This is the sequel, and the end of the fairytale....with samurais? (sorry no pizza cats)

Anime of the Week: Card Captor Sakura

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


Friday May 4, 2012
ef ~A Tale of Melodies~
Episodes 5-12 [END]
Now for something that's a little different from what we've shown all year. Based off minori's December 2006 and May 2008 visual novel: ef ~A Fairy Tale of the Two~. In addition, animation director Makoto Shinkai (5 Centimeters per Second, Beyond the Clouds: The Place Promised in Our Early Days), music composer TENMON (Voices of a Distant Star, Wind ~A Breath of Heart~), and character designer Naru Nanao (Da Capo, Sola) are affiliated with both the original visual novel as well as the anime adaptation. ef's first game was ranked as the fifth highest selling game of 2006 despite only releasing a few days before the new year. By late 2007, it ranked 23rd for best game overall, tying with the popular Muv-Luv Alternative and Snow. ef's second game was later ranked number one in sales in 2008.Continuing straight from ef ~A Tale of Memories~. ef ~A Tale of Melodies~ unravels the dark side of the fairy tale featuring Kuze Shuuichi, Mizuki Hayama, Yuuko Amamiya, and Yuu Himura. As original visual novel creator, minori, puts it, "This is the sequel, and the end of the fairytale..." The "truth" behind the stories told in ef ~A Tale of Memories~ will finally be unveiled. Shin Oonuma (PaniPoni Dash!, Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu) will provide direction, Katsuhiko Takayama (Ga-Rei -Zero-, Mirai Nikki) will compose the script, and SHAFT (Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Bakemonogatari) will provide the animation.

Saturday May 5, 2012
Showings TBA by new JHAC board. Come see for your self!


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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.

To end the final meeting of this semester as well as this year, we will look at a relatively well known classic. Many of you may recall seeing this in your early childhood on Saturday mornings. However, the presentation in the US  was far from what was originally shown in Japan. The show has spawned two additional movies and is well know for its mascot character. Yes, that series is the 1998-2000 series known as Card Captor Sakura, a series that set the bar for many magical girl titles over the next decade. If you thought what you saw on TV here in the US was bad, you should give the show another shot by watching the original series. To this day, Card Captor Sakura remains as a well known gem in not only magical girl history but as well as an all-time long lost classic outside of Japan.

Originally based off a manga by CLAMP (Tsubasa Chronicle, X, Magic Knight Rayearth) the series revolves around Sakura Kinomoto who is appointed as the Card Captor by the Guardian of the Seal, Cerberus, upon accidentally opening and releasing the magical book containing the Clow Cards. To protect the world from disaster, she must recapture all the Clow Cards with the help of Cerberus and her friend, Tomoyo Daidouji.