The Anime Club at UT Austin will be presenting its thirteenth showing of the Fall 1997 semester on Friday, November 21st, at 7 pm in Welch 1.316. The showing is free and open to the public.
Please keep in mind that showing schedules are tentative, and are always subject to some changes. Programs are not necessarily listed here in the order they will be shown.
Unless otherwise noted, all scheduled programs are subtitled in English.
Note! As last week was the last week of checkouts, it is assumed that library will run much shorter this week. Therefore, we will be showing four and a half hours of material, in order to finish Fushigi Yuugi.
A quasi-magical-girls series about a young woman, Miaka, who is transported into the world of a book known as 'Four Gods' Earth and Sky'. As a foretold 'girl from another world', Miaka becomes Suzaku no Miko, a priestess-figure whose duty is to find the seven warriors of the god Suzaku, and then to summon the god.
Urameshi Yusuke is a high-school delinquent with a rough home life; his father is gone, and his mother is essentially a drunkard. He cuts class frequently, is disrespectful to his teachers, and is generally feared by most of his peers. However, deep down, he's not really that bad a guy, as he proves when he rescues a young boy from being hit by a car. Unfortunately, he died in the accident; but because he passed the trials given to him, he was returned to life and now acts as a detective for the spirit world. His first assignment is to pursue three spirit-world escapees who have stolen three extremely powerful artifacts.
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.
This appears to be a fairly lighthearted space adventure, along the lines of 'Irresponsible Captain Tylor'. Mars had been a successful Earth colony, but has been laid to waste by an alien race known as the Jovians. The Jovians are now headed for Earth, with the Battleship Nadesico, the most powerful in the human fleet, hot on their heels. The captain is a very young, supposedly brilliant young woman, who so far comes across as your basic anime teenager, including an unrequited (maybe?) crush on a young man with a mysterious past on Mars, who wants nothing more than to be a cook, but winds up piloting one of the ship's mechs.
This is the last subbed ep currently available! The insane, bordering on lunatic, story of an 11-year-old-girl who is a child TV star, going to a regular junior high school. Hayama Akito, a classmate who used to be the terror of the classroom, has now been (perhaps) tamed by Sana, and is no longer her nemesis--quite far from it. But Hayama's about to get a challenge, from a wildly popular young actor who is Sana's latest co-star.
This is the story of Yawara Inokuma, a Japanese high-school student. She is typical in many ways, but this being anime, she of course also happens to be a highly-trained student of Judo. Her grandfather, a former national Judo champion, has high hopes for her as possibly even an Olympic-class Judo star. When we last saw our heroine, she was in the middle of her debut bout, which she has every intention of losing...
All members of the university and local community are welcome to attend this presentation of the latest and greatest in Japanese animation. The showing will run until roughly midnight, so please come when you can. We look forward to having you there!