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Fall 2002

[MNA] Sat, Sept 27 Meeting

(Minna No Anime, Fri Sep 27 17:17:42 2002)
Hello Everyone!

It is the start of a new year and another great schedule for the club. Oh
the headaches and broken limbs we endured to bring you the shows we are
putting on this year.

But I'm sure you're wondering what they are:

5:00 Fansub O': Saishuheiki Kanojo ("She, the Ultimate Weapon")
5:30 Hana Yori Dango Ep1 "Declaration of War" 

Break time: Enjoy it while it lasts

6:00 Nadia: Secret of Blue Water Ep1 "Girl at the Eiffel Tower"
6:30 Full Metal Panic Ep1 "I don't know the title"

Break time: Get your Halloween cosplay costume ready!

7:00 Inuyasha 
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road

Break time: Find copy of schedule w/ episode #s

8:00 Mahoromatic Ep1
8:30 Fruits Basket Ep1

Break Time: Find out about the real Erb.

9:00 Infinite Ryvius
9:30 Boogiepop Phantom

That's all folks!

And of course, if five hours of anime a week isn't enough you can always
use one of our heaviest resources: The Club Library. Josh doesn't lug it
around like a few of his crazy predecesors, but if you contact him ahead
of time I'm sure he'd be happy to bring something for ya'.

This would normally be the rant space, but for this week I'll change it to
a quick 'n dirty movie review of Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no
Kamikakushi for our Nihongo speaking friends). 

I think its pretty damn good. My roomate and I went down to the El Capitan
down in Hollywood to see the movie on a digital projector with the
director himself in the building (from one of the q&a answers I don't
think he actually watched it then) doing a Q&A session at the end of the
film. Despite my claims to bringing a blowgun and knocking Miyazaki out, I
merely sat there and enjoyed a great film, with some sub-par popcorn. 2
hours and 20 minutes is the running time and the guys at Disney must have
taken a brick to the head because for once they didn't edit anything,
leaving the movie in its complete form. There are a few changes in
dialogue, but they are there to help out non-Japanese audiences with small
nuances and cultural references. Animation quality? Beautiful. Story and
plot? Wonderful. Aftertaste? I'd see it again, but I need to make sure my
10 year old sister sees this movie (it was mostly aimed for 10 year old
girls). 

If you need any more information on the movie, like theaters that are
showing it currently or will be soon, then visit nausicaa.net for details. 

See you all on Saturday.

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime Secretary (ie, mail-bitch)
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

[MnA] Sat, Oct. 6 Meeting

(Minna No Anime, Thu Oct  3 18:21:13 2002)
This weeks schedule:

5:00 pm Fansub O'
5:30 pm Hana Yori Dango: No Brand Woman

Break: Word to your mother.

6:00 pm Nadia: Secret of Blue Water : The Little Fugitive
6:30 pm Full Metal Panic : I Want To Protect You

Break: Jump around.

7:00 pm Inu Yasha : Naraku no Bouryaku o Uchi Yabure
7:30 pm Kimagure Orange Road: Dangerous Autosuggestion - Kyosuke's
Metamorphosis!

Break: Shes just a girl, who thinks I am the one.

8:00 pm Mahoromatic: Female Teacher Saori - 25 Years Old
8:30 pm Fruits Basket : Tohru-kun, Aren't You A Bit Nauseaous?

Break: Shes a brick-house.

9:00 pm Infinite Ryvius : Unnecessary Things
9:30 pm Boogiepop Phantom : Portraits In Darkness

Thats all folks!

Sweet! w00t! I get rant space? And I can do this every f*$@ing
week?? Alright! And thats why I ran for this position, and thats why
you're going to read every damn word I have to say about this weeks topic:
"LAME ANIME"

Yes, just because something is animated does not, by virtue of said
animation process, mean it automatically great. Hard to believe you say?
Just because we bring you guys 5 hours of what is some of the best stuff
out there doesn't mean there isn't 50 hours worth of stuff that could make
you roll over and want to die while watching it. 

Also, you have to remember this whole "point of view" thing when reading
about the shows I will insult. I personally do not enjoy Dragon-Half very
much, however I understand that people do (and some of them have cars or
guns or access to both) and therefore will not insult it. However, MKR is
another case. 

Magic Knights Rayearth, in my humble-yet-conceted opinion, is not very
good. I could use much fouler language in attempting to describe this
show, but I don't know if every recipient of this mailing list is over 18,
and in the case of some verbs, over 21. Maybe the animators, writers,
creators, inbetweeners, and sponser were all smoking some sort of payote
that is only grown deep in the jungles of Japan, but seeing as how this
isn't the case I can only wonder how this show ever made it off the
drawing board. I reserve for this show a special place on the 1-10 scale:
0.73. Why 0.73? Because I remember something about it amused me, or maybe
because I saw two episodes of it immediately after watching The
Neverending Story: Part III and realized that a 0 was only for movies of
that caliber. 

Anywhooo, I am late to a meeting of soon to be Otaku-converts and must end
my "LAME ANIME" soapbox speech here. If you want more horrible shows then
go check out Lupin III: Legend of Gold Babylon (the only disappointing
Lupin III movie in a long line of pretty good to friggen' Great movies and
summer specials). 

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime Secretary (aka, "mail-b!4tch" for you minors)

[MnA] Sat. Oct 12 Meeting

(Minna No Anime, Wed Oct  9 14:38:23 2002)
Greetings Oxygen breathing life forms!

Its that time again, the weekly newsletter informing you of everything you
need to know about Minna No Anime.

I want to start off by inviting all of you to our Halloween meeting. It
will take place on November 2 during our regular hours, but there will be
nothing regular about it. 

We will have a slew (whatever that is) of prizes to give out for our
Gaming competition, Trivia contest, and the big CosPlay contest. Our big
grand prize this year? A pair of tickets to Anime Expo! Whats that worth?
About $100. Yeah, you read that right-$100. Prizes from the other rooms
will also kick a$$, trust us. 

Oh, and for those of you who can't get enough fanboy-funk, there will be a
DDR room setup where you will be able to stumble around to your hearts
content for about the price of free. 

I'm sure you're also wondering if we're going to supply food? Well, sorta.
Here is how it works: You let us know whether you want 2 slices of
Pepperoni, Cheese, or Veggie and we'll collect $2 from you when you pick
it up. $2 for 2 slices-best deal in town, I think.

Ah, I forgot one thing about those Anime Expo tickets. You have to win the
CosPlay contest as well as enter in at least one other contest. And if you
think making a costume is hard or you don't have any good ideas then
you're way wrong. Making a costume is pretty simple, and more fun than you
might think. If you need ideas/help then e-mail us at this e-mail address
and we'll supply whatever ideas/help we can.

And now, for this weeks schedule:

5:00 pm Fansub of the Week: "Erbine's Counterattack: Not So Witty Retort"
5:30 pm Hana Yori Dango - I Wont Get Hurt

Breaktime: CosPlay Suggustion-Japanese Schoolgirl (this isn't restricted
to only the ladies)

6:00 pm Nadia: Secret of Blue Water -  The Riddle of the Giant Sea
Monsters
6:30 pm Full Metal Panic - Lingerie Panic

Breaktime: CosPlay Suggustion-Happosai (complete with Akane's Panties)

7:00 pm Inuyasha - Tsui ni Akasareta Shikon no Himitsu
7:30 pm Kimagure Orange Road - Kyosuke's Become A Kid! Getting Super Close
to Madoka

Breaktime: CosPlay Suggustion-Japanese Schoolgirl (this isn't restricted
to only the fellas)

8:00 pm Mahoromatic - A Grave So Transient
8:30 pm Fruits Basket - Ep3

Breaktime: CosPlay Suggustion-Allen Schezar

9:00 pm Infinite Ryvius - Cross the Ocean
9:30 pm Boogiepop Phantom - Life Can Be So Nice

Thats all folks!


On one final note, I'd just like to recommend (again) that you all go out
and see Spirited Away in any theater. I went home this past weekend for a
day and asked my brother if he wanted to go out and watch the movie, he
told me that his friend downloaded it and they watched it at his place. 

Now, while we're all kinda broke (being college students and whatnot), I
still think you can scrounge enough money together to support a movie that
is worth watching. Do movie companies listen to what people say, or what
people do? They listen to the $$$ that you shell out for that ticket. If
people paid for their anime and went to see this movie, Disney would
notice the large flow of cash into their pockets and think to themselves: 
"Maybe we should release the rest of these Ghibli movies we've been
sitting on." Yes, I know its more complicated than us giving them money
and them giving us our addiction, but piriting everything and DigiSubbing
your way through life is a part of a larger problem. 

Anywhoo, its really your call and a test of your ethics. I fall on both
sides of the issue, depending on what media we're talking about, but for
movies and other shows I say go pay for it legitimatly and help let
companies know that its a profitable business.


-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna no Anime Secretary (ie, mail-bizzatch)
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

[MnA] Sat. Oct 26 Meeting

(Minna No Anime, Thu Oct 24 11:23:03 2002)
Howdy y'all! (getting into aggie mode this week for some reason, lack of
sleep perhaps?)

Some important announements and then into the schedule. First off, don't
forget that we're having a huge halloween party on November 2nd! CosPlay
contest with a pair of tickets to AX and $100 spending cash, Trivia
Contest and Video Gaming contest each with ~30-40 dollar gift certificates
to the best japanese food in town and possibly something else, and FREE
DDR, oh-and food for a $1. Did I mention the anime room showing
semi-halloween themed shows, Blood, I think we're getting witch hunter
Robin, something else, you know. Halloweenie type stuff. 

As for the CosPlay contest, I always love seeing people in costume!
So if you need help/inspiration for a contest then e-mail me here
and I'll send you upon guided meditation with your spirit costume
('slide').

Okay, enough with the new age. Why was there no mailing last week you
wonder? Well, I wondered that too-and to get to the bottom of that I had
to ask my friends what the hell happened to me last week to make me lose
an entire week of my memory. The answer wasn't pretty, or legal in some
states, but I can guarantee you that since I now have a lock on my bedroom
door I'll be able to send the club mailings weekly again. Probably more
than your innocent little mind wanted to know, huh?

THE SCHEDULE!

5:00 Fansub o' the week: "Mighty Aero Major: 15 hours of sleep per week"
5:30 Hana Yori Dango

Break: Sorry for lack of episode titles this week

6:00 Nadia: Secret of Blue Water
6:30 Supergals -Episode 1

Break: Little known anime fact, Supergals is replacing the 'lost' episode
of Full Metal Panic that was originally aired 10/26/02.

7:00 Inuyasha : Nihongo wo hanashimasen
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road

Break: I always thought that show sounded like an ice cream flavor.

8:00 Mahoromatic 
8:30 Fruits Basket

Break: Little known anime fact: Gainax directors spend months in the
mountains fighting bears while training to make even more bad-arse shows,
sometimes this method works.

9:00 Infinite Ryvius
9:30 Boogiepop Phantom

Thats all folks. 

I'd ask you all to go home, but you're probably there. So instead look in
the new times this weekend, and maybe next weekend because it appears that
the Palm Theater (if you need directions: just go to Palm street and turn
in a direction. If you miss the theater then turn around and go that way)
will be picking up Spirited Away. I cannot emphasize how much this movie
will rock your world. Not in a "T2"-rock your world sense, but more of a
"Amelie"-rock your world sense. It is simply a wonderful movie, and we're
lucky here in San Luis to have places like the Palm where we can go watch
foreign films. My recommendation? Go downtown for Farmers Market, stay for
the movie, hit up the theater on Monday ($4) night, hit up the theater on
Tuesday (KCPR night-$1 off at the door if you mention our radio station),
or use one of the Krazy Coupons and get 2for1 admission (t,w,r only) and
take a friend with you for free.

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime Secretary (aka-awol)
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

THIS WEEKS SPECIAL LINK:

http://www-ucsee.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ricky/rant/

[MnA] Sat. Nov 2 HALLOWEEN Meeting

(Minna No Anime, Sat Nov  2 02:07:06 2002)
Monday 9:15 pm : Watched Spirited Away at the Palm Theater

Tuesday 8:00 pm : Called home, told sister to go see movie. Discussed
finer philosophical points of Miyazaki films over Castle of Cagliostro
viewing.

Wednesday 9:15 pm : Watched Spirited Away at the Palm Theater

Thursday 9:15 pm : I have no recollection of what happend this night after
me and that girl with the curly hair started wrestling...

Friday 9:15 pm : Getting weekly Gainax fix. Honneamise was pumped directly
into my veins via an IV-drip.

Saturday (tomorrow) allday : MinnaNoAnime Halloween Mega-Meeting!!!

Ever wonder where the analogy between anime and crack came from?



This saturday!! Yes, tomorrow/today (depending on when the send button 
gets pressed) is our huge Halloween meeting! I hope you have your costume
ready for the CosPlay contest, 'cause the grand prize winner will get to
go to AX for free, er-well we'll give you a pair of tickets anyway-how
you get there is up to you. I wouldn't recommend driving unless you've got
current registration and insurance (impound lots suck!). 

But wait, there's more! 

FREE DDR ROOM. Yes, you read that correctly, we'll
have a room entirely devoted to playing DDR. Got a friend who enjoys DDR?
Bring 'm down! And if you decide to descend upon a fury of rhythmic button
smashing action, we do ask that you bring some DDR pads. I
believe we will have at least 1 hard pad, but in the case that it doesn't
show up on Saturday (a very likely possibility) we'll need someone to
bring in a pad.

Food? Yes we'll have pizza for $1/slice! Pepperoni, Cheese, and Veggie.
Oh-and candy, while not food, will also be around for mass comsumption.

Video Games! Of course, how can you possibly have any sort of Anime
party/special meeting without video games showing up? Well, we've got a
room devoted to a video game contest. If you think you're tough enough to
kick some 2-D fighter butt then sign up for Guilty Gear X, otherwise your
challenge awaits within Tekken4. I believe there are still spots open for
this contest.

Anime Trivia! The rules are simple. Two men enter! One man leaves! Oh...
wait, no-that's Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome-sorry! The actual rules are
simple, you buzz in-you're either right or wrong. Right answers will gain
you points, wrong answers will knock those points off. The questions range
from "easy" to "what the hell?!" and from "Black Heaven" to "Spirited
Away" (Sen To Chihiro..). 

Cosplay Contest. Still in the halloween spirit? Dress up as your favorite
anime character and have some fun! Winner of this contest will get a pair
of free tickets to Anime Expo this summer in Long Beach, and yes-it is the
largest anime convention on the West Coast. In order to win the tickets
you do need to enter in at least one other contest!! Don't say we didn't
warn you, you need to enter in another contest if you want to win the
grand prize. 

Prizes: Besides the anime expo tickets?? Well-we've got some really badass
stuff lined up, but you'll find out all about that when you show up. I'll
leak a small hint though, the Trivia contest will have a poster box from a
cute lil' goddess-oriented show as the 1st place prize.



The Schedule!

This weeks special programming:

(times will vary due to our movie/ova/tv schedule and its oddity, so use
this as a checklist of shows you'd like to see)

Vampire Hunter D - Bloodlust
Witch Hunter Robin 1
Witch Hunter Robin 2
Magic Users Club 1
Magic Users Club 2
Shamanic Princess 1
Shamanic Princess 2
Vampire Princess Miyu OVA 1
Vampire Princess Miyu OVA 2
3x3 Eyes 1
3x3 Eyes 2

Hopefully we'll also have some Anime Music Videos (AMV) for your enjoyment
inbetween programs.

That's all folks!



One last note: The Palm Theater is showing Spirited Away. I heartily
recommend you go see this amazing Miyazaki (Mononoke, Nausicaa, Laputa,
Totoro, Kiki...) film. Now, I know that $7 may be a lot for a broke
college student, but if you can find time on Tuesday, Wednesday, or
Thursday night to watch this movie then get one of those Krazy Coupon
books and go 2 for the price of 1. Take a date, take your roomate, take a
DJ, whatever it takes-go see this film while you have a chance to! 

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini

-In case any of you are wondering where "sleep" was on that timeline of my
week, well-I didn't get any until Friday. Honestly. And yes, we did have a
car/impound problem last year. Ask me about it, I'll tell you.

[MnA] Sat, Nov 16 Meeting

(Minna No Anime, Wed Nov 13 22:26:07 2002)
This weeks message is brought to you by the syllable "ha"

Halloween wrap-up (lil' late):

Yes, I know the Halloween meeting is now almost two weeks gone, but last
week was riddled with Telnet problems and whatnot so this week's mailing
will have to make up for that. That being said, lets get on with it.

November 2 was a friggen' fun night. I heard most people migrated over to
the video game room this year, and that our lack of DDR pads nearly caused 
another DDR-related death. CosPlay was amazing as usual. The creativeness
shown was amazing-everything from sword weilding maniacs to Dylan with a
hand full of... uhm, yeah. Let's just hope no one comes as Shinji next
year. 

Anime eyes went on a little late, but those who stuck around and
participated enjoyed the brain-wracking they received. Trivia and the
Video game contest both attracted fanboys from all sorts dark DVD-enabled
corners. 

And after the official festivites? Lets just say that officers know how to
play with their monkey balls. All 4 of 'm. 

One last note, T-shirt designs are due the ... uhm... first meeting after
Christmas break. Keen? Keen! No copying characters since copyright laws
prevent this, but you can have an inspired character.
Inspired!=Blatant_Rip_Off. If your design is chosen as the next T-shirt
then I think we're poor enough to give 1 free shirt and maybe I'll take
you out for sake (must be at least 12 years old for the added prize). 

Hmm.... and now for the schedule:

(episode titles/#s are currently on a hard drive on a disassembled
computer-sorry about that)

THE SCHEDULE:

5:00 pm Fansub O'
5:30 pm Hana Yori Dango

Breaktime: Tell us what you think about anime music videos (AMV) being
shown during breaks.

6:00 pm Nadia: Secret of Blue Water
6:30 pm Full Metal Panic

Breaktime: Ponder cool looking submarines

7:00 pm Inuyasha
7:30 pm Kimagure Orange Road

Breaktime: Ponder love affairs w/ half-dog demons

8:00 pm Mahoromatic
8:30 pm Fruits Basket

Breaktime: Ponder fan-service

9:00 pm Infinite Ryvius
9:30 pm Boogiepop Phantom

That's all folks!



Anime Tech

I love the technology shown in anime. There's just something about gadgets
that fit into my palm, can access some sort of uber-web, AND fold up into
something looking like a pistol. And of course there's the various giant
fighting mecha; Gundams, Valkyries(Veritechs), Guymelefs, Armslaves, etc. 
I haven't even mentioned those cool neck-hook-ups from Ghost in the Shell,
when and where can I get some of those?

What is it about these tantalizing toys that draw me to them? Perhaps it
is the whole science fiction aspect. That untangible pull that led Goddard 
to develop the first Rocket theories (and working models) after reading 
War of the Worlds, that led to a nuclear submarine or other Jules Verne
based ideas, that is currently driving me insane in the pre-design of a
working YF-19 model, that is currently driving TRW to produce solid state
lasers.

Hmm.... this rant is off topic, I'm rambling like Fred from Megatokyo
aren't I? God I feel dirty.... dahr-teee...


-Minna No Anime 
-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini (mail-bzzztch)

Check out the website! It's hentai-a-licious!
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

[MnA] Sat, Dec. 7 Meeting

(Minna No Anime, Thu Dec  5 03:22:37 2002)
'Alo everyone!

Okay, so there wasn't a newsletter letting you guys know to go home last
week. Sorry 'bout that, I was too busy eating rice and lamb to notice
(no-no turkey in my house) I had forgotten. Anywhoo, I hope you all had
enjoyable Thanksgiving breaks, well-at least those who got a break anyway.

One important note, T-shirt designs!!! Due the 2nd meeting of the quarter!
If you have even an ounce of creativity (an ounce isn't very much, you
probably have more) then you should consider drawing a design for us. Why
you ask? Well.. I don't know, so we can have a wide variety of designs to
choose from? So you can win a T-shirt for free (oooh). And so you might
even win fame and recognition among your fellow otaku! Yes, that's why.
Sorta. Also there may be an added bonus... heh heh...

You'll notice that we're showing Sen To Chihiro no something something...
ahem. Otherwise known as Spirited Away for the americanized audience
(guess which group I belong in). This means a few shows will not be shown
on saturday and our schedule is all switched around to accomodate this
excellent flick. In fact, this movie is so excellent you should even try
to bring a friend or something. Heck, tell them its a "screening" and by
the time they notice all the Otaku it will be too late and they'll already
be into the movie. Really though, its an excellent movie-don't miss it
'cause you'll regret it if you do.


And now, without further ado or prodding, the schedule!


5:00 Fansub O' the week
5:30 Full Metal Panic

Break

6:00 Inuyasha
6:30 Kimagure Orange Road

Break

7:00 Mahoromatic
7:30 Infinite Ryvius

Break

8:00-10:00 Sen To Chihiro No Kamikakushi

That's all folks!









It's that time of the year again. Yep, Fall quarter is coming to a close.
Now some of you have weathered many fall quarters, and some not so many.
Here's some advice (in a semi-bulleted list) to help out you youngsters:

1. Just because your teacher said, "sure, you're doing fine!" doesn't mean
you're going to pass the class.

2. If your teacher says "I'm going to kill the entire class on the final"
you may as well cry. Bawl your little eyes out.

3. If you're watching Escaflowne, stop around the end of tape/DVD 4. Or if
you're borrowing Esca out to someone don't give them anything past that
nice cliffhanger. You'll make a friend for life. Or at least what little
time you have left, since they're obviously going to come for you with a
knife (semi-personal experience).

4. Watch your favorite holiday anime episodes again. Don't have any? Go
watch F3 then. Either way you'll probalby enjoy yourself.

5. Listen to the Noir soundtrack at 3:04am while writing another
newsletter and trying to do two reports which are both incredibly
important to your standing as an Aero Eng. student but at the same time
try to actually KEEP your sanity.

6. Take your little brother/sister/both (no I'm not bashing she-males) to
go see Spirited Away. If you're local-folk then bring them on Saturday. 

7. Expand your horizons with mind-altering anime and crappy DVD menus
which I swear are worse than anything I've ever
inhaled/shot-up/drank/stuck-up-somewhere-unpleasant.

8. Study for finals now. Don't wait until next week.

9. Ask your friends about their middle names and when you find one that is
really, really weird let everyone know. erb.

10. Hug an anime-club officer (please, only the girls. last time a guy
hugged me...)

11. Finish what you start. Especially if it involves 26 episodes.

12. Plan your next few quarters of school, and make sure you try as hard
as possible to not have classes on Fridays.

13. Grow your anime collection like you would fungus or bacteria or
something. Or just borrow from your friends who are doing this.

14. Visit your local anime/otaku shop(s) and possibly support them.

15. Find an anime-club secretary and do his Continuum-Mechanics H.W. for
him.

16. Think about legitimizing those MP3s you own by purchasing the CD. 

17. Enjoy other foreign media beside anime, foriegn films for example :
Amelie, Joint Security Area (JSA), and Beijing Bicycle are all excellent
films. Oh, and Shaolin Soccor-but of course Steven Chao (sp?) movies rock.

18. Learn a Japanese saying or phrase and then never use it like an idiot
again in public. 

19. Pick up some Manga and read a little. You'd be surprised at how
addicting this "new" heroine is.

20. Relax. That exam? Not the end of the world. Your grade? Not the end of
the world. Falling on your bum in front of that girl/guy you really like?
Close, but still not the end of the world. 

21. Akio? The end of the world.

Enjoy your week(s) off if you can. Er, okay, didn't mean to make that
sound ominous or anything-just go enjoy yourself, or else! When you come
back from break we'll be here with more good anime to show you. Oh-and
after Mahoromatic and Boogiepop Phantom finish their 13 episode runs
mid-Winter-Quarter we'll be starting two AMAZING shows. You'll want to see
those, trust me. They passed a pretty unbelievable selection process
involving lots of e-mails and b!tching to make it to our final schedule.

See ya' on Sat. or next quarter.

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna no Anime Secretary (mail you-know-B!...)
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

Winter 2003

[MnA] Sat, January 11 Meeting

(Minna No Anime, Wed Jan  8 12:58:41 2003)
Welcome back to school, suckers!

Well, at least there's one good point, we're having a meeting this
saturday. That's right, the first meeting of the quarter! And there is
some important stuff to tell you, and some not-so-important stuff. We'll
start with the important stuff, I guess.

Important (if I can remember it all correctly)

Okay, you guys have only ONE week left before T-shirt designs are due! And
if you're cheap like me, then come pick up some old T-shirts for cheap. I
did mention Cheap I hope... (by cheap we mean $7-10 depending on year)

Yes, and even more important. Oh, wait, I already mentioned the T-shirts.

Well, less important. Bring a friend! Yes, it's hard business dealing out
heroin and the such, and we understand that. That's why you give out that
first dose for free, and from then on start charging. So, if you've got a
friend who might be interested in some of the shows we're putting on then
try and drag them along. Oh, and rumor has it that we might, just might
have Macross Zero ready and fansubbed for you guys by this Saturday. If
you've got a friend who's a fan of the old Robotech series, or maybe their
more old-school and love Macross, well-let them know we'll try to have it
on for the Fansub'O slot this week.

And now, without further ado (ado?a do? ad oooh?), this week's schedule:

5:00pm Fansub Of The Week: (tentative) Macross Zero Ep 1
5:30pm Hana Yori Dango 

Break: Meet up with old friends. And then crush them.

6:00pm Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
6:30pm Full Metal Panic

Break: Meet up with other old friends. Crush them as well.

7:00pm Inuyasha: I believe this show should have the sub-title of "Heroin
King"
7:30pm Kimagure Orange Road

Break: Pick up a T-shirt for between $7-10.

8:00pm Mahoromatic
8:30pm Fruits Basket

Break: Turn in your T-shirt design for this year and earn our eternal
gratitude! As well as a special mystery prize (we're all broke so don't
expect anything Really great, just sorta fun like maybe a t-shirt).

9:00pm Infinite Ryvius
9:30pm Boogiepop Phantom

That's all folks!








I had class at 7am. No, wait I THOUGHT I had class at 7am. It's at 8pm.
Tomorrow. Now you shall suffer my random words.

The start of a new quarter. The smell of fear is thick in the air, along
with bad perfumes and colognes worn by college students who don't know
"enough is enough." But, then again, it might just smell better than
"OTAKU-FUNK." Oh, you know what I mean. Ever walk into the Karaoke room at
FAnime? Yeah, that smell. The one that makes you say out-loud, "what the
f@#% is that smell?" and then look around at every sweaty, geeky
fan-person (equality that!) in the room. And this is why you need to be a
little inebriated before trying this whole "singing" thing in front of
other people who smell worse than you do, so you can forget that they
smell.

As always, we here in the "officers mega-sexy club" are always open to
suggustions for new shows. I mean, we can never start planning too early
or deciding that certain shows really aren't up to par with other shows
which we already know we'll never show. Need I make sense here? No, you
understand the impulses coming down my nerves and you can feel them in
your very being. This is a call to arms, the orcs are rushing us and we
need a few good Warcraft III players to suggust another show that they'd
like to see put on possibly this quarter or possibly next year. And
please, feel free to recommend anything-the worst we can do is laugh at
you until you cry. And there's really no bigger insult than the Officers
Mega-Sexy Club laugh.

Okay. I feel funny. I think i'm still high from the visuals in Macross
Zero, but I could just be having a flashback to Castle in the Sky (which I
have FINALLY viewed, thanx to "overseas versions" and my cheap-ass
friend) when I was on all those LEGAL drugs (otherwise known as
medication). 

For those of you who have migranes, I know completely understand the utter
complete pain. Well, sort of. For those of you who have nerves that decide
to go haywire and start hating you, well-YOU guys I completely understand,
the migrane guys are only a close adopted brother of pain. 

So yeah, if you guys know someone with a migrane or shingles or something,
give 'm a hug. They'll either feel better or never speak to you again. But
you'll at least feel better for having put some good into the world,
maybe.

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime Secretary (ie, mail-bizzzzzztch)


You've read the newsletter, now visit the webpage!
www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

[MnA] Sat, Jan 18 Meeting

(Minna No Anime, Thu Jan 16 23:39:45 2003)
Puchuu!


And now for another weekly reminder of where you want to be on Saturday
night! Can you believe the second week of school is already over? For
those of you not in school, who are doing nothing, I sort of envy you. For
those of you who are working, well, I really envy your cash flow.

If only watching anime could pay my bills, I'd be set. Well, sorta. I
don't watch as much as I used to. Perhaps my standards have reached some
weird level where it either needs to be on a theater screen or the show
just needs to be damn good? Maybe I'm just being picky? Or maybe the stuff
we show on Saturday is so damn worth watching that I don't feel bad
waiting a week between showings... hmm... Oh well.




What you've been waiting for, the schedule:

5:00pm Fansub O': Master Coo... no.
5:30pm Hana Yori Dango : The Dingo Ate Your Shoujo

Break: "Ten minute break."

6:00pm Nadia-The Secret of Blue Water : I swear I see Gainax Archtypes
formed in thsi show.
6:30pm Full Metal Panic : Another Gonzo show... Mechs & Pretty Girls. Like
chocolate cake, they're all the same-but you don't get tired of it.

Break: "Ten minute break."

7:00pm Inuyasha : You all should thank the guy behind the subs. 
7:30pm Kimagure Orange Road : No Comment, not a decent one at least.

Break: "Ten minute break." 

8:00pm Mahoromatic : A newer Gainax show, full of the fanservice we've
come to expect from shows with maids and school teachers.
8:30pm Fruits Basket : The saddest damn girly show I've ever seen. But
damn do I love it.

Break: "Ten minute break. The mechanical bull is plugged in if anyone
wants to go ten seconds."

9:00pm Infinite Ryvius : 'King Badass. 
9:30pm Boogiepop Phantom: I still can't get over how its called
boogie-pop, the characters say boogie-pop and yet the bumper voice says
"boojiepop," but its a very nifty mind-messing show.


That's All Folks!  

And don't forget to check out the club library, you know who you are.












Another week is done already? TWO weeks since school started and I still
have yet to be struck by lightning and imbued with magical, mystical
powers which grant me the ability to read, write, understand and speak
Japanese. Why, with that superpower (the 2nd greatest superpower in teh
world) I might even have a chance at living in Japan for a month, nay-Two
months!

Of course, I'd have to somehow get to Japan in the first place. Looks like
some friends of mine are trying to organize a trip this summer, two or
three weeks... now I just need to rob a bank and pay for my plane ticket
and I'll be set. Oh wait, the language barrier. Which, despite common
opinion, cannot be broken by traveling at the speed at which pressure
waves propogate. 

Take that liberal arts! Bouja! 

So I've been thinking, why don't we try and hold a Minna No Anime party?
Well-a few things come to mind right away. One, "party" and college
students normally means music and booze. The MnA crowd really doesn't
strike me as the drinking, wild rambunctiuos (take that liber arts! you
can shove your spelling...) party crowd. And a quiet, soft, non-musical,
non-drinking party would probably mean we'd all sit around either playing
the greatest, largest, most Anime related game of charades ever-OR-we'd
sit around at someone's house with a huge screen and watch 5 hours of
anime. Seeing this conclusion, I realized-every meeting is like a party!
Okay, you can break out your baseball bats now, I know I sound stupid.

Hmmm... but maybe... just maybe we might pull this charades thing off.
It's a crazy pipe-dream, I know.

Speaking of which, where's that pipe...

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime Secretary (Mail-Bzzzzzzz...)
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub















Ah, found it!

[MnA] Sat. Jan 25 Meeting

(Minna No Anime, Thu Jan 23 14:41:10 2003)
Hello all,

You've been waiting and waitng for Saturday, I'm sure, but wait no more!
Er, no-wait two more days. 

If you know someone who should be receiving this e-mail, but isn't please
tell us who they are so we can hunt them down. 

Ah, one last important piece of information. I believe we will begin
taking pre-orders for our bald-headed friend, this years Club T-Shirt.
Although it wasn't a heated battle last week like it was last year (with
cries of 'kill him!' 'rip his arm off' and the such coming from the crowd)
we still came down to a pair of fine designs. One can only wish that our
logo is tattooed forever on his forehead.

Okay, not too much intro this week, so here's....

THE SCHEDULE!

5:00pm Fansub O'
5:30pm Hana Yori Dango

Break: 

6:00pm Nadia: The secret of blue water
6:30pm Full Metal Panic: The secret of blue panti-oh no it isn't.

Break:

7:00pm Inuyasha 
7:30pm Kimagure Orange Road

Break:

8:00pm Mahoromatic - Coming to a close! This week... I think...
8:30pm Fruits Basket

Break:  

9:00pm Infinite Ryvius
9:30pm Boogiepop Phantom - Coming to a close! Soon? Wait, next week or
this... d'oh!


That's all folks!












I usually take this extra space down here to say whatever is running
through my mind and write it down, delete it because i realize it's
innapropriate, and then write something cleaner. Perhaps this week I'll
just give you a warning before I release my thoughts into the wired.
You've been warned.


Anime Music Videos hold a special place in my heart, right up there with 
Chocolate and Canadian Punk Rock Girls. You ever been to Canada and seen
their punk rock girls? They're not like their British Punk Rock Girl
overlords, who are extremely punk and barely girl, but all British. And
then there's Australia, our other larger, more desert filled Britain.
Although, I can't recall having seen any Aussie Punk Rock Girls. You know
what? I've been wondering what if Aussie's don't call themselves Aussies,
like-what if they called themselves Montopians or Herculoids? "Hey Jack,
mate, I'm gonna go out with some of the Herculoids and play a spot of
Rugby. Herculoid Rugby." So back to the topic, those cute little
Canadians. No-damn it! They're not the topic at all, screw the Canadians.
These AMV's I'm talking about. Yeah, I think I'll try to bring in some new
ones or something for breaks this Saturday.


-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime Secretary 
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub



-You may have thought there was nothing worth warning you about this week, 
but come tomorrow when you start calling your friends the "Herculoids" 
you'll understand. 

[MnA] Sat, Feb 8 Meeting

(Minna No Anime, Wed Feb  5 06:16:38 2003)
Konnichiwa!

I just had to throw some Nihongo in one of these newsletters somewhere,
didn't I?

This weeks news! (and last weeks by default of me being too busy/stupid to
get a letter out last week)

Well, think of this. As of Today (hopefully you're reading this on Wed.)
Winter Quarter is now 50% done. One HALF of your quarter is over, and also
half of the school year. It's all down hill from here school-wise, but
looking damn good on the anime front.

We've got a new schedule, or at least a modified one. Boogiepop Phantom
ended with a mind-***king ending that was just unbelievable, and
Mahoromatic left with a whimper. Mind you it was a cute, maid-outfit
whimper with license to kill, it was still a weak ending. 

What're we showing the extra HOUR that opened up? Well, Abenobashi is
first and replaces Gainax's Mahoro with another of their shows. Gainax is
just one of the best studios out there, and from what I hear Abeno is one
of their more trippy shows. 

And our closer of the night is now Niea_7. A show with character designs
by Yoshitoshi ABe, one of the best artists around. He did the character
designs for Lain, remember how great that looked?

Well, these two fine shows came on last week (the 1st of Feb.) but don't
feel bad if you missed an episode. Someone can fill you in on what
happened, and as for Abenobashi-I don't think anyone really understood.
I'm still trying to figure out "why mushrooms?"

Remember those happy moments in anime? Yeah, well... I'm having trouble.
Maybe I should stop watching Grave of the Fireflies over and over again,
but I think it wouldn't matter anymore. I've got a lot of that film burnt
into my mind. HMmm.. happy moments in anime? I'll have to think real
hard about that.

And now, 

THE SCHEDULE:

5:00pm fansub of the weeK
5:30pm hana yori dango 

Break: Hey, remember that time in Esca when everyone was all happy and
then Van went on a killing spree and Esca turned black and fell over and
oh yeah... I guess they weren't so happy.

6:00pm nadIa: the secret of blue water
6:30pm fuLl metaL panic

Break: What about that time in Eva... oh, nevermind.

7:00pm inuyaSHa
7:30pm kimAgure oraNge road

Break: Okay. Okay, what about in Lain when Eiri was telling Lain that he
was god when he wasn't, I mean he wasn't even Dead, right? 'Cause later we
see him alive and stuff after Lain erases the memory of his death so it
never happened, but she does that AND erases herself, but she still exists
'cause she doesn't erase her OWN memory, even if she doesn't exist she
still remembers hersel.... what?

8:00pm abEnobashi
8:30pm fruits basket

Break: Now I've got it. Kenshin OVA! He was TOTALLY happy! You know, for
that one minute. Before she jumped in the way and... well, before that
anyway. He was happy for a minute, wasn't he?

9:00pm infinite ryvius
9:30pm niea_7


That's all folks!















I hope you got my little sub/super liminal message. Of course, were it
a subliminal from the planet Krypton it might be a super-subliminal
message... heh heh... or if it were sick one day it might be a
sub-par-super-subliminal message. Ooooh, I think I found my new favorite
word to tell drunk people at parties who I don't want to talk to. I can
see it now, heads exploding all across the party circuit. 

So a friend of mine is asking me to help him put together a sound editing
computer. Then he throws in the ability to get video from his camcorder
and edit that too. Then burn DVD-R discs. Oh, and did I mention the $1k
budget? Its a difficult stretch, but there's something you need to
understand. I'm not about to create for him something I wouldn't create
for myself (had I that sort of money and purpose), which means we're
looking at decent-quality parts.

Sometimes it is easy to please someone when they have little idea what
you're doing to them. But its difficult to feel you've done a good job if
you know you could've done better. I think this is one of those cases
where him and I both know what we expect the final result to be, what it
could be, and what neither of us want. 

My point to this tangent? I forgot. But I'm sure you can reason out a
moral from it. Maybe something like... don't eat candy from strangers
dressed in nothing but towels around their head? 

HEROIN (noun, hair'-oh-in): Region 2 DVDs from Japan.

I've tapped into the plentiful world of R2 discs recently. Its
frightening, but like the song goes, "I used to do a little, but the
little wouldn't do it, so the little got more and more." First a Music
Video DVD of Do As Infinity, next Macross Zero and some SaiKano just to
see what it was like. Next the Haibane Box.... this can only lead to one
possibly end:  Me in the gutter, whoring off my engineering skills to poor
college students who can't get any (engineering skills, not... yeah). From
looking at the other junkies who are father ahead than I am right now I
can reason where I'll be in a few months. I'll need a job, or worse...
maybe I'll have to do something drastic like join the Navy for some of
that Gov't money. Not like we haven't seen someone do that before, but I
don't think I'm cut out to spend 6month with other men in a tight metal
can. 

Anyway, I'll let you guys know how the Haibane discs go. We should have
scripts and possibly even be able to fit a few eps in for after-hours or
Fansub O', or at the worst do the "anime and drinks(of all sorts)" thing
over at some undisclosed location only accessable by the "party wagon",
which will probably end up being more of a car and less of 'party.' 

You still reading? Wao. Just wait 'till you hear my coherant thoughts next
week. Those will actually make sense, and stuff, or something... 

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna no Anime Secretary
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

[MnA] Sat, Feb 15 Meeting

(Minna No Anime, Wed Feb 12 15:46:47 2003)
Konnichiwa Minna

Okay-a bit mooore Nihongo this week. 

Well, judging by how many computer-lovin' geeks we have in the club
someone probably needs to TELL you guys that this weekend is Valentines
weekend, with the big V-Day on Friday. Some hints/suggustions from the
V-Day strategy guide? Sure, here you go:

1: Bring your significant other somewhere nice, dark, quiet... like Minna
No Anime!

2: Dinner and a movie is classico, but Anime and 50cent sodas is Nouveau
Riche swanky!

Okay, sorry-I'll stop now before I ruin all chances of you ever finding
true love on the anime circuit. 

And now, the schedule:

5:00pm Fansub Of The Week
5:30pm Hana Yori Dango

Break: New Phrase of the week #1: "Konnichiwa"-Hello my japanese brotha'.

6:00pm Nadia : The secret of blue water
6:30pm Full metal Panic

Break: New Phrase of the week #2: "Arigato"-Dude, thanks.

7:00pm Inuyasha
7:30pm Kimagure Orange Road

Break: New Phrase of the week #3: "Wo Ai Ni"-I hate this slow-arse
bishounen show.

8:00pm Abenobashi Shopping District (yes! Fanservice! Weeeeeeee!)
8:30pm Fruits Basket

Break: New Phrase of the week #4: "Anata no Obaasan ga daisuki des."-(try
this one out-it'll be fun, probably)

9:00pm Infinite Ryvius
9:30pm Niea_7

That's all folks!













Were this a perfect world we would all be given a golden ticket, just once
in our lives. And this golden ticket? Well-it would get us into whatever
we wanted to get into, for like... a year? A month? Even a week would be
enough. But I guess even here would be drawbacks, I mean... you'd have to
USE the ticket sometime, right? You wouldn't know if you were using it at
the right time, or if something next year would be more important.

Okay, so maybe the golden ticket wasn't the best.

Ha! That's where the golden BULLET comes into play. 

In a perfect world, more ideal than this one or the last five I've talked
about in stupors brought about by substances that begin with letter
A,B,C-Y, and Z, well-in this perfect world we'd be given a bullet. ONE
bullet. One, single golden bullet. This bullet would be a special bullet.
No, it wouldn't kill vampires or werewolves or ghouls or whatnot.. Or,
well-okay-maybe it would. I'll give you that concession, I can hear former
club members calling out for revenge from the spirit world right now.

Well this bullet, see? You'd be able to use it once-reprecussion free.
Why? 'Cause there always has been, always will be, and is currently in
your life-one person who you'd like to shoot. Heck, even if you shot this
person in the ankle you'd probably feel better. They wouldn't be scarred
for life, unless they were of the previously mentioned monster/undead
races. 

Hmm... this is a bit violent. 

Okay, the IDEAL world would be one where I could find a damn da...uhm,
too-personal. Nevermind.

The IDEAL world is one where you wouldn't have to do work, right? Unless
it was work you enjoyed doing. You know there is SOMETHING out there you
like to do, right? So why not work toward this ideal world and go do
something you like and become good at it instead of doing something you
hate and being decent at it. 

Me? I enjoy doing nothing-and some weekends I feel like I'm the King of
nothing. All bow to the king of absolute nothing! At least on weekends
where my nose becomes a snot-faucet, anyway. I'm truly the king of doing
nothing, heck-probably even the king of Negative work on these snot-filled
weekends.

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna no Anime club secretary
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

Go To The Webpage! There is much important information there (including
library stuff! Yes, we have a library-with LOTS of stuff!) and links and
pictures and even some general information maybe.

[MnA] Sat, Mar 1 Meeting

(Minna No Anime, Wed Feb 26 21:59:56 2003)
Konnichiwa Minna! Konnichiwa kirei na onna no hito! Konnichiwa
hentai-chan!

See? You DO learn something new every day. Just now you learned how to
great your parents. I don't know if you want to try it out just yet, but
soon you'll be ready to yell this across the parking lot as you greet
them.

So do we have any news for you this week? Well-we're doing our Tsurugi's
dinner, lunch... okay I really have no idea. You'll have to come to club
to find out whats going. All I know is that somethings up, way up. And
it's going to be up (or is all going down?) at Tsurugi's on uhm...
hey-lets say March 16th! Sunday before finals. I really hope that's the
right day. Come on in to club and ask if you're curiuos about attending. I
believe we'll have the tatami room all to ourselves again, which of course
means drinks for the 21+ people on me after a few of my own.

Well besides Tsurugi's news I also heard rumor from a small asian girl
that our T-shirt (the one you voted on at the beginning of the quarter) is
still being touched up and finished. I will state this once again, I
really hope our logo goes on his forehead. That would be cool.

And now, the SCHEDULE!!

5:00pm Fansub o'
5:30pm Hana Yori Dango

Break:

6:00pm Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
6:30pm Full Metal Panic

Break:

7:00pm Inuyasha
7:30pm Kimagure Orange Road

Break:

8:00pm Abenobashi
8:30pm Fruits Basket

Break:

9:00pm Infinite Ryvius
9:30pm Niea_7

That's all folks.

LATE BREAKING NEWS!!!

BEEP-BEEP-BEEP-BLEEP-BEEP-BEEP-BEEP!


Oh crap! I forgot it! I just called called by El Presidente... it was
important? Important enought that he called me, and lemme tell you guys-No
One calls the secretary out here in the house of shame. At least, that
must be what they call my house since they don't call.

[Insert your favorite explative]! What the hell did he call me about!?
Tsurugi's?.... no.... fire?... no... subtitles... crack-money... musical
interpretation of Utena?

I got it!

Oh yeah, this ones wasy important.

MEETING PLACE THIS SATURDAY IS DIFFERENT.

If you show up before about... lets say 6:30-then we're going to be in
room 201 of the business building (the same building we meet in normally,
different room for a while). Why, you may ask, are we forced into
subversive anime watching? Well, someone has the room until about 6:30 or
so I've been told. So this means we meet in room 201. 

They say repitition is key.

ROOM 201 of the Business building. Well, if you show up before 6:30pm
anyway. If you show up later then dont' worry, just come to the Silo and
we'll greet you with a smile or something maybe. 

Well, back onto the regular one-way-conversation material that we normally
share. Okay...ouch, I just fell on my keys... give me a second here...
damn that hurts.

I sit here in my room, on my keys, typing away on my spiffy floor-mounted
keyboard drooling over my latest waste/good use-of-time. FLCL dvd2. I
don't know if you pay homange to the anime gods over at Gainax studio or
not, and really-I try to keep religion and anime seperate (Nothing says
christian like Eva) since I take one seriously. Well... kinda seriously
anyway. 

However, if you haven't seen FLCL I damn well recommend you go out and
either pick up a copy, rent a copy, or come over to my house where the
FLCL party will be held sometime in the near future. This show is.... soo
good! So good baby, so good! (I'll try to throw on La Brassiere for
after-hours one of these nights so you will ALL regret understanding the
reference). 

Speaking of regret and parties, where the hell was everyone? I think no
one (including myself, I chide myself too) showed up to the LAN/Geek party
we held. Now, while my memory is far from perfect... okay, actually I
don't even remember what day we were going to have the bloody thing. So, I
say we hold the first ever, Annual or whatever the hell, MINNA NO ANIME
GEEK PARTY.

Humour me for a minute or two. I imagine it would go like this:

I would wake up early, as someone would be knocking on my door very loud.
I'd walk to the door and say "do you have any idea what time it is el
presidente? Oh, hi shane." They'd promptly tell me that 3 in the afternoon
was when we were supposed to meet. 

>From here on a slow trickle of all the familiar faces in club would appear
at my front door, each of them attached to bodies. Bodies that carried
computer systems that were capable of playing StarCraft type games. Now,
don't get me wrong...just 'cause a few of use run
cutting-edge-top-of-the-line-gaming-rigs doesn't mean we can't ALL have
fun. StarCraft has got to be one of the staple games, and why you ask?
After getting feedback about the state of affairs of other peoples
computers I realized that anything beyond StarCraft might tax the machines
too much.

Perhaps we'd even move on to WarCraftIII? Not graphically intensive
either, bless Blizzard's cold, rich heart. 

Preferably we'd all move onto games like Return to Castle Wolfie, or even
old-school counter-strike. Although, a few rounds of counterstrike and we
might all hate the term "knifefight" for the rest of our lives. 

Oh, and I haven't even mentioned console gaming yet. For those uninitiated
club members, some of us play a game called "Super Monkey Ball 2." This
game is good, that once-while renting it at the local BlockbUster the guy
behind the counter smiled in a heartfelt manner that only gamers can use
to communicate with each other when silently discussing games. 

Needless to say, this disturbed me. Until I took the game home, busted out
some hours of mulit-monkey action with mai boratha ando mai shistaa. Ah
yes, the memories of my sister crying out in vain as I knocked her ball
off of the 1000 point marker... god I miss those days. So yeah, you get
the idea. Timeless memories with the club that keep on... well, showing
anime I guess. 

We don't do much else. And I think this would be fun. This and especially
the Tsurugi's lunch/dinner (henceforth called "Linner") thing might
actually put Names behind some of the faces I see in club every week. 

Okay, now my roomate is yelling at me because we're supposed to be in
"lab"-whatever the hell that is. 

Wow, this was a long letter? I guess I should put a conclusion on here. 

In conclusion, Meeting @ Room 201 of the Business building, Tsurugi's
Linner on 3/16(sun) and a Lan/Geek party sometime in the very near future.

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime Secretary
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

[MNA] Last meeting of the quarter

(Minna No Anime, Thu Mar 13 19:46:34 2003)
Hi all, since dead week means die week for our secretary K, I'll be doing
the last e-mail for this quarter.

Here's the schedule for this week...

5:00-Trava parts 3 and 4
5:30-Hana Yori Dango

10 minute break

6:00-Nadia
6:30-Inuyasha

10 minute break

7:00-KOR
7:30-Infinite Ryvius

10 minute break

8:00-10:00 Patlabor Movie 3: WXIII

Incase you were not aware, we're showing Patlabor Movie 3 this week as our
end of the quarter movie, so no Full Metal Panic, Abenobashi, Fruits
Basket, or Neia_7.  They shall make their triumphant return on our first
meeting of Spring quarter.

See you on Saturday!
-Nik Kamachi

Spring 2003

[MnA] Sat, Apr 5 Meeting

(Minna No Anime, Wed Apr  2 00:50:41 2003)
Welcome back to another quarter of school everyone! 

For all of you who are done, I envy you. For all of you who are who are in
my situation where graduation seems only a few years away, and has seemed 
like that for the past few years, don't give up hope. 

As the movie PingPong has tought me, I CAN FLY! and something about not
amounting to much of I'm dead or something, I didn't really understand the
point of the movie other than it was about some bad-ass ping-pong players
and maybe young male teen friendship or something. 

Oh yeah, news and stuff!

OPEN HOUSE: April 26/27   You KNOW you want to help us out in anyway
possible, and in return? I dunno-maybe I'll buy the Wasabi-rolls next
time? I can't remember what sort of food/drink combo we're doing this
year, but I remember it sounded tasty, and well-priced enough that you and
your fellow poor-college-students could afford it. If you do want to help
out then go ask El Presidente because he's bored this quarter and needs
something to do besides watch his roomates watch anime. 

Speaking of Wasabi-rolls...Tsurugi's was excellent. And for those of you
who didn't show up, shame on you! Except for Paul, that's my bad. I was
supposed to pick him up or something and I sorta forgot... yeah, I'm a
great roommate. ^_^' 

Okay, enough of that, we'll do the schedule and then back into the random
stuff.

THE SCHEDULE:

(it's been so long, I'm having trouble remembering...)

5:00 Fansub O' The Week.
5:30 Hana Yori Dango : Doumyouji's Triumphant Toilet Seat

Break: Catch up with old friends, "how was your spring break, where did
you get that tattoo?"

6:00 Nadia- Secret of Blue Water : Nadia Gets Mad (part 18)
6:30 Full Metal Panic : How Big Is Chidori?

Break: Make new friends, "how was your spring break, what is that on your
face?"

7:00 Inuyasha : Danger! Seshomaru's Silent But Deadly Attack!
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road : Half The Club Doesnt' Care

Break: Make new friends, "hand me that wrench, I'm almost done with her
head."

8:00 Abenobashi : I don't even know where to begin...
8:30 Fruits Basket : Sohma Family Secret-Beastiali-okay, that's just
wrong.

Break: That last one wasn't very funny, was it? 

9:00 Infinite Ryvius : More Bad-Ass (Part III-this time it's personal!)
9:30 Niea_7 : ABe Sniffs More Paint

That's all folks!













So this last weekend I painted my room. And despite initial reactions, the
color is NOT 'whore-red' or 'magenta' or 'how-drunk-are-you'-red. It is
in-fact Victorian Red. A nice, dark, red-red. Of course, it needs another
coat... or two, which means we'll have another painting party in the
coming months, but the best part? Sniffing the fumes coming from the walls
as I try to write this damn newsletter. It still smells strongly of paint,
and I guess I should remove the bucket and tray and stuff from my room,
but laziness pays off apparnently. Everythings just funnier now.

Hmmm... Tsurugi's you say? Oh, sorry I misheard you. Yeah, AX this year is
going to rock. Are we going as a club? Or maybe we're doing FAnime again?
I have no idea, and this probably isn't the place for me to state my
complete lack-of-knowledge on this subject, but if you're interested in
attending either convention as a big ol' hunkering club of... club
something? Yeah, just let us know. In past years FAnime has been a pretty
popular convention, with the club officially attending en masse, while AX
was simply left for all of us fools to find our way there on our own. 

You know what? I bet that betwene all of us we've got some GREAT
convention stories. You know, like the time we were pulled over and then
had our car impounded while the cop didn't believe it was our car. I mean,
I guess legally it wasn't, but still. It was kinda rude of him, with the
light and the gun and stuff. 

Or what about the time Faye had a whip... and man, oh man did she look
good. I mean, without the whip. With the whip it was sorta scary. Scary...
but tantilizing. 

Ha! And who could forget AX last year?! There was a guy, big guy... big,
hairy, very hairy, very very hairy, tall, big, extra hairy guy dressed as 
Faye Valentine. No, this is a different faye from "S&M" faye. I spotted
this monstrosity of nature in the dealers room. From around the booth all
you could see was the wig, and the fact that whoever it was stood about
6-feet tall. Oh, and all the heads were turned and gawking. So my natural
reaction? "Sweet! Hot faye!" As soon as he turned around that booth's 
corner I received my instant-karma for my naive pig-headed notion.
Yessir-ee, haven't seen a hairy belly like that since this guy I used to
know named "toad." 

Mind you, all my stories are horror-stories. One of these days I'll have a
good experience at a convention, hopefully this year will be the year of
good conventioning! I must think positive or something like that, the
sticker on the side of my computer dictates so! 

So yeah, come on down to a convention with me, the king of comedic terror.
Make sure you drive yourself, 'cause otherwise I can't vouch for your fun.
It'll be great, just like when we were children. We'll cosplay, hit up the
dance floor looking like morons and still expecting chics to flock to us,
stand in long, long lines, argue with people in the dealers room, take
pictures of other cosplayers who's costumes could kick our costumes'
arses, and stay up late looking for the big-fire party (or hold our OWN
big-fire party). 

This letter is just getting too long, maybe I should get back to work.
Sigh, work. Day 1 of spring quarter and I'm already pulling an
all-nighter.

I think its time I let the fumes direct my report writing ability. I mean,
this (supposedly) 100+page paper is due tomorrow at noon after all. Thats, 
uhm... 11 hours from now. 

Eeeep!

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime Secretary
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

[MnA] Sat. Apr 12 Meeting

(Minna No Anime, Thu Apr 10 18:16:12 2003)
Konnichiwa minna! 

So how many of you have seen Battle Royale yet? Oh wait, more important
stuff first, bendy-weapons and cool fight scenes later.

Open House! Apr. 26/27 is coming, and you KNOW you wish you help us out
somehow. Come by the booth and say hi. Oh, and then we can be pleasant and
engage in this "barter" system I keep hearing the business majors talking
about. I believe it involves the transfer of money for something good,
like Yakitori (damn good!). 

And a Room Change this saturday. If you show up to the Silo expecting to
get in for you favorite shows... well... yeah, it'll be pretty funny.
Actually, I lost the room number... it was around here somewhere, written
in blood, but I guess even that evaporates. SO, last I heard we'll be in
the 2nd floor of Building 2. That's the building attached to the silo, the
one up those blasted stairs that tripped me last week.

Hmmm.... other info to come soon.



THE SCHEDULE:

5:00pm Fansub O'
5:30pm Hana Yori Dango

Break:

6:00pm Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
6:30pm Full Metal Panic

Break:

7:00pm Inuyasha
7:30pm Kimagure Orange Road

Break:

8:00pm Abenobashi
8:30pm Fruits Basket

Break:

9:00pm Infinite Ryvius
9:30pm Niea_7

That's all folks!














NOTE: I apologize ahead of time for this poorly written excuse for wasted 
space. Pay no attention to the jumps in logic or lack there-of.

Ah yes, the mystery of "after-hours." All the crap we don't put on during
regular hours, why? 'Cause sometimes it is just that-crap. Everything
else? There's no time in our packed schedule to throw on movies or extra
shows so instead we all hang around after club is over and done at 10pm
and use the theater-screen to our advantage. 

Ooh, another random thought! I should go play some more of the new Zelda
game. My god, "Link" has the greatest facial expressions. This point alone
has me stoked on the game. Now that I'm all of 40 minutes into the game I
think I've found the single greatest threat to my grades. 

Today is random thought day. Why? 'Cause Telnet has had its cold, slimy
fangs in my arse for the past who-know-how-long, and now that I'm typing
this thing I've kinda lost interest in telling you the plethora of
politically-incorrect jokes we came up with earlier today.

On a happier note, this Saturday a music-major friend of mine is hosting
his senior recital. It should be really good, and afterward we're eating
chinese food at the Breakfast Buzz (where the hell is that?). So, if
anyone knows if this 'Breakfast Buzz' serves decent Chinese food you need
to let me know before I commit to going. I mean... the name alone kinda
makes the whole ordeal sound fishy-like a Mob deal or something. "Hey
Louie, come down to the BB for Chinese Food. $4,000 worth of Chinese
food."

Oh, and as for paint-sniffing, my second coat of red is on my walls. It's
great! Its dark... scary... dark... like blood or something? 

Did anyone else hear the rumor about the live-action version of Akira? I
mean, more than a rumor I think I read it somewhere like Animenation's
news site or maybe NewTypeUSA or something semi-legit like that. God I 
hope they don't go through with it. Being a great animem ovie, and one of  
the best manga I've ever read, I think it would poorly translate itself to
the silver screen. Of course, I can't be too judgeful this early, can I?
Who knows-maybe they'll get James Cameron to direct it and put a bunch of
Terminators in the story. While I wouldn't think of it as Akira, I'd
really like to see more Terminators on screen. Sure we've got T3 coming
out soon... but you can never really have too many death-machines in
movies.

Hey, what do you guys think would make the worst live-action
anime-transfer? Personally, I think Ranma 1/2 would suck... unless you got
someone semi-chick like as Ranma and then I guess the boobs would work?
But seeing Rupaul as Ranma just... scares me. 

Although, Jin-Roh would probably be really good. Those 50cal guns ripping
apart the little-red-riding-hood girl probably wouldn't go over well with
the crazy parental-associations here in the States. 

Hmm... tentacle-monsters aside, serioualy what do you guys think would be
a lame anime-transfer-to-live-action movie? The Utena Movie? The numerous
Patlabor movies? Esca? Eva? Bebop? 

Hmm... while I ponder this perplexing non-paradoxial paradox of plentiful
problems I'm going to go finish my work. Next week, we return to Boeing,
again! You guys enjoy your school while you can you silly freshmen-type
peoples. 

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime Secretary
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

[MnA] Sat. 26 Apr OPEN HOUSE

(Minna No Anime, Thu Apr 24 11:24:58 2003)
First thing: NO MEETING THIS SATURDAY

Second thing: OPEN HOUSE

Yes, that's right. Open house this saturday! The one, the only open house.
Remember that weekend where about 5 thousand (I kid you now, it might be
more, it has in the past) freshmen and parents converge on our small
school for a weekend of debauchery and drink.... wait, that's graduation.
THIS weekend they're looking for wholesome fun. 

Who better to provide them with that extra little jump in their level of
fun other than us? We'll be hosting our booth between the Library (hard to
miss, largest building in the country I think?) and building 10. That's
the ag-lish building, by the way. Erhard Agriculture (Bldg. 10) and
English (Bldg. 22) formed a voltron-esque unity with this Aglish building.

The location was conferred to me in secret message by El Presidente. But
when you start to think about it... there's another building inbetween
those buildings, the Math & Home Ec. Building 38. So, check out the 
parking lot(s) around Building 38 and you're bound to find us. 

And lastly, a call for HELP!! We will need help with things such as
"cutting chicken" (I'm not quite sure what that is a code word for, but
I'm sure you guys can figure it out) and whatnot. Also, don't forget to
come by on Saturday and support our club! I know you guys want to come
down and help us out, but you're probably just timid, like Clark Kent or
Dornkirk. You should come down and help, like Superman or that guy form
Goldenboy. 

In honor of your deciding to help (like how I made the choice for ya'?) 
I'll even make a vow to party for you this weekend. Alas, Saturday is so 
close! If you want to help out then e-mail us back Right Away!!

Also, if you don't know what to do but you want to help I'm sure we can
find a place for you. Just let us know that you're willing to help.

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna no Anime Secretary
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub
-"Oh.... so that's what they meant by no-servicable-parts-inside. I just
figured I'd stick my hand in and hope for the best."

[MnA] Sat, May 17 Meeting

(Minna No Anime, Wed May 14 16:31:13 2003)
Konnichiwa Minna,

Wow, been a while since I've sent out a newsletter, huh? Well-you can come
to the Saturday meeting and beat me up if you want. I've been busy here
and there, now and then. I had a vision of E3, but due to a super
dimensional f***-up down in some alternate dimension our paperwork was
stolen by gremlins. So, needless to say I've been busting my arse in the
senior design lab pulling all-nighters (just got home for the first time
since... uhm... Monday? Er-no, it was legally Tuesday then). Well, I
almost wanted to drive down there and attempt to break in somehow, but
then images of Megatokyo started dancing in my head-and while I am going
to Japan in a few months-I was hoping it wouldn't be to escape the law.

More important news than my self-pitying stuff:

SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY! At Tsurugi's! 7pm Minna no Anime quarter dinner!
This excursion into the normal world has always been an unbelievable
event. If you've gone I don't need to tell you that being surrounded by
all your favorite MnA peeps while having the best Japanese food in SLO may
just be one of the funnest events you can attend. If you've never been?
Save up your lunch money and treat yourself! Also, I need a wasabi-roll
challenger, since last time Paul's nasal cavities lit on fire and consumed
him and Correen's cute friend in a blaze of blue fire.

Oh my god I just hit CTRL+S to save this document by habit... i've been
typing too long.

More news? It's not too late to order T-shirts! While I can't remember the
prices and I don't want to quote anything ($15 for non-members $13 for
members? But that just might only be pre-order prices), lets just say
they're your standard club t-shirt price. 

Oh, even MORE big news:

We have new officers! Jeez, how could I forget to tell you that? Well-I
did slack on sending out a letter letting you know we were voting, and I
did forget to mention the fact that Godzilla was doing a guest-signing
down at GPP the other day...

So yes, new officers. 

El Presidente: Nik (still, how we pity him)

Vice Presidente: Tom-Dave (Dave is his actual name, don't ask how Tom
entered into that...)

Treasurer: Mike (The man who owns the tape of the worst movie ever... I
wonder to this very day why we borrowed it...)

Librarian: Erin (She's very... okay, actually I know nothing about her-I'm
quite happy there's new blood among our ranks though)

Secretary: ME! Again! Yes!? No? It's a little funny... this feeling
inside me...

And Now, THE SCHEDULE!

5:00 Fansub O': Kino no Tabi - 1
5:30 Hana Yori Dango - 22: Doumyouji Tsubaki comes home!

Break: Yes, these are actual episode titles. I'm not pulling your leg, I'm
just a bit in the hallucinagenic phase of sleep deprivatin. (No, I don't
get it either).

6:00 Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - 22: Electra the Traitor
6:30 Full Metal Panic - 23: Giant's Field

Break: I almost didn't want to put the Nadia title there... sorta a
spoiler. But it's right at my favorite part in the series!

7:00 Inuyasha - 47: Naraku ni Nkoru Onigumo no kokoro
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road - 46: One Silver Night! Alone Together in a
Gondola!

Break: Now would be a good time to figure out what you're having at
Tsurugi's (beside Wasabi rolls!).

8:00 Abenobashi - 12: (can't find title)
8:30 Fruits Basket - 23: (don't think they have episode titles)

Break: Suddenly I realize... there's a lawnmower in our backyard... but we
don't own one... I think it would normally be time to regulate, 'cept this
dude's got a lawnmower so I think I'll let him keep on mowing... you only
think I'm kidding...

9:00 Infinite Ryvius - 23: The Torn Past
9:30 Niea_7 -12: Niea Under Seven Bath (Latter Half)

That's All Folks!




















So, having 6-day weeks I really do wish there was another day in the week.
Only, for me-that means I wish I went to bed 7 nights a week and not 6.
Sure some of us are "engineers" or something, but still. I really miss a
regular week. And so... today, Wednesday for some, Tuesday for me, I can
finally SLEEP.... ahh, so good.

Well, because of that I'll try and keep this space short.

You already know to come down to Tsurugi's this Sunday at 7pm, and I think
we had a good amount of signatures so I'm sure we'll overflow into the
tables by the tatami room (yeah table space!).

Oh, dude! The lawnmower man just left! And I still have both my arms! YES!
I was worried there for a sec-he's back. With a weedwacker... I guess we
have gardeners... or psychos... I don't want to risk it. I'll just let
that dude do his thing. Freaky...

Anime Expo this year? Well... besides the fact that Koshi Rikudo (excel)
and the dude who directed Ryvius (one of the greatest shows ever, cant'
remember his bloody name) are gonna be there---drum roll---Yoshitoshi ABe
will be there as well. I almost want to come back from Japan early to see
him. Of course, its still up between ABe and Battle Royale 2. 

What is Battle Royale you ask? No, it's not a quarterpounder from Japan,
it's a damn fine movie. Mind you, there are pretty much two opinions on
this movie. The first seems to be obsessed with the violence-pointing out
the fact there is a shite-load of it. "Too violent," or whatever else
their battle cry is. The other seems to realize there's a message past all
the violence intended to shock you, grab your attention, force you to
watch it. 

I wont spoil the movie, nor even give you the overall plot-why? Because 
I'm thinking about the Matrix right now and I'd not be able to give BR 
justice. Mmm... Matrix... hey, that's like tomorrow or something right?
Anyway, I'm beginning to nod off on my keyboard. You all enjoy your week
and come to the meeting on Saturday and Tsurugi's on Sunday!

Our shows are all coming to a close-and here's a special little hint for
those of you who don't know already... we're showing a movie at the end of
the quarter (yes-we ALWAYS show a movie-I know). What's special about it?
I dunno-perhaps the fact that it's about a half-dog demon and if you don't
come El Presidente will haunt your bedroom? He's been living the script
for that movie (from what I understand its longer than the source code for
Windows) for the past 18 months or something. I'm not quite sure how it
works, but I think the El Presidente we see in club is a robot-clone of
the real one. That's why he wont drink any sake at Tsurugi's, he'll rust
or something. Same with Wasabi rolls, except he'd go up in blue flames. Oh
yeah-my point. We have some Great shows coming to a close, and they have
some unbelievably solid endings in store for the fan who's been following
along (or who shows up and asks someone what the hell a giant robot is
doing in space). 


-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime Secretary
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub

[MnA] Sat, 31 May Meeting

(Minna No Anime, Thu May 29 22:19:42 2003)
Konnichiwa Minna,

Well, it's the end of the year and we're finishing up a bunch of different
series. Full Metal Panic is over, but you haven't had your fill of girls
and robots yet? Well, don't worry-Gonzo will probably issue another
classic "Kick-Arse-Robots-Save-World-Get-The-Girl" story, eventually. Like
the insanity of Gainax? FLCL is waiting for you on three very shiny, very
excellent discs. Like KOR? I'm sorry, really-I am.

And as for T-shirts... well, don't lynch me but I believe they'll be in
this week. Of course, that's placing faith in UPS to deliver something in
three days that they said they'd deliver in three days. We're talking
about UPS here, the same guys who kicked Moblins and plucked the wings off
of Winged-Zombies when they were children. I don't think we can trust them
to deliver in three days, but hopefully they'll prove me wrong (for once).

This week, since we're down a few shows (that ended last meeting, sniff)
we've decided to do a little improvising. We hope you enjoy the
replacements (Kuromi is rocken! And that rhymes with Dokken!-who aren't.)

And now, the schedule!

5:00 Fansub O' : Expect a slight haze with a 10% change of Matantei
Ragnarock
5:30 Hana Yori Dango - 24 : Love's Tempest! Banished from School?

Break: Our weather satellite is down so we really don't know what's going
on outside, and no-we can't open a window.

6:00 Nadia : The Secret of Blue Water - 24 : Lincoln Island
6:30 Anime Runner Kuromi-Chan : Moderate Shower Scenes Will Come In During
The Morning Replaced By Foggy Windows Later In The Evening

Break: It's spelled L-I-N-C-O-L-N. And the music's better (except for that
screeching banshee "The-Secret-Blue-Water!!")

7:00 Inuyasha - 49 : Ushinawareta Kohaku no Kioku
7:30 Kimagure Orange Road - 48 : Caught the Love! And The End.

Break: Looks like that KOR front is giving into rays of sunshine and
happiness.

8:00 Otaku no Video 82 : Curious? So am I. I've never seen this 'classic.'
8:30 Fruits Basket - 25 : Episode 25

Break: I'm out of cocoa-puffs. Well, I guess that's a good thing since I
don't like them anyway.

9:00 Infinite Ryvius - 25 : To Be Who I Am
9:30 Otaku No Video 85 : I've never seen this 'classic' either.

That's all folks!



















Now, most of you don't know this, but I was born here on Earth. Yes, May
31, 1980 to be exact. That means my life-altering 23rd birthday is coming
up, and is in fact this Saturday. Will you find me in club? Probably not.
Will you find me downtown at the bars? Uhm... no. Will you find me in the
middle of a fragfest with my buds from the bay area? Hell yeah.

We're gonna LAN it up with some new-and-old-school FPS and a bit of
Starcraft for the memories (oh the bittersweet memories). My
recommendation to all of you? Do something similar for your birthday.
Forget the nice dinners and the presents (I hate receiving presents,
normally) and go do something that you'd get a once-in-a-year chance to
do. You can drink it up at the bars any weekend you want to, but how many
times can you persuade your friends to come down and let you play them in
games that you've got more experience with? 

Recently I was downtown helping celebrate a friend's 21st birthday, and by
the end of the night when I was cleaning the side, window, and part of the
interior of the Buick (some of you know of the Buick named Curtis, some of
you do not...) I realized that birthdays shouldn't be spent puking
in/on/out of someone else's car.

Nope, instead you should be off fighting bears named Jason in the
mountains, or something to that effect. Maybe go Kayaking and raid one of
those boats in Morro Bay. You could be Birthday Pirates or something? 

Hmm... birthday pirates I say? I'll have to remember that one for later.

So, as I have recently been informed via the satellite hookup known as
"addiction" Macross Zero ep 2 is out. I am waiting patiently for my
overseas shipment to arrive. And when it does? I'll probably watch it once
or twice through with my Macross buddy and then find the digisub for it so
we can bring the DVD into club. 

But wait, I'm getting a Digi-sub you say? Isn't a snotty-nosed punk like
me opposed to those small whispers of thievery? Yes, yes I am. I'm getting
the script from the sub-for the DVD I purchased. No, I wont chide you and
tell you to go to hell for having digi's or anything. In fact, there was a
time when I sat glued to my monitor watching the hours and hours of digi's
I had collected/borrowed. Of course, those shows were never gonna come out
in the US, and if they were they weren't licensed yet. 

It seems that these days, as soon as a show is deemed popular/profitable
in Japan it is licensed in America-even if the show hasn't finished it's
run in Japan. This poses a problem for Digi subbers with morals. Once a
show is licensed you're supposed to stop subbing it, destroy copies of it,
stop distributing it, etc. However, as long as people can get high quality
copies for free they don't care about pirating (not birthday pirating,
mind you). 

It reminds me of the Simpsons episode about stealing cable. No one really
cared that Homer did it, it was a victimless crime after all-right? Lisa
played the moral high-ground card on him and eventually Homer comes about
and misses the greatest televised fight ever, and then cuts the cable line
so they no longer receive free cable. 

I look at Digi-subbing kinda like that. People are doing it because they
think its a victimless crime, and as opposed as I am to modern
intellectual property laws, I have to agree with the dark side on a few
issues. If most people, no-lets say some people. About-oh say 20% of
people who are really into a show don't buy the DVD because they can get a
DivX copy that's comparable quality for free-then, doesn't that directly
effect the companies selling/licensing the shows? 20% of their income was
just lost because of theft (not paying for something normally constitues
theft). 

If I were the guy who just lost 20% of his income, I'd be pissed off also.
Now, don't take any analogies between my argument against Digisubs and
mp3s or DivX in general, or other media/piracy because my opinion for each
topic is different. 

I just think that people are cheap and lazy and are willing to steal if
they think it doesn't hurt anyone. I know I am, and maybe you're not-but I
sure see that in how many people can cheer at AX for a show that's not
even licensed in the states yet. Funny isn't it, how Love Hina can be
mentioned-even though at the time it had just been licensed, and most of
the crowd cheered with the ferver of fans who were familar with
most-if-not-all of the series. 

Okay, I've delayed my dinner/studying long enough. It's ten-o-clock or
something and I need to go study and find a place that will serve me
dinenr in exchange for monetary barter.

Don't think too hard about what I said, 'cause I didn't say much. This was
an unformulated series of incoherant sentances raised in a brain that 
can't even tell you what day of the week it thinks it is (Ice Cream is not
a day, as I found out yesterday).

-Ahmad Jamshid "K" Amini
-Minna No Anime Secreatary
-www.calpoly.edu/~minnclub




Link Of The Week! (Yes, I know it's missing 48 weeks of the year)

http://www.productin-ig.com/Ghost_TV.html

Final Meeting

(Minna No Anime, Fri Jun  6 16:29:37 2003)
Hey folks!  Jamshid is busy bashing his head in a design lab so I'll be
doing the final newsletter of the year.

5:00-Kaze no Yojimbo
5:30-Hana Yori Dango 25

6:00-Nadia 25
6:30-Inuyasha 50

7:00-Fruits Basket 26
7:30-Infinite Ryvius 26

8:00-Inuyasha Movie: The Feelings that Transcend Time

For all of you anime fans who are gonna be around for the summer fear not!
Minna No Anime will be having meetings during the summer, our meetings
will be a lot less formal and audience choice will be an option.

See you all Saturday, and hope to see some of you over summer.

-Nik Kamachi
President, Minna No Anime

Summer 2003

First Summer Meeting

(Minna No Anime, Wed Jun 18 21:47:35 2003)
Hey all, I hope you're enjoying your summer.  If not, maybe a five hour
fix of anime is what you need.  Since summer is the relaxing time of year,
Minna No Anime is going to loosen up as well.  Right now there is no solid
schedule, and that may or may not change depending on what the audience
wants.

For now, the only show that is a sure thing is You're Under Arrest.
The officers will be bringing in what they have and anyone can bring their
disks or tapes they want to show.

If your saturdays are open, then give MNA Summer quarter a try.

Same place (building 3, room 213 AKA The Silo) and same time (5-10 PM)

Hope to see some of you there!

-Nik Kamachi
President, Minna No Anime

MNA Summer 2003 6/16/03

(Minna No Anime, Wed Jul 16 13:48:09 2003)
Hi all,

Since AX is over and I am now back in SLO I figured that I should fill
your mailboxes with more newsletters.

So far it looks like Eatman'98, Outlaw Star, and Rahxephon are crowd
favorites for summer quarter.  And of course our weekly dose of You're
Under Arrest continues to go strong.

So if you're bored on Saturday and happen to be in SLO stop on by.  If
you're not bored on Saturday you should still come, how often will you
get
to watch this stuff on a giant screen through a $20,000 projector?

For those of you not in SLO, if you have friends that are going to Poly
tell them about MNA.  We need new blood and word of mouth is one of the
best ways.  So next time you're laying out on the beach, do me a favor and
tell somebody that Cal Poly has a bitchin anime club.

-Nik

No more summer meetings

 (Minna No Anime, Wed Aug 27 22:57:50 2003)
Hey summer anime freaks, this is your venerable president with some
unfortunate news.  There will be no more Minna No Anime this summer
quarter due to the fact that the silo is going to be cleaned for the next
two weeks.

I would appreciate anyone who reads this to let as many people know as
possible so that we don't get hopeful members showing up for a meeting we
won't be having.

Our next meeting will be the first weekend of fall quarter, so i hope to
see you all then!

-Nik Kamachi
President, Minna No Anime