My own personal anime screening!

Just as I was leaving NYU, some of my friends there started up a club for animation students. They called it SAL, the Student Animation League, and so far they've had many event and guest speakers and screenings at whatnot.

The president, Zoya, expressed interest long ago in having several anime nights, with anime screenings. I offered a lot of suggestions, and ended up getting my own special event screening anime for all to see. My program includes the following:

Cowboy Bebop episode 5 -¯Ballad of Fallen Angels˜
Neon Genesis Evangelion episode 16
Read or Die OAV episode 1 (of 3)
Ping Pong Club episode 1
His and Her Circumstances episode 1
Dragon Half episode 1 (of 2)

I made these choices based on DVDs that I own, and I wanted to show a wide variety of styles and genres (thus, Ping Pong club). The episodes of Cowboy Bebop and Eva I chose are episodes that I think really stand out from the rest of the series.

I emailed this information out to a bunch of anime listservs in the city, and the president of Columbia's anime club forwarded it, saying "they're showing some mildly interesting stuff..."

Mildy interesting!?? I'm not exactly showing a Miyazaki retrospective here, but short of showing real old classics like Battleship Yamato, I'd be hard-pressed to come up with a better list. I realize I'm not showing much (one could argue any,) shonen, but it's hard to appreciate shonen without sitting through a fight tournement of a dozen episodes - including Hikaru No Go.

Anyway, if anyone reading this want to go email me for directions. The screening is this Friday at 7:00.

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November 12, 2003 11:29 PM, Whir said:

What happened in Ep 16? I don't remember... Is that the one where Shinji gets absorbed?

November 13, 2003 12:37 PM, Erin said:

No, it's the one where the power goes out. It's one of the last normal episodes before the show goes totally crazy.

There's an episode description on tvtome.com that's pretty good.

November 14, 2003 07:29 AM, Rick said:

Your list is of (relatively) newer shows that most anime fans have seen. So it may be a good screening for people who aren't big fans to introduce them the modern anime, but it really isn't anything that's going to impress an otaku.

November 14, 2003 05:19 PM, Erin said:

That's true.

I'm not sure how I would impress an otaku. I'd have to show some very old stuff, or very rare stuff like the Daicon IV short or something.

The screening is meant for student animators who might not be familiar with anime at all.

...if you think the stuff I'm showing is new, you should see what they're showing at NYU Anime Club - it's all Peacemaker and Gunslinger Girls, all stuff that's only been out in Japan for a a little while. Alison claims that Full Metal Alchemist is a great new show, and the fansubbers are only four days behind the Japanese air date.

Why I was shocked by the Columbia anime prez's comments was because his club keeps showing all Bebop and Naruto. Naruto!? Who the hell cares!!

November 15, 2003 05:07 AM, Whir said:

Hey, I just started downloading Gunslinger Girl from AnimeSuki. Only been through the first two eps. Standard anime, really.

I have all of EVA, I just didn't feel like putting the DVD in and figuring out which episode it was. I'm lazy like that.

I think I'm only watching Gunslinger Girl because she uses a P90. That's my favorite assault weapon. They use them on Stargate SG1 too. Woo! :P

November 17, 2003 12:21 AM, Erin said:

Yes, Whir, but I assume the characters using P90's on SG1 are not 7-year-old girls.

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