This week the Anime Club we will be screening the Rurouni Kenshin OVAs “Trust” and “Betrayal,” prequels to the Rurouni Kenshin manga and TV series set during the battles of the Meiji Restoration. Historical trivia: the 240th anniversary of the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate is a little over a month from now (the last Shogun resigned on November 8, 1867).

Rurouni Kenshin OVAs: TRUST AND BETRAYAL
Barus & Holley Room 190
7:00 PM, Saturday 9/29

Trust and Betrayal tells the story of how Kenshin became the Hitokiri Battousai, and chronicles the events that caused him to switch to a sakabato (reverse-bladed) sword and pledge never to take another human life.

From themanime.org:
It is the midst of the Meiji Revolution, and lives hang in the balance as a nation’s ancient systems of privilege and rank are being overthrown in the span of a heartbeat. The end of the age of samurai draws nigh, and it is during this tumultuous age that young Kenshin comes of age in Kyoto, unaware of the fate that is to befall him.

This is the story of a young man who made the sky rain with blood - the story of a woman who would become his salvation - and the story of how Kenshin gets the scars, both physical and emotional, that he will carry until the day he dies.

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The first regular showing of the semester will be this Saturday (the twenty-second) at 7PM in Barus & Holley 190; this is the room in which we ended up watching Paprika, for those of you who were able to make that. For the rest of you, enter Barus & Holley through the door to the left of the entrance with the wide glass doors that never open (the other entrances will not open) and the room will be on your right.

The showing is 時をかける少女 (The Girl Who Leapt through Time), the first animated adaptation of a popular juvenile novel previously commercialized in, well, every other form imaginable. After an incident in the school laboratory, a girl not quite in high school gains the power to travel through time, and has a lot of fun with it. There’s also something about a bicycle. Runs 100 minutes; winner of the prestigious Mainichi film award, specifically the award previously awarded to Millenium Actress, My Neighbor Totoro, and one of our most popular showings from last year, Memories.

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On behalf of Weihsin:

The library is open!
We’re located in Room 304 of Faunce House. Take the stairs next to the Petteruti Lounge (near the statue of the bear on ice skates) up to the 3rd floor. We’re in the first room on your right.

We have over 100 titles on DVD and VHS. You can check out up to 3 items for 2 weeks, free of charge!

Library hours and librarians:
Mondays 11:00-11:50 AM (Toni)
Tuesdays & Thursdays 3:00-4:00 PM (Weihsin)
Wednesdays & Fridays 12:00-12:50 PM (Dylan)

Questions? Suggestions? Please contact wgui@brown.edu.

Additionally: List of Anime
A PDF format file of our complete library list may be viewed here. (Alternately, right-click and “Save Target As” to download.) This list, and library information, may also be accessed through the Library link at the top of the page.

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Welcome back to Brown, everybody! Our site is back up, we are in the process of changing our mailing list software to make it easier for you all to manage your club membership, and to celebrate the beginning of the semester we are having our first screening of the year this weekend. Paprika is a visually stunning movie, I hope to see you all there.

What: PAPRIKA, by Satoshi Kon
When & Where: Saturday, 7 PM, Barus & Holley 168

Paprika (パプリカ) is a Japanese animated science fiction film, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui’s 1993 novel Paprika, about a female research psychologist involved in a project to develop a device that will permit therapists to help patients by entering their dreams.
The film was directed by Satoshi Kon, animated by Madhouse Studios and produced and distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment. The music was composed by Susumu Hirasawa, who also composed the soundtrack for Kon’s award-winning film, Millennium Actress, and equally lauded television series, Paranoia Agent. –from Wikipedia (link)

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Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro
- Genre: Movie: Supernatural, adventure, family
- Runtime: 86 minutes
- From the creator of Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, and Howl’s Moving Castle
- Synopsis: A Miyazaki classic, My Neighbor Totoro tells the story of two sisters, Satsuki and Mei, who move to a new home and befriend the local forest spirits.
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What: End of Semester Marathon
When: Saturday, December 9, 12:00 Noon-12:00 Midnight
Where: MacMillan 117

Noon - Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro (FOOD will be served!)
1:30 - Kino’s Journey: Episodes 5, 12 and 13
3:00 - Mai-HiME: Episodes 21-26 (finale)

6:00 - DINNER BREAK

7:00 - Tokyo Godfathers (MORE FOOD will be served!)
8:45 - Kino’s Journey: Movie and Episode 0
9:30 - Blue Submarine No. 6

Brief synopses of EoS screenings.

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Sat., 11/11: No screening

Sat., 11/18: Regular screening

Sat., 11/25 (Thanksgiving weekend): No screening

Sat., 12/2: Regular screening

Sat., 12/9 (reading period): End of semester marathon

The end is near! *sob*

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When: Saturday, 11/4
Where: B&H 190
What:

7:00 — Mai-HiME
Episode 13: Night of the Tamayura
- The Tamayura Festival has arrived. What does this mean? That Orphan ass-kicking takes a back seat to relationship drama!
Episode 14: Academy at Target
- The Searrs Foundation and the military attack Fuka Academy in an attempt to capture the HiME. What is it that Alyssa confronts Mashiro about?

8:00 — Kino’s Journey
Episode 3: Land of Prophecies
- Kino and Hermes encounter a land whose Book of Prophecy claims that the end of the world is only one day away. Will this be the end of Kino’s journey, or the beginning of a series of insights into the numerous ways even a single passage can be interpreted?
Episode 4: Land of Adults
- Kino was not always a traveller, nor was she always named Kino. As a child, she grew up in the Land of Adults, a place where adulthood and responsibility is attained by a single operation carried out on every child’s twelfth birthday. As an eleven year old girl, Kino fully expected to undergo the operation and become a ‘perfect adult’, until a mysterious traveller visited her country and opened her eyes to other possibilities…

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It’s Halloween weekend! But before the long night of partying, join us for our weekly screening: Further plot development in Mai-HiME and the beginning of an exciting and stimulating new series!

When: Saturday, 10/28
Where: Barus & Holley 190
What:

7:00 - Mai-HiME
Episode 11: Rondo of Light and Darkness
Episode 12: Angelic Smile
- The HiME deal with what seems like vampire attacks on Fuuka campus. As they get closer to the truth of what is happening, the identity of new HiME are brought to light, and the ambitions of the Searrs Foundation are revealed.

8:00 - Kino’s Journey
Together with her sentient motorcycle Hermes, Kino is a traveler who journeys from country to country, staying in each country for three days to experience what it has to offer.
- 13 episode series. Intelligent, philosophical, self-contained episodes. Mature in content.

Episode 1: Land of Visible Pain
- Kino and Hermes find themselves in a country that seems to be inhabited only by servile machines. Is Kino the only person in the entire country, or will she be able to track down the humans and discover their story?
Episode 2: A Tale of Feeding Off Others
- Kino comes across three starving men who are trapped in the snow. Deciding to save them forces Kino to choose their lives over the lives of the rabbits she must hunt for their food. Will the men prove worthy of the choice and obligation Kino has made, and will they in turn respect the implicit obligation they have to Kino?

[Kino's Journey info cited from TV.com]

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This weekend is Parent’s Weekend, and everyone will be especially busy, but we can’t waste precious time! To compensate, this week’s screening will be shorter than usual.

When: Saturday, 10/21
Where: Barus & Holley 190
What:

7:00 - Mai-HiME
Episode 9: The Sea, Maidens, and Natsuki’s Secret
- Beach episode! ~with plot carefully interlaced~ Why does Natsuki fight? A bit of her past is revealed…
Episode 10: The Great Cake Battle!!!!
- It’s a cake baking contest, except no one knows how to bake, and apparently, cake is Orphan bait. Oh joy!

8:00 - Cat Soup
30 minute experimental movie
- Nyatto must travel to Hell to retrieve his sister’s soul.
** Often referred to as “Hello Kitty on Crack,” i.e. cute, trippy, and totally-wrong-but-oh-so-good.

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