Anime Club Showing: Febuary, 1998

The Anime Club at UT Austin will continue the Spring semester's showings on Febuary 20, 1998 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.

On the program are:

Mahou Tsukai Tai OVA #1

Since we now have the entire series available subtitled, and have only ever shown the first episode, we're starting from the beginning. Mahou Tsukai Tai! aka Magic User's Club is a very silly, funny, and well-animated piece of romantic comedy/action-adventure/cheesecake anime, about... well... a magic-user's club at a Japanese high school, who are out to defend the Earth againt the (mostly imagined) threat of alien invasion.

Rurouni Kenshin #38-39

Kenshin continues! [The new Anime Club Web Guy has no idea where the series is at this point, so he isn't going to try and give a plot synopsis. ^_^; ]

Library Break

Weird stuff gets shown during the library break, for those people who aren't checking out tapes... Sometimes South Park, sometimes Babylon 5, sometimes weirder stuff. This week, Gundam Wing is on the list for the break, but this is really subject to change.

Nadesico #9

This is mostly 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 comes across as your basic anime teenager, including an unrequited (maybe?) crush on a young man with a mysterious past on Mars. He wants nothing more than to be a cook, but winds up piloting one of the ship's mechs.

Magic Knight Rayearth #10

CLAMP's foray into the world of RPGs and magical girls continues.

Vision of Escaflowne #13-14

This is the story of a high-school student, Hitomi Kanzaki, who is mysteriously transported to another world, where Earth and the Moon are visible in the sky. As the Girl from the Phantom Moon (Earth), she is heralded as someone with great power in this new world, power which she uses both wisely and not so wisely, during the course of the series. A wonderful show, IMHO, with lots of action and character development.
Note: These are NOT the reeeeeeaally bad Hecto subs of the straight-from-TV episodes. These are from laserdisc, by another group; Emily says that the LD versions of the episodes have a few more minutes' worth of material. So don't skip this just because you think you've seen it before!

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!