12.14.04
Posted in Meeting Reports at 10:13 pm by mark
This was a fairly small meeting — only about five folks other than myself showed up. But I was able to bring the projector, so we had a good show. The regular schedule was slightly modified, since Naruto was a double episode, so we skipped Galaxy Angel this time. Episodes shown were Naruto #26-27, Full Metal Alchemist #11, Hikaru no Go #36, and Scrapped Princess #24 (the final episode).
Episode summaries follow.
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12.07.04
Posted in Meeting Reports at 2:32 am by Kris
Hi Everyone,
Our meeting for Nov. 7 was one of our “and now for something completely different” meetings. Mark became very ill and was unable to attend, but his wife was kind enough to bring us a few tapes from his collection so that the meeting could continue. We chose Bubblegum Crisis (the original, not the more recent version) and got to the exciting climax of Ep.1, about 45 minutes in, when the Library’s VCR decided it couldn’t take the tension anymore and promptly lost its picture. WE still had sound, but it isn’t much fun without a picture, so after testing the problem with other tapes, we sadly shut down our shows for the day, but continued to talk and trade manga through the rest of the meeting time.
Thankfully, our technical problems didn’t persist through the next meeting on Nov. 21. Back in the small meeting room, we crammed ourselves around the TV and, while waiting for our tape (Mark was on a business trip) we started watching Ep.2 of Bubblegum Crisis for about 3 minutes. Finally, Mrs. Bradford came through for us again with our scheduled episodes of Naruto, Hikaru no Go, Scrapped Princess and Galaxy Angel. (DUe to a slight mix-up with the tape, the episode of Fullmetal Alchemist was the second part of a 2-part episode instead of the first part, so we skipped the episode rather than break continuity). Everything went very well, overall. Also briefly discussed was the series to replace Scrapped Princess, which is on its second-to-last episode. Thanks!
Episode summaries below:
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10.24.04
Posted in Meeting Reports at 11:15 pm by Kris
Today’s meeting had its good points and bad points, but on the whole went very well indeed. Mark, unfortunately, was unable to attend the meeting, so he left us a tape of today’s episodes. This time the VCR worked without a hitch, but our TV looked like someone had zapped it with a shrink ray. The subtitles were often difficult to read, but thankfully everyone decided to stick it out. We also had the largest turnout we’ve ever had at any meeting, close to 20 people! Future meetings will be held in the larger meeting rooms next door if at all possible to accomodate our growing membership. Thanks to all our new attendees and thanks to all of you who’ve encouraged (or dragged) friends to our meetings!
Episodes today included our usual shows: Naruto, Full Metal Alchemist, Hikaru no Go, Scrapped Princess, and Galaxy Angel, as well as our “bonus” shows Panda-Z and Sweet Valerian. Afterward, manga was traded, the marker board was lavishly illustrated, and possible new shows discussed…stay tuned to the forum and the club website for further updates! Thanks!
Kris
Episode summaries are found in the ” Extended Entry” below…
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10.21.04
Posted in Meeting Reports at 7:05 pm by mark
At the October 10 meeting, as scheduled, we watched Naruto #23, Full Metal Alchemist #9, Hikaru no Go #33, Scrapped Princess #21, and Galaxy Angel II #15-16, plus episodes 9 and 10 of Panda-Z and episode 2 of Sweet Valerian. (Summaries below.)
I will not be present for the October 24 meeting, but I’ve given Kris a tape with the scheduled episodes.
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10.08.04
Posted in Meeting Reports at 4:41 pm by mark
At the September 26 meeting, as scheduled, we watched Naruto #22, Full Metal Alchemist #8, Hikaru no Go #32, Scrapped Princess #20, and Galaxy Angel II #13-14, plus episode 8 of Panda-Z, episode 3 of Dogtato, and the first episode of another short, Sweet Valerian. (Summaries below.)
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09.25.04
Posted in Meeting Reports at 9:30 pm by mark
At the September 12 meeting, as scheduled, we watched Naruto #21, Full Metal Alchemist #7, Hikaru no Go #31, Scrapped Princess #19, and Galaxy Angel II #11-12, plus episodes 6 and 7 of Panda-Z. (Summaries below.)
Next meeting will be Sunday, September 26. Winter meetings will remain on Sundays, as that conflicts less with several members’ extra-curricular activities schedules.
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09.05.04
Posted in Meeting Reports at 8:56 pm by mark
This was the club’s second anniversary meeting, and we had a pretty decent turnout. Kris brought cake, and other folks brought fried rice and egg rolls, and other tasty goodies. I brought a selection of manga and other texts in Japanese, along with some dictionaries and other language reference material.
As a special treat, rather than the regularly-scheduled episodes, we watched a subtitled version of Miyazaki’s Tonari no Totoro, a true classic. I’d hoped for enough time to show Kiki’s Delivery Service as well, but we got started too late. Then Rob wanted to see something “short and strange” so I obliged him with a couple of odd Flash movies, plus a couple of episodes of Panda-Z, one of Dogtato-kun, and one of Ocha-ken. We wrapped up with an encore performance of episode 25 from the first season of Galaxy Angel, then just hung out chatting for a while.
As they say, a good time was had by all.
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08.16.04
Posted in Meeting Reports at 7:21 pm by mark
At the July 31 meeting, Naruto #19, Full Metal Alchemist #5, Hikaru no Go #29, Scrapped Princess #17, and Galaxy Angel II #7-8 were shown as scheduled. I also snuck in the first episodes of Panda-Z and Dogtato, two more short (5-minute) series I’ve come across. We had a few new members at this meeting, which was nice.
The August 14 meeting was held earlier than usual, at 11:00. For a change I thought to take notes, so I can include some episode summaries. We watched Naruto #20, Full Metal Alchemist #6, Hikaru no Go #30, Scrapped Princess #18, and Galaxy Angel II #9-10, plus the second and third episodes of Panda-Z.
Episode summaries below.
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07.24.04
Posted in Meeting Reports at 11:51 pm by Kris
Alas, technical difficulties with the library’s TV/VCR forced us to cancel this meeting, since the VCR devoured the tape Mark brought for us. After a valiant battle between our more technically savvy members and the ravenous mechanical beast, we freed the tape, but since both the VCRs the library has are now broken, we couldn’t watch any of our shows.
Thanks anyway to our members who did make it, Jared, Jimmy, and Robert, and as always to Mark for providing the tape!
Barring complete disaster, our next meeting should go forward as usual on Saturday, July 31 from 1:15 to 3:45 pm, at the library. We’ll be watching the episodes we would have seen at the July 17 meeting:
Naruto #19, Full Metal Alchemist #5, Hikaru no Go #29, Scrapped Princess #17, and Galaxy Angel II #7-8.
See you there!
Kris
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07.15.04
Posted in Meeting Reports at 11:50 am by mark
At the June 19 meeting, as scheduled, we watched Naruto #18, Full Metal Alchemist #4, Hikaru no Go #28, Scrapped Princess #16, and Galaxy Angel II #5-6.
Attendance was pretty light, and in fact besides myself only one new member, Jared (though a different Jared from the May 14 Jared), watched all the episodes.
Next meeting is Saturday, July 17. I will be unable to attend, but Kris will be there and I will drop off a tape with the scheduled episodes.
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06.01.04
Posted in Meeting Reports at 3:20 pm by mark
At the May 9 meeting, as scheduled, we watched Naruto #17, Full Metal Alchemist #3, Hikaru no Go #27, Scrapped Princess #15, and Galaxy Angel II #3-4. Also, in honor of Tressa, we watched Ocha-Ken episodes 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. However, since she has now moved away, we’ll remove Ocha-Ken from the schedule.
We actually had three new faces this time, including Mike, Andrew, and David, who happened to be wandering by and came in to watch.
The library has now moved to its summer schedule, and is closed on Sundays, so the next meeting will be Saturday, June 5, from 1:15-3:45 PM.
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05.14.04
Posted in Meeting Reports at 2:12 pm by mark
At the May 9 meeting, as scheduled, we watched Naruto #16, Full Metal Alchemist #2, the double-length Hikaru no Go #25 and #26, Scrapped Princess #14, and Ocha-ken #5.
In addition to myself, we had 6 members in attendance, including two brand-new members. Welcome to Christina and Jared! Unfortunately, next meeting will be Tressa’s last, since she’s moving away. We’ll watch a couple of extra episodes of Ocha-ken in her honor.
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05.06.04
Posted in Meeting Reports at 10:42 pm by mark
At the April 25 meeting, as scheduled, we watched Naruto #15, Full Metal Alchemist #1, Hikaru no Go #24, Scrapped Princess #13, and Galaxy Angel II #1-2. (The second season of Galaxy Angel still consists of 15-minute episodes, but they are grouped together in pairs.) Also, by request, we watched Ocha-ken #4; since that show is only 5 minutes long, we may as well add it to the schedule.
The next meeting is Sunday, May 9 (Mother’s Day), at 1:15 PM. The next episode of Hikaru no Go is a double-length show, episodes 25 and 26, so we’ll skip Galaxy Angel (which doesn’t have much of a plot).
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04.09.04
Posted in Meeting Reports at 11:14 pm by mark
As advertised, we watched Miyazaki’s Kaze no Tani no Nausicaa (Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind) on March 28. We had pretty good attendance, including a couple of new faces, and everybody seemed to enjoy the movie.
As Kris announced via the e-mail list, the library is closed on April 11 for Easter, so there will be no meeting.
The next meeting will be Sunday, April 25, from 1:15 to 3:45, at which we will watch Naruto #15, Full Metal Alchemist #1, Hikaru no Go #24, Scrapped Princess #13, and Galaxy Angel II #1.
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03.24.04
Posted in Meeting Reports at 11:38 pm by mark
First, I apologize for the lateness of some meeting reports recently; I’ve been very busy, and it takes some time to do these reports if I opt to include episode summaries. I think I’ll abandon the summaries for now and just try to get reports up promptly.
February 29’s scheduled episodes were Naruto #13, RahXephon #25, Hikaru no Go #22, Scrapped Princess #11, and Galaxy Angel #25.
March 14’s scheduled episodes were Naruto #14, RahXephon #26, Hikaru no Go #23, Scrapped Princess #12, and Galaxy Angel #26. This concluded the run of RahXephon and the first season of Galaxy Angel. We also finalized the vote on the series to replace RahXephon; it will be Full Metal Alchemist.
For March 28, as a special treat, we will watch Miyazaki’s first film, Kaze no Tani no Nausicaa (Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind), which is not yet available in the US. (Scheduled release is August 31 — I’ll be buying it!)
Regular series will resume April 11, unless it is decided to do something different for Easter.
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02.16.04
Posted in Meeting Reports at 11:47 am by mark
February 15’s scheduled episodes were Naruto #12, RahXephon #24, Hikaru no Go #21, Scrapped Princess #10, and Galaxy Angel #24. All were shown as scheduled. Also, at the very end, I showed the first episode of the cute three-minute show Ocha-ken (Tea Dogs).
This was a good meeting, with six club members in attendance beside myself.
Two more episodes of RahXephon remain. There are also two more episodes of the first season of Galaxy Angel, but there are two more seasons already, and a fourth is planned.
Episode summaries follow.
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Posted in Meeting Reports at 11:36 am by mark
January 18’s scheduled episodes were Naruto #11, RahXephon #23, Hikaru no Go #20, Scrapped Princess #9, and Galaxy Angel #23, postponed from the 4th. All episodes were shown, though only Michelle and her friend Tressa showed up.
For February 1, which was Superbowl Sunday (as well as being my father’s 80th birthday), I brought my Miyazaki DVDs. By unanimous acclaim, we chose Castle in the Sky (Tenkuu no Shiro Rapyuta), and watched that.
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01.11.04
Posted in Meeting Reports at 11:49 pm by mark
December 21’s’s scheduled episodes were Naruto #10, RahXephon #22, Hikaru no Go #19, Scrapped Princess #8, and Galaxy Angel #22. All were shown as scheduled. We had half a dozen members show up, plus a visit from members of Eternal Anime, a club based in Boulder.
January 4’s scheduled episodes were Naruto #11, RahXephon #23, Hikaru no Go #20, Scrapped Princess #9, and Galaxy Angel #23. However, besides myself, only Michelle showed up, so rather than watch the scheduled episodes, we checked out the first episodes of some series that I hadn’t yet seen. Specifically, we watched episode 1 of Texhnolyze, Wolf’s Rain, Tenshi na Konamaiki, and Happy World. I’ll put descriptions in the entry continuation. The long and the short of it is that Tenshi na Konamaiki might be a suitable replacement for RahXephon, which concludes after four more episodes.
Next meeting will be Sunday, January 18, from 1:15 PM to 3:15 PM.
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12.12.03
Posted in Meeting Reports at 11:41 pm by mark
November 23’s scheduled episodes were Naruto #8, RahXephon #20, Hikaru no Go #17, Scrapped Princess #6, and Galaxy Angel #20. Similarly, December 7’s scheduled episodes were Naruto #9, RahXephon #21, Hikaru no Go #18, Scrapped Princess #7, and Galaxy Angel #21. All episodes were shown as scheduled. Also, on Nov 23, I gave a whirlwind 10-minute introduction to Japanese, based on an example presentation I had previously prepared.
I’m afraid I’m too busy this time to provide episode summaries; that’s why this report is so late. Perhaps at some point I’ll be able to backfill, but no promises…
In a few meetings we’ll complete RahXephon and season one of Galaxy Angel. There are two more seasons of Galaxy Angel, but they’re packaged as pairs of 15-minute episodes rather than single 15-minute episodes, so at that time we’ll extend the meetings by half an hour (so that we’ll have a little extra breakdown time, or maybe even time for quickie language lessons) and choose a replacement for RahXephon.
Next meeting will be Sunday, December 21, from 1:15 PM to 3:15 PM.
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11.09.03
Posted in Meeting Reports at 10:26 pm by mark
Today’s scheduled episodes were Naruto #7, RahXephon #19, Hikaru no Go #16, Scrapped Princess #5, and Galaxy Angel #19. This time I had everything loaded up properly beforehand, so the episodes were shown with no trouble. We had 8 members in attendance today, mostly the same folks as last time.
Like last time, I’ll put summaries of today’s episodes in the “extended entry” below.
Next meeting will be Sunday, November 23, from 1:15 PM to 3:15 PM.
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