A free showing of Japanese animation!

We WILL be back in the usual room!

On the program are:

• *Lamune & 40 Fire #6
  This series is a sequel of sorts to NG Knight Lamune & 40, and is by the same people who produced the Saber Marionettes shows. Much like Saber Marionettes, this sequel appears to be essentially a retelling of the earlier story. A schoolboy, Baba Lamunade, goes to the arcade one afternoon. On his way home, he encounters two mysterious girls who give him a CD-ROM and ask him to play it. Mystified, he does so, only to have the two girls appear in his room and identify themselves as Parfait and Cacao (yes, lots of drink names in this show), and tell Lamunade he must come with them to Doki-Doki space to defend it from the evil sorcerer Don Genosai, who is working to free the evil god Abrahm, imprisioned some 5000 years before by the hero Lamuness.

• *Gundam Wing #10
  The colonies of Earth, in their continuing struggle for independence, have launched a plan to cripple the Earth's military forces. Five Gundam (mechs/powersuits) models unlike any seen previously have landed at different locations around the globe, and their young pilots have begun their various offensives against OZ, the global military organization which has become more and more powerful since the colonies were first subdued.

• *Rurouni Kenshin #10
  The adventures of a wandering samurai and former assassin, now defender of the downtrodden, and his friends who of course get into lots of trouble with local bullies and gangsters so he can rescue them. And the occasional warrior who wants to challenge him.

• The third section of Memories
  A film by Otomo Katsuhiro, the creator of Akira. Rather, it is a collection of three short films, all with a certain science-fiction orientation, although they vary greatly in terms of plot, animation styles, and even music. The last segment, "Cannon Fodder", seems to be a slower, more thoughtful story, almost a meditation on how war affects a society. We showed the first two sections on the 27th, but ran out of time, so the last section is being shown this week.

• Omoide Poro Poro (translated as 'Memories of Tears' or 'Only Yesterday')
  A Miyazaki-produced film about an office worker, Taeko Okajima, who is making her annual escape to the country, followed by her memories of childhood. The movie cuts back and forth between the present-day of the film, and the 60s, as Taeko begins to attempt reconciling past and present. A rather slow but incredibly beautiful film--the scenes of the countryside are gorgeous.

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