Wayyyy too many series to watch >.< [mosu]

Fall anime is usu­ally the best dur­ing the year, and fall 2010 is just spetac­u­lar; def­i­nitely the best since the leg­endary fall 2008 sea­son. In prepa­ra­tion for the Uni­ver­sity of Vir­ginia anime club pre­sen­ta­tion and dis­cus­sion, we (Aorii [Major Arcana] and Honya [Lyri­cal Spark]) have decided to join up for a pre­view post~ (if you have an anime club you should totally do this). Charts here and here. Read the rest of this entry »

One of my favorite events dur­ing any con­ven­tion; even for Otakon where I had to wait an hour in line, but it was still well worth it~. So, in the spirit of shar­ing, I did my best in hunt­ing down the videos in ques­tion but there are still some miss­ing from this list >.< The bal­lot (here) won’t mat­ter any­more though except as a reference.

And now a word from our spon­sors by Scin­tilla (Con­test 1st Place) [Down­load]
Anime: Var­i­ous, but heav­ily Code Geass
Song: “Burger Dance (Inter­na­tional Remix)” by DJ Otzi

Not sur­pris­ingly, this took first place in the AMV con­test ~ the com­edy sec­tion always did have the best stuff. I was lit­er­ally laugh­ing my tears our for min­utes on this one, not to men­tion the inclu­sion of one scene that will never be unseen (~2:20, it’ll be thought of every time you see Hare Hare Yukai from now on xD). Read the rest of this entry »

A recent post by Sat­ur­nity and some fol­low up enlight­en­ment by Shance of Rain­bow­sphere made me real­ize just how neg­a­tive much of the anibl­o­gos­phere is to the con­cept of anime/manga clubs and other sim­i­lar orga­ni­za­tions revolv­ing around Japan­ese Mod­ern Visual Cul­ture, to the point of estab­lish­ing that “the first rule of anime club is don’t go to anime club”.

I once thought the same way. For my first two years at col­lege I walked into my anime club only once each year. Then changes took place. Maybe it’s because my think­ing is dif­fer­ent, or my goals have changed. But before I knew it I devel­oped a cer­tain pride to my anime club: CAINE at the Uni­ver­sity of Vir­ginia (the Comics and ANi­ma­tion INtel­lec­tual Explo­ration club). Why? Because we’re not the anime club, we’re not the manga club, we’re Genshiken.

You think those peo­ple are weird? So are you.

Dis­claimer: the fol­low­ing are obvi­ously my per­sonal tastes and I do not intend to insult any animu/mango club out there that runs suc­cess­fully in a dif­fer­ent way: it all depend on the audience.

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At the Uni­ver­sity of Vir­ginia there is a club named CAINE, which stands for Comics and Ani­ma­tion INtel­lec­tual Explo­ration. We are the Gen­shiken of UVA in all but name and authen­tic­ity, and one of the tra­di­tions of our merry band is to draw yuri on the chalk­board prior to our weekly anime show­ings and leave them for the enjoy­ment of oth­ers. This has been dili­gently per­formed for mul­ti­ple semes­ters now by our Direc­tor Honya.

Except we had no clue what the recep­tion was, until now…

On Sun­day night, the Com­puter Sci­ence pro­fes­sor was host­ing a test study ses­sion in the same room. He has just fin­ished his pre­sen­ta­tion and lifted the pro­jec­tor screen to answer a cod­ing ques­tion via black­board… only to unravel Honya’s lat­est work of art. Amuse­ment was an understatement.

You can get a blow-by-blow account of it at Bread_and_Circus.

Full 10s, I say!!!

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