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Anime of the Week: Soukyuu no Fafner -Dead Aggressor-

ANNOUNCEMENT:  NO FATE/ZERO THIS WEEKEND. WE WILL CONTINUE FATE/ZERO NEXT WEEKEND

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• This Weekend
  
• Officer Positions (URGENT!)
  
• Blog Updates
• Anime of the Week

This Weekend:
Time: Friday and Saturday 7pm
Location: Maryland 110


Friday April 13, 2012
Sousei no Aquarion
Episodes 18-26 [END]
A 2005 original work by Shouji Kawamori (Macross Frontier, Basquash!) and animation studio Satelight (Fairy Tail, Shugo Chara!). Sousei no Aquarion has also continued with a 2007 OVA, a movie, and the current ongoing "sequel," Aquarion EVOL. Music is provided by Yoko Kanno (Ghost in the Shell, Cowboy Bebop).
The Great Catastrophe, an event remembered as the time when mankind lost 2/3 of its population due to the melting of Antarctica's ice. It is now year 0011 of the Holy Genesis Era and in the Lost Atlantis, which was believed to have been destroyed 12000 years ago, the Shadow Angels have been resurrected and seek to harvest the life energy of humans. Humanity is once again on the brink of annihilation...that is until the Godspeed Magician, Fudo Gen, discovered the legendary vector machines: Mars, Luna, and Sol. These machines, along with gifted pilots who utilizes element to activate them, allow for the summoning of the legendary Mechanical Angel Aquarion. Aquarion now becomes the hope to prevent the onslaught of humanity.

Saturday April 14, 2012
TBA
Come this weekend to find out what we're showing

Officer Positions
As May approaches closer and closer, JHAC is looking for at least 2 undergraduates who will be willing to take on the President and Treasurer positions of the JHAC board for next year. While elections will not be held until the end of the semester, if you are interested or would like to learn more please email waw2@jhu.edu or come to one of our regular meetings to inquire. Do note, that if no one takes on these two positions, JHAC will lose its ability to fund our regular convention trips and other activities in the future and it will be difficult to regain status that has been lost.


Blog Updates
Spring preview is coming!
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Anime of the Week
To make this section more useful, Image of the Week has been changed to Anime of the Week where a different anime title will be featured in each week's email. The point of this is to discover what may be lost gems, obscure titles, underrated titles, or buried treasure in the anime world. These titles may or may not necessarily be shown at future meetings. Each title will come with a brief background.

The premier of Soukyuu no Fafner -Dead Agressor- (or Fafner for short) in 2004 forced the title to forever remain in the shadows of Gundam Seed, which ran from 2002-2003. A show that took forever to build up, yet when it finally broke out, it did so with flying colors and marked it as a hidden gem during a time when the anime industry began to peak. Fafner is an original work by animation studio XEBEC (Break Blade, Busou Renkin) with direction by Nobuyoshi Habara (D.N. Angel, Break Blade) and composition by Tou Ubukata (Heroic Age, Mardock Scramble) and Kazuki Yamanobe (Onegai my Melody, Slap Up Party -Arad Senki-). Since its premier in 2004, Fafner has spawned a 2005 prequel OVA and a 2010 movie. The title was formerly licensed by Geneon Entertainment USA and later rescued by Funimation Entertainment in 2011 after Geneon USA's license expired upon closing its doors. Thanks to the rescue license, Fafner remains available for purchase in the US market, but still remains a title that many have ignored due to its slow build up and the common recommendations of Neon Genesis Evangelion, Gundam Seed, Infinite Ryvius, Uchuu no Stellvia, and RahXephon over it. Nevertheless, those who do get into the later parts of the series are handsomely rewarded with quite the satisfying results.

Tatsumiyajima is a small island in the backwaters of Japan. The island is usually a quite and peaceful place where the young people go to school and about their lives undisturbed. Of course, this is all but a veil that hides the truth of the island. In reality, Tatsumiyajima is the last line of defense against a hostile enemy that attempts to wipe out humanity's existence. Within this island lies the giant robot, Fafner. Fafner is the dragon that guards the final "treasure" of humanity and will fight this enemy to preserve mankind's existence.