I believe we're STILL
counting money. Now, this can only mean one of two things. No, wait-it
might mean both. Either we're very stupid and can't count, or (hopefully)
we made a pile of money so huge that we can't count that high using our
finger, toes, friends appendages, etc. I'm personally of the school of
thought that relates to the idea where we made a lot of money and are all
very, very happy right now.

I have some baseball stuff I want to talk about in the rant so don't
forget to scroll down and read it.

THE SCHEDULE!

5:00 Fansub O' The Week : What could it be this week? Come find out!
5:25 Hana Yori Dango - Ep 46

5 min. break: Whoa-have you guys seen that Mario Sprite Drama?? Daaaamn!

5:55 Patlabor - Ep 19
6:20 Kokoro Library - Ep 7

5 min. break: The guy is using music from Radiohead, LoTR soundtracks,
Dvorak compositions, etc.

6:50 Inuyasha - Ep 69
7:15 Gunparade March - Ep 7

7:45: 30 Minute Break! I swear, we finally get to episode 69 of Inuyasha
and I can't think of anything funny to put as the title name.

8:15 Azumanga Daioh - Ep 21
8:40 Noir - Ep 21

5 min. break : So there are currently 4 (out of 5) parts of the Mario
drama up. It's very... good, I recommend watching it. And if anyone can
figure out a way to bring into club I would love to put that on during
break. I just have to let you know, I cried when Luigi fell to Koopa. It
was very sad.

9:10 Saikano - Ep 8
9:35 Banner of the Stars - Ep 8

That's All Folks!

You like samurai swords? Funny, I like baseball. No, really-I do. I was
wondering if we could put together some sort of rag-tag team and play
sometime? It's spring and we need a social event that doesn't involve me
becoming plastered (although sloshball is almost as much fun as regular
baseball/softball) or attacking people with chopsticks, or both. So, I
like baseball-in fact I understand the rules! Whaddya know?

If anyone's interested then we should meet at club this week or next week
or just send out a holler on the club mailing list. I'm sure we don't need
two full teams. Even if we just went out and just hit it'd be a blast.

Ahh, the Mario Drama? I don't know what you'd call it. I found a link on
PA and (amazingly) the site wasn't wanged so it still had enough bandwidth
left over for me. So, the story isn't anything new. It's mario, the
princess, luigi, the mushroom people, and koopa causing trouble. We've all
been there quite a few times, and we've always stopped him. The games have
always been fun, but now there's a crazy, CRAZY cinematic flash version
available to watch. It's like getting an old video game redone for your
X-Box with new cutscenes, it's pretty sweet.

Hmmm... I am extremly in pain right now. I'm exhausted! Maybe I should go
finish that Tahoe Joes cheesecake I've got in the fridge?

Okay-so, last week my roomate throws one of those hard pillows (you'll
know what I'm t alking about when you see it) at me and it hits me in the
crotch. Ouch. Then, a night or two ago I'm "adjusting" and I do this lil'
jump thing 'cause it seemed like a helpful idea. My arm ends up moving
entirely wrong and I hit myself in the crotch again. OUCH. Tonight, a girl
is running up alongside me trying to get my attention so she takes her
purse (I would call something of this weight, size, and hardness a
'briefcase' but it was over her arm so I dunno what to call it) off and
swings it. It hits me in the crotch. Ouch, ouch, ouch...

I just figured you were owed an explanation. I said I was hit in the
crotch and didn't explain it at the time.

Also, that tree-incident? That ended up forcing me to drop my glass and
that shattered on the ground. Of course, at the time my ego was more hurt
than my knee. Little did I know that today my knee would feel like some
sort of dog tore it off.

I'm really feeling a lot worse now, writing about the injuries I've
sustained recently. I mean... I'm in piss-poor shape right now. Band-aids
all over my left hand from stuff, back pain, allergies, etc. Hmm... let's
talk about something happier. Er, well-I guess we're not really talking
here, are we?

I'm typing to you and informing you of all the news you'd never hear
otherwise. Like, you guys knew about the solidarity march in Washington,
right? I might have mentioned it before. If not, google it or check your
favorite news site.

Ooh! This weekend I will not be attending club, so if you need to get
ahold of me you MUST do so before the weekend! It appears we will be
heading off to lovely Indio Valley for the Coachella Valley Music
Festival. Now, me and my roomate are old veterans of this festival, we've
been going since year 1 and we know our ways around.

What is this festival, you ask? Well-let's just say this year the
headliners are Radiohead and THE CURE (fuck yeah!). Oh, and the Pixies are
returning from the grave also. In fact, the list is too long to put in the
newsletter so just go to:
www.coachella.com
and check out this 'king unbelievable list. I mean, the Rapture, the
Sounds, whoa! Dude! This is crazy!

So, for two days I get to pretend I'm hip and with it with the music
kiddies and whatnot. But really... the Pixies. I've seen radiohead, but
c'mon! The pixies and the cure are both returning from the underworld to
fight it out in some sort of undead, unholy rock marathon battle of the
reuniting bands!

Hmm.. I'm a lot less focused this week. I keep thinking about that
cheesecake. Yum. I think I'm going to go eat that right now.

Hey, don't forget-when life gives you poop. Make poop juice.

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime Secretary
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===Minna No Manga 4/29/04===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Apr 29 00:21:40 2004)
Yet another MNM meeting this week, one unfortunately that I cannot make
(lousy take home mid-terms...), but the meeting is still on (Nur will
entertain you all with something).

04-248
7-10 pm

-Nik
</pre>

===MNM 5/6/04===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu May 6 00:51:06 2004)
As I make my triumphant return to MNM I in no way promise to entertain or
be coherant in any way. While a newsletter is no place to describe my
woes, I have had one hell of a bad week. Anyhoo, no Nir this week, but
I'll be around so feel free to join whatever we end up doing on thursday
7-10ish in 14-248.

See you there!
-Nik
</pre>

===Minna No Manga 5/13/04===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Wed May 12 23:54:17 2004)
This week's meeting will be unique in that it's going to double as our
annual new officer's meeting. Anyone is welcome to show up, but don't
expect anything spectacular.

Building 14 room 248 from 7-10 pm

-Nik
</pre>

===[MnA] Sat, May 15 Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Fri May 14 16:39:33 2004)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

Let's get started, I've got a rant to write.

NEWS:

Well... AX and Fanime are both just around the corner! If you're thinking
of going to either talk to people in club, you'd be surprised how many
possibilities for roomates/road-trip buddies you might find.

And there was a little something about if you have recommendations for
next years schedule now is a great time to offer your opinion (either by
e-mail or by stapling a request sheet to El Presidente's forehead-don't
worry-it's thick, he wont feel a thing).

THE SCHEDULE:

5:00 Fansub O': I want more Kaliedostar!!
5:25 Hana Yori Dango - Ep 49 : The Couple's New Connection

5 min. break : Only a few eps of HYD left! The suspense! The drama! Will
anyone ever get hit by a bus!?

5:55 Patlabor New OVA - Ep 10 : Something with mecha in it...
6:20 Kokoro Library - Ep 10 : The Library May Disappear

5 min. break : There are just some shows where if you ever met anyone in
CosPlay from them you'd probably tell that person "I hope you burn in a
fire and I hope the library burns with you." I'm not a happy person, I
guess.

6:50 Inuyasha - Ep 72 : Toutousai's Strange Ordeal
7:15 Gunparade March - Ep 10 : Once Upon A Dime

7:45 - 30 Minute Break :

8:15 Azumanga Daioh - Ep 24 : Courses - Confrontation - Go Quickly -
Popularity - Together With Maya
8:40 Noir - Ep 24 : Recurrence Into Darkness

5 min. break : As Azumanga is coming to close don't be surprised if you
hear me crying in the silo. I love high-school girls, I'll miss them.

9:10 Saikano - Ep 11 : Our Time Together (sniff... sniff)
9:35 Banner of the Stars - Ep 11 : The Flaming Battlefield

That's All Folks!

Ahhh... sorry I couldn't find the title for the Patlabor ep. It's just...
dificult to find info on that show online, at least for me anyhow.

Remember what I said in the Minna-no-members mailing list about pants and
this newsletter? Nothing on. Not even my watch. I figured why half-ass it
when I could go all the way. Anyhow, on to some stories...

So, Thursday Thursday Thursday at the truckathon my heart and soul was
crushed underneath the big-foot rejection in such a way as to inspire
insanity. Now... lemme start with the background to my very existance.

There's this girl, see. Yeah-I know, girls are trouble. Big time trouble,
nothing but heartache and infections all around. But it's not like I can
keep away from them-I'd have a better chance putting down the bottle for
good. So this girl, let's give her a false name like... Vashti. We
don't have any Vashtis in club, do we? I don't want to accidently be
talking about someone who I'm not talking about at all. That didn't make
sense, did it?

I'm digging this Vashti girl, alright? Been hanging out with her,
calilng and seeing if she wants to hang out-get a bite to eat, shooting
some pool, having some drinks... been hanging out with her for a while
now. So, that's the background on her and me. Here's the background on
just me.

I'm attracted (and this is through no damned fault of my own other than
possible self-inflicted head injuries and/or ex-girlfriend-inflicted head
injuries) to two types of women, infallibly. One, I dig asian women. I was
like a puppy in some sort of mad-craze last Summer when I was in Japan.
Two, for some unknown reason (although we have theories, boy do we ever
have theories...) I'm also attracted to lesbians. Now, it's not that I say
"oh, there's a lesbian-hell yeah!" No, it normally works out like this,
"Dude, I really like this girl-I think I'm gonna ask her out on a date. I
think she's the one." To which my friend(s) normally respond, "cool, I
know her. Oh, wait-HER? Duuude... uhm... she has a girlfriend, sorry."

You can probably see where this is going. I got zinged good this time.

Thursday. 6:30 am. 6-'king-30-am. Not that bad, really. It's do-able.
Except I went to bed around 3 the night before. Up, shower quickly, eat a
banana or some peanuts or whatever the hell snack ended up being my
breakfast/lunch. Study. Study so damn hard for a 10am exam that is
SUPPOSED to be short answer, a few multiple choice-sorta, and some
number-crunching problems. I study for this sort of exam only to arrive to
class early and find out it's been switched for a scantron test full of
nit-picky details from hell.

Thursday morning sucks.

I get home and start working on some rocket engine calcs, or at least
making them look a hellova lot better (which I should be doing right now,
actually), and get to the point of insanity where my engineering diagrams
are now filled with yellow smily-faces with thought bubbles like, "Mixture
Ratio 4 is nearly as fuel efficient as Mixture Ratio 3, but with a better
performance indicator on the area ratio as given chart 5!! Whoopie!" I'm
insane.

Class time! I walk my ass to campus in the blazing heat of the Sahara
winds that blew over half the world just to find me and melt my flesh on
this already-shitty Thursday. I make it class sweaty. Looks like I didn't
do to well on my midterm from the other week... d'oh. Thursday sucks. Big
time bogus suckage damn it I hate Thursdays.

Head home in the afternoon. Start writing e-mails to groups and group
members, continue reading the Handmaid's Tale (fucking GREAT book, not
very happy...) and then head back to my computer. Pass out in the chair
for an hour 'n a half in a position that likens on what a possum on the
side of the road might look like if it's neck were snapped and hanging
over the back of a satellite-shaped-chair-thing.

When I finally rouse myself from the slumber of the damned I find that my
neck hurts. A lot. Thursday rrrreally sucks. Oh shit, it's now Thursday
night and I can't remember what the hell I was planning on doing!
Apparently I completely forgot there was an officers-type-meeting on
Thursday night because instead of going to campus to work some more I
decided to call around and see who wanted to head downtown for drinks (no
one, actually-my friends were either not-interested or already
drunk/stoned somehow?).

Finally, Vashti and I decide to go see a movie with some of her friends,
who arrive either way late (and don't sit with us) or just don't show up
at all.

So, we're hanging out and we watch a movie, by the way Mean Girls is
hilarious-it even has someone getting hit by a bus (one of my favorite
things to see in movies/tele!!), and then afterward we're on our way to
Mission Grill to enjoy some expensive drinks and good/bad bartending (good
'cause they'll remember you everytime you return to the bar and bad 'cause
sometimes I swear that they make drinks out of pure water).

We get there and find a seat toward the back porch exit and just sit,
talk, and enjoy watching people. The best thing about Vashti is that she's
a conversationalist. Not a talker, not a silent-nothing-to-say-listener.
No, she converses. Two people talking, building ideas off of each others
lincoln-logs like some sort of skyscraper of words and ideas that at any
moment might come crashing down if one of the architects said the wrong
thing-but the thing is there IS no wrong thing to say with her. It's a
solid fucking conversation skyscraper and we return constantly to floors
we've visted before and either redesign those ideas or build from there
outward.

This asian girl walks out of the back porch area and of course I turn my
head and look at her. She's kinda cute, granted, but I'm here with Vashti
and therefore must not be an idiot and lose focus of the situation. Vashti
looks over at her and we start commenting on her hair. I say the weird-ass
strips of blond/bleach-blond work for her and she says she looks like a
horror-movie-queen-zombie. This is when I explain to her that I am and
always have been, for reasons unknown to anyone, attracted to two simple
types of women. Asians and Lesbians. Vashti, you must understand is as
white as they come. We're talking light brown hair with these hazel eyes
and she looks like Meryll Streep (hey fucker, Meryl Streep is hot), only
shorter.

As I tell her the two types of women I'm attracted to she covers her mouth
and tries to suppress a laugh as her head dips. Fuck, I think to myself.
Fuck fuck fuck. Again, I'm thinking, I can't believe AGAIN.

"Are you straight, Vashti?"

"No." Followed by giggles.

"Figures." I nod my head, understanding my fate and living it at the same
time. Now, this has happend AT LEAST A DOZEN TIMES over the past 6 years
I've been here at poly. I have some sort of, curse-or maybe condition? I
can pick lesbians out of a crowd at a hundred meters or more. We're
talking women who aren't obviously lesbians and who don't even show up on
my lesbian friends gaydar. I'm the last line of gaydar defense,
apparnetly.

Lesson learned? Thursday sucks. Oh, yeah-I forgot. After all this happened
I got the wonderful chance to walk back to my house (just off of foothill)
from downtown in some sort of shameful defeat.

I got up to the plate. I swung. I struck out. The problem is that I was
swinging my feet thinking it was kickball or something when the game was
really softball.

Girls are trouble man, girls are trouble. Wait, so what is the lesson
learned here? Thursday sucks or girls are trouble? Or maybe just that I
should stop going after girls who aren't asian? By the way, I don't think
I've ever gotten even decently along with an asian lesbian, except maybe
once but I wasn't sure if it was a he-or-a-she for quite some time.

I love these personal moments you and I have together. I tell you the crap
that happens in my life. And you laugh at me. Needless to say, I'm gonna
take one more at bat here in a few days (maybe even tonight) with this
other girl I really dig. And if that doesn't work out... well... yeah, I
don't really have a game plan if that doesn't work out. Right now I'm at 0
for 3 for this quarter. No base-hits but a few foul balls and damn I got
beaned in the nuts by one of those girls... that shit hurts. I didn't even
get my complimentary walk-to-first-base. I think some designated runner
got it for me, bastard.

Ladies, you will never know the pain of nut-pain. Nor will you ever know
the pain of plucking your nose hairs. That hurts, also.

Man, if I was wearing clothes right now it might be really hot in here.

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime Secretary
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===[MnA] Sat, May 22 Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Fri May 21 16:45:13 2004)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

Let's just get through this and forget you ever read me.

NEWS:

Well, FAnime is rapidly approaching and rides/rooms are being set. If
you're going or planning on going I hope you managed to fide a ride and/or
a room to share. But don't forget about AX!

Other news? It's nearly the end of the quarter and we're looking at
possibly having a fun end-of-the-quarter-and-end-of-the-year sorta thing.
Maybe a pictionary party following a Tsurugi's run or something? I haven't
whooped you people at the Wasabi Challenge in a while.

THE SCHEDULE:

5:00 Fansub O' : Have we shown Technolyze yet?
5:25 Hana Yori Dango - Ep 50 : We shouldn't see each other anymore

5 min break : What am I going to do without my weekly soap opera about
high-school relationships?

5:55 Patlabor New OVA - Ep 11 : Ame no Hi ni Kita Goma
6:20 Kokoro Library - Ep 11 : Joldy's Diary

5 min. break : Does anyone else think that Kokoro Library is really just a
cover-up for an underground child-prostitution ring involving Kokoro's two
older sisters as the sellers?

6:50 Inuyasha - Ep 73 : The feelings of the mother, the child Shiori and
Taigokumaru
7:15 Gunparade March - Ep 11 : A Good Reward for their Labour

30 Minute Break : Man, I'm hungry. I say we order one of those gigantic
pizzas again. You know, the ones that are the size manhole covers, except
larger.

8:15 Azumanga Daioh - Ep 25 : Discussing Courses - Prayer for Exam Success
- Fight - Study Club - Tomo & Osaka's Day of Reckoning
8:40 Noir - Ep 25 : Depths of Hellfire

5 min. break : Nooo! I'm losing another of my high school soap operas!!

9:10 Saikano - Ep 12 : Love Song
9:35 Banner of the Stars - Ep 12 : The Battle for Aptic Gate

That's All Folks!

You want rantage? I'll give you rantage. San Luis Obispo's fucked
up system, how's that for a start? You probably went to your local voting
drive, registerd, and then felt like a worthy and responsible citizen. Of
course, you did your part in the chain of politics and democracy that this
country was based on. Oh wait, no you didn't. 'Cause of course being just
a student around here no one wants you to vote.

Until you prove you're local they're going to ask you to return to your
'home county' and vote there. Of course, living here for 4-7 years doesn't
mean you LIVE here, it just means you occupy our streets, eat our food,
shop at our stores, buy our products, pay our taxes, and possibly raise
your children in our schools.... but we'd really appreciate it if you'd
take your filthy under-25 voting flings elsewhere. Yeah, so register to
vote and then you have to go down to the County Clerks office (currently
on Monterey Street close to downtown) and show them an ID with and
address, or a check or bill or something.

I think I might have brought this topic up last week, but what the hell. I
get annoyed everytime I think about it. Fuckers don't want us involved in
local politics that obviously affect us (like them taking away the Mardi
Gras Parade and then forcing sand-bags and rubber-bullets through our
windows). It's not that hard to crowd-control a party. Just realize that
the party will go until it's over. You may not like it, but it's going to
happen. I have a bad feeling that repetitive use of force by police on
Mardi Gras is going to end up with someone seriously getting hurt one of
these years. Poly Royale may have had different reasons for breaking out
into a huge riot, but I see police using rubber bullets two years in a row
and the first thing I think of is how I'd love to snipe some of those
facemasks with a paintball gun.

Really-can't the locals figure out a better way to do things? I mean, let
the party go wild in some corner of the world, like Mustang Village, and
then you know WHERE the party is going to be, WHERE trouble might start,
and if you don't cause beef (like not letting students cross the street to
return home/go to parties) then you're probably not going to have a
problem running an ambulance through a crowd if need be. And cancelling
the parade? That DOES NOTHING. The parade, in case the city hasn't
noticed, hasn't been the issue it used to be since they moved it's time to
2 in the afternoon. A nice sunny day, very little flashing. I'm just
saying, the only times bottles have flown by my head have been at night,
when people are drunk because nothing can stop them, and they're pissed
off either at the police or the crowds being created by the police.

And what's up with not firing some of our local police chiefs? We've got
what's-his-name up in Atascadero raping and pillaging and he's not even
fired or reprimanded? Not to mention our own SLO Police Chief being
responsable for two (is it more? I forget) deaths of individuals IN HIS
CUSTODY over the past year. There should be no damn reason ANYONE in the
custody of the police should die, short of heart attack or stroke. No,
this man was "positionally asphixiated" (I can't spell, sorry). Meaning,
he was put into a position where they knew he couldn't breath (it was,
afterall-the purpose of the position they put him in) and then left him
there for enough time to kill him and then not even notice 'till much
later when it was far, far too late to worry about it.

Let's talk about something more fun.

Genetically modified food. Okay, I'm not a biologist or tree-hugging
greenie or anything, so I have absolutely no idea what people's problem
with these are. I'm not talking about hormone treated animals, I'm talking
about rice with vitamin A added, or whatever else they do to food these
days. Can anyone help clue me in to what they're doing to food and what's
so horribly, unspeakbly evil about it? I thought we were just trying to
make food better in some intangible way.

Here I am thinking about adding vitamins to rice so we can ship that to
third-world countries (or whatever we end up doing with it, I have no
idea) and someone's yelling in my face that we have no idea what effects
this will have on people around the world. Well... if we're adding some
vitamin A into their rice I imagine that they no longer will have a
deficiency of Vitamin A.

Wait... I think I remember hearing somewhere that a deficiency of vitamin
A leads to docile-ness in populations we're trying to control. So... if we
give them the magic vitamin A, mana from the heavens straight from mount
olympus and endorsed by Thor (when he's not selling shoes that is)
herself, when we give them this magical potion-they're going to rebel and
learn to hate us! Oh no! What will we doo!

::emulate crying and rubbing eyes::
Boo-hoo!

Oh wait, too late. Hey-I've got an idea. Why don't we all figure out a way
to make people NOT hate us, and give them their vitamin A at the same
time. Is this too much to ask for? I mean-we could fly a thousand planes
over their third-world-country villages (or whatever they have, I've never
been there but apparantly I own a small somalian child according to the
plack in my bedroom) and bombard them with food (genetically modified of
course). Wait... we already make enough food to feed the world? What are
we doing with it then? Oh. That's right. We're burning crops and
destroying crops to keep farmers in business. Wait... so, they're staying
in business by keeping prices "fair" by making us pay the price for crops
we're not even consuming?

No. The G-men, the government is paying larger farms to destroy their
'excess.' So,... we're making too much, then paying 'fair' prices on food
that aren't fair at all, and then our taxes are going to pay for food we
didn't consume? Of course. i knew it... it's a conspiracy by the hidden
Communists. They're still around, did you know that? I bet you thought all
the communists left Soviet Union and migrated to Hawaii to start nice
little ABC stores. Good idea, and partly true, but we're missing some of
the pieces of the puzzle.

It all relates back to Metal Gear Solid : The Twin Snakes. You see, Russia
is a p.o.s. nation that wants back it's title of
"able-to-take-on-the-US." Right now? It's just a bunch of little shit
states that all are trying to govern themselves even though they have no
idea. Did I mention that a few are nuclear powers? Yeah. They could blow
up half of europe before our missile-defense-system failed and we got
bombed back to the stone-age. Of course, it'd be a post-apocalyptic stone
age involving cockroach people and Mecha-Godzilla.

So yeah. The twin snakes. They're gonna launch a nuclear warhead on a
railgun. I'm positive. The Missile Defense system will only inspire other
countries to find a way to break our system. The improved shield always
inspires an improved sword. The sword has always won. So, here we are...
sitting on a useless Missile Defense System, by the way-it's one of those
things that we'll never really be able to "test." Sure we can fire missles
at ourselves and put nice little homing beacons on them... but that's not
the real danger, now is it?

No, the real danger comes from space-launched hyper-velocity kinetic
energy weapons. One launched asteroid at Washington and BOOM. Hmm... Of
course, you dont' even need to be that extreme. The components to build a
missile are as near as your local hardware and fertilizer stores. Oh, and
electronics. But, if you're mildly compotent with all those then you're
set.

Hey, my turtles just nodded. They agree with me that the Big U might just
be one of the best books ever written. Once again, that's "THE BIG U" by
Neal Stephenson.

Okay, I'm gonna step off my soap box. Ahhh... this is one of the last
times I'm gonna get to do this. Make you listen/read every damn word I
have to say.

One last question though, how do you all feel about starting a Minna No
Anime group on Orkut? I can send out invitations and we could use their
bulletin board system thingie forum. Yeah. Forum, that's the right word.
It might be cool, and we all loved friendster-and now in it's
google-incarnation it's very, very nifty.

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime Secretary
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===Minna No Manga 05/27/04===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu May 27 01:42:02 2004)
Yet another MNM meeting, but this time we'll get to see Nur strut his
stuff in his spiffy Manga-Samurai cosplay! (or at least see him finish it)

I know you're all curious, so join us in 14-248 from 7-10 pm.

-Nik
</pre>

===Minna No Anime 05/29/04===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu May 27 17:07:59 2004)
Since we're having a buncha shows end and it's Fanime weekend, the
schedule's going to be altered a bit.

Here it is:

5:00 Fansub'o
5:25 Hana Yori Dango 51

5 min. break

5:55 Patlabor New OVA
6:20 Kokoro Library 12

5 min. break.

Wow, that last ep of Kokoro blew me away.

6:50 Inuyasha 74
7:15 Takahashi Gekijou theater

30 min. break

8:15 Noir 26
8:40 Saikano 13

5 min. break

Both Noir and Saikano come to a close, will it be happy, or emotionally
devastating, the suspense is killing me!

9:10 Gunbuster 1
9:35 Gunbuster 2

Seeing as GPM, Azumanga, and Banner are being held off until next week, I
figured a good old classic Gainax OVA was in order.

See you saturday!

-Nik "Soon to be ex-president" Kamachi

Sorry no rant this week. I just don't have the knack for telling amusing
tales like Jamshid
</pre>

===Minna No Manga 6/3/04===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jun 3 00:20:17 2004)
Final meeting of the year, so come join us and listen to me ramble on
about
how Inuyasha Movie 2 will rule.

14-248
7-10 pm

-Nik
</pre>

===MNA final meeting of the year! 6/5/04===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jun 3 23:05:49 2004)
Hey all, this is it! The last MNA meeting of the year.

First off, the t-shirt re-presses are in. So if you signed up for one
please bring the $$$ ($13 for members and $15 for others).

And now for the schedule:

5:00 Fanssub'0
5:25 Patlabor New Ova

5 min break

5:55 Kokoro Library 13
6:20 Gun Parade March 12

5 min break

6:50 Azumanga 26
7:15 Banner of the Stars 13

30-45 min break

8:30 Inuyasha Movie 2: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass

For those of you wondering, we're going to show Inuyasha Movie 2 off of
the Japanese disc with my own sub-titles. No crappy quality video or
messed up subs here. So get your friends and drag them to see it!

-Nik
</pre>

== Summer 2004 ==
===MNA Summer NOT THIS SATURDAY===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Fri Jun 18 15:54:20 2004)
Hey all, this isto let you know that MNA Summer quarter starts NEXT
saturday (June 26th) not this saturday.

Sorry for the late notice, hope to see people next week!

-Nik
</pre>

===MNA Summer Quarter 6/26/04===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Fri Jun 25 08:48:47 2004)
Hey all, first summer meeting this week.

Schedule:

There is none! (Yet) As I mentioned, summer is kind of a bring and show
setup. We may eventually show all of something, but for now, it's kind of
a mixed bag. I'll bring somerandom shows that you may like, but everyone
else is welcome to bring shows as well.

Like usual we'll go from 5-10ish.

-Nik
</pre>

===MNA 7/17/04===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jul 15 11:29:08 2004)
Hey all, sorry about the lack of a newsletter last week even though there
was a meeting.

Since this summer is my final time in to run the show, I've been
subjecting people to Risky Safety and Sakura Wars OVA 2. As a reward
though, I have shiny new US releases for ROD the TV, Gad Guard, and Wolf's
Rain.

Oddly enough the Big O has been getting some screen time too (Yaya for
leveling entire city blocks with a giant mech!)

As usual mettings go from 5 to whenever and the schedule is determined
then.

See you there!

-Nik
</pre>

===MNA Summer 7/24/04===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Fri Jul 23 10:10:24 2004)
Summer quarter cranks on with me at the helm.

Still no set schedule, but it looks like we'll continue Risky Safety,
Big-O, and possible start .Hack//SIGN.

03-213
5-10 pm

-Nik
</pre>

===MNA summer 9/11/04===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Sat Sep 11 01:30:22 2004)
*Creek*...Holy crap there's actually a newsletter...

I'm back just in time to announce the LAST summer meeting for the year.

First I want to thank Brain and Matt for running a great big majority of
the summer meetings while I was absent.

I've been gone so long I have absolutely no idea what will be shown.

02-213
5-10 pm

-Nik
</pre>

2002-2003 Emails

2011-11-16T20:23:14Z

Moroboshi ataru: added emailnav

[[Category:E-mails]]
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''Note:'' My email account was rather flaky this year, so I think I'm missing some emails. If anyone else has them, please provide... Thanks, --[[User:MikeWhipp|MikeWhipp]] 16:33, 26 December 2007 (PST)

== Fall 2002 ==
===[MNA] Sat, Sept 27 Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Fri Sep 27 17:17:42 2002)
Hello Everyone!

It is the start of a new year and another great schedule for the club. Oh
the headaches and broken limbs we endured to bring you the shows we are
putting on this year.

But I'm sure you're wondering what they are:

5:00 Fansub O': Saishuheiki Kanojo ("She, the Ultimate Weapon")
5:30 Hana Yori Dango Ep1 "Declaration of War"

Break time: Enjoy it while it lasts

6:00 Nadia: Secret of Blue Water Ep1 "Girl at the Eiffel Tower"
6:30 Full Metal Panic Ep1 "I don't know the title"

Break time: Get your Halloween cosplay costume ready!

7:00 Inuyasha
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road

Break time: Find copy of schedule w/ episode #s

8:00 Mahoromatic Ep1
8:30 Fruits Basket Ep1

Break Time: Find out about the real Erb.

9:00 Infinite Ryvius
9:30 Boogiepop Phantom

That's all folks!

And of course, if five hours of anime a week isn't enough you can always
use one of our heaviest resources: The Club Library. Josh doesn't lug it
around like a few of his crazy predecesors, but if you contact him ahead
of time I'm sure he'd be happy to bring something for ya'.

This would normally be the rant space, but for this week I'll change it to
a quick 'n dirty movie review of Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no
Kamikakushi for our Nihongo speaking friends).

I think its pretty damn good. My roomate and I went down to the El Capitan
down in Hollywood to see the movie on a digital projector with the
director himself in the building (from one of the q&a answers I don't
think he actually watched it then) doing a Q&A session at the end of the
film. Despite my claims to bringing a blowgun and knocking Miyazaki out, I
merely sat there and enjoyed a great film, with some sub-par popcorn. 2
hours and 20 minutes is the running time and the guys at Disney must have
taken a brick to the head because for once they didn't edit anything,
leaving the movie in its complete form. There are a few changes in
dialogue, but they are there to help out non-Japanese audiences with small
nuances and cultural references. Animation quality? Beautiful. Story and
plot? Wonderful. Aftertaste? I'd see it again, but I need to make sure my
10 year old sister sees this movie (it was mostly aimed for 10 year old
girls).

If you need any more information on the movie, like theaters that are
showing it currently or will be soon, then visit nausicaa.net for details.

See you all on Saturday.

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime Secretary (ie, mail-bitch)
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===[MnA] Sat, Oct. 6 Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Oct 3 18:21:13 2002)
This weeks schedule:

5:00 pm Fansub O'
5:30 pm Hana Yori Dango: No Brand Woman

Break: Word to your mother.

6:00 pm Nadia: Secret of Blue Water : The Little Fugitive
6:30 pm Full Metal Panic : I Want To Protect You

Break: Jump around.

7:00 pm Inu Yasha : Naraku no Bouryaku o Uchi Yabure
7:30 pm Kimagure Orange Road: Dangerous Autosuggestion - Kyosuke's
Metamorphosis!

Break: Shes just a girl, who thinks I am the one.

8:00 pm Mahoromatic: Female Teacher Saori - 25 Years Old
8:30 pm Fruits Basket : Tohru-kun, Aren't You A Bit Nauseaous?

Break: Shes a brick-house.

9:00 pm Infinite Ryvius : Unnecessary Things
9:30 pm Boogiepop Phantom : Portraits In Darkness

Thats all folks!

Sweet! w00t! I get rant space? And I can do this every f*$@ing
week?? Alright! And thats why I ran for this position, and thats why
you're going to read every damn word I have to say about this weeks topic:
"LAME ANIME"

Yes, just because something is animated does not, by virtue of said
animation process, mean it automatically great. Hard to believe you say?
Just because we bring you guys 5 hours of what is some of the best stuff
out there doesn't mean there isn't 50 hours worth of stuff that could make
you roll over and want to die while watching it.

Also, you have to remember this whole "point of view" thing when reading
about the shows I will insult. I personally do not enjoy Dragon-Half very
much, however I understand that people do (and some of them have cars or
guns or access to both) and therefore will not insult it. However, MKR is
another case.

Magic Knights Rayearth, in my humble-yet-conceted opinion, is not very
good. I could use much fouler language in attempting to describe this
show, but I don't know if every recipient of this mailing list is over 18,
and in the case of some verbs, over 21. Maybe the animators, writers,
creators, inbetweeners, and sponser were all smoking some sort of payote
that is only grown deep in the jungles of Japan, but seeing as how this
isn't the case I can only wonder how this show ever made it off the
drawing board. I reserve for this show a special place on the 1-10 scale:
0.73. Why 0.73? Because I remember something about it amused me, or maybe
because I saw two episodes of it immediately after watching The
Neverending Story: Part III and realized that a 0 was only for movies of
that caliber.

Anywhooo, I am late to a meeting of soon to be Otaku-converts and must end
my "LAME ANIME" soapbox speech here. If you want more horrible shows then
go check out Lupin III: Legend of Gold Babylon (the only disappointing
Lupin III movie in a long line of pretty good to friggen' Great movies and
summer specials).

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime Secretary (aka, "mail-b!4tch" for you minors)
</pre>

===[MnA] Sat. Oct 12 Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Wed Oct 9 14:38:23 2002)
Greetings Oxygen breathing life forms!

Its that time again, the weekly newsletter informing you of everything you
need to know about Minna No Anime.

I want to start off by inviting all of you to our Halloween meeting. It
will take place on November 2 during our regular hours, but there will be
nothing regular about it.

We will have a slew (whatever that is) of prizes to give out for our
Gaming competition, Trivia contest, and the big CosPlay contest. Our big
grand prize this year? A pair of tickets to Anime Expo! Whats that worth?
About $100. Yeah, you read that right-$100. Prizes from the other rooms
will also kick a$$, trust us.

Oh, and for those of you who can't get enough fanboy-funk, there will be a
DDR room setup where you will be able to stumble around to your hearts
content for about the price of free.

I'm sure you're also wondering if we're going to supply food? Well, sorta.
Here is how it works: You let us know whether you want 2 slices of
Pepperoni, Cheese, or Veggie and we'll collect $2 from you when you pick
it up. $2 for 2 slices-best deal in town, I think.

Ah, I forgot one thing about those Anime Expo tickets. You have to win the
CosPlay contest as well as enter in at least one other contest. And if you
think making a costume is hard or you don't have any good ideas then
you're way wrong. Making a costume is pretty simple, and more fun than you
might think. If you need ideas/help then e-mail us at this e-mail address
and we'll supply whatever ideas/help we can.

And now, for this weeks schedule:

5:00 pm Fansub of the Week: "Erbine's Counterattack: Not So Witty Retort"
5:30 pm Hana Yori Dango - I Wont Get Hurt

Breaktime: CosPlay Suggustion-Japanese Schoolgirl (this isn't restricted
to only the ladies)

6:00 pm Nadia: Secret of Blue Water - The Riddle of the Giant Sea
Monsters
6:30 pm Full Metal Panic - Lingerie Panic

Breaktime: CosPlay Suggustion-Happosai (complete with Akane's Panties)

7:00 pm Inuyasha - Tsui ni Akasareta Shikon no Himitsu
7:30 pm Kimagure Orange Road - Kyosuke's Become A Kid! Getting Super Close
to Madoka

Breaktime: CosPlay Suggustion-Japanese Schoolgirl (this isn't restricted
to only the fellas)

8:00 pm Mahoromatic - A Grave So Transient
8:30 pm Fruits Basket - Ep3

Breaktime: CosPlay Suggustion-Allen Schezar

9:00 pm Infinite Ryvius - Cross the Ocean
9:30 pm Boogiepop Phantom - Life Can Be So Nice

Thats all folks!

On one final note, I'd just like to recommend (again) that you all go out
and see Spirited Away in any theater. I went home this past weekend for a
day and asked my brother if he wanted to go out and watch the movie, he
told me that his friend downloaded it and they watched it at his place.

Now, while we're all kinda broke (being college students and whatnot), I
still think you can scrounge enough money together to support a movie that
is worth watching. Do movie companies listen to what people say, or what
people do? They listen to the $$$ that you shell out for that ticket. If
people paid for their anime and went to see this movie, Disney would
notice the large flow of cash into their pockets and think to themselves:
"Maybe we should release the rest of these Ghibli movies we've been
sitting on." Yes, I know its more complicated than us giving them money
and them giving us our addiction, but piriting everything and DigiSubbing
your way through life is a part of a larger problem.

Anywhoo, its really your call and a test of your ethics. I fall on both
sides of the issue, depending on what media we're talking about, but for
movies and other shows I say go pay for it legitimatly and help let
companies know that its a profitable business.

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna no Anime Secretary (ie, mail-bizzatch)
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===[MnA] Sat. Oct 26 Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Oct 24 11:23:03 2002)
Howdy y'all! (getting into aggie mode this week for some reason, lack of
sleep perhaps?)

Some important announements and then into the schedule. First off, don't
forget that we're having a huge halloween party on November 2nd! CosPlay
contest with a pair of tickets to AX and $100 spending cash, Trivia
Contest and Video Gaming contest each with ~30-40 dollar gift certificates
to the best japanese food in town and possibly something else, and FREE
DDR, oh-and food for a $1. Did I mention the anime room showing
semi-halloween themed shows, Blood, I think we're getting witch hunter
Robin, something else, you know. Halloweenie type stuff.

As for the CosPlay contest, I always love seeing people in costume!
So if you need help/inspiration for a contest then e-mail me here
and I'll send you upon guided meditation with your spirit costume
('slide').

Okay, enough with the new age. Why was there no mailing last week you
wonder? Well, I wondered that too-and to get to the bottom of that I had
to ask my friends what the hell happened to me last week to make me lose
an entire week of my memory. The answer wasn't pretty, or legal in some
states, but I can guarantee you that since I now have a lock on my bedroom
door I'll be able to send the club mailings weekly again. Probably more
than your innocent little mind wanted to know, huh?

THE SCHEDULE!

5:00 Fansub o' the week: "Mighty Aero Major: 15 hours of sleep per week"
5:30 Hana Yori Dango

Break: Sorry for lack of episode titles this week

6:00 Nadia: Secret of Blue Water
6:30 Supergals -Episode 1

Break: Little known anime fact, Supergals is replacing the 'lost' episode
of Full Metal Panic that was originally aired 10/26/02.

7:00 Inuyasha : Nihongo wo hanashimasen
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road

Break: I always thought that show sounded like an ice cream flavor.

8:00 Mahoromatic
8:30 Fruits Basket

Break: Little known anime fact: Gainax directors spend months in the
mountains fighting bears while training to make even more bad-arse shows,
sometimes this method works.

9:00 Infinite Ryvius
9:30 Boogiepop Phantom

Thats all folks.

I'd ask you all to go home, but you're probably there. So instead look in
the new times this weekend, and maybe next weekend because it appears that
the Palm Theater (if you need directions: just go to Palm street and turn
in a direction. If you miss the theater then turn around and go that way)
will be picking up Spirited Away. I cannot emphasize how much this movie
will rock your world. Not in a "T2"-rock your world sense, but more of a
"Amelie"-rock your world sense. It is simply a wonderful movie, and we're
lucky here in San Luis to have places like the Palm where we can go watch
foreign films. My recommendation? Go downtown for Farmers Market, stay for
the movie, hit up the theater on Monday ($4) night, hit up the theater on
Tuesday (KCPR night-$1 off at the door if you mention our radio station),
or use one of the Krazy Coupons and get 2for1 admission (t,w,r only) and
take a friend with you for free.

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime Secretary (aka-awol)
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

THIS WEEKS SPECIAL LINK:

http://www-ucsee.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ricky/rant/
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===[MnA] Sat. Nov 2 HALLOWEEN Meeting===
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(Minna No Anime, Sat Nov 2 02:07:06 2002)
Monday 9:15 pm : Watched Spirited Away at the Palm Theater

Tuesday 8:00 pm : Called home, told sister to go see movie. Discussed
finer philosophical points of Miyazaki films over Castle of Cagliostro
viewing.

Wednesday 9:15 pm : Watched Spirited Away at the Palm Theater

Thursday 9:15 pm : I have no recollection of what happend this night after
me and that girl with the curly hair started wrestling...

Friday 9:15 pm : Getting weekly Gainax fix. Honneamise was pumped directly
into my veins via an IV-drip.

Saturday (tomorrow) allday : MinnaNoAnime Halloween Mega-Meeting!!!

Ever wonder where the analogy between anime and crack came from?

This saturday!! Yes, tomorrow/today (depending on when the send button
gets pressed) is our huge Halloween meeting! I hope you have your costume
ready for the CosPlay contest, 'cause the grand prize winner will get to
go to AX for free, er-well we'll give you a pair of tickets anyway-how
you get there is up to you. I wouldn't recommend driving unless you've got
current registration and insurance (impound lots suck!).

But wait, there's more!

FREE DDR ROOM. Yes, you read that correctly, we'll
have a room entirely devoted to playing DDR. Got a friend who enjoys DDR?
Bring 'm down! And if you decide to descend upon a fury of rhythmic button
smashing action, we do ask that you bring some DDR pads. I
believe we will have at least 1 hard pad, but in the case that it doesn't
show up on Saturday (a very likely possibility) we'll need someone to
bring in a pad.

Food? Yes we'll have pizza for $1/slice! Pepperoni, Cheese, and Veggie.
Oh-and candy, while not food, will also be around for mass comsumption.

Video Games! Of course, how can you possibly have any sort of Anime
party/special meeting without video games showing up? Well, we've got a
room devoted to a video game contest. If you think you're tough enough to
kick some 2-D fighter butt then sign up for Guilty Gear X, otherwise your
challenge awaits within Tekken4. I believe there are still spots open for
this contest.

Anime Trivia! The rules are simple. Two men enter! One man leaves! Oh...
wait, no-that's Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome-sorry! The actual rules are
simple, you buzz in-you're either right or wrong. Right answers will gain
you points, wrong answers will knock those points off. The questions range
from "easy" to "what the hell?!" and from "Black Heaven" to "Spirited
Away" (Sen To Chihiro..).

Cosplay Contest. Still in the halloween spirit? Dress up as your favorite
anime character and have some fun! Winner of this contest will get a pair
of free tickets to Anime Expo this summer in Long Beach, and yes-it is the
largest anime convention on the West Coast. In order to win the tickets
you do need to enter in at least one other contest!! Don't say we didn't
warn you, you need to enter in another contest if you want to win the
grand prize.

Prizes: Besides the anime expo tickets?? Well-we've got some really badass
stuff lined up, but you'll find out all about that when you show up. I'll
leak a small hint though, the Trivia contest will have a poster box from a
cute lil' goddess-oriented show as the 1st place prize.

The Schedule!

This weeks special programming:

(times will vary due to our movie/ova/tv schedule and its oddity, so use
this as a checklist of shows you'd like to see)

Vampire Hunter D - Bloodlust
Witch Hunter Robin 1
Witch Hunter Robin 2
Magic Users Club 1
Magic Users Club 2
Shamanic Princess 1
Shamanic Princess 2
Vampire Princess Miyu OVA 1
Vampire Princess Miyu OVA 2
3x3 Eyes 1
3x3 Eyes 2

Hopefully we'll also have some Anime Music Videos (AMV) for your enjoyment
inbetween programs.

That's all folks!

One last note: The Palm Theater is showing Spirited Away. I heartily
recommend you go see this amazing Miyazaki (Mononoke, Nausicaa, Laputa,
Totoro, Kiki...) film. Now, I know that $7 may be a lot for a broke
college student, but if you can find time on Tuesday, Wednesday, or
Thursday night to watch this movie then get one of those Krazy Coupon
books and go 2 for the price of 1. Take a date, take your roomate, take a
DJ, whatever it takes-go see this film while you have a chance to!

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini

-In case any of you are wondering where "sleep" was on that timeline of my
week, well-I didn't get any until Friday. Honestly. And yes, we did have a
car/impound problem last year. Ask me about it, I'll tell you.
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===[MnA] Sat, Nov 16 Meeting===
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(Minna No Anime, Wed Nov 13 22:26:07 2002)
This weeks message is brought to you by the syllable "ha"

Halloween wrap-up (lil' late):

Yes, I know the Halloween meeting is now almost two weeks gone, but last
week was riddled with Telnet problems and whatnot so this week's mailing
will have to make up for that. That being said, lets get on with it.

November 2 was a friggen' fun night. I heard most people migrated over to
the video game room this year, and that our lack of DDR pads nearly caused
another DDR-related death. CosPlay was amazing as usual. The creativeness
shown was amazing-everything from sword weilding maniacs to Dylan with a
hand full of... uhm, yeah. Let's just hope no one comes as Shinji next
year.

Anime eyes went on a little late, but those who stuck around and
participated enjoyed the brain-wracking they received. Trivia and the
Video game contest both attracted fanboys from all sorts dark DVD-enabled
corners.

And after the official festivites? Lets just say that officers know how to
play with their monkey balls. All 4 of 'm.

One last note, T-shirt designs are due the ... uhm... first meeting after
Christmas break. Keen? Keen! No copying characters since copyright laws
prevent this, but you can have an inspired character.
Inspired!=Blatant_Rip_Off. If your design is chosen as the next T-shirt
then I think we're poor enough to give 1 free shirt and maybe I'll take
you out for sake (must be at least 12 years old for the added prize).

Hmm.... and now for the schedule:

(episode titles/#s are currently on a hard drive on a disassembled
computer-sorry about that)

THE SCHEDULE:

5:00 pm Fansub O'
5:30 pm Hana Yori Dango

Breaktime: Tell us what you think about anime music videos (AMV) being
shown during breaks.

6:00 pm Nadia: Secret of Blue Water
6:30 pm Full Metal Panic

Breaktime: Ponder cool looking submarines

7:00 pm Inuyasha
7:30 pm Kimagure Orange Road

Breaktime: Ponder love affairs w/ half-dog demons

8:00 pm Mahoromatic
8:30 pm Fruits Basket

Breaktime: Ponder fan-service

9:00 pm Infinite Ryvius
9:30 pm Boogiepop Phantom

That's all folks!

Anime Tech

I love the technology shown in anime. There's just something about gadgets
that fit into my palm, can access some sort of uber-web, AND fold up into
something looking like a pistol. And of course there's the various giant
fighting mecha; Gundams, Valkyries(Veritechs), Guymelefs, Armslaves, etc.
I haven't even mentioned those cool neck-hook-ups from Ghost in the Shell,
when and where can I get some of those?

What is it about these tantalizing toys that draw me to them? Perhaps it
is the whole science fiction aspect. That untangible pull that led Goddard
to develop the first Rocket theories (and working models) after reading
War of the Worlds, that led to a nuclear submarine or other Jules Verne
based ideas, that is currently driving me insane in the pre-design of a
working YF-19 model, that is currently driving TRW to produce solid state
lasers.

Hmm.... this rant is off topic, I'm rambling like Fred from Megatokyo
aren't I? God I feel dirty.... dahr-teee...

-Minna No Anime
-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini (mail-bzzztch)

Check out the website! It's hentai-a-licious!
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
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===[MnA] Sat, Dec. 7 Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Dec 5 03:22:37 2002)
'Alo everyone!

Okay, so there wasn't a newsletter letting you guys know to go home last
week. Sorry 'bout that, I was too busy eating rice and lamb to notice
(no-no turkey in my house) I had forgotten. Anywhoo, I hope you all had
enjoyable Thanksgiving breaks, well-at least those who got a break anyway.

One important note, T-shirt designs!!! Due the 2nd meeting of the quarter!
If you have even an ounce of creativity (an ounce isn't very much, you
probably have more) then you should consider drawing a design for us. Why
you ask? Well.. I don't know, so we can have a wide variety of designs to
choose from? So you can win a T-shirt for free (oooh). And so you might
even win fame and recognition among your fellow otaku! Yes, that's why.
Sorta. Also there may be an added bonus... heh heh...

You'll notice that we're showing Sen To Chihiro no something something...
ahem. Otherwise known as Spirited Away for the americanized audience
(guess which group I belong in). This means a few shows will not be shown
on saturday and our schedule is all switched around to accomodate this
excellent flick. In fact, this movie is so excellent you should even try
to bring a friend or something. Heck, tell them its a "screening" and by
the time they notice all the Otaku it will be too late and they'll already
be into the movie. Really though, its an excellent movie-don't miss it
'cause you'll regret it if you do.

And now, without further ado or prodding, the schedule!

5:00 Fansub O' the week
5:30 Full Metal Panic

Break

6:00 Inuyasha
6:30 Kimagure Orange Road

Break

7:00 Mahoromatic
7:30 Infinite Ryvius

Break

8:00-10:00 Sen To Chihiro No Kamikakushi

That's all folks!

It's that time of the year again. Yep, Fall quarter is coming to a close.
Now some of you have weathered many fall quarters, and some not so many.
Here's some advice (in a semi-bulleted list) to help out you youngsters:

1. Just because your teacher said, "sure, you're doing fine!" doesn't mean
you're going to pass the class.

2. If your teacher says "I'm going to kill the entire class on the final"
you may as well cry. Bawl your little eyes out.

3. If you're watching Escaflowne, stop around the end of tape/DVD 4. Or if
you're borrowing Esca out to someone don't give them anything past that
nice cliffhanger. You'll make a friend for life. Or at least what little
time you have left, since they're obviously going to come for you with a
knife (semi-personal experience).

4. Watch your favorite holiday anime episodes again. Don't have any? Go
watch F3 then. Either way you'll probalby enjoy yourself.

5. Listen to the Noir soundtrack at 3:04am while writing another
newsletter and trying to do two reports which are both incredibly
important to your standing as an Aero Eng. student but at the same time
try to actually KEEP your sanity.

6. Take your little brother/sister/both (no I'm not bashing she-males) to
go see Spirited Away. If you're local-folk then bring them on Saturday.

7. Expand your horizons with mind-altering anime and crappy DVD menus
which I swear are worse than anything I've ever
inhaled/shot-up/drank/stuck-up-somewhere-unpleasant.

8. Study for finals now. Don't wait until next week.

9. Ask your friends about their middle names and when you find one that is
really, really weird let everyone know. erb.

10. Hug an anime-club officer (please, only the girls. last time a guy
hugged me...)

11. Finish what you start. Especially if it involves 26 episodes.

12. Plan your next few quarters of school, and make sure you try as hard
as possible to not have classes on Fridays.

13. Grow your anime collection like you would fungus or bacteria or
something. Or just borrow from your friends who are doing this.

14. Visit your local anime/otaku shop(s) and possibly support them.

15. Find an anime-club secretary and do his Continuum-Mechanics H.W. for
him.

16. Think about legitimizing those MP3s you own by purchasing the CD.

17. Enjoy other foreign media beside anime, foriegn films for example :
Amelie, Joint Security Area (JSA), and Beijing Bicycle are all excellent
films. Oh, and Shaolin Soccor-but of course Steven Chao (sp?) movies rock.

18. Learn a Japanese saying or phrase and then never use it like an idiot
again in public.

19. Pick up some Manga and read a little. You'd be surprised at how
addicting this "new" heroine is.

20. Relax. That exam? Not the end of the world. Your grade? Not the end of
the world. Falling on your bum in front of that girl/guy you really like?
Close, but still not the end of the world.

21. Akio? The end of the world.

Enjoy your week(s) off if you can. Er, okay, didn't mean to make that
sound ominous or anything-just go enjoy yourself, or else! When you come
back from break we'll be here with more good anime to show you. Oh-and
after Mahoromatic and Boogiepop Phantom finish their 13 episode runs
mid-Winter-Quarter we'll be starting two AMAZING shows. You'll want to see
those, trust me. They passed a pretty unbelievable selection process
involving lots of e-mails and b!tching to make it to our final schedule.

See ya' on Sat. or next quarter.

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna no Anime Secretary (mail you-know-B!...)
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
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== Winter 2003 ==
===[MnA] Sat, January 11 Meeting===
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(Minna No Anime, Wed Jan 8 12:58:41 2003)
Welcome back to school, suckers!

Well, at least there's one good point, we're having a meeting this
saturday. That's right, the first meeting of the quarter! And there is
some important stuff to tell you, and some not-so-important stuff. We'll
start with the important stuff, I guess.

Important (if I can remember it all correctly)

Okay, you guys have only ONE week left before T-shirt designs are due! And
if you're cheap like me, then come pick up some old T-shirts for cheap. I
did mention Cheap I hope... (by cheap we mean $7-10 depending on year)

Yes, and even more important. Oh, wait, I already mentioned the T-shirts.

Well, less important. Bring a friend! Yes, it's hard business dealing out
heroin and the such, and we understand that. That's why you give out that
first dose for free, and from then on start charging. So, if you've got a
friend who might be interested in some of the shows we're putting on then
try and drag them along. Oh, and rumor has it that we might, just might
have Macross Zero ready and fansubbed for you guys by this Saturday. If
you've got a friend who's a fan of the old Robotech series, or maybe their
more old-school and love Macross, well-let them know we'll try to have it
on for the Fansub'O slot this week.

And now, without further ado (ado?a do? ad oooh?), this week's schedule:

5:00pm Fansub Of The Week: (tentative) Macross Zero Ep 1
5:30pm Hana Yori Dango

Break: Meet up with old friends. And then crush them.

6:00pm Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
6:30pm Full Metal Panic

Break: Meet up with other old friends. Crush them as well.

7:00pm Inuyasha: I believe this show should have the sub-title of "Heroin
King"
7:30pm Kimagure Orange Road

Break: Pick up a T-shirt for between $7-10.

8:00pm Mahoromatic
8:30pm Fruits Basket

Break: Turn in your T-shirt design for this year and earn our eternal
gratitude! As well as a special mystery prize (we're all broke so don't
expect anything Really great, just sorta fun like maybe a t-shirt).

9:00pm Infinite Ryvius
9:30pm Boogiepop Phantom

That's all folks!

I had class at 7am. No, wait I THOUGHT I had class at 7am. It's at 8pm.
Tomorrow. Now you shall suffer my random words.

The start of a new quarter. The smell of fear is thick in the air, along
with bad perfumes and colognes worn by college students who don't know
"enough is enough." But, then again, it might just smell better than
"OTAKU-FUNK." Oh, you know what I mean. Ever walk into the Karaoke room at
FAnime? Yeah, that smell. The one that makes you say out-loud, "what the
f@#% is that smell?" and then look around at every sweaty, geeky
fan-person (equality that!) in the room. And this is why you need to be a
little inebriated before trying this whole "singing" thing in front of
other people who smell worse than you do, so you can forget that they
smell.

As always, we here in the "officers mega-sexy club" are always open to
suggustions for new shows. I mean, we can never start planning too early
or deciding that certain shows really aren't up to par with other shows
which we already know we'll never show. Need I make sense here? No, you
understand the impulses coming down my nerves and you can feel them in
your very being. This is a call to arms, the orcs are rushing us and we
need a few good Warcraft III players to suggust another show that they'd
like to see put on possibly this quarter or possibly next year. And
please, feel free to recommend anything-the worst we can do is laugh at
you until you cry. And there's really no bigger insult than the Officers
Mega-Sexy Club laugh.

Okay. I feel funny. I think i'm still high from the visuals in Macross
Zero, but I could just be having a flashback to Castle in the Sky (which I
have FINALLY viewed, thanx to "overseas versions" and my cheap-ass
friend) when I was on all those LEGAL drugs (otherwise known as
medication).

For those of you who have migranes, I know completely understand the utter
complete pain. Well, sort of. For those of you who have nerves that decide
to go haywire and start hating you, well-YOU guys I completely understand,
the migrane guys are only a close adopted brother of pain.

So yeah, if you guys know someone with a migrane or shingles or something,
give 'm a hug. They'll either feel better or never speak to you again. But
you'll at least feel better for having put some good into the world,
maybe.

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime Secretary (ie, mail-bizzzzzztch)

You've read the newsletter, now visit the webpage!
www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
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===[MnA] Sat, Jan 18 Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jan 16 23:39:45 2003)
Puchuu!

And now for another weekly reminder of where you want to be on Saturday
night! Can you believe the second week of school is already over? For
those of you not in school, who are doing nothing, I sort of envy you. For
those of you who are working, well, I really envy your cash flow.

If only watching anime could pay my bills, I'd be set. Well, sorta. I
don't watch as much as I used to. Perhaps my standards have reached some
weird level where it either needs to be on a theater screen or the show
just needs to be damn good? Maybe I'm just being picky? Or maybe the stuff
we show on Saturday is so damn worth watching that I don't feel bad
waiting a week between showings... hmm... Oh well.

What you've been waiting for, the schedule:

5:00pm Fansub O': Master Coo... no.
5:30pm Hana Yori Dango : The Dingo Ate Your Shoujo

Break: "Ten minute break."

6:00pm Nadia-The Secret of Blue Water : I swear I see Gainax Archtypes
formed in thsi show.
6:30pm Full Metal Panic : Another Gonzo show... Mechs & Pretty Girls. Like
chocolate cake, they're all the same-but you don't get tired of it.

Break: "Ten minute break."

7:00pm Inuyasha : You all should thank the guy behind the subs.
7:30pm Kimagure Orange Road : No Comment, not a decent one at least.

Break: "Ten minute break."

8:00pm Mahoromatic : A newer Gainax show, full of the fanservice we've
come to expect from shows with maids and school teachers.
8:30pm Fruits Basket : The saddest damn girly show I've ever seen. But
damn do I love it.

Break: "Ten minute break. The mechanical bull is plugged in if anyone
wants to go ten seconds."

9:00pm Infinite Ryvius : 'King Badass.
9:30pm Boogiepop Phantom: I still can't get over how its called
boogie-pop, the characters say boogie-pop and yet the bumper voice says
"boojiepop," but its a very nifty mind-messing show.

That's All Folks!

And don't forget to check out the club library, you know who you are.

Another week is done already? TWO weeks since school started and I still
have yet to be struck by lightning and imbued with magical, mystical
powers which grant me the ability to read, write, understand and speak
Japanese. Why, with that superpower (the 2nd greatest superpower in teh
world) I might even have a chance at living in Japan for a month, nay-Two
months!

Of course, I'd have to somehow get to Japan in the first place. Looks like
some friends of mine are trying to organize a trip this summer, two or
three weeks... now I just need to rob a bank and pay for my plane ticket
and I'll be set. Oh wait, the language barrier. Which, despite common
opinion, cannot be broken by traveling at the speed at which pressure
waves propogate.

Take that liberal arts! Bouja!

So I've been thinking, why don't we try and hold a Minna No Anime party?
Well-a few things come to mind right away. One, "party" and college
students normally means music and booze. The MnA crowd really doesn't
strike me as the drinking, wild rambunctiuos (take that liber arts! you
can shove your spelling...) party crowd. And a quiet, soft, non-musical,
non-drinking party would probably mean we'd all sit around either playing
the greatest, largest, most Anime related game of charades ever-OR-we'd
sit around at someone's house with a huge screen and watch 5 hours of
anime. Seeing this conclusion, I realized-every meeting is like a party!
Okay, you can break out your baseball bats now, I know I sound stupid.

Hmmm... but maybe... just maybe we might pull this charades thing off.
It's a crazy pipe-dream, I know.

Speaking of which, where's that pipe...

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime Secretary (Mail-Bzzzzzzz...)
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

Ah, found it!
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===[MnA] Sat. Jan 25 Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jan 23 14:41:10 2003)
Hello all,

You've been waiting and waitng for Saturday, I'm sure, but wait no more!
Er, no-wait two more days.

If you know someone who should be receiving this e-mail, but isn't please
tell us who they are so we can hunt them down.

Ah, one last important piece of information. I believe we will begin
taking pre-orders for our bald-headed friend, this years Club T-Shirt.
Although it wasn't a heated battle last week like it was last year (with
cries of 'kill him!' 'rip his arm off' and the such coming from the crowd)
we still came down to a pair of fine designs. One can only wish that our
logo is tattooed forever on his forehead.

Okay, not too much intro this week, so here's....

THE SCHEDULE!

5:00pm Fansub O'
5:30pm Hana Yori Dango

Break:

6:00pm Nadia: The secret of blue water
6:30pm Full Metal Panic: The secret of blue panti-oh no it isn't.

Break:

7:00pm Inuyasha
7:30pm Kimagure Orange Road

Break:

8:00pm Mahoromatic - Coming to a close! This week... I think...
8:30pm Fruits Basket

Break:

9:00pm Infinite Ryvius
9:30pm Boogiepop Phantom - Coming to a close! Soon? Wait, next week or
this... d'oh!

That's all folks!

I usually take this extra space down here to say whatever is running
through my mind and write it down, delete it because i realize it's
innapropriate, and then write something cleaner. Perhaps this week I'll
just give you a warning before I release my thoughts into the wired.
You've been warned.

Anime Music Videos hold a special place in my heart, right up there with
Chocolate and Canadian Punk Rock Girls. You ever been to Canada and seen
their punk rock girls? They're not like their British Punk Rock Girl
overlords, who are extremely punk and barely girl, but all British. And
then there's Australia, our other larger, more desert filled Britain.
Although, I can't recall having seen any Aussie Punk Rock Girls. You know
what? I've been wondering what if Aussie's don't call themselves Aussies,
like-what if they called themselves Montopians or Herculoids? "Hey Jack,
mate, I'm gonna go out with some of the Herculoids and play a spot of
Rugby. Herculoid Rugby." So back to the topic, those cute little
Canadians. No-damn it! They're not the topic at all, screw the Canadians.
These AMV's I'm talking about. Yeah, I think I'll try to bring in some new
ones or something for breaks this Saturday.

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime Secretary
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

-You may have thought there was nothing worth warning you about this week,
but come tomorrow when you start calling your friends the "Herculoids"
you'll understand.
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===[MnA] Sat, Feb 8 Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Wed Feb 5 06:16:38 2003)
Konnichiwa!

I just had to throw some Nihongo in one of these newsletters somewhere,
didn't I?

This weeks news! (and last weeks by default of me being too busy/stupid to
get a letter out last week)

Well, think of this. As of Today (hopefully you're reading this on Wed.)
Winter Quarter is now 50% done. One HALF of your quarter is over, and also
half of the school year. It's all down hill from here school-wise, but
looking damn good on the anime front.

We've got a new schedule, or at least a modified one. Boogiepop Phantom
ended with a mind-***king ending that was just unbelievable, and
Mahoromatic left with a whimper. Mind you it was a cute, maid-outfit
whimper with license to kill, it was still a weak ending.

What're we showing the extra HOUR that opened up? Well, Abenobashi is
first and replaces Gainax's Mahoro with another of their shows. Gainax is
just one of the best studios out there, and from what I hear Abeno is one
of their more trippy shows.

And our closer of the night is now Niea_7. A show with character designs
by Yoshitoshi ABe, one of the best artists around. He did the character
designs for Lain, remember how great that looked?

Well, these two fine shows came on last week (the 1st of Feb.) but don't
feel bad if you missed an episode. Someone can fill you in on what
happened, and as for Abenobashi-I don't think anyone really understood.
I'm still trying to figure out "why mushrooms?"

Remember those happy moments in anime? Yeah, well... I'm having trouble.
Maybe I should stop watching Grave of the Fireflies over and over again,
but I think it wouldn't matter anymore. I've got a lot of that film burnt
into my mind. HMmm.. happy moments in anime? I'll have to think real
hard about that.

And now,

THE SCHEDULE:

5:00pm fansub of the weeK
5:30pm hana yori dango

Break: Hey, remember that time in Esca when everyone was all happy and
then Van went on a killing spree and Esca turned black and fell over and
oh yeah... I guess they weren't so happy.

6:00pm nadIa: the secret of blue water
6:30pm fuLl metaL panic

Break: What about that time in Eva... oh, nevermind.

7:00pm inuyaSHa
7:30pm kimAgure oraNge road

Break: Okay. Okay, what about in Lain when Eiri was telling Lain that he
was god when he wasn't, I mean he wasn't even Dead, right? 'Cause later we
see him alive and stuff after Lain erases the memory of his death so it
never happened, but she does that AND erases herself, but she still exists
'cause she doesn't erase her OWN memory, even if she doesn't exist she
still remembers hersel.... what?

8:00pm abEnobashi
8:30pm fruits basket

Break: Now I've got it. Kenshin OVA! He was TOTALLY happy! You know, for
that one minute. Before she jumped in the way and... well, before that
anyway. He was happy for a minute, wasn't he?

9:00pm infinite ryvius
9:30pm niea_7

That's all folks!

I hope you got my little sub/super liminal message. Of course, were it
a subliminal from the planet Krypton it might be a super-subliminal
message... heh heh... or if it were sick one day it might be a
sub-par-super-subliminal message. Ooooh, I think I found my new favorite
word to tell drunk people at parties who I don't want to talk to. I can
see it now, heads exploding all across the party circuit.

So a friend of mine is asking me to help him put together a sound editing
computer. Then he throws in the ability to get video from his camcorder
and edit that too. Then burn DVD-R discs. Oh, and did I mention the $1k
budget? Its a difficult stretch, but there's something you need to
understand. I'm not about to create for him something I wouldn't create
for myself (had I that sort of money and purpose), which means we're
looking at decent-quality parts.

Sometimes it is easy to please someone when they have little idea what
you're doing to them. But its difficult to feel you've done a good job if
you know you could've done better. I think this is one of those cases
where him and I both know what we expect the final result to be, what it
could be, and what neither of us want.

My point to this tangent? I forgot. But I'm sure you can reason out a
moral from it. Maybe something like... don't eat candy from strangers
dressed in nothing but towels around their head?

HEROIN (noun, hair'-oh-in): Region 2 DVDs from Japan.

I've tapped into the plentiful world of R2 discs recently. Its
frightening, but like the song goes, "I used to do a little, but the
little wouldn't do it, so the little got more and more." First a Music
Video DVD of Do As Infinity, next Macross Zero and some SaiKano just to
see what it was like. Next the Haibane Box.... this can only lead to one
possibly end: Me in the gutter, whoring off my engineering skills to poor
college students who can't get any (engineering skills, not... yeah). From
looking at the other junkies who are father ahead than I am right now I
can reason where I'll be in a few months. I'll need a job, or worse...
maybe I'll have to do something drastic like join the Navy for some of
that Gov't money. Not like we haven't seen someone do that before, but I
don't think I'm cut out to spend 6month with other men in a tight metal
can.

Anyway, I'll let you guys know how the Haibane discs go. We should have
scripts and possibly even be able to fit a few eps in for after-hours or
Fansub O', or at the worst do the "anime and drinks(of all sorts)" thing
over at some undisclosed location only accessable by the "party wagon",
which will probably end up being more of a car and less of 'party.'

You still reading? Wao. Just wait 'till you hear my coherant thoughts next
week. Those will actually make sense, and stuff, or something...

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna no Anime Secretary
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
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===[MnA] Sat, Feb 15 Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Wed Feb 12 15:46:47 2003)
Konnichiwa Minna

Okay-a bit mooore Nihongo this week.

Well, judging by how many computer-lovin' geeks we have in the club
someone probably needs to TELL you guys that this weekend is Valentines
weekend, with the big V-Day on Friday. Some hints/suggustions from the
V-Day strategy guide? Sure, here you go:

1: Bring your significant other somewhere nice, dark, quiet... like Minna
No Anime!

2: Dinner and a movie is classico, but Anime and 50cent sodas is Nouveau
Riche swanky!

Okay, sorry-I'll stop now before I ruin all chances of you ever finding
true love on the anime circuit.

And now, the schedule:

5:00pm Fansub Of The Week
5:30pm Hana Yori Dango

Break: New Phrase of the week #1: "Konnichiwa"-Hello my japanese brotha'.

6:00pm Nadia : The secret of blue water
6:30pm Full metal Panic

Break: New Phrase of the week #2: "Arigato"-Dude, thanks.

7:00pm Inuyasha
7:30pm Kimagure Orange Road

Break: New Phrase of the week #3: "Wo Ai Ni"-I hate this slow-arse
bishounen show.

8:00pm Abenobashi Shopping District (yes! Fanservice! Weeeeeeee!)
8:30pm Fruits Basket

Break: New Phrase of the week #4: "Anata no Obaasan ga daisuki des."-(try
this one out-it'll be fun, probably)

9:00pm Infinite Ryvius
9:30pm Niea_7

That's all folks!

Were this a perfect world we would all be given a golden ticket, just once
in our lives. And this golden ticket? Well-it would get us into whatever
we wanted to get into, for like... a year? A month? Even a week would be
enough. But I guess even here would be drawbacks, I mean... you'd have to
USE the ticket sometime, right? You wouldn't know if you were using it at
the right time, or if something next year would be more important.

Okay, so maybe the golden ticket wasn't the best.

Ha! That's where the golden BULLET comes into play.

In a perfect world, more ideal than this one or the last five I've talked
about in stupors brought about by substances that begin with letter
A,B,C-Y, and Z, well-in this perfect world we'd be given a bullet. ONE
bullet. One, single golden bullet. This bullet would be a special bullet.
No, it wouldn't kill vampires or werewolves or ghouls or whatnot.. Or,
well-okay-maybe it would. I'll give you that concession, I can hear former
club members calling out for revenge from the spirit world right now.

Well this bullet, see? You'd be able to use it once-reprecussion free.
Why? 'Cause there always has been, always will be, and is currently in
your life-one person who you'd like to shoot. Heck, even if you shot this
person in the ankle you'd probably feel better. They wouldn't be scarred
for life, unless they were of the previously mentioned monster/undead
races.

Hmm... this is a bit violent.

Okay, the IDEAL world would be one where I could find a damn da...uhm,
too-personal. Nevermind.

The IDEAL world is one where you wouldn't have to do work, right? Unless
it was work you enjoyed doing. You know there is SOMETHING out there you
like to do, right? So why not work toward this ideal world and go do
something you like and become good at it instead of doing something you
hate and being decent at it.

Me? I enjoy doing nothing-and some weekends I feel like I'm the King of
nothing. All bow to the king of absolute nothing! At least on weekends
where my nose becomes a snot-faucet, anyway. I'm truly the king of doing
nothing, heck-probably even the king of Negative work on these snot-filled
weekends.

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna no Anime club secretary
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

Go To The Webpage! There is much important information there (including
library stuff! Yes, we have a library-with LOTS of stuff!) and links and
pictures and even some general information maybe.
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===[MnA] Sat, Mar 1 Meeting===
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(Minna No Anime, Wed Feb 26 21:59:56 2003)
Konnichiwa Minna! Konnichiwa kirei na onna no hito! Konnichiwa
hentai-chan!

See? You DO learn something new every day. Just now you learned how to
great your parents. I don't know if you want to try it out just yet, but
soon you'll be ready to yell this across the parking lot as you greet
them.

So do we have any news for you this week? Well-we're doing our Tsurugi's
dinner, lunch... okay I really have no idea. You'll have to come to club
to find out whats going. All I know is that somethings up, way up. And
it's going to be up (or is all going down?) at Tsurugi's on uhm...
hey-lets say March 16th! Sunday before finals. I really hope that's the
right day. Come on in to club and ask if you're curiuos about attending. I
believe we'll have the tatami room all to ourselves again, which of course
means drinks for the 21+ people on me after a few of my own.

Well besides Tsurugi's news I also heard rumor from a small asian girl
that our T-shirt (the one you voted on at the beginning of the quarter) is
still being touched up and finished. I will state this once again, I
really hope our logo goes on his forehead. That would be cool.

And now, the SCHEDULE!!

5:00pm Fansub o'
5:30pm Hana Yori Dango

Break:

6:00pm Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
6:30pm Full Metal Panic

Break:

7:00pm Inuyasha
7:30pm Kimagure Orange Road

Break:

8:00pm Abenobashi
8:30pm Fruits Basket

Break:

9:00pm Infinite Ryvius
9:30pm Niea_7

That's all folks.

LATE BREAKING NEWS!!!

BEEP-BEEP-BEEP-BLEEP-BEEP-BEEP-BEEP!

Oh crap! I forgot it! I just called called by El Presidente... it was
important? Important enought that he called me, and lemme tell you guys-No
One calls the secretary out here in the house of shame. At least, that
must be what they call my house since they don't call.

[Insert your favorite explative]! What the hell did he call me about!?
Tsurugi's?.... no.... fire?... no... subtitles... crack-money... musical
interpretation of Utena?

I got it!

Oh yeah, this ones wasy important.

MEETING PLACE THIS SATURDAY IS DIFFERENT.

If you show up before about... lets say 6:30-then we're going to be in
room 201 of the business building (the same building we meet in normally,
different room for a while). Why, you may ask, are we forced into
subversive anime watching? Well, someone has the room until about 6:30 or
so I've been told. So this means we meet in room 201.

They say repitition is key.

ROOM 201 of the Business building. Well, if you show up before 6:30pm
anyway. If you show up later then dont' worry, just come to the Silo and
we'll greet you with a smile or something maybe.

Well, back onto the regular one-way-conversation material that we normally
share. Okay...ouch, I just fell on my keys... give me a second here...
damn that hurts.

I sit here in my room, on my keys, typing away on my spiffy floor-mounted
keyboard drooling over my latest waste/good use-of-time. FLCL dvd2. I
don't know if you pay homange to the anime gods over at Gainax studio or
not, and really-I try to keep religion and anime seperate (Nothing says
christian like Eva) since I take one seriously. Well... kinda seriously
anyway.

However, if you haven't seen FLCL I damn well recommend you go out and
either pick up a copy, rent a copy, or come over to my house where the
FLCL party will be held sometime in the near future. This show is.... soo
good! So good baby, so good! (I'll try to throw on La Brassiere for
after-hours one of these nights so you will ALL regret understanding the
reference).

Speaking of regret and parties, where the hell was everyone? I think no
one (including myself, I chide myself too) showed up to the LAN/Geek party
we held. Now, while my memory is far from perfect... okay, actually I
don't even remember what day we were going to have the bloody thing. So, I
say we hold the first ever, Annual or whatever the hell, MINNA NO ANIME
GEEK PARTY.

Humour me for a minute or two. I imagine it would go like this:

I would wake up early, as someone would be knocking on my door very loud.
I'd walk to the door and say "do you have any idea what time it is el
presidente? Oh, hi shane." They'd promptly tell me that 3 in the afternoon
was when we were supposed to meet.

>From here on a slow trickle of all the familiar faces in club would appear
at my front door, each of them attached to bodies. Bodies that carried
computer systems that were capable of playing StarCraft type games. Now,
don't get me wrong...just 'cause a few of use run
cutting-edge-top-of-the-line-gaming-rigs doesn't mean we can't ALL have
fun. StarCraft has got to be one of the staple games, and why you ask?
After getting feedback about the state of affairs of other peoples
computers I realized that anything beyond StarCraft might tax the machines
too much.

Perhaps we'd even move on to WarCraftIII? Not graphically intensive
either, bless Blizzard's cold, rich heart.

Preferably we'd all move onto games like Return to Castle Wolfie, or even
old-school counter-strike. Although, a few rounds of counterstrike and we
might all hate the term "knifefight" for the rest of our lives.

Oh, and I haven't even mentioned console gaming yet. For those uninitiated
club members, some of us play a game called "Super Monkey Ball 2." This
game is good, that once-while renting it at the local BlockbUster the guy
behind the counter smiled in a heartfelt manner that only gamers can use
to communicate with each other when silently discussing games.

Needless to say, this disturbed me. Until I took the game home, busted out
some hours of mulit-monkey action with mai boratha ando mai shistaa. Ah
yes, the memories of my sister crying out in vain as I knocked her ball
off of the 1000 point marker... god I miss those days. So yeah, you get
the idea. Timeless memories with the club that keep on... well, showing
anime I guess.

We don't do much else. And I think this would be fun. This and especially
the Tsurugi's lunch/dinner (henceforth called "Linner") thing might
actually put Names behind some of the faces I see in club every week.

Okay, now my roomate is yelling at me because we're supposed to be in
"lab"-whatever the hell that is.

Wow, this was a long letter? I guess I should put a conclusion on here.

In conclusion, Meeting @ Room 201 of the Business building, Tsurugi's
Linner on 3/16(sun) and a Lan/Geek party sometime in the very near future.

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime Secretary
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
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===[MNA] Last meeting of the quarter===
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(Minna No Anime, Thu Mar 13 19:46:34 2003)
Hi all, since dead week means die week for our secretary K, I'll be doing
the last e-mail for this quarter.

Here's the schedule for this week...

5:00-Trava parts 3 and 4
5:30-Hana Yori Dango

10 minute break

6:00-Nadia
6:30-Inuyasha

10 minute break

7:00-KOR
7:30-Infinite Ryvius

10 minute break

8:00-10:00 Patlabor Movie 3: WXIII

Incase you were not aware, we're showing Patlabor Movie 3 this week as our
end of the quarter movie, so no Full Metal Panic, Abenobashi, Fruits
Basket, or Neia_7. They shall make their triumphant return on our first
meeting of Spring quarter.

See you on Saturday!
-Nik Kamachi
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== Spring 2003 ==
===[MnA] Sat, Apr 5 Meeting===
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(Minna No Anime, Wed Apr 2 00:50:41 2003)
Welcome back to another quarter of school everyone!

For all of you who are done, I envy you. For all of you who are who are in
my situation where graduation seems only a few years away, and has seemed
like that for the past few years, don't give up hope.

As the movie PingPong has tought me, I CAN FLY! and something about not
amounting to much of I'm dead or something, I didn't really understand the
point of the movie other than it was about some bad-ass ping-pong players
and maybe young male teen friendship or something.

Oh yeah, news and stuff!

OPEN HOUSE: April 26/27 You KNOW you want to help us out in anyway
possible, and in return? I dunno-maybe I'll buy the Wasabi-rolls next
time? I can't remember what sort of food/drink combo we're doing this
year, but I remember it sounded tasty, and well-priced enough that you and
your fellow poor-college-students could afford it. If you do want to help
out then go ask El Presidente because he's bored this quarter and needs
something to do besides watch his roomates watch anime.

Speaking of Wasabi-rolls...Tsurugi's was excellent. And for those of you
who didn't show up, shame on you! Except for Paul, that's my bad. I was
supposed to pick him up or something and I sorta forgot... yeah, I'm a
great roommate. ^_^'

Okay, enough of that, we'll do the schedule and then back into the random
stuff.

THE SCHEDULE:

(it's been so long, I'm having trouble remembering...)

5:00 Fansub O' The Week.
5:30 Hana Yori Dango : Doumyouji's Triumphant Toilet Seat

Break: Catch up with old friends, "how was your spring break, where did
you get that tattoo?"

6:00 Nadia- Secret of Blue Water : Nadia Gets Mad (part 18)
6:30 Full Metal Panic : How Big Is Chidori?

Break: Make new friends, "how was your spring break, what is that on your
face?"

7:00 Inuyasha : Danger! Seshomaru's Silent But Deadly Attack!
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road : Half The Club Doesnt' Care

Break: Make new friends, "hand me that wrench, I'm almost done with her
head."

8:00 Abenobashi : I don't even know where to begin...
8:30 Fruits Basket : Sohma Family Secret-Beastiali-okay, that's just
wrong.

Break: That last one wasn't very funny, was it?

9:00 Infinite Ryvius : More Bad-Ass (Part III-this time it's personal!)
9:30 Niea_7 : ABe Sniffs More Paint

That's all folks!

So this last weekend I painted my room. And despite initial reactions, the
color is NOT 'whore-red' or 'magenta' or 'how-drunk-are-you'-red. It is
in-fact Victorian Red. A nice, dark, red-red. Of course, it needs another
coat... or two, which means we'll have another painting party in the
coming months, but the best part? Sniffing the fumes coming from the walls
as I try to write this damn newsletter. It still smells strongly of paint,
and I guess I should remove the bucket and tray and stuff from my room,
but laziness pays off apparnently. Everythings just funnier now.

Hmmm... Tsurugi's you say? Oh, sorry I misheard you. Yeah, AX this year is
going to rock. Are we going as a club? Or maybe we're doing FAnime again?
I have no idea, and this probably isn't the place for me to state my
complete lack-of-knowledge on this subject, but if you're interested in
attending either convention as a big ol' hunkering club of... club
something? Yeah, just let us know. In past years FAnime has been a pretty
popular convention, with the club officially attending en masse, while AX
was simply left for all of us fools to find our way there on our own.

You know what? I bet that betwene all of us we've got some GREAT
convention stories. You know, like the time we were pulled over and then
had our car impounded while the cop didn't believe it was our car. I mean,
I guess legally it wasn't, but still. It was kinda rude of him, with the
light and the gun and stuff.

Or what about the time Faye had a whip... and man, oh man did she look
good. I mean, without the whip. With the whip it was sorta scary. Scary...
but tantilizing.

Ha! And who could forget AX last year?! There was a guy, big guy... big,
hairy, very hairy, very very hairy, tall, big, extra hairy guy dressed as
Faye Valentine. No, this is a different faye from "S&M" faye. I spotted
this monstrosity of nature in the dealers room. From around the booth all
you could see was the wig, and the fact that whoever it was stood about
6-feet tall. Oh, and all the heads were turned and gawking. So my natural
reaction? "Sweet! Hot faye!" As soon as he turned around that booth's
corner I received my instant-karma for my naive pig-headed notion.
Yessir-ee, haven't seen a hairy belly like that since this guy I used to
know named "toad."

Mind you, all my stories are horror-stories. One of these days I'll have a
good experience at a convention, hopefully this year will be the year of
good conventioning! I must think positive or something like that, the
sticker on the side of my computer dictates so!

So yeah, come on down to a convention with me, the king of comedic terror.
Make sure you drive yourself, 'cause otherwise I can't vouch for your fun.
It'll be great, just like when we were children. We'll cosplay, hit up the
dance floor looking like morons and still expecting chics to flock to us,
stand in long, long lines, argue with people in the dealers room, take
pictures of other cosplayers who's costumes could kick our costumes'
arses, and stay up late looking for the big-fire party (or hold our OWN
big-fire party).

This letter is just getting too long, maybe I should get back to work.
Sigh, work. Day 1 of spring quarter and I'm already pulling an
all-nighter.

I think its time I let the fumes direct my report writing ability. I mean,
this (supposedly) 100+page paper is due tomorrow at noon after all. Thats,
uhm... 11 hours from now.

Eeeep!

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime Secretary
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
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===[MnA] Sat. Apr 12 Meeting===
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(Minna No Anime, Thu Apr 10 18:16:12 2003)
Konnichiwa minna!

So how many of you have seen Battle Royale yet? Oh wait, more important
stuff first, bendy-weapons and cool fight scenes later.

Open House! Apr. 26/27 is coming, and you KNOW you wish you help us out
somehow. Come by the booth and say hi. Oh, and then we can be pleasant and
engage in this "barter" system I keep hearing the business majors talking
about. I believe it involves the transfer of money for something good,
like Yakitori (damn good!).

And a Room Change this saturday. If you show up to the Silo expecting to
get in for you favorite shows... well... yeah, it'll be pretty funny.
Actually, I lost the room number... it was around here somewhere, written
in blood, but I guess even that evaporates. SO, last I heard we'll be in
the 2nd floor of Building 2. That's the building attached to the silo, the
one up those blasted stairs that tripped me last week.

Hmmm.... other info to come soon.

THE SCHEDULE:

5:00pm Fansub O'
5:30pm Hana Yori Dango

Break:

6:00pm Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
6:30pm Full Metal Panic

Break:

7:00pm Inuyasha
7:30pm Kimagure Orange Road

Break:

8:00pm Abenobashi
8:30pm Fruits Basket

Break:

9:00pm Infinite Ryvius
9:30pm Niea_7

That's all folks!

NOTE: I apologize ahead of time for this poorly written excuse for wasted
space. Pay no attention to the jumps in logic or lack there-of.

Ah yes, the mystery of "after-hours." All the crap we don't put on during
regular hours, why? 'Cause sometimes it is just that-crap. Everything
else? There's no time in our packed schedule to throw on movies or extra
shows so instead we all hang around after club is over and done at 10pm
and use the theater-screen to our advantage.

Ooh, another random thought! I should go play some more of the new Zelda
game. My god, "Link" has the greatest facial expressions. This point alone
has me stoked on the game. Now that I'm all of 40 minutes into the game I
think I've found the single greatest threat to my grades.

Today is random thought day. Why? 'Cause Telnet has had its cold, slimy
fangs in my arse for the past who-know-how-long, and now that I'm typing
this thing I've kinda lost interest in telling you the plethora of
politically-incorrect jokes we came up with earlier today.

On a happier note, this Saturday a music-major friend of mine is hosting
his senior recital. It should be really good, and afterward we're eating
chinese food at the Breakfast Buzz (where the hell is that?). So, if
anyone knows if this 'Breakfast Buzz' serves decent Chinese food you need
to let me know before I commit to going. I mean... the name alone kinda
makes the whole ordeal sound fishy-like a Mob deal or something. "Hey
Louie, come down to the BB for Chinese Food. $4,000 worth of Chinese
food."

Oh, and as for paint-sniffing, my second coat of red is on my walls. It's
great! Its dark... scary... dark... like blood or something?

Did anyone else hear the rumor about the live-action version of Akira? I
mean, more than a rumor I think I read it somewhere like Animenation's
news site or maybe NewTypeUSA or something semi-legit like that. God I
hope they don't go through with it. Being a great animem ovie, and one of
the best manga I've ever read, I think it would poorly translate itself to
the silver screen. Of course, I can't be too judgeful this early, can I?
Who knows-maybe they'll get James Cameron to direct it and put a bunch of
Terminators in the story. While I wouldn't think of it as Akira, I'd
really like to see more Terminators on screen. Sure we've got T3 coming
out soon... but you can never really have too many death-machines in
movies.

Hey, what do you guys think would make the worst live-action
anime-transfer? Personally, I think Ranma 1/2 would suck... unless you got
someone semi-chick like as Ranma and then I guess the boobs would work?
But seeing Rupaul as Ranma just... scares me.

Although, Jin-Roh would probably be really good. Those 50cal guns ripping
apart the little-red-riding-hood girl probably wouldn't go over well with
the crazy parental-associations here in the States.

Hmm... tentacle-monsters aside, serioualy what do you guys think would be
a lame anime-transfer-to-live-action movie? The Utena Movie? The numerous
Patlabor movies? Esca? Eva? Bebop?

Hmm... while I ponder this perplexing non-paradoxial paradox of plentiful
problems I'm going to go finish my work. Next week, we return to Boeing,
again! You guys enjoy your school while you can you silly freshmen-type
peoples.

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime Secretary
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
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===[MnA] Sat. 26 Apr OPEN HOUSE===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Apr 24 11:24:58 2003)
First thing: NO MEETING THIS SATURDAY

Second thing: OPEN HOUSE

Yes, that's right. Open house this saturday! The one, the only open house.
Remember that weekend where about 5 thousand (I kid you now, it might be
more, it has in the past) freshmen and parents converge on our small
school for a weekend of debauchery and drink.... wait, that's graduation.
THIS weekend they're looking for wholesome fun.

Who better to provide them with that extra little jump in their level of
fun other than us? We'll be hosting our booth between the Library (hard to
miss, largest building in the country I think?) and building 10. That's
the ag-lish building, by the way. Erhard Agriculture (Bldg. 10) and
English (Bldg. 22) formed a voltron-esque unity with this Aglish building.

The location was conferred to me in secret message by El Presidente. But
when you start to think about it... there's another building inbetween
those buildings, the Math & Home Ec. Building 38. So, check out the
parking lot(s) around Building 38 and you're bound to find us.

And lastly, a call for HELP!! We will need help with things such as
"cutting chicken" (I'm not quite sure what that is a code word for, but
I'm sure you guys can figure it out) and whatnot. Also, don't forget to
come by on Saturday and support our club! I know you guys want to come
down and help us out, but you're probably just timid, like Clark Kent or
Dornkirk. You should come down and help, like Superman or that guy form
Goldenboy.

In honor of your deciding to help (like how I made the choice for ya'?)
I'll even make a vow to party for you this weekend. Alas, Saturday is so
close! If you want to help out then e-mail us back Right Away!!

Also, if you don't know what to do but you want to help I'm sure we can
find a place for you. Just let us know that you're willing to help.

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna no Anime Secretary
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
-"Oh.... so that's what they meant by no-servicable-parts-inside. I just
figured I'd stick my hand in and hope for the best."
</pre>

===[MnA] Sat, May 17 Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Wed May 14 16:31:13 2003)
Konnichiwa Minna,

Wow, been a while since I've sent out a newsletter, huh? Well-you can come
to the Saturday meeting and beat me up if you want. I've been busy here
and there, now and then. I had a vision of E3, but due to a super
dimensional f***-up down in some alternate dimension our paperwork was
stolen by gremlins. So, needless to say I've been busting my arse in the
senior design lab pulling all-nighters (just got home for the first time
since... uhm... Monday? Er-no, it was legally Tuesday then). Well, I
almost wanted to drive down there and attempt to break in somehow, but
then images of Megatokyo started dancing in my head-and while I am going
to Japan in a few months-I was hoping it wouldn't be to escape the law.

More important news than my self-pitying stuff:

SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY! At Tsurugi's! 7pm Minna no Anime quarter dinner!
This excursion into the normal world has always been an unbelievable
event. If you've gone I don't need to tell you that being surrounded by
all your favorite MnA peeps while having the best Japanese food in SLO may
just be one of the funnest events you can attend. If you've never been?
Save up your lunch money and treat yourself! Also, I need a wasabi-roll
challenger, since last time Paul's nasal cavities lit on fire and consumed
him and Correen's cute friend in a blaze of blue fire.

Oh my god I just hit CTRL+S to save this document by habit... i've been
typing too long.

More news? It's not too late to order T-shirts! While I can't remember the
prices and I don't want to quote anything ($15 for non-members $13 for
members? But that just might only be pre-order prices), lets just say
they're your standard club t-shirt price.

Oh, even MORE big news:

We have new officers! Jeez, how could I forget to tell you that? Well-I
did slack on sending out a letter letting you know we were voting, and I
did forget to mention the fact that Godzilla was doing a guest-signing
down at GPP the other day...

So yes, new officers.

El Presidente: Nik (still, how we pity him)

Vice Presidente: Tom-Dave (Dave is his actual name, don't ask how Tom
entered into that...)

Treasurer: Mike (The man who owns the tape of the worst movie ever... I
wonder to this very day why we borrowed it...)

Librarian: Erin (She's very... okay, actually I know nothing about her-I'm
quite happy there's new blood among our ranks though)

Secretary: ME! Again! Yes!? No? It's a little funny... this feeling
inside me...

And Now, THE SCHEDULE!

5:00 Fansub O': Kino no Tabi - 1
5:30 Hana Yori Dango - 22: Doumyouji Tsubaki comes home!

Break: Yes, these are actual episode titles. I'm not pulling your leg, I'm
just a bit in the hallucinagenic phase of sleep deprivatin. (No, I don't
get it either).

6:00 Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - 22: Electra the Traitor
6:30 Full Metal Panic - 23: Giant's Field

Break: I almost didn't want to put the Nadia title there... sorta a
spoiler. But it's right at my favorite part in the series!

7:00 Inuyasha - 47: Naraku ni Nkoru Onigumo no kokoro
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road - 46: One Silver Night! Alone Together in a
Gondola!

Break: Now would be a good time to figure out what you're having at
Tsurugi's (beside Wasabi rolls!).

8:00 Abenobashi - 12: (can't find title)
8:30 Fruits Basket - 23: (don't think they have episode titles)

Break: Suddenly I realize... there's a lawnmower in our backyard... but we
don't own one... I think it would normally be time to regulate, 'cept this
dude's got a lawnmower so I think I'll let him keep on mowing... you only
think I'm kidding...

9:00 Infinite Ryvius - 23: The Torn Past
9:30 Niea_7 -12: Niea Under Seven Bath (Latter Half)

That's All Folks!

So, having 6-day weeks I really do wish there was another day in the week.
Only, for me-that means I wish I went to bed 7 nights a week and not 6.
Sure some of us are "engineers" or something, but still. I really miss a
regular week. And so... today, Wednesday for some, Tuesday for me, I can
finally SLEEP.... ahh, so good.

Well, because of that I'll try and keep this space short.

You already know to come down to Tsurugi's this Sunday at 7pm, and I think
we had a good amount of signatures so I'm sure we'll overflow into the
tables by the tatami room (yeah table space!).

Oh, dude! The lawnmower man just left! And I still have both my arms! YES!
I was worried there for a sec-he's back. With a weedwacker... I guess we
have gardeners... or psychos... I don't want to risk it. I'll just let
that dude do his thing. Freaky...

Anime Expo this year? Well... besides the fact that Koshi Rikudo (excel)
and the dude who directed Ryvius (one of the greatest shows ever, cant'
remember his bloody name) are gonna be there---drum roll---Yoshitoshi ABe
will be there as well. I almost want to come back from Japan early to see
him. Of course, its still up between ABe and Battle Royale 2.

What is Battle Royale you ask? No, it's not a quarterpounder from Japan,
it's a damn fine movie. Mind you, there are pretty much two opinions on
this movie. The first seems to be obsessed with the violence-pointing out
the fact there is a shite-load of it. "Too violent," or whatever else
their battle cry is. The other seems to realize there's a message past all
the violence intended to shock you, grab your attention, force you to
watch it.

I wont spoil the movie, nor even give you the overall plot-why? Because
I'm thinking about the Matrix right now and I'd not be able to give BR
justice. Mmm... Matrix... hey, that's like tomorrow or something right?
Anyway, I'm beginning to nod off on my keyboard. You all enjoy your week
and come to the meeting on Saturday and Tsurugi's on Sunday!

Our shows are all coming to a close-and here's a special little hint for
those of you who don't know already... we're showing a movie at the end of
the quarter (yes-we ALWAYS show a movie-I know). What's special about it?
I dunno-perhaps the fact that it's about a half-dog demon and if you don't
come El Presidente will haunt your bedroom? He's been living the script
for that movie (from what I understand its longer than the source code for
Windows) for the past 18 months or something. I'm not quite sure how it
works, but I think the El Presidente we see in club is a robot-clone of
the real one. That's why he wont drink any sake at Tsurugi's, he'll rust
or something. Same with Wasabi rolls, except he'd go up in blue flames. Oh
yeah-my point. We have some Great shows coming to a close, and they have
some unbelievably solid endings in store for the fan who's been following
along (or who shows up and asks someone what the hell a giant robot is
doing in space).

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime Secretary
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===[MnA] Sat, 31 May Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu May 29 22:19:42 2003)
Konnichiwa Minna,

Well, it's the end of the year and we're finishing up a bunch of different
series. Full Metal Panic is over, but you haven't had your fill of girls
and robots yet? Well, don't worry-Gonzo will probably issue another
classic "Kick-Arse-Robots-Save-World-Get-The-Girl" story, eventually. Like
the insanity of Gainax? FLCL is waiting for you on three very shiny, very
excellent discs. Like KOR? I'm sorry, really-I am.

And as for T-shirts... well, don't lynch me but I believe they'll be in
this week. Of course, that's placing faith in UPS to deliver something in
three days that they said they'd deliver in three days. We're talking
about UPS here, the same guys who kicked Moblins and plucked the wings off
of Winged-Zombies when they were children. I don't think we can trust them
to deliver in three days, but hopefully they'll prove me wrong (for once).

This week, since we're down a few shows (that ended last meeting, sniff)
we've decided to do a little improvising. We hope you enjoy the
replacements (Kuromi is rocken! And that rhymes with Dokken!-who aren't.)

And now, the schedule!

5:00 Fansub O' : Expect a slight haze with a 10% change of Matantei
Ragnarock
5:30 Hana Yori Dango - 24 : Love's Tempest! Banished from School?

Break: Our weather satellite is down so we really don't know what's going
on outside, and no-we can't open a window.

6:00 Nadia : The Secret of Blue Water - 24 : Lincoln Island
6:30 Anime Runner Kuromi-Chan : Moderate Shower Scenes Will Come In During
The Morning Replaced By Foggy Windows Later In The Evening

Break: It's spelled L-I-N-C-O-L-N. And the music's better (except for that
screeching banshee "The-Secret-Blue-Water!!")

7:00 Inuyasha - 49 : Ushinawareta Kohaku no Kioku
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road - 48 : Caught the Love! And The End.

Break: Looks like that KOR front is giving into rays of sunshine and
happiness.

8:00 Otaku no Video 82 : Curious? So am I. I've never seen this 'classic.'
8:30 Fruits Basket - 25 : Episode 25

Break: I'm out of cocoa-puffs. Well, I guess that's a good thing since I
don't like them anyway.

9:00 Infinite Ryvius - 25 : To Be Who I Am
9:30 Otaku No Video 85 : I've never seen this 'classic' either.

That's all folks!

Now, most of you don't know this, but I was born here on Earth. Yes, May
31, 1980 to be exact. That means my life-altering 23rd birthday is coming
up, and is in fact this Saturday. Will you find me in club? Probably not.
Will you find me downtown at the bars? Uhm... no. Will you find me in the
middle of a fragfest with my buds from the bay area? Hell yeah.

We're gonna LAN it up with some new-and-old-school FPS and a bit of
Starcraft for the memories (oh the bittersweet memories). My
recommendation to all of you? Do something similar for your birthday.
Forget the nice dinners and the presents (I hate receiving presents,
normally) and go do something that you'd get a once-in-a-year chance to
do. You can drink it up at the bars any weekend you want to, but how many
times can you persuade your friends to come down and let you play them in
games that you've got more experience with?

Recently I was downtown helping celebrate a friend's 21st birthday, and by
the end of the night when I was cleaning the side, window, and part of the
interior of the Buick (some of you know of the Buick named Curtis, some of
you do not...) I realized that birthdays shouldn't be spent puking
in/on/out of someone else's car.

Nope, instead you should be off fighting bears named Jason in the
mountains, or something to that effect. Maybe go Kayaking and raid one of
those boats in Morro Bay. You could be Birthday Pirates or something?

Hmm... birthday pirates I say? I'll have to remember that one for later.

So, as I have recently been informed via the satellite hookup known as
"addiction" Macross Zero ep 2 is out. I am waiting patiently for my
overseas shipment to arrive. And when it does? I'll probably watch it once
or twice through with my Macross buddy and then find the digisub for it so
we can bring the DVD into club.

But wait, I'm getting a Digi-sub you say? Isn't a snotty-nosed punk like
me opposed to those small whispers of thievery? Yes, yes I am. I'm getting
the script from the sub-for the DVD I purchased. No, I wont chide you and
tell you to go to hell for having digi's or anything. In fact, there was a
time when I sat glued to my monitor watching the hours and hours of digi's
I had collected/borrowed. Of course, those shows were never gonna come out
in the US, and if they were they weren't licensed yet.

It seems that these days, as soon as a show is deemed popular/profitable
in Japan it is licensed in America-even if the show hasn't finished it's
run in Japan. This poses a problem for Digi subbers with morals. Once a
show is licensed you're supposed to stop subbing it, destroy copies of it,
stop distributing it, etc. However, as long as people can get high quality
copies for free they don't care about pirating (not birthday pirating,
mind you).

It reminds me of the Simpsons episode about stealing cable. No one really
cared that Homer did it, it was a victimless crime after all-right? Lisa
played the moral high-ground card on him and eventually Homer comes about
and misses the greatest televised fight ever, and then cuts the cable line
so they no longer receive free cable.

I look at Digi-subbing kinda like that. People are doing it because they
think its a victimless crime, and as opposed as I am to modern
intellectual property laws, I have to agree with the dark side on a few
issues. If most people, no-lets say some people. About-oh say 20% of
people who are really into a show don't buy the DVD because they can get a
DivX copy that's comparable quality for free-then, doesn't that directly
effect the companies selling/licensing the shows? 20% of their income was
just lost because of theft (not paying for something normally constitues
theft).

If I were the guy who just lost 20% of his income, I'd be pissed off also.
Now, don't take any analogies between my argument against Digisubs and
mp3s or DivX in general, or other media/piracy because my opinion for each
topic is different.

I just think that people are cheap and lazy and are willing to steal if
they think it doesn't hurt anyone. I know I am, and maybe you're not-but I
sure see that in how many people can cheer at AX for a show that's not
even licensed in the states yet. Funny isn't it, how Love Hina can be
mentioned-even though at the time it had just been licensed, and most of
the crowd cheered with the ferver of fans who were familar with
most-if-not-all of the series.

Okay, I've delayed my dinner/studying long enough. It's ten-o-clock or
something and I need to go study and find a place that will serve me
dinenr in exchange for monetary barter.

Don't think too hard about what I said, 'cause I didn't say much. This was
an unformulated series of incoherant sentances raised in a brain that
can't even tell you what day of the week it thinks it is (Ice Cream is not
a day, as I found out yesterday).

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime Secreatary
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

Link Of The Week! (Yes, I know it's missing 48 weeks of the year)

http://www.productin-ig.com/Ghost_TV.html
</pre>

===Final Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Fri Jun 6 16:29:37 2003)
Hey folks! Jamshid is busy bashing his head in a design lab so I'll be
doing the final newsletter of the year.

5:00-Kaze no Yojimbo
5:30-Hana Yori Dango 25

6:00-Nadia 25
6:30-Inuyasha 50

7:00-Fruits Basket 26
7:30-Infinite Ryvius 26

8:00-Inuyasha Movie: The Feelings that Transcend Time

For all of you anime fans who are gonna be around for the summer fear not!
Minna No Anime will be having meetings during the summer, our meetings
will be a lot less formal and audience choice will be an option.

See you all Saturday, and hope to see some of you over summer.

-Nik Kamachi
President, Minna No Anime
</pre>

== Summer 2003 ==
===First Summer Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Wed Jun 18 21:47:35 2003)
Hey all, I hope you're enjoying your summer. If not, maybe a five hour
fix of anime is what you need. Since summer is the relaxing time of year,
Minna No Anime is going to loosen up as well. Right now there is no solid
schedule, and that may or may not change depending on what the audience
wants.

For now, the only show that is a sure thing is You're Under Arrest.
The officers will be bringing in what they have and anyone can bring their
disks or tapes they want to show.

If your saturdays are open, then give MNA Summer quarter a try.

Same place (building 3, room 213 AKA The Silo) and same time (5-10 PM)

Hope to see some of you there!

-Nik Kamachi
President, Minna No Anime
</pre>

===MNA Summer 2003 6/16/03===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Wed Jul 16 13:48:09 2003)
Hi all,

Since AX is over and I am now back in SLO I figured that I should fill
your mailboxes with more newsletters.

So far it looks like Eatman'98, Outlaw Star, and Rahxephon are crowd
favorites for summer quarter. And of course our weekly dose of You're
Under Arrest continues to go strong.

So if you're bored on Saturday and happen to be in SLO stop on by. If
you're not bored on Saturday you should still come, how often will you
get
to watch this stuff on a giant screen through a $20,000 projector?

For those of you not in SLO, if you have friends that are going to Poly
tell them about MNA. We need new blood and word of mouth is one of the
best ways. So next time you're laying out on the beach, do me a favor and
tell somebody that Cal Poly has a bitchin anime club.

-Nik
</pre>

===No more summer meetings===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Wed Aug 27 22:57:50 2003)
Hey summer anime freaks, this is your venerable president with some
unfortunate news. There will be no more Minna No Anime this summer
quarter due to the fact that the silo is going to be cleaned for the next
two weeks.

I would appreciate anyone who reads this to let as many people know as
possible so that we don't get hopeful members showing up for a meeting we
won't be having.

Our next meeting will be the first weekend of fall quarter, so i hope to
see you all then!

-Nik Kamachi
President, Minna No Anime
</pre>

2001-2002 Emails

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== Fall 2001 ==
===No Subject===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Wed Sep 19 02:41:25 2001)
Minna,

It's about time to start school again, which of course means it's about
time to start Minna no Anime again! For those of you unfortunate souls -
myself included - who were deprived of your opportunity to watch Dylan's
summer of "Choose Hana Yori Dango, Pick Ping Pong Club", I feel your pain.
But as we start a new year, we have a whole new lineup of great shows!
Instead of keeping you in suspense any longer, let me just list them out
right now:

5:00 Fansub o'
5:25 Steel Angle Kurumi **

6:00 Fushigi Yugi
6:25 Kachou Ouji (Black Heaven) *

7:00 Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou (His and Her Circumstances) *
7:25 Trigun

8:00 Inu Yasha *
8:25 KOR (Kimagure Orange Road)

9:00 Berserk *
9:30 Gasaraki

You might about now be wondering what's up with all the *'s. Well, we're
trying out some new stuff this year. The one's marked with a single *,
mean that we have the Japanese Region 2 DVD, and we're going to be running
it through a computer to do live subtitling right in front of everybody.
Dylan, I, and some others have been working hard on getting scripts and
making them when they weren't avalible to use for this, so it's quite
exciting. The double ** indicates a digisub. That's right, for the first
time Minna no Anime will try to get with the times and show a digisub,
since we have the computer there for the live subbing anyways.

Other's of you might be wondering "Hey, where's Slayers?" Well, we had to
make a lot of hard decisions this quarter, and after a long two week debat
using many many emails, it was decided that Slayers just couldn't fit into
the schedule. But do not despair! Former Secretary Matt has donated his
Slayers Next VHS box set to the club library, and it will be avalible for
check out all year long.

I'm actually quite looking foward to everything we're showing, especially
KOR. This is actually kind of a tribute to former President Craig Kleen,
as it is his absolute all time favorite series. If you go to his
appartment, you will see his walls lined with Madoka wall scrolls. This
time slot is for you Craig!

For those of you who can't wait to get back together with other members of
the club, and have a bit of a chat with the officers, we will be
participating in Club Showcase this Saturday. I invite all of you to come
by and visit us. Later on we're going to have a somewhat unofficial
screening, where we'll be testing out equipment, and just showing some
random stuff. Again, anyone who wants to come is more than welcome. I'm
not exactly sure when Club Showcase starts, but I'll be talking with the
WOW people tomorrow, and I'll let everybody know.

Finally, I know there are some of you out there who are waiting to hear
the word on the deal with Maison Ikkoku. As a lot of you may know, Maison
Ikkoku just so happens to be my all time favorite series, and I bought the
R2 complete box set with 24 DVD's (Thank god for Tokyopop!) As president,
I'm entitled to be able to watch my DVD's on the big screen in 213, but
unfortunatly, it just will not fit in the schedule (it was either MI or
KOR, and at the decision making time, I didn't have the box set, and I
really wanted to put KOR in). So we have to figure out a different time
to meet. Dylan has suggested that we meet every other week on Sunday to
watch a disc or more. Other possibilities would be: once a month, we
binge for 8 hours or something, or Saturdays before official club. I want
to accomidate as many interested parties as possible, so I'd like to hear
from you. Send me a mail at my personal email of benl@<removed for spam reasons>,
telling me what would work best for you. I might even set up a temporary
mailing list.

Alright, I hope that was enough new for you from us at MNA.

Ben Leinweber
MNA Kaichou/President
</pre>

===MNA - Club Carnival Tomorrow===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Sep 20 17:40:01 2001)
Minna,

Well, I made a bit of a mistake. Club Carnival actually is tomorrow,
and not Saturday as I had previously said ^_^;. Sorry about that. We
have to start setting at 2:30. I won't know exactly where the booth is
until we check in tomorrow, but the lady I talked to said most likely we
will be in Chumash.

As for the non-official meeting saturday, we will be watching through
some first episodes of the live subtitling stuff first to test out the
system. We'll probably start around 5:00. If you don't want this little
preview, then I suggest that you delay coming for at least an hour or so.

Hope to see all of you soon!

Ben Leinweber
MNA Kaichou
</pre>

===MNA - The first meeting of the year! 9/29===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Sep 27 13:57:57 2001)
Konnichi wa minna-san,

Well I finally get to be the secretary and not the power monger... err
president (acting). What this all means is that another year of Minna no
Anime has officially begun. We'll be trying some new things this year
(Live-subbed from import DVD's, Digisubs) and also going back to some of
our basics(VHS, fansubs).

As can be seen below we've got a lot of new shows and only a few repeat
offenders (Trigun, Kodocha, Fushigi Yuugi). Fortunately both Trigun and
Fushigi Yuugi start the year off with recap episodes so you can catch up
in case you forget what happened at the end of last year.

And now for something completely... the same:

Week 1 Episodes/Titles and other info:

5:00 Kodomo no Omocha #33 - Love Tasted Like Curry (fansub VHS)
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #28 - The Ancient Path (Recap ep, DVD)

the first BREAK of the year, refreshing isn't it?

6:00 Steel Angel Kurumi #1 and 2 - The cute maid girl beats up the
bad guys (Digisub)
6:30 Black Heaven (Kachou Ouji) #1 - Stairway to Heaven (DVD)

Ben, Nik, Dylan and Nur BREAK the computer trying to get it to work
properly

7:00 Inuyasha #1 - The Time Jumping Girl and The Sealed Boy (Live
Subtitled Import DVD)
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road #1 - A Transfer Student! 'Tis embarrassing to
say, but I'll fall in love for the first time. - (Commercial VHS)

watch as we BREAK ourselves trying to get KareKano working. We've gone to
extra lengths to try and show this one in the best quality possible,
please don't ask about the hours that have been put into getting this show
working; we hope you all enjoy it as much as we have.

8:00 His and Her Circumstance (Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou) #1 - Her
Circumstances (Live Subtitled Import DVD)
8:30 Trigun #13 - Vash the Stampede (Recap ep DVD)

BREAK to get caught up on Trigun. Don't worry about starting in the
middle of the show; we've got your recap right here; see what you missed
and then be angry with yourself for not coming earlier last year.

9:00 Berserk #1 - The Black Swordsman (Live Subtitled Import DVD)
9:30 Gasaraki #1 - On The Ancient Stage of Stone (DVD)

break till Sunday*!

Corrections, retractions and other such nonsense:
As you may have noticed, the schedule above is much different from
anything we have published before. This is because we (officer et al)
decided we didn't like the schedule and that we are all a bunch of idiots.
Thus you have the world premiere of the new and improved schedule for the
2001-02 school year. Wow, it's rare that moments like this occur.

*the break till Sunday?

Aside from the long normal club hours, our esteemed presidente Ben has
obtained the complete TV DVD box set (Import) of Maison Ikkoku (his
favorite show). Thus we decided that it would be a good idea to continue
(and finish) showing it after last years start. So we proudly present:

The Maison Ikkoku Sunday Dinner Theater (TMISDT)

The details:

Every other Sunday (starting this Sunday)
5 - 8 PM (bring you dinner)
03-213 (same room as normal Saturday meetings)

6 episodes per meeting (3 hours, unless we binge and finish sooner)
First episode shown: 41 (of 96, where we left off last year)
All from R2 DVD's - gorgeous quality, no Viz-isms! (fansub scripts)

This will continue through winter quarter when we should finish the show
(and hopefully the movie and OVA as well). We're trying to rush this a
bit because Ben will be in Japan for spring quarter which would make it
very hard for him to watch the show with the club ^_^.

Web page of the week (start out with an easy one):
www.animeondvd.com - biggest waste of my internet time - reviews, news,
studio feedback, forums; the anime dvd news site.

Well, I'm done wasting your time for this week. More to come next week.

Saraba da,
Dylan Hall
Secretary

MNA webpage (as always):
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===Minna no Manga===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Mon Oct 1 22:32:53 2001)
I'd like to welcome everyone to join us for another year of Minna no
Manga. It's THE place for you anime and manga discussions.

Where: Building 2 Room 112 (near where we meet on Saturdays)
When: Tuesday 8:00 pm

See you there

-Nik Kamachi, club VP
</pre>

===MNA - The first meeting where things actually go as planned! 10/6===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Oct 4 16:45:59 2001)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

Yes, as the header states things actually will work correctly this coming
Saturday. After figuring out some new techniques for showing all our
import disk and trying them (successfully) at the Maison Ikkoku Sunday
Dinner Theater(plug, plug); we can say with all confidence (which will
promptly be shattered when things don't go right) that everything will
play during its scheduled time.

So, please come again this weekend, because we will actually be able to
play Inuyasha. Fansub o' will be at its appropriate time slot and Berserk
will look infinitely better than it did last week. Kurumi will, of
course, retain it's status as "Best Translation Ever"(can you feel the
sarcasm?).

This is of your next week schedule:

5:00 Here is Greenwood #1 (livesub) - come join us for this classic OVA;
you are guaranteed to laugh at this, so you've got nothing to lose. If
you have already seen it, now's the time to rewatch it (since we'll be
livesubbing it off the newly released import DVD).
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #29 - Mysteries Afoot

Break to practice our engrish

6:00 Steel Angel Kurumi #3/4 - The content is only half the fun of
watching this show.
6:30 Black Heaven #2 - All Night Long

This break is brought to you by the letter 'V'

7:00 Inuyasha #1 - The Time Jumping Boy and The Sealed Girl... or
something - at any rate, the subtitles will work and it'll look much
better than last week.
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road #2 - A Little Lemony Kiss for Her

break to reflect on how easy it was to show stuff back in the days of
subtitled VHS only...

8:00 His and Her Circumstances #2 - A Secret for Two
8:30 Trigun #14 - Little Arcadia

Bloodier show: KOR (Kimagure blah blah) or Berserk? Hatta had a lot of
blood fly out of his nose last week, but I'm not sure if it beats Gutts
cleaving (several) men in two.

9:00 Berserk #2 - Band of the Hawk (It will look unbelievably better this
week, I'm getting all giddy just at the thought ^_^)
9:30 Gasaraki #2 - Opening (Bowel) Movements

until next week...(no Maison this week)

To any and all members (and potential members) who were annoyed/aggrivated
by last weeks problems: Sorry. We have put in far too many hours and
would love to see everything work without problems, but that just not
possible in reality. I feel very confident that everything will play much
better than it did last week, and that we will avoid all of the scheduling
problems we had. We are not professionals, and are not payed to do any of
this. All I can say is that we will try every week to make it better than
the week before.

Secretary's Liner Notes:

The American given title of "Black Heaven" is not at all a translation of
the title (it was chosen to try and sell more copies). The actual
Japanese titles is "Kachou Ouji" (this is what you see above the line that
says "Hard rock save the space"). What this literally translates to is:
"Section Chief Prince" - a much more fitting title for the show. It
should be noted that the main character's name is "Oji Tanaka"; so the
title could be inferred as "Section Chief Oji" (Ouji = Prince). Don't
hold it against Pioneer for changing the name to this awesome show; they
did leave the original title in unaltered during the show after all.

Web site of the week:
http://www.animenewsservice.com
Good site for general anime and anime related news; will post lots of
info straight from Japan (such as the new Kenshin OVA).

I'm done for now, time to get back to class...

Saraba da,

Dylan Hall
Secretary
Minna no Anime

http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===Minna no Manga===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Mon Oct 8 21:49:22 2001)
First off, I'd like to appologize for last week. It turns out we needed
to post flyers for club, so we ended up not having a meeting. I'm REALLY
sorry if you showed up and nobody was there. This time you can be sure
that there will be others at the meeting.

Now then...

time: Tuesday, 8:00 pm

place: Business building room 112 (or possibly 113 if someone steals our
room again)

Hope to see you there.

-Nik
</pre>

===MNA - Third Time's the Charm 10/13===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Oct 11 17:32:01 2001)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

So stuff didn't all work out perfectly last week. But, 2 for 4 isn't bad.
We'll be trying a different DVD-ROM this week which will hopefully avoid
the problems that happened last time. Besides, the washed out, 6th
generation fansub tapes really make you appreciate it when we have the
shows run correctly from the import DVD's. Consider it a character
building experience.

All I can promise is that we will continually try to show anime in the
highest quality that we can and that we will continually work to improve
this club.

Schedule:

5:00 Project ARMS #1 - A choice from our librarian, so it's guaranteed to
be ... visually stimulating.
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #30 - The Flash of Battle

Time to take a break from the seisure inducing lightning attacks

6:00 Steel Angel Kurumi #5/6 - Please select of a language
6:30 Black Heaven #3 - Hot House

I think we need more engrish and less clothing in all our shows

7:00 Inuyasha #2 - People Who Seek the Shikon no Tama (Orb of the Four
Souls)
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road #3 - Feelings Stirred, The Rolling First-Date.

The odds are running 5:1 in favor of things not working correctly, have
you placed your bets yet?

8:00 His and Her Circumstances #3 - His Circumstances
8:30 Trigun #15 - Demons Eye

Prepare for my sobbing when Berserk doesn't work right... again... sigh...

9:00 Berserk #3 - Baptism of Fire
9:30 Gasaraki #3 - Tantric Circle

That's it ('till Sunday!)

The Return of the Maison Ikkoku Sunday Dinner Theater (MISDT)
Sunday 5-8PM
The Usual Room
Episodes 47-52

We had a larger than expected turn out last time, and hope everyone who
came will join us again this Sunday. If you are interested in watching
but haven't seen any of Maison Ikkoku, Ben and I are more than willing to
help you get caught up quickly; so don't skip out just because you aren't
up to date with the show.

Web site of your anime for current week:

Hitoshi Doi's Seiyuu (Voice Actor) Database (and other stuff)
http://www.tcp.com/doi/seiyuu/index.html

Ever wondered why Vash (Trigun) and Takeo (Magic User's Club) sound so
similar?
Questioned as to just how many leading roles Megumi Hayashibara has done?
Had nothing better to do than spend your life gathering useless
information for your hobby so that you can appear to be more knowledgable
than the next monkey?

If so, then that site is the one for you. The most complete Seiyuu
database (that I've found) on the english speaking side of the internet.
Build your level of useless knowledge up to new and before unknown heaps!

Random Ramblings...

Where do they come up with this stuff?

Most anime productions are based on manga. Unlike the dying US comic
industry; the Japanese comic market is ENORMOUS. Everyone reads manga:
old, young, male, female, human, other. They sell phone book size weekly
and monthly compilations for ~$4. The sheer volume of titles produced in
mind boggling. The only show we are showing this quarter which was not
originally manga (or at least inspired by manga) is Black Heaven (possible
Kurumi too). Every other show we have put on this year was originally
manga. Some shows follow the manga quite closely (His and Her
Circumstances) where as others take many creative freedoms (Trigun) or
used a world created in manga as backstory (Gasaraki).

Well, that's all from me for now.

Saraba da,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan (Secretary)
</pre>

===Minna no Manga===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Tue Oct 16 08:56:33 2001)
It's that time of the week again, where we can have open discussions on
anime, manga, video games, and the like.

Where: Business building room 112
When: Tuesday 8:00 pm
why: Because I knowyou all want the equivalent of a 2 hour break in club.

I'd also like to take this chance to encourage ANY of you to enter any of
the contests for Holloween. It's fun, free, and a good chance to get free
stuff. I especially want to stress the fighting game tournament. If you
didn't hear my announcement during club, we're going to be running
tournaments for Guilty Gear X, and Capcom vs. SNK 2. They are both
awesome games. Don't worry about not having played either of these games,
If you've ever played a Street Fighter game, you can play either of these
games.

Sign-up sheets will be at club, or you can e-mail me at
Ruroni16@<removed for spam reasons>

-Nik Kamachi
VP
</pre>

===MNA - Because misery loves company... 10/20===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Oct 18 16:53:18 2001)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

It appears as though third time was the charm. Everything (finally) ran
properly last meeting, so we're gonna try for two in a row.

We will also be having the first raffle of the year this Saturday. We'll
have your member cards ready and you can pick them up after we give you
free stuff. (and you can join this Saturday if you want in on the raffle)

Halloween - It's coming. Soon. Too soon in my opinion, but I have no
influence over the rotation of the earth so I can't stop it. We're going
to be showing anime (mostly "Halloween" themed) from 3PM to 11PM (maybe
midnight), having lots of contests, cheap pizza($2 for half a pizza!), a
cosplay contest and TONS of prizes. As has been mentioned, the overall
winner gets free admission to Fanime ($50) and $100 (at least) to blow on
crap you don't need in the dealers room. There will also be signifigant
prizes for winners of other competitions (ie - $$). So, get to work on
that costume and start studying up on all your random anime knowledge.

And now for this week's sacrifices:

5:00 Fansub o' - Mystery Meat (honestly, I don't know what's being shown.
It could be more Kodocha... or maybe Ebichu)
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #31 - Whirlpool of Doubt

Nuts and Squirrels, nuts and squirrels...

6:00 Steel Angel Kurumi #7/8 - no comment
6:30 Black Heaven #4 - Space Child

This break is still hard

7:00 Inuyasha #3 - I'm Back From the Bone-Eater's Well
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road #4 - Hikaru?! A Sensational "C-Experience."

Will you have a "C-Experience" this break?

8:00 KareKano #4 - Her Problem
8:30 Trigun #16 - Fifth Moon

I *did* grope you nine times during that break

9:00 Berserk #4 - Hand of God
9:30 Gasaraki #4 - Mirage

No MISDT this week! (boo, feh, hiss) I want my Yagami dammit!

Random Thoughts and Bodily Expultions -

The show "His and Her Circumstances" Japanese title is actually a bit more
descriptive than that translation is. The actual title "Kareshi Kanojo no
Jijou" would perhaps be more literally translated " Boyfriend/Girlfriend's
Situations". While literally 'kareshi' and 'kanojo' mean 'guy' and 'girl'
there is a very strong implication of 'boyfriend' and 'girlfriend' to
them. Also, in that there is no plural in Japanese, one could go so far
as to suggest that the title implies the plural for both words (which is
very fitting with the show as it continues). There is no 'real'
translation to a title which is as ambiguous as this one; fansubbers all
just decided on this title as an easy way to identify the show in english
and avoid much confusion.

Website of the week -

hmm... this weeks link is much more obscure than before (and much less in
English) but it's one of the best sites on the net:

http://www.tinami.com/

This is the place to start your search for the best art on the internet.
Just start with one page and start clicking your way though the links.
I'm sure you'll (eventually) find some unbelievably good pics (which
you'll have to send me ^_^). Happy hunting.

Ijou,

Dylan Hall
Secretary

and let us not forget:
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===Minna no Manga===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Mon Oct 22 15:35:03 2001)
It's that time of the week again, when we get to waste err..spend our
Tuesday night talking about anime, manga, and why Ben wants to dress up
like a girl.

Time: Tuesday 8:00 pm
Place: Business building room 112 (or 113 depending on which is available
to us)

See you there!

-Nik "The NnewF fuku" Kamachi
</pre>

===MNA - Halloweeny Roast!===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Tue Oct 23 23:17:22 2001)
Konbanwa Minna-san,

This is another annoying Halloween reminder. We will continue to pelt you
with annoying emails until everyone signs up for everything. Here are
(once again) all the annoying details:

1. Signup for stuff! (actually, I'm guilty of not signing up for stuff
yet too...) But that doesn't excuse you people! Remember, there are
prizes for every competition, and they are just fun to participate in even
without reward.

2. Ray's eye practice game - our illustrius webmaster has created a mini
game version of Lee's Eye Game. Go and play (the link is on the main
page), plus see the newly revamped webpage. Don't worry if you can't get
any on the first try, I only got one on the first level myself.
Everyone's favorite webpage: http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

3. Trivia Q submission - While we have plenty of trivia questions, a few
more couldn't hurt. So, if you have any trivia questions (we need some
easier ones) please send them to: yaithaven@<removed for spam reasons>

4. Food - half a pizza for $2 (if you are a paid member, which makes you
suddenly appear much more attractive and intelligent). Name your topping.

5. Prizes - here's our current prizes list:

Grand Prize (cosplay and trivia or eye game): $200 AND Fanime2002 entrance
($50 value)

Cos-play Runner up: $50 Games People Play gift certificate

Pumpkin Carving (I know we have repeatedly forgotten to mention this, but
we will be doing it again!): $25 Tsugugi's Japanese Restaurant gift
certificate

Trivia Runnerup: $15 Tsurugi's gift certificate (It must be mine!)

Eye Game Runnerup: $15 Games People Play gift certificate

Fighting game tournaments: TBA (Nik's working on it)

Well, I think that covers it. So, go to the webpage and try out the
practice eye game, and start quizzing yourself on random anime
knowledge... or I guess you could study for midterms or something else
lame like that.

Saraba da,

Dylan Hall
Secretary, not to be confused with "Der Furher" (I never claimed to be
able to spell in German).

http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Meeting for your viewing pleasure 10/27===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Oct 25 22:08:00 2001)
Konnichiwa minna-san,

I hope you're all doing well and working hard on those costumes (I'm
waiting to see someone dress up as a full scale Gundam).

Remember: there are only 8 days left to make your costume...

In case anyone doesn't know where/when we meet:
When: Saturdays 5-10PM
Where: 03-213 (the silo in the business/education building complex)
Why: because watching 5 hours of anime is much better for your body than
drinking alcohol for 5 hours (I know this from personal experience)

Ye olde schedule

5:00 Comic Party #1 - one of the most popular shows in Japan right now,
really funny show about a guy, some girls and a lot of doujinshi...
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #32 - To Die for the Star of Suzaku

Don't you wish everyshow had subtitles of the quality used in Kurumi?

6:00 Steel Angel Kurumi #9/10 - I must watch more, oh!
6:30 Black Heaven #5 - Those Shining Days

Ah yes, those shining days... when I used to not spend all my time on
anime related things... wait a minute, those days sucked.

7:00 Inu Yasha #4 - The Hair Demon Yura
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road #5 - A Secret for Two: A Problematic Part-Time
Job

I tried explaining to the judge that "We just stayed up and talked all
night; besides she told me she was 22." but he just wouldn't listen.

8:00 His and Her Circumstances #5 - His Ambition
8:30 Trigun #17 - Rem Saverem

Wait a minute, I though all those shows were supposed to end as soon as
the couple got together.

9:00 Berserk #5 - Sword of Wind
9:30 Gasaraki #5 - The Touching

that's all for Saturday...

But wait, there's more!

And it's Maison Ikkoku at that!
And Yagami shows up this week!
And Godai gets a job!
And Yotsuya reveals his occupation! (well, maybe not)

Yup, it's that time again. Due to us having not watched Maison Ikkoku in
two weeks, it's time for another 3 hour binge. That's right, it's time
for another night of the "Maison Ikkoku Sunday Dinner Theater" (MISDT).

When? - Sunday, 5-8PM
Where? - the silo (aka - the usual room)
Why? - because it's Maison!!!

The only question is whether or not you will be one of the few, the proud,
the True Takahashi fan.

Random Ramblings:

according to www.animeondvd.com, our favorite US company Animeigo will be
releasing a DVD box set of Kimagure Orange Road in February (which means
it will actually come out in July). What does this mean for you? It
means that in all likelyhood someone *ahem* will probably play the fool
and shell out the cash for this set, which will allow us to show this show
from the DVD's (at some point). The club will still keep it's VHS set
(of which the first tape is now available for loan) for the library and
showing when the DVD's aren't available.

Hajime Yatate (or Yadate) - the mystery man. If talk about great shows,
both old and new, one name continuously pops up: Hajime Yatate. His works
include: Gundam, Escaflowne, Gasaraki, Cowboy Bebop, Ryvius, etc, etc.
So, who is this mysterious man you ask?

'He' is not even a man... Hajime Yatate is actually the collective name
that Sunrise Studio(creator of all the above shows) production team(s) use
for creative credits. Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.

The other half is having some kind of mecha with which to smite your
enemies.

Web site of the week:

You want a script? These sites probably have it (if it exists)
http://www.animescripts.org/
http://www.scriptclub.org/

Saraba da,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan (Secretary)

Go be one of the cool people who visit this page!
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===Minna no Manga===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Mon Oct 29 18:03:00 2001)
Last night before Holloween to listen to your officers bitch about the
price of manga and R2s. C'mon, I know you all want to waste your Tuesday
nights with us.

Where: Business building room 112 (but probably 113)
When: Tuesday 8:00 pm

see you there
your benevolent VP,
-Nik Kamachi
</pre>

===Holloween, videogame tournament===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Nov 1 00:15:17 2001)
This is a reminder to ALL members that sign-ups for either tournament
(Capcom vs. SNK 2 and Guilty Gear X) will be open until ONE HOUR before
the start of either tournament (4:30 for CvS2 and 5:30 for GGX).

Just a reminder BOTH games will be running off of Dreamcast (sorry PS2
owners), but there will be an open tv with Tekken Tag, but no tournament
for it.

The in game timer will be turned on for both tournaments.

Feel free to bring your own controllers, joystick, or adapters (for you
Playstation owners)

For Guilty Gear X, Dizzy and Testament will be unlocked and playable.

Please be kind to your fellow players, I will not hesitate to disqualify
anyone for unacceptable behaviour towards others.

RULES:

Both tournaments will be Double Elimination.

Guilty Gear X will be best 2 out of 3 rounds.

The tournament will be run with DOUBLE BLIND character selection. This
means that I will flip a coin. The winner chooses first player or second
player. That same person also will secretly pick his character(s) ahead
of time. The second player will then select his character(s), while the
first person MUST select his pre-selected character(s).

If this confused you (I know it did) feel free to ask me to clarify via
e-mail at Ruroni16@<removed for spam reasons> or ask me in person before the tourny.

Happy Gaming
-Nik Kamachi
</pre>

===MNA - The Last Great Halloween Email 11/3===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Nov 1 10:15:11 2001)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

Well, hopefully you've already had all the halloweeny stuff beaten into
your head repeatedly enough such that you know what's going on better than
I do.

But, if not then go here:

http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~mlindsay/hindex.htm

That page has all the details nicely laid out.

Take note that the schedule there (for everything) isn't 100% accurate,
but it's as close as you're gonna get. The only changes that I can
currently confirm would be replacing the 5:05 AMV (Anime Music Videos)
with "Hellsing", a new show which is appropriately titled for this event
(and I'm not even sure on that). Just know that we will always have
something playing between 3 and midnight with the exception of a few
breaks.

>From Nik's last email it appears as though the Capcom vs SNK 2 tournament
will be at 5:30 and the GGX tournament will be at 6:30. For those of you
who would prefer to play GGX on a good controller, I will be bringing my
PS2 version of GGX and making rallying call against playing on the
Dreamcast (much to the chagrin of Nik).

As for DDR (Dance Dance Revolution); we can provide the modded-PSX's and
the games, but we need dance pads. So, please, please, please bring your
pads so that we can keep on dancing!

Sodas will be the usual $0.50, and we just went out and bought a ton, so
we'll have all the varieties back in stock. Remember to bring pizza money
if you haven't paid yet. We will probably also have candy (as if you
won't be hyper enough after 9 straight hours of anime, pizza and DDR)

So, in summary:

Go to the schedule website:
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~mlindsay/hindex.htm

Come to the MNA Halloween Bash on Saturday from 3PM - midnight

Remind yourself that there it's only 11 days until the next MISDT (eien ni
Yagami)

Know that the 80's truly were the golden days of anime

go to the MNA website and try out "Ray's Practice Eye Game II" (which is
much easier than his first version, I actually answered everything
perfectly on the first pic this time)

Ijou,

Dylan Hall
Jimukan (secretary)

http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===Corrections on tournament===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Nov 1 15:11:36 2001)
I would like to clarify that the CvS2 tournament will be from 5:30 to 7:00
and that the GGX tournament will be from 7:30 to 9:00. Please ignore the
times that were given in the previous mail (sent by Dylan) were incorrect.

Also I would like to remind you that BOTH tournaments will run on
Dreamcast. You are more than welcome to bring controller adapters if you
want to use playstation controllers, but the tournament will run on the
DREAMCAST versions of Capcom vs. SNK2 and Guilty Gear X.
(sorry Dylan, my tournament my rules =P)

-Nik Kamachi
</pre>

===Minna No Manga===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Tue Nov 6 11:38:55 2001)
Ah the aftermath of Holloween, nothing like it...

Anyway, you know the drill...

Tuesday, 8:00 pm.

I also want to personally thank my good friends Nur Monson, and Matt Magee
for helping me with the two tournaments. Without their help, I would have
been screwed. Thank you guys!

-Nik Kamachi
</pre>

===MNA - First Tsurugi trip of the year===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Wed Nov 7 07:52:16 2001)
Minna,

I know that a lot of you have been eagerly awaiting it, and now the time
has finally come. This weekend is a three day weekend due to Veteran's
Day, and what better way to celebrate than taking a trip down the the
local Japanese restaurant.

Place: Tsurugi Restaurant, Tatami Room
Date: Monday, November 12th
Time: 6:00 PM

Because of the size of the Tatami room, space is limited to 16 people. If
you want to be one of the people there, you need to reserve your seat!
Simply reply to this email and let us know you want to come. Seating is
first come first serve, and we'll try to fill any extra seats we might
have at club this Saturday.

If you have never gone out with us to Tsurugi's before, all the more
reason for you to come. Great food, great atmosphere and greats friends
sums it all up.

Ben Leinweber
MNA Kaichou/President

PS If there is enough interest, I shall try to reserve the other back
room as well. I can't promise anything though.
</pre>

===MNA - The End of an Era 11/10===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Nov 8 21:54:37 2001)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

That's right, it's time for an end to an era: No more Kurumi digisubs (at
least for a while). We got in our fansub tapes and they are better than
you can imagine. We also got in some more fansubs for the library
including some classic Maziger super robot stuff and (insert dramatic
music here) more Excel Saga! (I'm sure that will be shown during some
unofficial time; wink wink)

Also this week we will be trying all of our live-subbing on our VP Nik's
computer, which you guys don't get more celebrity jeopardy unless he has
some on his computer.

Remember that in addition to the Saturday meeting there will also be MISDT
and a trip to Tsurugi's monday at 6PM. I hope you all have been
practicing your Ichinose-san laughs and have your party fans ready.

Secehedeuele:

5:00 Rave #1 - New show currently airing in Japan. It's got a wierd
snowman looking guys as a main character...
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #33 - Nuriko, The Eternal Farewell

Why do I get the feeling something bad just happened to Nuriko?

6:00 Steel Angel Kurumi #9/10 - Ooh, pretty colors....
6:30 Black Heaven #6 - Walk Away

The only quesion is whether the improved video quality is worth the loss
in translation quality

7:00 Inuyasha #5 - The Episode For Which I Didn't Make The Script!
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road #6 - That Kid's My Rival; Midterm Exam of Love.

Ach! Let it be law from now on: No show may use the dreaded word
"Midterm" in an episode title!

8:00 KareKano #6 - Your Voice That Changes Who I Am
8:30 Trigun #18 - Goodbye for Now

My advise is as follows: It's always best to say 'goodbye' while wearing
pants. It just seems to be the sensisble thing to do.

9:00 Berserk #6 - Zodd the Immortal
9:30 Gasaraki #6 - The Puppet

That's all for Saturday

Sunday!!! More MISDT!!! Yeah!!!
You know you love it.

Come join us Sunday from 5 to 8 PM as we continue our binge through one of
the best shows of all time (and definitely Takahashi's best anime).

When: Sunday, 5-8PM
Where: The Silo (our normal room)
Why: cuz it's Maison Ikkoku

And remember Monday night is Tsurugi's.

Random Ramblings:

Firstly, I'd like to thank everyone who participated in the Halloween
festivities last Saturday. As far as I know, most things went off without
a hitch. I had a great time and hope the rest of you did too. We'll
probably continue the tradition next year and do our best to make it
better than this years. An extra congratulations to our Grand Prize
Winner (add echo effect) and longtime member Coreen Chang; while she
didn't win everything, she placed in the top 3 for everything and that was
good enough for us.

http://www.noated.com/nindex.php
This site has lots of links to manga translations and many pages with
scans of the manga too. Lots of good stuff for a lot of series.

http://zigguratbuilder.nu/manga/index.html
This site is great. The author has collected a list of many great manga
series that most American fans aren't aware of (myself included for many
of these titles). Definitely go check it out.

Ijou,

Dylan Hall
Jimukan (Secretary, and resident import DVD addict)

as always, the only website that makes a habit of making disparaging
comments about me.

http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Meeting of 11/17/01 And That's it!===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Nov 15 22:38:09 2001)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

I don't have anything special to announce this week, so I'll keep it
pretty short.

Tshirt design contest - to be held on the second week of winter quarter,
so there's no excuse for not having one done!

No meeting next (Thanksgiving) Saturday, there may be some kind of Sunday
night meeting, but nothing that Saturday.

And now, what you're all been waiting for:

The Schedule

5:00 Mahoromatic #1 - The newest (and currently airing) Gainax show
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #34 - Guardians of Ice

Well, they couldn't get any lamer than killing off my favorite character.

6:00 Steel Angel Kurumi #11/12 - mo' booty
6:30 Black Heaven #7 - In Need

Don't go Kachou!

7:00 Inuyasha #6 - The Episode that follows episode 5
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road #7 - Madoka's Private Life?! A Spark-Colored
Kiss.

Play that flute like you love it Madoka

8:00 KareKano #7 - What Esranges Them
8:30 Trigun #19 - Hang Time

Finally Wolfwood comes back!

9:00 Berserk #7 - Sword Master
9:30 Gasaraki #7 - Return

Time for the Gasaraki musical! Everybody dance like you're Yushiro!

I'm kinda tired and annoyed at the stupid Poly internet crap so I'm gonna
cut it short this week.

No annoying commentary!
No aggrivating webpages!

Ijou,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan(Secretary)
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===Minna No Manga===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Tue Nov 27 11:24:25 2001)
Hope you all enjoyed your Thanksgiving, and what better way to get back
into the grind than joining your officers for a night of shooting the sh*t
and bragging about how much cash you spent on anime and manga this break
*cough*$200*cough*

In case you forgot:
Tonight at the Business building, room 112 or 113 8:00 pm.

-Nik Kamachi
</pre>

===MNA All The News That Matters 12/1===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Nov 29 20:25:08 2001)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

Nothing real special to announce this week, so I'll make something up:

Ben has decided that we will show nothing but Maison Ikkoku next quarter!!

How's that for inciting.

On to the schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' - Hannyaku Maids (or something else, I'm not sure).
Because we didn't get enough fan service last week.
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi - #35 - Hell's Mirage

Miaka got as nekkid as the censors would allow last time. This week she's
back to prove that she won't let "The Man" keep her clothes on.

6:00 Kurumi #13/14 - I was hoping for more fanservice last week...
6:30 Black Heaven #8 - Alright Now

This week we get Tanaka's shower scene, get the camera ready.

7:00 Inuyasha #7 - My Brother, The Jerk
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road #8 - You're Smiling! A "Shutter-Chance" at the
Beach.

This week we get all the KOR girls at the beach in swimsuits... sinful

8:00 KareKano #8 - Her Daily Life
8:30 Trigun #20 - Flying Ship

La la la
Genocide...
An Ocean of Blood
Let's begin the killing time!

9:00 Berserk #8 - Conspiracy
9:30 Gasaraki #8 - Inferno

Fire! Fire!! FIRE!!!! yeah, fire is cool and stuff. And so is
politics... well, maybe politicians being attacked by mecha, then I'd
watch CSPAN 14 hours a day.

Websites and Random Ramblings:

ust who does take my money? Aside from the IRS these fine stores are
known to have gotten a dollar or two from me now and then:

http://www.animejungle.com
used import dvd/cd/ld... really cheap (great quality) used cd's! (all
legit)

http://www.comicopolisonline.com
My comic store in Santa Cruz. They always know just what I need...

http://www.tokyopop.com
awesome online store. UPS shipping usually reaches me in 1-2 days; great
selection and they will always find that out of stock item for you.

Hmm... now to ramble. The destroyer of my productivity in college: Grand
Theft Auto 3.
Best game of the year, no contest. Just don't start playing unless you
want to extend your graduation date quite a bit.

After Maison Ikkoku... We have the silo for every Sunday next quarter,
although we will probably continue with the every other week MI binging.
However, MI will end at some point and we'd like to keep showing more
stuff then. We have been considering showing more full series (subbed) or
possibly showing a bunch of raw stuff. If you have any suggestions,
please share them with the group.

Winter Break - need that anime fix? We'll let you check out any whole
series for (tenatively) a $40 deposit (you get it all back when we get all
the tapes back). So, if you wanna binge of Marmalade Boy, you can go
crazy this break.

Ijou,

Dylan Hall
Jimukan (Secretary)
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

PS - you should all go read the great stuff Ray has put up on the Minna
site!!!
</pre>

===MNA - State of the Club Address 12/8===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Dec 6 17:15:04 2001)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

Well we've finally come to the last meeting of the quarter.

Here's my Quarterly wrap-up:

Well, we started off nicely with Golden Boy #5 and kept that pace with last
week's Hannuyaku Maids. On the other side of fan service we did have the
Guts and Griffith naked water fight.

Live Subtitling - This little project was first conceived of after my
(mostly) successful efforts with the Utena movie last year. It took us a
few weeks to get it right for all the shows, but I'm really pleased with
the results. This has been a lot of effort for a lot of people to do,
everyweek we have to setup the episodes, create scripts if they don't
exist, bring a computer and get it too work with the system. So, just
know that this is something that I doubt any other anime club in the USA
is doing. We will continue to show anime in this way for as long as it
remains feasable (technically and financially). We are looking to expand
it and show more shows this way next quarter. If you would like to help
in this endevor we are always accepting.

MISDT - Because just adding the 5 o'clock hour to the schedule wasn't
enough time, we started up this 'little' (another 6 eps of live sub every
other week) project. We've now shown through ep 62 (IIRC) and *only*
have ~30 eps left... sigh. In my opinion, this show is Takahashi's best
work and one of the best shows of all time. Next quarter we have the
silo reserved for every Sunday and will probably show some other shows on
Sundays opposing MI; we'll keep you posted on the situation.

Halloween - Things went great this year, even better than I had hoped.
Folks didn't watch too much anime, but there was more fun stuff going on
(like DDR 'till 2am). We'll do this again next year and try to make it
better than this year's.

Engrish - The ranguage of a kings. From the Kurumi subtitles ("It's
hard!") to many of the OP and ED sequences we've had more than our fair
share of it this quarter. Hopefully, this will continue into next year -
I'm looking forward to more Japanese->Korean/Chinese->English
translations.

Reminders:
T-shirt contest - we will be having our annual T-shirt contest the second
week of winter quarter, so get to work on your designs.

Library checkout - if you wanted that full series over break, be sure to
bring your cash this weekend and a backpack to carry your stuff. We have
some series reserved already, but others are still available. A list is
at the bottom.

And I guess you'll want to look at the schedule too...

5:00 I, Me, My, Strawberry Eggs - a reccomended show from our librarian is
supposed to be not as 'H' friendly as the last one... but that's just his word
5:30 Steel Angel Kurumi #15/16 - The tape looked to have been recorded with
some bad cables; hopefully it won't be present on the other eps but we've
got to suffer with it for now

Poorly Recorded Break

6:00 Inuyasha #8 - My Sword, the one that my father hid in my eye; you
could've just asked the neighbors to look after it.
6:30 Black Heaven #9 - Hitoribocchi no Sekai (My Own World)

My Own Break

7:00 Kareshi Kanojou no Jijou #9 - Atonement of Moratorium
7:30 Trigun #21 - Out of Time

Out of Breaks!

8:00 Ah! My Goddess - Movie - repeat after me: Pretty, pretty colors...

MISDT - None this week; sorry we'll get caught up at the beginning of
next quarter (you don't have anything better to do at that time anyway)

Random Ramblings/Web pages

Speaking of Engrish:
http://www.engrish.com/
And for those troublesome Berserk OP/ED lyrics:
http://www.animelyrics.com/anime/berserk/

Wow, the animation on "Hannuyaku Maids" was unbelievaby... sucky. All
the effort they put into that 3 color (computer colored) hair(note the
extreme sarcasm). I yearn for a return to the '80's when things were
actually well animated.
Fortunately there are still some decent productions and tons of great
manga. One manga I'd love to push on everyone is "Blame!". Awesome
beyond words, and not much text in it - even a person who could read no
Japanese could get the main story.

I'm sure I've written far too much this week, but you won't be getting
much from me for the next month so I figure a little OD won't hurt too much.

Saraba da,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan (Secretary)

The ever entertaining MNA webpage:
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

List of series still avalible for checkout over the break:

Akazukin Chacha vols 1-6
All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku Vols 1-3
Armitage III Vols 1-4
DNA^2 Vols 1-4
Future Boy Conan Vols 1-7
Giant Robo (Dubbed and missing last tape) Vols 1-5
Legend of Galactic Heroes Vols 1-12 (All thats out)
Lupin III Shows & movies (9 tapes)
Maison Ikkoku Vols 1-21
Marmalade Boy Vols 1-19
Miracle Girls Vols 1-8
Slayers Next Vols 1-8
To Heart Vols 1-4
Revolutionary Girl Utena (complete)
Vampire Princess Miyu Vols 1-7
Ghibli Movies (13 Tapes)
-Gauche the Cellist
-Grave of the Fireflies (Dub)
-Laputa: Castle in the Sky
-Mimi o Sumaseba (Whisper of the Heart)
-My Neighbor Totoro
-My Neighbors the Yamadas
-Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
-Omoide Poro Poro
-Pon Poko
-Porco Rosso
-Price Horus
-Umi ga Kikoeru (I can hear the Sea)
-On Your Mark Music Video
Email mnalibrary@<removed for spam reasons> to reserve your series today.
</pre>

== Winter 2002 ==
===MNA - The First Meeting of Winter 1/12===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jan 10 17:32:18 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

It's been a long time since I last annoyed everyone on this email list, so
I'll make sure to annoy you plenty (got to make up for lost time).

First: The Recap Episode
"The Fall of Decency" (interpret it whatever way you will)
We started off the year with a "bang" during our pre-meeting with the
infamous Golden Boy Episode 5. We followed that soon after with Steel
Angel Kurumi and nearly ended the quarter with Hannyaku Maids.
And don't forget all about Kasuga's lecherous friends (ya gotta love the
bedroom decorations). Black Heaven has had plenty of bathroom scenes and
naughty magazines. Inuyasha has... ears and Berserk has
nekid-morning-l33t-water fights.
All I have to say about Gasaraki is:
"Do you know?"
Yukino was busy keeping her sisters away from Asaba "The Shepard" while
Vash was singing about "beginning the killing time", 'genocide', "Endless
Pain" and what not (whatever that means).

T-shirt Contest: I know you are all tired from spending your whole
vacation working on your designs, but I ask you to give it just one more
week of effort. Our contest for this year's MNA tshirt will be held next
week (not this Sat). If you have any questions, please ask Ben.
Remember: more panties = more votes (just kidding... I think).

MISDT: More Maison! (about damn time). Yes, the rumors you've been
hearing all over SLO are true - we will be showing more Maison Ikkoku this
quarter. All the excitement happens from 5-8PM Sundays in the Silo. Be
there or be Yotsuya's roommate!! (Now, that is a scary thought)

Webpage: It's true, Raymond "Webmaster" Lee has left us. Fortunately Nur
"I don't like people trying to single me out at club" Monson has agreed to
take over. So, we may see a new style of webpage - possibly with a higher
Poop joke to Dylan joke ratio (but I don't really forsee that happening).

And finally, the schedule(Saturday 1/12 in the Silo):

5:00 Space Pirate Harlock #1 - He's a very 'Roman' man
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #36 - Trampled Love

Space Pirate Miyaka versus the US dub of Robotech

6:00 Steel Angel Kurumi #17/18 - Mo' Booty, Mo' Bouncy, Mo' Money
6:30 Black Heaven #10 - The Mysterious Ten Years

I'm ashamed that so few people in the audience got the "Ventura, Ventura,
Space People" joke last time. We need to culture you people up a little
with Urusei Yatsura.

7:00 Inuyasha #9 - Rub my ears for good luck; rub my... nevermind
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road #9 - Kurumi, I'll Teach You How To Date.

That little monkey thing reminded me of Mokona far too much

8:00 KareKano #10 - Everything Starts Now
8:30 Trigun #22 - Alternative

I just had the "What if..." thought of switching Vash and Guts.
Disturbing.

9:00 Berserk #9 - Assassination
9:30 Gasaraki #9 - Storehouse

Don't forget MISDT!!! We'll be enjoying episodes 65 - 70, hope to see
you all there.

And now for everyone's favorite part of the email:
Rants/Raves/Webpages:

Q: What did you do this winter vacation?
A: I watched a lot of anime, consumed alcohol and played Final
Fantasy X (not neccessarily in that order).

Q: Just what did you watch?
A: 4 Gundam Movies, 51 (all) eps of Hana Yori Dango, 25 eps of You're
Under Arrest, 3 Tylor OVA eps, 16 eps of Sexy Commando Masaru-san, and
more (of course that was all before 12/20/01)

Q: What is the Japanese term for Gundam otaku like you (dylan)?
A: Gun Ota (it's true!)

Q: Who is asking these questions?
A: No comment.

Q: Will you give us a webpage so we can stop reading these stupid
questions:
A: No. (http://www.adventurers-comic.com)

Q: Go away
A: That's not a question!

Abayo,
Cranky Racoon
Jimukan (Secretary and purveyor of annoyances)

Everyone's favorite source for poop jokes:
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Please Save My Foliage 1/19===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jan 17 20:57:38 2002)
Konbanwa Minna-san,

Osu Osu Osu! Time for another MNA email, which means that it's nearly time
for another meeting of everyone's favorite free Saturday night club -
Krazy Kenny's Occult Hour! Or maybe not.

T-shirt contest this week! Yes, it's finally time for the long awaited
MNA Tshirt design contest. Everyone get's to show off their artisic (or
lack thereof) talents. The contest will probably held at 9PM (but maybe
8) so you'll still have a few minutes to add more fan-service shots to
your art!

And now, the schedule in semaphore!

.
.
.
.

Well, I'm all tired from that, now I'll just write it out:

5:00 You're Under Arrest! OVA #1 - live sub (if I'm not lazy) - The
most crack-coccaine addictive show ever! I must watch more!
5:30 Fushigi "for me to poop on" Yuugi #37 - Bewitched Warmth

Break to say that F-Yu actually is pretty great.... FOR ME TO POOP ON!!
(now I'm angering Ben and infringing on Nur's territory)

6:00 Steel Angel Kurumi #19/20 - More Hardcore Doujinshi scenes!
6:30 Black Heaven #11 - The "Wanna do it" Feeling

Break to mourn the fact that we only have 3 more weeks of Kurumi and 2 eps
left with Our Hero.

7:00 Inu "Nik doesn't like my episode titles" Yasha #10 - Inuyasha, your
coat is so big (while remembering that scene in Spaceballs)
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road #10 - A Foreboding Dream?! Hikaru is Dying.

Come on, you can't say you were really surprised that the kidnapper was
Hatta's older brother. I really got to get myself a copy of that dating
video he had though.

8:00 Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou #11 - The End of the First Trimester
8:30 Trigun #23 - Paradise

End of the first trimester??? When did Yukino get pregnant?? Or maybe it's
someone else and the show will change into a NBC afterschool special (I
wouldn't put it past Hideaki Anno)

9:00 Berserk #10 - Nobleman
9:30 Gasaraki #10 - Kugai

Bdea, bdea, bdea that's all folks!

Or is it...

More MISDT!!!

That's right, because we know you have no school Monday we have another 3
hours of the most beloved romantic comedy series of all time. This time
it's episodes 71 through 76 bringing us within 20
episodes of the end.

I truly do laugh mockingly at everyone who skips out on this show.

You know the place and time.

Rants/Raves/Wasted Bandwidth

After looking through the links section I noticed that my favorite anime
DVD review site wasn't there. I knew I had to remedy the situation, so
here it goes:
http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~ricky/anime/
I love this guy. He's always absolutely manical in his reviews, dislikes
most of the stuff I dislike, and actually knows how to spot all the crappy
DVD's that the US companies put out.

If you are one of the pathetic, impotent losers who doesn't come to MISDT,
I must insist that you see "The Fellowship of The Ring". This movie is so
manly and good in every way that is good that it hurts. I wish a plague
of locusts on anyone who hasn't seen this yet.

Anyone else interested in actually having a MNA Basketball Challenge?
(Those of you who are man enough to have watched all the way to the end of
Marmalade Boy a few years ago will get the reference and feel really old)
If so email me with times you'd want to play.
dhall@<removed for spam reasons>

Ijou,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan (Secretary)

PS - Be sure to avoid the Harlem area!

your online Fun Fecal Facts Forum
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Can We Make This Any Bigger? 1/26===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jan 24 20:49:52 2002)
Konbanwa Minna-san,

Well, through the process of random luck the final decision on this year's
Tshirt was made last week. This means that we will hopefully get the
shirts out before the end of the quarter.

Other than that I have no major news for you (sorry, I'll make sure to
commit some random act of violence next week so that there will be no news
shortage). But, in place of actual useful information I will provide you
with the favorite game - Name that seiyuu (voice actor)!

Ye Olde Skedulee:

5:00 Full Metal Panic #1 - Another new show from studio Gonzo.
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #38 - Dawn of the Heart; Crack of the Ass.

Tasuki = Guts = Parn (Lodoss TV) --> Hayashi Nobutoshi
Yui = Mihael = Rin (PSME) --> Touma Yumi

6:00 Steal Angle Kurumi #21/22 - Will this feature more doujin action than
last week? Will Kurumi's larger breast size be explained? Will Dr.
Ayanokouji take off his mask and reveal his true identity (Old Man
Witherspoon)? All this and more explained (or not) this week.
6:30 Black Heaven #12 - Into The Arena

Kurumi = Kotoko = Yukino --> Enomoto Atsuko
Yokko = Miaka --> Araki Kae

7:00 Inuyasha #11 - Reborn in the Present, the Cursed Nou-Mask (Note that
that is the first time I've actually given the correct episode title since
ep 4)
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road #11 - Don't Ring the Wedding Bell!

Kagome = Milly = Ropponmatsu Gou (ExlSga) --> Yukino Satsuki
Jingoro = Myouga --> Ogata Kenichi
Madoka = Meryl = Asuna (MI) = Bulma (DB) --> Tsuru Hiromi
Kasuga = Amuro Rei (if you don't know...) = Mamoru (SM) --> Furuya Tohru

8:00 KareKano #12 - A Place Where Happiness Is
8:30 Trigun #24 - Sin

Tsubasa = Haruko (FLCL) --> Shintani Mayumi
Wolfwood = Shion (PSME) = Yamamoto (Tylor) = Max (Macross) --> Hayami Sho
Chapel = Noah Bright (The Eternal Captian) = Saitou (RK) --> Suzuoki
Hirotaka

9:00 Berserk #11 - Battle
9:30 Gasaraki #11 - Ties

Casca = Asuka (eva) --> Miyamura Yuko
Princess Charlotte = Mokona (MKR) = Tsubame (RK) = Nanami (Utena) -->
Shiratori Yuri
Misuzu = Menchi (ExlSga) = Chu Chu --> Koorogi Satomi

And...
Maison Ikkoku Sunday Dinner Theater (MISDT). Sunday. 5-8PM. The Silo.
Episodes 77-82. Be There Or Be A Loser Cuz You Think You're Too Good For
Rumiko Takahashi.

Mitaka = Ryo (City Hunter) = Roy (Macross) = Ashram (Lodoss) --> Kamiya
Akira
Yagami = Anthy (Utena) = Fuchizaki Yuriko

Char Aznable (The Best) = Hiko (RK) = Ikeda Shuuichi

Rants/Raves/Wastes of Time

Well, I hope you found the seiyuu thing at least a little entertaining.
If you want to find out what other roles people have done, the site is:
http://www.tcp.com/doi/seiyuu/index.html

Here's another waste of time courtesy of my crack dealer Kira Shinji
(owner of AMOTokyo and our only overseas newsletter reciever. Imagine
that, not even the mighty Pacific Ocean can protect people from my
newsletter).

Kuromi Info (reprinted with permission):
<<
> Any idea if and when more Anime Runner Kuromi will be coming out?
> I had heard a rumor that they were working on making another couple of
>episodes?
Last year end, I have met the president of Yumeta Company (The studio of
Kuromi). According to him, the next episode will come out in 2004.
It is very late,,, Totally, 4 episodes are planned.
However, Kuromi chan is very important for Anime market (I believe.).
Because Kuromi chan is released with skipping of Big maker, distributer.
Normaly, Anime is selled like this way.
Studio => Maker,Sponser (Such as Bandai, Pioneer) => Distributer => Shop
=>Customer.

The problem is that maker get a lot of profit, and Studio (Include
Creaters, director) can get really a few profit. In a lot of cases, the
maker hold the Copy right and no matter how the film selled, Creaters
get really a few reward even none. This is not good at all for Anime
industry. You cannot imagine how Anime creaters are poor.

As you may already know, Kuromi chan 2 will be English subbed, Region
Free. (Region free is agreeded when we met at the first time.)
Anyway, when Kuromi-Chan 2 will come out, I will strongly request to
include Distributer. If Yumeta Company have difficulty to include
distributer, I will bring the president at least CD Japan.
We Anime fans (Not only oversea, but Japanese) need to get success in
this new way of selling ANime for bright future of Anime.

Ooto, I have talk too much. Anyway, if you have chance, please ask a
support to Kuromi chan 2 to the Anime fans in San Luis Obispo.
>>
So, that's the word on more Kuromi.

The web site of the week is a wonderful review of the great show "Love
Hina". I love that show almost as much as I love Gundam (note the
exceeding amount of sarcasm).
http://dvd.ign.com/articles/317653p1.html

Quote of the Week:
"I can't even submerge myself into self-hatred peacefully" - Godai Yuusaku

I guess I'll let you all get back to your waiting for Saturday night.
I've still got to put the final touches on my Berserk, Karekano and Maison
Ikkoku shrines.

Saraba da,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan (Secretary and waster of your time)

The Web Site Without New Poop Jokes:
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA This is the end... 2/2/2002===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jan 31 19:41:26 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

Yes, it is the end. Not the end of everything just Kurumi and Black
Heaven. After a loving 13 weeks of each it's time to say goodbye and move
onto new shows. So, be sure to be there for the big finales of these
great shows.

COWBOY BEBOP MOVIE - We will be showing this movie in club, live subtitled
next week! Come and share in the joy that is Bebop.

Schedule:

5:00 Battle Royale: Onegai Teacher #1 versus Excel Saga "Animation USA"
round 1 - Fight!
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #39 - Bewitched Illusions

6:00 Steel Angel Kurumi #23/24 - Nooo!! This can't be the end. I need
more
6:30 Black Heaven #13 - The End

Well, I guess that was "The End"... Boy, talk about finality. Here's a
note: Takahashi Naohito - director for both Kurumi and Berserk. What a
change in styles... Mmmm... Berserk

7:00 Inuyasha #12 - Tatarimokke and the Little Evil Spirit
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road #12 - Study Abroad in America. Good-bye,
Madoka!

Did anyone else catch the instrumental version of "Sound of Silence" that
played in last week's ep of KOR? Simon says listen better next time!
(that was a bad joke)

8:00 KareKano #13 - The Next Episode
8:30 Trigun #25 - Live Through

Only one episode of Trigun left. Remember to bring your donuts next week.

9:00 Berserk #12 - Two People
9:30 Gasaraki #12 - Unravel

No Maison this week! Bah, what a waste of a Sunday night.

Rants/Raves/Wretches

Well, I just got a large package from Japan and had to watch my disks of
the Cowboy Bebop movie and the new Rurouni Kenshin OVA. My first
thoughts are as follows: Holy Crap. I can't wait to put them up on the
big screen.

Sunday Nights - Since we'll be finishing showing Maison Ikkoku this
quarter (every other Sunday) we have some more space open to show stuff.
Suggestions have been made to show whole OVA series, more fansub o',
movies and whole TV series. What are your thoughts? Gimmie the lowdown
on what you folks would like to see on Sundays. If I don't hear anything
I'm assuming you want to watch a lot of raw R2 DVD's... You're Under
Arrest, Arjuna, Gundam, more Gundam.

May the Manga be with you - With all the anime and video entertainments
that people watch I think we've been neglecting the written material far
too much. I encourage everyone to go buy some comics/manga and read them.
Most of the American comic industry has moved away from the 10 year old
audience to writing for a much more educated and older audience. There
are many extremely talented writers in comics these days: Kevin Smith
(Clerks, Mallrats), JM Strazinski (Babylon 5), Bendis, etc. While the
comic industry has shrunk much over the past decade; mostly because of the
influence of video games, it has also gained much in terms of quality. If
you want any reccomendations (or would like to borrow something) just ask
me and I'll be glad to help you find something you'll love. Also, the
amount of english translated manga has been increasing steadily over the
past several years, and the quality of production (ie - reproduction,
translation, localization) has been increasing as well. So, please go
read a comic, you video junkies!

Ijou,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan (Secretary)
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
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===MNA - 'Ai' love Cowboy Bebop 2/9===
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(Minna No Anime, Thu Feb 7 14:07:26 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

Well it's finally happened; we managed to end 2 shows last week. No more
Kurumi; no more Oji; no more fun, it's all over.

Yeah right, like we couldn't find something else to put in the schedule?
So, starting this week we have the excellent, classic "Video Girl Ai" OVA
series. We'll show all 6 episodes of this great show this quarter. Also,
starting next week (in the 6 o'clock hour with Ai) will be "Sexy Commando
Gaiden Sugoiyo! Masaru-san". This is a newer show from everyone's
favorite director Akitaro Daichi (director of Kodocha, Jubei, Now and
Then, Animation Runner Kuromi, etc). We guarantee a great time will be
had by all with the addition of these two shows.

What about Trigun? Yes, that too is ending soon and will be replaced with
one of the best shows I have ever seen (yes, its even up there with
Gundam) "Here and There, Now and Then". So, make sure you check out this
masterpiece of animation.

COWBOY BEBOP MOVIE THIS SATURDAY - Yes, we're finishing up the script
right now and will be livesubbing it on Saturday at 8PM. You know you
want it, you know you love it, so come one, come all and share in the love
that is the Bebop.

Please note the odd schedule this week due to the movie (in case you're
one of those losers who doesn't stay the whole time ^_^).

This week's screwy schedule:

5:00 Excel Saga "Animation USA" - We'll try this one again
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #40 - Deceptive Love

Break for me to go rent my own video girl... and never return her.

6:00 Video Girl Ai #1 - A Soothing Girl
6:30 Kimagure Orange Road #13 - Everyone's Looking! Hikaru's Super
Transformation

Break to have everyone say "Cross Crash!" (Your voice is too low!)

7:00 Berserk #13 - Fight to the Death
7:30 Gasaraki #13 - Disembark

Break to the Death (which is a shame, 'cuz then you'll miss the movie).

8:00 COWBOY BEBOP MOVIE - Knockin' on Heaven's Door

Sunday - Maison Ikkoku!!
Yeah, yeah, more Maison. We're down to the last 2 meetings of our showing
of the TV series. Once we finish Maison we'll start showing something
really good - like... like... like Love Hina (note the brain-hemmoraging
level of sarcasm).

Rants/Raves/Wastes of Time

I demand a lowered vocabulary and drastically reduced language
comprehension!

Here's some sites that may assist:
http://www.all-languages.com/perles.html
http://www.engrish.com

Is anything funnier than non-english speakers speaking the language?

How about some commercials:
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilm/product/film_info/0,3699,960882,00.html

And make sure to go check out Nur's links on the MNA webpage before I
freak out all over the place (and then wail on my guitar).

Just like artificial butter,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan (Secretary)
Minna no Anime

http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Meeting of the Tri-gone 2/16===
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(Minna No Anime, Thu Feb 14 18:08:24 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

Time for another fun, fact filled email!

Schedule:

5:00 Cyborg 009 - Supposed to be really great, I'm looking forward to it!
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #41 - Sunlight of Rebirth

Fact: I am Excel, you are dog.

6:00 Video Girl Ai #2 - Present
6:30 Sexy Commando Gaiden Sugoiyo! Masaru-san #1/2 - Masaru and
Beards / Masaru and the red-white caps

Fact: 'Gaiden' means 'outer story' (but there is no 'inner story' for
Masaru-san).

7:00 Inuyasha #13 - Inuyasha versus Miki; ear-splitting attack!
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road #14 - A Foreboding Dream! Madoka and Kyosuke,
Breaking up at Last!

Fact: 'Kimagure' translates to 'whimsical'; but that sounds really lame.

8:00 Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou #14 - Recap Episode!
8:30 Trigun #26 - Under the Sky so Blue

Fact: We now have no more Trigun to show!
Fact: 5 of tonight's shows have '1'&'4' in the episode #.

9:00 Berserk #14 - Bonfire of Dreams
9:30 Gasaraki #14 - They forgot to animate my nose

Fact: The Bebop movie kicks ass!

Fact: No Maison Ikkoku this Sunday.
Fact: That sucks!

Rants/Raves/Ramblings

Well I hope you all enjoyed Bebop movie last week; I certainly did. Last
Friday I managed to see 'Metropolis' at a theater (in San Jose) and I must
say 'Wow'. The animation technique was awesome, excellently directed and
well scripted. I wish The Palm would get this movie, but I have no
influence with them.

Open House - we're looking at doing things a little differently this year.
We'll probably only be selling sushi and will have a classroom opened with
some anime, DDR and general wastes of time going on. We'll have more info
as we get closer to Open House.

New Section: Library Reccomends

This is a new section in the email where I will continue to waste your
time!
The first reccomendation:
Maison Ikkoku - Yes, I know you all ignore my email rants for MI, but you
should watch this show. It is the archetype romantic comedy: KOR, Tenchi,
Love Hina, etc, etc all follow Takahashi's masterpiece. This show also
have some of the most complete people as cast members; they are so well
written and thought out characters that I believe them to be actual
humans. This series is one of the all-time classics and most beloved
shows ever produced. So do yourself the favor and watch this show (or at
least read the manga). This is one of my top 10 favorite manga and anime,
super reccomend!

Saraba da,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan (Secretary)

Ye Olde Web Site
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Open Hours Tomorrow (Sunday 2/17)===
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(Minna No Anime, Sat Feb 16 22:55:41 2002)
Konbanwa Minna-san,

Since we have the silo on Sundays we decided to have an open programming
schedule tomorrow (Sunday) night from 5-10PM.

For those of you who have never been to a MNA open hours session it
involves:
1) Bring stuff to watch
2) Put something on
5) Watch it

Real difficult, huh?

So, come to the Silo tomorrow from 5-10 (or any time in between) and watch
more anime.

I know you don't have class on Monday!

Love Me Do!
Dylan Hall
</pre>

===MNA - Now and 2/23, Here and Meeting - Meeting 2/23===
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(Minna No Anime, Thu Feb 21 12:44:11 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

It's that time of the week again; time for your weekly dose of annoyance
and aggrivation.

News Flash - NEW SHOW - THat's right, another new show this week. This
time it's the exceedingly excellent "Now and Then, Here and There".
Probaly one of the best shows ever made, so please come and watch this
work of art.

News Flash - FREE STUFF - We'll be holding a give away this weekend, so
bring your MNA member card cuz we've got some good stuff (DVD's, CD's,
etc). Ah the benefits of membership...

News Flash - NOT SO FREE STUFF - We're also gonna try and schedule our
quarterly trip to Tsurugi's. We'll be limiting seating to the tatami
room only 16 seats; first come first serve.

And Now: The New and Improved Schedule (which looks strangely like the old
schedule)

5:00 Raxyphon #1 - The new show from Studio Bones (Esca movie, Bebop
movie), GEKI YABEE! With opening song by Yoko Kanno!
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #42 - Unbreachable Wall

Break to draw moustaches and breach walls

6:00 Sexy Commando Gaiden Sugoi-yo Masaru-san #3/4 - Masaru and the Proof
of Man / Masaru and the Contract
6:30 Video Girl Ai #3 - The Commemorative Day when Ai had a date wearing
the dress that Youta gave her.

Break to check whether or not that was actually the longest episode title
ever.

7:00 Inuyasha #14 - Inyasha and the kawarinojutsu (he didn't switch
anything!)
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road #15 - Madoka's Ultimate Decision! Putting a
Period to the Love Triangle.

Break to laugh at Kyosuke's folly

8:00 Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou #15 - One Day, One Thousand Leaves
8:30 Now and Then, Here and There #1 - The Girl who Watches the Sun

Break to wonder why we've got so many great shows this year

9:00 Berserk #15 - Decisive Battle
9:30 Gasaraki #15 - Decisive Doujinshi

Break to "just accept this" (copyright Mei Yuu)

Sunday:
MISDT - The End of the TV series (we've got the OVA and movie after this
Sunday). I've noticed a startling correlation between the intelligent,
good looking members of this club and those who attend MISDT. Coincidence
or connection - You make the call! You know where/when it is!

Rants/Raves/Ramblings

You people are seriously sick. No kidding; I really don't see what's
funny about Russian Roulette or a field full of brutally murdered people.
The fact that you people laughed at both of those scenes bothers me; don't
you have any sense of humanity?

On the lighteR side of things, a certain store in TokyO managed to ship a
certain Disk to this city, so this certain thing may be put on during
after hours this week.

And... for those of you who didn't come last Sunday for the open
programming here's what you missed:
5:00 Dragon Half Part 1
5:30 Dragon Half Part 2
What, did you think we'd break the streak?
6:00 Steel Angel Kurumi (OVA) #25/26
6:30 Steel Angel Kurumi (OVA) #27/28
What, did you think we'd not watch Kurumi?
7:00 The Maxx
7:30 The Maxx (cont)
What, did you think we'd limit ourselves to just Japanese animation?
8:00 Lupin III Movie - Fujiko's Unlucky Days
What, did you think we'd forgotten about our pal The Wolf?
I truly pity everyone who skipped out.

Library Reccomendation

Tenshi ni Narumon! (I Wanna Be An Angel) - This is the most bizarrely cool
show I've seen (probably ever). I'd say more but it would probably only
disinterest you; however, this show is definitely worth watching!

Ijou,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan (Secretary)
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Why don't you #!~@(% join the Meeting 3/2===
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(Minna No Anime, Thu Feb 28 13:44:34 2002)
Konichiwa Minna-san,

Tsurugi's - Remember to come Sunday at 6 if you signed up last week!

What's going on the rest of the quarter? Here's the info - we're gonna
finish Video Girl Ai this quarter, and show the movie Jin-roh on
3/16. Now you know, and knowing is half the battle!

I hope everyone enjoyed the giveaway last time, we'll do another one next
quarter. We're always accepting any prizes donations.

Let's Schedule Time!

5:00 Fansub o' - Mystery Meat! (ie - has yet to be determined)
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #43 - Farewell Reunion

Break to say "Farewell"

6:00 Sugoiyo! Masaru-san #5/6 - Masaru and Beauties / Masaru and the
Masked Man (part 1)
6:30 Video Girl Ai #4 - Confession

Break to confess

7:00 Inuyasha #15 - Kagome gonna Kikyou butt!
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road #16 - Do You or Do You Not Believe It. Madoka
Saw a UFO.

Break to ressurect

8:00 KareKano #16 - Recap free episode!
8:30 Now and Then, Here and There #2 - The Boy and The Mad King

break to recap

9:00 Berserk #16 - The Conqueror
9:30 Gasaraki #16 - Kugai in yo' Eye!

break to conquer

Everyone Eat At Tsurugi's Sunday Dinner (EEATSD)!

Rants/Raves/Residue

Note: Do not attempt to write newsletter while listening to the song that
plays when Wolfwood gives his farewell speech in Trigun. (Guess what I'm
listening to now)

Life After Maison: Yes, life will go on after Maison; sad as it will be.
We only have one more week of Maison, and that's the OVA and Movie. Next
quarter we have the silo reserved on Sunday's and we'd like to keep
wasting away our lives in there, so we'll be showing some new stuff. If
you have any ideas of what we should show or how we should show things
please tell me (Dylan) or Ben.

Website of the week: After a absense it's back! here's a few cool sites
I've found:

Arm the Homeless!
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/issues/1999-04-01/feature2.html/1/index.html

Manga shopping guide!
http://www.geocities.com/psgrisham/manga/shopping.html

The most detailed maps of Japan on the net (that I've found)
http://www.jnto.go.jp/mapindex/E/index.html

Hmm... I hope that fills your day with... something.
Next week: Dylan's GEKI YABEE manga reccomendations!

Library Reccomendation:

Hyper Police - Beastmen detectives in a future world! A sexy voiced Kyubi!
Cat girls! What more could one want! Really cool show, much better than I
thought it'd be. And if you check it out, you can bug the librarian to
get the rest of the fansubs!

Saraba da,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan (Secretary)
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Sayonara Otonashi-san - meeting 3/9===
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(Minna No Anime, Wed Mar 6 22:58:16 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

Time for another meeting, time for another email. You get it a little
early this week because I had it done early. This means you have more
time to read all my GEKI YABEE manga reccomendations!

No big news to announce this week, but I do have a couple of notes to
make:

Attendance - I've noticed a drop off in attendance this quarter for
whatever reason. This is a bad thing because more people means more
people who are involved and willing to put in the time to keep this club
running. So, if you've been skipping out now's the best time to come back
to the fold. If you have a friend you think might like the club, tell
them about it and make them come - you don't get any cheaper Saturday
night entertainment than at MNA.

Sunday's - This week marks the end of our fun with Maison Ikkoku. As I
have previously mentioned, we have the room reserved for Sunday's next
quarter as well but don't quite know what to show. So if you are like me
and think only one night a week in the silo isn't enough anime, then tell
us what/how/when we should show something on Sundays.

And now for ze skedyull

5:00 Raxyphon #2 - I believe this is the first time this year we have
shown "episode 2" of anything during fansub o'. Banzai Bones!
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #44 - Moment of Battle

Moment of Break

6:00 Sugoi-yo! Masaru-san #7/8 - Masaru and the Masked Man (part 2) /
Masaru and the Trendy Boys
6:30 Video Girl Ai #5 - Vanishing Ai!

Vanishing Break!

7:00 Inuyasha #16 - Kagome Kidnapped! The Plot of the Mysterious Meso.
7:30 KOR #17 - A Summer Seduction! An Out-of-the-Blue Double Date.

An Out-of-the-Blue Double Break! (not really)

8:00 KareKano #17 - His Return
8:30 Now and Then, Here and There #3 - The Feast in the middle of Darkness

Breakdown

9:00 Berserk #17 - Moment of Glory
9:30 Gasaraki #17 - Chaos

Break to chaos while waiting for the next episode of Berserk.

Saigo no MISDT!!! This week we have the movie and side story OVA. We may
put on the rest of "The Maxx" afterwards (approximately 6:30)

Rants/Raves/Reviews

The end of Maison Ikkoku - To all of you who didn't watch this show I only
have this to say: You stupid bastards. Honestly, what was so important
that you couldn't take 3 hours out of your week to watch one of the best
shows ever made? If you were working on a cure for AIDS or cancer then
I'll excuse you; otherwise you can go @(~%_)#*&^!*! yourselves for all I
care. You all missed out on a once in a lifetime opportunity to see
Maison live subbed from perfect quality DVDs on the big screen.

As promised here are some GEKI YABEE manga. I'll break this up into
a few categories.

Available in English:

Nausicaa of the Vally of the Wind - Hayao Miyazaki's best work, no
question. At least 100x times better than the Nausicaa movie and anything
else he's done.

Blade of the Immortal - Possibly my favorite manga art ever. The story is
excellent - a revolutionary new style samurai manga. I guess it could
(very) loosely be called a mixture of Kenshin and Berserk.

Battle Angel Alita - Futuristic action manga with girl android heroine.
The anime version of this is utter crap, the manga is 1000x better.

Maison Ikkoku - You've heard the whining about the anime, now hear it for
the manga! This is Takahashi's masterpiece work. Every person I have
convinced to start reading this manga has been hooked and finished it
within a week. The best romantic-comedy-drama ever written (as far as I
know).

Akira - awesome, revolutionary manga. The anime covers about 1/20th of
the story (about the same for Nausicaa), and makes lots of changes. Post
World War psychological action manga.

There are lots of other really great manga out there too (these are also
all available in english):
Ah! My Goddess
Silent Mobius
Ranma 1/2
Vagabond
...and many more!

Second Category - No commercial US release, many of these have fan
translations available (ask me for any info if you're curious)

Rurouni Kenshin - The reason I taught myself Japanese. I know you're all
dying to know what happens after Shishio's demise.

Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou - You'll definitely want to read this after
finishing the TV series. The manga is still running and continues to get
better.

Blame! - Subterrainian Cyber Adventurer Killy! Visually incredible, dark,
disturbed, must read manga.

Berserk - No matter how much I love the anime, the manga is still better.
The anime is one of the best adaptions I've seen, but it is still not
quite as good as the manga.

MPD Psycho - really freaky urban detective comic. Not reccomended for the
weak of stomache; great art though.

Hmm... I'm being overwhelmed with thoughts of titles so I'll stop here for
now. For every anime in Japan there are easily 10 manga series; I
couldn't read all the manga that comes out even if I could get it.
If you want other reccomendations feel free to ask me at club during
breaks, or send me an email. Maybe Nur will put some other manga
reccomendations up on the webpage.

Webpage of the Week:

Japanese Baseball terms:
http://ww1.baywell.ne.jp/fpweb/drlatham/nihongo/phrases.htm

BTW - If you don't like what I write, you are more than welcome to take
over the job next year and write your own commentaries. We'll be
having elections towards the end of next quarter.

Ja mata,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan (Secretary)

http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
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===MNA - Hey Brother, Minna no Anime Club (meeting) 3/16===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Mar 14 14:18:38 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

Well, the dreaded day is finally upon us: the last meeting of the quarter.
We'll be finishing the quarter off with the recently released movie:

Jin-roh. Directed by Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell, Patlabor, Urusei
Yastura, yada yada yada). Full Cell Animation!! Yatta!

Please note that the schedule has been signifigantly changed this week to
accomodate the movie (as is standard for movie nights). Specifically note
that KareKano has been moved to 6:30; as you will definitely not want to
miss this episode.

Other news:
Open House - April 20 - For open house this year we will be making a few
changes from years past. First, no Teriyaki Chicken - the California
rolls sold so well last year we are going to try only selling them. This
means we're gonna need some wrappers, cutter, helpers yada yada yada.
We'll train you (as best we can) and let you enjoy yourself. Also, we've
reserved a couple of classrooms in the EE bldg (bldg 20) and will be
running anime, DDR, etc during open house (rain or shine). So, we're
gonna need some helpers there too to keep things running and protect the
equiptment. These events run all day, help is always appreciated at any
time of the day.

Tshirts - Ben and Nur got backed up with other project so this has been a
little delayed, but don't fear you will get your shirt. We'll be taking
preorders the first week back (4/6/02) for Spring quarter. Shirts will
probably be ~$13 (don't hold me to that number) and available in whatever
size you want.

Also, on that Saturday (4/6/02) it's quite likely that we will be kicked
out of the silo. We'll try to see about not having that happen, but it's
beyond our control.

Skeedool:

5:00 Alien 9 #1 - first ep of ova, supposed to be really good.
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #45 - Light of Divergence

Ai don't go!

6:00 VGAi #6 (finale) - Ai(sorrow), Ai(name), Ai(love)
6:30 KareKano #18 - Evolution

Masaru where did you go?

7:00 Now and Then, Here and There #4 - The Happy Fun Musical (Not)
7:30 Berserk #18 - Tombstone of Flames

Jin row the boat ashore. Hallelujah.

8:00 Jin-roh (movie)

Break till next quarter. (Adam Driscol in the house!)

But wait, there's more...
Special Sunday Night Open Programming 5 - 10 (maybe longer)
If you are like me and don't have any finals until Wednesday, take a break
with us Sunday night in the silo and bring something to watch (we'll have
a computer in case you want to show a digisub).

Rants/Raves/'t'Rendy

To start things off, here's a random web site dedicated to those
otherwise uselessly annoying furry creatures.
http://www.bonsaikitten.com

And if you're still with me after that page I'll give you this week's
library reccomendation.

Kodomo no Omocha (Child's Toy) - This was the first popular show from now
famous director Akitarou Daichi (Now and Then, Masaru-san, Fruits Basket,
etc). A unexpectly excellent show about a child TV star and her
classmates. We put it on in club starting back in '99 but haven't been
able to show much lately because the fansubbers haven't subbed more yet.
Super Reccomend!

(Aside - we placed our request for the last 8 episodes of Excel Saga, so
we should have those for next quarter)

Editorial Rant - Why do I love manga?
Since this is my last email for a week, I figured I'd toss in a nice
long concluding statement for my own personal enjoyment (and I guess
anyone who reads this). If you've read any of this section you'll notice
that quite often I mention my love for comics and manga, so I figured I
give some of the reasons why I believe it's so damn good.
Comparing manga to anime, manga is a much freer art form. While it is
still a commercial art, I don't see it being any less of a legitimate art
form than commisioned piece of art. Because producing and distributing
manga has a much lower overhead than a TV show and it is such a large part
of Japanese culture (ie - a large portion of society reads at least some)
there is a great variety of products. From childrens titles to adult
businessmen there is something for everyone. Thus, there are many art
styles, storytelling types and greater freedom to try something new than
in a more restricted commercial medium.
The artist himself (or herself) has a lot more input to the finished
product than does a script writer or director. Manga is, generally,
created, written and drawn by one person (with a small staff of
assistants, usually less than 5, and an editor). When that one person
stops, the manga is finished unless the creator decided to start again.
Again this leads to less mediocracy and compromise in the work and a
finished product closer to the original creators vision. The only
limiting factor is the author's writing and drawing skills and any
additional restrictions placed by the editor (which may vary depending on
the target audience for the manga).
Because of the commercial success of manga, many authors are allowed to
continue series for long enough such that signifigant changes (mostly
improvements) in the authors talents can be seen over the course of a
series. In terms of the art in them, some manga strive for the look
common in anime where everyone is a beautiful person and the backgrounds
are not very detailed. However many take wholly different approach and
draw ugly people and very non-human art styles to tell their story.
Another aspect of manga that is unique to it is the way in which words,
sounds and pictures are intertwined. In manga there is a great emphasis
placed on sound effect; and there is an equally great variety (I'll send
out a link to a site showing this next week) of them. Some authors will
even use kanji to denote a sound, and sound effects are often used to help
create the scene in the reader's mind. The placement and usage of text
can also create a mood, Japanese kanji allows the author to choose the
level of clarity and comprehension his audience recieves in a way that is
not easily illustratable in English. It is also not uncommon for authors
to place text in locations outside the 'speech bubbles'; which adds
another layer of creativity and originality not found in other
art/entertainement forms.
It is this unique combination of art, language and layout that makes
manga so appealing and has allowed it to not only stay popular over the
years, but continually improve in both content and form. So, I hope you
all had fun reading this and go out and try reading some manga. If you
have any desire to get ahold of some, just email me: dhall@<removed for spam reasons> and
I'll be glad to help share the love that is manga.

Saraba da,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan (Secretary)

The Most Promptly Updated Website on the Web (j/k Nur, I know you've been
busy):
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

== Spring 2002 ==
===The Return of the Rurouni Meeting 4/6===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Apr 4 16:06:10 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

Time for another quarter of Minna no Anime, everyone's favorite drug free,
alcohol free, money free Saturday night entertainment.

What now that Ai's done? Well, we have more great OVA's for you this
quarter: Rurouni Kenshin Seisouhen OVA, Here is Greenwood and Read or
Die. We will be showing all episodes of all of these wonderful OVA's live
subbed for your viewing enjoyment.

Other News:

Tshirts - Preorders this week! Bring your booze and movie money this
Saturday and we'll get you your new MNA club shirt in a few weeks.

Open House - April 20 (3rd Saturday of quarter). As always we will need
help setting up, running the booth, cleaing up and yada yada yada. We're
going to be making california rolls this time around and will also have a
couple of classrooms in bldg 20 (Eng East) for those who want to suffer
through a day of DDR, anime and no sunburns (I can't imagine why...)

And now...

5:00 Fansub of Mystery - Hmm... Maybe livesubbed Mahoromatic...
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #46 - Boy of Fact & Fiction

break to pose. ...trendy...

6:00 Sugoi-yo Masaru-san! #9/10 - Masaru and the Ultra Price Sale / Masaru
and Isobe and the Strange Dudes
6:20 Rurouni Kenshin Seisouhen #1 - New Kenshin OVA!!! Rejoice!!!
Furuhashi-san's best work yet; the direction technique is awesome. MUST
SEE!!!!

break to recover from Kenshin

7:00 Inuyasha #17 - Inuyasha versus the phallic symbol
7:30 KOR #18 - Madoka's Challenge! A Haunted Beach's Big Wave Legend.

break to repeat after me "I love '80's anime"

8:00 KareKano #19 - 14 Days 1
8:30 Now and Then #5 - Man Killer

Break to cry

9:00 BERSERK #19 - Farewell
9:30 Gasaraki #18 - Rear Window

break till next time...

Sunday - Ben and I have a lot more work this quarter, but we may be able
to work something out. Talk to Ben if you're interested.

Random / Ramblings / Reccomendations

Live action Cowboy Bebop movie is in production!!!
http://www.comics2film.com/DCG/DispArt.php3?f_id=5958&f_ssn=

Good anime info page (shows, seiyuu, etc... good info on original show air
dates etc.)
http://www.anime.sobhrach.com/~hideaway/text/06.htm

Library Reccomendation:
Irresponsible Captain Tylor - One of my top 5 all time anime (TV,ova or
movie... and yes, that does include Gundam). A truly excellent anime of
it's own merits and even better when you get the references they make in
it. This show was one of the most popular shows of last summer and when
it aired in Japan. I highly reccomend this excellent show, I truly pity
anyone who hasn't seen this masterpiece. Ahh if only all shows could be
as good as Tylor.

Rant time - Hmm talking about "top 5" anime made me want to put together
one of those little list things, so here goes (be reminded that these are
my choices, not some academy's vote):

Top 5 Movies:
Macross - Do You Remember Love
Akira
Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro
Gundam Movies (I, II, III, Char's Counterattack - yeah, I know that's four
movies, but you wanted to see something else on the list too)
Ideon

Top 5 OVA:
Please Save My Earth
Rurouni Kenshin Tsuiokuhen
Here is Greenwood
Shamanic Princess
FLCL

Top 5 TV (limiting to TV original work, not based on manga or novels)
Z Gundam
Utena
Cowboy Bebop
Evangelion
Tie: Now and Then / Infinite Ryvius

Top 5 Manga:
BERSERK
BERSERK
BERSERK
BERSERK
BERSERK
(... and then Blade of the Immortal, Gunnm, Nausicaa, KareKano, Maison
Ikkoku... but I guess that's over 5)

Wow, I really hate creating lists like that, someone remind me to never do
that again (or at least make it top 10)

Back to your non-anime lives,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan
Minna no Anime
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA Additional Meeting info for 4/6===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Apr 4 23:31:29 2002)
Konbanwa Minna-san,

After consulting with my colleages, we decided on the fansub o':

Figure 17 Ep1

I wouldn't mention this except that the episodes are long, so we will be
starting the show around

4:45PM, Sat

The show is the newest (and currently airing) creation of Takahashi
Naohito (director of BERSERK, Kurumi, To Heart). The reason the episodes
are long is because they have one ~40 minute episode per month air.
While I'm all for new show formats and inventions, it can cause some havoc
in the schedule.

Be there or be on the wrong end of Gatts's sword.

Ja ne,
Dylan Hall
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA Everyone bring your Charmpoints! meeting 4/13===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Apr 11 15:53:02 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

This week's meeting should go much better than the ill fated meeting last
time. Because of the technical problems last time (that we solved as best
we could) there will be two episodes of Fushigi Yuugi this week to keep us
on track to finish by the end of the year.

OPEN HOUSE - Saturday April 20 (next Sat). Come on out and help us make
California Rolls and promote the club. We'll be located in the parking
lot between the Math & Science (#38) and Library parking lot. Did I
forget to mention there will be no club meeting that Saturday? All the
more reason to come out and get some sun on Saturday.

Also... we will be having a practice California roll making session on
Thursday April 18. If you want to help out rolling early Saturday morning
then you're welcome to join in the fun. Please talk to Nik or Ben on
Saturday for more info

TShirts - Preorders this week, we promise. Obviously we were distracted
last week, but we promise there will be time for that this week. $13 for
club members, $14 non-member (plus we'll sneer at you).

Elections - While still ~5 weeks off, they are coming up. So, be thinking
and ask any of the current officers any questions; we'll provide more info
later.

Ye Schedule:

5:00 Fushigi Yuugi #46 - The episode we were supposed to show last week
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #47 - Two episodes in one night!

break to be thankful we get the silo

6:00 Sugoiyo! Masaru-san #11/12 - Masaru and That Bastard / Masaru, Susan
and the Mysterious Inventor Group
6:30 Here is Greenwood #2 - The second episode of this masterful OVA
series from Studio Pierrot

breakdown

7:00 Inuyasha #18 - His Name is "Inuyasha" not "Inu Yasha"!
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road #19 - An Experience for Two! An Island of
Forbidden Love.

popsicle stick break

8:00 KareKano #20 - 14 Days 2
8:30 Now and Then, Here and There #6 - Another Shiny, Happy Day

heart break

9:00 Berserk #20 - Sparks
9:30 Gasaraki #19 - Wails

No Sunday, too tired, too much work, not enough time.

Rants/Raves/Retardations

Straying a bit from my usual diatribes I'm going to promote some
literature that doesn't have pictures!

Since Cal Poly claims to be a place of higher education I'm going to
reccomend that everyone read the best author I've ever read (and he's not
even Japanese!). If you graduate from this, or any, university without
having read at least some of his works I feel that the university entirely
failed in its goals. So without further asides, go and read:

PLATO (yes, the long dead Greek guy)

I would most highly reccomend "The Republic", but I'd be happy if everyone
read and carefully considered any of his writings. I think he's good
enough that I've actually read his stuff instead of Berserk.

So do yourself a favor and read something that might actually advance and
improve your life rather than whatever filth you're currently wasting your
time reading.

Aside from that I'd like to reiterate that the best anime production ever
is (original) Gundam. I truly pity anyone who doesn't appreciate the
beauty of Tomino and Sunrise's masterpiece. There have been a few other
productions which are close to Gundam, but I have yet to see one that
surpasses it. I really do hope I live to see that day and I hope that all
the anime creators in Japan are constantly working and trying to overcome
Gundam.

Ganbare Tomino-san! Ganbare Daichi-san!
Ganbare Anno-san! Ganbare Takahata-san!
(If you don't know who those people are hang your head in shame then go
ask)

Ijou,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan
Minna no Anime, Cal Poly Anime Club
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Thursday Sushi Training / Open House / T-Shirts===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Mon Apr 15 20:16:03 2002)
Minna,

As I said in club, this Thursday we're planing to have a sushi training
session in preparation for this Saturday. I first wanted to thank all of
you that volunteered to do this. The training session will be at Nik's
(Vice-Pres) place this Thursday at 6 o'clock. I hope all of the people I
talked to are able to make it. Nik lives in Mustang Village Bulding 11
Apt 86.

On Saturday we want to make all of the Sushi in the morning so
that we don't have to keep the customers waiting for us to roll. So if
you aren't a morning person, there are other ways you can help us out!
We'll be needing people all day long at the info booth, recruiting the
young impresionable incoming Freshmen. We also have a DDR/Video Game
room, and an Anime Screening room set up in the EE building. Just stop by
the booth and we'll tell you where it is.

Speaking of which, the booth is in a different place this year. This year
it's in the parking lot between the Math & Science building and the
Library. Come any time during the day, and I'm sure we'll be able to put
you to work, even if it's as simple as watching anime in the viewing room
(Oh, god no! Don't make me do that!)

And finally info on T-shirts. If you wern't able to make it to club this
weekend but want to Pre-order a shirt, please reply to this email telling
me your name and size. T-shirts are $14 as a pre-order, and $15 after
they come in pluss there is a $1 discount for bringing the pre-order price
down to $13. We'll collect the money as we hand the shirts out. Please
respond a soon as possible as I'm putting the order in really soon!

Ben Leinweber
MNA Kaichou / President
</pre>

===Open House (Last time... I promise)===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Fri Apr 19 19:54:07 2002)
Ok minna, this is it! Tomorrow is open house!

Now I know I told you that we were in the parking lot between the library
and the Math & Science building, and while that is the same zone, they
actually put us out in the perihery of that zone. So in all actuality, we
are in between the EE building (20) and the Math & Science building (38).
This is where the rotunda used to stand, and where a hot dog stand resides
during the weekdays. Not too many of us out there, so it should be easy
to spot us.

Those of you helping with sushi, arive any time you can after 7:00-7:30
in the morning and we'll put you to work. If you're feeling very giving
with your time (or if you just can't sleep), you COULD join us at ~6:30 to
help us get the stand up.

Other than the sushi and setup, just show up any time during the day and
hang out and talk with fellow otaku, show us your DDR moves, or bring by
an anime you'd like to show the future otaku of Cal Poly.

Mata Ashita,

Ben Leinweber
MNA Kaichou / President
</pre>

===MNA - Everyone, Freeform Meeting! 4/27===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Apr 25 15:09:59 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

It's national concise email day!

News:
Elections in 2 weeks.

Tshirts this week, bring money.

Schedule:
5 - 10PM Open Programming (Bring anything you want to have put on)

Fanime this week, thus open programming.
We will resume normal schedule next week.

I'd like to thank everyone who came out and helped on Saturday. I hope
you all enjoyed yourselves at Open House as much I as enjoyed myself not
at Open House.

Ijou,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Meeting of the Fates 5/4===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu May 2 16:00:21 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

Here are a couple of quick reminders:

Tshirts - This week! I promise! You bring money, we bring shirts!

Elections - not this week! Next time 5/11/02. You two can yield some of
your free time to help keep this the most badass anime club in the USA.
Feel free to ask any of the current officers if you have any questions
about the jobs. BTW, the positions are: President, Vice Pres, Secretary,
Treasurer, Librarian.

Library - I realized I had far too many tapes and DVD's, so I went and
donated a big ole' pile of stuff to the library. In honor of this
occasion or gracious librarian Josh has volunteered to bring in this pile
of goodies to club this week. So, come see what's been added and rejoice
that you too can now watch the classic ova "Outlanders" as part of the MNA
library. Ahh the days of dub only vhs, how I wish to return to them...

And now for something completely scheduled...

5:00 Tokyo Underground #1 - new show, new city, new underground, uhh that
didn't really make any sense...
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #48 - Even Wagering on This Life

Only 4 eps of FY left after this week

6:00 Sugoiyo! Masaru-san #13/14 - Masaru and the Boss / Masaru and the
Moustache Soul
6:30 Here is Greenwood #3 - This is my all time favorite Studio Pierrot
show (and they've done a lot of shows; including 2 of our regulars this
year)

next week is our last week of Masaru-san! NNOOOOO!!!! (although the show
has ~50 eps, we only have subs for the first 16)

7:00 Inuyasha #19 - The Dog, The Demon and the Fire Rat Cloak
7:30 KOR #20 - Hikaru Witnesses! The Camp is Full of Dangers.

both of these shows have at least another 30 episodes, so no need to fear
their demise

8:00 KareKano #21 - Darkness of Profound Lamentation
8:30 Ima, sokoniiruboku #7 - Running's Night

Both of these shows will be ending at our last meeting of the quarter

9:00 Berserk #21 - Confession
9:30 Gasaraki #20 - Whales

That's all folks!

Rants/Raves/Rediculous

For everyone that wasn't at fanime last week and didn't show up to club:
great shame on you.

We showed two of the best anime films I've seen in a long while direct
from the (kindly) english-subtitled import dvd's (which were both
flawlessly encoded). Just what were these movies?

Porco Rosso - 1992, Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli. The best Miyazaki movie
ever? Quite possibly so. I wouldn't call it the best ghibli movie, but
it probably surpases Mononoke as my favorite Miyazaki movie.

Goshu the Cellist - 1980, Takahata. This man is the second greatest
director of anime (next to Tomino); his skill far surpases that of
Miyazaki. This movie was made before Studio Ghibli was formed (where
Takahata and Miyazaki are the primary directors). While the story for
this is somewhat simplistic its artistic beauty puts it well within my top
10 movies and quite possibly into the top 5. There is a copy of this in
the library and I highly reccomend for anyone who loves and appreciates
anime as a valid art form to watch this masterpiece (and all of Takahata's
other works as well).

Also, wholly unrelated to those two films I just watched "Hoshi no Koe
- Voice of a Distant Star". This new production is the best single
episode ova I have ever seen. I really hope we can show it sometime this
year; if not I'll make sure it gets on next year. We'll have a short, 5
minute, done by the same director put on during some break this week (it
has english subs) - be sure to watch!

Remember, if you want to have a free forum to voice your opinion of...
whatever... you too can run and be secretary next year. Then you can talk
up whatever shows you think are the greatest (although I would be sorely
disappointed if it wasn't Gundam) and berate those deserving it (although
I would be sorely disappointed if it wasn't Love Hina).

And now let's all take a break and raise a glass in praise of the best
animation studios.

Sunrise Banzai!
Gainax Banzai!
Ghibli Banzai!

Back to your grind!

Mata ashita yarou,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan
Minna no Anime, Cal Poly Anime Club
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Meeting of the Last Commando 5/11===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu May 9 15:23:11 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

News for the week:

Elections - We need you to run this club next year! We will be having
elections in the following order: President, Vice Pres, Treasurer,
Secretary, Librarian. I hope everyone shows up, runs for and office and
votes.

DDR hardpad construction - Do you want your very own arcade style metal
DDR pad? If so, please contact our friend Chris Perluss at
cperluss@<removed for spam reasons>. He will be holding pad making sessions (probably)
next weekend and needs to know who is making what and when.

Library - there has been a lot of stuff donated recently - Kenshin, Key,
Boogiepop Phantom, Gundam, etc; you may want to check the website or ask
our current librarian Josh what's new with the library.

And now for the schedule:

5:00 Abenohashi Mahou-shoutengai #1 - NEW GAINAX!! NEW GAINAX!! I don't
think I need to say any more than that. Come, watch, enjoy.
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #49 - Wedding Celebration

break to pray to the gods of Gainax

6:00 Sexy Commando Gaiden Sugoi-yo Masaru-san #15/16 - Masaru and the Guts
Tournament / Masaru and the Teacher with the Nice Glasses
6:30 Here is Greenwood #4 - Mitsuru and the Ghost

I'd like a moment of silence in memory of our running out of subtitles for
the funniest anime I have ever seen. Arigatou Daichi-san.

7:00 Inuyasha #20 - The Inuyasha Afterschool Special: Inuyasha discovers
his feminine side.
7:30 KOR #21 - Kyoske Thrown into a Pinch! Sweet Soft Nothings at the
Wuthering Heights.

Answer to last week's trivia: Fushigi Yuugi and KOR are the two regular
Studio Pierrot shows we have playing this year.

8:00 Karekano #22 - 14 Days
8:30 Ima sokoni iru, boku #8 - Hitoribocchi no futari (Solitary pair)

What are the 2 directors from whom we have showed 2 regular shows each
this year? (hint: one of the shows ended earlier in the year)

9:00 BERSERK #22 - Infiltration
9:30 Gasaraki #21 - Exfoliation

Bdea, Bdea That's all folks!

Rants/Raves/Retractions

Okay, I screwed up in last week's email. I falsely stated that Porco
Rosso is my favorite Miyazaki movie. The (obviously) correct answer is:
Lupin III, The Castle of Cagliostro. Duh... boy do I feel like a retard
for forgetting that that movie was actually made by humans, not simply
handed down from the gods.

Why are elections important?
I'm sure you can all give a textbook answer,but that's boring. The reason
club elections are important is because without new blood (literally) and
new ideas the club would stagnate and die. Originally an anime club may
have been the only way to see anime outside of Japan. However, with the
mainstreaming and easy accessability of anime these days the function of
the club has (as well it should) changed. No matter how much we tried to
show the newest stuff people will always have watched it before. This
year we made a constant effort to try and bring you shows in a way you
will never have been able to see them, and never will be able to again -
ie live subbing import dvd's and putting them up on a nice 20' projector.
Because we couldn't possibly compete with speed, we chose to go for
quality. We also tried to maintain a good balance of new/old and
shoujo/shounen (girl/boy) anime. We also have to deal with trying to find
shows that are of excellent quality, somewhat unknown, and still available
subtitled.
How will things be run next year?
I have no idea. Someone could always decide to change formats - for
example we could switch and show the newest episodes of the latest
digisubs whenever they become available. Or we could switch and show 4-5
hours a night of the same show and finish it in a month. We could show
less anime and devote more time to social events, manga, group discussion
of themes, meanings and artistic value of certain productions. Time could
be devoted to examining other aspects of Japanese culture and creating
origami or writing kanji; the possibilities are unlimited.
So, please give your imput regardless of whether or not you run for
office. A club is nothing without its members and their ideas.

Ja mata,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan
Minna no Anime, Cal Poly Anime Club
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Read this meeting email Or Die 5/18===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu May 16 16:46:01 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

No, that wasn't an actual death threat, just a tie in for our Masaru
replacement show:

Read or Die.

This 3 part OVA has been a favorite of the after hours crowd for the last
year, and we finally bring it to you if MNA live-subtitled fashion.

Thanks to everyone who participated in elections, both volunteering for
positions and voting. Next year's officers are:

President: Nik Kamachi
Vice Pres: Shane Lile
Treasurer: Coreen Chang
Secretary: Jamshid Ahmad
Librarian: Josh Cohen

(odd how all those titles took the same space...)

ANYWAY... here's the schedule:

5:00 Nur's Choice Fansub 'o - This week the webmaster makes the call.
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #50 - Atonement

Only 2 eps left of F Yu.

6:00 Read Or Die #1 - Finally! Live Subbed! Super quality new action ova!
6:30 Here is Greenwood #5 - Kimi o Sukideyokatta (zenpen)

doh, only one ep left of Greenwood

7:00/7:30 Inuyasha #21/22 - Double length episode. "Inuyasha versus the
impossible foe: Sekushuuaru Toransumittedo Deeshiisu"

A truly unbeatable demon...

8:00 Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou #23 - 14 Days 8732
8:30 Now and Then, Here and There #9 - Into the Chasm

this break brought to you by life. Ah yes, cool, refreshing life.

9:00 Berserk #23 - Ceremony
9:30 Gasaraki #22 - Screaming Moose

(my brother was bit by a moose once)

Rants/Raves/Retreads

During my rants I usually try to talk about things that I enjoy about
anime/manga and related things. However, seeing as how I should be losing
this free rant forum very shortly I'd like to take my turn talking about
what anime related things I dislike. To all those of you who disagree
with anything contained herein I say this: "Convince me that I'm wrong."
If you can do that, then I'll gladly restate anything here with a
correction. Until that time, rant on!

Dylan's list of things that SUCK:

Digisubs - I hate this foul disease that has decended on anime fandom
within the last 2 years. Why? Because the only goal of digisubbers is to
get their encode out on the net faster than the next person. They take no
care or pride in the fan community; they have ruined any image of the
'honest fansubber' in an exceedingly short period of time. Their subs are
usually bad translations, and they make no effort to remove titles from
distribution after a domestic commercial release is announced. They do
not release scripts to the public so that someone who LEGALLY BOUGHT THE
PRODUCT can enjoy it with english subtitles; that would mean that whoever
was watching it wouldn't have to look at the group's logo throughout the
whole video (I have never seen this on any fansub tape).

The digisub community is a community of thieves (yes, this includes YOU if
you actively support the digisub community). Digithieves pride themselves
on the size of their collection, regardless of whether the encode is of a
non-US licenced show, or a rip off of a US dvd. In fact many digithief
collectors don't even know that many of the shows they have digi's of are
from US dvd's, and when they find out have no remorse and are proud of
their collection of stolen material. I would be overjoyed if the Al-Quida
destroyed the IRC networks that most of these groups operated from; I'd be
happier if they destroyed their computers and literally burned all their
cd's. It's quite unfortunate the stain these groups are leaving on all of
fandumb; there are still decent, ethic abiding groups and individuals.
However most of them have been so discusted by the actions of the majority
of these theft rings that they have stopped contributing to the community.

The least we can do is what I, Ben, Nur and Nik do on a weekly basis,
which is to take 3-6 hours per 20 minute episode and create a script for
legitimate use. I would be much happier if the digitheft community would
do the following: subtitle, encode and distribute ~4 eps (of a 26 ep
show); then create and distribute timed scripts for the later episodes.
With the ease of importing and playing DVD's with a timed script, this
would leave no one angry. Cheap fans could still see the first couple of
episodes and figure out if they like the show, then WAIT (I know, patience
is hard) and BUY (or rent) the US release. Those who can't wait can spend
the money to legally import the show and watch the rest of it before a
domestic release.

Until this utopian relationship is implimented I encourage all of you to
say "Screw off, you F*(#ing A$(hole!" when ever you are offered the chance
to watch a digitheft of something. As Chris Beverage (owner of
animeondvd.com) says: Anime is a priviledge, not a right.

Next Rant: Love Hina

This show is crap. Definitely one of the worst I've ever seen, and it is
popular because it is crap. I know, you're thinking: "Dylan, oh great and
wise one, just why does this show suck so much?" Well, it sucks for a
number of reasons:
1) IT SUCKS
2) The animation is poorly done and it is obvious that the animators
themselves do not give a p00p about this show. I trust the judgement of
the actual creators of anime better than any critic or fan (especially
American fans).
3) The show lacks anything enjoyable. I have the first vol of the manga,
and it is actually a fun read with some good art. Everything that made
the manga enjoyable was sucked out of the anime (art, jokes, continuity).
4) This show is a poorly stolen idea. The creators said "Hmm... we need
to make money, so lets take every teenage boy's wet dream and have it like
some pathetic wanker." I'm not going to pretend that this isn't the
premise for 40% of all anime made, but I think all of those shows are crap
(with very, very few exceptions). They tried to steal from the best
romantic-comedy (Maison Ikkoku) and failed horrifically. The main
character (Keitarou) has no likable qualities, as do none of the Hinatasou
girls.
5) Enough already! This show's first episode or two were actually mildly
entertaining, but that was apparently the limit of script ideas.
Fortunately the show has finally had its last production (hopefully);
which means its popularity should start fading in Japan as they move onto
other crappy shows. Unfortunately, I live in the US and fandumb here
doesn't like to move on as quickly as Japanese fans do. I pray that
people stop liking this show before I'm out of the military (but I'm not
counting on it).
6) This show appeals to the lowest common denominator. This show makes
no attempt to even show any remotely interesting points on human nature,
or have well constructed scripts; it is merely a simplistic spooge mop for
fanboys the world over.
7) The music is horrific. From the opening songs, ending songs and
everything inbetween this show's music makes me wretch. At least most
of the music is quickly forgotten.

In summary, this show is a perfect example of everything that is wrong
with anime and has been wrong for the last 10 years.

Next Rant: Megumi Hayashibara

Just quit already. Really, I've had enough of your mediocre voice acting
and bad singing. Hayashibara-san has done some great roles and a few good
songs, but the last time she did anything artisitically creative was
Evangelion (7 years ago now). Her best songs were the one's she did for
Nuku-Nuku (even older), and her best roles (Eva exception) were all before
'93 (VG Ai, Gundam 0080, Ranma).
There are plenty of great voice actors out there who actually try to
create something new with each character, and who don't just recycle roles
for 10 years (see VG Ai and Nuku-Nuku). Her singing voice is okay, but
every song I hear sounds exactly the same as the last one (it's
unfortunate that she sung the ending theme to the otherwise great
Abenobashi Mahou Shoutengai).

Next Rant: Studio GONZO

They are the largest crap producing studio in existence. From their
stellar start with Blue Submarine No. 6 they have done nothing but go
downhill. Their shows are 'entertaining' but nothing more. As a studio
they have stretched themselves to thin and thus their products suffer from
a lack of care. I believe they could actually put out some great shows if
they would cut back and only produce 1 or 2 shows at a time.

Next Rant: "If it's not new it's crap"

I know who you people are, you're the same one's I was just ranting to in
the digitheft section. It's my opinion that anime reached a peak in 1988
and has been declining since. There are occasionally great years ('99)
and occasionally great shows, but in general the quality of production has
been in constant decline. The Japanese know this is true; among Japanese
fans the '80s are properly referred to as The Golden Age of Anime. Nearly
all great shows from the '90s have been commentaries, parodies and
retellings of shows from the late 70's and 80's (Eva, Nadesico, Tylor,
Bebop, etc).

Many people are also under the misconception that newer
animation is better. This is a complete load of garbage. I dare you to
find any movie from the 90's or today that compares to the human effort
and care placed into any of the big movies of the 80's. With the advent
of computers, better looking products can be made cheaper and with less
human effort. I think this is a step in the completely wrong direction;
without the efforts of the animators giving life and human expression to
the characters and backgrounds anime loses its right to be called an art
form. There have been occasionally expectional productions, but they
still lack the time, money and effort put in in the '80s. This is not
entirely the creator's fault; the Japanese economy has been down for the
last decade which has lead to the necessity of reduced budgets. The
counter to this was the use of computers, a cheap way to increase apparent
quality for a low cost. I don't think that the use of computers is
entirely wrong, but the results become very mediocre when care is not used
(Gonzo productions versus Hoshi no Koe). I hope that anime producers
figure out how to keep the art in anime even with reduced budgets and a
recycled creative staff (new staff that haven't seen the all time great
shows and don't know their history). Until that day I'll keep rewatching
all my Gundam, Ideon and Maison Ikkoku.

Well, I think I've finished ranting for today (be thankful I kept my
rants limited to anime related things).

I hope you at least had a good laugh at the expense of the time I spend
writing this email every week.

Mata Ashita,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Voice of a Distant Meeting 5/25===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu May 23 17:15:41 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

No new and/or exciting news this week. Sorry, I'll make sure to think up
some exciting lie for next week's email.

Until then...

The Schedule:

5:00 .Hack//Sign #1 - Hmm... new show... good, bad, poopy? you make the
call
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #51 - Entrusted Hope

Encrusted Rope

6:00 Read or Die #2 - Superfly, Omega-bitchin'.
6:30 Here is Greenwood #6 - I'm Glad to Love You (Finale)

NNOOO!! Dammit, no more Greenwood. Well, I hope you love the ending to
this show as much as I do.

7:00 *EXTRA SPECIAL SHOWING* Hoshi no Koe - (one ep ova) If you don't love
this, then you lack all appreciation for what is great in anime
7:30 KOR #22 - An Adult Relationship?! Madoka Secretly Returns Home in
the Morning.

An Adult Break? Dylan Secretly Returns During KOR.

8:00 KareKano #24 - A Different Story From Before
8:30 Now and Then #10 - Into the Unknown

A Break Different From Before

9:00 Berserk #24 - Eclipse
9:30 Gasaraki #23 - The Alpha and Omega of Nijuusan

Next time: Last episode of BERSERK, Fushigi Yuugi, ROD

Rants/Raves/Retaliation

Hmm... How can I possibly top last week's extensive rants?
.
.
.
I can't think of an easy way other than encouraging everyone to come to
this week's meeting and enjoy the art that is the majority of the shows we
have on. This year's schedule is by far the best one we've ever had; in
terms of shows and show quality. In the short time of 2.5 years we have
moved from an all VHS (and mostly fansub) to nearly all DVD with many
titles being shown directly off the import DVD's. I'm really happy with
the progress this club has made and hope it continues to find some purpose
for anime fans in the future.

Check out the website! Our illustrius webmaster should be putting up the
infamous end of year polls soon. Express your opinion as to whether you
think there was more gratuitous shots in Kurumi or VG Ai. Should Miaka
die by fire or stake? What is a Meso? Could you rock enough to save the
galaxy? You make the call!

Peace Outside,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan
Minna no Anime, Cal Poly Anime Club

WEBSITE --> http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Journey Into the Unknown 5/26===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Sun May 26 12:45:17 2002)
Minna,

Not being able to get enough of this club, or the facilities that we have
at our disposal, Matt and I have decided to put on another Sunday Dinner
Theater.

Unfortunatly, being the organized souls that we are, we haven't quite
hammered out the schedule yet. So here's our best guess at a schedule
starting at 5:00 this evening:

- A movie (quite possibly another Miyazaki, or something Matt gets from
Studio Video)

- Matt's show of Primary and a few Secondary colors

- Excel Saga (getting really close to finishing it off)

You bring dinner, and we'll provide the company and the anime. Hope
to see you there!

Ben Leinweber
Kaichou
Minna no Anime, Cal Poly Anime Club
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Forever Berserk meeting 6/1===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu May 30 14:48:10 2002)
Konnichiwa Minnasan,

We've finally come to the end of a long journey. Don't fear, we still
have a meeting next week and will finish off the rest of our stuff along
with the omega-pimptastic movie:
METROPOLIS
If you've seen it on a TV I know you're jonzing to see it on the big
screen. If you haven't seen it, you are in for a treat.

Rurouni Kenshin (Seisouhen) - Finally, we come through on our promise to
bring you this 2 part OVA series in its full live-subbed quality. This
will be the last Kenshin production of any sort (unless Watsuki decides to
write some more manga) and it is a truly fitting end to one of the best
shows of the 90's. I guarantee that you have never seen a better
production than this; it surpasses even the first OVA (Tsuiokuhen)
series. So, be sure to be there at 6:30 (of course be there the whole
night) and sit back and enjoy this piece of art.

As can be seen we have FY, ROD, BERSERK, Inuyasha and KOR ending this
week; we will finish Gasaraki, KareKano, Now and Then and Kenshin next
week. Be sure to show up early next week, because we will be finishing
all of those shows before 8:30.

Schedule:
4:30 ROD #2 (reshowing from last week)

5:00 Something Cool (not so sure, maybe subbed, maybe raw, maybe an Op/Ed
collection)
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #52 (last episode) - For My Loved One

Well, it's finally over; after 2 years we have finished the MNA showing of
Fushigi Yuugi. Love it, hate it, whatever - it's anime and we finish what
we start here!

6:00 ROD #3 (last episode) - Supa' Bichin' Yo!
6:30 Rurouni Kenshin Seisouhen (First Half) - Finally, the wait is over!

Remember: Inhale, Exhale, Inhale, Exhale...

7:00 Inuyasha #23 (final ep of year) - Inuyasha and Kamachi Kick Jimukan
For His Past Sins
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road #23 (final ep of year) - Kyoske and Madoka in a
Big Fight! A Three-Legged Race of Love.

We will be continuing both of these excellent shows next year; we're
halfway done with KOR (TV, there are OVA's and movies) and Inuyasha is
still being made (in both manga and anime).

8:00 KareKano #25 - A Side Story in the Middle of a Story
8:30 Now and Then, Here and There #11 - Murderous Land

Berserk Banzai! Gutts Banzai! Caska Banzai! Griffith Banzai! Miura
Banzai! Takahashi Banzai!

9:00 Berserk #25 (last episode) - Eternity
9:30 Gasaraki #24 - Penultimate Doom

What's left?

After Hours Special - "You Too Can Help Us Make Scripts" We'll be having
a quick training session for anyone who wants to help us make the scripts
that you folks enjoy every week. It's a pretty simple process, that only
requires a low speed PC and a few small programs. So, if you want to help
out the club, here's an easy way for which you can watch the results of
your hard work along with everyone else in club.

Sunday Theater:

Whisper of the Heart (Mimi o Sumaseba) - DVD!! (1995 Studio Ghibli)

Yes, the R2 (english subbed) DVD just came out a few days ago, so we're
gonna show it Sunday evening (not quite sure what time). If you haven't
seen this movie, then shame on you. If you have seen some crappy quality
fansub, come and enjoy (probably) my favorite Studio Ghibli movie.

Plus, we'll probably find some more stuff to put on and avoid doing
homework.

Rants/Raves/Redistributions

Well, we finally finish Berserk this week. Bummer. Oh well, at least
they did as much as they did and did it as well as they did. The manga is
still running; it started in 1989 and is still one of the top selling
manga in Japan. I am amazed that Miura-sensei has been able to
continuously work on Berserk for the last 13 years without suffering a
mental breakdown or a drop in quality.
Berserk is the best manga I have ever read. I highly reccomend everyone
read the whole manga (not just the parts that follow the TV series).

ABUSE OF POSITION:
Anyone want some comics? (American, Japanese (both in english and
japanese) I've got a bunch and would like to get rid of some of them.
If you're interested gimmie an email (dhall@<removed for spam reasons>) and I'll send you
a list of what I've got. I guarantee you will not find my prices
arguable.

Gee... only one more rant session after this (unless Nik lets me continue
for part of the summer).

MUSIC - that most crucial element of any great production. There are many
great composers for anime; and I'd like to give 'mad props' to a few of
them here. Also, another easily overlooked aspect of music is the
placement of it in the show. Sometimes it plays in the background nearly
the whole time (very American; always needing some audial accompanyment)
to only a few minutes in the show. For an extreme example look at
Berserk; music usually only plays for less than 4 minutes an episode, yet
each episode feels as though it is full of music.

Yoko Kanno (Arjuna, Macross Plus, Escaflowne, Cowboy Bebop, Please Save
My Earth, Turn A Gundam, Brain Powerd, various other works)- the most well
known composer in anime for a damn good reason.
She's the best. Probably one of the best, most varied composers I have
ever heard. One day she's writing symphonies, the next its jazz, and then
into some odd etherial stuff followed up by Jpop. She does it all; she
does it better than anyone else, and she makes it look easy. Here are
some of my favorite albums of her's (mind you I own ~25 CDs of her's):
Arjuna into the another world - excellent beyond compare
Cowboy Bebop - (ost 1) This is one of the best jazz albums ever made and
the most musically interesting of all the Bebop CD's
Turn A Gundam (ost 1) - Her best symphonic cd ever (this includes Mac+,
Esca, Brain Powerd). Truly a master craftsman at her peak.

Hajime Mizoguchi (Escaflowne, PSME, Jin-roh, lots of other stuff) - An
excellent, varied composer. In fact, he and YKanno co-wrote most of the
music for Escaflowne, and he did most of the compositions for Please Save
My Earth. Anytime you hear someone playing an excellent chelo piece, it's
probably Mizoguchi-san (all the chelo in Esca is him). His music always
has a certain sadness to it that makes it beautiful

Taku Iwasaki (RK OVA, RK OVA2, Now and Then, ROD, etc) - His music always
has a very distinct sound to it; sometimes it's changed by a change in
instuments and is not easily recognized. His work is probably the most
consistently depressing OST music I've ever heard (try listening to the RK
ova soundtracks and not crying).

Shiro Sagisu (Eva, KareKano, Mahoro, various Gainax works) - He's Gainax's
house composer; and is damn good. My favorite composition of his is "End
of Evangelion", but all his stuff is real good. Besides, you gotta love
all the rediculous stuff he made for KareKano

Susumu Hirasawa (Berserk, Detonator Orgun, personal works) - He's not a
soundtrack writer, he just got asked to do those (and agreed). He's been
a professional musician for 20 years and has been a constant innovator in
the musical usage of computers. The Berserk soundtrack is similar to many
of his cd's in that it sounds somewhat familiar to other works, but has a
sound completely its own.

Shinichi Mitusmune (Utena, FLCL, etc) - An easily overlooked excellent
composer; please note that he didn't write the dueling songs in Utena nor
the Pillows songs in FLCL. Excellent work creating complex and
interesting piano pieces that all seems to have some strange flow to them.

Kenji Kawai (Patlabor, Maison Ikkoku, Ranma 1/2, Tylor, Ghost in the
Shell, etc) - He's been probably the most consistently prolific composer
for anime. His stuff is never monumental, but he always manages to find
the mood of the show and write music that carries it. His compositions
are often stupid pop-ish keyboard stuff, but they amazingly always work
well. He has proven his musical talents with the many interesting pieces
he wrote for Ghost in the Shell.

Joe Hisashi (nearly all Ghibli) - We've all heard the variety and quality
of his stuff for years. He has his musical styles, and is excellent. I
can't say that I wouldn't love to hear someone else do the music for a
Ghibli production; but I've never been dissapointed by his work.

Other composers (aka other stuff I've liked)
Tsuneo Imahori (Trigun)
[I don't know the composer's name] (Kokoro Toshokan)
Tetsuya Komuro (Cyborg 009)
Ali Project (Noir, Hack.///Sign)
Noriyuki Asakura (All Kenshin TV)

Oh, here's a favorite website of mine:
http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~ricky/anime/
If you want to read an actually (mostly) accurate technical video review
of an anime, go here. See just how craptastic all those ADV dvd's
actually are. Plus, I love this guy's rants (and he makes me feel as
though I don't spend that much on this stuff... right).

Ijou,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan
Minna no Anime, Cal Poly Anime Club
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - The End of an Era meeting 6/8===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jun 6 16:28:51 2002)
Ore no saigo no "Konnichiwa Minna-san",

Well, another year has come and gone for us at Minna no Anime. But, do
not fear, we will be having a summer schedule run by our newly esteemed
leader Nik Kamachi to be followed by more MNA goodness in the fall.

News -

Schedule Calamity - Please read the schedule carefully, as it is much
different from our normal schedule. We are finishing Gasaraki, KareKano,
Now and Then and Kenshin this week along with showing the super-sexy movie
METROPOLIS.

Anime Expo gave MNA 30 free weekend passes. We will be giving them out to
the first 30 people who correctly answer the following question:
"In 100 words or less explain all the reasons why Dylan loves Gundam and
Berserk."(*)

Library - I've noticed that everyone seems to love my Escaflowne tapes (I
see at least 4 tapes exchanged every week). We have lots of other new
stuff in the library too! We've been adding many dvd's as well (mostly
through the donations of 2 people and a club purchase of Now and Then).
If you need it on VHS I'm sure you could convince the librarian to run
off a copy for you (if you ask real nicely and slip him a $5). Here are
some newer additions:
Berserk (1-5, dvd), Now and Then (all, dvd), Key the Metal Idol (all,
dvd), Mahou Tsukai Tai! (Magic User's Club) (all ova, dvd), Gasaraki
(1-13, dvd), Maison Ikkoku (all 94 eps, ova, movie as part of "operation
screw Viz").
Our library kicks ass. You'll never find anime cheaper than this!

As stated in the title this week marks the "end of an era". Our President
and Fearless Leader Ben Leinweber will be stepping down and handing the
chains... I mean reins to Nik Kamachi. I hope you punks all appreciate
the efforts Ben has put into this club for the last 3 years (he was
Treasurer/unofficial VP before Pres). As a friend and fellow Minna member
I say thanks and good luck next year in Japan (you lucky turd).

And now for the moment you've all been waiting for...
The MNA 2001-2002 Final Schedule:

5:00 TOMINO - I will force some excellent Yoshiyuki Tomino anime on you
people; if you're lucky it will have subtitles.
5:30 Gasaraki #25 (end of series) - Lament, Cement, Repent.

If you liked the end to Berserk, you'll love the end to KareKano...

6:00 KareKano #26 (end of series) - 14 Days 6
6:30 Rurouni Kenshin Seisouhen (final part) - This episode is ~45 minutes
long, so note that Now and Then will be starting late

You will find tissue in the bathrooms outside

~7:15 Now and Then #12 - Murdurous Lands
~7:45 Here and There #13 (end of series) - Ima, sokoni iru boku (Now,
There is where I am)

After breaking your heart repeatedly we counter with the always enjoyed
MNA Giveaway! That's right, we have far too much stuff just sitting
around, so we're giving it away. Be sure to bring your membership card.

8:30 Metropolis - an amazing animation based on manga by OSAMU TEZUKA the
god of manga and anime. A production that actually uses computer graphics
excellently (see, I'm not all anti-CG). Please note that this movie will
run past 10:00 (probably closer to 10:30, but you didn't have anything
else to do anyway).

I guarantee some great afterhours stuff this week. It might not all have
english subs, but those are overrated.

Final Rants/Raves/Redemption

Before you all begin completely ignoring me I'd like to bring attention to
someone else's work. Club member Nikki Biggers found the ending to
Berserk unsatisfactory and set out to do something about it (wow, what a
concept). So if you too found that the ending was not what you had hoped
for (or if you want to see how someone else decided to end things) check
this link out:
http://www.calpoly.edu/~nbiggers/Berzerk.html
(just a note, but I've only ever seen "BerSerk" spelled officially in
Japanese or English with an 's')

Now for my opinion on the TV ending of Berserk. Having read the manga
(which is still being written),the only way they could have ended it
'better' would have required that the show was a minimum of 10 episodes
longer; and that they went and redid, or expanded on the first episode.
If they had tried to do anything other than that they would have had to
stray significantly from the original manga, which would leave me much
more upset than leaving Gutts' escape from that living hell up to the
imagination of the viewer. I truly commend Takahashi Naohito, Kobayashi
Shichirou and the rest of the crew that worked so hard to make the
animated version of Berserk not disappointing to fans of the manga. They
accomplished a nearly impossible task and made it look easy.

I can't wait until you folks see this weeks' episode of KareKano (maniacal
laughter ensues).

This is the funniest (also probably most offensive and crudely written)
webpage I've seen in a long time. But, it confirms my long hidden
thoughts on this subject (reader beware; this is highly graphic):
http://www.kenshinisgay.com
(please tell me if you don't get what's funny about this page).

I promised Nur I'd make a good effort to offend anyone I missed out on a
few weeks ago, so here goes:

First topic:
People who talk during club - GGAAHH!!! There have been several times
when I have wanted to call up Gatts and dispense justice. I'm not talking
about people who talk during breaks, or even quietly during openings and
endings. I'm not talking about people who laugh at APPROPRIATE situations
(aka - situations intended to be funny). I'm talking about the people who
have to make comments throughout the show, eat loud food or make other
noise continuously and laugh as someone is being disemboweled. This isn't
your house, this is a place where a large number of people come to watch
anime and enjoy their Saturday night; if your enjoyment requires the
stopping of enjoyment for others then get out. I stopped enjoying Fushigi
Yuugi a while ago, and thus stopped watching it and having the potential
to annoy others who do enjoy it. If you do have to make noise, play your
Gameboy or laptop computer please go sit upstairs by the water fountain
and don't bother me.

Next topic:
People who slip the 3 words of Japanese they know into sentences - I
haven't heard this lately, so good job to those of you who aren't doing
this. To those who are: You sound like dumb apes. Pick a language for at
least one sentence at a time. I admit it seems like a cool thing to do
when you learn a few words, and it's okay for a while (a few weeks), but
then it must stop. Take this quote I grabbed off and internet message
board: "...i'm not a ko-gal, but i think it's totemo kakkoi to see girls
portrayed...". See what I mean? It just makes you look dumb; so stop now
and save yourself future embarrasment.

Next Topic:
You are what you eat - If you watch stupid shows, read dumb books, talk
like an idiot, it makes you stupider. Even if you are trying to make fun
of the stupid show while you watch it, it will drag you down. I've tried
my hardest to make sure that at least some of the shows we at MNA are
thought provoking, not mind numbingly stupid. A perfect example of dumb
anime was last weeks fansub o' Tokyo Underground. Along with a mind
numbingly stupid script this show managed to steal from every show I've
ever seen (poorly too). I'm glad we show crap like this once in a while
though; it really makes you appreciate the quality of our regular shows
(even when they do go on way too long). Back on topic - please just
remember that watching Dumb and Dumber or Beavis and Butthead 4 times a
day will have an effect on your mental capacity.

Next topic:
People who are wasting their lives - I see you everyday. You sit around
playing video games, reading bad books and watching cable TV all day.
Grow up. Get a life.
If the best thing you've found to do with your life is watch (as my mother
calls it) the idiot box all day and masterbate, then do me a favor and go
drown yourself. I'm not entirely against TV (after all, I like my anime
too) as an occasional sedative and distraction. But at some point you've
got make your stories and live your own life. I know I've wasted more
than my share of my life doing such things, and I still do watch TV, read
comics and enjoy entertainment that others have created. However, I truly
pity people who deny themselves of genuine life experiences for the
numbing joy of video entertainment.
Get in a fight. Fall in love. Get dumped. Write a song. Write a book.
Destroy your most valued possesion. Drink. Smoke. Break a bone.
It's never too late to change your life and do something about it. If you
wake up one morning to find you hate every decision you've ever made let
that day be the first day of your new life. As Americans, as citizens of
the wealthiest nation the world has ever known, there is no excuse for not
making something of your life.
Do not fear failure; embrace it. It may hurt, but this must be accepted
and you must not regret participating in the situation. As long as you
tried your best to succeed the outcome isn't important; there will be
other days and other battles.

But, don't worry I'm not talking about you; of course you aren't wasting
your life. It's everyone else; you're a special, unique individual ^_^.

For those of you who don't like anything I've said in any of my rants, I
give you two choices:
1. Confront me and I'll be more than happy to discuss anything I've said
in any of these emails with you.
2. go to the following website:
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~kinho/youare.swf

With that I'll say my final goodbye's and leave you all wondering just
what kind of mailing list this really is.

Saigo no 'Ijou',
Dylan Hall
motojimukan, motofukukaichou, ima wa tada no kumishita
Minna no Anime, Cal Poly Anime Club
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
(Nur, hurry up with those polls; you know I'm a information hound)
</pre>

== Summer 2002 ==
===Cut loose this Saturday!===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jun 20 15:43:03 2002)
Hey everyone! Hope you're enjoying summer break. If not, then what
better way to improve it by watching several hours of anime!

That's right, we have the silo during the summer as well, so keep your
Saturdays open.

What's showing you ask?

For this week, I'm going to show a bunch of stuff and depending on what
the crowd's reaction is, I will continue to show it, or I will replace it
with something else.

Without further delay...

5:00-6:00(maybe even 7:00)- Kenshin power battles! (I'm going to show a
major battle from Kenshin each week.)

This week's battle will be Kenshin vs. Aoshi (my personal favorite). Each
week I will hold a vote in club to see which battle will be shown the
folowing week. And yes, these will be shown off of the R1 DVDs, so it
should be FAR better than those icky fansubs we showed the last few years.

Next is a list of the potential shows for this summer...

Dual!
Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040
Angel Links
El Hazard

This list may get longer by Saturday, so don't feel that you've been short
changed.

Also this week Dylan will treat us to Memories (2 hour movie, supposed to
be quite good).

That's all for now,

Your new dictator....er I mean President
-Nik Kamachi
</pre>

===MNA - MNA at Polycon this weekend===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Wed Jun 26 14:13:57 2002)
Minna,

Every year Polycon has their big convention right here in Trinity hall,
and the last two years I've worked with Lee of Games People Play to put on
an anime room at Polycon to help spread the word (and to give people some
crash space). For better or worse, Lee and Mike Bunting (a bigwig of
Polycon) assumed that I would do it again, and talked me into it.

Polycon is this coming weekend. It starts at 1:00 on Friday and goes
until 5:00 on Sunday, though I don't think the Anime room will be open the
whole time. I'll get the details worked out in the next couple of days.

website: http://www.polycon.org

While it costs money to register at the con itself, if you just are coming
into the anime room, nobody should check for a badge, so MNA members are
welcome to join if they want.

Last year I got a few people from Minna no Anime to help out last year.
I'd like that again this year if possible! Here's what I need:

*Volunteers to take shifts of being in charge of the room
*A larger than 20" TV screen, if you can part with it for a weekend
*Anime from your collections.
*Suggestions on what we should binge on!

Lee will be bringing his LD/DVD Player (and TV if we can't get a better
on), and I'll be bringing my laptop, so even digi's might be a
possibility.

So if our standard 5-6 hours on Saturday just isn't enough and you're
interested in coming, then just show up! If you'd like to help
out a little then please, by all means drop me an email at my personal
address: benl@<removed for spam reasons>

Ben Leinweber
Ex-President
Minna no Anime
</pre>

===Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jun 27 16:01:52 2002)
Hi all! Seeing that not many of you enjoyed Angel Links last week, I have
opted to replace it with the Tylor OVA.

Here's the outlook this week

5:00-6:00 Kenshin Battle Hour

This week it's Kenshin vs. Saito

6:10-7:00 Dual ep 2 and Tylor OVA ep 1

7:10-8:00 El Hazard ep 2 and BGC 2040 ep 1

8:10-9:00 BGC 2040 eps 3 and 4

9:10-10:00 Evangelion eps 1 and 2

With any luck this will be our schedule for the remainder of the summer.
If not, then...*shrug* we'll show whatever I feel like showing (no dubs of
course e*cough*Dylan*cough*)

See you Saturday!

-Nik Kamachi

P.S. for those of you who miss Dylan'a brand of weekly e-mails, fear not,
for they shall return next week.
</pre>

===Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Wed Jul 3 13:24:27 2002)
Hey everyone! AX is this week, but Matt has been kind enough to show
sstuff on Saturday. So if you're stranded here, go watch some stuff
courtesy of Matt.

-Nik Kamachi
</pre>

===MNA - A Return to Form Meeting 7/13===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jul 11 15:36:00 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

It appears as though through some fault in the laws of nature I'm writing
another email. Why am I doing this you ask? I don't know, really, I
guess I'm just ill.

Well, seeing as how I just got back from a fun filled weekend in Long
Beach for the 11th annual AnimeExpo I'll give a minor report (on the
things I found interesting) and send everyone to
http://www.animeondvd.com/ax2002/ for any other news.

Everyone go to:
http://www.raijincomics.com/
What is this? Raijin Comics will be the first WEEKLY MANGA publication in
the United States. Lots of great manga, delivered to you weekly (just
like the major Japanese publications), and they want your input! Along
with the manga will be a insert containing up to the minute information
on the latest anime, manga, and other cool info (remember, this will be
able to keep up with the latest info because it is WEEKLY, not monthly).
So, please do the American thing and put your money where your mouth is
and subscribe to this great revolution in manga publishing.
In case you weren't aware, the US probably has the least amount of manga
published of the major industrial nations. France, Italy, China all
publish way more manga than the US - let's not let them beat us any
longer!! Join my crusade to help put manga in the mainstream US culture
(which means more, cheaper, faster manga for everyone).

Hmm... I guess I'll put my other thoughts in the usual location

Ye Olde (New) Schedule

5-10pm Stuff.

If you've been coming you know the approximate schedule; we are intending
on showing the following this week:

Tylor's War (Part 2/2)
El Hazard #3
Evangelion #3-6 (we will be showing all of Eva, director's cut of eps
21-24, and the movies this quarter)
Ranma 1/2 #3-4
Dual #3

That's as detailed as I'm gonna get on the schedule; show up and watch a
lot of really damn good shows (many of which are on my all time favorite
lists).

Rants/Raves/Rines

Yes, 'Rines' or 'Lines' as those non-engrish enabled people would
pronounce it. There were a lot of lines at AX; some lines went where they
were supposed to at about the right time; some lines went to the wrong
places; some lines went at the wrong time; some lines really never went
anywhere.
I think the best way to judge how successful a con is, is by checking the
ratio of "time in line: time at events/doing something that isn't standing
in line". If the ratio is any worse the 2:1 (ie 1:1, or god forbid .25:1)
the entire con was a complete failure. AX was great this year because
everything I wanted to go to was scheduled far enough apart such that I
could be assured a long wait in line every time I wanted to go do
anything. They made sure to minimize time spent standing around the
dealers' room or wandering aimlessly without a line in site.

In commemoration of the glorious lines I will be commisioning art for a
Tshirt design (there will of course be a line to submit your design).

The Three Goddess Cosplayers:
Belldandy - Goda (OMG director)
Urd - Masunari (ROD director)
Skuld - Mashimo (Tylor, Noir director)

Yes, these are all Japanese men at least in their thirties; none of which
have the body for the goddesses; but this was their idea! (They said they
feel sorry for however is Keiichi).

Also, I would like to note that all of the creative staff for ROD are
complete, total and utter fanboys!! Finally, some men of my caliber
making anime for people like me! (H Kurata told people to buy more of his
DVD's so he could get more royalties and buy more disks)

Now to go work on my costume... hmm... I know I have the body to do
Kurumi, I just wonder if I can pull off the hair.

Saraba da,
Dylan Hall
Motokonna (ranma o misugimashita)

The website without summer updates:
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - We Put the Meet in Meating 7/20===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jul 18 18:57:45 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

Yet again I mysteriously appear at the author's seat for this email.

No super cool news this week, so I'll just proceed with the non-schedule

Ye Olde Schedule

5-10pm Saturday, 03-213 (The Silo)

What stuff?

Hmm... well, we've started up more stuff than we can possibly finish, and
Nik being the (foolishly) kind El Presidente has mentioned to me that we
may possibly involve some sort of populous input as to which shows we
continue. So, show up earlier rather than later if you care what we put
on this summer.

Potentially shown:

More Kenshin TV Best Fights Collection
El Hazard #4
Ranma 1/2 #4,5?
Evangelion #7-10
Tylor OVA #1 (or #3 depending on how you count)
Dual #4

Afterhours:
Nasubi Part 2

Rants/Rave/Reminicing

I just spent the last two days watching 28 episodes of "Nadia: The Secret
of Blue Water". This show was the first TV show made by GAINAX way back
in 1989, and is a truly amazing piece of animation. Hideaki Anno is a
true genius of animation and direction; his presence is truly missed and I
yearn for his return to the art of anime. If I have my way you all will
be enjoying this wonderful show in the fall (along with Ryvius... mmm...
Ryvius) Ahh... natsukashii...

Here's some websites in yo eye:

AMO Tokyo - Everyone's favorite place to buy your import anime and cd's.
http://www.amotokyo.com
You know you want your copy of 'Sen' faster than the US release.

Bestprices - my favorite (US) retail store, cheap prices, fast shipping,
accurate online stock count
http://www.bestprices.com

Anime Music Videos (.org) - The place to find your favorite video and find
many a new video.
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/home/home.php
(Everyone should search for "Ambiguously Yaoi Duo")
if anyone wants to recommend a video, send me an email and I may include
it in next week's email (dhall@<removed for spam reasons>)

Overman King Gainer - The newest show from my personal god Yoshiyuki
Tomino; it starts airing in September! (See, I'm keeping you all on top of
the coolest new shows)
http://www.king-gainer.net/index.htm

Mobile Suit Gundam Seed - NEW GUNDAM TV SERIES. Mecha designs by Yamane
(Bebop, Ryvius) character designs by Hirai (Ryvius). I don't think I need
to say any more.
http://www.sunrise-inc.co.jp/gundam-seed/

Afternoon Official Site - the official site for my favorite Japanese
monthly manga magazine (OMG, Blade, Blame!, Abenobashi, Eden, Yokohama,
etc). Get the latest info on the coolest series.
http://www.afternoon.co.jp/

Hmm... what else is cool...

Viz is making a quarterly release of the new "Gundam: The Origin" by
Yoshikazu YASuhiko. The first issue is out, be sure to pick up your copy
today!

Ijou,
Dylan Hall
gun-ota ni naritai
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

Nasubi Desu!
</pre>

===MNA - The Meeting with No Name 7/27===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jul 25 17:20:27 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

I'm gonna keep this short and to the point. Last week it was decided to
cut the Kenshin fights and to try and show as much as possible of the rest
of the show we have been showing.

Schedule:

5-10pm

The usual suspects at the usual times

Dual 5-5:30 (or 6 maybe)
El Hazard at 5:30 (or 6 maybe)
Tylor OVA's #3-4
Ranma 1/2 #6-7
Evangelion #11-14

This weeks random info:

http://www.somethingaweful.com

what a great site; loads of reviews of the worst movies, games (and
H-games) ever along with lots of other useless but entertaining content.

Abayo,
Dylan

http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Enough of this crap! Meeting 8/3===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Aug 1 22:11:45 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

As yet another eventful week in SLO comes to an end I ponder the meaning
of this email... or not.

Anyways, after writing this thing nearly every week since way back in
September of 2000, it appears as though the official new secretary is
ready to take over. So, if you want your weekly dose of my special brand
of annoyance you're gonna have to bug me on Saturdays (or the other days
of the week like my friends do). Koko's getting angry! (Seinfeld
reference)

The (very rough) schedule

5:00 Dual #7
5:30 Dual #8

Break from the "5-10 whatever" style schedule

6:00 El Hazard #6 (of 7)
6:30 Tylor OVA #4 (of 8)

Break to consider the ramifications of Jinnai and Tylor switching places

7:00 Ranma 1/2 #8
7:30 Ranma 1/2 #9

Break to remember that Ranma aired 13 years ago

8:00 Evangelion #15
8:30 Evangelion #16

Break your mind

9:00 Neon Genesis Evangelion #17
9:30 Shin Sekai Evangelion #18

That's it for the important stuff

Rants/Raves/Reccoa-shoi! (Zeta Gundam reference)

Well, I was informed that I soiled my perfect record by providing a false
link last week! Bah! Feh! How could I do such a thing? Well, I'll
correct it here with the link I was trying to send out:
http://www.somethingawful.com/index.htm
This is actually the funny site I wanted to send the link to last week.

And here are some other fresh links in yo eye:
You want some recommendations of stuff throughout the years? This site
has a great recommendation section of all kinds of anime (I think this
guy has good taste in anime, of course I'd have to add some and remove
some, but overall it's really a great list)
http://www001.upp.so-net.ne.jp/tsuribe/index.html

New Ghost in the Shell TV series! The only bigger movie in (American)
anime history is Akira. The TV series looks to take more from the manga;
most notably with the inclusion of the fuchikoma's. Super high budget,
Yoko Kanno soundtrack, supposedly already licensed and produced by Bandai
Ent USA.
http://www.production-ig.com/Ghost_TV.html

And as one final website I'll once again post some of my favorites:
My favorite online comic:
http://adventurers.keenspace.com/
Want to read good reviews? this is the place; especially check out the
review of 'Sen'.
http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~ricky/anime/
Where to buy your anime! Anime Runner Kuromi is coming out in a region 0
release; this means that it will play on any dvd player (PS2, Xbox as
well).
http://www.amotokyo.com/
Where to buy your out of print anime/cd's.
http://www.animejungle.com
Where to get your scripts.
http://www.scriptclub.org/
Where to waste your time (stupid forums).
http://www.animeondvd.com/

And for one final rants I'll direct you to the following links:
http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~ricky/anime/Spirited_Away/VWDZ8036/index.html
http://www.amotokyo.com/default.asp?main=/main/sento/index2.html
Stupid Buena Vista/Ghibli! They really majorly screwed up this one. My
opinion is that they screwed up and don't want to bite the bullet and
recall 6 million copies of this movie (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi). If
they wanted to try and 'calibrate' this for high end equipment they should
have made that some kind of special release and not made it the only
release.

Oh well, at least I can read my manga and not worry about color tint
problems. I hope.

"If you told me 25 years ago that someday I would be standing here about
to solve the world's energy problems, I would've said 'you're crazy'. Now
let's push this giant ball of oil out the window." - As Eric Clapton said
"see if you can spot this one".

Ijou,
Dylan Hall
Seinfeld addict
Minna no Anime, Cal Poly Anime Club
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Better late than never meeting 8/10===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Fri Aug 9 13:51:43 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

Yes, the newsletter is a little late. But it's not my fault! I was
busy... uhh doing other stuff... yeah...

Anyway, here it is and because it's late I'll give you guys a special
treat: The first live sub of the year!

Yes, that's right we will be live subbing an hour of this weeks programs;
read on to find out more.

Schedule:

5:00 Dual #9
5:30 Dual #10

break to search for the real me in this world

6:00 El Hazard #7 (finale)
6:30 Tylor OVA #5

break to test for super powers

7:00 Ranma 1/2 #10
7:30 Ranma 1/2 #11

break to see if anyone at the meeting has been to Jusenkyo

8:00 Evangelion #19
8:30 Evangelion #20

break to see if anyone is still sane

9:00 Evangelion #21' - Live Sub Directors Edition from R2 DVD!
9:30 Evangelion #22' - Another Live Sub Directors Edition episode of Eva!

The 'Directors Edition' versions of these episodes have ~5 minutes of
additional footage not before seen in the US! You know you're jonzing for
it.

Rants/Raves/Remission

Not much news this week other than that I managed to get all the classes I
wanted! Wow, my last time dealing with the wonder Cal Poly priority
system.

The schedule for the upcoming school year is almost finalized; we've begun
the arduous process of creating scripts for the, literally, hundreds of
episodes we're going to be live subbing this year. If you want to help
we're glad to take it. Please email any of the officers (email addys on
the web site) or talk to any of us on Saturday (or anytime you see us
wandering around confused because we don't have a bunch of kanji in our
face).

"One never admits to the mistakes of youth" - Char Aznable (aka The Pimp
Master)
With that said, I'm outta here.

saraba da,
Dylan Hall
gunota desu
Minna no Anime, Cal Poly Anime Club
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===[MNA] Sat, Aug 16 schedule
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Fri Aug 16 16:03:02 2002)
Okay... now perhaps my computer wont reboot everytime I hit the ctrl or
shift keys?

This weeks schedule:

5:00 Dual #11
5:30 Dual #12

6:00 Tylor OVA #6
6:30 Tylor OVA #7

7:00 Ranma 1/2 #11
7:30 Ranma 1/2 #12

8:00 Evangelion #23-Directors Edition Live Sub
8:30 Evangelion #24-Directors Edition Live Sub
(both with ~5 minutes of new footage)

9:00 Evangelion #25
9:30 Evangelion #26

This weeks rant(short one):

I'll keep this weeks rant short and far from the point. I'm the new
secretary (ie 'weekly mailing b!tch') for our illustrius club, and I have
no idea how to spell anything. For those of you who don't know my name, it
is Ahmad Jamshid Amini. Thats it. "K" is just a nickname. "Tommy" as well.
"James" was just because my roomate couldn't pronounce my name without
making me cringe. If you hear me being called anything else, well... it
happens.

Anyway.... well, Dylan has forfeited this job to me (woohoo!) and I have
to figure out this whole "keeping my computer from locking up when on"
thing. The fact that I'm running windows doesn't help, the fact that I'm
overclocking doesn't help, the fact that I think the cat left me a
'present' in my case really doesn't help.

And one last bit of randomn information. For those of you who don't know,
Spirited Away is premeiring this Sept. 10th (tuesday) here in the US. You
really need to go see this movie, this isn't a recommendation it's a
demand. Also, if you wish to go see the premiere in Hollywood (Miyazaki
himself will be there) then then come talk to either Paul or myself and we
can arrange a carpool perhaps. nausicaa.net should also have more info on
this.

And of course, a couple websites for you to check out:

www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub - Our website!

www.seanbaby.com/nes.htm - Because you know you owned an old school NES
box.

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-"Lalah-sun Watashi no Haha ninattekurerukamoshirenakatta josei da." -
Char Aznerable (a request from Dylan, something about someone's mama).
</pre>

===[MNA] Thu, Aug 22 Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Fri Aug 23 21:24:57 2002)
Sorry for being late this week, but here's another schedule:

5:00 Dual #13
5:30 Dual #14 (Finale)

6:00 Tylor OVA - From Here to Eternity (part 1)

~7:00 Tylor Ova - From Here to Eternity (part 2) - the end of (animated)
Tylor (sniff)
7:30 Ranma 1/2 #14 (if time permits)

8:00 End of Evangelion (Movie, 1997) - Live sub from the R2.

Come see the theatrical version! You know you're in dire need of a whole
hellova lot of confusion.

Also, this is our last official meeting of the quarter. We will officially
be back Sept. 28 (I think?) with our awesome lineup for the fall.

I don't have much to say this week, but I'll leave you all with a nice
video game link that you should probably read again and again...

www.geocities.com/murmario

That's all folks!
-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime "mail-bitch"
</pre>

2001-2002 Emails

2011-11-16T20:18:07Z

Moroboshi ataru: added emailnav

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== Fall 2001 ==
===No Subject===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Wed Sep 19 02:41:25 2001)
Minna,

It's about time to start school again, which of course means it's about
time to start Minna no Anime again! For those of you unfortunate souls -
myself included - who were deprived of your opportunity to watch Dylan's
summer of "Choose Hana Yori Dango, Pick Ping Pong Club", I feel your pain.
But as we start a new year, we have a whole new lineup of great shows!
Instead of keeping you in suspense any longer, let me just list them out
right now:

5:00 Fansub o'
5:25 Steel Angle Kurumi **

6:00 Fushigi Yugi
6:25 Kachou Ouji (Black Heaven) *

7:00 Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou (His and Her Circumstances) *
7:25 Trigun

8:00 Inu Yasha *
8:25 KOR (Kimagure Orange Road)

9:00 Berserk *
9:30 Gasaraki

You might about now be wondering what's up with all the *'s. Well, we're
trying out some new stuff this year. The one's marked with a single *,
mean that we have the Japanese Region 2 DVD, and we're going to be running
it through a computer to do live subtitling right in front of everybody.
Dylan, I, and some others have been working hard on getting scripts and
making them when they weren't avalible to use for this, so it's quite
exciting. The double ** indicates a digisub. That's right, for the first
time Minna no Anime will try to get with the times and show a digisub,
since we have the computer there for the live subbing anyways.

Other's of you might be wondering "Hey, where's Slayers?" Well, we had to
make a lot of hard decisions this quarter, and after a long two week debat
using many many emails, it was decided that Slayers just couldn't fit into
the schedule. But do not despair! Former Secretary Matt has donated his
Slayers Next VHS box set to the club library, and it will be avalible for
check out all year long.

I'm actually quite looking foward to everything we're showing, especially
KOR. This is actually kind of a tribute to former President Craig Kleen,
as it is his absolute all time favorite series. If you go to his
appartment, you will see his walls lined with Madoka wall scrolls. This
time slot is for you Craig!

For those of you who can't wait to get back together with other members of
the club, and have a bit of a chat with the officers, we will be
participating in Club Showcase this Saturday. I invite all of you to come
by and visit us. Later on we're going to have a somewhat unofficial
screening, where we'll be testing out equipment, and just showing some
random stuff. Again, anyone who wants to come is more than welcome. I'm
not exactly sure when Club Showcase starts, but I'll be talking with the
WOW people tomorrow, and I'll let everybody know.

Finally, I know there are some of you out there who are waiting to hear
the word on the deal with Maison Ikkoku. As a lot of you may know, Maison
Ikkoku just so happens to be my all time favorite series, and I bought the
R2 complete box set with 24 DVD's (Thank god for Tokyopop!) As president,
I'm entitled to be able to watch my DVD's on the big screen in 213, but
unfortunatly, it just will not fit in the schedule (it was either MI or
KOR, and at the decision making time, I didn't have the box set, and I
really wanted to put KOR in). So we have to figure out a different time
to meet. Dylan has suggested that we meet every other week on Sunday to
watch a disc or more. Other possibilities would be: once a month, we
binge for 8 hours or something, or Saturdays before official club. I want
to accomidate as many interested parties as possible, so I'd like to hear
from you. Send me a mail at my personal email of benl@<removed for spam reasons>,
telling me what would work best for you. I might even set up a temporary
mailing list.

Alright, I hope that was enough new for you from us at MNA.

Ben Leinweber
MNA Kaichou/President
</pre>

===MNA - Club Carnival Tomorrow===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Sep 20 17:40:01 2001)
Minna,

Well, I made a bit of a mistake. Club Carnival actually is tomorrow,
and not Saturday as I had previously said ^_^;. Sorry about that. We
have to start setting at 2:30. I won't know exactly where the booth is
until we check in tomorrow, but the lady I talked to said most likely we
will be in Chumash.

As for the non-official meeting saturday, we will be watching through
some first episodes of the live subtitling stuff first to test out the
system. We'll probably start around 5:00. If you don't want this little
preview, then I suggest that you delay coming for at least an hour or so.

Hope to see all of you soon!

Ben Leinweber
MNA Kaichou
</pre>

===MNA - The first meeting of the year! 9/29===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Sep 27 13:57:57 2001)
Konnichi wa minna-san,

Well I finally get to be the secretary and not the power monger... err
president (acting). What this all means is that another year of Minna no
Anime has officially begun. We'll be trying some new things this year
(Live-subbed from import DVD's, Digisubs) and also going back to some of
our basics(VHS, fansubs).

As can be seen below we've got a lot of new shows and only a few repeat
offenders (Trigun, Kodocha, Fushigi Yuugi). Fortunately both Trigun and
Fushigi Yuugi start the year off with recap episodes so you can catch up
in case you forget what happened at the end of last year.

And now for something completely... the same:

Week 1 Episodes/Titles and other info:

5:00 Kodomo no Omocha #33 - Love Tasted Like Curry (fansub VHS)
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #28 - The Ancient Path (Recap ep, DVD)

the first BREAK of the year, refreshing isn't it?

6:00 Steel Angel Kurumi #1 and 2 - The cute maid girl beats up the
bad guys (Digisub)
6:30 Black Heaven (Kachou Ouji) #1 - Stairway to Heaven (DVD)

Ben, Nik, Dylan and Nur BREAK the computer trying to get it to work
properly

7:00 Inuyasha #1 - The Time Jumping Girl and The Sealed Boy (Live
Subtitled Import DVD)
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road #1 - A Transfer Student! 'Tis embarrassing to
say, but I'll fall in love for the first time. - (Commercial VHS)

watch as we BREAK ourselves trying to get KareKano working. We've gone to
extra lengths to try and show this one in the best quality possible,
please don't ask about the hours that have been put into getting this show
working; we hope you all enjoy it as much as we have.

8:00 His and Her Circumstance (Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou) #1 - Her
Circumstances (Live Subtitled Import DVD)
8:30 Trigun #13 - Vash the Stampede (Recap ep DVD)

BREAK to get caught up on Trigun. Don't worry about starting in the
middle of the show; we've got your recap right here; see what you missed
and then be angry with yourself for not coming earlier last year.

9:00 Berserk #1 - The Black Swordsman (Live Subtitled Import DVD)
9:30 Gasaraki #1 - On The Ancient Stage of Stone (DVD)

break till Sunday*!

Corrections, retractions and other such nonsense:
As you may have noticed, the schedule above is much different from
anything we have published before. This is because we (officer et al)
decided we didn't like the schedule and that we are all a bunch of idiots.
Thus you have the world premiere of the new and improved schedule for the
2001-02 school year. Wow, it's rare that moments like this occur.

*the break till Sunday?

Aside from the long normal club hours, our esteemed presidente Ben has
obtained the complete TV DVD box set (Import) of Maison Ikkoku (his
favorite show). Thus we decided that it would be a good idea to continue
(and finish) showing it after last years start. So we proudly present:

The Maison Ikkoku Sunday Dinner Theater (TMISDT)

The details:

Every other Sunday (starting this Sunday)
5 - 8 PM (bring you dinner)
03-213 (same room as normal Saturday meetings)

6 episodes per meeting (3 hours, unless we binge and finish sooner)
First episode shown: 41 (of 96, where we left off last year)
All from R2 DVD's - gorgeous quality, no Viz-isms! (fansub scripts)

This will continue through winter quarter when we should finish the show
(and hopefully the movie and OVA as well). We're trying to rush this a
bit because Ben will be in Japan for spring quarter which would make it
very hard for him to watch the show with the club ^_^.

Web page of the week (start out with an easy one):
www.animeondvd.com - biggest waste of my internet time - reviews, news,
studio feedback, forums; the anime dvd news site.

Well, I'm done wasting your time for this week. More to come next week.

Saraba da,
Dylan Hall
Secretary

MNA webpage (as always):
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===Minna no Manga===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Mon Oct 1 22:32:53 2001)
I'd like to welcome everyone to join us for another year of Minna no
Manga. It's THE place for you anime and manga discussions.

Where: Building 2 Room 112 (near where we meet on Saturdays)
When: Tuesday 8:00 pm

See you there

-Nik Kamachi, club VP
</pre>

===MNA - The first meeting where things actually go as planned! 10/6===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Oct 4 16:45:59 2001)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

Yes, as the header states things actually will work correctly this coming
Saturday. After figuring out some new techniques for showing all our
import disk and trying them (successfully) at the Maison Ikkoku Sunday
Dinner Theater(plug, plug); we can say with all confidence (which will
promptly be shattered when things don't go right) that everything will
play during its scheduled time.

So, please come again this weekend, because we will actually be able to
play Inuyasha. Fansub o' will be at its appropriate time slot and Berserk
will look infinitely better than it did last week. Kurumi will, of
course, retain it's status as "Best Translation Ever"(can you feel the
sarcasm?).

This is of your next week schedule:

5:00 Here is Greenwood #1 (livesub) - come join us for this classic OVA;
you are guaranteed to laugh at this, so you've got nothing to lose. If
you have already seen it, now's the time to rewatch it (since we'll be
livesubbing it off the newly released import DVD).
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #29 - Mysteries Afoot

Break to practice our engrish

6:00 Steel Angel Kurumi #3/4 - The content is only half the fun of
watching this show.
6:30 Black Heaven #2 - All Night Long

This break is brought to you by the letter 'V'

7:00 Inuyasha #1 - The Time Jumping Boy and The Sealed Girl... or
something - at any rate, the subtitles will work and it'll look much
better than last week.
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road #2 - A Little Lemony Kiss for Her

break to reflect on how easy it was to show stuff back in the days of
subtitled VHS only...

8:00 His and Her Circumstances #2 - A Secret for Two
8:30 Trigun #14 - Little Arcadia

Bloodier show: KOR (Kimagure blah blah) or Berserk? Hatta had a lot of
blood fly out of his nose last week, but I'm not sure if it beats Gutts
cleaving (several) men in two.

9:00 Berserk #2 - Band of the Hawk (It will look unbelievably better this
week, I'm getting all giddy just at the thought ^_^)
9:30 Gasaraki #2 - Opening (Bowel) Movements

until next week...(no Maison this week)

To any and all members (and potential members) who were annoyed/aggrivated
by last weeks problems: Sorry. We have put in far too many hours and
would love to see everything work without problems, but that just not
possible in reality. I feel very confident that everything will play much
better than it did last week, and that we will avoid all of the scheduling
problems we had. We are not professionals, and are not payed to do any of
this. All I can say is that we will try every week to make it better than
the week before.

Secretary's Liner Notes:

The American given title of "Black Heaven" is not at all a translation of
the title (it was chosen to try and sell more copies). The actual
Japanese titles is "Kachou Ouji" (this is what you see above the line that
says "Hard rock save the space"). What this literally translates to is:
"Section Chief Prince" - a much more fitting title for the show. It
should be noted that the main character's name is "Oji Tanaka"; so the
title could be inferred as "Section Chief Oji" (Ouji = Prince). Don't
hold it against Pioneer for changing the name to this awesome show; they
did leave the original title in unaltered during the show after all.

Web site of the week:
http://www.animenewsservice.com
Good site for general anime and anime related news; will post lots of
info straight from Japan (such as the new Kenshin OVA).

I'm done for now, time to get back to class...

Saraba da,

Dylan Hall
Secretary
Minna no Anime

http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===Minna no Manga===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Mon Oct 8 21:49:22 2001)
First off, I'd like to appologize for last week. It turns out we needed
to post flyers for club, so we ended up not having a meeting. I'm REALLY
sorry if you showed up and nobody was there. This time you can be sure
that there will be others at the meeting.

Now then...

time: Tuesday, 8:00 pm

place: Business building room 112 (or possibly 113 if someone steals our
room again)

Hope to see you there.

-Nik
</pre>

===MNA - Third Time's the Charm 10/13===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Oct 11 17:32:01 2001)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

So stuff didn't all work out perfectly last week. But, 2 for 4 isn't bad.
We'll be trying a different DVD-ROM this week which will hopefully avoid
the problems that happened last time. Besides, the washed out, 6th
generation fansub tapes really make you appreciate it when we have the
shows run correctly from the import DVD's. Consider it a character
building experience.

All I can promise is that we will continually try to show anime in the
highest quality that we can and that we will continually work to improve
this club.

Schedule:

5:00 Project ARMS #1 - A choice from our librarian, so it's guaranteed to
be ... visually stimulating.
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #30 - The Flash of Battle

Time to take a break from the seisure inducing lightning attacks

6:00 Steel Angel Kurumi #5/6 - Please select of a language
6:30 Black Heaven #3 - Hot House

I think we need more engrish and less clothing in all our shows

7:00 Inuyasha #2 - People Who Seek the Shikon no Tama (Orb of the Four
Souls)
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road #3 - Feelings Stirred, The Rolling First-Date.

The odds are running 5:1 in favor of things not working correctly, have
you placed your bets yet?

8:00 His and Her Circumstances #3 - His Circumstances
8:30 Trigun #15 - Demons Eye

Prepare for my sobbing when Berserk doesn't work right... again... sigh...

9:00 Berserk #3 - Baptism of Fire
9:30 Gasaraki #3 - Tantric Circle

That's it ('till Sunday!)

The Return of the Maison Ikkoku Sunday Dinner Theater (MISDT)
Sunday 5-8PM
The Usual Room
Episodes 47-52

We had a larger than expected turn out last time, and hope everyone who
came will join us again this Sunday. If you are interested in watching
but haven't seen any of Maison Ikkoku, Ben and I are more than willing to
help you get caught up quickly; so don't skip out just because you aren't
up to date with the show.

Web site of your anime for current week:

Hitoshi Doi's Seiyuu (Voice Actor) Database (and other stuff)
http://www.tcp.com/doi/seiyuu/index.html

Ever wondered why Vash (Trigun) and Takeo (Magic User's Club) sound so
similar?
Questioned as to just how many leading roles Megumi Hayashibara has done?
Had nothing better to do than spend your life gathering useless
information for your hobby so that you can appear to be more knowledgable
than the next monkey?

If so, then that site is the one for you. The most complete Seiyuu
database (that I've found) on the english speaking side of the internet.
Build your level of useless knowledge up to new and before unknown heaps!

Random Ramblings...

Where do they come up with this stuff?

Most anime productions are based on manga. Unlike the dying US comic
industry; the Japanese comic market is ENORMOUS. Everyone reads manga:
old, young, male, female, human, other. They sell phone book size weekly
and monthly compilations for ~$4. The sheer volume of titles produced in
mind boggling. The only show we are showing this quarter which was not
originally manga (or at least inspired by manga) is Black Heaven (possible
Kurumi too). Every other show we have put on this year was originally
manga. Some shows follow the manga quite closely (His and Her
Circumstances) where as others take many creative freedoms (Trigun) or
used a world created in manga as backstory (Gasaraki).

Well, that's all from me for now.

Saraba da,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan (Secretary)
</pre>

===Minna no Manga===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Tue Oct 16 08:56:33 2001)
It's that time of the week again, where we can have open discussions on
anime, manga, video games, and the like.

Where: Business building room 112
When: Tuesday 8:00 pm
why: Because I knowyou all want the equivalent of a 2 hour break in club.

I'd also like to take this chance to encourage ANY of you to enter any of
the contests for Holloween. It's fun, free, and a good chance to get free
stuff. I especially want to stress the fighting game tournament. If you
didn't hear my announcement during club, we're going to be running
tournaments for Guilty Gear X, and Capcom vs. SNK 2. They are both
awesome games. Don't worry about not having played either of these games,
If you've ever played a Street Fighter game, you can play either of these
games.

Sign-up sheets will be at club, or you can e-mail me at
Ruroni16@<removed for spam reasons>

-Nik Kamachi
VP
</pre>

===MNA - Because misery loves company... 10/20===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Oct 18 16:53:18 2001)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

It appears as though third time was the charm. Everything (finally) ran
properly last meeting, so we're gonna try for two in a row.

We will also be having the first raffle of the year this Saturday. We'll
have your member cards ready and you can pick them up after we give you
free stuff. (and you can join this Saturday if you want in on the raffle)

Halloween - It's coming. Soon. Too soon in my opinion, but I have no
influence over the rotation of the earth so I can't stop it. We're going
to be showing anime (mostly "Halloween" themed) from 3PM to 11PM (maybe
midnight), having lots of contests, cheap pizza($2 for half a pizza!), a
cosplay contest and TONS of prizes. As has been mentioned, the overall
winner gets free admission to Fanime ($50) and $100 (at least) to blow on
crap you don't need in the dealers room. There will also be signifigant
prizes for winners of other competitions (ie - $$). So, get to work on
that costume and start studying up on all your random anime knowledge.

And now for this week's sacrifices:

5:00 Fansub o' - Mystery Meat (honestly, I don't know what's being shown.
It could be more Kodocha... or maybe Ebichu)
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #31 - Whirlpool of Doubt

Nuts and Squirrels, nuts and squirrels...

6:00 Steel Angel Kurumi #7/8 - no comment
6:30 Black Heaven #4 - Space Child

This break is still hard

7:00 Inuyasha #3 - I'm Back From the Bone-Eater's Well
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road #4 - Hikaru?! A Sensational "C-Experience."

Will you have a "C-Experience" this break?

8:00 KareKano #4 - Her Problem
8:30 Trigun #16 - Fifth Moon

I *did* grope you nine times during that break

9:00 Berserk #4 - Hand of God
9:30 Gasaraki #4 - Mirage

No MISDT this week! (boo, feh, hiss) I want my Yagami dammit!

Random Thoughts and Bodily Expultions -

The show "His and Her Circumstances" Japanese title is actually a bit more
descriptive than that translation is. The actual title "Kareshi Kanojo no
Jijou" would perhaps be more literally translated " Boyfriend/Girlfriend's
Situations". While literally 'kareshi' and 'kanojo' mean 'guy' and 'girl'
there is a very strong implication of 'boyfriend' and 'girlfriend' to
them. Also, in that there is no plural in Japanese, one could go so far
as to suggest that the title implies the plural for both words (which is
very fitting with the show as it continues). There is no 'real'
translation to a title which is as ambiguous as this one; fansubbers all
just decided on this title as an easy way to identify the show in english
and avoid much confusion.

Website of the week -

hmm... this weeks link is much more obscure than before (and much less in
English) but it's one of the best sites on the net:

http://www.tinami.com/

This is the place to start your search for the best art on the internet.
Just start with one page and start clicking your way though the links.
I'm sure you'll (eventually) find some unbelievably good pics (which
you'll have to send me ^_^). Happy hunting.

Ijou,

Dylan Hall
Secretary

and let us not forget:
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===Minna no Manga===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Mon Oct 22 15:35:03 2001)
It's that time of the week again, when we get to waste err..spend our
Tuesday night talking about anime, manga, and why Ben wants to dress up
like a girl.

Time: Tuesday 8:00 pm
Place: Business building room 112 (or 113 depending on which is available
to us)

See you there!

-Nik "The NnewF fuku" Kamachi
</pre>

===MNA - Halloweeny Roast!===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Tue Oct 23 23:17:22 2001)
Konbanwa Minna-san,

This is another annoying Halloween reminder. We will continue to pelt you
with annoying emails until everyone signs up for everything. Here are
(once again) all the annoying details:

1. Signup for stuff! (actually, I'm guilty of not signing up for stuff
yet too...) But that doesn't excuse you people! Remember, there are
prizes for every competition, and they are just fun to participate in even
without reward.

2. Ray's eye practice game - our illustrius webmaster has created a mini
game version of Lee's Eye Game. Go and play (the link is on the main
page), plus see the newly revamped webpage. Don't worry if you can't get
any on the first try, I only got one on the first level myself.
Everyone's favorite webpage: http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

3. Trivia Q submission - While we have plenty of trivia questions, a few
more couldn't hurt. So, if you have any trivia questions (we need some
easier ones) please send them to: yaithaven@<removed for spam reasons>

4. Food - half a pizza for $2 (if you are a paid member, which makes you
suddenly appear much more attractive and intelligent). Name your topping.

5. Prizes - here's our current prizes list:

Grand Prize (cosplay and trivia or eye game): $200 AND Fanime2002 entrance
($50 value)

Cos-play Runner up: $50 Games People Play gift certificate

Pumpkin Carving (I know we have repeatedly forgotten to mention this, but
we will be doing it again!): $25 Tsugugi's Japanese Restaurant gift
certificate

Trivia Runnerup: $15 Tsurugi's gift certificate (It must be mine!)

Eye Game Runnerup: $15 Games People Play gift certificate

Fighting game tournaments: TBA (Nik's working on it)

Well, I think that covers it. So, go to the webpage and try out the
practice eye game, and start quizzing yourself on random anime
knowledge... or I guess you could study for midterms or something else
lame like that.

Saraba da,

Dylan Hall
Secretary, not to be confused with "Der Furher" (I never claimed to be
able to spell in German).

http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Meeting for your viewing pleasure 10/27===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Oct 25 22:08:00 2001)
Konnichiwa minna-san,

I hope you're all doing well and working hard on those costumes (I'm
waiting to see someone dress up as a full scale Gundam).

Remember: there are only 8 days left to make your costume...

In case anyone doesn't know where/when we meet:
When: Saturdays 5-10PM
Where: 03-213 (the silo in the business/education building complex)
Why: because watching 5 hours of anime is much better for your body than
drinking alcohol for 5 hours (I know this from personal experience)

Ye olde schedule

5:00 Comic Party #1 - one of the most popular shows in Japan right now,
really funny show about a guy, some girls and a lot of doujinshi...
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #32 - To Die for the Star of Suzaku

Don't you wish everyshow had subtitles of the quality used in Kurumi?

6:00 Steel Angel Kurumi #9/10 - I must watch more, oh!
6:30 Black Heaven #5 - Those Shining Days

Ah yes, those shining days... when I used to not spend all my time on
anime related things... wait a minute, those days sucked.

7:00 Inu Yasha #4 - The Hair Demon Yura
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road #5 - A Secret for Two: A Problematic Part-Time
Job

I tried explaining to the judge that "We just stayed up and talked all
night; besides she told me she was 22." but he just wouldn't listen.

8:00 His and Her Circumstances #5 - His Ambition
8:30 Trigun #17 - Rem Saverem

Wait a minute, I though all those shows were supposed to end as soon as
the couple got together.

9:00 Berserk #5 - Sword of Wind
9:30 Gasaraki #5 - The Touching

that's all for Saturday...

But wait, there's more!

And it's Maison Ikkoku at that!
And Yagami shows up this week!
And Godai gets a job!
And Yotsuya reveals his occupation! (well, maybe not)

Yup, it's that time again. Due to us having not watched Maison Ikkoku in
two weeks, it's time for another 3 hour binge. That's right, it's time
for another night of the "Maison Ikkoku Sunday Dinner Theater" (MISDT).

When? - Sunday, 5-8PM
Where? - the silo (aka - the usual room)
Why? - because it's Maison!!!

The only question is whether or not you will be one of the few, the proud,
the True Takahashi fan.

Random Ramblings:

according to www.animeondvd.com, our favorite US company Animeigo will be
releasing a DVD box set of Kimagure Orange Road in February (which means
it will actually come out in July). What does this mean for you? It
means that in all likelyhood someone *ahem* will probably play the fool
and shell out the cash for this set, which will allow us to show this show
from the DVD's (at some point). The club will still keep it's VHS set
(of which the first tape is now available for loan) for the library and
showing when the DVD's aren't available.

Hajime Yatate (or Yadate) - the mystery man. If talk about great shows,
both old and new, one name continuously pops up: Hajime Yatate. His works
include: Gundam, Escaflowne, Gasaraki, Cowboy Bebop, Ryvius, etc, etc.
So, who is this mysterious man you ask?

'He' is not even a man... Hajime Yatate is actually the collective name
that Sunrise Studio(creator of all the above shows) production team(s) use
for creative credits. Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.

The other half is having some kind of mecha with which to smite your
enemies.

Web site of the week:

You want a script? These sites probably have it (if it exists)
http://www.animescripts.org/
http://www.scriptclub.org/

Saraba da,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan (Secretary)

Go be one of the cool people who visit this page!
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===Minna no Manga===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Mon Oct 29 18:03:00 2001)
Last night before Holloween to listen to your officers bitch about the
price of manga and R2s. C'mon, I know you all want to waste your Tuesday
nights with us.

Where: Business building room 112 (but probably 113)
When: Tuesday 8:00 pm

see you there
your benevolent VP,
-Nik Kamachi
</pre>

===Holloween, videogame tournament===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Nov 1 00:15:17 2001)
This is a reminder to ALL members that sign-ups for either tournament
(Capcom vs. SNK 2 and Guilty Gear X) will be open until ONE HOUR before
the start of either tournament (4:30 for CvS2 and 5:30 for GGX).

Just a reminder BOTH games will be running off of Dreamcast (sorry PS2
owners), but there will be an open tv with Tekken Tag, but no tournament
for it.

The in game timer will be turned on for both tournaments.

Feel free to bring your own controllers, joystick, or adapters (for you
Playstation owners)

For Guilty Gear X, Dizzy and Testament will be unlocked and playable.

Please be kind to your fellow players, I will not hesitate to disqualify
anyone for unacceptable behaviour towards others.

RULES:

Both tournaments will be Double Elimination.

Guilty Gear X will be best 2 out of 3 rounds.

The tournament will be run with DOUBLE BLIND character selection. This
means that I will flip a coin. The winner chooses first player or second
player. That same person also will secretly pick his character(s) ahead
of time. The second player will then select his character(s), while the
first person MUST select his pre-selected character(s).

If this confused you (I know it did) feel free to ask me to clarify via
e-mail at Ruroni16@<removed for spam reasons> or ask me in person before the tourny.

Happy Gaming
-Nik Kamachi
</pre>

===MNA - The Last Great Halloween Email 11/3===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Nov 1 10:15:11 2001)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

Well, hopefully you've already had all the halloweeny stuff beaten into
your head repeatedly enough such that you know what's going on better than
I do.

But, if not then go here:

http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~mlindsay/hindex.htm

That page has all the details nicely laid out.

Take note that the schedule there (for everything) isn't 100% accurate,
but it's as close as you're gonna get. The only changes that I can
currently confirm would be replacing the 5:05 AMV (Anime Music Videos)
with "Hellsing", a new show which is appropriately titled for this event
(and I'm not even sure on that). Just know that we will always have
something playing between 3 and midnight with the exception of a few
breaks.

>From Nik's last email it appears as though the Capcom vs SNK 2 tournament
will be at 5:30 and the GGX tournament will be at 6:30. For those of you
who would prefer to play GGX on a good controller, I will be bringing my
PS2 version of GGX and making rallying call against playing on the
Dreamcast (much to the chagrin of Nik).

As for DDR (Dance Dance Revolution); we can provide the modded-PSX's and
the games, but we need dance pads. So, please, please, please bring your
pads so that we can keep on dancing!

Sodas will be the usual $0.50, and we just went out and bought a ton, so
we'll have all the varieties back in stock. Remember to bring pizza money
if you haven't paid yet. We will probably also have candy (as if you
won't be hyper enough after 9 straight hours of anime, pizza and DDR)

So, in summary:

Go to the schedule website:
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~mlindsay/hindex.htm

Come to the MNA Halloween Bash on Saturday from 3PM - midnight

Remind yourself that there it's only 11 days until the next MISDT (eien ni
Yagami)

Know that the 80's truly were the golden days of anime

go to the MNA website and try out "Ray's Practice Eye Game II" (which is
much easier than his first version, I actually answered everything
perfectly on the first pic this time)

Ijou,

Dylan Hall
Jimukan (secretary)

http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===Corrections on tournament===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Nov 1 15:11:36 2001)
I would like to clarify that the CvS2 tournament will be from 5:30 to 7:00
and that the GGX tournament will be from 7:30 to 9:00. Please ignore the
times that were given in the previous mail (sent by Dylan) were incorrect.

Also I would like to remind you that BOTH tournaments will run on
Dreamcast. You are more than welcome to bring controller adapters if you
want to use playstation controllers, but the tournament will run on the
DREAMCAST versions of Capcom vs. SNK2 and Guilty Gear X.
(sorry Dylan, my tournament my rules =P)

-Nik Kamachi
</pre>

===Minna No Manga===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Tue Nov 6 11:38:55 2001)
Ah the aftermath of Holloween, nothing like it...

Anyway, you know the drill...

Tuesday, 8:00 pm.

I also want to personally thank my good friends Nur Monson, and Matt Magee
for helping me with the two tournaments. Without their help, I would have
been screwed. Thank you guys!

-Nik Kamachi
</pre>

===MNA - First Tsurugi trip of the year===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Wed Nov 7 07:52:16 2001)
Minna,

I know that a lot of you have been eagerly awaiting it, and now the time
has finally come. This weekend is a three day weekend due to Veteran's
Day, and what better way to celebrate than taking a trip down the the
local Japanese restaurant.

Place: Tsurugi Restaurant, Tatami Room
Date: Monday, November 12th
Time: 6:00 PM

Because of the size of the Tatami room, space is limited to 16 people. If
you want to be one of the people there, you need to reserve your seat!
Simply reply to this email and let us know you want to come. Seating is
first come first serve, and we'll try to fill any extra seats we might
have at club this Saturday.

If you have never gone out with us to Tsurugi's before, all the more
reason for you to come. Great food, great atmosphere and greats friends
sums it all up.

Ben Leinweber
MNA Kaichou/President

PS If there is enough interest, I shall try to reserve the other back
room as well. I can't promise anything though.
</pre>

===MNA - The End of an Era 11/10===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Nov 8 21:54:37 2001)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

That's right, it's time for an end to an era: No more Kurumi digisubs (at
least for a while). We got in our fansub tapes and they are better than
you can imagine. We also got in some more fansubs for the library
including some classic Maziger super robot stuff and (insert dramatic
music here) more Excel Saga! (I'm sure that will be shown during some
unofficial time; wink wink)

Also this week we will be trying all of our live-subbing on our VP Nik's
computer, which you guys don't get more celebrity jeopardy unless he has
some on his computer.

Remember that in addition to the Saturday meeting there will also be MISDT
and a trip to Tsurugi's monday at 6PM. I hope you all have been
practicing your Ichinose-san laughs and have your party fans ready.

Secehedeuele:

5:00 Rave #1 - New show currently airing in Japan. It's got a wierd
snowman looking guys as a main character...
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #33 - Nuriko, The Eternal Farewell

Why do I get the feeling something bad just happened to Nuriko?

6:00 Steel Angel Kurumi #9/10 - Ooh, pretty colors....
6:30 Black Heaven #6 - Walk Away

The only quesion is whether the improved video quality is worth the loss
in translation quality

7:00 Inuyasha #5 - The Episode For Which I Didn't Make The Script!
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road #6 - That Kid's My Rival; Midterm Exam of Love.

Ach! Let it be law from now on: No show may use the dreaded word
"Midterm" in an episode title!

8:00 KareKano #6 - Your Voice That Changes Who I Am
8:30 Trigun #18 - Goodbye for Now

My advise is as follows: It's always best to say 'goodbye' while wearing
pants. It just seems to be the sensisble thing to do.

9:00 Berserk #6 - Zodd the Immortal
9:30 Gasaraki #6 - The Puppet

That's all for Saturday

Sunday!!! More MISDT!!! Yeah!!!
You know you love it.

Come join us Sunday from 5 to 8 PM as we continue our binge through one of
the best shows of all time (and definitely Takahashi's best anime).

When: Sunday, 5-8PM
Where: The Silo (our normal room)
Why: cuz it's Maison Ikkoku

And remember Monday night is Tsurugi's.

Random Ramblings:

Firstly, I'd like to thank everyone who participated in the Halloween
festivities last Saturday. As far as I know, most things went off without
a hitch. I had a great time and hope the rest of you did too. We'll
probably continue the tradition next year and do our best to make it
better than this years. An extra congratulations to our Grand Prize
Winner (add echo effect) and longtime member Coreen Chang; while she
didn't win everything, she placed in the top 3 for everything and that was
good enough for us.

http://www.noated.com/nindex.php
This site has lots of links to manga translations and many pages with
scans of the manga too. Lots of good stuff for a lot of series.

http://zigguratbuilder.nu/manga/index.html
This site is great. The author has collected a list of many great manga
series that most American fans aren't aware of (myself included for many
of these titles). Definitely go check it out.

Ijou,

Dylan Hall
Jimukan (Secretary, and resident import DVD addict)

as always, the only website that makes a habit of making disparaging
comments about me.

http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Meeting of 11/17/01 And That's it!===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Nov 15 22:38:09 2001)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

I don't have anything special to announce this week, so I'll keep it
pretty short.

Tshirt design contest - to be held on the second week of winter quarter,
so there's no excuse for not having one done!

No meeting next (Thanksgiving) Saturday, there may be some kind of Sunday
night meeting, but nothing that Saturday.

And now, what you're all been waiting for:

The Schedule

5:00 Mahoromatic #1 - The newest (and currently airing) Gainax show
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #34 - Guardians of Ice

Well, they couldn't get any lamer than killing off my favorite character.

6:00 Steel Angel Kurumi #11/12 - mo' booty
6:30 Black Heaven #7 - In Need

Don't go Kachou!

7:00 Inuyasha #6 - The Episode that follows episode 5
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road #7 - Madoka's Private Life?! A Spark-Colored
Kiss.

Play that flute like you love it Madoka

8:00 KareKano #7 - What Esranges Them
8:30 Trigun #19 - Hang Time

Finally Wolfwood comes back!

9:00 Berserk #7 - Sword Master
9:30 Gasaraki #7 - Return

Time for the Gasaraki musical! Everybody dance like you're Yushiro!

I'm kinda tired and annoyed at the stupid Poly internet crap so I'm gonna
cut it short this week.

No annoying commentary!
No aggrivating webpages!

Ijou,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan(Secretary)
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===Minna No Manga===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Tue Nov 27 11:24:25 2001)
Hope you all enjoyed your Thanksgiving, and what better way to get back
into the grind than joining your officers for a night of shooting the sh*t
and bragging about how much cash you spent on anime and manga this break
*cough*$200*cough*

In case you forgot:
Tonight at the Business building, room 112 or 113 8:00 pm.

-Nik Kamachi
</pre>

===MNA All The News That Matters 12/1===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Nov 29 20:25:08 2001)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

Nothing real special to announce this week, so I'll make something up:

Ben has decided that we will show nothing but Maison Ikkoku next quarter!!

How's that for inciting.

On to the schedule:

5:00 Fansub o' - Hannyaku Maids (or something else, I'm not sure).
Because we didn't get enough fan service last week.
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi - #35 - Hell's Mirage

Miaka got as nekkid as the censors would allow last time. This week she's
back to prove that she won't let "The Man" keep her clothes on.

6:00 Kurumi #13/14 - I was hoping for more fanservice last week...
6:30 Black Heaven #8 - Alright Now

This week we get Tanaka's shower scene, get the camera ready.

7:00 Inuyasha #7 - My Brother, The Jerk
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road #8 - You're Smiling! A "Shutter-Chance" at the
Beach.

This week we get all the KOR girls at the beach in swimsuits... sinful

8:00 KareKano #8 - Her Daily Life
8:30 Trigun #20 - Flying Ship

La la la
Genocide...
An Ocean of Blood
Let's begin the killing time!

9:00 Berserk #8 - Conspiracy
9:30 Gasaraki #8 - Inferno

Fire! Fire!! FIRE!!!! yeah, fire is cool and stuff. And so is
politics... well, maybe politicians being attacked by mecha, then I'd
watch CSPAN 14 hours a day.

Websites and Random Ramblings:

ust who does take my money? Aside from the IRS these fine stores are
known to have gotten a dollar or two from me now and then:

http://www.animejungle.com
used import dvd/cd/ld... really cheap (great quality) used cd's! (all
legit)

http://www.comicopolisonline.com
My comic store in Santa Cruz. They always know just what I need...

http://www.tokyopop.com
awesome online store. UPS shipping usually reaches me in 1-2 days; great
selection and they will always find that out of stock item for you.

Hmm... now to ramble. The destroyer of my productivity in college: Grand
Theft Auto 3.
Best game of the year, no contest. Just don't start playing unless you
want to extend your graduation date quite a bit.

After Maison Ikkoku... We have the silo for every Sunday next quarter,
although we will probably continue with the every other week MI binging.
However, MI will end at some point and we'd like to keep showing more
stuff then. We have been considering showing more full series (subbed) or
possibly showing a bunch of raw stuff. If you have any suggestions,
please share them with the group.

Winter Break - need that anime fix? We'll let you check out any whole
series for (tenatively) a $40 deposit (you get it all back when we get all
the tapes back). So, if you wanna binge of Marmalade Boy, you can go
crazy this break.

Ijou,

Dylan Hall
Jimukan (Secretary)
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

PS - you should all go read the great stuff Ray has put up on the Minna
site!!!
</pre>

===MNA - State of the Club Address 12/8===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Dec 6 17:15:04 2001)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

Well we've finally come to the last meeting of the quarter.

Here's my Quarterly wrap-up:

Well, we started off nicely with Golden Boy #5 and kept that pace with last
week's Hannuyaku Maids. On the other side of fan service we did have the
Guts and Griffith naked water fight.

Live Subtitling - This little project was first conceived of after my
(mostly) successful efforts with the Utena movie last year. It took us a
few weeks to get it right for all the shows, but I'm really pleased with
the results. This has been a lot of effort for a lot of people to do,
everyweek we have to setup the episodes, create scripts if they don't
exist, bring a computer and get it too work with the system. So, just
know that this is something that I doubt any other anime club in the USA
is doing. We will continue to show anime in this way for as long as it
remains feasable (technically and financially). We are looking to expand
it and show more shows this way next quarter. If you would like to help
in this endevor we are always accepting.

MISDT - Because just adding the 5 o'clock hour to the schedule wasn't
enough time, we started up this 'little' (another 6 eps of live sub every
other week) project. We've now shown through ep 62 (IIRC) and *only*
have ~30 eps left... sigh. In my opinion, this show is Takahashi's best
work and one of the best shows of all time. Next quarter we have the
silo reserved for every Sunday and will probably show some other shows on
Sundays opposing MI; we'll keep you posted on the situation.

Halloween - Things went great this year, even better than I had hoped.
Folks didn't watch too much anime, but there was more fun stuff going on
(like DDR 'till 2am). We'll do this again next year and try to make it
better than this year's.

Engrish - The ranguage of a kings. From the Kurumi subtitles ("It's
hard!") to many of the OP and ED sequences we've had more than our fair
share of it this quarter. Hopefully, this will continue into next year -
I'm looking forward to more Japanese->Korean/Chinese->English
translations.

Reminders:
T-shirt contest - we will be having our annual T-shirt contest the second
week of winter quarter, so get to work on your designs.

Library checkout - if you wanted that full series over break, be sure to
bring your cash this weekend and a backpack to carry your stuff. We have
some series reserved already, but others are still available. A list is
at the bottom.

And I guess you'll want to look at the schedule too...

5:00 I, Me, My, Strawberry Eggs - a reccomended show from our librarian is supposed to be not as 'H' friendly as the last one... but that's just his word
5:30 Steel Angel Kurumi #15/16 - The tape looked to have been recorded with some bad cables; hopefully it won't be present on the other eps but we've got to suffer with it for now

Poorly Recorded Break

6:00 Inuyasha #8 - My Sword, the one that my father hid in my eye; you could've just asked the neighbors to look after it.
6:30 Black Heaven #9 - Hitoribocchi no Sekai (My Own World)

My Own Break

7:00 Kareshi Kanojou no Jijou #9 - Atonement of Moratorium
7:30 Trigun #21 - Out of Time

Out of Breaks!

8:00 Ah! My Goddess - Movie - repeat after me: Pretty, pretty colors...

MISDT - None this week; sorry we'll get caught up at the beginning of
next quarter (you don't have anything better to do at that time anyway)

Random Ramblings/Web pages

Speaking of Engrish:
http://www.engrish.com/
And for those troublesome Berserk OP/ED lyrics:
http://www.animelyrics.com/anime/berserk/

Wow, the animation on "Hannuyaku Maids" was unbelievaby... sucky. All
the effort they put into that 3 color (computer colored) hair(note the
extreme sarcasm). I yearn for a return to the '80's when things were
actually well animated.
Fortunately there are still some decent productions and tons of great
manga. One manga I'd love to push on everyone is "Blame!". Awesome
beyond words, and not much text in it - even a person who could read no
Japanese could get the main story.

I'm sure I've written far too much this week, but you won't be getting
much from me for the next month so I figure a little OD won't hurt too much.

Saraba da,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan (Secretary)

The ever entertaining MNA webpage:
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

List of series still avalible for checkout over the break:

Akazukin Chacha vols 1-6
All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku Vols 1-3
Armitage III Vols 1-4
DNA^2 Vols 1-4
Future Boy Conan Vols 1-7
Giant Robo (Dubbed and missing last tape) Vols 1-5
Legend of Galactic Heroes Vols 1-12 (All thats out)
Lupin III Shows & movies (9 tapes)
Maison Ikkoku Vols 1-21
Marmalade Boy Vols 1-19
Miracle Girls Vols 1-8
Slayers Next Vols 1-8
To Heart Vols 1-4
Revolutionary Girl Utena (complete)
Vampire Princess Miyu Vols 1-7
Ghibli Movies (13 Tapes)
-Gauche the Cellist
-Grave of the Fireflies (Dub)
-Laputa: Castle in the Sky
-Mimi o Sumaseba (Whisper of the Heart)
-My Neighbor Totoro
-My Neighbors the Yamadas
-Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
-Omoide Poro Poro
-Pon Poko
-Porco Rosso
-Price Horus
-Umi ga Kikoeru (I can hear the Sea)
-On Your Mark Music Video
Email mnalibrary@<removed for spam reasons> to reserve your series today.
</pre>

== Winter 2002 ==
===MNA - The First Meeting of Winter 1/12===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jan 10 17:32:18 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

It's been a long time since I last annoyed everyone on this email list, so
I'll make sure to annoy you plenty (got to make up for lost time).

First: The Recap Episode
"The Fall of Decency" (interpret it whatever way you will)
We started off the year with a "bang" during our pre-meeting with the
infamous Golden Boy Episode 5. We followed that soon after with Steel
Angel Kurumi and nearly ended the quarter with Hannyaku Maids.
And don't forget all about Kasuga's lecherous friends (ya gotta love the
bedroom decorations). Black Heaven has had plenty of bathroom scenes and
naughty magazines. Inuyasha has... ears and Berserk has
nekid-morning-l33t-water fights.
All I have to say about Gasaraki is:
"Do you know?"
Yukino was busy keeping her sisters away from Asaba "The Shepard" while
Vash was singing about "beginning the killing time", 'genocide', "Endless
Pain" and what not (whatever that means).

T-shirt Contest: I know you are all tired from spending your whole
vacation working on your designs, but I ask you to give it just one more
week of effort. Our contest for this year's MNA tshirt will be held next
week (not this Sat). If you have any questions, please ask Ben.
Remember: more panties = more votes (just kidding... I think).

MISDT: More Maison! (about damn time). Yes, the rumors you've been
hearing all over SLO are true - we will be showing more Maison Ikkoku this
quarter. All the excitement happens from 5-8PM Sundays in the Silo. Be
there or be Yotsuya's roommate!! (Now, that is a scary thought)

Webpage: It's true, Raymond "Webmaster" Lee has left us. Fortunately Nur
"I don't like people trying to single me out at club" Monson has agreed to
take over. So, we may see a new style of webpage - possibly with a higher
Poop joke to Dylan joke ratio (but I don't really forsee that happening).

And finally, the schedule(Saturday 1/12 in the Silo):

5:00 Space Pirate Harlock #1 - He's a very 'Roman' man
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #36 - Trampled Love

Space Pirate Miyaka versus the US dub of Robotech

6:00 Steel Angel Kurumi #17/18 - Mo' Booty, Mo' Bouncy, Mo' Money
6:30 Black Heaven #10 - The Mysterious Ten Years

I'm ashamed that so few people in the audience got the "Ventura, Ventura,
Space People" joke last time. We need to culture you people up a little
with Urusei Yatsura.

7:00 Inuyasha #9 - Rub my ears for good luck; rub my... nevermind
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road #9 - Kurumi, I'll Teach You How To Date.

That little monkey thing reminded me of Mokona far too much

8:00 KareKano #10 - Everything Starts Now
8:30 Trigun #22 - Alternative

I just had the "What if..." thought of switching Vash and Guts.
Disturbing.

9:00 Berserk #9 - Assassination
9:30 Gasaraki #9 - Storehouse

Don't forget MISDT!!! We'll be enjoying episodes 65 - 70, hope to see
you all there.

And now for everyone's favorite part of the email:
Rants/Raves/Webpages:

Q: What did you do this winter vacation?
A: I watched a lot of anime, consumed alcohol and played Final
Fantasy X (not neccessarily in that order).

Q: Just what did you watch?
A: 4 Gundam Movies, 51 (all) eps of Hana Yori Dango, 25 eps of You're
Under Arrest, 3 Tylor OVA eps, 16 eps of Sexy Commando Masaru-san, and
more (of course that was all before 12/20/01)

Q: What is the Japanese term for Gundam otaku like you (dylan)?
A: Gun Ota (it's true!)

Q: Who is asking these questions?
A: No comment.

Q: Will you give us a webpage so we can stop reading these stupid
questions:
A: No. (http://www.adventurers-comic.com)

Q: Go away
A: That's not a question!

Abayo,
Cranky Racoon
Jimukan (Secretary and purveyor of annoyances)

Everyone's favorite source for poop jokes:
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Please Save My Foliage 1/19===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jan 17 20:57:38 2002)
Konbanwa Minna-san,

Osu Osu Osu! Time for another MNA email, which means that it's nearly time
for another meeting of everyone's favorite free Saturday night club -
Krazy Kenny's Occult Hour! Or maybe not.

T-shirt contest this week! Yes, it's finally time for the long awaited
MNA Tshirt design contest. Everyone get's to show off their artisic (or
lack thereof) talents. The contest will probably held at 9PM (but maybe
8) so you'll still have a few minutes to add more fan-service shots to
your art!

And now, the schedule in semaphore!

.
.
.
.

Well, I'm all tired from that, now I'll just write it out:

5:00 You're Under Arrest! OVA #1 - live sub (if I'm not lazy) - The
most crack-coccaine addictive show ever! I must watch more!
5:30 Fushigi "for me to poop on" Yuugi #37 - Bewitched Warmth

Break to say that F-Yu actually is pretty great.... FOR ME TO POOP ON!!
(now I'm angering Ben and infringing on Nur's territory)

6:00 Steel Angel Kurumi #19/20 - More Hardcore Doujinshi scenes!
6:30 Black Heaven #11 - The "Wanna do it" Feeling

Break to mourn the fact that we only have 3 more weeks of Kurumi and 2 eps
left with Our Hero.

7:00 Inu "Nik doesn't like my episode titles" Yasha #10 - Inuyasha, your
coat is so big (while remembering that scene in Spaceballs)
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road #10 - A Foreboding Dream?! Hikaru is Dying.

Come on, you can't say you were really surprised that the kidnapper was
Hatta's older brother. I really got to get myself a copy of that dating
video he had though.

8:00 Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou #11 - The End of the First Trimester
8:30 Trigun #23 - Paradise

End of the first trimester??? When did Yukino get pregnant?? Or maybe it's
someone else and the show will change into a NBC afterschool special (I
wouldn't put it past Hideaki Anno)

9:00 Berserk #10 - Nobleman
9:30 Gasaraki #10 - Kugai

Bdea, bdea, bdea that's all folks!

Or is it...

More MISDT!!!

That's right, because we know you have no school Monday we have another 3
hours of the most beloved romantic comedy series of all time. This time
it's episodes 71 through 76 bringing us within 20
episodes of the end.

I truly do laugh mockingly at everyone who skips out on this show.

You know the place and time.

Rants/Raves/Wasted Bandwidth

After looking through the links section I noticed that my favorite anime
DVD review site wasn't there. I knew I had to remedy the situation, so
here it goes:
http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~ricky/anime/
I love this guy. He's always absolutely manical in his reviews, dislikes
most of the stuff I dislike, and actually knows how to spot all the crappy
DVD's that the US companies put out.

If you are one of the pathetic, impotent losers who doesn't come to MISDT,
I must insist that you see "The Fellowship of The Ring". This movie is so
manly and good in every way that is good that it hurts. I wish a plague
of locusts on anyone who hasn't seen this yet.

Anyone else interested in actually having a MNA Basketball Challenge?
(Those of you who are man enough to have watched all the way to the end of
Marmalade Boy a few years ago will get the reference and feel really old)
If so email me with times you'd want to play.
dhall@<removed for spam reasons>

Ijou,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan (Secretary)

PS - Be sure to avoid the Harlem area!

your online Fun Fecal Facts Forum
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Can We Make This Any Bigger? 1/26===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jan 24 20:49:52 2002)
Konbanwa Minna-san,

Well, through the process of random luck the final decision on this year's
Tshirt was made last week. This means that we will hopefully get the
shirts out before the end of the quarter.

Other than that I have no major news for you (sorry, I'll make sure to
commit some random act of violence next week so that there will be no news
shortage). But, in place of actual useful information I will provide you
with the favorite game - Name that seiyuu (voice actor)!

Ye Olde Skedulee:

5:00 Full Metal Panic #1 - Another new show from studio Gonzo.
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #38 - Dawn of the Heart; Crack of the Ass.

Tasuki = Guts = Parn (Lodoss TV) --> Hayashi Nobutoshi
Yui = Mihael = Rin (PSME) --> Touma Yumi

6:00 Steal Angle Kurumi #21/22 - Will this feature more doujin action than
last week? Will Kurumi's larger breast size be explained? Will Dr.
Ayanokouji take off his mask and reveal his true identity (Old Man
Witherspoon)? All this and more explained (or not) this week.
6:30 Black Heaven #12 - Into The Arena

Kurumi = Kotoko = Yukino --> Enomoto Atsuko
Yokko = Miaka --> Araki Kae

7:00 Inuyasha #11 - Reborn in the Present, the Cursed Nou-Mask (Note that
that is the first time I've actually given the correct episode title since
ep 4)
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road #11 - Don't Ring the Wedding Bell!

Kagome = Milly = Ropponmatsu Gou (ExlSga) --> Yukino Satsuki
Jingoro = Myouga --> Ogata Kenichi
Madoka = Meryl = Asuna (MI) = Bulma (DB) --> Tsuru Hiromi
Kasuga = Amuro Rei (if you don't know...) = Mamoru (SM) --> Furuya Tohru

8:00 KareKano #12 - A Place Where Happiness Is
8:30 Trigun #24 - Sin

Tsubasa = Haruko (FLCL) --> Shintani Mayumi
Wolfwood = Shion (PSME) = Yamamoto (Tylor) = Max (Macross) --> Hayami Sho
Chapel = Noah Bright (The Eternal Captian) = Saitou (RK) --> Suzuoki
Hirotaka

9:00 Berserk #11 - Battle
9:30 Gasaraki #11 - Ties

Casca = Asuka (eva) --> Miyamura Yuko
Princess Charlotte = Mokona (MKR) = Tsubame (RK) = Nanami (Utena) -->
Shiratori Yuri
Misuzu = Menchi (ExlSga) = Chu Chu --> Koorogi Satomi

And...
Maison Ikkoku Sunday Dinner Theater (MISDT). Sunday. 5-8PM. The Silo.
Episodes 77-82. Be There Or Be A Loser Cuz You Think You're Too Good For
Rumiko Takahashi.

Mitaka = Ryo (City Hunter) = Roy (Macross) = Ashram (Lodoss) --> Kamiya
Akira
Yagami = Anthy (Utena) = Fuchizaki Yuriko

Char Aznable (The Best) = Hiko (RK) = Ikeda Shuuichi

Rants/Raves/Wastes of Time

Well, I hope you found the seiyuu thing at least a little entertaining.
If you want to find out what other roles people have done, the site is:
http://www.tcp.com/doi/seiyuu/index.html

Here's another waste of time courtesy of my crack dealer Kira Shinji
(owner of AMOTokyo and our only overseas newsletter reciever. Imagine
that, not even the mighty Pacific Ocean can protect people from my
newsletter).

Kuromi Info (reprinted with permission):
<<
> Any idea if and when more Anime Runner Kuromi will be coming out?
> I had heard a rumor that they were working on making another couple of
>episodes?
Last year end, I have met the president of Yumeta Company (The studio of
Kuromi). According to him, the next episode will come out in 2004.
It is very late,,, Totally, 4 episodes are planned.
However, Kuromi chan is very important for Anime market (I believe.).
Because Kuromi chan is released with skipping of Big maker, distributer.
Normaly, Anime is selled like this way.
Studio => Maker,Sponser (Such as Bandai, Pioneer) => Distributer => Shop
=>Customer.

The problem is that maker get a lot of profit, and Studio (Include
Creaters, director) can get really a few profit. In a lot of cases, the
maker hold the Copy right and no matter how the film selled, Creaters
get really a few reward even none. This is not good at all for Anime
industry. You cannot imagine how Anime creaters are poor.

As you may already know, Kuromi chan 2 will be English subbed, Region
Free. (Region free is agreeded when we met at the first time.)
Anyway, when Kuromi-Chan 2 will come out, I will strongly request to
include Distributer. If Yumeta Company have difficulty to include
distributer, I will bring the president at least CD Japan.
We Anime fans (Not only oversea, but Japanese) need to get success in
this new way of selling ANime for bright future of Anime.

Ooto, I have talk too much. Anyway, if you have chance, please ask a
support to Kuromi chan 2 to the Anime fans in San Luis Obispo.
>>
So, that's the word on more Kuromi.

The web site of the week is a wonderful review of the great show "Love
Hina". I love that show almost as much as I love Gundam (note the
exceeding amount of sarcasm).
http://dvd.ign.com/articles/317653p1.html

Quote of the Week:
"I can't even submerge myself into self-hatred peacefully" - Godai Yuusaku

I guess I'll let you all get back to your waiting for Saturday night.
I've still got to put the final touches on my Berserk, Karekano and Maison
Ikkoku shrines.

Saraba da,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan (Secretary and waster of your time)

The Web Site Without New Poop Jokes:
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA This is the end... 2/2/2002===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jan 31 19:41:26 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

Yes, it is the end. Not the end of everything just Kurumi and Black
Heaven. After a loving 13 weeks of each it's time to say goodbye and move
onto new shows. So, be sure to be there for the big finales of these
great shows.

COWBOY BEBOP MOVIE - We will be showing this movie in club, live subtitled
next week! Come and share in the joy that is Bebop.

Schedule:

5:00 Battle Royale: Onegai Teacher #1 versus Excel Saga "Animation USA"
round 1 - Fight!
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #39 - Bewitched Illusions

6:00 Steel Angel Kurumi #23/24 - Nooo!! This can't be the end. I need
more
6:30 Black Heaven #13 - The End

Well, I guess that was "The End"... Boy, talk about finality. Here's a
note: Takahashi Naohito - director for both Kurumi and Berserk. What a
change in styles... Mmmm... Berserk

7:00 Inuyasha #12 - Tatarimokke and the Little Evil Spirit
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road #12 - Study Abroad in America. Good-bye,
Madoka!

Did anyone else catch the instrumental version of "Sound of Silence" that
played in last week's ep of KOR? Simon says listen better next time!
(that was a bad joke)

8:00 KareKano #13 - The Next Episode
8:30 Trigun #25 - Live Through

Only one episode of Trigun left. Remember to bring your donuts next week.

9:00 Berserk #12 - Two People
9:30 Gasaraki #12 - Unravel

No Maison this week! Bah, what a waste of a Sunday night.

Rants/Raves/Wretches

Well, I just got a large package from Japan and had to watch my disks of
the Cowboy Bebop movie and the new Rurouni Kenshin OVA. My first
thoughts are as follows: Holy Crap. I can't wait to put them up on the
big screen.

Sunday Nights - Since we'll be finishing showing Maison Ikkoku this
quarter (every other Sunday) we have some more space open to show stuff.
Suggestions have been made to show whole OVA series, more fansub o',
movies and whole TV series. What are your thoughts? Gimmie the lowdown
on what you folks would like to see on Sundays. If I don't hear anything
I'm assuming you want to watch a lot of raw R2 DVD's... You're Under
Arrest, Arjuna, Gundam, more Gundam.

May the Manga be with you - With all the anime and video entertainments
that people watch I think we've been neglecting the written material far
too much. I encourage everyone to go buy some comics/manga and read them.
Most of the American comic industry has moved away from the 10 year old
audience to writing for a much more educated and older audience. There
are many extremely talented writers in comics these days: Kevin Smith
(Clerks, Mallrats), JM Strazinski (Babylon 5), Bendis, etc. While the
comic industry has shrunk much over the past decade; mostly because of the
influence of video games, it has also gained much in terms of quality. If
you want any reccomendations (or would like to borrow something) just ask
me and I'll be glad to help you find something you'll love. Also, the
amount of english translated manga has been increasing steadily over the
past several years, and the quality of production (ie - reproduction,
translation, localization) has been increasing as well. So, please go
read a comic, you video junkies!

Ijou,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan (Secretary)
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - 'Ai' love Cowboy Bebop 2/9===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Feb 7 14:07:26 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

Well it's finally happened; we managed to end 2 shows last week. No more
Kurumi; no more Oji; no more fun, it's all over.

Yeah right, like we couldn't find something else to put in the schedule?
So, starting this week we have the excellent, classic "Video Girl Ai" OVA
series. We'll show all 6 episodes of this great show this quarter. Also,
starting next week (in the 6 o'clock hour with Ai) will be "Sexy Commando
Gaiden Sugoiyo! Masaru-san". This is a newer show from everyone's
favorite director Akitaro Daichi (director of Kodocha, Jubei, Now and
Then, Animation Runner Kuromi, etc). We guarantee a great time will be
had by all with the addition of these two shows.

What about Trigun? Yes, that too is ending soon and will be replaced with
one of the best shows I have ever seen (yes, its even up there with
Gundam) "Here and There, Now and Then". So, make sure you check out this
masterpiece of animation.

COWBOY BEBOP MOVIE THIS SATURDAY - Yes, we're finishing up the script
right now and will be livesubbing it on Saturday at 8PM. You know you
want it, you know you love it, so come one, come all and share in the love
that is the Bebop.

Please note the odd schedule this week due to the movie (in case you're
one of those losers who doesn't stay the whole time ^_^).

This week's screwy schedule:

5:00 Excel Saga "Animation USA" - We'll try this one again
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #40 - Deceptive Love

Break for me to go rent my own video girl... and never return her.

6:00 Video Girl Ai #1 - A Soothing Girl
6:30 Kimagure Orange Road #13 - Everyone's Looking! Hikaru's Super
Transformation

Break to have everyone say "Cross Crash!" (Your voice is too low!)

7:00 Berserk #13 - Fight to the Death
7:30 Gasaraki #13 - Disembark

Break to the Death (which is a shame, 'cuz then you'll miss the movie).

8:00 COWBOY BEBOP MOVIE - Knockin' on Heaven's Door

Sunday - Maison Ikkoku!!
Yeah, yeah, more Maison. We're down to the last 2 meetings of our showing
of the TV series. Once we finish Maison we'll start showing something
really good - like... like... like Love Hina (note the brain-hemmoraging
level of sarcasm).

Rants/Raves/Wastes of Time

I demand a lowered vocabulary and drastically reduced language
comprehension!

Here's some sites that may assist:
http://www.all-languages.com/perles.html
http://www.engrish.com

Is anything funnier than non-english speakers speaking the language?

How about some commercials:
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilm/product/film_info/0,3699,960882,00.html

And make sure to go check out Nur's links on the MNA webpage before I
freak out all over the place (and then wail on my guitar).

Just like artificial butter,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan (Secretary)
Minna no Anime

http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Meeting of the Tri-gone 2/16===
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(Minna No Anime, Thu Feb 14 18:08:24 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

Time for another fun, fact filled email!

Schedule:

5:00 Cyborg 009 - Supposed to be really great, I'm looking forward to it!
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #41 - Sunlight of Rebirth

Fact: I am Excel, you are dog.

6:00 Video Girl Ai #2 - Present
6:30 Sexy Commando Gaiden Sugoiyo! Masaru-san #1/2 - Masaru and
Beards / Masaru and the red-white caps

Fact: 'Gaiden' means 'outer story' (but there is no 'inner story' for
Masaru-san).

7:00 Inuyasha #13 - Inuyasha versus Miki; ear-splitting attack!
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road #14 - A Foreboding Dream! Madoka and Kyosuke,
Breaking up at Last!

Fact: 'Kimagure' translates to 'whimsical'; but that sounds really lame.

8:00 Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou #14 - Recap Episode!
8:30 Trigun #26 - Under the Sky so Blue

Fact: We now have no more Trigun to show!
Fact: 5 of tonight's shows have '1'&'4' in the episode #.

9:00 Berserk #14 - Bonfire of Dreams
9:30 Gasaraki #14 - They forgot to animate my nose

Fact: The Bebop movie kicks ass!

Fact: No Maison Ikkoku this Sunday.
Fact: That sucks!

Rants/Raves/Ramblings

Well I hope you all enjoyed Bebop movie last week; I certainly did. Last
Friday I managed to see 'Metropolis' at a theater (in San Jose) and I must
say 'Wow'. The animation technique was awesome, excellently directed and
well scripted. I wish The Palm would get this movie, but I have no
influence with them.

Open House - we're looking at doing things a little differently this year.
We'll probably only be selling sushi and will have a classroom opened with
some anime, DDR and general wastes of time going on. We'll have more info
as we get closer to Open House.

New Section: Library Reccomends

This is a new section in the email where I will continue to waste your
time!
The first reccomendation:
Maison Ikkoku - Yes, I know you all ignore my email rants for MI, but you
should watch this show. It is the archetype romantic comedy: KOR, Tenchi,
Love Hina, etc, etc all follow Takahashi's masterpiece. This show also
have some of the most complete people as cast members; they are so well
written and thought out characters that I believe them to be actual
humans. This series is one of the all-time classics and most beloved
shows ever produced. So do yourself the favor and watch this show (or at
least read the manga). This is one of my top 10 favorite manga and anime,
super reccomend!

Saraba da,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan (Secretary)

Ye Olde Web Site
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
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===MNA - Open Hours Tomorrow (Sunday 2/17)===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Sat Feb 16 22:55:41 2002)
Konbanwa Minna-san,

Since we have the silo on Sundays we decided to have an open programming
schedule tomorrow (Sunday) night from 5-10PM.

For those of you who have never been to a MNA open hours session it
involves:
1) Bring stuff to watch
2) Put something on
5) Watch it

Real difficult, huh?

So, come to the Silo tomorrow from 5-10 (or any time in between) and watch
more anime.

I know you don't have class on Monday!

Love Me Do!
Dylan Hall
</pre>

===MNA - Now and 2/23, Here and Meeting - Meeting 2/23===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Feb 21 12:44:11 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

It's that time of the week again; time for your weekly dose of annoyance
and aggrivation.

News Flash - NEW SHOW - THat's right, another new show this week. This
time it's the exceedingly excellent "Now and Then, Here and There".
Probaly one of the best shows ever made, so please come and watch this
work of art.

News Flash - FREE STUFF - We'll be holding a give away this weekend, so
bring your MNA member card cuz we've got some good stuff (DVD's, CD's,
etc). Ah the benefits of membership...

News Flash - NOT SO FREE STUFF - We're also gonna try and schedule our
quarterly trip to Tsurugi's. We'll be limiting seating to the tatami
room only 16 seats; first come first serve.

And Now: The New and Improved Schedule (which looks strangely like the old
schedule)

5:00 Raxyphon #1 - The new show from Studio Bones (Esca movie, Bebop
movie), GEKI YABEE! With opening song by Yoko Kanno!
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #42 - Unbreachable Wall

Break to draw moustaches and breach walls

6:00 Sexy Commando Gaiden Sugoi-yo Masaru-san #3/4 - Masaru and the Proof
of Man / Masaru and the Contract
6:30 Video Girl Ai #3 - The Commemorative Day when Ai had a date wearing
the dress that Youta gave her.

Break to check whether or not that was actually the longest episode title
ever.

7:00 Inuyasha #14 - Inyasha and the kawarinojutsu (he didn't switch
anything!)
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road #15 - Madoka's Ultimate Decision! Putting a
Period to the Love Triangle.

Break to laugh at Kyosuke's folly

8:00 Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou #15 - One Day, One Thousand Leaves
8:30 Now and Then, Here and There #1 - The Girl who Watches the Sun

Break to wonder why we've got so many great shows this year

9:00 Berserk #15 - Decisive Battle
9:30 Gasaraki #15 - Decisive Doujinshi

Break to "just accept this" (copyright Mei Yuu)

Sunday:
MISDT - The End of the TV series (we've got the OVA and movie after this
Sunday). I've noticed a startling correlation between the intelligent,
good looking members of this club and those who attend MISDT. Coincidence
or connection - You make the call! You know where/when it is!

Rants/Raves/Ramblings

You people are seriously sick. No kidding; I really don't see what's
funny about Russian Roulette or a field full of brutally murdered people.
The fact that you people laughed at both of those scenes bothers me; don't
you have any sense of humanity?

On the lighteR side of things, a certain store in TokyO managed to ship a
certain Disk to this city, so this certain thing may be put on during
after hours this week.

And... for those of you who didn't come last Sunday for the open
programming here's what you missed:
5:00 Dragon Half Part 1
5:30 Dragon Half Part 2
What, did you think we'd break the streak?
6:00 Steel Angel Kurumi (OVA) #25/26
6:30 Steel Angel Kurumi (OVA) #27/28
What, did you think we'd not watch Kurumi?
7:00 The Maxx
7:30 The Maxx (cont)
What, did you think we'd limit ourselves to just Japanese animation?
8:00 Lupin III Movie - Fujiko's Unlucky Days
What, did you think we'd forgotten about our pal The Wolf?
I truly pity everyone who skipped out.

Library Reccomendation

Tenshi ni Narumon! (I Wanna Be An Angel) - This is the most bizarrely cool
show I've seen (probably ever). I'd say more but it would probably only
disinterest you; however, this show is definitely worth watching!

Ijou,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan (Secretary)
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Why don't you #!~@(% join the Meeting 3/2===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Feb 28 13:44:34 2002)
Konichiwa Minna-san,

Tsurugi's - Remember to come Sunday at 6 if you signed up last week!

What's going on the rest of the quarter? Here's the info - we're gonna
finish Video Girl Ai this quarter, and show the movie Jin-roh on
3/16. Now you know, and knowing is half the battle!

I hope everyone enjoyed the giveaway last time, we'll do another one next
quarter. We're always accepting any prizes donations.

Let's Schedule Time!

5:00 Fansub o' - Mystery Meat! (ie - has yet to be determined)
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #43 - Farewell Reunion

Break to say "Farewell"

6:00 Sugoiyo! Masaru-san #5/6 - Masaru and Beauties / Masaru and the
Masked Man (part 1)
6:30 Video Girl Ai #4 - Confession

Break to confess

7:00 Inuyasha #15 - Kagome gonna Kikyou butt!
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road #16 - Do You or Do You Not Believe It. Madoka
Saw a UFO.

Break to ressurect

8:00 KareKano #16 - Recap free episode!
8:30 Now and Then, Here and There #2 - The Boy and The Mad King

break to recap

9:00 Berserk #16 - The Conqueror
9:30 Gasaraki #16 - Kugai in yo' Eye!

break to conquer

Everyone Eat At Tsurugi's Sunday Dinner (EEATSD)!

Rants/Raves/Residue

Note: Do not attempt to write newsletter while listening to the song that
plays when Wolfwood gives his farewell speech in Trigun. (Guess what I'm
listening to now)

Life After Maison: Yes, life will go on after Maison; sad as it will be.
We only have one more week of Maison, and that's the OVA and Movie. Next
quarter we have the silo reserved on Sunday's and we'd like to keep
wasting away our lives in there, so we'll be showing some new stuff. If
you have any ideas of what we should show or how we should show things
please tell me (Dylan) or Ben.

Website of the week: After a absense it's back! here's a few cool sites
I've found:

Arm the Homeless!
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/issues/1999-04-01/feature2.html/1/index.html

Manga shopping guide!
http://www.geocities.com/psgrisham/manga/shopping.html

The most detailed maps of Japan on the net (that I've found)
http://www.jnto.go.jp/mapindex/E/index.html

Hmm... I hope that fills your day with... something.
Next week: Dylan's GEKI YABEE manga reccomendations!

Library Reccomendation:

Hyper Police - Beastmen detectives in a future world! A sexy voiced Kyubi!
Cat girls! What more could one want! Really cool show, much better than I
thought it'd be. And if you check it out, you can bug the librarian to
get the rest of the fansubs!

Saraba da,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan (Secretary)
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Sayonara Otonashi-san - meeting 3/9===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Wed Mar 6 22:58:16 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

Time for another meeting, time for another email. You get it a little
early this week because I had it done early. This means you have more
time to read all my GEKI YABEE manga reccomendations!

No big news to announce this week, but I do have a couple of notes to
make:

Attendance - I've noticed a drop off in attendance this quarter for
whatever reason. This is a bad thing because more people means more
people who are involved and willing to put in the time to keep this club
running. So, if you've been skipping out now's the best time to come back
to the fold. If you have a friend you think might like the club, tell
them about it and make them come - you don't get any cheaper Saturday
night entertainment than at MNA.

Sunday's - This week marks the end of our fun with Maison Ikkoku. As I
have previously mentioned, we have the room reserved for Sunday's next
quarter as well but don't quite know what to show. So if you are like me
and think only one night a week in the silo isn't enough anime, then tell
us what/how/when we should show something on Sundays.

And now for ze skedyull

5:00 Raxyphon #2 - I believe this is the first time this year we have
shown "episode 2" of anything during fansub o'. Banzai Bones!
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #44 - Moment of Battle

Moment of Break

6:00 Sugoi-yo! Masaru-san #7/8 - Masaru and the Masked Man (part 2) /
Masaru and the Trendy Boys
6:30 Video Girl Ai #5 - Vanishing Ai!

Vanishing Break!

7:00 Inuyasha #16 - Kagome Kidnapped! The Plot of the Mysterious Meso.
7:30 KOR #17 - A Summer Seduction! An Out-of-the-Blue Double Date.

An Out-of-the-Blue Double Break! (not really)

8:00 KareKano #17 - His Return
8:30 Now and Then, Here and There #3 - The Feast in the middle of Darkness

Breakdown

9:00 Berserk #17 - Moment of Glory
9:30 Gasaraki #17 - Chaos

Break to chaos while waiting for the next episode of Berserk.

Saigo no MISDT!!! This week we have the movie and side story OVA. We may
put on the rest of "The Maxx" afterwards (approximately 6:30)

Rants/Raves/Reviews

The end of Maison Ikkoku - To all of you who didn't watch this show I only
have this to say: You stupid bastards. Honestly, what was so important
that you couldn't take 3 hours out of your week to watch one of the best
shows ever made? If you were working on a cure for AIDS or cancer then
I'll excuse you; otherwise you can go @(~%_)#*&^!*! yourselves for all I
care. You all missed out on a once in a lifetime opportunity to see
Maison live subbed from perfect quality DVDs on the big screen.

As promised here are some GEKI YABEE manga. I'll break this up into
a few categories.

Available in English:

Nausicaa of the Vally of the Wind - Hayao Miyazaki's best work, no
question. At least 100x times better than the Nausicaa movie and anything
else he's done.

Blade of the Immortal - Possibly my favorite manga art ever. The story is
excellent - a revolutionary new style samurai manga. I guess it could
(very) loosely be called a mixture of Kenshin and Berserk.

Battle Angel Alita - Futuristic action manga with girl android heroine.
The anime version of this is utter crap, the manga is 1000x better.

Maison Ikkoku - You've heard the whining about the anime, now hear it for
the manga! This is Takahashi's masterpiece work. Every person I have
convinced to start reading this manga has been hooked and finished it
within a week. The best romantic-comedy-drama ever written (as far as I
know).

Akira - awesome, revolutionary manga. The anime covers about 1/20th of
the story (about the same for Nausicaa), and makes lots of changes. Post
World War psychological action manga.

There are lots of other really great manga out there too (these are also
all available in english):
Ah! My Goddess
Silent Mobius
Ranma 1/2
Vagabond
...and many more!

Second Category - No commercial US release, many of these have fan
translations available (ask me for any info if you're curious)

Rurouni Kenshin - The reason I taught myself Japanese. I know you're all
dying to know what happens after Shishio's demise.

Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou - You'll definitely want to read this after
finishing the TV series. The manga is still running and continues to get
better.

Blame! - Subterrainian Cyber Adventurer Killy! Visually incredible, dark,
disturbed, must read manga.

Berserk - No matter how much I love the anime, the manga is still better.
The anime is one of the best adaptions I've seen, but it is still not
quite as good as the manga.

MPD Psycho - really freaky urban detective comic. Not reccomended for the
weak of stomache; great art though.

Hmm... I'm being overwhelmed with thoughts of titles so I'll stop here for
now. For every anime in Japan there are easily 10 manga series; I
couldn't read all the manga that comes out even if I could get it.
If you want other reccomendations feel free to ask me at club during
breaks, or send me an email. Maybe Nur will put some other manga
reccomendations up on the webpage.

Webpage of the Week:

Japanese Baseball terms:
http://ww1.baywell.ne.jp/fpweb/drlatham/nihongo/phrases.htm

BTW - If you don't like what I write, you are more than welcome to take
over the job next year and write your own commentaries. We'll be
having elections towards the end of next quarter.

Ja mata,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan (Secretary)

http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Hey Brother, Minna no Anime Club (meeting) 3/16===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Mar 14 14:18:38 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

Well, the dreaded day is finally upon us: the last meeting of the quarter.
We'll be finishing the quarter off with the recently released movie:

Jin-roh. Directed by Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell, Patlabor, Urusei
Yastura, yada yada yada). Full Cell Animation!! Yatta!

Please note that the schedule has been signifigantly changed this week to
accomodate the movie (as is standard for movie nights). Specifically note
that KareKano has been moved to 6:30; as you will definitely not want to
miss this episode.

Other news:
Open House - April 20 - For open house this year we will be making a few
changes from years past. First, no Teriyaki Chicken - the California
rolls sold so well last year we are going to try only selling them. This
means we're gonna need some wrappers, cutter, helpers yada yada yada.
We'll train you (as best we can) and let you enjoy yourself. Also, we've
reserved a couple of classrooms in the EE bldg (bldg 20) and will be
running anime, DDR, etc during open house (rain or shine). So, we're
gonna need some helpers there too to keep things running and protect the
equiptment. These events run all day, help is always appreciated at any
time of the day.

Tshirts - Ben and Nur got backed up with other project so this has been a
little delayed, but don't fear you will get your shirt. We'll be taking
preorders the first week back (4/6/02) for Spring quarter. Shirts will
probably be ~$13 (don't hold me to that number) and available in whatever
size you want.

Also, on that Saturday (4/6/02) it's quite likely that we will be kicked
out of the silo. We'll try to see about not having that happen, but it's
beyond our control.

Skeedool:

5:00 Alien 9 #1 - first ep of ova, supposed to be really good.
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #45 - Light of Divergence

Ai don't go!

6:00 VGAi #6 (finale) - Ai(sorrow), Ai(name), Ai(love)
6:30 KareKano #18 - Evolution

Masaru where did you go?

7:00 Now and Then, Here and There #4 - The Happy Fun Musical (Not)
7:30 Berserk #18 - Tombstone of Flames

Jin row the boat ashore. Hallelujah.

8:00 Jin-roh (movie)

Break till next quarter. (Adam Driscol in the house!)

But wait, there's more...
Special Sunday Night Open Programming 5 - 10 (maybe longer)
If you are like me and don't have any finals until Wednesday, take a break
with us Sunday night in the silo and bring something to watch (we'll have
a computer in case you want to show a digisub).

Rants/Raves/'t'Rendy

To start things off, here's a random web site dedicated to those
otherwise uselessly annoying furry creatures.
http://www.bonsaikitten.com

And if you're still with me after that page I'll give you this week's
library reccomendation.

Kodomo no Omocha (Child's Toy) - This was the first popular show from now
famous director Akitarou Daichi (Now and Then, Masaru-san, Fruits Basket,
etc). A unexpectly excellent show about a child TV star and her
classmates. We put it on in club starting back in '99 but haven't been
able to show much lately because the fansubbers haven't subbed more yet.
Super Reccomend!

(Aside - we placed our request for the last 8 episodes of Excel Saga, so
we should have those for next quarter)

Editorial Rant - Why do I love manga?
Since this is my last email for a week, I figured I'd toss in a nice
long concluding statement for my own personal enjoyment (and I guess
anyone who reads this). If you've read any of this section you'll notice
that quite often I mention my love for comics and manga, so I figured I
give some of the reasons why I believe it's so damn good.
Comparing manga to anime, manga is a much freer art form. While it is
still a commercial art, I don't see it being any less of a legitimate art
form than commisioned piece of art. Because producing and distributing
manga has a much lower overhead than a TV show and it is such a large part
of Japanese culture (ie - a large portion of society reads at least some)
there is a great variety of products. From childrens titles to adult
businessmen there is something for everyone. Thus, there are many art
styles, storytelling types and greater freedom to try something new than
in a more restricted commercial medium.
The artist himself (or herself) has a lot more input to the finished
product than does a script writer or director. Manga is, generally,
created, written and drawn by one person (with a small staff of
assistants, usually less than 5, and an editor). When that one person
stops, the manga is finished unless the creator decided to start again.
Again this leads to less mediocracy and compromise in the work and a
finished product closer to the original creators vision. The only
limiting factor is the author's writing and drawing skills and any
additional restrictions placed by the editor (which may vary depending on
the target audience for the manga).
Because of the commercial success of manga, many authors are allowed to
continue series for long enough such that signifigant changes (mostly
improvements) in the authors talents can be seen over the course of a
series. In terms of the art in them, some manga strive for the look
common in anime where everyone is a beautiful person and the backgrounds
are not very detailed. However many take wholly different approach and
draw ugly people and very non-human art styles to tell their story.
Another aspect of manga that is unique to it is the way in which words,
sounds and pictures are intertwined. In manga there is a great emphasis
placed on sound effect; and there is an equally great variety (I'll send
out a link to a site showing this next week) of them. Some authors will
even use kanji to denote a sound, and sound effects are often used to help
create the scene in the reader's mind. The placement and usage of text
can also create a mood, Japanese kanji allows the author to choose the
level of clarity and comprehension his audience recieves in a way that is
not easily illustratable in English. It is also not uncommon for authors
to place text in locations outside the 'speech bubbles'; which adds
another layer of creativity and originality not found in other
art/entertainement forms.
It is this unique combination of art, language and layout that makes
manga so appealing and has allowed it to not only stay popular over the
years, but continually improve in both content and form. So, I hope you
all had fun reading this and go out and try reading some manga. If you
have any desire to get ahold of some, just email me: dhall@<removed for spam reasons> and
I'll be glad to help share the love that is manga.

Saraba da,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan (Secretary)

The Most Promptly Updated Website on the Web (j/k Nur, I know you've been
busy):
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

== Spring 2002 ==
===The Return of the Rurouni Meeting 4/6===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Apr 4 16:06:10 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

Time for another quarter of Minna no Anime, everyone's favorite drug free,
alcohol free, money free Saturday night entertainment.

What now that Ai's done? Well, we have more great OVA's for you this
quarter: Rurouni Kenshin Seisouhen OVA, Here is Greenwood and Read or
Die. We will be showing all episodes of all of these wonderful OVA's live
subbed for your viewing enjoyment.

Other News:

Tshirts - Preorders this week! Bring your booze and movie money this
Saturday and we'll get you your new MNA club shirt in a few weeks.

Open House - April 20 (3rd Saturday of quarter). As always we will need
help setting up, running the booth, cleaing up and yada yada yada. We're
going to be making california rolls this time around and will also have a
couple of classrooms in bldg 20 (Eng East) for those who want to suffer
through a day of DDR, anime and no sunburns (I can't imagine why...)

And now...

5:00 Fansub of Mystery - Hmm... Maybe livesubbed Mahoromatic...
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #46 - Boy of Fact & Fiction

break to pose. ...trendy...

6:00 Sugoi-yo Masaru-san! #9/10 - Masaru and the Ultra Price Sale / Masaru
and Isobe and the Strange Dudes
6:20 Rurouni Kenshin Seisouhen #1 - New Kenshin OVA!!! Rejoice!!!
Furuhashi-san's best work yet; the direction technique is awesome. MUST
SEE!!!!

break to recover from Kenshin

7:00 Inuyasha #17 - Inuyasha versus the phallic symbol
7:30 KOR #18 - Madoka's Challenge! A Haunted Beach's Big Wave Legend.

break to repeat after me "I love '80's anime"

8:00 KareKano #19 - 14 Days 1
8:30 Now and Then #5 - Man Killer

Break to cry

9:00 BERSERK #19 - Farewell
9:30 Gasaraki #18 - Rear Window

break till next time...

Sunday - Ben and I have a lot more work this quarter, but we may be able
to work something out. Talk to Ben if you're interested.

Random / Ramblings / Reccomendations

Live action Cowboy Bebop movie is in production!!!
http://www.comics2film.com/DCG/DispArt.php3?f_id=5958&f_ssn=

Good anime info page (shows, seiyuu, etc... good info on original show air
dates etc.)
http://www.anime.sobhrach.com/~hideaway/text/06.htm

Library Reccomendation:
Irresponsible Captain Tylor - One of my top 5 all time anime (TV,ova or
movie... and yes, that does include Gundam). A truly excellent anime of
it's own merits and even better when you get the references they make in
it. This show was one of the most popular shows of last summer and when
it aired in Japan. I highly reccomend this excellent show, I truly pity
anyone who hasn't seen this masterpiece. Ahh if only all shows could be
as good as Tylor.

Rant time - Hmm talking about "top 5" anime made me want to put together
one of those little list things, so here goes (be reminded that these are
my choices, not some academy's vote):

Top 5 Movies:
Macross - Do You Remember Love
Akira
Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro
Gundam Movies (I, II, III, Char's Counterattack - yeah, I know that's four
movies, but you wanted to see something else on the list too)
Ideon

Top 5 OVA:
Please Save My Earth
Rurouni Kenshin Tsuiokuhen
Here is Greenwood
Shamanic Princess
FLCL

Top 5 TV (limiting to TV original work, not based on manga or novels)
Z Gundam
Utena
Cowboy Bebop
Evangelion
Tie: Now and Then / Infinite Ryvius

Top 5 Manga:
BERSERK
BERSERK
BERSERK
BERSERK
BERSERK
(... and then Blade of the Immortal, Gunnm, Nausicaa, KareKano, Maison
Ikkoku... but I guess that's over 5)

Wow, I really hate creating lists like that, someone remind me to never do
that again (or at least make it top 10)

Back to your non-anime lives,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan
Minna no Anime
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA Additional Meeting info for 4/6===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Apr 4 23:31:29 2002)
Konbanwa Minna-san,

After consulting with my colleages, we decided on the fansub o':

Figure 17 Ep1

I wouldn't mention this except that the episodes are long, so we will be
starting the show around

4:45PM, Sat

The show is the newest (and currently airing) creation of Takahashi
Naohito (director of BERSERK, Kurumi, To Heart). The reason the episodes
are long is because they have one ~40 minute episode per month air.
While I'm all for new show formats and inventions, it can cause some havoc
in the schedule.

Be there or be on the wrong end of Gatts's sword.

Ja ne,
Dylan Hall
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA Everyone bring your Charmpoints! meeting 4/13===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Apr 11 15:53:02 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

This week's meeting should go much better than the ill fated meeting last
time. Because of the technical problems last time (that we solved as best
we could) there will be two episodes of Fushigi Yuugi this week to keep us
on track to finish by the end of the year.

OPEN HOUSE - Saturday April 20 (next Sat). Come on out and help us make
California Rolls and promote the club. We'll be located in the parking
lot between the Math & Science (#38) and Library parking lot. Did I
forget to mention there will be no club meeting that Saturday? All the
more reason to come out and get some sun on Saturday.

Also... we will be having a practice California roll making session on
Thursday April 18. If you want to help out rolling early Saturday morning
then you're welcome to join in the fun. Please talk to Nik or Ben on
Saturday for more info

TShirts - Preorders this week, we promise. Obviously we were distracted
last week, but we promise there will be time for that this week. $13 for
club members, $14 non-member (plus we'll sneer at you).

Elections - While still ~5 weeks off, they are coming up. So, be thinking
and ask any of the current officers any questions; we'll provide more info
later.

Ye Schedule:

5:00 Fushigi Yuugi #46 - The episode we were supposed to show last week
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #47 - Two episodes in one night!

break to be thankful we get the silo

6:00 Sugoiyo! Masaru-san #11/12 - Masaru and That Bastard / Masaru, Susan
and the Mysterious Inventor Group
6:30 Here is Greenwood #2 - The second episode of this masterful OVA
series from Studio Pierrot

breakdown

7:00 Inuyasha #18 - His Name is "Inuyasha" not "Inu Yasha"!
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road #19 - An Experience for Two! An Island of
Forbidden Love.

popsicle stick break

8:00 KareKano #20 - 14 Days 2
8:30 Now and Then, Here and There #6 - Another Shiny, Happy Day

heart break

9:00 Berserk #20 - Sparks
9:30 Gasaraki #19 - Wails

No Sunday, too tired, too much work, not enough time.

Rants/Raves/Retardations

Straying a bit from my usual diatribes I'm going to promote some
literature that doesn't have pictures!

Since Cal Poly claims to be a place of higher education I'm going to
reccomend that everyone read the best author I've ever read (and he's not
even Japanese!). If you graduate from this, or any, university without
having read at least some of his works I feel that the university entirely
failed in its goals. So without further asides, go and read:

PLATO (yes, the long dead Greek guy)

I would most highly reccomend "The Republic", but I'd be happy if everyone
read and carefully considered any of his writings. I think he's good
enough that I've actually read his stuff instead of Berserk.

So do yourself a favor and read something that might actually advance and
improve your life rather than whatever filth you're currently wasting your
time reading.

Aside from that I'd like to reiterate that the best anime production ever
is (original) Gundam. I truly pity anyone who doesn't appreciate the
beauty of Tomino and Sunrise's masterpiece. There have been a few other
productions which are close to Gundam, but I have yet to see one that
surpasses it. I really do hope I live to see that day and I hope that all
the anime creators in Japan are constantly working and trying to overcome
Gundam.

Ganbare Tomino-san! Ganbare Daichi-san!
Ganbare Anno-san! Ganbare Takahata-san!
(If you don't know who those people are hang your head in shame then go
ask)

Ijou,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan
Minna no Anime, Cal Poly Anime Club
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Thursday Sushi Training / Open House / T-Shirts===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Mon Apr 15 20:16:03 2002)
Minna,

As I said in club, this Thursday we're planing to have a sushi training
session in preparation for this Saturday. I first wanted to thank all of
you that volunteered to do this. The training session will be at Nik's
(Vice-Pres) place this Thursday at 6 o'clock. I hope all of the people I
talked to are able to make it. Nik lives in Mustang Village Bulding 11
Apt 86.

On Saturday we want to make all of the Sushi in the morning so
that we don't have to keep the customers waiting for us to roll. So if
you aren't a morning person, there are other ways you can help us out!
We'll be needing people all day long at the info booth, recruiting the
young impresionable incoming Freshmen. We also have a DDR/Video Game
room, and an Anime Screening room set up in the EE building. Just stop by
the booth and we'll tell you where it is.

Speaking of which, the booth is in a different place this year. This year
it's in the parking lot between the Math & Science building and the
Library. Come any time during the day, and I'm sure we'll be able to put
you to work, even if it's as simple as watching anime in the viewing room
(Oh, god no! Don't make me do that!)

And finally info on T-shirts. If you wern't able to make it to club this
weekend but want to Pre-order a shirt, please reply to this email telling
me your name and size. T-shirts are $14 as a pre-order, and $15 after
they come in pluss there is a $1 discount for bringing the pre-order price
down to $13. We'll collect the money as we hand the shirts out. Please
respond a soon as possible as I'm putting the order in really soon!

Ben Leinweber
MNA Kaichou / President
</pre>

===Open House (Last time... I promise)===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Fri Apr 19 19:54:07 2002)
Ok minna, this is it! Tomorrow is open house!

Now I know I told you that we were in the parking lot between the library
and the Math & Science building, and while that is the same zone, they
actually put us out in the perihery of that zone. So in all actuality, we
are in between the EE building (20) and the Math & Science building (38).
This is where the rotunda used to stand, and where a hot dog stand resides
during the weekdays. Not too many of us out there, so it should be easy
to spot us.

Those of you helping with sushi, arive any time you can after 7:00-7:30
in the morning and we'll put you to work. If you're feeling very giving
with your time (or if you just can't sleep), you COULD join us at ~6:30 to
help us get the stand up.

Other than the sushi and setup, just show up any time during the day and
hang out and talk with fellow otaku, show us your DDR moves, or bring by
an anime you'd like to show the future otaku of Cal Poly.

Mata Ashita,

Ben Leinweber
MNA Kaichou / President
</pre>

===MNA - Everyone, Freeform Meeting! 4/27===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Apr 25 15:09:59 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

It's national concise email day!

News:
Elections in 2 weeks.

Tshirts this week, bring money.

Schedule:
5 - 10PM Open Programming (Bring anything you want to have put on)

Fanime this week, thus open programming.
We will resume normal schedule next week.

I'd like to thank everyone who came out and helped on Saturday. I hope
you all enjoyed yourselves at Open House as much I as enjoyed myself not
at Open House.

Ijou,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Meeting of the Fates 5/4===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu May 2 16:00:21 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

Here are a couple of quick reminders:

Tshirts - This week! I promise! You bring money, we bring shirts!

Elections - not this week! Next time 5/11/02. You two can yield some of
your free time to help keep this the most badass anime club in the USA.
Feel free to ask any of the current officers if you have any questions
about the jobs. BTW, the positions are: President, Vice Pres, Secretary,
Treasurer, Librarian.

Library - I realized I had far too many tapes and DVD's, so I went and
donated a big ole' pile of stuff to the library. In honor of this
occasion or gracious librarian Josh has volunteered to bring in this pile
of goodies to club this week. So, come see what's been added and rejoice
that you too can now watch the classic ova "Outlanders" as part of the MNA
library. Ahh the days of dub only vhs, how I wish to return to them...

And now for something completely scheduled...

5:00 Tokyo Underground #1 - new show, new city, new underground, uhh that
didn't really make any sense...
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #48 - Even Wagering on This Life

Only 4 eps of FY left after this week

6:00 Sugoiyo! Masaru-san #13/14 - Masaru and the Boss / Masaru and the
Moustache Soul
6:30 Here is Greenwood #3 - This is my all time favorite Studio Pierrot
show (and they've done a lot of shows; including 2 of our regulars this
year)

next week is our last week of Masaru-san! NNOOOOO!!!! (although the show
has ~50 eps, we only have subs for the first 16)

7:00 Inuyasha #19 - The Dog, The Demon and the Fire Rat Cloak
7:30 KOR #20 - Hikaru Witnesses! The Camp is Full of Dangers.

both of these shows have at least another 30 episodes, so no need to fear
their demise

8:00 KareKano #21 - Darkness of Profound Lamentation
8:30 Ima, sokoniiruboku #7 - Running's Night

Both of these shows will be ending at our last meeting of the quarter

9:00 Berserk #21 - Confession
9:30 Gasaraki #20 - Whales

That's all folks!

Rants/Raves/Rediculous

For everyone that wasn't at fanime last week and didn't show up to club:
great shame on you.

We showed two of the best anime films I've seen in a long while direct
from the (kindly) english-subtitled import dvd's (which were both
flawlessly encoded). Just what were these movies?

Porco Rosso - 1992, Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli. The best Miyazaki movie
ever? Quite possibly so. I wouldn't call it the best ghibli movie, but
it probably surpases Mononoke as my favorite Miyazaki movie.

Goshu the Cellist - 1980, Takahata. This man is the second greatest
director of anime (next to Tomino); his skill far surpases that of
Miyazaki. This movie was made before Studio Ghibli was formed (where
Takahata and Miyazaki are the primary directors). While the story for
this is somewhat simplistic its artistic beauty puts it well within my top
10 movies and quite possibly into the top 5. There is a copy of this in
the library and I highly reccomend for anyone who loves and appreciates
anime as a valid art form to watch this masterpiece (and all of Takahata's
other works as well).

Also, wholly unrelated to those two films I just watched "Hoshi no Koe
- Voice of a Distant Star". This new production is the best single
episode ova I have ever seen. I really hope we can show it sometime this
year; if not I'll make sure it gets on next year. We'll have a short, 5
minute, done by the same director put on during some break this week (it
has english subs) - be sure to watch!

Remember, if you want to have a free forum to voice your opinion of...
whatever... you too can run and be secretary next year. Then you can talk
up whatever shows you think are the greatest (although I would be sorely
disappointed if it wasn't Gundam) and berate those deserving it (although
I would be sorely disappointed if it wasn't Love Hina).

And now let's all take a break and raise a glass in praise of the best
animation studios.

Sunrise Banzai!
Gainax Banzai!
Ghibli Banzai!

Back to your grind!

Mata ashita yarou,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan
Minna no Anime, Cal Poly Anime Club
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Meeting of the Last Commando 5/11===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu May 9 15:23:11 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

News for the week:

Elections - We need you to run this club next year! We will be having
elections in the following order: President, Vice Pres, Treasurer,
Secretary, Librarian. I hope everyone shows up, runs for and office and
votes.

DDR hardpad construction - Do you want your very own arcade style metal
DDR pad? If so, please contact our friend Chris Perluss at
cperluss@<removed for spam reasons>. He will be holding pad making sessions (probably)
next weekend and needs to know who is making what and when.

Library - there has been a lot of stuff donated recently - Kenshin, Key,
Boogiepop Phantom, Gundam, etc; you may want to check the website or ask
our current librarian Josh what's new with the library.

And now for the schedule:

5:00 Abenohashi Mahou-shoutengai #1 - NEW GAINAX!! NEW GAINAX!! I don't
think I need to say any more than that. Come, watch, enjoy.
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #49 - Wedding Celebration

break to pray to the gods of Gainax

6:00 Sexy Commando Gaiden Sugoi-yo Masaru-san #15/16 - Masaru and the Guts
Tournament / Masaru and the Teacher with the Nice Glasses
6:30 Here is Greenwood #4 - Mitsuru and the Ghost

I'd like a moment of silence in memory of our running out of subtitles for
the funniest anime I have ever seen. Arigatou Daichi-san.

7:00 Inuyasha #20 - The Inuyasha Afterschool Special: Inuyasha discovers
his feminine side.
7:30 KOR #21 - Kyoske Thrown into a Pinch! Sweet Soft Nothings at the
Wuthering Heights.

Answer to last week's trivia: Fushigi Yuugi and KOR are the two regular
Studio Pierrot shows we have playing this year.

8:00 Karekano #22 - 14 Days
8:30 Ima sokoni iru, boku #8 - Hitoribocchi no futari (Solitary pair)

What are the 2 directors from whom we have showed 2 regular shows each
this year? (hint: one of the shows ended earlier in the year)

9:00 BERSERK #22 - Infiltration
9:30 Gasaraki #21 - Exfoliation

Bdea, Bdea That's all folks!

Rants/Raves/Retractions

Okay, I screwed up in last week's email. I falsely stated that Porco
Rosso is my favorite Miyazaki movie. The (obviously) correct answer is:
Lupin III, The Castle of Cagliostro. Duh... boy do I feel like a retard
for forgetting that that movie was actually made by humans, not simply
handed down from the gods.

Why are elections important?
I'm sure you can all give a textbook answer,but that's boring. The reason
club elections are important is because without new blood (literally) and
new ideas the club would stagnate and die. Originally an anime club may
have been the only way to see anime outside of Japan. However, with the
mainstreaming and easy accessability of anime these days the function of
the club has (as well it should) changed. No matter how much we tried to
show the newest stuff people will always have watched it before. This
year we made a constant effort to try and bring you shows in a way you
will never have been able to see them, and never will be able to again -
ie live subbing import dvd's and putting them up on a nice 20' projector.
Because we couldn't possibly compete with speed, we chose to go for
quality. We also tried to maintain a good balance of new/old and
shoujo/shounen (girl/boy) anime. We also have to deal with trying to find
shows that are of excellent quality, somewhat unknown, and still available
subtitled.
How will things be run next year?
I have no idea. Someone could always decide to change formats - for
example we could switch and show the newest episodes of the latest
digisubs whenever they become available. Or we could switch and show 4-5
hours a night of the same show and finish it in a month. We could show
less anime and devote more time to social events, manga, group discussion
of themes, meanings and artistic value of certain productions. Time could
be devoted to examining other aspects of Japanese culture and creating
origami or writing kanji; the possibilities are unlimited.
So, please give your imput regardless of whether or not you run for
office. A club is nothing without its members and their ideas.

Ja mata,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan
Minna no Anime, Cal Poly Anime Club
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Read this meeting email Or Die 5/18===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu May 16 16:46:01 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

No, that wasn't an actual death threat, just a tie in for our Masaru
replacement show:

Read or Die.

This 3 part OVA has been a favorite of the after hours crowd for the last
year, and we finally bring it to you if MNA live-subtitled fashion.

Thanks to everyone who participated in elections, both volunteering for
positions and voting. Next year's officers are:

President: Nik Kamachi
Vice Pres: Shane Lile
Treasurer: Coreen Chang
Secretary: Jamshid Ahmad
Librarian: Josh Cohen

(odd how all those titles took the same space...)

ANYWAY... here's the schedule:

5:00 Nur's Choice Fansub 'o - This week the webmaster makes the call.
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #50 - Atonement

Only 2 eps left of F Yu.

6:00 Read Or Die #1 - Finally! Live Subbed! Super quality new action ova!
6:30 Here is Greenwood #5 - Kimi o Sukideyokatta (zenpen)

doh, only one ep left of Greenwood

7:00/7:30 Inuyasha #21/22 - Double length episode. "Inuyasha versus the
impossible foe: Sekushuuaru Toransumittedo Deeshiisu"

A truly unbeatable demon...

8:00 Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou #23 - 14 Days 8732
8:30 Now and Then, Here and There #9 - Into the Chasm

this break brought to you by life. Ah yes, cool, refreshing life.

9:00 Berserk #23 - Ceremony
9:30 Gasaraki #22 - Screaming Moose

(my brother was bit by a moose once)

Rants/Raves/Retreads

During my rants I usually try to talk about things that I enjoy about
anime/manga and related things. However, seeing as how I should be losing
this free rant forum very shortly I'd like to take my turn talking about
what anime related things I dislike. To all those of you who disagree
with anything contained herein I say this: "Convince me that I'm wrong."
If you can do that, then I'll gladly restate anything here with a
correction. Until that time, rant on!

Dylan's list of things that SUCK:

Digisubs - I hate this foul disease that has decended on anime fandom
within the last 2 years. Why? Because the only goal of digisubbers is to
get their encode out on the net faster than the next person. They take no
care or pride in the fan community; they have ruined any image of the
'honest fansubber' in an exceedingly short period of time. Their subs are
usually bad translations, and they make no effort to remove titles from
distribution after a domestic commercial release is announced. They do
not release scripts to the public so that someone who LEGALLY BOUGHT THE
PRODUCT can enjoy it with english subtitles; that would mean that whoever
was watching it wouldn't have to look at the group's logo throughout the
whole video (I have never seen this on any fansub tape).

The digisub community is a community of thieves (yes, this includes YOU if
you actively support the digisub community). Digithieves pride themselves
on the size of their collection, regardless of whether the encode is of a
non-US licenced show, or a rip off of a US dvd. In fact many digithief
collectors don't even know that many of the shows they have digi's of are
from US dvd's, and when they find out have no remorse and are proud of
their collection of stolen material. I would be overjoyed if the Al-Quida
destroyed the IRC networks that most of these groups operated from; I'd be
happier if they destroyed their computers and literally burned all their
cd's. It's quite unfortunate the stain these groups are leaving on all of
fandumb; there are still decent, ethic abiding groups and individuals.
However most of them have been so discusted by the actions of the majority
of these theft rings that they have stopped contributing to the community.

The least we can do is what I, Ben, Nur and Nik do on a weekly basis,
which is to take 3-6 hours per 20 minute episode and create a script for
legitimate use. I would be much happier if the digitheft community would
do the following: subtitle, encode and distribute ~4 eps (of a 26 ep
show); then create and distribute timed scripts for the later episodes.
With the ease of importing and playing DVD's with a timed script, this
would leave no one angry. Cheap fans could still see the first couple of
episodes and figure out if they like the show, then WAIT (I know, patience
is hard) and BUY (or rent) the US release. Those who can't wait can spend
the money to legally import the show and watch the rest of it before a
domestic release.

Until this utopian relationship is implimented I encourage all of you to
say "Screw off, you F*(#ing A$(hole!" when ever you are offered the chance
to watch a digitheft of something. As Chris Beverage (owner of
animeondvd.com) says: Anime is a priviledge, not a right.

Next Rant: Love Hina

This show is crap. Definitely one of the worst I've ever seen, and it is
popular because it is crap. I know, you're thinking: "Dylan, oh great and
wise one, just why does this show suck so much?" Well, it sucks for a
number of reasons:
1) IT SUCKS
2) The animation is poorly done and it is obvious that the animators
themselves do not give a p00p about this show. I trust the judgement of
the actual creators of anime better than any critic or fan (especially
American fans).
3) The show lacks anything enjoyable. I have the first vol of the manga,
and it is actually a fun read with some good art. Everything that made
the manga enjoyable was sucked out of the anime (art, jokes, continuity).
4) This show is a poorly stolen idea. The creators said "Hmm... we need
to make money, so lets take every teenage boy's wet dream and have it like
some pathetic wanker." I'm not going to pretend that this isn't the
premise for 40% of all anime made, but I think all of those shows are crap
(with very, very few exceptions). They tried to steal from the best
romantic-comedy (Maison Ikkoku) and failed horrifically. The main
character (Keitarou) has no likable qualities, as do none of the Hinatasou
girls.
5) Enough already! This show's first episode or two were actually mildly
entertaining, but that was apparently the limit of script ideas.
Fortunately the show has finally had its last production (hopefully);
which means its popularity should start fading in Japan as they move onto
other crappy shows. Unfortunately, I live in the US and fandumb here
doesn't like to move on as quickly as Japanese fans do. I pray that
people stop liking this show before I'm out of the military (but I'm not
counting on it).
6) This show appeals to the lowest common denominator. This show makes
no attempt to even show any remotely interesting points on human nature,
or have well constructed scripts; it is merely a simplistic spooge mop for
fanboys the world over.
7) The music is horrific. From the opening songs, ending songs and
everything inbetween this show's music makes me wretch. At least most
of the music is quickly forgotten.

In summary, this show is a perfect example of everything that is wrong
with anime and has been wrong for the last 10 years.

Next Rant: Megumi Hayashibara

Just quit already. Really, I've had enough of your mediocre voice acting
and bad singing. Hayashibara-san has done some great roles and a few good
songs, but the last time she did anything artisitically creative was
Evangelion (7 years ago now). Her best songs were the one's she did for
Nuku-Nuku (even older), and her best roles (Eva exception) were all before
'93 (VG Ai, Gundam 0080, Ranma).
There are plenty of great voice actors out there who actually try to
create something new with each character, and who don't just recycle roles
for 10 years (see VG Ai and Nuku-Nuku). Her singing voice is okay, but
every song I hear sounds exactly the same as the last one (it's
unfortunate that she sung the ending theme to the otherwise great
Abenobashi Mahou Shoutengai).

Next Rant: Studio GONZO

They are the largest crap producing studio in existence. From their
stellar start with Blue Submarine No. 6 they have done nothing but go
downhill. Their shows are 'entertaining' but nothing more. As a studio
they have stretched themselves to thin and thus their products suffer from
a lack of care. I believe they could actually put out some great shows if
they would cut back and only produce 1 or 2 shows at a time.

Next Rant: "If it's not new it's crap"

I know who you people are, you're the same one's I was just ranting to in
the digitheft section. It's my opinion that anime reached a peak in 1988
and has been declining since. There are occasionally great years ('99)
and occasionally great shows, but in general the quality of production has
been in constant decline. The Japanese know this is true; among Japanese
fans the '80s are properly referred to as The Golden Age of Anime. Nearly
all great shows from the '90s have been commentaries, parodies and
retellings of shows from the late 70's and 80's (Eva, Nadesico, Tylor,
Bebop, etc).

Many people are also under the misconception that newer
animation is better. This is a complete load of garbage. I dare you to
find any movie from the 90's or today that compares to the human effort
and care placed into any of the big movies of the 80's. With the advent
of computers, better looking products can be made cheaper and with less
human effort. I think this is a step in the completely wrong direction;
without the efforts of the animators giving life and human expression to
the characters and backgrounds anime loses its right to be called an art
form. There have been occasionally expectional productions, but they
still lack the time, money and effort put in in the '80s. This is not
entirely the creator's fault; the Japanese economy has been down for the
last decade which has lead to the necessity of reduced budgets. The
counter to this was the use of computers, a cheap way to increase apparent
quality for a low cost. I don't think that the use of computers is
entirely wrong, but the results become very mediocre when care is not used
(Gonzo productions versus Hoshi no Koe). I hope that anime producers
figure out how to keep the art in anime even with reduced budgets and a
recycled creative staff (new staff that haven't seen the all time great
shows and don't know their history). Until that day I'll keep rewatching
all my Gundam, Ideon and Maison Ikkoku.

Well, I think I've finished ranting for today (be thankful I kept my
rants limited to anime related things).

I hope you at least had a good laugh at the expense of the time I spend
writing this email every week.

Mata Ashita,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Voice of a Distant Meeting 5/25===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu May 23 17:15:41 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

No new and/or exciting news this week. Sorry, I'll make sure to think up
some exciting lie for next week's email.

Until then...

The Schedule:

5:00 .Hack//Sign #1 - Hmm... new show... good, bad, poopy? you make the
call
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #51 - Entrusted Hope

Encrusted Rope

6:00 Read or Die #2 - Superfly, Omega-bitchin'.
6:30 Here is Greenwood #6 - I'm Glad to Love You (Finale)

NNOOO!! Dammit, no more Greenwood. Well, I hope you love the ending to
this show as much as I do.

7:00 *EXTRA SPECIAL SHOWING* Hoshi no Koe - (one ep ova) If you don't love
this, then you lack all appreciation for what is great in anime
7:30 KOR #22 - An Adult Relationship?! Madoka Secretly Returns Home in
the Morning.

An Adult Break? Dylan Secretly Returns During KOR.

8:00 KareKano #24 - A Different Story From Before
8:30 Now and Then #10 - Into the Unknown

A Break Different From Before

9:00 Berserk #24 - Eclipse
9:30 Gasaraki #23 - The Alpha and Omega of Nijuusan

Next time: Last episode of BERSERK, Fushigi Yuugi, ROD

Rants/Raves/Retaliation

Hmm... How can I possibly top last week's extensive rants?
.
.
.
I can't think of an easy way other than encouraging everyone to come to
this week's meeting and enjoy the art that is the majority of the shows we
have on. This year's schedule is by far the best one we've ever had; in
terms of shows and show quality. In the short time of 2.5 years we have
moved from an all VHS (and mostly fansub) to nearly all DVD with many
titles being shown directly off the import DVD's. I'm really happy with
the progress this club has made and hope it continues to find some purpose
for anime fans in the future.

Check out the website! Our illustrius webmaster should be putting up the
infamous end of year polls soon. Express your opinion as to whether you
think there was more gratuitous shots in Kurumi or VG Ai. Should Miaka
die by fire or stake? What is a Meso? Could you rock enough to save the
galaxy? You make the call!

Peace Outside,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan
Minna no Anime, Cal Poly Anime Club

WEBSITE --> http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Journey Into the Unknown 5/26===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Sun May 26 12:45:17 2002)
Minna,

Not being able to get enough of this club, or the facilities that we have
at our disposal, Matt and I have decided to put on another Sunday Dinner
Theater.

Unfortunatly, being the organized souls that we are, we haven't quite
hammered out the schedule yet. So here's our best guess at a schedule
starting at 5:00 this evening:

- A movie (quite possibly another Miyazaki, or something Matt gets from
Studio Video)

- Matt's show of Primary and a few Secondary colors

- Excel Saga (getting really close to finishing it off)

You bring dinner, and we'll provide the company and the anime. Hope
to see you there!

Ben Leinweber
Kaichou
Minna no Anime, Cal Poly Anime Club
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Forever Berserk meeting 6/1===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu May 30 14:48:10 2002)
Konnichiwa Minnasan,

We've finally come to the end of a long journey. Don't fear, we still
have a meeting next week and will finish off the rest of our stuff along
with the omega-pimptastic movie:
METROPOLIS
If you've seen it on a TV I know you're jonzing to see it on the big
screen. If you haven't seen it, you are in for a treat.

Rurouni Kenshin (Seisouhen) - Finally, we come through on our promise to
bring you this 2 part OVA series in its full live-subbed quality. This
will be the last Kenshin production of any sort (unless Watsuki decides to
write some more manga) and it is a truly fitting end to one of the best
shows of the 90's. I guarantee that you have never seen a better
production than this; it surpasses even the first OVA (Tsuiokuhen)
series. So, be sure to be there at 6:30 (of course be there the whole
night) and sit back and enjoy this piece of art.

As can be seen we have FY, ROD, BERSERK, Inuyasha and KOR ending this
week; we will finish Gasaraki, KareKano, Now and Then and Kenshin next
week. Be sure to show up early next week, because we will be finishing
all of those shows before 8:30.

Schedule:
4:30 ROD #2 (reshowing from last week)

5:00 Something Cool (not so sure, maybe subbed, maybe raw, maybe an Op/Ed
collection)
5:30 Fushigi Yuugi #52 (last episode) - For My Loved One

Well, it's finally over; after 2 years we have finished the MNA showing of
Fushigi Yuugi. Love it, hate it, whatever - it's anime and we finish what
we start here!

6:00 ROD #3 (last episode) - Supa' Bichin' Yo!
6:30 Rurouni Kenshin Seisouhen (First Half) - Finally, the wait is over!

Remember: Inhale, Exhale, Inhale, Exhale...

7:00 Inuyasha #23 (final ep of year) - Inuyasha and Kamachi Kick Jimukan
For His Past Sins
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road #23 (final ep of year) - Kyoske and Madoka in a
Big Fight! A Three-Legged Race of Love.

We will be continuing both of these excellent shows next year; we're
halfway done with KOR (TV, there are OVA's and movies) and Inuyasha is
still being made (in both manga and anime).

8:00 KareKano #25 - A Side Story in the Middle of a Story
8:30 Now and Then, Here and There #11 - Murderous Land

Berserk Banzai! Gutts Banzai! Caska Banzai! Griffith Banzai! Miura
Banzai! Takahashi Banzai!

9:00 Berserk #25 (last episode) - Eternity
9:30 Gasaraki #24 - Penultimate Doom

What's left?

After Hours Special - "You Too Can Help Us Make Scripts" We'll be having
a quick training session for anyone who wants to help us make the scripts
that you folks enjoy every week. It's a pretty simple process, that only
requires a low speed PC and a few small programs. So, if you want to help
out the club, here's an easy way for which you can watch the results of
your hard work along with everyone else in club.

Sunday Theater:

Whisper of the Heart (Mimi o Sumaseba) - DVD!! (1995 Studio Ghibli)

Yes, the R2 (english subbed) DVD just came out a few days ago, so we're
gonna show it Sunday evening (not quite sure what time). If you haven't
seen this movie, then shame on you. If you have seen some crappy quality
fansub, come and enjoy (probably) my favorite Studio Ghibli movie.

Plus, we'll probably find some more stuff to put on and avoid doing
homework.

Rants/Raves/Redistributions

Well, we finally finish Berserk this week. Bummer. Oh well, at least
they did as much as they did and did it as well as they did. The manga is
still running; it started in 1989 and is still one of the top selling
manga in Japan. I am amazed that Miura-sensei has been able to
continuously work on Berserk for the last 13 years without suffering a
mental breakdown or a drop in quality.
Berserk is the best manga I have ever read. I highly reccomend everyone
read the whole manga (not just the parts that follow the TV series).

ABUSE OF POSITION:
Anyone want some comics? (American, Japanese (both in english and
japanese) I've got a bunch and would like to get rid of some of them.
If you're interested gimmie an email (dhall@<removed for spam reasons>) and I'll send you
a list of what I've got. I guarantee you will not find my prices
arguable.

Gee... only one more rant session after this (unless Nik lets me continue
for part of the summer).

MUSIC - that most crucial element of any great production. There are many
great composers for anime; and I'd like to give 'mad props' to a few of
them here. Also, another easily overlooked aspect of music is the
placement of it in the show. Sometimes it plays in the background nearly
the whole time (very American; always needing some audial accompanyment)
to only a few minutes in the show. For an extreme example look at
Berserk; music usually only plays for less than 4 minutes an episode, yet
each episode feels as though it is full of music.

Yoko Kanno (Arjuna, Macross Plus, Escaflowne, Cowboy Bebop, Please Save
My Earth, Turn A Gundam, Brain Powerd, various other works)- the most well
known composer in anime for a damn good reason.
She's the best. Probably one of the best, most varied composers I have
ever heard. One day she's writing symphonies, the next its jazz, and then
into some odd etherial stuff followed up by Jpop. She does it all; she
does it better than anyone else, and she makes it look easy. Here are
some of my favorite albums of her's (mind you I own ~25 CDs of her's):
Arjuna into the another world - excellent beyond compare
Cowboy Bebop - (ost 1) This is one of the best jazz albums ever made and
the most musically interesting of all the Bebop CD's
Turn A Gundam (ost 1) - Her best symphonic cd ever (this includes Mac+,
Esca, Brain Powerd). Truly a master craftsman at her peak.

Hajime Mizoguchi (Escaflowne, PSME, Jin-roh, lots of other stuff) - An
excellent, varied composer. In fact, he and YKanno co-wrote most of the
music for Escaflowne, and he did most of the compositions for Please Save
My Earth. Anytime you hear someone playing an excellent chelo piece, it's
probably Mizoguchi-san (all the chelo in Esca is him). His music always
has a certain sadness to it that makes it beautiful

Taku Iwasaki (RK OVA, RK OVA2, Now and Then, ROD, etc) - His music always
has a very distinct sound to it; sometimes it's changed by a change in
instuments and is not easily recognized. His work is probably the most
consistently depressing OST music I've ever heard (try listening to the RK
ova soundtracks and not crying).

Shiro Sagisu (Eva, KareKano, Mahoro, various Gainax works) - He's Gainax's
house composer; and is damn good. My favorite composition of his is "End
of Evangelion", but all his stuff is real good. Besides, you gotta love
all the rediculous stuff he made for KareKano

Susumu Hirasawa (Berserk, Detonator Orgun, personal works) - He's not a
soundtrack writer, he just got asked to do those (and agreed). He's been
a professional musician for 20 years and has been a constant innovator in
the musical usage of computers. The Berserk soundtrack is similar to many
of his cd's in that it sounds somewhat familiar to other works, but has a
sound completely its own.

Shinichi Mitusmune (Utena, FLCL, etc) - An easily overlooked excellent
composer; please note that he didn't write the dueling songs in Utena nor
the Pillows songs in FLCL. Excellent work creating complex and
interesting piano pieces that all seems to have some strange flow to them.

Kenji Kawai (Patlabor, Maison Ikkoku, Ranma 1/2, Tylor, Ghost in the
Shell, etc) - He's been probably the most consistently prolific composer
for anime. His stuff is never monumental, but he always manages to find
the mood of the show and write music that carries it. His compositions
are often stupid pop-ish keyboard stuff, but they amazingly always work
well. He has proven his musical talents with the many interesting pieces
he wrote for Ghost in the Shell.

Joe Hisashi (nearly all Ghibli) - We've all heard the variety and quality
of his stuff for years. He has his musical styles, and is excellent. I
can't say that I wouldn't love to hear someone else do the music for a
Ghibli production; but I've never been dissapointed by his work.

Other composers (aka other stuff I've liked)
Tsuneo Imahori (Trigun)
[I don't know the composer's name] (Kokoro Toshokan)
Tetsuya Komuro (Cyborg 009)
Ali Project (Noir, Hack.///Sign)
Noriyuki Asakura (All Kenshin TV)

Oh, here's a favorite website of mine:
http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~ricky/anime/
If you want to read an actually (mostly) accurate technical video review
of an anime, go here. See just how craptastic all those ADV dvd's
actually are. Plus, I love this guy's rants (and he makes me feel as
though I don't spend that much on this stuff... right).

Ijou,
Dylan Hall
Jimukan
Minna no Anime, Cal Poly Anime Club
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - The End of an Era meeting 6/8===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jun 6 16:28:51 2002)
Ore no saigo no "Konnichiwa Minna-san",

Well, another year has come and gone for us at Minna no Anime. But, do
not fear, we will be having a summer schedule run by our newly esteemed
leader Nik Kamachi to be followed by more MNA goodness in the fall.

News -

Schedule Calamity - Please read the schedule carefully, as it is much
different from our normal schedule. We are finishing Gasaraki, KareKano,
Now and Then and Kenshin this week along with showing the super-sexy movie
METROPOLIS.

Anime Expo gave MNA 30 free weekend passes. We will be giving them out to
the first 30 people who correctly answer the following question:
"In 100 words or less explain all the reasons why Dylan loves Gundam and
Berserk."(*)

Library - I've noticed that everyone seems to love my Escaflowne tapes (I
see at least 4 tapes exchanged every week). We have lots of other new
stuff in the library too! We've been adding many dvd's as well (mostly
through the donations of 2 people and a club purchase of Now and Then).
If you need it on VHS I'm sure you could convince the librarian to run
off a copy for you (if you ask real nicely and slip him a $5). Here are
some newer additions:
Berserk (1-5, dvd), Now and Then (all, dvd), Key the Metal Idol (all,
dvd), Mahou Tsukai Tai! (Magic User's Club) (all ova, dvd), Gasaraki
(1-13, dvd), Maison Ikkoku (all 94 eps, ova, movie as part of "operation
screw Viz").
Our library kicks ass. You'll never find anime cheaper than this!

As stated in the title this week marks the "end of an era". Our President
and Fearless Leader Ben Leinweber will be stepping down and handing the
chains... I mean reins to Nik Kamachi. I hope you punks all appreciate
the efforts Ben has put into this club for the last 3 years (he was
Treasurer/unofficial VP before Pres). As a friend and fellow Minna member
I say thanks and good luck next year in Japan (you lucky turd).

And now for the moment you've all been waiting for...
The MNA 2001-2002 Final Schedule:

5:00 TOMINO - I will force some excellent Yoshiyuki Tomino anime on you
people; if you're lucky it will have subtitles.
5:30 Gasaraki #25 (end of series) - Lament, Cement, Repent.

If you liked the end to Berserk, you'll love the end to KareKano...

6:00 KareKano #26 (end of series) - 14 Days 6
6:30 Rurouni Kenshin Seisouhen (final part) - This episode is ~45 minutes
long, so note that Now and Then will be starting late

You will find tissue in the bathrooms outside

~7:15 Now and Then #12 - Murdurous Lands
~7:45 Here and There #13 (end of series) - Ima, sokoni iru boku (Now,
There is where I am)

After breaking your heart repeatedly we counter with the always enjoyed
MNA Giveaway! That's right, we have far too much stuff just sitting
around, so we're giving it away. Be sure to bring your membership card.

8:30 Metropolis - an amazing animation based on manga by OSAMU TEZUKA the
god of manga and anime. A production that actually uses computer graphics
excellently (see, I'm not all anti-CG). Please note that this movie will
run past 10:00 (probably closer to 10:30, but you didn't have anything
else to do anyway).

I guarantee some great afterhours stuff this week. It might not all have
english subs, but those are overrated.

Final Rants/Raves/Redemption

Before you all begin completely ignoring me I'd like to bring attention to
someone else's work. Club member Nikki Biggers found the ending to
Berserk unsatisfactory and set out to do something about it (wow, what a
concept). So if you too found that the ending was not what you had hoped
for (or if you want to see how someone else decided to end things) check
this link out:
http://www.calpoly.edu/~nbiggers/Berzerk.html
(just a note, but I've only ever seen "BerSerk" spelled officially in
Japanese or English with an 's')

Now for my opinion on the TV ending of Berserk. Having read the manga
(which is still being written),the only way they could have ended it
'better' would have required that the show was a minimum of 10 episodes
longer; and that they went and redid, or expanded on the first episode.
If they had tried to do anything other than that they would have had to
stray significantly from the original manga, which would leave me much
more upset than leaving Gutts' escape from that living hell up to the
imagination of the viewer. I truly commend Takahashi Naohito, Kobayashi
Shichirou and the rest of the crew that worked so hard to make the
animated version of Berserk not disappointing to fans of the manga. They
accomplished a nearly impossible task and made it look easy.

I can't wait until you folks see this weeks' episode of KareKano (maniacal
laughter ensues).

This is the funniest (also probably most offensive and crudely written)
webpage I've seen in a long time. But, it confirms my long hidden
thoughts on this subject (reader beware; this is highly graphic):
http://www.kenshinisgay.com
(please tell me if you don't get what's funny about this page).

I promised Nur I'd make a good effort to offend anyone I missed out on a
few weeks ago, so here goes:

First topic:
People who talk during club - GGAAHH!!! There have been several times
when I have wanted to call up Gatts and dispense justice. I'm not talking
about people who talk during breaks, or even quietly during openings and
endings. I'm not talking about people who laugh at APPROPRIATE situations
(aka - situations intended to be funny). I'm talking about the people who
have to make comments throughout the show, eat loud food or make other
noise continuously and laugh as someone is being disemboweled. This isn't
your house, this is a place where a large number of people come to watch
anime and enjoy their Saturday night; if your enjoyment requires the
stopping of enjoyment for others then get out. I stopped enjoying Fushigi
Yuugi a while ago, and thus stopped watching it and having the potential
to annoy others who do enjoy it. If you do have to make noise, play your
Gameboy or laptop computer please go sit upstairs by the water fountain
and don't bother me.

Next topic:
People who slip the 3 words of Japanese they know into sentences - I
haven't heard this lately, so good job to those of you who aren't doing
this. To those who are: You sound like dumb apes. Pick a language for at
least one sentence at a time. I admit it seems like a cool thing to do
when you learn a few words, and it's okay for a while (a few weeks), but
then it must stop. Take this quote I grabbed off and internet message
board: "...i'm not a ko-gal, but i think it's totemo kakkoi to see girls
portrayed...". See what I mean? It just makes you look dumb; so stop now
and save yourself future embarrasment.

Next Topic:
You are what you eat - If you watch stupid shows, read dumb books, talk
like an idiot, it makes you stupider. Even if you are trying to make fun
of the stupid show while you watch it, it will drag you down. I've tried
my hardest to make sure that at least some of the shows we at MNA are
thought provoking, not mind numbingly stupid. A perfect example of dumb
anime was last weeks fansub o' Tokyo Underground. Along with a mind
numbingly stupid script this show managed to steal from every show I've
ever seen (poorly too). I'm glad we show crap like this once in a while
though; it really makes you appreciate the quality of our regular shows
(even when they do go on way too long). Back on topic - please just
remember that watching Dumb and Dumber or Beavis and Butthead 4 times a
day will have an effect on your mental capacity.

Next topic:
People who are wasting their lives - I see you everyday. You sit around
playing video games, reading bad books and watching cable TV all day.
Grow up. Get a life.
If the best thing you've found to do with your life is watch (as my mother
calls it) the idiot box all day and masterbate, then do me a favor and go
drown yourself. I'm not entirely against TV (after all, I like my anime
too) as an occasional sedative and distraction. But at some point you've
got make your stories and live your own life. I know I've wasted more
than my share of my life doing such things, and I still do watch TV, read
comics and enjoy entertainment that others have created. However, I truly
pity people who deny themselves of genuine life experiences for the
numbing joy of video entertainment.
Get in a fight. Fall in love. Get dumped. Write a song. Write a book.
Destroy your most valued possesion. Drink. Smoke. Break a bone.
It's never too late to change your life and do something about it. If you
wake up one morning to find you hate every decision you've ever made let
that day be the first day of your new life. As Americans, as citizens of
the wealthiest nation the world has ever known, there is no excuse for not
making something of your life.
Do not fear failure; embrace it. It may hurt, but this must be accepted
and you must not regret participating in the situation. As long as you
tried your best to succeed the outcome isn't important; there will be
other days and other battles.

But, don't worry I'm not talking about you; of course you aren't wasting
your life. It's everyone else; you're a special, unique individual ^_^.

For those of you who don't like anything I've said in any of my rants, I
give you two choices:
1. Confront me and I'll be more than happy to discuss anything I've said
in any of these emails with you.
2. go to the following website:
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~kinho/youare.swf

With that I'll say my final goodbye's and leave you all wondering just
what kind of mailing list this really is.

Saigo no 'Ijou',
Dylan Hall
motojimukan, motofukukaichou, ima wa tada no kumishita
Minna no Anime, Cal Poly Anime Club
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
(Nur, hurry up with those polls; you know I'm a information hound)
</pre>

== Summer 2002 ==
===Cut loose this Saturday!===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jun 20 15:43:03 2002)
Hey everyone! Hope you're enjoying summer break. If not, then what
better way to improve it by watching several hours of anime!

That's right, we have the silo during the summer as well, so keep your
Saturdays open.

What's showing you ask?

For this week, I'm going to show a bunch of stuff and depending on what
the crowd's reaction is, I will continue to show it, or I will replace it
with something else.

Without further delay...

5:00-6:00(maybe even 7:00)- Kenshin power battles! (I'm going to show a
major battle from Kenshin each week.)

This week's battle will be Kenshin vs. Aoshi (my personal favorite). Each
week I will hold a vote in club to see which battle will be shown the
folowing week. And yes, these will be shown off of the R1 DVDs, so it
should be FAR better than those icky fansubs we showed the last few years.

Next is a list of the potential shows for this summer...

Dual!
Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040
Angel Links
El Hazard

This list may get longer by Saturday, so don't feel that you've been short
changed.

Also this week Dylan will treat us to Memories (2 hour movie, supposed to
be quite good).

That's all for now,

Your new dictator....er I mean President
-Nik Kamachi
</pre>

===MNA - MNA at Polycon this weekend===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Wed Jun 26 14:13:57 2002)
Minna,

Every year Polycon has their big convention right here in Trinity hall,
and the last two years I've worked with Lee of Games People Play to put on
an anime room at Polycon to help spread the word (and to give people some
crash space). For better or worse, Lee and Mike Bunting (a bigwig of
Polycon) assumed that I would do it again, and talked me into it.

Polycon is this coming weekend. It starts at 1:00 on Friday and goes
until 5:00 on Sunday, though I don't think the Anime room will be open the
whole time. I'll get the details worked out in the next couple of days.

website: http://www.polycon.org

While it costs money to register at the con itself, if you just are coming
into the anime room, nobody should check for a badge, so MNA members are
welcome to join if they want.

Last year I got a few people from Minna no Anime to help out last year.
I'd like that again this year if possible! Here's what I need:

*Volunteers to take shifts of being in charge of the room
*A larger than 20" TV screen, if you can part with it for a weekend
*Anime from your collections.
*Suggestions on what we should binge on!

Lee will be bringing his LD/DVD Player (and TV if we can't get a better
on), and I'll be bringing my laptop, so even digi's might be a
possibility.

So if our standard 5-6 hours on Saturday just isn't enough and you're
interested in coming, then just show up! If you'd like to help
out a little then please, by all means drop me an email at my personal
address: benl@<removed for spam reasons>

Ben Leinweber
Ex-President
Minna no Anime
</pre>

===Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jun 27 16:01:52 2002)
Hi all! Seeing that not many of you enjoyed Angel Links last week, I have
opted to replace it with the Tylor OVA.

Here's the outlook this week

5:00-6:00 Kenshin Battle Hour

This week it's Kenshin vs. Saito

6:10-7:00 Dual ep 2 and Tylor OVA ep 1

7:10-8:00 El Hazard ep 2 and BGC 2040 ep 1

8:10-9:00 BGC 2040 eps 3 and 4

9:10-10:00 Evangelion eps 1 and 2

With any luck this will be our schedule for the remainder of the summer.
If not, then...*shrug* we'll show whatever I feel like showing (no dubs of
course e*cough*Dylan*cough*)

See you Saturday!

-Nik Kamachi

P.S. for those of you who miss Dylan'a brand of weekly e-mails, fear not,
for they shall return next week.
</pre>

===Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Wed Jul 3 13:24:27 2002)
Hey everyone! AX is this week, but Matt has been kind enough to show
sstuff on Saturday. So if you're stranded here, go watch some stuff
courtesy of Matt.

-Nik Kamachi
</pre>

===MNA - A Return to Form Meeting 7/13===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jul 11 15:36:00 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

It appears as though through some fault in the laws of nature I'm writing
another email. Why am I doing this you ask? I don't know, really, I
guess I'm just ill.

Well, seeing as how I just got back from a fun filled weekend in Long
Beach for the 11th annual AnimeExpo I'll give a minor report (on the
things I found interesting) and send everyone to
http://www.animeondvd.com/ax2002/ for any other news.

Everyone go to:
http://www.raijincomics.com/
What is this? Raijin Comics will be the first WEEKLY MANGA publication in
the United States. Lots of great manga, delivered to you weekly (just
like the major Japanese publications), and they want your input! Along
with the manga will be a insert containing up to the minute information
on the latest anime, manga, and other cool info (remember, this will be
able to keep up with the latest info because it is WEEKLY, not monthly).
So, please do the American thing and put your money where your mouth is
and subscribe to this great revolution in manga publishing.
In case you weren't aware, the US probably has the least amount of manga
published of the major industrial nations. France, Italy, China all
publish way more manga than the US - let's not let them beat us any
longer!! Join my crusade to help put manga in the mainstream US culture
(which means more, cheaper, faster manga for everyone).

Hmm... I guess I'll put my other thoughts in the usual location

Ye Olde (New) Schedule

5-10pm Stuff.

If you've been coming you know the approximate schedule; we are intending
on showing the following this week:

Tylor's War (Part 2/2)
El Hazard #3
Evangelion #3-6 (we will be showing all of Eva, director's cut of eps
21-24, and the movies this quarter)
Ranma 1/2 #3-4
Dual #3

That's as detailed as I'm gonna get on the schedule; show up and watch a
lot of really damn good shows (many of which are on my all time favorite
lists).

Rants/Raves/Rines

Yes, 'Rines' or 'Lines' as those non-engrish enabled people would
pronounce it. There were a lot of lines at AX; some lines went where they
were supposed to at about the right time; some lines went to the wrong
places; some lines went at the wrong time; some lines really never went
anywhere.
I think the best way to judge how successful a con is, is by checking the
ratio of "time in line: time at events/doing something that isn't standing
in line". If the ratio is any worse the 2:1 (ie 1:1, or god forbid .25:1)
the entire con was a complete failure. AX was great this year because
everything I wanted to go to was scheduled far enough apart such that I
could be assured a long wait in line every time I wanted to go do
anything. They made sure to minimize time spent standing around the
dealers' room or wandering aimlessly without a line in site.

In commemoration of the glorious lines I will be commisioning art for a
Tshirt design (there will of course be a line to submit your design).

The Three Goddess Cosplayers:
Belldandy - Goda (OMG director)
Urd - Masunari (ROD director)
Skuld - Mashimo (Tylor, Noir director)

Yes, these are all Japanese men at least in their thirties; none of which
have the body for the goddesses; but this was their idea! (They said they
feel sorry for however is Keiichi).

Also, I would like to note that all of the creative staff for ROD are
complete, total and utter fanboys!! Finally, some men of my caliber
making anime for people like me! (H Kurata told people to buy more of his
DVD's so he could get more royalties and buy more disks)

Now to go work on my costume... hmm... I know I have the body to do
Kurumi, I just wonder if I can pull off the hair.

Saraba da,
Dylan Hall
Motokonna (ranma o misugimashita)

The website without summer updates:
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - We Put the Meet in Meating 7/20===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jul 18 18:57:45 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

Yet again I mysteriously appear at the author's seat for this email.

No super cool news this week, so I'll just proceed with the non-schedule

Ye Olde Schedule

5-10pm Saturday, 03-213 (The Silo)

What stuff?

Hmm... well, we've started up more stuff than we can possibly finish, and
Nik being the (foolishly) kind El Presidente has mentioned to me that we
may possibly involve some sort of populous input as to which shows we
continue. So, show up earlier rather than later if you care what we put
on this summer.

Potentially shown:

More Kenshin TV Best Fights Collection
El Hazard #4
Ranma 1/2 #4,5?
Evangelion #7-10
Tylor OVA #1 (or #3 depending on how you count)
Dual #4

Afterhours:
Nasubi Part 2

Rants/Rave/Reminicing

I just spent the last two days watching 28 episodes of "Nadia: The Secret
of Blue Water". This show was the first TV show made by GAINAX way back
in 1989, and is a truly amazing piece of animation. Hideaki Anno is a
true genius of animation and direction; his presence is truly missed and I
yearn for his return to the art of anime. If I have my way you all will
be enjoying this wonderful show in the fall (along with Ryvius... mmm...
Ryvius) Ahh... natsukashii...

Here's some websites in yo eye:

AMO Tokyo - Everyone's favorite place to buy your import anime and cd's.
http://www.amotokyo.com
You know you want your copy of 'Sen' faster than the US release.

Bestprices - my favorite (US) retail store, cheap prices, fast shipping,
accurate online stock count
http://www.bestprices.com

Anime Music Videos (.org) - The place to find your favorite video and find
many a new video.
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/home/home.php
(Everyone should search for "Ambiguously Yaoi Duo")
if anyone wants to recommend a video, send me an email and I may include
it in next week's email (dhall@<removed for spam reasons>)

Overman King Gainer - The newest show from my personal god Yoshiyuki
Tomino; it starts airing in September! (See, I'm keeping you all on top of
the coolest new shows)
http://www.king-gainer.net/index.htm

Mobile Suit Gundam Seed - NEW GUNDAM TV SERIES. Mecha designs by Yamane
(Bebop, Ryvius) character designs by Hirai (Ryvius). I don't think I need
to say any more.
http://www.sunrise-inc.co.jp/gundam-seed/

Afternoon Official Site - the official site for my favorite Japanese
monthly manga magazine (OMG, Blade, Blame!, Abenobashi, Eden, Yokohama,
etc). Get the latest info on the coolest series.
http://www.afternoon.co.jp/

Hmm... what else is cool...

Viz is making a quarterly release of the new "Gundam: The Origin" by
Yoshikazu YASuhiko. The first issue is out, be sure to pick up your copy
today!

Ijou,
Dylan Hall
gun-ota ni naritai
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

Nasubi Desu!
</pre>

===MNA - The Meeting with No Name 7/27===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jul 25 17:20:27 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

I'm gonna keep this short and to the point. Last week it was decided to
cut the Kenshin fights and to try and show as much as possible of the rest
of the show we have been showing.

Schedule:

5-10pm

The usual suspects at the usual times

Dual 5-5:30 (or 6 maybe)
El Hazard at 5:30 (or 6 maybe)
Tylor OVA's #3-4
Ranma 1/2 #6-7
Evangelion #11-14

This weeks random info:

http://www.somethingaweful.com

what a great site; loads of reviews of the worst movies, games (and
H-games) ever along with lots of other useless but entertaining content.

Abayo,
Dylan

http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Enough of this crap! Meeting 8/3===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Aug 1 22:11:45 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

As yet another eventful week in SLO comes to an end I ponder the meaning
of this email... or not.

Anyways, after writing this thing nearly every week since way back in
September of 2000, it appears as though the official new secretary is
ready to take over. So, if you want your weekly dose of my special brand
of annoyance you're gonna have to bug me on Saturdays (or the other days
of the week like my friends do). Koko's getting angry! (Seinfeld
reference)

The (very rough) schedule

5:00 Dual #7
5:30 Dual #8

Break from the "5-10 whatever" style schedule

6:00 El Hazard #6 (of 7)
6:30 Tylor OVA #4 (of 8)

Break to consider the ramifications of Jinnai and Tylor switching places

7:00 Ranma 1/2 #8
7:30 Ranma 1/2 #9

Break to remember that Ranma aired 13 years ago

8:00 Evangelion #15
8:30 Evangelion #16

Break your mind

9:00 Neon Genesis Evangelion #17
9:30 Shin Sekai Evangelion #18

That's it for the important stuff

Rants/Raves/Reccoa-shoi! (Zeta Gundam reference)

Well, I was informed that I soiled my perfect record by providing a false
link last week! Bah! Feh! How could I do such a thing? Well, I'll
correct it here with the link I was trying to send out:
http://www.somethingawful.com/index.htm
This is actually the funny site I wanted to send the link to last week.

And here are some other fresh links in yo eye:
You want some recommendations of stuff throughout the years? This site
has a great recommendation section of all kinds of anime (I think this
guy has good taste in anime, of course I'd have to add some and remove
some, but overall it's really a great list)
http://www001.upp.so-net.ne.jp/tsuribe/index.html

New Ghost in the Shell TV series! The only bigger movie in (American)
anime history is Akira. The TV series looks to take more from the manga;
most notably with the inclusion of the fuchikoma's. Super high budget,
Yoko Kanno soundtrack, supposedly already licensed and produced by Bandai
Ent USA.
http://www.production-ig.com/Ghost_TV.html

And as one final website I'll once again post some of my favorites:
My favorite online comic:
http://adventurers.keenspace.com/
Want to read good reviews? this is the place; especially check out the
review of 'Sen'.
http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~ricky/anime/
Where to buy your anime! Anime Runner Kuromi is coming out in a region 0
release; this means that it will play on any dvd player (PS2, Xbox as
well).
http://www.amotokyo.com/
Where to buy your out of print anime/cd's.
http://www.animejungle.com
Where to get your scripts.
http://www.scriptclub.org/
Where to waste your time (stupid forums).
http://www.animeondvd.com/

And for one final rants I'll direct you to the following links:
http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~ricky/anime/Spirited_Away/VWDZ8036/index.html
http://www.amotokyo.com/default.asp?main=/main/sento/index2.html
Stupid Buena Vista/Ghibli! They really majorly screwed up this one. My
opinion is that they screwed up and don't want to bite the bullet and
recall 6 million copies of this movie (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi). If
they wanted to try and 'calibrate' this for high end equipment they should
have made that some kind of special release and not made it the only
release.

Oh well, at least I can read my manga and not worry about color tint
problems. I hope.

"If you told me 25 years ago that someday I would be standing here about
to solve the world's energy problems, I would've said 'you're crazy'. Now
let's push this giant ball of oil out the window." - As Eric Clapton said
"see if you can spot this one".

Ijou,
Dylan Hall
Seinfeld addict
Minna no Anime, Cal Poly Anime Club
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Better late than never meeting 8/10===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Fri Aug 9 13:51:43 2002)
Konnichiwa Minna-san,

Yes, the newsletter is a little late. But it's not my fault! I was
busy... uhh doing other stuff... yeah...

Anyway, here it is and because it's late I'll give you guys a special
treat: The first live sub of the year!

Yes, that's right we will be live subbing an hour of this weeks programs;
read on to find out more.

Schedule:

5:00 Dual #9
5:30 Dual #10

break to search for the real me in this world

6:00 El Hazard #7 (finale)
6:30 Tylor OVA #5

break to test for super powers

7:00 Ranma 1/2 #10
7:30 Ranma 1/2 #11

break to see if anyone at the meeting has been to Jusenkyo

8:00 Evangelion #19
8:30 Evangelion #20

break to see if anyone is still sane

9:00 Evangelion #21' - Live Sub Directors Edition from R2 DVD!
9:30 Evangelion #22' - Another Live Sub Directors Edition episode of Eva!

The 'Directors Edition' versions of these episodes have ~5 minutes of
additional footage not before seen in the US! You know you're jonzing for
it.

Rants/Raves/Remission

Not much news this week other than that I managed to get all the classes I
wanted! Wow, my last time dealing with the wonder Cal Poly priority
system.

The schedule for the upcoming school year is almost finalized; we've begun
the arduous process of creating scripts for the, literally, hundreds of
episodes we're going to be live subbing this year. If you want to help
we're glad to take it. Please email any of the officers (email addys on
the web site) or talk to any of us on Saturday (or anytime you see us
wandering around confused because we don't have a bunch of kanji in our
face).

"One never admits to the mistakes of youth" - Char Aznable (aka The Pimp
Master)
With that said, I'm outta here.

saraba da,
Dylan Hall
gunota desu
Minna no Anime, Cal Poly Anime Club
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===[MNA] Sat, Aug 16 schedule
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Fri Aug 16 16:03:02 2002)
Okay... now perhaps my computer wont reboot everytime I hit the ctrl or
shift keys?

This weeks schedule:

5:00 Dual #11
5:30 Dual #12

6:00 Tylor OVA #6
6:30 Tylor OVA #7

7:00 Ranma 1/2 #11
7:30 Ranma 1/2 #12

8:00 Evangelion #23-Directors Edition Live Sub
8:30 Evangelion #24-Directors Edition Live Sub
(both with ~5 minutes of new footage)

9:00 Evangelion #25
9:30 Evangelion #26

This weeks rant(short one):

I'll keep this weeks rant short and far from the point. I'm the new
secretary (ie 'weekly mailing b!tch') for our illustrius club, and I have
no idea how to spell anything. For those of you who don't know my name, it
is Ahmad Jamshid Amini. Thats it. "K" is just a nickname. "Tommy" as well.
"James" was just because my roomate couldn't pronounce my name without
making me cringe. If you hear me being called anything else, well... it
happens.

Anyway.... well, Dylan has forfeited this job to me (woohoo!) and I have
to figure out this whole "keeping my computer from locking up when on"
thing. The fact that I'm running windows doesn't help, the fact that I'm
overclocking doesn't help, the fact that I think the cat left me a
'present' in my case really doesn't help.

And one last bit of randomn information. For those of you who don't know,
Spirited Away is premeiring this Sept. 10th (tuesday) here in the US. You
really need to go see this movie, this isn't a recommendation it's a
demand. Also, if you wish to go see the premiere in Hollywood (Miyazaki
himself will be there) then then come talk to either Paul or myself and we
can arrange a carpool perhaps. nausicaa.net should also have more info on
this.

And of course, a couple websites for you to check out:

www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub - Our website!

www.seanbaby.com/nes.htm - Because you know you owned an old school NES
box.

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-"Lalah-sun Watashi no Haha ninattekurerukamoshirenakatta josei da." -
Char Aznerable (a request from Dylan, something about someone's mama).
</pre>

===[MNA] Thu, Aug 22 Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Fri Aug 23 21:24:57 2002)
Sorry for being late this week, but here's another schedule:

5:00 Dual #13
5:30 Dual #14 (Finale)

6:00 Tylor OVA - From Here to Eternity (part 1)

~7:00 Tylor Ova - From Here to Eternity (part 2) - the end of (animated)
Tylor (sniff)
7:30 Ranma 1/2 #14 (if time permits)

8:00 End of Evangelion (Movie, 1997) - Live sub from the R2.

Come see the theatrical version! You know you're in dire need of a whole
hellova lot of confusion.

Also, this is our last official meeting of the quarter. We will officially
be back Sept. 28 (I think?) with our awesome lineup for the fall.

I don't have much to say this week, but I'll leave you all with a nice
video game link that you should probably read again and again...

www.geocities.com/murmario

That's all folks!
-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime "mail-bitch"
</pre>

2000-2001 Emails

2011-11-16T20:16:27Z

Moroboshi ataru: added emailnav

[[Category:E-mails]]
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== Fall 2000 ==

''Note:'' The first email I have is this halloween email. If anyone has mails for the first few weeks of the quarter, please let me know/put them up here.
--[[User:MikeWhipp|MikeWhipp]] 14:53, 26 December 2007 (PST)

===MNA - Halloween fun===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Mon Oct 23 11:59:18 2000)
Moshi moshi minna-san!

Dylan here again with some good news. As you may be aware we will be
having halloween festivities 2 saturdays from now (Nov 4). Aside from the
normal shows we will be showing halloweeny-type episodes from other series
and some movies. How can we fit this all in our normal hours you ask? We
aren't! Showing times are being extended from 3PM to Midnight.

Other activities:
anime pumpkin carving contest
anime trivia quiz game
costume contest
pin the scar on the battousai
and more TBA

There will prizes for all of these contests, and the winner of the costume
contest (who must also participate in the trivia contest) will get the
grand prize:

$150 (to spend on anime goodies)

We will take signups this Saturday.

Also, if anyone has access to a sewing machine that we could use we would
be eternally grateful.

We will also be having pizza (sponsered by the club). We will be taking
signups saturday for the low, low price of

$2.50 for half a pizza!!!

Yes, that is correct. So, if you want to gourge yourself for no money at
all bring your $2.50 this saturday. Pre-pay isn't required, but it will
make this whole process a lot easier for everyone.

Also, we will be starting up our $.50 a soda service again (hopefully this
Saturday).

Remember: this week we will be in 34-227 (Dexter)

So we now return you to your boring lives of homework, study and more
study (at least, that's about all I do).

See you Saturday,

Dylan Hall
Fukukaichou (VP)
</pre>

===MNA - Quiz game===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Mon Oct 23 17:59:25 2000)
Hi again,

Here's a repost of the quiz question submission rules (in case you weren't
on the newsletter, or delete the email):
<
Here's the part where you can help; we need questions. We are trying to
get enough questions so that everyone who wants to join in the game will
be able to.
Thus we are asking that everyone who wants to play submit at
least 1 question (with answer). Remember, the more questions you submit
the higher the chances are you will be asked a question you know the
answer to.

Of course this wouldn't be a Cal Poly event unless we had a long list of
rules and archaic bureaucratic prosses, so here they are:

1. Mark Salcido from AJAS (Atascadero Japanese Animation Society) will be
running the competition. Thus, all questions need to be submitted to him
at:
yaithaven@<removed for spam reasons>
Please make
"Anime Trivia Question"
the subject line of the email. Any questions sent to
any address other than that are subject to the will of the cosmos and
might not be included in the list of questions.

2. The questions must come from somewhere in the subtitles or in the
animation of the show. Credits don't count as subtitles. e.g. no
questions like, "What's the name of the voice actor who played: Spike
Speigel (Cowboy Bebop), Ryoga Hibiki (Ranma 1/2), Papachariino (Photon)
and Kagetsu (Shamanic Princess)?"

3. The questions cannot be translation questions, unless the Japanese
word is found in the subtitles. e.g. "In Lodoss War, what is the
Japanese for 'Scepter of Domination'?" However, "In Rurouni Kenshin, what
does Saitou's catch phrase of 'naru hodo' mean?" is a perfectly legit
question because it is translated and also left in Japanese.

4. Submit the questions in the following form:
Anime from: Nuku-Nuku
Question: What color hair does Nuku-Nuku have?
Answer: Violet

5. Lastly, try to stay away from the most obscure of references. It's no
fun if nobody can answer any of the questions. Also, be creative and have
fun, the point is to have a good time. So, party on Wayne, party on
Garth.

That's about it for rules and regulations.

Did I fail to mention that there will be prizes for the top finishers!
Money!? Anime goods!? Who knows! But a good time will be had by all.
So get to writing and send in your quesions.
>
So, don't delete this one too, or I'll have to fill up your email boxes
again.

And one final note: we will have at least some access to a sewing
machine, so don't let a little sewing stop you from making your 1:2 scale
cloth Gundam!

Maybe I won't send out another email today; but then what would you have
to look forward to?

Be sure to drink your Ovaltine,

Dylan Hall
Fukukaichou (VP)
www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

PS - I'll give some kind of prize to the first person to answer all the
above questions correctly (without looking up the answers on websites or
other locations).

Send all comments, questions, whines, demands and threats to:
dhall@<removed for spam reasons>
</pre>

===MNA Meeting 10/28===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Oct 26 20:56:20 2000)
First note: This week we should be in 34-227, which for those of you who
don't know building numbers is Dexter Hall, room 227. If for some reason
we can get the regular room, signs will be posted.

Second note: For all of you who are thinking about participating in the
MNA Cosplay on Haloween and have a costume idea in mind, but no means to
make it. We have a sewing machine on hand for this weekend for general
use. Talk to the officers for further details, or email dhall@<removed for spam reasons>
if you are interested.

Without further ado, the SCHEDULE (drum roll please):

5:00 Eden's Bowy ep 2 - whatever the title may be
5:25 Maison Ikkoku ep whatever - insert title here...

10 Minute Break - or not for those of you who are just getting in

6:00 Slayers #6 - FOCUS! Rezo's the Real Enemy!
6:25 Fushigi Yuugi #5 - Bewildered Heartbeat

10 Minute Break - Dare you to say "Fushigi Yuugi" 10 times fast and not
sound like a drunk. Better practice, the officers will be coming around
and testing you.

7:00 Nuku-Nuku #6 - Phase VI
7:25 Kenshin #58 - Will The Era Inherit Shishio? Kenshin's Most Critical
Moment

10 Minute Break - Say goodbye to Catgirl, and hello to Kenshin... he'll
be around for quite some time...

8:00 Lodoss TV #6 - Heart - Tears Reborn
8:25 Magic Knight Rayearth #5 - Escudo, the Legendary Ore

10 Minute Break - Welcome to Lodoss Island vs Chibi Rayearth... the
ultimate fight of the year, who will take home the laughter award? Sunday
Sunday Sunday!!! err... Saturday.

9:00 Cowboy Bebop #6 - Sympathy for the Devil
9:25 Utena #28 - Whispering in the Dark

I thought the mummy man was in Slayers... Spike's too cool to stay down
for long though.

End. Go home people. Don't you have a home? Are you too good for your
home?

Shameless website plug #6 brought to you by Engrish.com
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
And remember, always drink your Pocari Sweat and you will be happy life.

Nuff,
Matt
</pre>

===MNA - Minna no Manga 10/31 and Halloween Reminder===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Mon Oct 30 22:12:05 2000)
A ghoulish greeting to all,

We will be holding a very scary meeting of Minna no Manga tomorrow night.
There will be more Cadaver Kana and Eerie Editing, of course this is all
preceeded by Ghastly Greetings.

Anyways...
Same bat place (14-250), same bat time (7PM-10PM), same bat stuff (pencil,
paper, manga)

Also remember: Our first
over-the-top-extravagent-expensive-alluring-intimidating-halloween party
will be this Saturday. So be sure to ready your costume (I know of at
least 5 people doing costumes, which means that the chances of getting the
$150 prize are pretty good) and make your pumpkin.

We will have prizes (Cd's, tapes, posters , etc) for every event and also
some random door givaway stuff, guaranteed fun for all!

So send in those trivia questions and get yourself a roll of gauze tape
for your Shishio costume. We have a sewing machine available for use if
anyone needs it, just email us.

Mata mite ne,

Dylan Hall
Fukukaichou (VP)
dhall@<removed for spam reasons>
www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA Meeting 11/4===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Nov 2 19:22:05 2000)
We may be a little late, but that doesn't mean our Halloween fest won't be
good. Just a reminder, we have an extended schedule for this meeting, and
plenty of extra events to accompany the Anime. Here goes nothing...

3:00 - 4:30 Vampire Hunter D
4:30 - 5:00 Violinist of Hamelin Movie
5:10 - 5:30 Tenshi Ni Narumon #1

5:30 - 6:00 BREAK #1 - Pizza for those who signed up/Pumpkins

6:00 - 6:25 Slayers #7
6:25 - 6:50 Fushigi Yuugi #6
7:00 - 7:30 Digi Charat/Mini Goddess (we are not responsible for any
insanity caused by Digi Charat-nyu, feel free to use the exits-gema, but
do not run, we are also not resposible for injuries caused by fleeing
Otaku-nyu)

7:30 - 8:00 BREAK #2 - Costume Judging

8:00 - 8:25 Lodoss TV #7
8:25 - 8:50 Cowboy Bebop #7
9:00 - 9:50 Silent Mobius TV #1 & #2

10:00 - 10:30 BREAK #3 - Prize announcements and final judging

10:30 - 11:00 Fancy Lala
11:00 - 12:00 Ghost Sweeper Mikami Movie

And of course, during this insanity we will be having our Trivia contest.
This will be starting at 4:30 (end of Vampire Hunter D). We also will
have Dance Dance Revolution (complete with Dance Pads, thanks Luke and
Fuku) when Trivia isn't running. This will all be in one of the
classrooms across the way (room 111), we'll make sure to have it marked.
(Editor's note: you can't miss it, just listen for the music and people
laughing, also the occasional thumps as people with 2 left feet attempt to
dance... no I'm not describing myself... how dare you think that). Also
in room 111, we will be having "Pin the Scar on the Battousai," the only
time you will ever be able to injure Kenshin, EVER.

Wow... quite the day. Hope to see you all there. Mata ne.

- Matt
</pre>

===MNA 11/11 meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Fri Nov 10 10:39:14 2000)
It's that time again. Yes, Minna time, our 'special' time.

5:00 FLCL #1 - Gainax's newest OVA
5:25 Maison Ikkoku - Takahashi's 1987 show

6:00 The break that many think is only the beginning

6:10 Slayers #8 - HELP! Shabranigdo is Reborn!
6:30 Fushigi Yuugi #7 - The ep without a title that we know (mysterious
isn't it?)

6:57 Break - I'll break you if you don't like Kodocha (just kidding)

7:03 Child's Toy (Kodomo no Omocha) #29 - Finally!! after 8 months another
4 eps of this awesome show. Hiyama Chichi love-love!!
7:28.5 Rurouni Kenshin #59 - Luck Hasn't Run Out Yet! Kenki Revived Again!

7:59 Break - We like to be precise on our break/show times

8:08 Record of Lodoss War TV #8 - The Scepter of Domination - The Dream of
a United Lodoss
8:31 Magic Knight Rayearth #6 - Presea, Escudo and uhh... stuff

8:58 Break - If anyone has a Playstation2 and would like to bring it, I've
got Tekken Tag and would love to see it larger than life ^_^

9:09 Cowboy Bebop #8 - Waltz for Venus
9:28 Shoujo Kakumei Utena #29 - Azure Blue Paler Than Sky

Doh, only 10 more eps of Utena left (tears)

Also a reminder: Bring rough drafts of your T-shirt designs this week
(whatever you've got done). We'll be having our competition on either
11/18 (next Saturday) or the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

That's All Folks!

Dylan Hall
Fukukaichou (VP)
www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA Minna no Manga 11/14===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Mon Nov 13 14:08:40 2000)
It's time for another newsletter from your friendly fukukaichou

The secret words for the week are
"Love" & "Peace"
Now repeat after me:
"Shousen kono seiki wa Love and Peace da!"

And I had always thought we that we build this city on rock and roll. But
enough with the bad jokes.

This week we will ACTUALLY be starting the katakana, so bring your pencils
'cuz we're gonna cover quite a bit of it.

No 'cultural education' this week.

When: Tuesday, 7-10PM
Where: 14-250
What: Minna no Manga, mochiron!

Ja ne,

Dylan Hall
Fukukaichou (VP)
www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA Meeting 11/18===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Nov 16 12:37:00 2000)
Youkoso Minna no Anime e,

Hoo ra for our weekly anime fix... it is almost here. First a few notes
from our dedicated hard-working officer team. We know there are those of
you who dream of going to Japan and blowing your life savings on loads of
anime ... err... stuff... well, do we have a deal for you! Tuesday
November 28, from 11AM until 12, in the buisiness building, room 209 there
will be a meeting for all interested in spending their Spring quarter in
Japan. Yes, you heard me right, Spring quarter in Japan, you earn units,
and get to see the culture. This is open to all students, you don't have
to know a word of Japanese either, but it is a great excuse to start
learning now. (Shameless Plug o' the Week #1: Also a great excuse to
attend Minna no Manga on Tuesday Nights, 7-9PM, 14-250, learn how to read
and understand Japanese through Manga!) SUGOI! SUBAROSHI!

For those of you who aren't going to be making the overseas trek to Nihon,
Fanime Con happens to fall on a perfect day for us Poly students. LUCKY!
The last weekend of Spring Break, Fanime will be held in the Santa Clara
Convention Center. This means all of you Bay Area Anime goers should have
no excuse for not going, and all you from SoCal, talk to one of your
northern neighbors. Because of this fortuitous event, we will be taking
sign ups so we can get group rates (read: We Save You Money if you Wanna
Go).

Now, on to the schedule:

5:00 FLCL # 2 From DVD! Your anime FRESH.
5:25 Maison Ikkoku ep whatever... not so fresh, but still cool

Break - I wish some company other than Viz owned Maison Ikkoku... 2 TV
quality eps on VHS for only $30! What a steal! (for them) *note: the
opinions stated herein are those solely of the Fukukaichou and loyal
henchman Matt, not necessarily of the club

6:00 Slayers #9 - IMPACT! The Eve of the Menacing Battle!
6:25 Fushigi Yuugi #8 - Brief Parting

Break - This time, Zelgadis and Gourry give Lina an external blood
transfusion...

7:00 Kodomo no Omocha #30
7:25 Kenshin #60 - The One Who Permits Victory. Shishio vs Kenshin. Last
Battle!

Break - Maybe Mummy man will FINALLY go down... or will he. Nevermind,
this isn't Dragonball, they can't take 50 eps for the fight.

8:00 Lodoss War TV #9 - The Young Knight - Tested Strength
8:25 Magic Knight Rayearth #7 - Ferlo in Desperation P A Romance in the
Desert

Break - Don't EVER challenge Presea to Dance Dance Revolution

9:00 Cowboy Bebop #9 - Jamming with Edward
9:25 Utena #30 - The Barefoot Girl

No break, go home ya bums, no more anime handouts...

Shameless Plug o' the Week #2 - http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub our
world famous site... or so we would like to think.

Mata mite ne,
Matt
</pre>

===MNA - Minna 'NO' Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Mon Nov 20 17:42:02 2000)
Konbanwa minna-san,

First the bad news:

No meetings this week. No Minna no Manga, and no Minna no Anime. So you
all better be eating delicious foods without Lina or there'll be hell to
pay.

The Good News:

Spring Quarter in Japan - Any student with available funds can spend all
of spring quarter in Japan. You should be able to take some classes and
either Japanese 103 or a special conversational version of Japanese 101,
both taught by resident Japanese teacher Tachibana-sensei (she's also our
club advisor).
Informational Meeting:

Tuesday, Nov 28, 11am-12
03-209 (business building)

Go even if you are just interested, opportunities like this don't come
very often!

T shirt contest - I saw a bunch of really cool designs on the front table
last week, I wish we had the money to put all of them on shirts.
Unfortunately reality gets in the way of anime once in a while; that's
why we have contests. This years T-shirt design contest will be on our
last meeting of the quarter (also our next meeting), 12/2. So spend this
break perfecting your drawings and have them all ready for 12/2.

DVD Player - For the last year we have been showing titles from DVD
whenever available. This is because we get better picture, sound and we
like technology ^_^ (just ask anyone who watched Lain last year).
However, as a club we do not have a player; we have been using Ben's
player. But, come spring quarter our dignified president will be in
Japan leaving us short a player. So instead of cutting meeting hours by a
lot or restricting ourselves to stuff we have on tape I propose that the
club gets a player. I have done some research on the net and a player
suitable for our purposes (Region-free, Macromedia vision-free) will cost
us at least $350. As was mentioned previously we don't have the limitless
funds that we would like to have, so we need to seek alternate forms of
income. Thus I'm asking everyone in the club to put aside a donation to
the "MNA DVD Player Foundation" or "NAVI" (mNA dVd player foundatIon).
Any donation will help get us a good player. If we get around $500
together we can get a REALLY nice player, and that would be sweet. So
take $10 from your Xmas money and put it aside for the club that gives you
Nuriko, Yahiko and Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV. More details to
come.

That's all for now, have a fun break.

Sincerely,

Dylan Hall
Fukukaichou (VP)
www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Reminders and MNM===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Mon Nov 27 13:15:20 2000)
Welcome back from break everyone!

I hope you all had good breaks and are ready for finals. I would like to
say "omedetou" (congratulations) to Abhay and any other graduating
members.

Reminders:

Spring quarter in Japan informational meeting -
When: Tuesday (tomorrow) Nov 28, 11am
Where: 03-209 (Business Building)

T-shirts -
Contest this week! Bring what you've got and be prepared for a showdown.
Long live the skewer rat!

Fukukaichou's note - I want to see a shirt with a bunch of really bad
Japanese puns on it.

Fanime 2001 -
If you want to go to Fanime this Spring break and want to pay a little
less (10% discount) bring your $35 to this week's MNM or MNA. It's during
the last weekend of spring break, so no excuse for skipping out (even if
you are in Japan at the time).

Club notes -
There will be meetings of both MNM and MNA during normal hours this week.

MNM -
No lesson this week. Bring in what you've got, because it'll be our last
meeting for 6 weeks.

Don't be an Usagi-chan this dead week, or in the name of the moon I shall
punish you!

Take care,

Dylan Hall
Fukukaichou (VP)
www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA Meeting 12/2===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Nov 30 12:14:14 2000)
Once again reminders:
Tshirt contest this week (Bring your designs)!
Bring your money for Fanime Con ($31.50).

5:00 FLCL #3
5:25 Maison Ikkoku #whatever

10 Minute Break - What do you think: Godai and Haruko as a couple?
Maybe not.

6:00 Slayers #10 - JACKPOT! The Great Life or Death Gamble!
6:25 Lodoss TV #10 - Recovery - A Mission Assigned

10 Minute Break - Ashram's worst nightmare: Parn hires Lina as a
bodyguard.

7:00 Cowboy Bebop #10 - Ganymede Elegy
7:25 Kenshin #61 - Juppon Gatana. Choice of Life!

10 Minute Break - It's over! Finally Shishio is down for the count, burnt
to a crisp, yadda yadda... or is it??? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
(Sandoraaaaaaaaaaaa Note: this thought brought to you by ADV, bringers
of Excel Saga if we live long enough to see it in Region 1)

8:00 Houhokekyo Tonari no Yamada-kun (My Neighbors the Yamadas - The new
Ghibli Release, straight out of Japan with subtitles... released 2 weeks
ago. Mmmmmmm fresh anime for visual consumption.)

Sailor Fukukaichou says: I hate you CDJapan, taking my money so easily.
Wait, I can't stay mad at you.

Matt Sez: Sailor Fuku is lucky to have income just for being a student...
He is also lucky to have outgo just for being an Otaku...

Last Shameless Webpage Plug of the quarter/year, we know yer gonna miss
it. http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

Mata mite ne,
Matt to Fuku
</pre>

== Winter 2001 ==
===MNA - Super Happy Fun Reminders!!!===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jan 4 13:53:58 2001)
Konichiwa Minna-san,

I hope you've all been having a nice break from school and have been
missing waiting for school to start up again so we can all go back to our
weekly Saturday anime binges.

So here's the notices and such...

Club DVD player - We'll be collection donations for a club player (so we
can stop borrowing Ben's player) for the first couple of weekends winter
quarter. So, if you have $5 to $50 (or any amount) that you'd like to
donate to us so that we can get our own player it'll be greatly
appreciated. Of course the player we get will be Macrovision-free and
Region-free so that we can continue to show the newest, coolest stuff in
the world of anime.

Meetings - Our first meeting will be Saturday January 13 from 5 to 10pm
(same as last quarter). We'll be continuing the regular series (Rayearth,
Bebop, Lodoss, Kenshin, Slayers, Utena, Maison Ikkoku, Fushigi Yuugi) and
finishing FLCL (as it comes out) showing Kodocha as it's available and
showing the OVA "Please Save My Earth". We'll probably also be showing
some "Turn 'A' Gundam" and "Here and There, Now and Then". Unfortunately
Utena will be ending this quarter, I'll make sure we keep showing
interesting, different anime even without the End of the World.
Minna no Manga will probably start up on Jan 16, so keep up on that Kana.

Other News and Fun - I went to Japan town, in San Francisco, last Saturday
and spent far too much money on far too many cool imports (although I did
manage to hold off on buying the Gundam movie DVD's... for now). I highly
recommend that everyone watch some UC Gundam (not Wing, or X, or Turn 'A')
it's really great stuff. I also suggest that everyone pick up a copy of
Kenshin manga books 17 - 28 and either learn Japanese or read along with
a translation (there are a few online and one of our members is doing his
own translation). The end of the manga is even better than the Shishio
saga, really great stuff.

That's enough rambling from me, for now.

Mata ne,
Dylan Hall
Fukukaichou
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA Meeting 1/13===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jan 11 16:20:13 2001)
Quick note: Maison Ikkoku has been moved to 5:00 and FLCL/Fansub half hour
is now second. Come late for your guitar wielding mania and early for
drama and comedy, thankfully nobody is "donating blood" by cutting their
arm in that show.

Second Quick Note: We will be accepting any donations you have for
our club DVD player.

Ze Schedule (pronounced shed-yuule)
5:00 Maison Ikkoku #30 - Kyoko-san getting married? Tearful Godai-kun
moving away
5:25 FLCL #4 - Haruka goes crazy... err... nevermind

10 minute break - What's this? We actually got episode numbers and title
for Maison Ikkoku?

6:00 Slayers #10 - JACKPOT! The Great Life or Death Gamble!
6:25 Fushigi Yuugi #10 - Captured Girl

10 minute break - Miaka's heart is still in pain... Lina just deals out
pain.

7:00 Kodocha #31 - Sana goes crazy... err... nevermind
7:25 Kenshin #62 - Kyoto Engraved Memory. Starting with Unfulfilled
Feelings.

10 minute break - Fukukaichou note: ERK... must read more Kenshin manga...

8:00 Lodoss TV #11 - Spark goes... sorry. We have sacked the persons
responsible for sacking the err... nevermind.
8:25 Magic Knight Rayearth #8 - The Terrifying Trap of Summoner Ascot

10 Minute Break - We apologize for the sacking. Due to budget constraints
we will now revert to our normal credits:

9:00 Cowboy Bebop #11 - Toys in the Attic
Music by Llama Kanno
9:25 Utena #31 - Her Tragedy
Lead actor: Revolutionary Llama Utena
Llama's Wardrobe: Touga "Llama" Gucci
Llama trainer: Sandoraaaaaaaaaaa
Llama petting zoo: Asapin (KareKano reference)

Matt Sez: For all of you wanting even more stuff to suck your time, I
highly suggest reading http://www.megatokyo.com. It is a Tri-weekly
online comic done in Anime style, darn good fanart too.

Shameless Website Plug (you know you missed it):
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub.

This has been a Fuku/Matt Production, apologies to any copyrights we
may have infringed upon, or any persons we may have injured due to
laughing.

Mata Mite Ne
Matt to Fuku-san
</pre>

===MNA - Manga Meeting Tonight!===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Tue Jan 16 15:04:47 2001)
Konichiwa Minna-san,

Sorry about the late message on the meeting, but...There will be a meeting
tonight.

Where: 14-250 (we may be in a different room, if so there'll be a note on
the door)
When: Tonight, 7-10PM
What: Katakana lessons (starting over) and plenty of stuff to read and
folks to work with.
Bring: Pencil, paper, manga, yourself, clothing, uhh sorry I got a little
carried away there.

Anyways, looking forward to seeing you all tonight.

Saraba,

Dylan Hall
Fukukaichou
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===Minna no Manga - Room Change===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Tue Jan 16 15:44:59 2001)
Quick note:

We've had our Manga room changed to:

14-246

No change in Minna no Anime room.

Ijou desu konkai nara,

Dylan Hall
Fukukaichou
</pre>

===MNA Meeting 1/20===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jan 18 22:18:19 2001)
First the news:
T-shirts - Preorders this week. The price will be $14 for non-members,
and $13 for members. Don't say being a member never had any perks.

DVD Player Donations - We are still accepting donations for the MNADVDP.
We are looking at getting the Pioneer DV-333. Help the club move forward
technologically, and help yourself too.

Ye Olde Schedule:
5:00 Maison Ikkoku #30 - Kyoko-san getting married? Tearful Godai-kun
moving away
5:25 FLCL #5 - Bura Bure

10 Minute Break - Maybe this week we'll get ep numbers straightened out.

6:00 Slayers #12 - LOVELY! Amelia's Magic Training!
6:25 Fushigi Yuugi #10 - Captured Girl

10 Minute Break - PACIFIST PUNCH! <thump> KINDNESS TO ALL CREATUES KICK!
<crunch> ... it's all about Phil-san.

7:00 Kodocha #32 - Father! You Were Arrested!
7:25 Kenshin #63 - Legend of the Wishing Fireflies. The Girl who Waits
for Her Swordmaster.

10 Minute Break - Last new Kodocha ep for quite a while... <sniff sniff>

8:00 Lodoss TV #12 - Sallying Forth... Pursuing a dark Shadow
8:25 Magic Knight Rayearth #9 - The Magic Knights' Greatest Crisis

10 Minute Break - Ascot's new monster of the week is a mutant
plant-thingie that imbeds itself in a human host and grows tentacles to
attack... err... wrong script.

9:00 Cowboy Bebop #12 - Jupiter Jazz (Part 1)
9:25 Utena #32 - The Romance of the Dancing Girls

Go home - and PLEASE, don't riot after the Bebop ep. It'll only be a
week... <shudder>

Yet another nifty website plug: http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
You know you love it.

Adios Space Cowboys,
Matt to Fuku-san
</pre>

===MNM - Meeting Tuesday 1/23===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Mon Jan 22 10:53:54 2001)
Konnichiwa minna-san,

This weeks delectible diet includes a modest serving of Minna no Manga
followed by gourging proportions of Minna no Anime.

We will actually be restarting our work on Katakana (The Japanese alphabet
used to write forign (which are mostly American) words). Ben-sensei will
be there as his health has been improving over the last week.

Other than that, bring all your translations, new manga and other fun
stuff that has lots of kanji in it (we can always do more fan translations
of "panty high school").

When: Tuesday, 7-10pm
Where: bldg 14-246
What: MNM, bring pen/cil, paper, books

We also often have a couple of people from Japanese class there, so if you
want someone to work with you on class work they'll be there.

Ja ne,

Dylan Hall
Fukukaichou (VP)
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA Meeting 1/27===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jan 25 19:43:55 2001)
We will continue to take pre-orders on T-shirts, $13 for members, $14 for
non-members. We will also continue to collect money for the MNADVDP,
(Minna DVD player) in our Stylin' bin, thanks to Fuku-san and his R2
fetish. We are nearing our goal but still need more. Thanks to everyone
who has donated money, we appreciate all you have done.

Schedule

5:00 Maison Ikkoku #31 - Ikkoku-kan scandal. Godai-kun living with a
woman?
5:25 Lupin III TV #1 - The first of many!!! (shown in homage to FLCL from
last week)

10 Minute Break - This Lupin III is from 1973, which makes it just about
the oldest thing we've shown in club. So it's not Gundam, but it's damn
cool too, and at least there are car and guns if no Gundams.

6:00 Slayers #13 - MONEY! Crush Those Bounty Hunters!
6:25 Fushigi Yuugi #11 - Seiryuu no Miko

10 Minute Break - Boku no Jinchuu mamotte (Editor's note: Bad Fuku pun...
bad fuku, sit in a corner, no cookie <with apologies to Martin Woodard>)

7:00 Please Save My Earth #1
7:25 Kenshin #64 - Prince Yahiko born? Debut on High Society.

10 Minute Break - Didn't I see a Dork Tower dealing with this kind of
stuff?

8:00 Lodoss TV #13 - Nightmare... The Creeping Dark Power
8:25 Magic Knight Rayearth #10 - The Revival of Selece, the Legendary
Mashin

10 Minute Break - Hermaphrodites and gunshots and grenades oh my...

9:00 Cowboy Bebop #13 - Jupiter Jazz (Part 2)
9:25 Utena #33 - The Prince Who Runs Through the Night

Fuku says: Only 6 eps of Utena left after this... (tears)
Also, big Minna no Manga announcement for those who weren't at the meeting
on Tuesady (shame on you).

http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNM - Meeting 1/30===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Mon Jan 29 18:52:50 2001)
Konbanwa Minna-san,

Tomorrows meeting content: null
Entertainment value: great
Educational value: glorious!

Yes it's time for another meeting of Minna no Manga, where we all get our
weekly dose of kanji (hopefully with furigana). If anyone needs help
reading or writing I'll do my best or send you to someone who can help
you.

Meeting location: 14-246
date/time: Tuesday, 7pm

Also note that this weekend MNA will be moved into 3-112 (the room we were
in last week). Yes, yes we know you don't like having to move, but
neither do we. I really don't like having to go to the small big screen,
but it's better than nothing, honestly.

Saraba,

Dylan Hall
Fukukaichou (VP)
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA Meeting 2/3===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Feb 1 23:37:51 2001)
Thank you all for tolerating the schedule changes last week... and
hopefully thank you in advance for tolerating the ones for this week.
Yes, you heard me right, we are not going to be in our usual spot, so for
those of you who need to get your weekly anime fix, we will be in 03-112,
same room as last week after the move.

On a happier note, thank you to all of you who contributed to the MNADVD
fund, the 2 of you know who you are... j/k. But seriously, thank you.
We nearly had enough through donations alone to buy the player, and the
order is being made as we speak. Soon we shall be watching all our great
shows (yeah yeah, we are allowed to toot our horns once in a while) on our
new MNADVD Player. Future generations of rabid otaku will thank you as
well.

On a final note, this week is the last week for t-shirt preorders. Bring
cash or plastic. Yes we take plastic, we keep it until you pay us cash.

And now on to your weekly fix:
5:00 Maison Ikkoku #32 - Egg is mystery. Yotsuya's dangerous gift
5:25 Lupin III second season ep #1... jump around, jump around, jump up
jump up and get... oh whatever.

10 Minute Break - Now we get to see the red jacket from the '78 series as
opposed to the green from the '73. The origin of drastic character
changes between seasons.

6:00 Slayers #14 - NAVIGATION! Invitation to Sairaag!
6:25 Fushigi Yuugi #12 - I Only Have You

10 Minute Break - Imagine: Miaka with the ability to Dragon-slave...
kowai

7:00 Please Save My Earth #2
7:25 Kenshin #65 - Find Out Missing Treasure! Great Treasure Hunting Dog,
Notaro!

10 Minute Break - Please save my Kenshin... please... anyone?

8:00 Lodoss TV #14 - Doorway...The Truth Proclaimed
8:25 Magic Knight Rayearth #11 - The Mashin Legend of Cephiro, Another
World

10 Minute Break - Who will win this week in the "who tops who" hour: Utena
vs. Bebop. Last week was too close to call, any bets on
this week?

9:00 Cowboy Bebop #14 - Bohemian Rhapsody
9:25 Utena #34 - The Rose Signet

Utena Countdown: 5 eps remaining

Ye Olde Website: http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

Ja ne
Matt to Fuku-san
</pre>

===MNM - Meeting 2/06===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Sun Feb 4 23:17:39 2001)
"Shiawase yori kanashimi" tte totemo ii kotoba desu ne

I hope that has some resemblance to actual Japanese. If you don't think
it's correct or you want to know what I wrote come to Minna no Manga this
Tuesday. We always have plenty of manga and help for anyone wanting to
learn Japanese or just look at pretty pictures.

What: Minna no Manga - your weekly impromptu bonus session
When: Tuesday 7-10pm
Where: 14-246 (Comp Sci bldg)

Hope to see you all there!

Saraba,
Dylan Hall
Fukukaichou (VP)
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===Japan Trip SOS===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Feb 8 17:51:15 2001)
"And now that I have your attention...
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!"

-Labrat

I don't think that I could have said it any better myself. As you all
probably know, I, your Minna no Anime president, am planing on taking a
trip to Japan this spring quarter. Well, unfortunately, we found out this
morning that we just don't have enough people to go yet.

So I'm desperately trying to contact everybody I know and get them to come
along with me. The deadline for my mission is very soon. We need to sign
up two or three more people to make the program work.

What are we going to do on this trip? How much does it cost? How long is
it?

Well... I'm glad that you asked these questions. I spent a couple hours
this afternoon compiling all that information into a Word document which I
converted to HTML and stuck on a web site that I've never done anything
with before. I was planning on making it my on-line Japanese Trip
Journal, but if I can't go, I can't do that!

Anyways, the answer to most of your questions should be at this site plus
a list of all the really cool stuff we're going to be doing:

http://www.piyo-piyo.org/

It may seem a little expensive, but this is a once in a lifetime
opportunity. The professors going with us have tried very diligently to
get us the best deal, and there's no way that you could do as much stuff
as we're planning on doing for so little.

Don't worry about your lack of experience with Japanese. All of the
classes will be taught by Cal Poly professors in English, and the rest you
can pick up as you go. ^_^

Please, think deeply and hard, and most importantly fast! If you need to,
call your parents tonight, and try and arrange your finances. Remember,
you can get your financial aide reevaluated for this trip to help you
along.

There are several people from Minna no Anime going, so you will have lots
of friends there to share the glory that will be this trip to Japan.

One more benefit to coming on this trip: I will be your best friend for
life (that's right, life!), and owe you a million favors! (See how
desperate I am?) I've been looking forward to this trip for some time now
and will go into a serious depression next quarter if I can't go. ;_;

If you have any more questions, call or email me. The numbers are on the
web site.

So, for my sake, Tony's sake, Labrat's sake, Tim's sake, and for the sake
of the very stability of Minna no Anime (I cannot be held responsible for
my actions if I am not allowed to go) come join us on a trip and adventure
in Japan this Spring quarter!

Ben Leinweber
MNA Kaichou - MNA President
</pre>

===MNA - Meeting 2/10===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Feb 8 19:08:54 2001)
The "Fuku" edition of the MNA letter:
Konbanwa Minna-san,

What a concept, no new news except for the fact that we are having a
giveaway before the Kenshin movie. Lotsa good stuff, a week you don't
want to miss. Don't say we never give you anything.

And now, for those it pleases, we proudly present:
Schedule, the weekly email

5:00 Maison Ikkoku #34 - Be pushy for love! Grandma Yukari with gold teeth
5:25 Now and Then, Here and There #1

Break - After a few weeks of old school Lupin we go to a cool new show
from the director of Kodocha (although this show is very different from
Kodocha).

6:00 Fushigi Yuugi #13 - For the Sake of Love
6:25 MK Rayearth #12 - Fearsome Illusionist Caldina

Break - Ashram vs. Akio: which one wins the title of 'most suave bad guy'

7:00 Lodoss War TV #15 - An Old Enemy... Reunion With the Black Knight
7:25 Shoujo Kakumei Utena #35 - The Love that Budded in Wintertime

Break - Finally the Kenshin movie! Unfortunately this is the last
appearance Saitou makes in animated Kenshin (except for the OVA's). I
know, I know; it's just not fair to leave you like that, but it's not my
fault, honestly.

8:00 Rurouni Kenshin Movie: Ishin Shishi e no Requiem (Requiem for the
Ishin Shishi)

Will we have more technical difficulties this week?
Will we watch an ADV dub of Kenshin?
Will Yotsuya give Godai another gift?
Will we only have the silo of part of the night again?
Will 'Welcome to Lodoss Island' present some great philosophical
commentary on the meaning of life?

I hope none of those things happen.

We're really sorry about all the problems we've been having the last
couple of weeks. We appreciate all your cooperation in moving things back
and forth and not complaining about the small screen and bad sound system.
We're try to keep things in the club as professional as possible, but we
have slipups sometimes too.

Fuku to Matt-kun

Almost forgot... the weekly website plug:
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub, bet you thought we would forget.
</pre>

===MNA - Library/MNM Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Sun Feb 11 22:56:05 2001)
Konbanwa,

Today's edition is a super-special dual part message.

Part 1: State of the Librarian Address

Our librarian, Paul, will be gone this weekend (as I imagine many of you
will be as well). But that will not stop the free exchange of tapes. So
if there are any tapes you want for next week email him at:
freeknight@<removed for spam reasons>
and he'll make sure the tapes get to club this weekend.

Part 2: State of the Minna no Manga

Time: Tuesday, 7pm
Location: 14-246
Activity: Manga translation, sharing, language assistance, what ever else
piques your interest

I'll leave you alone with those tasty morsels to digest. This weeks Minna
no Anime will be back to the regular schedule. Only four episodes of
Utena left (sheds tear).

Mata mite ne,
Dylan Hall
Fukukaichou (VP)
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA Meeting 2/17===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Feb 15 16:34:24 2001)
Thanks to all your donations, this will likely be the last week on the
Apex DVD player. We should be moving to the shiny new MNADVD player. I
see technical difficulties on the horizon...

If you missed it last week, we announced that during the last 6 weeks of
spring quarter, we will be showing 2 eps of Trigun in the 5:00 slot. This
gives all of you a perfect excuse to skip studying for finals to see
"Deep Space Planet Future Gun Action." (with apologies to Nightow and the
publishers bad Engrish)

Schedule
5:00 Maison Ikkoku #34 - Be pushy for love! Grandma Yukari with gold teeth
5:25 Here and There, Now and Then #2

10 Minute Break - or is it Now and Then, Here and There, or Now and There,
Here and Then, or... ow... my head hurts.

6:00 Slayers #15 - OH NO! Lina's Wedding Rhapsody!
6:25 Fushigi Yuugi #14 - Wolves in the Stronghold

10 Minute Break - Yay everybody, you get to meet Mina Innerz and see her
in a wedding gown... should I be frightened yet?

7:00 Please Save My Earth #3
7:25 Kenshin #66 - Happy Kaoru! Kenshin's Proposal!

10 Minute Break - The dreaded/anticipated ring ep of Kenshin. Will he
give up his sword for vows? Will evil triumph over good? Or will Kenshin
just say "oro?"

8:00 Lodoss TV #16 - The Holy City. Pursuing a Clue
8:25 MK Rayearth #13 - The Most Valuable Thing in This World

10 Minute Break - Happy Deedlit! Parn's Proposal! (in her dreams...)

9:00 Cowboy Bebop #15 - My Funny Valentine
9:25 Utena #36 - And the Doors of Night Open

End - How many similarities can YOU find between Touga and Char?

Da Website: http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
You know you want to go there... read the stuff... mmm... anime
website.

Enjoy,
Matt to Fuku-san
</pre>

===MNM - Meeting 2/20===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Mon Feb 19 18:48:05 2001)
Konbanwa Minna-san,

I hope you've been reading your manga over the long weekend (I know I
have) because it's time for another meeting of Minna no Manga.

This week's activities, more manga, more "now in English" and Nic comes
back with some manga for all of us (hopefully). Confused? Amused?
Inticed? Perturbed? Then come join in the fun and look at pretty pictures
and borrow manga from the library (I know you all want to read Kenshin).

Location: 14-246
Time: Tuesday, 7PM
Cost: Free!
Sanitary: Yes!
Entertaining: hopefully! (last week certainly was)

Mata mite ne,

Dylan Hall
Fukukaichou (VP)
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA Meeting 2/24===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Feb 22 20:37:22 2001)
We get shiny happy new MNA official DVD player this week! Rejoice!
Celebrate! Soshite Shine!

"You cannot escape long desk" - Geese Howard

And now, without further ado... the boring stuff:
5:00 Maison Ikkoku #35 - Operation chase! After Kyoko and Godai's date
5:25 Here and There, Now and Then #3 - For this week's feat, our intrepid
hero will stand on the top of the Space Needle...

10 Minute Break - I dunno which is worse, Lina getting married, or Gourry
trying to play a role in a Stage Show... gau.

6:00 Slayers #16 - PASSION! Shall We Give Our Lives for the Stage?
6:25 Fushigi Yuugi #15 - Return from the City of Death

10 Minute Break - Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu Filler Ep End Slice

7:00 Please Save My Earth #4
7:25 Kenshin #67 - Shining Legendary Sword! Mysterious Swordmaster Amakusa
Shougo!

10 Minute Break - Eto, ano... Etoh-oo?

8:00 Lodoss TV #17 - Decision... An Option Compelled
8:25 Magic Knight Rayearth #14 - Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu's Unyielding Wish

10 Minute Break - Now you all remember what Jet said, everyone except old
men leave now... we cannot be responsible for what happens to anyone else
if you choose to stay.

9:00 Cowboy Bebop #16 - Black Dog Serenade
9:25 Utena #37 - The One to Revolutionize the World
(Countdown until Fuku dies from lack of Utena: 2 eps and a movie, we will
be collecting donations for his funeral, and yes, we will have the nifty
donation box back)

Weekly Webpage plug:
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

See you Saturday,
Matt to Fuku
</pre>

===MNM - Meeting 2/27===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Mon Feb 26 07:56:57 2001)
Ohayo Minna-san!

Waiting for your weekly dose of bizzare Japanese TV, the latest video game
info, some translation assistance and something to do on Tuesday night?
Then look no further because Minna no Manga is here! Maybe this week
we'll see more kids trying to sneak in and see thier favorite celebrities?
Perhaps Matt and Nic will talk about video games? Maybe Dylan and Nur will
torment themselves discussing Region 2 DVDs? Maybe Shane will more
Kenshin read? Maybe Gina will have more doujinshi? Only one way to find
out...

When: Tuesday, 7pm
Where: 14-246
Why: Because it's more fun than studying!

Saraba,

Dylan Hall
Fukukaichou (VP)
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Important Fanime Con News===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Wed Feb 28 19:39:06 2001)
Minna,

The good news is that we're fairly confident that the only reason that the
Fanime con people haven't gotten back to us is that they're completely
backlogged. For those of you who signed up for Fanime con through us, you
should be fine.

Now, as for rides and places to crash. Here's what we've got so far:
Crashing:
Craig's: Dylan, Lee, Shane, Timmy(cohen), Labrat
Gina's: Josh(cohen)
Chris's Bro: Chris, Cliff, Ben
Don't Know: Tim(b), Tony, Ray, Nik, Bill, Mike - We're thinking(if you're
willing) Holiday Inn 2 rooms, you pay your share)

Rides(to):
Santa Cruz Crew: Dylan, Mike
>From SLO:
Cliff: Ben, Bill, Nik
Chris: Labrat, Tim(b)
Timmy(cohen): Josh, Shane, Sean

People who we've listed as providing something, please contact me ASAP if
you have a problem with something.

People who are getting something provided to them, if you have a problem,
contact me ASAP also, if it's nothing big, it can wait till Saturday.

Me is Gina, your treasurer: celcenter@<removed for spam reasons>

If your name isn't listed here and you need something, you NEED to show up
to the meeting Saturday and PAY ATTENTION to ALL announcements.

If you have no changes to the above info, you don't need to contact me
till Saturday. BUT you do need to talk to me Saturday to verify and meet
these people.

GOT IT!?!?

Gina "oukami-kun" D.
MNA money-grubber
</pre>

===MNA Meeting 3/3===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Fri Mar 2 00:25:40 2001)
Well, whaddaya know, no new news. Lotsta stuff is in progress, but for
now, all you need to know is that you should come saturday if you haven't
been lately, and if you have... good for you. Without further ado:

The "Not a single All Your Base Joke Edition" MNA schedule... why?
because we care, and figure you all are sick of it already.

5:00 Maison Ikkoku #36 - Sudden storm of kiss! Story of broken hearted
Akemi-san
5:25 Earth Girl Arjuna #1 - Digital Fansub!

10 Minute Break - We are trying new stuff here at MNA, to be able to show
digital fansubs on the bigscreen... Knowing Fuku-san's track record for
getting stuff to work though... (THWACK! <sound of Fuku smacking Matt
with interdimensional Baka Hammer>)

6:00 Slayers #17 - QUESTION! He's Proposing to THAT Girl?!
6:25 Fushigi Yuugi #16 - Sad Battle

10 Minute Break - Gay Sea Serpents and Crossdressing and Lili, Lulu, and
Lala... oh my... god.

7:00 Please Save My Earth #5
7:25 Kenshin #67 - A Medallion of Destiny. Sayo and Sano Meet.

10 Minute Break - Maybe this week we'll get to see the intro of Kenshin
instead of seeing the tape fast forwarding and rewinding for 5 minutes...

8:00 Lodoss TV #18
8:25 Magic Knight Rayearth #15 - The Second Mashin: Windam, Lord of the
Skies

10 Minute Break - Warning: We are not responsible for anyone laughing
themselves until they hurt from the next episode of Bebop.

9:00 Cowboy Bebop #17 - Mushroom Samba
9:25 Utena #38 - The Ends of the World

Note: We will be holding an impromptu session after MNA to decide what to
do with Fuku-san's extensive Region 2 collection after he shrivels and
dies from Utena ending next week. So far Gina has claim on...

http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

Be there on saturday, or don't... but we'd rather you be there.
-Matt
</pre>

===MNM - Meeting 3/6===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Sun Mar 4 23:55:05 2001)
Konnanichiwa!

It's time for Fuku's weekly rant and rave, also known as the Minna no
Manga newsletter! This week;s rant: Why is it that I can't easily output
my Utena movie DVD with subtitles? This week's rave: Maison Ikkoku
manga, I love it! My favorite work by Rumiko Takahashi (Ranma, Urusei
Yatsura, Inu Yasha). The anime takes quite a few liberties from the
manga, but keeps everything going well, it presents stories that were
never in the manga and gives a different perspective on many of the manga
stories. Plus I love Yotsuya's voice actor. You should all come at 5 to
watch it, or ask me and borrow my manga.

Now to the official business:

What: Minna no Manga
When: Tuesday, 7pm
Why: Because we love the show "What a cool we are!" and discussing Kenshin
manga

Saraba,

Dylan Hall
Fukukaichou(VP)
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

PS - to the MNM regulars; I probably won't make it till late this week, so
have fun without me
</pre>

===MNA Meeting 3/10===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Fri Mar 9 01:04:29 2001)
Fuku says- (and I quote) "I have now 3 DVD players in my room, 2 of which
are region free, I am better than you all."
Fuku-san is also not going to be getting sleep due to his procurement of a
Playstation 2 and Tekken Tag.

What this all means to you dear and gentle readers: 1) Sears had a couple
of playstation 2's left after we got ours this evening, so if you want one
and rush, it can be yours for retail price, not ebay markup.
2)If you show up at Fuku-san's room at any time of the day or night, you
will be able to play Tekken Tag. (PAAAAARTY AT FUKU'S!)

This Week's Lineup:

5:00 Maison Ikkoku #10 - Dangerous costume party! Kyoko's radical change
5:25 Infinite Ryvius #1 - Sucks to your spaceship-mar...

10 Minute Break - Yet another new show this week, hope you like

6:00 Slayers #18 - RETURN! The Red Priest is Back!
6:25 Fushigi Yuugi #17 - The Melody of a Meeting

10 Minute Break - No tentacle monsters or cross dressing this week
folks... hopefully

7:00 Please Save My Earth #6
7:25 Kenshin #69 - The Place of the Battle, Shimabara! Judgement Day of
Who is The Chosen!

10 Minute Break - End of Please Save My Earth this week folks, hope you
enjoyed

8:00 Lodoss TV #19
8:25 Magic Knight Rayearth #16 - A Powerful Foe! Lafarga the Swordmaster

10 Minute Break - Will Neece meet Nephew? Will Big Mama meet Dota (or
Daughter depending on who you ask)? SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!

9:00 Cowboy Bebop #18 - Speak Like a Child
9:35 Utena #39 - Someday Shine Together

Yes that was the final episode, and unlike Gekiganger, it didn't move to a
different timeslot and continue for another season unbeknownst to you
(with apologies to Akito). I will be bringing a shovel with me and those
of us who remain living without more Utena to watch can hold an all night
(or at least what remains of it) vigil in memory of those who couldn't.
BTW, Gina (MNA munnygrubber) says she has dibs on Fuku's Import stuff. =)

-Out
Matt

http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - AX01 / MNM===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Mon Mar 12 10:08:24 2001)
Zenryaku Minna-san,

First of all, the AX01 info. After careful consideration by myself and
Ben we decided that the club will NOT be doing any kind of assistance for
Anime Expo 2001. This does not mean that you can't talk and work out
arrangements for it during club, just that there will be no official club
assistance in getting tickets, rides or housing. Sorry for any
inconvenience caused by this.

And now for something completely different...

Minna no Manga - last meeting of the quarter!

We can (hopefully) get our fix of "What a cool we are!"

When: Tuesday 7PM
Where: 14-246
Why: because we don't like studying when there's manga to be read!

Saraba,

Dylan Hall
Fukukaichou (VP)
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Tsurugi's / Open House===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Mon Mar 12 19:26:49 2001)
Konbanwa Minna-san,

It's time for the second two-part newsletter of the day. This time the
subjects are this Saturday's trip to Tsurugi's and Open House.

Tsurugi's - due to technical difficulties, we lost the sheet of people who
signed up to go this Saturday at noon to Tsurugi's. Please reply to this
message ASAP if you want to go this Saturday. Again the information is:

When: Saturday, March 17 - Noon (it's best to get there a little early)
Where: Tsurugi's Japanese Restaurant, 570 Higuera. (Right next to
Tortilla Flats)
Cost: lunch will run between $10 - $20 depending on what you get, it's all
great food with excellent atmosphere and presentation.
Why: to have a break before finals with your friends at Minna no Anime,
and to eat delicious foods.

Open House:

Open House is right around the corner - Saturday April 21.

We will have the same booth that we had last year (hopefully in a similar
location) and will be running things in approximately the same way as we
did last year. Additionally we should have a second booth space for more
informational/educational club activities. We will also be trying to sell
California Rolls this year. What's this all mean?

It means that we need volunteers! Yes, you too can help out your fellow
otaku and, hopefully, have some fun while doing it. We will be selling
our traditional Yakitori (BBQ'd Teriyaki chicken), club tshirts and
California rolls. This means that we need people to help us prepare all
these foods.

Thankfully, the very nice people over at Tsurugi's will allow us to
infiltrate their professional kitchen and show us how to make California
rolls the correct way. They will also be providing us with our Teriyaki
sauce.

So if you would like to help out we need people who want to learn how to
make (and eat) California rolls. We will need you on the following dates
(note that these dates are approximate for now):

April 7 - training session at Tsurugi's to make California rolls
April 19(or 20) - late night prepare the rolls at Tsurugi's to sell at
Open House

We would not specifically require that you come to Open House, but you
might as well enjoy in the fun if you've already put in the hard work.

We will also need as many people as are willing to come and help us at the
booth on Saturday, April 21. This includes people to make rice, prepare
and BBQ chicken and other activities. You don't need to stay all day, it
will be helpful even if you can only help for a few hours.

So, if you want to help with either (or both) of those events, or want to
see if there's something else you can do to take up your time please reply
to this message. Just say what you can do help and it will be
appreciated.

Well, I think I'm done annoying everyone for today.

Back to your regularly scheduled studying and manga reading.

Saraba,
Dylan Hall
Fukukaichou (VP)
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA Meeting 3/17===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Mar 15 19:23:26 2001)
Tsurugi's - Reminder to those who said they wanted to eat delicious foods
without Lina, be sure to be at Tsurugi's (570 Higuera) a little before
noon on Saturday.

Otherwise, just come to watch the anime. Finals? What are those? You
don't need to study, you just need to watch anime. =)

Schedule du jour:

5:00 Maison Ikkoku #38 - Godai-kun's lost love? Kozue approaching Mitaka?
5:25 Vandread #1 - If technical difficulties persist, we'll show Turn "A"
Gundam #2... pray.

10 Minute Break - Is Kozue turning to Mitaka's overwhelming smile, or is
Godai just doing something stupid again? Only time will tell.

6:00 Slayers #19 - SHOCK! Sairaag Falls
6:25 Fushigi Yuugi #18 - A Love Trap

10 Minute Break - We're going to hold a poll at this break: Who do you
think the most suave character Koyasu Takehito has played is? (Fuku picks
Touga, Matt counters with Hanagata...)

7:00 Lodoss TV #20 - Counterattack... The Stolen Last Hope
7:25 Kenshin #70 - Impact of Rai Ryuu Sen! Kenshin is Sentenced to the
Dark!

10 Minute Break - Come see Fuku's new haircut thanks to SPE/Sony Visual
deciding not to continue Kenshin through the Revenge Arc and Utena
ending... it's almost gone...

8:00 Utena Movie - Adolescence Mokushiroku (Adolescence of Utena)

Note: This will be our first attempt at live subtitling (via Fuku's
computer - heh heh... Fuku and technology... heh) from a import DVD
(higher quality does not even come close to describing the difference).
So please bear with us, we hope the final result will be worth our
efforts.

We'll probably also have some music videos on during breaks, so stick
around for the bonus material.

That is all,
Matt to Fuku-san

http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

PS - Sailor Fuku says: "Baka baka" (I've been watching too much Nadesico
lately)
</pre>

===MNA - Fanime Taihen!!===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Sat Mar 24 02:10:02 2001)
To everyone attending Fanime:

Anyone wanting contact with the Minna group - for social, housing, rides
and other coordination efforts, we will be meeting at:

Friday
2:00 PM
DDR 4th Mix room (currently scheduled as the "Rutherford" room)

This will be the only time we will try and get everyone together, so be
there if you need to contact someone (or need to be contacted ^_^).

If you don't show up, in the name of the moon, I shall punish you (that's
what I get for watching a 6 hour marathon of Sailor Moon, shame on me (and
Ben)).

Be sure to wear your Minna club shirts at the con!

Hope to see you all there!

Abayo,

Dylan "Fuku"
Ben "Kaichou"
Tony "The Golden Tiger"
</pre>

== Spring 2001 ==
===MNA - Manga Tomorrow!===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Mon Apr 2 13:22:23 2001)
Konichiwa Minna-san,

I hope everyone had a great spring break and is ready for another quarter
of Saturday nights in the silo... oh yeah, and there's that 'school' thing
too.

I was surprised at the number of MNA people who came to Fanime, and the
large number of those who also wore shirts. I counted about 25 folks who
who were associated with the club there.

I hope everyone who couldn't make it to Fanime gets down to LA for Anime
Expo this summer. The web page is: http://www.anime-expo.org/. We will
not be doing any kind of group arrangement for tickets, housing or rides.
But we may try to have some kind of meeting like we did at Fanime.

Now to business.

Open House is coming up really soon - April 21. We will have more info
really soon. We will need help that Friday (booth setup) and Saturday
(booth operation, food preparation). Anyone who wants to help out for any
period of time on Saturday is more than welcome and will be greatly
appreciated. Once again, more info will be coming very soon.

Minna no Manga

When: Tuesday 7PM
Where: (another room change, same building) 14-253 (it will be the same
room for the whole quarter)
Why: to get all the latest info from Fanime, read manga, work on any
project(s) related to club, talk about club stuff and socialize.

Saraba,

Dylan Hall
Fukukaichou (VP)
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

"Did you ever notice they call us 'fanboys' and not 'fanmen'?"
</pre>

===MNA Meeting 4/7===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Apr 5 19:11:29 2001)
Konbanwa minna san. Last week before break marked the end of two series.
We finished both Please Save My Earth and Utena, and are doing something
ambitious. We are attempting to finish a 15 Ep series (including two 1.5
hour eps...) in a single quarter! This week we start Key the Metal Idol,
and we will finish before the quarter is over.

We will also be starting Trigun in 4 weeks. I am personally VERY excited
by this, and I hope it gives you all an excuse to come early. As was
stated before in club, we will be showing the first half before regular
hours, and starting next year with the recap episode.

Open House information should be surfacing this week, so we will be sure
to interrupt your 10 minute breaks with boring officer stuff. =)
(Fuku Says: it is not boring, we need your help, and you get to make
Sushi and Yakitori)

Without further ado - Ze Schedule

5:00 Maison Ikkoku #40
5:30 FLCL #6

10 Minute break - Thank you Nur, Thank you Nur, Thank you Nur, Thank you
Nur...

6:00 Magic Knight Rayearth #17 - The Truth About Inouva and the Return of
Memories
6:30 Slayers #20 - TROUBLE! Rahanimu, the Furious Fish Man!

10 Minute break - And maybe this time Fish-boy won't be eaten...

7:00 Fushigi Yuugi #19 - Breaking Down Love
7:30 Lodoss War #21 - A Vow... A Step Towards the Future

10 Minute break - Fushigi Yuugi: Sex, Drugs, maybe no Alcohol but lots of
Tea...

8:00 Rurouni Kenshin #71 - Kaioh's Conspiracy! Shougo Trapped
8:30 Cowboy Bebop #19 - Wild Horses

10 Minute break - At least we aren't trying to show you Maison Ikkoku on
Beta... though getting to delve into ruins to find one would be cool. We
could sing the Aestivalis Marching Song... (Fuku promised to make me one)

9:00 Key The Metal Idol #1 - Start Up
9:30 Key The Metal Idol #2 - Cursor I

Key's a cool show... and stuff (that was Fuku's highly technical intro to
the show ^_^)

<Rant> Oh, I almost forgot to say "Damn you SPE for not animating the end
of Kenshin correctly!!!". </Rant> (Nik, please disregard the previous
comment)

Mata ne,
Matt to Fuku-chan
</pre>

===MNA - Manga Tuesday / Open House===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Mon Apr 9 15:49:23 2001)
Konichiwa Minnasan,

I hope your second week of classes are going well and that you're all
waiting for the next installments of Minna no Anime and Minna no Manga.

Once again we'll have another fun and possibly educational meeting of
Minna no Manga this Tuesday.

When: Tuesdays 7PM
Where: 14-253
Why: Because one night a week watching and talking about anime/manga isn't
enough!

Also, an open house reminder:

When: Saturday April 21, all day - also note that there will be no MNA
meeting that Saturday night, so get all make sure to stop by and help your
fellow otaku.

Why: Because it's Cal Poly's 100th Anniversary and we want to stand around
all day BBQing and listening to anime music. oh, and make a little money
for the club so that we can start licensing anime series and releasing
them ourselves (that's a joke, I'm not quite that ambitious).

What we need: Mostly YOU! We need people to come and help out the booth
all day (mostly from around ~9 to ~5), of couse any time you can help
will be appreciated. We need people to BBQ, cook rice, provide
information to customers and various other jobs.

We also still need a few items. We're looking for:
1 3x3 card table
1-2 utility tables, they are usually ~3x6ft and have folding legs
1 boombox, battery operated - without this we'll be listening to cowboy
music all day, please save us!

If you have any questions about Open House (or anything) just email me:
dhall@<removed for spam reasons>

You may now return to your regularly scheduled YF-19 buffing and
polishing.

Saraba,

Dylan Hall
Fukukaichou (VP)
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

<Subliminal Message>
Sieg Zeon!
</Subliminal Message>
</pre>

===MNA Meeting 4/14===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Apr 12 21:23:10 2001)
Reminder: Open House is next weekend - April 21. As a special incentive
to help with our booth, there is no meeting (yes Fuku is evil, blame him).

Schedule:

5:00 Maison Ikkoku #40 - Maybe the VCR will work this week, or we once
again be forced to watch clips of R2 DVD's cut off at the most annoying
point? I, Fuku, accept full responsibility for last weeks cutting off of
Kenshin movie in middle of the battle MWA HA HA HA (diabolical laughter)
5:25 Zeta Gundam #1 - The Black Gundam

10 Minute Break - Will Godai ever get a spine? Will Yotsuya ever stop
mooching? Will Mitaka ever stop smiling <glint>? Will Kyoko get a clue?
All this and a boy named Camille.

6:00 MK Rayearth #18 - The Last Rune-God Rayearth, Lord of Fire
6:25 Slayers #21 - UPSET! Gourry vs Zangulus

10 Minute Break - Niwatori! (Fuku sez: what'll it be: Chicken or
Yakitori - which we'll conveniently be selling at Open House on Saturday
April 21)

7:00 Fushigi Yuugi #20 - Unreachable Hope
7:25 Lodoss War #22 - Liberation... A Path Opened

10 Minute Break - Neese! Neeese! Neese! NEEEEEEESE! Geese (you
cannot escape long desk)?!? Police? Fleece? Nanda kore wa?

8:00 Kenshin #72 - Juujikizu wa mada aru ka? (jodan, jodan, boku no warii)
8:25 Cowboy Bebop #20 - Pierrot Le Fou

10 Minute Break - AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA GOOD EVENING GENTLEMEN!

9:00 Key the Metal Idol #3 - Cursor II
9:25 Key the Metal Idol #4 - Access

End... go home ya bums... don't you have lives? =)

Fuku says: I hope you all like finishing off the night with 2 eps of Key,
we will be showing all of Key this quarter, so don't skip out!

Lame Website Plug: http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub ... soon we will
have random Officer Info there... you can find out Dylan's 3
measurements, Gina's Age and Weight... and Raymond's size... =)

Mata ne,
Matt to Fuku

PS - If anyone has a long utility table, a small BBQ or a battery operated
portable stereo (ie boombox) that we can use, they will be forever honored
and enshrined, perhaps even flash frozen for the viewing pleasure of
future generations.

PPS - I (fuku) will be in SLO this summer running a summer session of MNA,
the schedule is pretty open, so if there's something you want to see (even
if you don't have it) tell me and we'll see what we can work out.
</pre>

===MNA - Manga/Open House reminder===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Mon Apr 16 12:28:56 2001)
Greetings and may the force be with you,

Well, if you can't have the force you can at least have anime and manga, a
close second in my book. Which leads me to the point of this message,
this week's meeting of Minna no Manga. You can join us for fun and
discuss the latest developments in anime, manga or anything else you
really want to spend your Tuesday night doing.
When: Tuesday, 7PM
Where: 14-253
Why: because it's there

Reminders:

1. No Minna no Anime meeting this Saturday

2. Open House this Saturday - show up and help out or just buy some food
and hang out. We'll be there from 8AM until around 5PM doing various
activities, anytime you can help out will be appreciated.
We will be located just below the Ag/English building, in the parking lot
loop. It's across Perimeter Road from Campus Market; we'll have wall
scrolls up Saturday and plenty of anime music to listen to.

3. Be sure to drink your Ovaltine... A commercial? A crummy commercial.

4. Elections - 3 weekend from now on May 5. If you have any questions
feel free to ask me (I won't be running for anything, so I wouldn't have
any agenda against anyone ^_^) my email is dhall@<removed for spam reasons>, or ask
any other officer if you ever see them. If you can't attend that meeting
but would still like to run, you can have someone stand in for you.

5. This email - this email is about to be over, I just figured I'd remind
you to return to you patient waiting for the next MNA email.

And as I just said, this letter is about over.

Back to your memorization of all the dueling songs in Utena.

Saraba,
Dylan Hall
Fukukaichou (VP)
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Minna 'NO' Anime / Open House===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Apr 19 12:37:12 2001)
Konichiwa minna-san,

This weeks schedule:

8AM - 5PM - Open House!

It's finally come: my last Open House reminder email.

Which means that Open House must be really soon, probably Saturday.
We'll need people to come by the booth all day to help out, hang out and
buy delicious foods. Since I've already said everything fourteen times to
anyone who reads this email I'll be brief.

What: Open House (rain or shine)

When: Saturday, 8 - 5 (selling 10:30-4:30)

Where: between the Ag bldg and Math/Science bldg in the parking lot loop.
Or (alternate instructions) on the campus side of Perimeter where it
intersects with Campus Market. Or the second parking lot loop towards the
'P' from the library. If you have any direction questions give me a call.

Why: Because I like the smell of my own charred flesh lathered in teriyaki
sauce! And it's a fun excuse to not study on Saturday, and there's no
anime Saturday night so you've got nothing else to do.

How much: Free! except for the food ($3 yakitori sticks w/ rice boat,
$2.50 California rolls, $.50 soda). We will have an info booth with
plenty of fun anime/manga stuff and plenty of anime music all day.

And now it's time for Fuku's Haiku Corner(in case of rain):

doyoubi ame
kokku mizubitashi
sake o nomu

(saturday rain)
(hard work flooded)
(drink alcohol)

We have the tatami room reserved at Tsurugi's at 7PM (sat) for all those
who slave away the day at open house to have someone else prepare food.
So if you help out, join us for the easy part (space may be limited).

Well, I guess that's it. If you think of anything you think we should
have or something you would like to bring, please bring it.

Any questions/comments/threats should be directed to (email preferred and
checked more often):

dhall@<removed for spam reasons>
756-8876

See you all Saturday,

Dylan Hall
Fukukaichou (VP)
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===Minna no Manga Tuesday===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Mon Apr 23 20:55:42 2001)
Konbanwa Minna,

Tomorrow on your second favorite day of the week (second only to pay day)
will be the eternally cool Minna no Manga. It's like the ten minute
breaks during regular club, extended out to three hours. We at Minna no
Manga proudly view the finest in import fighting games, manga, doujinshi
(well, some of it not so proudly) and other non-sensical stuff.

What cool new stuff is coming out?
When will AMOTokyo come back up for order, and what will Nur and Dylan be
ordering?
Will Dylan still be called 'Fuku' even when he's not the 'Fukukaichou'?
(a teaser for club elections in 2 weeks)

All these important questions and more may or may not be answered at the
next meeting of Minna no Manga.

When: Tuesdays 7PM
Where: 14-253
Why: To share the love

As another reminder, we will be having elections in 2 Saturdays (May 5)
from now. The elected positions are: President, Vice President (ooh,
that's me!), Treasurer, Secretary and for the first time: Librarian.
Sounds fun and tempting doesn't it? Just remember, if you're an officer
you too can annoy people with bi-weekly newsletters and other special
reports. We decided to make librarian an elected position because it has
become much more visible and a part of the club than before; so if you
want several hundred tapes, some import magazines and immesurable power at
your fingers run for the position.

All we require for a person to run is that they be a Cal Poly student
(University policy) and have someone state your intention to run during
elections on Saturday, May 5. I, personally, hope that everyone who runs
comes to all the meetings, takes their position seriously for the entirety
of the school year, and loves anime and all things encompassed as much as
I do.

Well, I guess I'll relinquish my stranglehold on Cal Poly's bandwidth for
now.

But I'll be back...

Saraba,
Dylan Hall
Fukukaichou (VP)
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

PS - Sieg Zeon!
</pre>

===MNA - Meeting 4/28===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Apr 26 23:33:36 2001)
First the boring stuff... thank you to everyone who helped with the Open
House booth this year. For those of you who don't know, we sold out of
everything, so this means the club has more money. More money is good. K?

Elections are coming up soon. If you want to run, let us know, if you
don't, shame on you.

This is the last week of Maison Ikkoku and the Fansub 'o, next week we
start Trigun (YATTA YATTA!!!!) You WILL be there. ^_^ Nyau -Kuronekosama

Otherwise, we understand that you need your anime fix and couldn't get it
last week, so without further ado: (well, you can at least look at the
schedule and drool like the otaku we all are until saturday at least)

Schedule:

5:00 - Maison Ikkoku #41 - The last episode of the year!
5:30 - Black Heaven #1 - Boston, you rock!

10 minute break - Come on, you can't tell me that an anime that revolves
around a 40 year old washed up ex-rocker working a desk job trying to save
the universe as we know it isn't funny.

6:00 - Rayearth #19 - Showdown! The Magic Knights versus Zagato
6:30 - Slayers #22 - VICE! The one who was left behind

10 minute break - Last week's menu: Fried Fish, this weeks' menu: Fried
Chicken... don't ask.

7:00 - Fushigi Yuugi #21 - To Protect You
7:30 - Lodoss War TV #23 - Landing... The Terrifying Dark Island

10 minute break - Why is it always the Dark Terrifying place, why can't it
be the happy flowering pretty <thunk> -We apologize for the preceeding
comment. Matt apparently lost his mind for a minute. It won't happen
again.

8:00 - Rurouni Kenshin #73 - Fanboy Shougo
8:30 - Cowboy Bebop #21 - Boogie Woogie Feng-Shui

10 minute break - Spaceships and Jet and a teenager, oh my... god...
that is so wrong.

9:00 - Key the Metal Idol #5 - Scroll I
9:30 - Key the Metal Idol #6 - Scroll II

"Go Home" - Chipp Zanuff

"Go Home Daze" - Fuku (please direct all beatings where they belong, I am
not responsible... - Matt)

Matt to Fuku-sensei
</pre>

===MNM - Manga meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Mon Apr 30 18:39:53 2001)
Konbanwa,

Your friendly VP here with the latest in meeting information.

What: Minna no Manga
Where: 14-253
Why: because I don't want to study for midterms!
How: walk, ride, drive, fly, teleport, however

And now some random info.

Elections - this Saturday, roughly 8:30. Be sure to show up and give your
input/run for an office. The following positions are up for grabs for
next year:

President
Vice President
Treasurer
Secretary
Librarian

If you want to know what any of the jobs entail, just email me
dhall@<removed for spam reasons> and I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have.

So, if you want to give back to the club that takes away your Saturday
nights (and Tuesdays now too) be sure to run for office. Don't be
intimidated to run for any office just because you haven't done something
like it before; you've got to learn how somewhere, and this is a much more
forgiving organization than most (unless you accidentally play the dub
track of a DVD, then I truly pity you ^_^). I really appreciate anyone
who is willing to take some of thier time to give back to the club;
remember, none of the current officers are leaving next year and we will
be around to help/usurp power.

And now for something completely NEW!

I decided to add some new flair to these emails I send out, so I will now
be adding a section called

"Link of the Email of the Day for the club that watches anime on Saturday
and mostly just kinda hangs out on Tuesday"

...Maybe I need a new name for this section.

Anyways, here's this week's link:

http://www.animeondvd.com/

I'll start with an easy one. This is the definitive anime DVD site, with
news, release info, rumors and more for both R1 (US) and R2 (Japan).

I think I'm done for now, I'll let you go back to your patiently waiting
to see both

Trigun

and..

Blood: The Last Vampire

this Saturday (I know I am)

Saraba,
Dylan Hall
Fukukaichou (VP)
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA Meeting 5/5===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu May 3 20:19:00 2001)
Elections this week... make sure not to miss it. You get to vote for
the officer crew who will determine what you will be watching next year.
Make it good... maybe this year we'll actually have more than one person
running for each post.

Also, this week is the beginning of Trigun <subliminal message>YOU WILL
WATCH TRIGUN</subliminal message>, and also a movie: Blood the Last
Vampire. This is straight out of Japan, released last week. Mmm fresh
anime. Blood is supposed to be a really sweet movie by the Mamoru Oshii,
director of Ghost in the Shell, Patlabor, Urusei Yatsura, and tons of
other stuff.

All must come to watch Blood and Trigun

Schedule:
5:00 Trigun #1 - The $$60,000,000,000 Man
5:25 Trigun #2 - Truth of Mistake

10 Minute Break - Repeat after me: LOVE AND PEACE!

6:00 Slayers #23 - WARNING! Eris's Wrath!
6:25 Fushigi Yuugi #22 - I'll Never Leave You

10 Minute Break - Fushigi Boogie Woogie - Tamahome, Space, Teenagers...
kowai

7:00 Lodoss War #24 - The Witch... The One Who Maintains The Balance of
Power
7:25 Cowboy Bebop #22 - Cowboy Funk

10 Minute Break - <sign above door> No horses allowed in club

8:00 Key the Metal Idol #7 - Run
8:25 ELECTIONS ELECTIONS ELECTIONS YA YOU GET THE POINT

10 Minute Break - Vote your favorite buffoon into office, throw the club
into turmoil... or just vote for Fuku and have the same effect.

9:00 Blood: the Last Vampire - R2, english subs

Go home, play GGX, have fun. If you don't have GGX, then find someone who
does. If you can't, beat head against wall, lather rinse repeat.
Remember... <subliminal message>WATCH TRIGUN</subliminal message>
you will watch Trigun or I will send my army of rabid otakus to flog you
with their dirty laundry... shudder.

Otanoshimi,
Matt to Fuku san
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

This week's link:
http://www.gundamproject.com

Probably the best Gundam site on the english side of the internet. Run by
fans, it has all the info on every Gundam production made; very cool site
for info on one of the longest running shows in anime (over 20 years now).
</pre>

===Manga / Thank You!===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Mon May 7 16:11:00 2001)
Konichiwa Minna-san,

First of all, Minna no Manga this Tuesday
Where: 14-253 (comp sci bldg)
When: Tues, 7pm
Why: to get the low down on what's happening in anime/manga, hang out and
bug people to show "Doraemon"(the little round blue guy selling stuff
during Kenshin commercials) next year!

I'd really like to thank everyone who showed up for elections last week
and especially everyone who ran for an office. Thank you. Ben and I were
both really surprised and happy and the turnout, we hope you all keep
coming forever and never graduate...just kidding. As far as I know,
that's the largest turnout we've ever had for people running for offices.

Here are next year's elected officers:
President - Ben Leinweber
Vice President - Nic Kamachi (ha ha ha, it's not me, I'M FREEEE!!!!)
Treasurer - Gina Dolci
Secretary - Dylan Hall (doh, I'm not free; dammit)
Librarian - Tim Bozarth

and the eternally apponted webmaster remains still: Raymond Lee

Now that you know our names you can have your choice of who to stalk on
the nights you don't watch anime. Just a note, but we don't change offices
until Fall quarter, so you've still got plenty of time for me to show more
dubs. I was planning on making my own dub for Bebop and showing the rest
of it that way (ducks incoming rocks).

Hmm... well I guess that's it for now.

Saraba,
Dylan Hall
Fukukaichou (VP)
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA Meeting 5/12===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Fri May 11 01:24:29 2001)
Thank you to all of you who showed up for the elections last week. Also,
thank you to Nur for bringing Blood.

Well, you can't say you don't get what you ask for: It is official, we
will be throwing a party in honor of the 10th Anniversary of Minna no
Anime. We will be starting club 2 hours early in 2 weeks (that is
Memorial Day Weekend), we will be showing retro-anime. There is even
rumor of stuff that looks retro too...

Schedule:
5:00 Trigun #3 - Peace Maker
5:25 Trigun #4 - Love & Peace

10 Minute Break - Favorite Food: Donuts, Favorite Prhase: Love and Peace,
Favorite Activity: Peeping Tom... What isn't to like?

6:00 MK Rayearth #20 (END) - The Unbelievable Truth About the Legendary
Magic Knights
6:25 Slayers #24 - X-DAY! The Demon Beast is Reborn!

10 Minute Break - While Rayearth ends this week, Slayers goes on... and
on... and on... (2 more seasons... 2 more years. I think some of you
will graduate before it finishes...)

7:00 Fushigi Yuugi #23 - Shadow of Intrigue
7:25 Lodoss War #25 - The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

10 Minute Break - Kardis? Who cares about Kardis. It's just the goddess
of destruction and stuff like that... no problem.

8:00 Rurouni Kenshin #74 - The PCF meetings are held Friday, not Saturday
8:25 Cowboy Bebop #23 - Brain Scratch

10 Minute Break - "Just call me Kenshin, Ikuzo Sanosuke!" That is just so
wrong...

9:00 Key the Metal Idol #8 - Goto
9:25 Key the Metal Idol #9 - Return

Hmm, Key is a very distinct departure from our usual stuff. A bit more
adult in nature, but nothing I would consider inappropriate. However this
anime does appear to definitely not be making a concerned effort to have
"Love & Peace" be its central messages; and I'm not sure if I can approve
of that (just kidding). I really wanna see the next episodes, I've been
told that Key turns into a car in the last episode*.

*note - that is entirely not true, the only show crazy enough to quite
literally turn the main character into a car is Utena.

Abayo,

Matt mo Fuku (of course the idiocy I (fuku) added was at 1:30AM, so it
might not be so well thought out)
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

"Because then she just has to."
</pre>

===MNA - Manga Tuesday / Summer Anime===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Mon May 14 09:02:00 2001)
Moshi moshi mina-san,

I'll be brief this week.

Minna no Manga: we get some new Newtypes and I've been promised a look at
the Lain "Omnipresense" art book; plus the same yahoos who are always
there.

When: Tuesday, 7PM
Where: 14-253 (Comp Sci)

Summer Anime -

I'm planning on running MNA over the summer here. So far I'm planning on
showing the following shows:

Escaflowne (all 26 TV)
Ping Pong Club (~9 episodes)
Zeta Gundam (~18 episodes)
Sailor Moon (~9, NOT the english hack job)
RAW/fansub (I'd like to have an hour per week of open raw japanese and new
fansub shows)

There's room for more stuff to show, and we can pull back on something
else. I could also finish showing Tylor from last summer (the second half
of the show).

So, give me some input or I'll go power crazy and we'll end up watching so
many depressing drama/mecha series that we all want to go out like Guld
(Macross Plus) did by the end of the quarter.

Saraba,

Dylan Hall
Fukukaichou (VP)
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

note: everybody needs to go check out the web site and answer the polls.
</pre>

===MNA Meeting 5/19===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Fri May 18 12:23:28 2001)
Only one week before our MNA 10th Anniversary Party. We will be extending
hours so that we can show some "10 Year Old Anime" or something like
that. We might end up going a little later as well, as there will be
other festivities, so schedule your saturday next weekend accordingly.

Also this week, we debut the Kenshin OVA. Venture into the world of
Kenshin's dark past. We hope you enjoy it.

Otherwise, nothing much else is new. Come, watch anime, be happy.

5:00 Trigun #5
5:25 Trigun #6

10 Minute Break - Is Vash extremely lucky, extremely good, or just an
idiot? Only time will tell.

6:00 Slayers #25
6:25 Fushigi Yuugi #24

10 Minute Break - Is it just me, or is everybody wondering if that little
"girl" in Fushigi Yuugi last week is really a little girl?

7:00 Kenshin OVA #1
7:25 Lodoss War #26

10 Minute Break - This week's challenge: Defeat a god... no problem for
Spark and co.

8:00 Rurouni Kenshin #75
8:25 Cowboy Bebop #24

10 Minute Break - Sayonara Sayo.

9:00 Key the Metal Idol #10
9:25 Key the Metal Idol #11

Otanoshimi,
Matt
</pre>

===MNM / 10 year anniversary===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Mon May 21 13:51:10 2001)
Konichiwa minasan,

First of all, I'd like to apologise to anyone who missed any episodes of
shows because of the schedule readjustment last Saturday. If you want to
see any of the episodes you missed, send me an email and we'll see if we
can't work something out during the week (dhall@<removed for spam reasons>). We made a
decision we thought would be best for playing order and enjoyment of the
evening.

Now back to the usual

What: Minna no Manga/talk about moving to Tokyo to increase our Otaku
factor
Where: 14-253 - Where else? (this quarter)
When: Tuesday, 7-10PM
Why: because we like going to MNM and then starting our homework at 10

10 year anniversary

Well, Ben has been working hard at making a Mokona pinata for you all to
kill (and then eat it's tasty candy innards!).
We'll also be showing some older anime, all on the never dying VHS format.
Normal shows will start at 5, but the irregular stuff will be shown from
3-5PM. Also this week we will be showing the grand-daddy of all anime (in
the US): Akira (in the subtitled version too). So, for all of you that
haven't seen it I say: Watch! and for all those of you who have seen
it(over and over again) I say: See it larger than ever before.

Also, a note for the future. We're still very much open to suggestions
for this summer quarter and next year's schedule. So if you have
something that you think we should really show, tell us and we'll look
into it.

Saraba,

Dylan Hall
Fukukaichou(VP)
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

PS - This is a link to a figure out what GE's you need to take if you
aren't on the 2001-03 catalog; I wouldn't normally include something like
this, but it's a fairly important thing and I thought it could help some
folks out.
http://www.ee.calpoly.edu/CENGAC/gepre2001.htm
</pre>

===MNA - Spring 2002 Japan Study Program===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Fri May 25 11:29:59 2001)
Minna,

I'm sure most of you remember the desperate president when he heard that
the Japan Trip for this year was going to be canceled. Well, with the
help of some others, I'm bound and determined to see that we go in 2002.

The new program coordinator has been working with a few of us and we have
a small informational meeting set up for next week. If you are at all
interested, please show up for this meeting. No commitments will be made
for quite a while, so just show up and see what the buzz is all about.

Below is the information that Ritchie, the new program coordinator, sent
to me and the email list.

We're going to have a lot of fun! Hope to see you there!

Ben Leinweber
Kaichou/President

--- rleroy@<removed for spam reasons> wrote:
> From: rleroy@<removed for spam reasons>
> Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 10:04:17 -0700
> Subject: Japan Study 2002
>
> Hello
>
> It was a very unfortunate occasion when Japan Study did not go this
> year. With the help of some of you, International Education and
> Programs (IEP) Office is determined to see that you get the opportunity
> to go next year. We are putting together our first information meeting
> before the end of this quarter. This will be a combined meeting with
> the Thai Study Program and will offer information about what classes
> are expected to be taught next year.
>
> Below is the mass email going out to the Colleges. We hope you can
> make it.
>
> Ritchie LeRoy
> Program Coordinator
>
>
> Here is an opportunity to go on an adventure of a lifetime, while
> taking Cal Poly courses. In Spring Quarter 2002 you could be in the
> exotic country of Thailand or the amazing country of Japan. Come to
> our Information Meeting in COB Bldg. 3 Room 114 on May 31 at 11 am to
> find out more.
>
> Thai Study and Internship program combines a one-quarter study abroad
> program offering a variety of courses for all students and an
> internship program in U.S. corporations, the American Embassy, and
> universities for qualified seniors.
>
> The Japan Studies Spring 2001 program offers a great way to experience
> the language, culture, and business practices of an important trading
> partner and ally. Here's what Lonely Planet has to say: "Spring
> (March-May), with its clear skies and cherry blossoms, is probably the
> most celebrated Japanese season."
>
> Again, for more information come to a one-hour information meeting at
> 11 am on Thursday, May 31 in the College of Business Building (3) in
> Room 114.
>
> If you cannot attend this meeting and would like more information
> please contact the Program Coordinator, Ritchie LeRoy at
> rleroy@<removed for spam reasons> or call 756-7321 or stop by our IP office (038-145).
>
> And, check out the Web sites:
> http://www.calpoly.edu/~thaistdy
> http://www.calpoly.edu/~jpnstdy
>
>
> Tell your friends!
> See you next Thursday!
>
> Ritchie LeRoy
> Program Coordinator
> Pacific Programs
> International Education & Programs Office
> Math & Science Building #38 Room #145
> California Polytechnic State University
> San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
> (805) 756-7321 FAX: (805) 756-5484
> rleroy@<removed for spam reasons>
>
>

</pre>

===MNA 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY 5/26===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Fri May 25 12:28:26 2001)
Howdy Minna, we are proud to bring you the MNA 10 Year Anniversary
Festivities. In addition to our usual suspects, we will be showing Anime
from roughly 10 Years ago, and a movie special: Akira. Also, for all you
Rayearth Haters, Mokona Bashing. Have a good time splattering the puffy
critter and eating it's insides (which interestingly don't taste like
Chicken, they taste like candy... okashii). This activity is otherwise
known as a pinata. To boot, we will h ave chips and dip, at no
extra cost to you! Without further ado, our expanded schedule:

3:00 Iria #1
3:25 KOR #1

10 Minute Break - yes, you will need it to recover from the visual
quality that is our KOR tape.

4:00 Sailor Moon #1
4:25 Ranma OAV #1

10 Minute Break - Thus concludes our "DVD Appreciation" tour. If you
don't appreciate DVD visual quality after being forced to watch the tapes
of KOR and Sailor Moon, something is wrong with you.

5:00 Trigun #7
5:25 Trigun #8

10 Minute Break - Brilliant Dynamites Neon... the only villian I know of
that wears Neon Lights on his huge shoulder pads.

6:00 Fushigi Yuugi #25
6:25 Rurouni Kenshin #76

10 Minute Break - Misao in a dress... kowai or kawaii, your call.

7:00 Rurouni Kenshin OAV #2
7:25 MOKONA BASHING

EXTENDED BREAK - Time to break mokona. You can build up your anger as you
watch Samurai X flash across the screen, then unleash. Think Tension
Gauge.

8:00 Key #12
8:25 Key #13

10 Minute Break - Wow, to think that we have almost finished a series in
one quarter.

9:00 Akira
Note: This will be an extended movie which will likely go until 11:00 or
so.

What a day. You know you don't want to miss out. Come early, stay late.
Have fun.

Matt
</pre>

===Minna no Manga Tuesday===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Mon May 28 20:07:55 2001)
Konbanwa minasan,

I hope you all enjoyed your 10 year anniversary and holiday weekend. I
was curiously absent last Saturday, and thus I could not screw up the
language tracks on any shows. If you, like me, missed out on the
festivities you can see some cool pictures on the MNA webpage.

Nothing special this week, just the last few meetings of the year.

What: Minna no Manga
When: Tuesday, 7PM
Where: 14-253
Why: because you shouldn't have anything due Wednesday, and if you do you
can always put it off till later.

Saraba,
Dylan Hall
Fukukaichou (VP)

http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA Meeting 6/2===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Fri Jun 1 00:52:45 2001)
Well, with the first 10 years of MNA out of the way, we are happy to bring
you the beginning of the second 10 years... well, the first 2 weeks of it
before we go to break that is. This is the second to last MNA meeting of
the regular school year. Now for all you rabid Otaku who are staying for
summer quarter, Fuku has some good stuff in store... assuming he can
figure everything out (Fuku says: I promise you'll have too much anime to
watch, I think everything we'll have on you will either love or hate. I
love it all, and I hope you will too).

This week:
5:00 Trigun #9 - Murder Machine
5:25 Trigun #10 - Quick Draw

10 Minute Break - A travelling priest, a gunman, and a pair of insurance
girls walk into a bar... nah, you've probably already heard that one...

6:00 Slayers #26 (END of 1st Season) - ZAP! Victory is Always Mine!
6:25 Fushigi Yuugi #26 - Star Festival

10 Minute Break - Now technically FY#26 is the end of first season, but we
will be continuing until #27 because it finishes the arc. I mean it is
bad enough having a cliffhanger for a week, not for 3 months. (ahem,
Kenshin last year)

7:00 Kenshin OVA #3 - The Previous Night at the Mountain Home
7:25 Cowboy Bebop #25 - The Real Folk Blues Part 1

10 Minute Break - It is true, what they say about saving the best for
last. Last 2 weeks of Kenshin in club ever... we're trying to end it
properly by showing the OVA's and letting the TV series die with some
dignity.

8:00 Lodoss War #27 (END) - Hero... The Birth of a New Knight
8:25 Key the Metal Idol #14 - System

No Break... Key #14 is 1.5 hours long... Well, we may have a small potty
break before we start Key, but I doubt you'll want to get up in the middle
of this ep.

Come, watch, be merry,
Matt

Or come, watch and be glad that you don't spend as much on import disks as
I do (trust me, it's too much)
Dylan

Go to the website!!!

End-of-year-favorite-show-polls!!

http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNManga / Reminders===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Mon Jun 4 14:13:40 2001)
Kooonnniiiccchhhiiiiwwwaaaaa mmmmmiiiiinnnnnaaaaa------sssssaaaannnnn,

Well, now that I got that out of my system I can send out the LAST MINNA
NO MANGA newsletter of the year. That's right, no more fun will be
allowed on Tuesday nights until next fall (since folks that come had said
they wanted to continue this waste of time).

So, here's all the vital info:

When: Tuesday, 7PM
Where: 14-253
Why: To avoid studying
How: by any means necessary

Reminders:

Tsurugi's Friday at 5pm. Our reservations are for the ever so early time
of 5pm. Come and join us for our last non-Saturday gathering of the year.
I guaratantee good food for all who come (and bring money). So, if you
signed up be sure to come and get your spot. We may have some extra
spaces available if you didn't sign up ahead of time, but I'm not
guaranteeing anything.

Last meeting of the (normal) school year Saturday. Come and see the ends
of 3 great series this Saturday along with the half way points for both
Trigun and Fushigi Yuugi. The schedule (like the rest of them this
quarter) is a little different than usual, so go to the web site to make
sure you're not gonna miss anything (we will be meeting from the usual
5-10pm).
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

Just when you thought you had your Saturday's free... After taking only a
week's break, I'll be back to run the summer session of MNA. We'll be
showing the following stuff:
Escaflowne (all 26 TV eps)
Zeta Gundam (however far we get into it)
Ping Pong Club (~10 episodes)
Irresponsible Captain Tylor* (all 26 TV episodes)

* I got the silo for Friday June 22, and we will have a Tylor marathon to
remind us what happened in the first 11 episodes again (that's where Ben
tells me was watched through to last summer).

We should also be have more "Fansub o' the Week". I'd also like to show
some raw stuff, but we'll see how that goes.

Back to your lives.

Remember: only 122 hours and 50 minutes until your last weekly dosage of
Minna no Anime for the school year.

Saraba,

Dylan Hall
Fukukachou (VP)
</pre>

===Tsurugi's at 5PM today!===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Fri Jun 8 11:35:28 2001)
Hey Everybody (hey Dr. Nick),

Just a quick reminder that everyone needs to come to Tsurugi's tonight at
5PM. If you didn't sign up we may be able to make room for you, but don't
sue me if you don't get to sit with us.

Be there with a full pocket book and an empty stomache!

Saraba,

Dylan Hall
Fukukaichou(VP)
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA meeting Today!===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Sat Jun 9 09:42:41 2001)
Ohayou Mina-san,

Well, it's been a great year for Minna no Anime; from Halloween parties
and The Juppongatana to Mokona bashing and 'geist' (whatever that is) I've
had a fun year. Apparently you did too, because you keep coming back
every Saturday. I hope you all return in the fall (or keep coming this
summer if you're around) and convert others to the otaku lifestyle.

Speaking of summer, there will be no meeting next week. However, to make
up for that, on Friday June 22 (the following Friday) we will have a
meeting from 5 - 10PM for a Irresponisble Captain Tylor marathon. We'll
watch the first 11 episodes to get caught up with where it was left off
last summer. Then on Saturday June 23 normal summer meetings will begin -
5 to 10PM. So, just to restate:
Saturday June 16 - no meeting
Friday June 22 - Tylor marathon (eps 1-11) 5-10PM
Saturday June 23(and every Saturday after that) - normal meeting 5-10PM

I hope to see you there.

Now onto the FINAL SCHEDULE OF THE (normal) YEAR!!!!

5:00 Animation Runner Kuromi - The newest work from Atarioh Daichi
(director of Kodocha, Jubei-chan, Now and Then Here and There). Based on
a girls who's an anime runner (the most despised position in all of anime
production). New import DVD with english subtitles! (ooh, shiny)
5:45 Show Opening/Ending Theme Montage - We'll spend the time after Kuromi
watching some the intros and endings of some of the shows that we watched
this year.

6:00 Trigun #11 - Escape From Pain
6:25 Trigun #12 - Legato Bluesummers

10 minute break - Be sure to come and watch trigun this week even if you
haven't made it previously. These eps take us to the halfway point in the
series and leave everyone wanting more. Remember: patience is a virtue,
killing your MNA officers is not.

7:00 Fushigi Yuugi #27 - Tombstone Oath
7:25 Cowboy Bebop #26 - The Real Folk Blues (Part 2)

10 minute break - The halfway point in Fushigi Yuugi? Will Miaka ever
realize that she's not the center of the universe? Will Nakago do some
more dastardly deeds? I say yes, no yes which yeilds an overall "Maybe" -
Minna no Anime, your home for solid opinions.
And the end of Bebop; something which I'm sure everyone will have an
opinion on, and from the looks of the web poll it should be
"NNNNOOOOOOO!!!!" for most of you. I hope you've enjoyed watching this
show as much as I have.

8:00 Rurouni Kenshin OVA #4 - The Cross-Shaped Wound

mini-break - The end of (animated) Kenshin. After 3 years, this will
probably be the last episode of Kenshin ever shown at Minna no Anime. I
really love this show (I wish they finished the TV series properly, but
that's a rant for another time) and wish we could show more. This show
was the reason I taught myself Japanese. So, to Watsuki-sensei and SPE I
say "otsukaresama" (good job/thank you) on making one of the best
manga/anime ever.

8:35 Key The Metal Idol #15 - Exit

And the end to yet another show, this time one that we've only been
watching this quarter but has been quite a trip. I guess they'll have to
actually finish an episode properly tonight (as opposed to every other
episode, where they just stopped animating it).

So, I bid you all adeu and say thanks for coming out here every week to
watch some of the finest shows in anime with us. We're hard at work
trying to make next years schedule better than this one.

Saigo no Saraba,

Dylan Hall
Fukukaichou(VP)
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

== Summer 2001 ==
===MNA Returns!===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Wed Jun 20 15:04:12 2001)
Konichiwa Minna-san,

After a long week of no club emails, I get to return to work (Ben's
standing over my shoulder now, making sure my back-breaking labor is up to
specifications). Oh, Joy!

This week we're pulling double duty to make up for the lack of a meeting
last Saturday. Twice the time, twice the Tylor.

This Friday (June 22) we will be having the first Friday meeting of Minna
no Anime in quite a long time. We will be having a Irresponsible Captain
Tylor marathon. Episodes 1 - 11 will be shown; to catch folks up with
what was shown last summer.

Friday
5:00 - Tylor #1

time passes...

9:30ish - Tylor #11

Don't count on our usual good timing for starting episodes this Friday, we
start at five and will watch until we finish, with some random breaks for
potty emergencies.

And now for something completely normal.

The (normal) MNA summer schedule.

We're gonna run things a bit loose this summer (in terms of what we're
showing, not the times), but we'll always be there with some anime on from
the hours of 5PM to 10PM on Saturdays. We may even be so kind as to let
you know what you may be watching ahead of time ^_^.

Without further adeu, the schedule:

5:05 - Tenkuu no Escaflowne (The Vision of Escaflowne) - Episode 1 -
"Fateful Confession"
5:30 - Escaflowne #2 - "The Girl from the Mystic Moon"

10 minutes to crazy waiting for the next episode

6:05 - Escaflowne #3 - "The Gallant Swordsman"
6:30 - Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon #2 - "Oshiokyo! The fortune
house is a youma's mansion"

10 minutes of pain waiting for next weeks episodes

7:05 - Irresponsible Captain Tylor #12 - "The day the Soyokaze vanished"
7:30 - Future Boy Conan #1 - "Remnant Island"

10 minutes of post-Miyazaki contemplation

8:05 - Zeta Gundam #1 - "The Black Gundam"
8:30 - Ping Pong Club #1 - "The anime that needs no introduction, mainly
because we don't have the box handy"

10 minutes of wondering what's wrong with Fuku

9:05 - Urusei Yatsura #1 - "I'm Lum the Notorious!" & "It's Raining Oil in
Our Town"
9:30 - Vandread #1 - "Boy meets Girl"

Everything will be subtitled this week except for Vandread (on purpose).
As I stated before, we'll be trying some different stuff this quarter, and
one of those things is showing some raw (Japanese without subtitles)
anime. These will be (mostly) directly from the R2 (region 2 - the region
code for Japanese DVDs).

Also, note that Sailor Moon, Future Boy Conan, Urusei Yatsura and Vandread
will probably not be shown all quarter long. We're gonna try showing lots
of different shows, some new (Vandread), some old (Sailor Moon) and some
REALLY old (Future Boy Conan).

I hope you all enjoy the schedule and stay the whole time (you all must
watch the pretty pictures on the Vandread disc). If you have any
questions/comments/rants/raves/ingrown toenails, just tell us and we'll
see what we can do (you can just reply to this email).

See you all Friday.

Saraba,

Dylan Hall
Fukukaichou (VP) (until fall)
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Missing Library Tapes===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Wed Jun 20 16:11:18 2001)
Minna,

After doing a complete check on the library, I notice that we are
missing a few tapes. Namely 3 Kodocha Tapes, and I think one of my LoGH
tapes is missing too. If you have these tapes, please contact us by
replying to this email.

Arigatou,

Ben Leinweber
MNA Kaichou
</pre>

===MNA - Meeting 6/30===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jun 28 13:22:04 2001)
Konichiwa mina-san,

Also this week is Polycon, taking place in Trinity Hall (one of the red
bricks buildings). Aside from all the wonderful gaming and whatnot there
will be plentiful anime. Ben (our esteemed president) will be there all
weekend (Friday through Sunday) showing far too much anime of all sorts
and varieties.

Ben says: "It's 72 hours of anime madness, but a lot of it is stuff we've
already shown. And there'll be some gaming on the side."

This week's serving includes:

5:05 Maison Ikkoku - 43 - Kyoko's Hot Spring Heart Stopper: Peeping Wars
at the Outdoor Baths!
5:30 Maison Ikkoku - 44 - Godai Breaks His Let! Chance for Love at the
HOspital!

A full plate of Maison Ikkoku, continuing from where we stopped last
quarter (note that this is the last tape we have).

6:05 Escaflowne - 4 - The Diabolical Adonias
6:30 Escaflowne - 5

But wait there's more

7:05 Escaflowne - 6
7:30 Tylor, The Irresponsible Captain - 13 - Be Prepared, Be Smart or Be
Lucky

And now we journey back in time

8:05 Future Boy Conan - 2
8:30 Zeta Gundam - 2

And now we journey into the weird

9:05 Ping Pong Club - 2
9:30 Vandread - 2 - Soshite boku wa tohou ni kureru

We'll try to get subtitles running for this weeks episode of Vandread, but
we'll still show it even if that doesn't work.

After 21 months straight of Minna no Anime, our president Ben will be
taking a short respite. So I say good bye and good riddance! I'll
finally be free! Free to... show the same stuff we were putting on
already - gee what a power trip.

Saraba da,

Dylan Hall
Fukukaichou (VP)

My quote of the week: "You went over my helmet; no one goes over my
helmet"
</pre>

===MNA - The Return of Open Programming 7/7===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jul 5 12:19:34 2001)
Konichiwa mina-san,

I hope you all enjoyed your fourth of July holiday and did something
American - like watching cartoons made in Japan!

Well, even if you didn't you can catch up on all your American activities
by coming to Minna no Anime this Saturday.

Schedule du'jour (I probably spelled that wrong; French isn't one of the
languages I speak)

5:00 Open
5:30 Open

(you get the idea)

9:00 open
9:00 closed... I mean 'open'

I won't even force you folks to watch mecha shows, I promise! Not that
I'll stop you if you want to.

So, with that open ended statement I'll let you return to your daily
grind.

Saraba da,

Dylan Hall
fukukaichou (VP)
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

<insert inside joke here: MoPi 4 the future!>
</pre>

===MNA - 7/14 Fated Meeting===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jul 12 18:52:52 2001)
Konbanwa mina-san,

I hope you're all doing well and enjoying the 163 hours a week you spend
outside of Minna no Anime.

Last week was open programming, and we had fun watching lots of stuff. In
fact so much fun that we will be continuing to show more of the stuff
we started last week. For those that missed out, gomen! but you only
missed an episode. If you can get ahold of me before sometime before club
I may be able to help you catch up on anything you missed
(dhall@<removed for spam reasons>).

And now time for

Ye Olde Schedule

5:05 Escaflowne - 7 - Unexpected Partings
5:30 Escaflowne - 8

small break

6:05 Escaflowne - 9
6:30 Future Boy Conan - 4

break of time

7:05 Irresponsible Captain Tylor - 14 - Equation of Kindness
7:30 Magic User's Club (Mahou Tsukai Tai!) - 2

time of break

8:05 Zeta Gundam - 3
8:30 Hana Yori Dango - 2

of time; break

9:00 City Hunter - 2
9:30 Blue Submarine No. 6 - 2 - Pilots

As you may have noticed, there are a lot of " - 2 "s in the schedule.
These were all things that we showed the first episode of last week and
decided to continue with for a while.

And, yes, finally ALL of Blue Sub 6 will be shown in club. I think it
tops the Kenshin OVA's for most partial or unofficial showings.

So, just what did we show last week?

Well here's the answer:

Last weeks showings

5:05 Dragon Half
5:30 Dragon Half (all)

6:05 Ping Pong Club - 3
6:30 Blue Sub. 6 - 1

7:05 Hana Yori Dango - 1
7:30 City Hunter - 1

8:05 Berserk - 1
8:30 Nadia - 1

9:05 Magic User's Club - 1
9:30 Future Boy Conan - 3

Also, we've almost got an easy way to show import DVD's (that don't have
english subtitles on the disk) with subtitles!!! Yay! Yatta!
What's this mean? It means more cool import disks before the US companies
release them (and usually much better quality disks too). This may be the
next phase in MNA's evolution.

'till next time.

Saraba da,

Dylan Hall
Kakofukukaichou (past-VP)
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - 7/21 Choose your own adventure===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Jul 19 10:33:20 2001)
Konichiwa minasan,

Well, us officers have been working overtime trying to figure out a
schedule for next year - and we're almost done.

So, I figured I'd take a break and let however comes this Saturday decide
the some of the schedule.

Let the battle begin!

5:05 Escaflowne - 10 - The Mad Bomber What Bombs Mad at Midnight
5:30 Escaflowne - 11

no choice about this break

6:05 Escaflowne - 12 - Almost halfway done!
6:30 Future Boy Conan - 5 - The Raging Cheeks of hard labor

break

7:05 Irresponsible Captain Tylor - 15 - Happy Shiny (Deadly) Germs
7:30 Tylor - 16

Captain's orders: take a break!

8:05 Zeta Gundam - 4 OR You're Under Arrest - 1
8:30 Hana Yori Dango - 3 OR Ping Pong Club - 4

you don't get a choice as to when to stop

9:05 City Hunter - 3 OR something else
9:30 Blue Sub 6 - 3 - Hearts

So, it's only an hour of your choosing; but it's more than I should be
letting you have! (insert diabolical laughter here)

I'll let you all get back to your high stakes gambling over whether it'll
be Pokemon or Digimon that makes it into the schedule next year.

Saraba,

Dylan Hall
Kako-Fukukaichou
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - Will you be feeling 'Blue' on 7/28?===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Wed Jul 25 20:34:25 2001)
Konbanwa Mina-san,

The newsletter is out extra early this week because:

(drum roll please)

I just kinda felt like doing it now, that's all.

Boy, what a let down.
But I guarantee this Saturday won't be! We've got the final episode of
one of my all time favorite OVA's - Blue Submarine No.6 (Aonorokugo).

It's an extra long ep, so we've got the whole last hour scheduled for it.

And because I'm such a nice guys I'll give you a full hour of "Let's not
watch Gundam and annoy Dylan to no avail."

Just kidding, I like all the stuff we're putting on this summer.

Also, if you'd like to help out the club (but most importantly have soda's
there this week) you too can play the fun game called: Give Dylan (and all
the club stuff) a ride to club. If you want to join in this game send me
an email (dhall@<removed for spam reasons>) or give me a call (831-<removed for privacy>).

I'd like to get there a little early this week, because Matt had requested
that we re-show Blue Sub 6 ep 3 for him (he was gone last week).

Now that I've bored you all to the point of deleting this email and
returning to... doing whatever it is you were doing, I'll give you the
schedule:

5:05 Escaflowne - 13
5:30 Esca - 14

noticing a pattern here?

6:05 Esca - 15
6:30 Future Boy Conan - 6

can anything break Conan?

7:05 Irresponisble Captain Tylor - 17
7:30 Tylor - 18

what will be shown here?

8:05 Choose Your Fate (slot 1)
8:30 Choose Your Fate (slot 2)

will I end every break comment with a '?' ?

9:05 Blue Submarine No 6 - 4 - Minasoko
9:30 More Blue Sub 6 - YATTA!

For the "Choose Your Fate" slots, we have available:

Zeta Gundam #4
Ping Pong Club #5
Hana Yori Dango #4
You're Under Arrest #1
Mahou Tsukai Tai (Magic User's Club) #4
Infinite Ryvius #1

and anything else anyone brings; I'm sure I figure out some fun and
confusing way to get you all to pick the shows.

Saraba da,

Dylan Hall
Kako-Fukukaichou (Former-VP)
KariKaichou (Acting President)
Kusoyarou (really nice guy*)

*that's my translation of it at least!
</pre>

===MNA - Now more blue than ever! 7/28===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Fri Jul 27 19:42:48 2001)
Konbanwa mina-san,

This is just a quick message to say that tomorrow, at the club meeting
(7/28) we will have a reshowing of Blue Sub 6 episode 3 at approximately
4:30.

So, if you missed out, or want to watch it again come early and join us
for even more Minna than usual.

Saraba da,

Dylan Hall
kotoba kotoba kotoba...
</pre>

===MNA - I'm free, will you be on 8/4?===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Aug 2 13:36:50 2001)
Konichiwa Mina-san,

This weekend you will be free of my blundering and scheming. I will be
placing our esteemed member Josh Cohen in charge of running things this
week.

So, he can put his own devious schemes into action and force everyone to
watch 5 hours of Ping Pong Club this weekend.

So, on with the evil schedule:

5:05 Escaflowne - 16
5:30 Escaflowne - 17

break

6:05 Escaflowne - 18
6:30 Future Boy Conan - 6

hut, hut

7:05 Irresponsible Captain Tylor - 19
7:30 Irresponsible Captain Tylor - 20

wait for it...

8:05 Choose your destiny 1
8:30 Choose your destiny 2

hike!

9:05 Choose your fate 1
9:30 Choose your fate 2

Well, the schedule is going to look a lot like this for the rest of the
quarter. You demanded more choices, and thus you shall have more choices.

for the open slots, there will be at least these available:
Hana Yori Dango 5
Ping Pong Club 5
You're Under Arrest 1
Infinite Ryvius 2
City Hunter 3
Zeta Gundam 4

...and whatever else anyone brings

So, I'll see you (or not) Saturday.

Saraba da,

Dylan Hall
Kako-Fukukaichou (Former-VP)
KariKaichou (Acting President)
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - room change this Saturday / extra fun===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Tue Aug 7 22:06:16 2001)
Konbanwa mina-san,

I just thought I'd give you all an early heads up about this Saturday's
meeting. We will not be meeting in the silo; there is a large conference
all throughout the business building that weekend. The meeting will be
normal except for the room change. If I recall correctly we should be
meeting in room 02-114 (same building area). Please don't quote me on
that here, since I don't have that paper in front of me. I will send out
the correct room in the normal email, and I will make every effort to put
signs up on Saturday too.

But, what's this "extra fun" you ask?

Well, since I was curiously absent last Saturday (I know it was lonely
without me) I thought there could be some sort of club get together Friday
for anyone who missed last meeting, or just wants to watch anime, listen
to Yoko Kanno music and read manga. So, I'm inviting anyone who wants to
to "come on over!" to my place on Friday and have a party.

So, if you're interested in the above activities (and who on this mailing
list isn't) send me an email and I'll give you directions and answer any
other questions you have. There's plenty of crash space (since my
roommates aren't here this summer) and plenty of anime/music/manga (since
I don't like spending money on things that aren't anime/music/manga).

I'll be annoying you with the normal email on Thursday also, so don't
worry - you're only halfway done with my emails this week!

Saraba da,

Dylan Hall
Kako-Fukukaichou (Former-VP)
KariKaichou (Acting President)
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

PS - the last 2 episodes of the Magic User's Club OVA come out this month.
Rejoice!
</pre>

===MNA - Halloween info / normal meeting un-normal location 8/11===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Aug 9 16:29:06 2001)
Konichiwa mina-san,

I'll start off with a Halloween reminder:

It's coming!!

And it's gonna be bigger and better than last year (which was our first
try at something like that).

Things we'll have this time around(tenatively, of course):

- cosplay contest
- Dance Dance Revolution room
- Fighting game room (Guilty Gear X, Tekken, Street Fighter, etc.)
- Trivia competition
- FOOD!
- lots of other stuff that I don't remember now!

Basically, all of the good from last time with none of the bad!

So, get to work on your costumes and start writing down trivia questions.

If you have any suggestions please tell us (by replying to this email) and
we'll see what we can do about it.

And now on to this week's stuff.

Well, actually last week's "choose your fate without Dylan" stuff:

Ping Pong Club #5
Hana Yori Dango #5
Nadia #1
Shamanic Princess #1

I'm thinking I might force you guys to watch all of Shamanic Princess
(because it's too good)...
Hmmm...

REMINDER:
Room change this week! (and this week only)
We will be in Room 03-114. It should be right nearby to the silo. I'll
try and put up a sign to direct you guys to the room.

Anyways, on to this weeks stuff:

5:05 Escaflowne - 19
5:30 Esca - 20

break, even though you know more Esca is coming

6:05 Esca - 21
6:30 Conan - 7

break, even though you know more Tylor is coming

7:05 Tylor - 21
7:30 Tylor - 22

break, even though you don't know what's coming

8:05 Open
8:30 Open

break, even though I may force Shamanic Princess upon you

9:05 Open
9:30 Open

break, until next week

So, that's about it from me. The open invite is still good for anyone who
wants to come over to my place this Friday (tomorrow) for an evening and a
night of anime/manga/music. Just reply to this email and I'll give you
all the "vital information" (whatever that is).

Saraba da,

Dylan Hall
Karikaichou (Acting President - only 3 more Saturdays of overwhelming
power!)

http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
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===MNA - The Penultimate Meeting of the Summer 8/18===
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(Minna No Anime, Thu Aug 16 11:23:00 2001)
Konichiwa mina-san,

I hope you're all doing well wherever you are.

We're certainly starting to wrap things up here at MNA, this weekend we
will be left with 2 episodes remaining in 3 of great shows.

Why's that, you ask?

Well, here's what went on last week (the unscheduled mayhem):

Ping Pong Club #6 (we reached a new low)
Chikuu Shoujo Arjuna #1 (Raw import DVD, repeat after me: "Ooh,
pretty...")
Shamanic Princess #2 (and a consensus to finish it this quarter)
Animation Runner Kuromi (Time Journeys!!)

We also had the usual occurance of being kicked out of the silo for a
night for absolutely no reason. Oh well, at least it makes you appeciate
the setup we currently have at our disposal.

Which leads nicely into this weeks schedule:

5:05 Tenkuu no Escaflowne - 22
5:30 Esca - 23

break and wait...

6:05 Esca - 24
6:30 Future Boy Conan - 24

break and curse...

7:05 Irresponsible Captain Tylor - 23
7:30 Tylor - 24

break and break Dylan for making you wait until next week to finish those
two shows

8:05 Choose your Hana Yori Dan... err, I mean open programming
8:30 Pick you Ping Pon... umm, yeah, I mean another open programming slot

9:05 Shamanic Princess - 3
9:30 Shamanic Princess - 4 (of 6)

And then next week we will finish Esca, Tylor, Shamanic and (hopefully)
Magic User's Club (if I have my DVD by then).

I have to say that I've really enjoyed running stuff this quarter and have
been happy to see most folks enjoying the scheduling madness and all the
cool shows we've put on. I hope you all have enjoyed the shows that I
forced you all to watch, and that you will continue to enjoy stuff next
year too. Us officers have been putting in a lot of time and energy into
making next year better than last year, we just hope that it shows.

Back to your waiting for Saturday night.

Saraba da,

Dylan Hall
Jimukan (Secretary)
Karikaichou (Acting President)
Zenfukukaichou (Former VP)
Kusoyarou (nice guy)
Oobaka (smart guy)

Minna no Anime
http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
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===MNA - You're gonna carry that weight on 8/25===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Thu Aug 23 19:58:10 2001)
Konbanwa Minasan,

Well, it's finally come:

The last week with me running stuff.

You will all be freed of the terror that has been my reign as Acting
President after this weekend; then you will be subject to the horror that
is Ben and Nik running things. (And you will hear me laughing heartily
from the bowels of the crowd).

But that doesn't mean that you will be free from me entirely. I will
still be annoying everyone with emails and the whatnot.

REMINDER:

After this Saturday (8/25) there will be no MNA meetings until 9/29!!!
There may be some sort of impromptu meeting the saturday of 9/22, but that
is not certain (and would be open programming, not regular shows).

Also, Halloween is coming up and will be bigger and better than last year,
so start work on all your Ping Pong Club costumes now! (I want to see the
"turtle giving birth" scene acted out in club ^_^)

I hope you all have enjoyed the schedule this summer; I made it up when
Ben said "You're in charge this summer!" and thus I said "What are my
favorite shows?" and ran from there. And after some whining from people I
decided to just make it open programming for most of the time.

I really love a lot of the stuff that you guys keep picking (Ping Pong
Club, Hana yori Dango, Magic User's Club, Shamanic Princess) and forced a
couple of my all time favorite TV shows on you people (Esca, Tylor). I
hope you've enjoyed watching them for the first time as much as I have
enjoyed watching them for the fourth (or fifth) time.

Anyways, enough rambling; here's the schedule.

Ye olde schedule:

5:05 Tenkuu no Escaflowne - 25
5:30 The Vision of Escaflowne - 26 (the end)

MNA will not be providing tissues this break

6:05 Open Programming - 1
6:30 Open Programming - 2 (the end)

Break without series ending

7:05 Musekinin Kanchou Taira - 25
7:30 Irresponsible Captain Tylor - 26 (the end)

MNA will not be providing tissues this break either

8:05 Mahou Tsukai Tai! - 5
8:30 Magic User's Club (AKA - I Wanna Use Magic!) - 6 (the end)

Break for the last time

9:05 Shamanic Princess - 5
9:30 Shamanic Princess - 6 (the end)

Break for a month!!

WOW! That's a lot of stuff ending.

But, I planned it this way. I'm sure you all have noticed the auspicious
absence of Future Boy Conan, but I figured I'd give you all a chance to
catch those final episodes of Ping Pong Club and Hana Yori Dango (as if
you guys would really choose anything else).

"But, what about the Tylor movie and OVA's?" - I'll try to find sometime
during the year to put them on, if not there's always next summer.

I'll be bringing a couple of polls to club; so be prepared to express your
love/hate of Ping Pong Club (and all the other shows) in the convenient
form of a check mark on a sheet of paper.

Saigo no 'Saraba da' (Natsuyasumi nara),

Dylan Hall
Jimukan (Secretary)
Karikaichou (Acting President)

http://www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
</pre>

===MNA - last minute reminder for 8/25...===
<pre>
(Minna No Anime, Fri Aug 24 17:07:08 2001)
Konichiwa minasan,

I just remembered to remind everyone to please return all borrowed
materials at tomorrows meeting.

If you forget, I'll force everyone to marathon watch Marmalade Boy!

Abayo,

Dylan
</pre>

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''Note:'' I wasn't really coming to MNA my freshman year, so I ended up deleting most of the emails. Somehow this one survived. If anyone has any more of these, let me know/post them. Thanks, --[[User:MikeWhipp|MikeWhipp]] 14:59, 26 December 2007 (PST)

== Fall 1999 ==
=== Meeting 11-6-99 ===
<pre>
(Adam Driscoll, Fri Nov 5 16:26:22 1999)
Kenshin Night!
It's also a Marmalade Boy, Child's Toy, Recca, Utena and Lain night!
See you there!

TIME TITLE
6:00 Marmalade Boy
Episode 53: MAKING A MEMORY
"I won't regret it if anything happens."

6:25 Marmalade Boy
Episode 54: NEW LIFE
"Yuu, I wonder how you're doing."

6:50 Break

7:00 Rurouni Kenshin
Episode 31: Never Reaching Feelings...
Kenshin's Departure.

7:25 Saber Marionette J
Episode 5: Faust's Challenge!!

7:50 Break

8:00 Flame of Recca
Episode 12: Kurenai the Flame!
Angel of Death!!

8:25 Child's Toy
Episode 14: The Promised Summer, Part 1

8:50 Break

9:00 Revolutionary Girl Utena
Episode 6: Nanami-sama, Beware!

9:25 Serial Experiments Lain
Layer 06: Kids
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