First Spring PAC meeting Sunday, April 3rd at 1:00PM!

Hey anime fans! Did you like how we rolled at MegaCon!? We hope you had fun! We have a bunch to wrap up in regards to that but we do want to get back to showing off some cool anime! Our first meeting of the Spring quarter will be on Sunday, April 3rd at 1PM at Full Sail University in FS3F-112 in Building 3F! (Near Wendy's)

For those who've never been to a PAC meeting, it's free and we watch a bunch of anime and have some lively discussions about what we watch. Since MegaCon just finished, there will be much to discuss about the weekend. We show several on-going series, followed by a feature to wrap up the meeting in an awesome way!

Speaking of features, we will be showing the first movie Hayao Miyazaki ever directed, and that will be Castle of Cagliostro! It stars the cast of Lupin III going for another caper that deals with an evil baron and his plans to produce high quality counterfeit bills from all the major nations, all while forcefully marrying a girl that has caught Lupin's eye!

But that is not all! We start watching three series this meeting! We have the fantasy classic, Record of Lodoss War, which is essentially a Dungeons and Dragons campaign. Then there is Gainax's stylish mecha classic Gunbuster, and then we have a newer series that fans of Baccano! should like in Durarara!!

Created by Baccano's Ryohgo Barita, Durarara!! is about a dullahan working as an underworld courier in Ikebukuro, Japan, an internet-based anonymous gang called Dollars, and the chaos that unfolds around the most dangerous people in Ikebukuro.

Planned Schedule

1:00PM - Introductions and MegaCon discussion

1:15PM - Record of Lodoss War 1 & 2

2:05PM - Gunbuster 1 & 2
3:10PM - Intermission (This means hang out, get food, etc.)

3:35PM - Durarara!! 1 & 2

4:25PM - Castle of Cagliostro

As always, feel free to come in forever you want to see! We have a lot of great stuff lined up! Also, check out our next Anime Nite @ The Geek Easy!

Next Propeller Anime Club meeting on Saturday, March 5th!

Finally, the day is coming quick! It's on order and on its way into my hands to show to you, anime fans! Saturday, March 5th will be the Propeller Anime Club meeting where we will show FLCL... Fooly Cooly!

That's right! Gainax's work that shaped the state of anime fandom a decade ago is back on BluRay and still kickin' ass! Rickenbacker 4001 will be swung with little regard for life itself!

The fun and excitement begins on Saturday, March 5th at 1:15PM in FS3F-111 in Building 3F at Full Sail University. We'll start off with our regular series - which includes finishing of Black Lagoon - and then head into the first half of Fooly Cooly!

If you found out about us from our Anime Nite @ The Geek Easy, feel free to come in whenever you can!

Planned Schedule

1:15PM - Introduction and News

1:30PM - Cromartie High School 18 - 22

2:30PM - Mobile Suit Gundam: The 8th M.S. Team 9 & 10

3:25PM - Intermission

3:50PM - Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage 11 & 12 (END)

4:50PM - FLCL 1 - 3

In Cromartie High School, we've witnessed Kamiyama win the Japan Boss Tournament and Mechazawa becoming a motorcycle. Now, they team up to take on the fastest man on a motorcycle! Other highlights include Freddie taking Pootan's job and Maeda getting kidnapped by Bass High... again.

Last time in Mobile Suit Gundam: The 8th M.S. Team, Shiro confessed his feelings for Aina and their brief time together has been discovered by both the Earth Federation and Zeon. After a tragic battle to save Kiki's village, Shiro must await his sentence as he has been accused of treason. As the One Year War draws to a close, action really heats up in the jungle and... is that a new Gundam!?

We watched a big chunk of Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage at the last meeting and will be finishing it this time! Hotel Moscow has escalated the war with the Washimine yakuza group and the Lagoon Company has taken their side! Rock has come back to Japan to sever ties with his former life; will he be able to do it or will Balalaika put a bullet in his head? And how many people will Revy kill this time!?

It's going to be an action-packed meeting! Hope to see you there!

Next meeting on Sunday, November 21st!

The next Propeller Anime Club meeting will be on Sunday, November 21st at 1pm in FS3B-113 at Full Sail University! This meeting will be most exciting because a mostly overlooked classic will be our feature! Not only that, but we start another short OVA series while continuing some others!

I didn't do a recap for the last meeting but fun was had! We finished Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 and nobody laughed that time! Not only that, we ventured from the 2000 OVA of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure to the 1993 one, and it was awesome!

Next meeting, our feature will be Royal Space Force: Wings of Honneamise! This is actually the first commercial work of Gainax and perhaps their greatest. It is set in an alternate world during a space race starring an unmotivated young man who is billed as a hero when he becomes the next candidate astronaut to be sent into space. (All others have died.) Here's a good trailer!

The animation is beautiful and a lot of attention is put into building the unique world this movie takes place in. Moreover, many of the things done in the movie have never been done before in anime and have yet to be duplicated.

It's almost hard to believe that a lot of the work done on this movie was done by college students and recent graduates who got funding because they made an animated short for science fiction convention in Japan. With that said, this movie will be shown as a means to inspire many of you who are students right now because it is never too early to make something awesome!

What else are we showing? We'll continue Golden Boy, the story of a young man who is a genius that travels Japan solving critical problems on his journeys as a student of life. He'll get into trouble many times since he is a pervert and there will be fanservice, but not of 12 year old girls like you would see in modern anime. If you missed it last meeting, do not worry because the show is very episodic and you don't even need to see the first episode to get any of the others.

Also, we will be showing Jojo's Bizarre Adventure!!!!! Why all the exclamation points, you wonder? Well, we get to see Jotaro and Iggy - who is a dog AND a powerful stand user - team up to take on Geb, the latest of obstacles set by Dio. But that is not all! The episode after that has one of the MANLIEST moments in all of anime. Everyone MUST see it! You can bet your life that it will be awesome.

Last but not least is the final new series we will show this year, Bastard!! It's a dark fantasy tale about a strong wizard who was sealed in the body of a 14 year old boy who is unsealed to fight the Four Lords of Havok that he once led! The wizard Dark Schneider is such a pimp and a badass that it's hard to believe that this anime was based on a Shonen Jump manga.

Planned Schedule:

1:00pm: Introduction and News

1:20pm: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

2:25pm: Golden Boy

3:20pm: Bastard!!

4:20pm: Royal Space Force: Wings of Honneamise

That's it for now, see you all soon! Maybe sooner than you think since we are getting together to see the Rocky Horror Picture Show tonight!