Next Meeting: May 30, 2009, at 10:00 PM Eastern (7:00 PM Pacific)
Next Episodes: Escaflowne ep3-4 / Kanon (2006) ep19-20
Chat Password: hairbandfetish
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
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.
Kanon (2006) is a 24 episode comedy/drama about Aizawa Yuuichi (Sugita Tomokazu), a boy in high school who, due to family circumstances, goes to live with his aunt, Minase Akiko, and cousin, Minase Nayuki (Kouda Mariko). It's been seven years since he visited and his memories of the city have since faded, but upon meeting Tsukimiya Ayu (Horie Yui) and other girls from his past, they slowly begin to return. The lighthearted comedy while Yuuichi teases the girls will make you laugh and the heartbreaking drama of traumatic events from both past and present will make you cry as the story unfolds.
Click to watch the opening.
Schedule
Date.............Escaflowne...........Kanon (2006)
May 23..........ep01-02................ep17-18
May 30..........ep03-04................ep19-20
June 06.........ep05-06................ep21-22
June 13.........ep07-08................ep23-24
Future Anime Nominations
I know we just did this, but there's only three weeks of Kanon left so we need to pick out another anime. If there's one you'd like to nominate, post its title in the comments here or in the OtakuBoards thread. You can choose anything so long as it's anime and its content is around the PG-13 rating level or lower. Each person can nominate one show and then next week everyone will get to vote on which of them to watch next.
