Recap of the last meeting! 9/26/10 edition!

 

Yesterday's meeting was fun and we even ended it with an unexpected trip to Steak n Shake! It was grossly delicious!

NEWS

• The 4th Year Propeller Anime Club party will be on Saturday, October 23rd at night! A time and location will be announced! But the plan is to dress up in costume(optional), enjoy sweets and snacks, watch a horror anime, and then go to Rocky's Replay! Fantastic!
• A lot of new people have been coming to meetings lately! Awesome stuff!
• Anime Spot is doing a Murder Mystery Night on Saturday, October 16th at the UCF Student Union. Details here: http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=155096904512037
• The first 13 episodes of Golgo 13 are available on Netflix to stream! Be a badass and watch it by the window!
• A new Berserk anime project has been announced and it is 100% for real! What a manly news week!

RECAPS

Black Lagoon

• In Black Lagoon, Rock and Revy have a crazy lovers quarrel of sorts. It gets very deep, and Rock almost gets shot in the head. He seriously manned up.
• The Lagoon Company is transporting a kidnapped boy to a Colombian cartel. The boy is the son of a sorta wealthy South American family. The family has sent their maid, Roberta, to rescue him and kill lots of people. Yeah, she's that kind of maid!

Tokyo Magnitude 8.0

• In Tokyo Magnitude 8.0, Mirai, Yuki, and Mari take shelter at Mirai's school, where they witness several people who have lost love ones during the disaster. There are more aftershocks but nothing serious.
• The next day, Mari starts freaking out when news breaks out that her neighborhood is on fire. Fearful of her daughter's fate, she collapses. After she wakes up, the group goes back on their journey.

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

• Jojo's Bizarre Adventure began! We are introduced to the Joestar bloodline, starting off with Jonathan Joestar being killed by the vampire head of Dio Brando early on. 100 years later, his great, great grandson Jotaro Kujo has decided to stay in jail because he is haunted by an evil spirit who violently beats up people while yelling out ORAORAORAORAORA!
• Jotaro's grandfather and designated badass Joseph Joestar visits him and explains that the evil spirit is a Stand, a semi-physical spiritual manifestation of one's power. After Magician's Red stand user Avdol tricks Jotaro in leaving his cell, Joseph explains that they must kill Dio once and for all, as he has returned and taken Jonathan Joestar's body as his own!
• In the next episode, Jotaro meets the first of Dio's assassins, Noriyaki Kakyoin. (He is supposed to be the bishonen in the manga but they is not reflected in the anime!)
• After going Kenshiro on his ass, Jotaro and his group discover that Kakyoin was unwillingly under Dio's control. Once they save him, Kakyoin joins their group and they head on their bizarre adventure to Egypt to kill Dio, but not before Avdol names Jotaro's stand Star Platinum.

Evangelion 2.22

• Our feature was Evangelion 2.22: You Can (Not) Advance. Some cool robot vs monster fights happened and it looked very awesome! High quality animation for sure! They also introduced a new Eva pilot named Mari whose function is to sell toys and statues to creepy otaku in Akihabara so that the third and fourth Rebuild movies can be made.
• In addition, Shinji and Rei secretly love each other! And Unit 01 has a halo over its head when it goes berserk!
• Third Impact has also started! That wasn't in the television series!

Our next meeting will be on Sunday, October 10th! Our main feature will be Lupin III: The Last Job! Hope to see you there!

Next Propeller Anime Club meeting on Sunday, September 26th!

ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORA!

The next meeting of the Propeller Anime Club, if I do not die or end up in jail during my trip to Anime Weekend Atlanta, will be on Sunday, September 26th at 1pm in FS3F-112 at Full Sail University. That room was not bad at all so let's do it there again!

As you may know, last meeting, we decided to send Samurai 7 to the graveyard. In it's place is the start of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure! It's based on Part 3 of the Shonen Jump manga series, Stardust Crusaders. This is where the series gains it's own identity as it introduces stands, the pychic manifestation of a person's power. They can do all sorts of things and not all stands are used for fighting.

The plot goes roughly like this: Dio Brando, the century-long enemy of the Joestar family, is back and he has taken Jonathan Joestar's body! (Jonathan is the first hero of Part 1 and used special martial arts to fight the undead, before that got played out.) With this, he acquires the stand known as "The World" and triggers the appearance of stands for every member of the Joestar bloodline! Josef Joestar, the hero of Part 2 and designated bad mofo will take his grandson Jotaro Kujo on a adventure from Japan to Egypt to kill Dio once and for all! And it will be bizarre!

We'll be starting the series from episodes 1 and 2 of the 2000 OVA! In addition, we will show episodes 7 & 8 of Black Lagoon and episodes 5 and 6 of Tokyo Magnitude 8.0.

Our main feature will be Evangelion 2.22: You Can (Not) Advance. We watched the first movie a long time ago and now we get to see the second one! It goes in a completely different direction than the original series. Everything you thought you knew about Eva will change!

Thanks for the love, FUNimation!

Remember that super cool dude Rojas we met at MegaCon? With the pretty hair? Yeah he's a pretty cool guy who sells anime and doesn't afraid of anything. We also stay in touch and he just put up a nice post on FUNimation's blog about the Kanpai, Anime! event happening next Tuesday!

You can read about it here. As for the event itself, a Facebook page has been created for it. RSVP for it and show up! It will be awesome! We're showing the BluRay of Evangelion 1.11: You Are (Not) Alone. The event is free and at Tatame Lounge at 223 W. Fairbanks Ave. Winter Park, FL.

He was also nice enough to link to this blog, which I am very appreciative of! For those who found us through there, we meet twice a month at Full Sail University. You do not have to be a Full Sail student to come to meetings but you do have to be over the age of 18. We also ask that you don't be some crazy fanatic about anything(i.e. a Narutard or any other series equivalent).

If those two things don't apply to you, then you are welcome to our meetings! We show lots of cool stuff and finish each meeting off with a feature showing(like a movie or short OVA). We also do events at conventions like MegaCon and the upcoming Anime Festival Orlando.

Our next meeting will be on Sunday, July 11th! We'll be doing a super robot anime potluck to show off some of the coolest anime Japan has ever made. More details will come soon!

Recap of yesterday's meeting! 6/6/10 edition!

News

• A new anime night hosted by yours truly will be showing up at Tatame Lounge in Winter Park! It's called Kanpai, Anime! and it will take place on the last Tuesday of every month. The goal is to show an noteworthy anime film to an adult crowd while sake and tea is consumed. The first one will be on June 29th and the showing will be Evangelion 1.11: You Are (Not) Alone!
• Our friend David M. had to leave Florida to return to his home state. The circumstances are unfortunate and we wish him the best! Stay in touch, dude!
• A new member came into club who is not a film student! Nothing against film students, but diversity in the club is a good thing!
• Nothing new on the future hangout with Anime Spot. They did have a meeting after ours so hopefully, they figured out what the want to do with us. I did mention that I suggest Boardwalk Bowl as an idea to them.
• Once Gungrave ends, members of the club want Black Lagoon to take it's place.

Mystery Feature

As you can tell from the top image, our mystery feature was indeed Studio Ghibli and Isao Takahata's Grave of the Fireflies, a World War II movie that shows the tragic and desperate struggle of two orphaned children as Japan fell to America. While sometimes light hearted, it is an overall depressing film that shows the harsh tragedies of war from the perspective of the losing side.

For that reason, Grave of the Fireflies is considered a taboo movie to show at anime clubs across the nation. Obviously I had to show it. The chances that some club members have never seen the movie and otherwise may not have been exposed to it made me feel obligated to do so. I also find this to be one of the most mature things that we could possibly show and I strongly feel that it would have been a good experience for some of the younger club members to watch this. 

I wanted this showing to be a mystery because I didn't want to scare anyone off from attending the meeting. Nobody in club would intentionally go to feel sadness so it had to be a secret. This is a strong film and I am proud of everyone who watched it yesterday. For club regulars who were not there: imagine two hours where everyone was silent, not playing games, and focused intently on watching the film. It's a feat that sounds impossible, but that is the power this movie possesses.

This club doesn't have to be like other clubs that have plagued themselves with yaoi and moe fandom, or have regulated their showings to cheap thrill anime that offer instant gratification but are ultimately shallow. While we have shown those kind of works in the past(well, not the yaoi), it is definitely a positive that this club is sometimes able to watch anime that can be serious, thoughtful, and artistic.

With that being said, how did you all feel about watching this movie yesterday? Have you seen it before or was this your first time? I would like to know those things.

Propeller Anime Club to announce first batch of events for Anime Festival Orlando XI!

Calling out all local fans of Japanese Anime!

Propeller Anime Club, one of the strongest growing clubs in Florida focused on the interest and promotion of Japanese Anime, will be hosting a solid lineup of events at this year's Anime Festival Orlando! In its eleventh year, Anime Festival Orlando is Florida's favorite anime convention!

How could that be, you ask? AFO services the local anime community by bringing in well known and interesting industry guests to meet and talk with fans, by hosting fun and interactive game-shows all weekend, by showing some of the best of both new and classic anime in their theater seating viewing rooms, and by having a solid schedule of exciting events throughout the entire convention. That's just the tip of the iceberg! Anime fans do not rest and neither does AFO!

Anime Festival Orlando takes place August 5th through 8th at the Wyndham Orlando Resort on International Drive and Sand Lake Road. If you have not registered to get a pass at AFO, you can do so right now.

We at the Propeller Anime Club will be hosting many events and we'll be involved in the ongoing battle in Skies of Orlandia, an interactive convention experience that attendees of AFO can participate in at any time during he convention. PAC's involvement in the Skies of Orlandia game will be discussed at a later time. For now, we have three awesome events that we'd like to officially announce!


Otaku Survival Guide

Think you’re an Otaku? Don’t know what one really is? Or maybe you’re looking for ways to live in this crazy world as one? Whatever your questions may be, come and find out all the information for your American Otaku lifestyle, and get tips on further delving into your obsession. More...

 
It's MANIME! The Manly Anime Panel!

Grow some hair on your chest and learn what is to be a true man! This one is for fans of series such as Fist of the North Star, Berserk, and other testosterone-filled classics! Both old and new anime of manly proportions shall be covered and you will even learn the gospel that is the Twelve Laws of True Man!  More...

Rebirth of Evangelion

Neon Genesis Evangelion: A mile-stone in anime history, and still one of the greatest anime of all time. Want to know more about it, or maybe you’ve never even heard of it? Whatever your depth into the world of Eva may be, come in and learn all about the original series all the way to the rebuilds. More...


We'll have more events to announce over time! All of which will deal with topics in anime, videogames, or Japanese culture. Our panels are always fun, informative, and entertaining. Those are the essential qualities that the members of the Propeller Anime Club strive to accomplish with their events!

We look forward to seeing you at our events at Anime Festival Orlando XI!

Guide to MegaCon 2010: Anime Main Events

MegaCon - Florida's largest comic book, sci-fi, anime, and gaming convention - will take place in beautiful Orlando, Florida from Friday, March 12th to Sunday, March 14th in the Orange County County Convention Center. MegaCon hosts a large dealers hall, guest from all over the entertainment industry, and a wide variety of contests, panels, and other fun for fans to participate in! More details about the convention can be found at www.megaconvention.com!

Once again, Anime Sushi brings you: the biggest anime costume contest in Florida, the legendary Cyberia Dance "big anime themed dance party", AMV and Ninja Olympics; with discussion panels for cosplay, anime, art, gaming, Japanese culture and more. We will also be bringing you guests from the anime industry and show hours of the newest anime in Japan on our 10’ x 14’ screens.

Look what’s going on in all three anime event rooms. Plus a forth room with the newest anime videos from Japan

Main Events in rooms W224 F, G, & H

Friday, March 12th

Pocky Photo Patrol <3 Contest Sponsored by Glico
1:00pm – 2:00pm in W224 F, G, & H
Hosted by Anime Sushi
www.animesushi.com

The Pocky-lypse is upon us. Your mission: to take as many pictures as possible of people having fun with Pocky. You must be present, signed in, and have a digital camera of some sort. Pictures must be submitted no later than 1PM Sunday for judging. Prizes will be awarded Sunday afternoon in the Main Event Lobby.

Voice Actor Neil Kaplin
2:00pm – 3:00pm in W224 F, G, & H

Most famous for Starcraft, Digimon and character: Optimus Prime in Transformers: Robots in Disguise.

Voice Acting with Cherami Leigh
3:00pm – 4:00pm in W224 F, G, & H

FUNimation voice actress Cherami Leigh will introduce you to what it is like to be a voice actress for anime such as Soul Eater, Peach Girl, and Sgt. Frog.

Acting 101 with Chuck Huber
4:00pm – 5:00pm in W224 F, G, & H

Learn the three key skills for any type of acting and have a blast doing it. Encompassing games and exercises designed to loosen you up and free your imagination and culled from his time studying at the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago this will be a productive hour. First twelve people in line get to participate while all are invited to listen and watch from the audience.

Anime Directing & Auditing with Sonny Strait
5:00pm – 6:00pm in W224 F, G, & H
sonnystrait.biz

Sonny Strait, director of such shows as Dragonball, Dragonball Z, Case Closed, Lupin III (and many more) goes over the processes of directing as well as what directors look for in casting. Learn what it takes to make it in the business and how not to tick a director off. Learn tips for giving a good read to your director as well as getting good reads when directing

Voice Acting with Darrel Guilbeau
6:00pm – 7:00pm in W224 F, G, & H

Darrel Guilbeau has been active in voice acting since 2004, working on Dynasty Warriors 6, Samurai Champloo, Overman King Gainer, as well as many other anime and videogames.

Rebirth of Evangelion
7:00pm – 8:00pm in W224 F, G, & H
Hosted by Corey “Waldo” Waldusky and Emilio Lopez-Centellas
propelleranimeclub.blogspot.com

Neon Genesis Evangelion: A mile-stone in anime history, and still one of the greatest anime of all time. Want to know more about it, or maybe you’ve never even heard of it? Whatever your depth into the world of Eva may be, come in and learn all about the original series all the way to the rebuilds.

FUNimation presents Rebuild of Evangelion 1.11: You Are (Not) Alone
8:00 pm – 10:00 pm in W224 F, G, & H
Hosted by FUNimation
www.funimation.com/evangelion

A special showing of the English dub of Evangelion 1.11: You Are (Not) Alone! It’s the first of four movies that retells the story of the classic Neon Genesis Evangelion with a bold new direction!

Saturday, March 13th

Cosplay: Above and Beyond
10:00am – 11:00am in W224 F, G, & H
Hosted by Team Awesome

Alright, you can sew, you can paint, you can hem….now what? For cosplayers looking to go above and beyond with their next project, join Team Awesome as they share with you tips and tricks on bringing your costume to the next level. There will be special emphasis on how to make an impact on the competitive level, how to present your work to judges and just what goes into making an award-winning costume. Tutorials, resources and community info will also be made available for those looking to become more involved with local costume enthusiasts.

Voice Actor: Chuck Heber
11:00am – 11:30am in W224 F, G, & H

The voice of Hiei in Yu Yu Hakusho and Franken Stein in Soul Eater talks!

Voice Actor: Sonny Strait
11:30am – 12:00pm in W224 F, G, & H
The voice of memorable characters such as Maes Hughes, Krillin, and Arsene Lupin III!

Voice Actor: Darrel Guilbeau
12:00pm – 12:30pm in W224 F, G, & H

Anime and videogame voice actor Darrel Guilbeau discusses his past 6 years in voice acting!

Voice Actress: Cherami Leigh
12:30pm – 1:00pm in W224 F, G, & H

Appearing Peach Girl, Soul Eater, and School Rumble has much to share about her experiences as a voice actress.

FUNimation presents Soul Eater
1:00pm – 2:00pm in W224 F, G, & H
Hosted by FUNimation
www.funimation.com/souleater

A special English language showing of Soul Eater! From the studio that worked on Full Metal Alchemist comes a series about kids who train to become weapon meisters by collecting the souls of 99 evil humans and 1 witch! If you like Naruto and Bleach, then this will be the next big thing in anime for you!

Voice Actor Neil Kaplin
2:00pm – 3:00pm in W224 F, G, & H

Most famous for Starcraft, Digimon and character: Optimus Prime in Transformers: Robots in Disguise.

Anime Costume Contest
4:30pm – 6:30pm in W224 B, C, D, F, G, & H
Hosted by Anime Sushi
www.animesushi.com

This is MegaCon’s 11th annual anime costume contest! Whether you are a competing or not, you will not want to miss over 200 cosplayers compete for prizes!

CYBERIA Dance Party
8:00pm – 11:00pm in W224 A-H
Hosted by Anime Sushi
www.animesushi.com

CYBERIA is a high-energy Anime themed techno dance with the freshest music from Japan and Europe. As always, the dance is FREE to convention attendees! Convention pass is required for entry.

Sunday, March 14th

[b]FUNimation presents Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood[/u]
10:00am – 11:00am in W224 F, G, & H
Hosted by FUNimation
www.fullmetalalchemist.com

It’s the retelling of the Full Metal Alchemist story that’s darker and more grown up than before! The Elric Brothers are still again on their quest to recover their bodies lost in an alchemy experiment gone wrong, but now there will be new characters, locations, and story arcs not seen in any other FMA anime!

Ninja Olympics
11:00am – 1:00pm in W224 F, G, & H
Hosted by Propeller Anime Club
propelleranimeclub.blogspot.com

Do you and your buddies want to become supreme ninja masters? Of course you do! Being a ninja means you get to stand on a mountain top, play guitar, and make people’s heads explode with the sheer power of your awesomeness! The first step in your way of the ninja is to compete in the Ninja Olympics and test your physical and mental abilities in against other ninja teams! The team with best harmony will be the supreme ninja masters who take the golden shuriken home to their ninja village! Not only that, the top ninja teams will win prizes provided the ninja elite of MegaCon!

Anime Sushi AMV Contest
2:00pm – 3:30pm in W224 F, G, & H
Hosted by Anime Sushi
www.animesushi.com

It’s Anime Sushi’s 4th Annual Anime Music Video Contest! Don’t miss the many great entries competing for prizes and the chance to cheer on your favorites!

Pretentious Internet Theatre
3:30pm – 5:00pm in W224 F, G, & H
Hosted by DJ Megaplay
www.animesushi.com

The podcast that brings you the finest in fan-fiction comes to MegaCon. We'll be reading a classic and recording an episode live. You could be part of the show!


There's a lot to do at MegaCon this year and be sure to check out the Anime Special Events as well as the Workshops and Panels!

Guide to MegaCon 2010: Propeller Anime Club Panels

I have introduced you to what MegaCon is and how to survive the experience. Not only that, we have announced the Ninja Olympics, the Quickdraw! Contest, and Karaoke as some of the big events that our club is hosting!

Our club has grown and done a good job to secretly establish itself in the local anime community here in Orlando. We have four conventions under our belt and MegaCon 2010 will be our first big step out of the shadows of other groups. I'm really proud of what the club has become and all the hard work our members have contributed.

Many members of the Propeller Anime Club will be volunteering to help out in the Anime Events Track at MegaCon and some of use will be doing panels in addition to the events we have previously announced.

Our first event of the convention, Propeller Anime Potluck, looks like it may be a "filler event" as it is simply showing older anime that predates Inuyasha and Naruto. It kinda is but it's more of a club meeting we are having at MegaCon. We'll be showing the first episodes of some classic anime and we'll hang out and socialize like we normally do at our campus meetings. Anime that we have toyed around with showing include Berserk, Ranma 1/2, Those who Hunt Elves, and Super Dimensional Fortess Macross. We haven't finalized that yet but we hope that you can join us. We'll have candy!

Right after that, I will be doing a panel called Anime is Already Dead? It will chronicle the rise and fall of anime in the 2000s, what went right and wrong, and what directions Japan needs to go in with the direction of it's anime in order to capture that real "Cool Japan" spirit the country keeps talking about.

Anime kids at conventions are weird and sometimes forget that they are out in public. They do things that the rest of the con-goers frown upon and they don't even realize what they are doing. Not only that, many anime fans in general show up to conventions unprepared. Last year, I was part of a Sunday rant panel that covered a lot of issues we had concerns with and I did snap a couple times. But this year, myself and others felt that it may be more proactive to discuss these issues and more(like how to talk to girls at conventions) in a Friday afternoon panel. This way, people can take from it valuable information that they can use throughout the weekend. As an inside joke, we have titled the event The Panel about Everything!

The last event from our club on Friday will be Rebuild of Evangelion, hosted by both Waldo and Emilio. It will be in Main Events(W224 F,G,H) and will be followed up by Funimation's showing of Evangelion 1.11 You Are (Not) Alone. Waldo is extremely knowledgeable of Evangelion to the point that is sometimes scary and both him and Emilio put on an entertaining panel each time.

Saturday morning, Zak, Steve, and Naro will tell us How to be a Pokemon Master! It will cover many things Pokemon from the beginning to where Ash and crew are now. In addition, they will discuss and celebrate the next day release of Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver, coming do a Nintendo DS near you!

In the afternoon, I will be doing It's MANIME! The Manly Anime Panel with my partner Brotha Kyo! I don't need to even tell you what it's about. If you aren't there then you have already failed at MegaCon. Yes, I am that confident that you will enjoy the event. It might even change your life and make you a better person for attending.

Right after that, Waldo and Roger will be doing the Otaku Survival Guide, which will cover what an anime otaku really is and how to guide yourself into the obsession with otaku law and anime recommendations covered.

We have a lot of big events on Sunday, but Emilio will be doing The Analysis of G.I.T.S. - Ghost in the Shell in he afternoon. Ghost in the Shell is still one of the most important science fiction anime franchises to exist, helping anime harpoon into mainstream in the late 90s with the release of it's first film. If you are unfamiliar with the movies, manga, or television series: first off, shame on you! Second, make sure you go to this panel so that you may see what you have been missing out on!

We have a lot going on at MegaCon, and we hope to see you at our events. But we are just a part of the anime fun going on. March 12-14th will be an awesome time thanks to many groups and people that will be involved. Once the events schedule is finalized, we will cover the rest of the fun! Stay tuned!