Next Meeting: August 8, 2009, at 10:00 PM Eastern (7:00 PM Pacific)
Next Episodes: Kannagi ep13-14 / Escaflowne ep21-22
Chat Password: theotherhole
About the Anime Club
The Anime Club is a weekly room in theOtaku's community chat where we meet to have fun laughing, crying, heckling, and spazzing together while watching a few episodes of anime. Rather than watching mainstream shows, however, we pick out good, yet lesser-known anime as an opportunity for people to enjoy new shows. Streaming links are usually provided for those without a copy of the anime.
Current Anime
Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens is a 14 episode comedy with bits of fantasy and romance sprinkled on top. When Mikuriya Jin (Shimono Hiro) carves a high school art project from the trunk of a sacred tree that had been cut down, he's visited by Nagi (Tomatsu Haruka), the town's resident land deity, who materializes from the wooden statue. Not only is Jin's project ruined, he now has to try and explain to his childhood friend Aoba Tsugumi (Sawashiro Miyuki) and other classmates why a girl is suddenly living with him.
Click to watch the opening and ending.
The Vision of Escaflowne is a 26 episode fantasy/adventure with some mecha thrown in for good measure. It tells the story of Kanzaki Hitomi (Sakamoto Maaya), a high school girl with a talent for fortune telling who gets transported to Gaea, a world of magic currently at war. She gets caught in the struggle against the invading Zaibach empire when she meets Van Fanel (Seki Tomokazu), the young king of Fanelia.
Click to watch the opening.
Schedule
Date..............Kannagi...........Escaflowne
June 20..........ep01-02...........ep09-10
June 27..........ep03-04...........ep11-12
July 04...........Canceled for 4th of July
July 11...........ep05-06...........ep13-14
July 18...........ep07-08...........ep15-16
July 25...........ep09-10...........ep17-18
Aug 01...........ep11-12...........ep19-20
Aug 08...........ep13-14...........ep21-22
Date.............Genshiken.............Escaflowne
Aug 15...........ep01-03................ep23-24
Aug 22...........ep04-06................ep25-26
Date.............Genshiken.............Kare Kano
Aug 29...........ep07-08................ep01-03
Sep 05...........ep09-11................ep04-05
Sep 12...........ep12, OAV ep1.......ep06-08
Sep 19...........OAV ep2-3.............ep09-11
Future Anime
Starting next week on August 15, we'll begin watching Genshiken since Kannagi is ending. Then, a couple weeks later when Escaflowne ends, we'll begin watching Kare Kano (aka His and Her Circumstances) on August 29. And if anyone is wondering why we didn't vote on what to watch this time, it's because lots of people voted but then barely anyone actually showed up.
We're also going to try out a five episode per week schedule, watching three episodes of one show and two of the other at each meeting. Be sure to pay attention to the schedule because the show that we watch three episodes of will alternate. This will let us get through shows a little faster so longer ones won't drag on for months.
