Anime Night: Someday's Dreamers - Summer Skies

Another Monday another Anime Night. Tonight's showing Someday's Dreamers - Summer Skies is a spiritual successor to the original show Someday's Dreamers. Synopsis from animenewsnetwork.com:

Suzuki Sora is a cheerful country girl from the small town of Bie. She made a promise to her father, and following this promise applies and is accepted for a magic intership in Tokyo, where she will face the life in a big city. While training to get better with her magic, she meets a mysterious boy also practicing to become a mage. While he can not use magic that well and he seems distant and cold at first, Sora's fate intertwines with his and the two are thrown together, learning a lot of new things about life and each other.

The showing will be at 7pm in 101 Morgan and for those not in attendance torrents can be found here at animesuki.

Anime Night: The Daughter of Twenty Faces

Part of why I didn't make a real post last week was that I really didn't expect the showing to be any good and figured everyone's time would be better spent checking out a show I already thought was cool. Turns out Macross Frontier was actually decent, so I'll try not to be prejudiced against giant robots in the future. So if you've already watched a couple episodes of Soul Eater you can find torrents for MF here at animesuki.

On to tonight's showing... which has so many alternate titles I'll just call it The Daughter of Twenty Faces. Here's the synopsis from anime-source:

"Chiko, a girl living with her Aunt and Uncle after her parents untimely death, suspects she is slowly being poisoned by them, in order for them to inherit her parents wealth. Her only joy in life, is reading about the escapades of a Master Thief known as 20 Face. A thief who one day comes to her home to steal a famed Ruby. He takes the Ruby, but also takes Chiko at her request... The only truly valuable thing in the house."

Same bat-time 7:00pm, same bat-channel 2040 VLSB. For those not in attendance, search for the title "Nijuu Mensou no Musume" at the anime-source release search.

Anime Night Post Strike

Defmoose no like waste his time. Defmoose no make anime night post. Defmoose waits until Soul Eater post gets some love or hate. Soul Eater > Macross Frontier anyways. Defmoose break your car with his head! *ROAR*

Anime Night Fall 2008 First Showing

Tonight's showing is the movie Beyond the Clouds and will be at 159 Mulford at UCB. Can't quite tell exactly what it's about but it seems an alternate post-ww2 reality with weird stuff going on in Japan. It's gotten decent reviews on AnimeNfo.com: 8.2/10.0 (58 reviews) so we'll be there with bells on. The Director, Makoto Shinkai, has been called the "New Miyazaki", though he says that is an overstatement, we shall see. [via Cal Animage Alpha]

p.s. Sorry yous guys who can't make it, I couldn't find a seeded torrent for it. =(

Anime Night: Shakugan no Shana Movie

159 Mulfordis the place to be if you want to see the Shakugan no Shana Movie. It's a classic tale of a flame-sword wielding girl and her pet mistes. You know what I'm talking about! Well maybe you don't. It's hard to explain. Anyways this movie is a retelling of the first season of the Shakugan no Shana TV series, which I watched and enjoyed. It wasn't the best show, but from what I've heard/read the movie fixed that. For those not in attendance BT files courtesy of animesuki.com.

Helpful terms below from the CAL Animage Alpha site (there will be a test):

Power of Existence (Sonzai no Chikara): Pretty much exactly what it sounds like, the energy that allows everything to remain in existence.

Torch: A temporary replacement for a human whose existence has been depleted or erased, they fade away after a time, they think and act as if they were the one they are replacing though they are not. Their job is to lessen the shock of the disappearance of people from existence.

Treasure Tool: A special item that often gives it's owner some sort of special ability, sometimes even an unrestriced method.

Mistes: A special kind of torch that contains a treasure tool (though they may or may not be aware of it). Mistes are often hunted by those who want their treasure tools.

Flame Haze: a servant contracted to a Lord of the Crimson realm whose job is to maintain the balance of the world usually by hunting Denizens of the Crimson realm who consume too much power of existence.