Next Propeller Anime Club Meeting on Sunday, April 17th!

The next Propeller Anime Club meeting will be on Sunday, April 9th at 1:00PM in FS3F-112 at Full Sail University in Building 3F. It will be a little shorter, due to our main feature's length. But that's okay because the night before, we're seeing REDLINE!

Planned Schedule

1:00PM - Introduction and News

1:15PM - Record of Lodoss War 3 & 4
2:05PM - Gunbuster 3 & 4

3:10PM - Intermission(This means hang out, get food, etc.)

3:35PM - Durarara! 3 & 4
4:25PM - Kigeki
4:35PM - Legend of Koizumi

Kigeki is a 10 minute animated short from director Kazuto Nakazawa, who has done key animation for Roujin Z and Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture. 

The main feature is the short, but sweet Legend of Koizumi. It's about Junichiro Koizumi's epic mahjong battles against other world leaders while on diplomatic trips throughout the world. Koizumi is a former prime minister of Japan. Both Bush presidents and Vladmir Putin will be in this, and some people(probably not us) will be offended.

In Record of Lodoss War, a party of adventurers have formed: Parn the Knight, Deedlit the elf, Ghim the dwarf, Woodchuck the thief, Slayn the wizard, and Etoh the cleric. In a flashback we learn that Parn and his group have been tasked by King Fahn to find the sage, Wort, to see if he can provide them any information about Karla, the Gray Witch. During their adventure they had to fight and slay a dragon.

In Gunbuster, an all-girl school are training to pilot a new weapon known as the Gunbuster to get ready in case another war with the aliens take place. The main character, Noriko Takaya, is the daughter of a famous space admiral but lacks the skills to be a pilot. Overtime, she has to overcome her problems because another war is coming...

In Durarara!! a ton of characters are introduced and it will take a but to get used to everyone. Unlike Baccano! the story is told in a linear fashion. We discover that Ikebukuro is a dangerous place featuring some of the toughest street thugs, gang members, and even a headless biker.

We look forward to seeing you at the next meeting!

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!

Recap of yesterday's meeting! 3/20/11 edition!

Man, that was a great way to end the quarter! We had exciting finishes to Cromartie High School, Mobile Suit Gundam: The 8th M.S. Team, and FLCL!

We also got to do a test run of Anime Debate Tournament, a new event to be held at this year's MegaCon! We had four teams of three debate over topics such as "Tengen Toppa Gurren Laggan is a manly anime" "Anime needs more black people" and "Vic Mignogna is still a contender to headline conventions and anime."

It was great discussion overall, and we got to refine the rules of the event before it goes live at 5PM this Friday in W224D of the Orange County Convention Center. Sign-ups will be held at our table in front of W224B from 1PM to 4:30PM. You should check out the details and rules of the event here.

We also determined what anime we shall show in April, May, and June. For series, we shall have Record of Lodoss War, Gunbuster vs Diebuster, and Durarara!! For features the club selected Castle of Cagliostro, Legend of Koizumi, One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island, Arcadia of my Youth, Armitage III, and Interstella 5555!

With these, the upcoming showing of REDLINE at the Florida Film Festival in April, and our Anime Nites @ The Geek Easy, it's going to be a great spring! Our first meeting of the next quarter will begin on Sunday, April 3rd!

By the way, if you are going to MegaCon this weekend and have a smart phone with access to twitter, please follow us @PropellerAnime so you can get full updates on our events at the convention!

Next Propeller Anime Club meeting on Sunday, March 20th!

The next meeting of Propeller Anime Club will be on Sunday, March 20th at 1pm in FS3F-111 in Building 3F at Full Sail University. This will be the last meeting before MegaCon, and our last meeting of the first quarter of 2011. This means we end three series and decided where to go next. But that is not all! We have an event to test run!

Did organizing the schedule into quarters work for meetings? Did we watch some cool stuff? What will we start in April? Will Cromartie High School ever make sense?

Planned Schedule

1:00PM - Introduction and News

1:10PM - Cromartie High School 22 - 26 (END)

2:00PM - Mobile Suit Gundam: The 8th M.S. Team (END)

3:00PM - Intermission

3:25PM - Anime Debate Tournament: Test Run

4:15PM - FLCL 4 - 6 (END)

5:25PM - Decide The Anime Q2

Anime Debate Tournament Test Run



We are debating Anime Debate Tournament at MegaCon days later and some of us want to do a test run to make sure we are ready for the primetime! What does this mean for us? Well, we need three (3) teams of three (3) contestants to participate in the event. This will give our emcee a chance to warm up and the rest of staff to determine the flow.

Check the rules of our event and see if you want to form teams. Everyone who participates gets candy!

Decide The Anime Q2

Last December, we looked at what anime we would show starting this year. We will be finishing all of those on Sunday! With that said, we need to figure out what we will watch as a club! So I have listened to some suggestions and have also thought heavily on interesting anime the club needs to see and would enjoy.

Twelve (12) series and twelve (12) features are being put up for vote. For the second quarter that goes from April to June, three (3) series and (6) six features will be selected by you guys! It's a lot of great stuff from different genres and eras, including some newer stuff.

I'll go over what each anime is and why it's interesting and you will let me know which ones you like and would totally come to meetings to watch without staring at FaceBook or World of Warcraft the whole time. The anime that get the most amount of likes will be the ones we show. It's that simple!

Cromartie High School

Oh Cromartie, you are so crazy and badass! We will miss your crazy logic, your absurd conversations that are completely irreverent, and most of all... we will miss Freddie. Gorilla will star in a couple of these episodes and there will be a surprise ending that may mess with some of you guys!

Mobile Suit Gundam: The 8th M.S. Team

Man, the last few episodes have been amazing. Shiro and Aina have become lovers. Ginias has become mad during the creation of Zeon's Apsalus mobile armor. Shiro has faced pending court martial only to quit the Earth Federation and fight for his own justice. And Aina is now forced to pilot the Apsalus against the man whom she loves. It's the end of a Gundam story so expect death tolls on both sides and an all-out explosive finish!

FLCL 4 -6

This series is all over the place. We have a kid with horns coming out of his head that become monsters, an out-of-this-world chick who fights them with a bass guitar, and a robot that was a monster that merges with the kid to become a super monster-fighting machine! Oh and there is a lot of "Fooly Cooly" going on, whatever that means...

It's the most bizarre coming of age story ever told in anime and we shall finish it up this upcoming meeting! See you there!

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!

Recap of today's meeting, 2/20/11 edition!

IT'S PAC BAYBEE! GET YOUR SCOOPS! I think a certain fighting game that stars superheroes and Mike Haggar somehow prevented people from coming to the meeting. That and people having to make movies.

Unfortunately, we were not able to show 5 Centimeters Per Second today due to an audio problem and instead showed an additional two episodes of Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage, perhaps one of the most popular anime series we have ever shown in club.

It looks like gangster stories are of interest in club since we compared today's episodes to the beginning of Gungrave. That was generally liked and then they brought in zombie-like creatures and other weird stuff...

Anyways, here is the news you need to know!

• Summer Wars came out this past week. If you like good anime movies, check it out! Mamoru Hosoda(The Girl Who Leapt Through Time) directed it along with studio Madhouse!
• On March 3rd at 8PM, we'll be doing an event called Anime Nite @ The Geek Easy. It will be at A Comic Shop! Please come out for some fun!
• The next club meeting has been moved to Saturday, March 5th as to not compete with Pokemon Black & White's release.
• We'll be getting together for bowling at the Aloma Bowl on Sunday, March 13th! Details to come.
• We hyped the hell out our MegaCon events this past week. Make plans to go!

In Cromartie High School, we learned that the best way to handle trolls is to deck them in broad daylight in a crowded area. There will totally be no consequences to that. Also, Kamiyama won the Japan Boss Tournament for his knowledge of dairy products. We also learned survival in the wilderness from Freddie as he scaled mountains and crossed rivers to get to the nearest 24/7 ramen shop!

Things have started to get real serious in Mobile Suit Gundam: The 8th M.S. Team. Shiro and Aina have reunited in in battle and had to team up with each other in order to survive the harsh climate. This results in Shiro confessing his love for Aina and then getting naked in a conveniently nearby hot spring with her. Good for him!

Then he recieved a court martial because of his time with Aina and had to sneak away from confinement with his subordinates to rescue the guerrilla village Kiki lived at. They weren't actually under attack by Zeon, they were just there. However, one launched bazooka missile kills a Zeon soldier and all hell breaks loose!

Kiki's father, who is not Sagat, gets killed in battle. Then Shiro sheds manly tears and takes a deadly shot at his enemy. The village reels from the tragedy and next we will see what consequences Shiro and his team will face for going out into battle

A new mission started in Black Lagoon: Second Barrage. Rock has been hired by Hotel Moscow to serve as a translator for a deal they are making with a yakuza family. Revy tags along as his bodyguard, ensuring that lots of people will be violently shot to death on what should be a simple mission.

During their downtime, Rock meets a nice girl who turns out to be heir to a rival yakuza family Hotel Moscow plans to wipe out. When he finds out, he urges Revy to help him protect the girl. The girl's yakuza family has a swordsman who can cut straight bullets in half and him and Revy team up to wipe out many of the Hotel Moscow-aligned yakuza group at a bowling alley. It was so awesome.

We'll watch 5 Centimeters Per Second at the end of the quarter and we'll finish the final two episodes of Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage at the next meeting and start FLCL! It will be action-packed!

Next Propeller Anime Club meeting on Sunday, February 20th!

Valentines Day will have passed by this time but that doesn't mean can't have a little bit of romance left over. Sunday, February 20th at 1PM in FS3F-111 of Building 3F at Full Sail University will be when and where our next meeting will take place.

Propeller Anime Club enters a genre it has stayed away from and experiences the most recent film of one of the past decade's most acclaimed directors: Makoto Shinkai.

Makoto Shinkai broke out in 2000 when he created, directed, wrote, and produced - BY HIMSELF - Voices of a Distant Star. Since then, he has been named a contender for Hayao Miyazaki's throne much like Mamoru Hosoda has.

Our feature will be 5 Centimeters Per Second. The movie looks beautiful and features a story of two close friends who are forced apart by their families and try their best to stay in touch through letters. But over time, their communication begins to cease and the rift between them grows wider.

The movie examines human relationships and the power of communication in great detail and it will be something that is certainly fresh and new for the club.

Planned Schedule

1:00PM Introduction and News

1:15PM Cromartie High School 13-17

2:15PM Mobile Suit Gundam: The 8th M.S. Team 7 & 8

3:10PM - Intermission

3:35PM - Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage 7 & 8

4:30PM - 5 Centimeters Per Second

5:30PM - After Meeting Meeting

In Cromartie High School, we learn how to handle trolls on the internet and the Japan Boss Championships begins! Every school boss and punk will be there to battle for title of Japan's strongest!

In Mobile Gundam: The 8th M.S. Team, we get a new director(the old one died after episode 6 was finished) and Shiro reveals his love for Aina. (After he gets to see her naked in a hot spring, of course!) When the Earth Federation finds out about Shiro's relationship with her, they brand him a traitor and seek his court martial! Unless Shiro does something for them...

In Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage, a new mission begins and Rock tags along with Hotel Moscow boss Balalaika to be translator in negotiations with a fallen yakuza group and decide to crush the other yakuza group that has been treating them poorly. At some point, this leads to Revy wanting to kill people and I know that's what you want to see!

See you all on the 20th! 

Recap of the last meeting! 2/5/11 edition!

Last meeting was very sweet! Literally! We had brownies, candy, cupcakes, and caramel-filled cake. And punch too! Gotta have punch. We had a couple big things to celebrate!

For those who still don't know, we beat Anime Spot in dodgeball 3 games to 1 this past Saturday, thus making us the supreme anime club in Orlando! We did some casuals after and it started to rain. We also had a couple games to show off from the Global Game Jam that some of our club members worked on. They made some pretty rad stuff in 48 hours!

We'll have what video we have of the games up in the future, but right now you can download the games worked on by Steven C, Erik B, Dustin J, Jordan J, Kassandra L, and Michael D. (With the master plan.)

Patient Zero

Macrophage



Good job guys! If anyone else has collaborative projects to show off, whether they are games, artwork, short films, or AMVs, let me know so I can schedule them in for meetings! 

We also talked a bit about MegaCon, taking place March 25th - 27th in Orlando, Florida at the Orange County Convention Center. I showed you guys a scary convention video filled with dumbasses but don't worry, MegaCon will still be rad. We have a ton of awesome events there too so please come out and support us! And tell your friends!

In the future, we'll highlight our major events at MegaCon and some of the other things in the Anime Events Track you should also check out!

Awesome stuff was seen and we are halfway through all of our series! In Cromartie High, we got to see the glory that is the MechzawaCycle and Takenouchi ended up in America when he conspired with luchadore criminals to hijack an airplane!

Aina of Zeon and Shira of the Earth Federation have reunited in fierce battle in Mobile Suit Gundam: The 8th M.S. Team! Will their love blossom? (Also, a manly headbutt was delivered in a Zeon prison cell. Hell yeah!)

Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage was pretty crazy! Revy, Eda, and the rest of Lagoon Company fought of many bounty hunters including a gothic lolita chainsaw freak, a rotund pyromaniac, the blade-wielding Shenhua("lovingly" called "Chinglish" by Revy), and a so-called wizard who likes grand entrances! And don't forget the cowboy from Florida! Yeah, those were a couple of awesome episodes.

Last but not least, we showed Robot Carnival. Oh man, what a treat that was. Nine animated robot-themed shorts from people that were already masters of Japanese animation or were on the path to becoming so.

It featured directors such as Katsuhiro Otomo(AKIRA), Hiroyuki Kitakubo(Golden Boy), Hiroyuki Kitazume(Zeta Gundam), and Hidetoshi Omori(Bubblegum Crisis), just to name a few. Everyone needs to watch this. Not every short will win you over, but the ones that do will blow you away.

That's it for now! We'll meet again on February 20th! See you then!

Propeller Anime Club Meeting on Sunday, February 6th!

Our next meeting of Propeller Anime Club will be on Sunday, February 6th at 1:00PM in FS3F-111 in Building 3F of Full Sail University. We have several things to celebrate before we begin watching Japanese cartoons!

First, senior member Zak W. will have a birthday soon. So hopefully he will be at the meeting so we can celebrate that! (I will bake some sweets!)

Next, more than several of our club members participated in the Orlando branch of the Global Game Jam this past weekend. For those not in the know, the GGJ is a worldwide event that lasts for 48 hours. In that time, developers of all types get together and create small labors of love in the form of videogames! So our club members that participated will show their games off!

Finally, we will have to celebrate for our very likely victory in dodgeball that we will gain this Saturday against Anime Spot. The team has been doing some very manly training under my guidance and have become a small army of badasses. Please make sure that you support them this Saturday! Give your spirit to them so they can launch dodgeballs like Genki Dama at their opponents!

Planned Schedule

1:00PM - Introduction and News

1:10PM - Celebrations and Global Game Jam Showcase

1:40PM - Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage 5 & 6

2:40PM - Cromartie High School 9-12

3:10PM - Intermission

3:35PM - Mobile Suit Gundam: The 8th M.S. Team 5 & 6

4:30PM - Robot Carnival

Our feature this meeting is the classic anthology, Robot Carnival! In the late eighties, nine of Japan's leading animators were asked to create a short segment that followed the theme of "Robots," for their inclusion in this film.

Essentially, this "movie" is nine short films, all independent of one another. The common element is human interaction with robots, namely the consequences of creating life with one's own hands, played in nine very different ways. One of the director's includes legendary Akira creator Katsuhiro Otomo.

We'll also be showing more of our usual series.

In Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage, the Lagoon Company face off against every bounty hunter in Roanapur to protect a girl who happens to be an expert money counterfeiter.

Things get even crazier in Cromartie High! Mechazawa's little brother gets crushed by Gorilla and Takenouchi ends up switching places with a criminal from America! Get ready for Masked Takenouchi!

And in Mobile Suit Gundam: The 8th M.S. Team, we see the good and bad of Zeon and discover man-faced Karen's tragic past!

That's a lot to look forward to this meeting! See you guys on Sunday!

Next club meeting on Sunday, January 23rd!

That first meeting of this year was pretty awesome! Our next meeting will be on Sunday, January 23rd at 3:00PM in FS3F-111! Our feature will be Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli's Porco Rosso! Actually, the original title of the movie translates to Crimson Pig. Yup! Just like the name of the room we did Skies of Orlandia in at Anime Festival Orlando last year!

Also featured are more of Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage, Cromartie High School, and Mobile Suit Gundam: The 8th M.S. Team. So that means gunfights with incest vampires, Gundam ambushed by guerilla Zakus, and more tough guy humor featuring the introduction of Cromartie's most feared student!

We'll also have news about MegaCon, dodgeball versus Anime Spot, and a future event we will be doing with a new ally!

Planned Schedule

3:00PM - Introduction and News

3:20PM - Mobile Suit Gundam: The 8th M.S. Team

4:15PM - Cromartie High School

5:05PM - Intermission

5:30PM - Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage

6:25PM - Porco Rosso

Don't forget that we have dodgeball team tryouts on the 16th, GANTZ on the 20th, and Orlando Anime Day on the 22nd. Man, what a busy month!



Recap of the last meeting! 1/9/11 edition!

The new year has started off on a fabulous note! The Propeller Anime Club has much to look forward to as we become the driving force of anime fandom in Orlando! And then... the galaxy! (Okay, probably not!)

NEWS

• This website has been upgraded! But you already know that!
• We will crush Anime Spot in dodgeball on February 5th! Team tryouts are this Sunday!
• Thursday, January 20th, we go see GANTZ! Get your ticket early!
• Orlando Anime Day is on Saturday, January 22nd! Field trip time!
• Mamoru Hosoda is the director of Summer Wars and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and you best not forget that!
• We have a future partnership with an awesome venue waiting in the wings! We will publicly announce it soon! It will be good for the club and even better for the local anime community!

Recaps

Mobile Suit Gundam: The 8th M.S. Team - Shiro Amada becomes the commander of an Earth Federation ground unit of mobile suits that are trying to fight Zeon forces in the jungles of southeast asia. While traveling through space, he meets a lovely Zeon pilot named Aina Saharin and the two will be fated to meet again as he has her precious watch. During this, we see that Shiro is pretty good at going off on his own and kicking some ass!

Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage - The Lagoon Group is back but a pair of murdering kids that may or may not be vampires rampage Hotel Moscow, causing the crime lords of Roanapur to get together and organize a heated coalition. It doesn't work well and the creepy vampire kids kill some more people and make out and do other naughty things. Now there is a big bounty on their heads and Revy and Eda from the Church of Violence(my favorite kind of church) band together to take the kids out!

Cromartie High School - Good natured Kamiyama goes to the delinquent-filled Cromartie High School and ends up becoming the leader of his tough and rugged class. Then he tries to form pacts with the other tough students of his school, with Freddie Mercury, a gorilla, and a robot(that every else thinks is a real person) chief among them. And then they all hum. I did not properly describe the ridiculous of this show but it is awesome!

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time - This movie that is totally directed by Mamoru Hosoda and created by Madhouse is incredibly fantastic and highly emotional. It shows what happens when a simple girl can go back through time to try to fix the little things in her life to make it better. But even the smallest changes come with a high price. We see things like jealousy develop amongst friends, would-be romances that will now never happen, and even public humiliation. Auntie Which said it best, one person's happiness is someone else's misery.

Anyways, that was our first meeting! Lots of fun was had! Make sure you check our schedule regularly!

First Meeting of 2011 on Sunday, January 9th!

Welcome to 2011, anime fans! I hope you all had a very nice break since the final meeting we had last year. It's a bright new day for the Propeller Anime Club and we will continue to get together and watch some great animation from Japan!

Our first meeting of the year will be on Sunday, January 9th at 1pm at Full Sail University in FS3F-111 in building 3F. (You can view the layout here.) It will be a fresh start for everyone, whether you are attending your first meeting or happen to be a club veteran. What does that mean? That means we are starting each series from the first episode!

Planned Schedule:

1:00PM - Introduction and News

1:15PM - Mobile Suit Gundam: The 8th M.S. Team

2:10PM - Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage

3:00PM - Intermission

3:20PM - Cromartie High School

4:00PM - The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

First up for the first quarter of 2011, we will be showing mecha war drama Mobile Suit Gundam: The 8th M.S. Team. The series takes place during the One Year War in which the Earth Federation and the Principality of Zeon are fighting a brutal guerrilla war for control of the jungles of Southeast Asia and its resources. In addition to the giant robot battles, there will also be a forbidden romance between an Earth Federation soldier and the daughter of a Zeon noble family.

Next up is Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage. This is the sequel to the original Black Lagoon we watched last fall. The series features the missions of a mercenary group that include a psychotic dual gun wielding she-devil and a timid Japanese salaryman turned badass. There will be lots of of shooting, cursing, and explosions. Oh, and their next mission will be taking on twin assassins that may be vampires!

Our third series will be Cromartie High School, a comedy about the daily life of an above average student and his oddball delinquent classmates that not only feature some of the toughest, meanest high school thugs in all of Japan, but also a gorilla, a robot - that nobody in the series realizes in a robot, even though it is obvious - and a mute beefcake that has an uncanny resemblance to Freddie Mercury! The series is episodic and features a lot of tough guy humor.

Our feature for the meeting will be The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, directed by the acclaimed Mamoru Hosoda(Summer Wars). When Makoto Kanno fatefully gets the ability to travel back in time by leaping, she uses those powers to make her life a more fun one by changing small events in her life that she wish would have gone differently. When she discovers the limits of her powers and what serious affects the changes she makes in the past have, she has to make a hard choice that may result in the loss of true happiness.

A lot of great stuff is planned and we hope you can make it out, whether you are a veteran member or a potential new member who wants to watch cool anime with new friends! See you all this Sunday!

Final Anime Club Meeting of the Year on Sunday, December 12th!

Last meeting was definitely fun and had some unexpected happenings! We actually ended up finishing both Golden Boy and Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, leaving Bastard!! as the only series left to wrap up this final meeting of the year! A lot of fun has been had, and with finals in progress and holiday travels coming up, it will be time to say our goodbyes until next year.

The final Propeller Anime Club meeting of 2010 will be Sunday, December 12th at 4:00pm in FS3B-112 of Building 3B at Full Sail University. There are no classrooms open from 1pm. unfortunately.

It's later than usual, so I will bribe you all with raffle tickets! Everyone who shows up gets a ticket and two will be drawn. Both winners will recieve a movie theater ticket to the live-action film screening of Gantz on Thursday, January 20th at 8:00pm at Regal Waterford Stadium 20! That is awesome!

In addition to finishing Bastard!!, we will have a double feature. That would be Sword of the Stranger, which we did not get to show last time, and the late Satoshi Kon's Tokyo Godfathers. We've seen Perfect Blue, Paprika, and Millenium Actress this year, thus making it the perfect way to end our 2010!

Planned Schedule:

4:00pm - Final Introduction and News

4:10pm - Bastard!!

5:10pm - Sword of the Stranger

6:50pm- Intermission

7:05pm - Tokyo Godfathers

8:35pm - Planning for Q1 2011,  Contest Showcases, and Gantz raffle

That last part is important. Because of last meeting's unexpected ending due to the crazy December schedule of Full Sail University, we never got around to our contests, so they will be extended to this final meeting. We will also use this time to discuss anime we will watch and hangouts we will have during Q1 2011.

Rules for both the flyer contest and the t-shirt contest can be found here. The more submissions we have, the more likely that there will be other contests in the future.

For those who unfortunately can't join us, We hope you have an excellent Holiday break. Stay tuned to our Facebook and Twitter as well as this blog for announcements!

Recap of today's meeting! 12/5/10 edition!

Let's try a simpler recap! This meeting was fun, though there were a couple hiccups! Here are the notes!

• It turns out classes are being schedule on Sundays at Full Sail this month. This will make finding room space even more difficult!
• We had to move to a different room for this reason.
• This also means that we never got to see Sword of the Stranger or handle the contests we have been discussing.
• Sword of the Stranger and the contests will be on our final meeting of December 12th.
• That debate event I want to try will be pushed back to January.
• Meeting room and time for the final meeting to be determined. If it comes down to it, my place will be used!
• Golden Boy and Jojo's Bizarre Adventure are finished! Both ended in a very awesome way!
• Golden Boy was VERY educational! Students learned the importance of networking in the final episode, among other things!
• In Bastard!!, Dark Schneider became for broken than Shin Akuma and Omega Rugal put together and beat Ninja Master Gara.
• Enzian Theater is trying to get Summer Wars but it won't be shown this month or in January. Hopefully in February!
• Orlando Anime Day will happen again on January 22nd. It's a small dealers' room and a video room but they might have some cool stuff to buy! It's on 3 bucks to get in!
• We'll be Ice Skating with Anime Spot at Light Up UCF on Saturday. If you are able to make it out, meet at Full Sail in front of Building 3B at 5:30pm and we can carpool from there!

Okay, one more meeting this year. It will be on December 12th, either at Full Sail or my place! Stay tuned!

Next meeting on Sunday, December 5th! Contest entries due!

The next meeting of Propeller Anime Club will be on Sunday, December 5th in FS3B-130 at Full Sail University! That room is on the opposite end of FS3B-113, where we noticed that someone got marker on the projector screen. Meeting time will be at 1:00 pm!

We've watched a lot of the essential classic anime movies this past year and many of you who have attended meetings regularly have leveled up considerably as anime fans! Now, we show some of the best of the new school in anime. We actually went on a field trip to see this at a movie theater long ago. Our feature will be Sword of the Stranger, a super-slick samurai action film.

The story is about a nameless samurai who refuses to kill again happening upon a young boy that is needing a bodyguard from assassins sent by the Ming dynasty. One of those assassins is Luo-Lang, a blonde European raised and trained as a ruthless eastern swordsman who craves fighting equally strong enemies so that he may get stronger. As the Ming dynasty tries to capture the young boy, Kotaro, the nameless samurai and Luo-Lang will clash!

Another exciting aspect of the meeting will be the results of the T-shirt contest and the flyer contest! That's right, entries will be due on this meeting and we will pick the respective winners! Remember, this is your chance to step up and make the club even more awesome and win Japanese dinner on me! Make sure you are at the meeting around 4:00pm so you can have a say!

So what else is there!? We finish Golden Boy! We've seen Kintaro solve problems and fight injustices while getting himself in trouble due to his insatiable lust for the female flesh. How will his story end?

In Bastard!!, Dark Schneider takes on Ninja Master Gara to rescue the lovely - and currently very naked - Yoko! Dark Scheider is able to weird the fire sword of Efreet and Gara is a REAL ninja. Oh snap!

Last, but certainly not least, Jotaro Kujo and the rest of the gang from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure finally make their way to Dio Brando's lair. They've gone through so many assassins and other obstacles. Now it's time to see if they can take on the deadliest and most fabulous vampire of them all!

As a bonus, the second of the two episodes we'll be showing is directed by the legendary Satoshi Kon! It's an early job of his, however, there will be a scene that you'll know is his for sure! Be on the lookout for it!

Planned Schedule:

1:00pm - Intoduction and News
1:15pm - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
2:15pm - Golden Boy
3:10pm - Bastard!!
4:05pm - T-Shirt and Flyer Contest!
4:25pm - Sword of the Stranger

That's it for now! Hope to see you guys there! Once again, make sure you enter the contests or at least show up so you can have a say!

Recap of Yesterday's Meeting! 11/21/10 edition!

Did you miss yesterday's fantastic meeting? Or do you want to have a recap of what you saw? GUUUUUUD! Well here is everything that happened last meeting, with both news and showings covered!

NEWS 

• Fooly Cooly, Summer Wars, and Redline will be released on BluRay in February!
• Evangelion 2.22, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, and Tales of Earthsea will be released on BluRay in March!
• I'll will try to convince the Enzian Theater to show Summer Wars this weekend! Wish me luck!
• Our next meeting is December 5th, when entries for flyer and t-shirts designs are due for those contests! Details, rules, and prize information can be found here. Feature showing will be Sword of the Stranger!
• We're going Ice Skating with Anime Spot at Light Up UCF on December 11th! RSVP here!
• Our last meeting of the year will be on December 12th! Our feature showing will be Tokyo Godfathers! You guys will also help guinea pig a new convention event I am putting together!

 RECAPS

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

• Jotaro and Iggy teamed up to take out Geb, the blind stand user who can track by sound and kill with water! It was very intense!
• Then they challenged Darby the Gambler, whose stand takes souls of those he beats in games of chance.
• After taking Polnaref and Joseph's souls, Darby challenges the mighty Jotaro who deals the MANLIEST bluff, puts everything on the line(including his mother's soul), and owns Darby!
• Where'd Jotaro get DAT JUICE!?
• They see DIO next time and things start to get FABULOUS!

Golden Boy

• Kintaro wrecked a shady dude with some Kenpo he spent a week learning. Might have to do with the corkscrew kiss he gave Kintaro...
• Series is episodic, however, Golden Boy taught us to never swim close to the sun!
• We finish Golden Boy next time!

Bastard!!

• POWERFUL wizard Dark Scheider was sealed into the body of a little boy and can only be unsealed and sealed again with the kiss of a virgin girl.
• Dark Schneider owns the first of the Four Lords of Havok and then gets naked and takes on fire elemental Efreet and shows him what for as well.
• Dark Scheider's love interest, Yoko, was kidnapped by a ninja master named Gara who does not carry around sand or listen to Linkin Park. Instead, he uses slime to dissolve her clothes. It's for the lulz.

Royal Space Force: Wings of Honneamise

• Our feature is definitely more beautiful than ever on BluRay and possibly the greatest contribution to anime Gainax has ever made!
• Club dug the movie. Great discussions on the attempted rape scene(did it belong in the movie or was it there to illustrate the weakness humans give in to?) and the featuring the escape from the assasssin disguised as a hobo!
• That spider toy Manna had was awesome too!
• Anime World Order goes into great detail on the movie and the former scene we disussed and their thought on it. It's pretty interesting commentary.

Overall, we saw a well-animated piece that featured incredible world building, along with strong commentary on politics, religion, and economic crisis provided as a backdrop to an unexpected hero who goes from a slacker to a man determined to launch into both space and history books.

Next meeting on Saturday, November 6th!

The next Propeller Anime Club meeting will be on SATURDAY, November 6th at 1pm in FS3B-113(Building 3B) of Full Sail University! The following Sunday will be when we go on our field trip to Orlando Japan Festival!

Our feature showing will be Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis, directed by protege Rintaro. Osamu Tezuka has brought the world Astro Boy, Jungle Emperor Leo, Black Jack, and much more! He has passed on more than 20 years ago but his birthday is on November 3rd so this is how we will honor his legacy!

We'll be finishing Tokyo Magnitude 8.0! Marai has to come to terms with the death of her brother in the wake of her city being destoyed by a massive earthquake. Where will she go from here? Hopefully, there will be some shining in the darkness once this is all over.

We'll be crossing the halfway point of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure as the party FINALLY makes it into Egypt. The final episode of the 2000 OVA will be shown and then we shall continue the story with the first episode of the 1993 OVA. Yes, you read that right! The second half of the story was animated first!

For those not keeping score, fabulous vampire Dio Brando has taken the body of former badass Jonathan Joestar and his descendants Joseph Joestar and Jotaro Kujo vow to take him down. They have to anyways, or else Jotaro's mom will die! Also, 1993 is BIZARRE. They do not mess around in that one. You will see how much an anime adaption can change with a completely different staff.

NEW ANIME TIME!

Our club has desperately needed a comedy for quite some time! The problem is, it's hard to find one that's funny that doesn't use the same 2-3 jokes in cycle or have it's humor based on otaku pandering. With that said, Golden Boy is an anime that is timelessly funny! You game development guys will love the first episode. It's about hot chicks doing what you do!

See you all soon! Make sure you are ready for Orlando Japan Festival as well! And don't forget about our contests!

Recap of the last meeting! 10/24/10 edition!

Sorry for the late recap of the last meeting! For those who are new, I put in notes of what happened at the last meeting to let you know what you missed! This includes club news and what we watched! Black Lagoon was a thrill ride of multiple proportions and we have finished the first series! Revy is definitely one of the hottest anime ladies ever! 

We'll start the second series at the beginning on January. For the time being, we'll watch things that can be finished by the time this year ends!

NEWS

• The 4th Year Anniversary party of the Propeller Anime Club took place on Saturday and it was FANTASTIC! Pictures will come, but there was lots of fun with plenty of sweets! An intense Twister tournament took place and the winner was Landen, a new member of the club! Give him a warm welcome! We also watched Wicked City. It was AMAZING! And then we went to Rocky's Replay and Steak n Shake! Thanks to everyone who came out and helped out!
• I also gave out cool prizes, highlighted our awesome year together, and announced upcoming club events such as...
• Orlando Japan Festival on November 7th at the Village at Hunter's Creek in west Orlando! Details about the trip can be found here!
• Rocky Horror Picture Show trip on November 13th! The shadowcast will be at Universal Citywalk's movie theater that night!
• We have challenged Anime Spot to dodgeball and we will crush them! But we have to challenge Anime Sushi and that anime club at Rollins College first, so we can crush them all AT THE SAME TIME!
• In addition to crushing Anime Spot in dodgeball, we will also be ice skating with them in Decemeber during Light up UCF. It's a winter event their school has and it sounds like fun!
• It's time to do the Ninja Olympics again, but we take it to the streets park. That will be in January.
• Ultimate Gaming Showdown 4 was announced as happening in the future. Details to come!

Contests

There will be two contests on going. One for a club t-shirt design, and another for a new flyer design. We gotta show everyone that WE'RE AWESOME! Details in next post!

 Recap

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

Forget the Joestar family, Jean Pierre Polnareff is the main character now! After he shed MANLY TEARS, he and Kakyoin escape certain death. Later, they find J. Geil and Polnareff enforces the second part of True Man Law #10! Then he hit on this hot chick Enya, who is one of Dio's highest servants and has TWO right hands as well. She is obviously J. Geil's mom and wants revenge. She has a stand called Justice, that can control people it puts holes through... like Hole Horse! Get it!?

Tokyo Magitude 8.0

So last time, Yuuki had to go to the hospital and Mirai had a dream that he died. This time, we find out that wasn't a dream and Mirai was talking to a brotherly figment of her imagination. Once she makes it back home, she can't block out his death forever. IT'S TOO BAD THAT STEVEN G. HAD TO LOL FOR REAL WHEN THAT PART HAPPENED. GOD DAMMIT!

We finish the series next time!

Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva

Our feature starred Professor Layton and that audacious brat Luke as they solve puzzles to gain immortality. It was charming and beautifully animated and what was up with that one dude's chest hair!? Anyways, that was a cool movie. Someone liked it better than Wicked City too!

Next [Regular] Propeller Anime Club meeting this Sunday, October 24th!

As you know, this Saturday night, we are celebrating the fourth year anniversary of the Propeller Anime Club's founding! (RSVP here!) But the day after, we shall be going to have a regular meeting where awesome anime is watched as usual! Looks like we'll be in FS3B-113 at Full Sail University this Sunday at 1:00pm!

Our feature this time will be Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva! It will be much like the popular video games even down to the whimiscal characters, music, and puzzles! (Or, so I read.) The art for the games have always looked cool so the movie should as well!

Also! Black Lagoon will be FINISHED this Sunday! Yeah, there is a second series, but we'll save that for the beginning of next year! Expect lots of shooting, cussing, and hotness from Revy!

Last time in Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Avdol got capped in the head and Polnareff shed MANLY TEARS! True Man Law #10 will be enforced all the way! But what will be faster: Silver Chariot's sword or The Hanged Man's light?

As we approach the end of Tokyo Magnitude 8.0, real tragedy strikes our main characters on all fronts. Bring tissues.

Anyways, we have an awesome lineup! It will be a great weekend for the Propeller Anime Club! See you all Saturday night and on Sunday as well!

Recap of the last meeting! Binary edition!

10/10/10 was this past Sunday! In binary, that is 42, the answer to the secret of the universe! With that, it was definitely time to pop many Lupin cherries with Lupin III: The Last Job! That was a fun adventure with Lupin, Jigen, Goemon, Fujiko, and the lovable Zenigata! And those ninjas were pretty rad, especially the ninja dog!

NEWS:

• EXPCon has come and gone! Nobody in the club went so it is hard to confirm how it good it was!
• Our fourth year anniversary is coming up soon and we will have a party to celebrate! RSVP here!
• The next Anime Festival Orlando will be August 4th-7th, 2011!
• Speaking of festivals, we will be having a field trip to west Orlando for the Orlando Japan Festival on November 7th! Details here!
• Jay and Silent Bob are doing a live podcast in Orlando on Wednesday, March 30th at the Hard Rock Live Orlando! That's right after MegaCon!
• We will be challenging all other anime clubs in Orlando for supremacy, in a dodgeball tournament! Details to come!

RECAP:

Black Lagoon:

• That Colombian Cartel gets owned, leaving Roberta the assassin maid and Revy to go at it in some HOT girl on girl action!
• It was hot.

Tokyo Magnitude 8.0

• Robots to the rescue! And a super robotaku is introduced for an episode. He was an alright guy.
• Yuuki got sick and collapsed and Steven G. thought that was funny. Booooo.
• Nobody died.

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

• The gang try flying a plane but it crashes because Joseph Joestar was on it. (It's funny if you read the Part 2 of the manga.)
• Then they go ON A BOAT! And the boat is a stand! And the stand user is an orangatang! MADNESS!
• The crew meets Jean Pierre Polnareff, a Frenchman who inspired Benimaru's character design in The King of Fighters and has a stand called Silver Chariot.
• Polnareff joins the crew after Advol owns him hard. From now on, everything terrible in the series will happen to him because he's French.
• They make it to India where everyone is poor and Polnareff leaves to find the killer of his sister. (He has two right hands due to family in-breeding!)
• Avdol gets capped in the head by a classy stand user named Hol Horse. Polnareff cried manly tears. EVERYONE in this club should know what that means for next time!

The fourth year anniversary club part will be on Saturday, October 23rd! Please come out whether you are new to the club, been gone a while, or just a friend of ours! We'd love to see everyone!