This Weekend: Gel Bananas, Hacking the Gate, and a touch of horror

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This Weekend:
Time: 7pm
Location: Maryland 109 (Friday), Maryland 110 (Saturday)

Friday October 28, 2011
Steins;Gate Episodes 1-8
Steins;Gate is based off the 2009 Xbox 360 visual novel, which was later ported to the Windows PC in 2010 and the PSP and iOS in 2011. Set in the heated summer of 2010, which takes place approximately one year after the events of spin-off Chaos;Head, Steins;Gate deals with the mysteries of the John Titor pseudonym. A group of friends living in Akihabara managed to customize their microwave into a machine that can send text messages into the past. Little did they know, however, each one of their messages began to distort reality and is eventually caught on by SERN, an organization that had been performing research on time travel. Steins;Gate premiered in Japan as part of the Spring 2011 anime season and unlike its counterpart, Chaos;Head, it has become deemed not only as one of the top anime titles for 2011 but also one of the best series in history. In addition, Steins;Gate recently receive the reward for Best Male Protagonist in 2011. Hiroshi Hamasaki (Texhnolyze, Shigurui) and Takuya Satou (Seitokai no Ichizon, Ichigo Mashimaro) co-directed, Jukki Hanada (Rozen Maiden, Level E) composed the script, and White Fox (Katanagatari, Tears to Tiara) provided the animation. Mamoru Miyano (Light Yagami from Death Note, Setsuna F. Seiei from Gundam 00) voices male protagonist, Hououin Kyouma Rintarou Okabe.

Saturday October 29, 2011
Horror Night
We will be showing a variety of dark and hopefully "horror" themed shows that we haven't shown in the past couple years.....though I hope we're not scraping the bottom of the barrel...


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