Anime Nite Orlando: Satoshi Kon Night (5/18)

By popular demand, Propeller Anime presents a night dedicated to one of the all-time greatest anime directors, the late Satoshi Kon. We will be having a double-feature of Satoshi Kon movies for what will be a very fun night.

What are we showing? Paprika and Millennium Actress, of course.

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We are also going to slightly different time for Anime Nite Orlando, going from 7:30pm to 11:30pm. Anime will start at 8:00pm. Arrive early to claim the best seats!

ANIME NITE ORLANDO: Paprika x Tokyo Godfathers (12/17)

Our final Anime Nite Orlando of 2015 will be a special double dose showing of the late, great director, Satoshi Kon! On Thursday, December 17th at Bikkuri Lounge, we'll be showing both Paprika and Tokyo Godfathers!

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Happy Thanksgiving from Propeller Anime!

Happy Thanksgiving! We at Propeller Anime hope you have an awesome day with a lot of delicious food. Enjoy your time with some loved ones, play some games, watch some anime, and before you pass out, listen to some podcasts from us!

Yeah we're gonna do some shameless self-promotion. But before that, we want to let you know about some great Black Friday deals that some of our friends are having this weekend!

Anime Nite Orlando on January 16th!

Thursday, January 16th is Anime Nite Orlando! As we've said before, we'll be showing Perfect Blue as our main feature. We're now excited to announce what we'll be showing with it!

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January Events! Best of 2013, Anime Nite Orlando & SwampCon!

Happy New Year! 2013 was a great year for anime fans and 2014 has a few things to be excited about already. (Space Dandy premieres January 4th!) In January, Propeller Anime will be busy with the Best of 2013 Anime Showcase, Anime Nite Orlando, and panels at SwampCon!

Anime Nite @ The Geek Easy: Holiday Fun! (12/14)

Featuring Tokyo Godfathers!

Our final Anime Nite @ The Geek Easy for 2012 will be filled with fun and joy! It will take place on Friday, December 14th at 8PM. As always, it will be held in The Geek Easy in the back of A Comic Shop on 114 S. Semoran Blvd. Winter Park, FL 32792.

Anime Nite @ The Geek Easy: Remembering Satoshi Kon (8/10)

Hot off the heels of Anime Festival Orlando 13 is our next Anime Nite @ The Geek Easy! It will take place on Friday, August 10th at 8:00PM at A Comic Shop at 114 S. Semoran Blvd. Winter Park, FL 32792. RSVP on Facebook.

In August of 2010, a great visionary left the world as director Satoshi Kon passed away. We will always remember his contributions to Japanese animation and cinema in general.

RE: Anime Nite Dating Game & Future Events

Every second Friday of the month we host Anime Nite @ The Geek Easy, an event that's main objective is to show great anime to the public of Orlando.

Once in a while, we try to have a non-viewing event to change the pace a bit and to bring in a new crowd. Sometimes, those events don't turn out as well as we expected them to and audibles have to be called.

Recap of the Final Meeting of 2010! Farewell to a Grand Year!

Man, last night was quite the way to end the Propeller Anime Club's meetings for 2010! In true fashion, we had to find a new room yet again, and we also had a casualty in lacking Sword of the Stranger to show!

Final Anime Club Meeting of the Year on Sunday, December 12th!

Last meeting was definitely fun and had some unexpected happenings! We actually ended up finishing both Golden Boy and Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, leaving Bastard!! as the only series left to wrap up this final meeting of the year! A lot of fun has been had, and with finals in progress and holiday travels coming up, it will be time to say our goodbyes until next year.

The final Propeller Anime Club meeting of 2010 will be Sunday, December 12th at 4:00pm in FS3B-112 of Building 3B at Full Sail University. There are no classrooms open from 1pm. unfortunately.

It's later than usual, so I will bribe you all with raffle tickets! Everyone who shows up gets a ticket and two will be drawn. Both winners will recieve a movie theater ticket to the live-action film screening of Gantz on Thursday, January 20th at 8:00pm at Regal Waterford Stadium 20! That is awesome!

In addition to finishing Bastard!!, we will have a double feature. That would be Sword of the Stranger, which we did not get to show last time, and the late Satoshi Kon's Tokyo Godfathers. We've seen Perfect Blue, Paprika, and Millenium Actress this year, thus making it the perfect way to end our 2010!

Planned Schedule:

4:00pm - Final Introduction and News

4:10pm - Bastard!!

5:10pm - Sword of the Stranger

6:50pm- Intermission

7:05pm - Tokyo Godfathers

8:35pm - Planning for Q1 2011,  Contest Showcases, and Gantz raffle

That last part is important. Because of last meeting's unexpected ending due to the crazy December schedule of Full Sail University, we never got around to our contests, so they will be extended to this final meeting. We will also use this time to discuss anime we will watch and hangouts we will have during Q1 2011.

Rules for both the flyer contest and the t-shirt contest can be found here. The more submissions we have, the more likely that there will be other contests in the future.

For those who unfortunately can't join us, We hope you have an excellent Holiday break. Stay tuned to our Facebook and Twitter as well as this blog for announcements!

Recap of yesterday's meeting! 8/5/10 edition!

Yesterday was a lot of fun! We had more than half a dozen new faces that will hopefully return to future club meetings! I know at least a couple got to see their first Satoshi Kon film, which is always a good thing!

NEWS

Not much going on in convention land in town, but Anime Weekend Atlanta is less than two weeks away and EXPcon is in a month. Make plans accordingly if you want to go!

We talked of our fourth year anniversary plans and it looks like the weekend of October 23rd might be the time to celebrate! (The real anniversary is October 22nd, a Friday.) We'll figure that out soon enough. Ideas for the party consist of dressing up in costume, eating sweets, watching horror anime, and going to Rocky's Replay. Any other ideas would be appreciated! (Costumes are optional, by the way.)

We have about eight more meetings left in the year, which will hopefully be enough time to finish all of our current series and start fresh next year! We discussed what features will show in those meetings, and My Neighbor Totoro, Evangelion 2.22: You Can (Not) Advance, Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise, Sword of the Stranger, Memories, Metropolis will be in there. If we can get Macross: Do You Remember Love? and Lupin III: The Last Job, that will round up our feature showings for the year!

Order of showings are still being worked out but Totoro and Eva 2.22 will be the next ones we will watch.

SHOWING RECAP

First off, High School of the Dead was not shown. There are several reasons as to why it was not shown. It may have not been a good idea to select it for showing in the first place. There's not anything said or done in the show that hasn't already been done hundreds of times and it's unknown whether a zombie survival show like this could stay interesting for more than a few episodes, let alone sixteen.

With that said, a club member gave me a really interesting suggestion after the end of the previous meeting. His concerns were that we have been lacking a series that has that drama and tension along the lines of something like Grave of Fireflies. He told me of a 2008 anime that was in the noitaminA block on Fuji TV.

Next Propeller Aniime Club meeting on Sunday, September 5th

I have terrible news. Satoshi Kon, director of films such as Perfect Blue and Paprika- which the club has seen before -has passed away at the age of 46. This is a huge loss for the anime industry and the world. Every work he has directed has been nothing short of beautiful and amazing. He will truly be missed.

With that said, we are showing Millenium Actress, which some say is his finest film. This will be the main feature of the next meeting, taking place on Sunday, September 5th at 1:00pm at Full Sail University in FS3B-113. I would appreciate it if anyone in town could make it. We show our features last and the movie should start inbetween 3:30pm and 4:00pm.

In addition to that, we will show episodes 7 and 8 of Saumrai 7, episodes 3 and 4 of Black Lagoon, and episodes 1 and 2 of a new series, High School of the Dead. If you aren't tired of zombies being in everything for the past 10 years, then here is some more!

Hope to see you all at the meeting!

Recap of today's meeting! 3/27/10 edition!

Today was our first meeting after MegaCon which means we can finally shut up about it for a while. It's too bad we already started talking about Anime Festival Orlando, happening August 6th - 8th! A few people were new to the club today and we discovered that way more than half of the club are film students! Here's a rundown of what happened:

• Talked about what we liked and did not like at MegaCon and shared stories and videos.
• Discussed AFO. Panel submissions, artist alley, and of course Skies of Orlandia!
• We celebrated Brent and Roger's birthdays! If you see either anytime soon, wish them a happy birthday!
• Brandon Heat got all gussied up for Gungrave. Harry is trying to set up traitors while he himself is planning to pull a coup on Millenion.
• Lots of shooting and explosions, featuring Bunji Kugashira! He's straight out of a John Woo 80s flick!
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp-USKnPDbY&feature=player_embedded LoL
• Some people nobody liked died in The Guin Saga. Which should be called The Naris Saga because the 3 episodes we watched were all about him. Guin was probably in the whole thing for like 6 minutes max.
• Guin did cut through a assassin, cutting a tree in half. It was so exciting!
• Naris has been in drag quite a bit while Istovan has taken his own path to become a king. Is it me or did Rinda and Remus grow taller?
• We caught up on Dragonball Z: Abridged. They made filler fun!
• Lots of club members staying in town for spring break. This means barbeque and pool party next weekend! Details to come soon!
• Zak proposed we show Baccano! in the near future. I am behind this. Brent proposed something but I cannot remember what it was!
• Lastly, we showed Satoshi Kon's Paprika. People claimed to "get it." And or course everyone made fun of the fat dude, Tokita.
• Did that big climax remind anyone else of Ultraman?

Next meeting will be on Saturday, April 10th for sure! Cencoroll will be shown as our feature. Since there will be no classes that day, getting a room at a reasonable time will be quite easy! Stay tuned for future announcements!

Next Propeller Anime Club meeting on Saturday, March 27th at 4:00pm!

This Saturday, March 27th we will be meeting on the campus of Full Sail University to have fun and watch anime! Our feature showing will be Satoshi Kon's Paprika. You may recall that we watched Perfect Blue at the last club meeting. It was a great movie and the first that Satoshi Kon directed. Paprika is the most recent full-length film that he directed so we will be able to see how is abilities have evolved from 1998 to 2006.

We will also continue on with Gungrave and Guin Saga. Hopefully, we will finish Guin Saga in the next few meetings. It is getting pretty exciting as it appears someone may die soon! We will also share our experiences of MegaCon; good, bad, and just plain weird!

The meeting time will be at 4:00pm and hopefully room FS3B-113 will be available. I do know that finals will be taking place that day but hopefully we will have room free for us regardless.

Reminder! Club meeting his Saturday(2/27) at 5pm!

Hey everyone! There has been a lot of stuff going on in regards to MegaCon this week. We also want to remind you that there will be a regular club meeting this Saturday at 5:00 pm at Full Sail University in FS3B-112. We'll be showing Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue and other awesome stuff!

Next Propeller Anime Club meeting on Saturday, February 27th at 5:00 pm!

 

Our next meeting will be on Saturday, February 27th at 5:00 p.m. at Full Sail University in FS3B-112! We will be showing Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue! This was Satoshi's breakout movie success that was then followed by Millenium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, and Paprika. Needless to say, Satoshi Kon is one of the more important anime directors!

Perfect Blue is about a Japanese pop idol who tries to break into acting, that has to deal with murder and danger following her everywhere from obsessive fans that do not appreciate her career change. We'll be showing this movie last as it is a little more graphic than what we usually show!

We'll start the meeting off with more clear discussions about what we should plan for as a club. There are fun things we have discussed doing like a beach trip, going to a Renaissance fair, or visiting Disney. Those things cost money so we may want to do a fundraiser. I've been presented with several ideas such as UGS 4, bake sale, and letting people pay to beat Waldo with padded weapons. 

Last but not least, this will be the final regular meeting before MegaCon and I hope that all our ducks are in a row by then. We'll do one last final talk about it, but I suggest that you read the survival guide I wrote in order to prepare.

After the initial discussions of what we should do, Zak and some of the others want to show the Italian animated Titanic. I don't remember why but let's just get it out of the way!

And then we'll watch more Gungrave, Guin Saga, and finally Perfect Blue!

Next Propeller Anime Club meeting on Saturday, February 13th at 1:00 pm!

This Sunday, we shall be doing bowling at Aloma Bowl for Zak's birthday and we shall meet at Aloma Bowl at 1:30 pm! The next regular meeting we have will be on Saturday, February 13th at 1:00 pm at Full Sail University in FS3B-305. This is a slightly different room but in the same building. What is nice is that there are comfy couches outside the classroom if anyone wants to lounge.

We shall finally watch Special Duty Combat Shinesman! This is a 2-episode OVA that parodies sentai/tokusatsu teams such as the Japanese Power Rangers. We actually have it in our possession so awesomeness should occur!

We'll watch more Gungrave since we didn't get to last time along with Guin Saga.

Hopefully, if we are not strapped for time(meaning, no class in that room at 5:00 pm), we can delve into the greatness of Satoshi Kon, director of fine works such as Paprika, Tokyo Godfathers, Perfect Blue, and more! It is a travesty that our club has not watched any of his movies yet and there is nobody to blame for that except me. So I will try to make right on that this month.

If we don't have time, I have a special throwback for some of you new members. I don't think you have seen it yet. Mwahahahaha!

I will also teach you all about White Day and how the Japanese celebrate Valentines Day. In case some of you actually plan to.

See you all soon!