Anime Nite Orlando: Ladies that Kick Ass! (8/17)

Long before Wonder Woman had a movie, ladies have been kicking loads of ass in the world of anime! We like to celebrate that every year and on Thursday, August 17th at Bikkuri Lounge, we will be bringing you another rendition of Anime Night Orlando: Ladies that Kick Ass!

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Thanks to feedback on our social media, we have decided on Black Lagoon and Read or Die as our featured anime!

ANIME NITE ORLANDO: Ladies That Kick Butt! (6/19)

Propeller Anime presents a night of hot-blooded women kicking ass in anime! HOW ABOUT THAT! We'll be at Bikkuri Lounge(1919 E. Colonial Dr. Orlando, FL), which means you be able to dine and drink while watching action-packed anime!

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Knightrokon Video Room Schedule is LIVE!

PROPELLER ANIME ONCE AGAIN HOSTS THE KNIGHTROKON VIEWING ROOM!

As you all know, we're hosting many events at Knightrokon this weekend, including Iron Cardboard Robot Cosplay and The Ninja Olympics. But that's not all! 

For the second year in a row, Propeller Anime will once again be hosting the viewing room at Knightrokon! Watching anime at a convention is cool! This weekend, enjoy the hottest anime of today, classic throwbacks, and special showcases. And bring your friends!

Knightrokon’s Viewing Room is located on the second floor of the University of Central Florida Student Union, in room 223.

Anime Nite @ The Geek Easy: Ladies Kick Ass! (11/9)

On Friday, November 9th at 8:00pm at A Comic Shop is Anime Nite @ The Geek Easy: Ladies Kick Ass! We'll be giving the toughest heroines of anime the spotlight and you guys will help decided what we will show with a poll we're running on our Facebook page!

Vote for which anime lady kicks the most ass!

PAC Meeting 8/28/11 featuring Roberta's Blood Trail!

Our next meeting will be Sunday, August 28th at 2PM at Full Sail University in Building 3F, room FS3F-121. The address of the campus is 3300 University Blvd Winter Park, FL 32792. An interactive campus map can be found here and building map here.

Our feature will be a return to the club favorite Black Lagoon! Who could forget about those guys?! (If you've never seen Black Lagoon, you can pretty much jump in at any point.) It's about crazy chicks and the guns they shoot!

Continuing off the last series is a new OVA called Roberta's Blood Trail, starring everyone's favorite maid who's really a sadistic killing machine! We'll be watching the whole OVA so make sure you come out for that!

We're making it well into Tiger & Bunny and getting close to the end of Durarara!! Last time in Tiger & Bunny, we discovered Barnaby's Batman-like tragic past and his vow to bring down the organization known as Ouroboros!

But then, a new foe appears and made short work(i.e. KILLED) their criminal suspect. Expect to see this crazy dude in the next episode and FINALLY Origami Cyclone does something!

In addition to showing cool anime, we'll also discuss club t-shirts and future parties. For those of you who don't know, October 22nd is the 5 year anniversary of Propeller Anime Club's founding. We have a lot to celebrate and that is what we shall do in 2 months!

See you this Sunday and follow us on Twitter @PropellerAnime!

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

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!

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

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!

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!

Next Propeller Anime Club meeting on Sunday, October 10th!

Next club meeting will be on Sunday, October 10th at 1:00pm at Full Sail University! Since there will be an open house on campus, we shall go into hiding at FS3F-112, in the building closest to Wendy's and Winghouse. It's made of bricks.

Our feature showing will be the much talked about television special that aired in Japan earlier that year, Lupin III: The Last Job! I haven't seen it yet but Lupin and his usual friends are trying to steal a treasure. (I'm just as surprised as you are!) But so are ninjas! Zenigata, the inspector that always tries to capture Lupin, may or may not have been killed by said ninjas. It's Lupin III so chances of it being awesome are pretty high!

In addition, we'll be showing episodes 3 and 4 of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. With his mother's life on the line, Jotaro Kujo and his grandfather Joseph Joestar, along with Advol and Kakyoin head to Egypt to kill the vampire Dio Brando, who not only has the body of ancestor Jonathan Joestar, but is the root of the deadly illness Jotaro's mother faces!

The trip will not go as planned and the party will learn that enemy stands can do just about anything and wielded by just about anyone. (Well, anyone that can posses stands.) The series will soon live up to its name as a bizarre adventure!

In Tokyo Magnitude 8.0, we'll be showing episodes 7 and 8! Remember those rescue robots in episode 1? Good! Also, it looks the trip so far will take a massive toll on one of the three main characters that are trying to make it back home. Will someone die!? (Actually, I don't know yet.)

In episodes 9 and 10 of Black Lagoon, Revy will swear a lot and shoot people! Actually, they were delivering a package in the form of a child of a wealthy family to be sold to a Colombian cartel. Except Roberta, the family's maid who's actually a KILLER SUPER SOLDIER ASSASSIN CHICK, will have something to say about that!

Lots of excitement to look forward to! Hope to see you all on the 10th!

Recap of the last meeting! 9/26/10 edition!

 

Yesterday's meeting was fun and we even ended it with an unexpected trip to Steak n Shake! It was grossly delicious!

NEWS

• The 4th Year Propeller Anime Club party will be on Saturday, October 23rd at night! A time and location will be announced! But the plan is to dress up in costume(optional), enjoy sweets and snacks, watch a horror anime, and then go to Rocky's Replay! Fantastic!
• A lot of new people have been coming to meetings lately! Awesome stuff!
• Anime Spot is doing a Murder Mystery Night on Saturday, October 16th at the UCF Student Union. Details here: http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=155096904512037
• The first 13 episodes of Golgo 13 are available on Netflix to stream! Be a badass and watch it by the window!
• A new Berserk anime project has been announced and it is 100% for real! What a manly news week!

RECAPS

Black Lagoon

• In Black Lagoon, Rock and Revy have a crazy lovers quarrel of sorts. It gets very deep, and Rock almost gets shot in the head. He seriously manned up.
• The Lagoon Company is transporting a kidnapped boy to a Colombian cartel. The boy is the son of a sorta wealthy South American family. The family has sent their maid, Roberta, to rescue him and kill lots of people. Yeah, she's that kind of maid!

Tokyo Magnitude 8.0

• In Tokyo Magnitude 8.0, Mirai, Yuki, and Mari take shelter at Mirai's school, where they witness several people who have lost love ones during the disaster. There are more aftershocks but nothing serious.
• The next day, Mari starts freaking out when news breaks out that her neighborhood is on fire. Fearful of her daughter's fate, she collapses. After she wakes up, the group goes back on their journey.

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

• Jojo's Bizarre Adventure began! We are introduced to the Joestar bloodline, starting off with Jonathan Joestar being killed by the vampire head of Dio Brando early on. 100 years later, his great, great grandson Jotaro Kujo has decided to stay in jail because he is haunted by an evil spirit who violently beats up people while yelling out ORAORAORAORAORA!
• Jotaro's grandfather and designated badass Joseph Joestar visits him and explains that the evil spirit is a Stand, a semi-physical spiritual manifestation of one's power. After Magician's Red stand user Avdol tricks Jotaro in leaving his cell, Joseph explains that they must kill Dio once and for all, as he has returned and taken Jonathan Joestar's body as his own!
• In the next episode, Jotaro meets the first of Dio's assassins, Noriyaki Kakyoin. (He is supposed to be the bishonen in the manga but they is not reflected in the anime!)
• After going Kenshiro on his ass, Jotaro and his group discover that Kakyoin was unwillingly under Dio's control. Once they save him, Kakyoin joins their group and they head on their bizarre adventure to Egypt to kill Dio, but not before Avdol names Jotaro's stand Star Platinum.

Evangelion 2.22

• Our feature was Evangelion 2.22: You Can (Not) Advance. Some cool robot vs monster fights happened and it looked very awesome! High quality animation for sure! They also introduced a new Eva pilot named Mari whose function is to sell toys and statues to creepy otaku in Akihabara so that the third and fourth Rebuild movies can be made.
• In addition, Shinji and Rei secretly love each other! And Unit 01 has a halo over its head when it goes berserk!
• Third Impact has also started! That wasn't in the television series!

Our next meeting will be on Sunday, October 10th! Our main feature will be Lupin III: The Last Job! Hope to see you there!

Next Propeller Anime Club meeting on Sunday, September 26th!

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The next meeting of the Propeller Anime Club, if I do not die or end up in jail during my trip to Anime Weekend Atlanta, will be on Sunday, September 26th at 1pm in FS3F-112 at Full Sail University. That room was not bad at all so let's do it there again!

As you may know, last meeting, we decided to send Samurai 7 to the graveyard. In it's place is the start of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure! It's based on Part 3 of the Shonen Jump manga series, Stardust Crusaders. This is where the series gains it's own identity as it introduces stands, the pychic manifestation of a person's power. They can do all sorts of things and not all stands are used for fighting.

The plot goes roughly like this: Dio Brando, the century-long enemy of the Joestar family, is back and he has taken Jonathan Joestar's body! (Jonathan is the first hero of Part 1 and used special martial arts to fight the undead, before that got played out.) With this, he acquires the stand known as "The World" and triggers the appearance of stands for every member of the Joestar bloodline! Josef Joestar, the hero of Part 2 and designated bad mofo will take his grandson Jotaro Kujo on a adventure from Japan to Egypt to kill Dio once and for all! And it will be bizarre!

We'll be starting the series from episodes 1 and 2 of the 2000 OVA! In addition, we will show episodes 7 & 8 of Black Lagoon and episodes 5 and 6 of Tokyo Magnitude 8.0.

Our main feature will be Evangelion 2.22: You Can (Not) Advance. We watched the first movie a long time ago and now we get to see the second one! It goes in a completely different direction than the original series. Everything you thought you knew about Eva will change!

Recap of the last meeting! 9/12/10 edition!

Sorry for the lateness! Last meeting was fun! Many new members came again along with a few seniors that had just finished graduating from Full Sail!

I will be brief this time!

Samurai 7 has gone on to the graveyard, which means that we will no longer be showing it at meetings. Only one member wants to continue watching it which is not enough. The pacing is slow and sometimes nothing happens in an episode. It took ten episodes to get to a point where the series would start to mirror, in its own way, Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai.

I pulled up a list of short series that might work for future club meetings. Right now, it's safer to go with something that is thirteen episodes or less so it can finish by the end of the year. Jojo's Bizarre Adventure had the most interest so that will be shown at our next meeting.

We showed My Neighbor Totoro, a movie that is mostly about appreciating and coexisting with nature. It's lighthearted fun and many club memebers agreed that cat bus is awesome.

In Black Lagoon, lots of Neo Nazis got killed and things got really racist. Some very strong words were exchanged between characters. Most of all, we learned that Revy has more issues than A Comic Shop. She definitely needs a hug, but trying to do so is a suicide mission!

In Tokyo Magnitude 8.0, more horrors of the aftermath occur. Mirai, Yuki, and Mari try to escape to safe land by boat and almost get sunk by giant waves. Later on, relief begins to come in much like in any modern natural disaster. During these episodes, we see the true nature of human beings during crisis while they try to survive. Few are calm and kind while many show their rude, selfish sides.

It gets ugly a few times and even Mirai loses it as she lashes out at Yuki. Right now, they are separated from currently motherly figure Mari while they specualte whether or not their parents are alive.

That's it for this past meeting! Next time, I'll give a quick AWA report and we'll be watching Evangelion 2.22: You Can (Not) Advance.