Bethel Anime Club

….don’t forget to look East! The moon will be in full eclipse when it rises at 6:00pm today, and as the sun sets behind you and the moon rises into the sky you will see that it is a deep, vivid red color.

The moon turns this color every time it passes through the earth’s shadow; the effect is caused by the bright red, sunlight-hating Moon Bats emerging from their lairs at the bottom of the craters in enormous swarms in order to stretch their wings and eat each other. If any Moon Bats are still outside when the moon reemerges into the sunlight, they drop dead; it is thought that the Biblical reference to the moon’s turning into blood is a reference to a time when the Moon Bat corpses will be piled so high (they are preserved by the vacuum on the lunar surface) that the moon will be permanently red. But never fear—scientists predict that this will not happen for at least ten thousand years (barring unforeseen fluctuations in the Moon Bat population).

FYI: Although the Moon Bats’ preferred food is other Moon Bats, they will also eat any astronauts unlucky enough to be stuck on the surface during a total lunar eclipse. This has been a major practical obstacle for moon colonization, as a hungry swarm of Moon Bats is capable of tearing through a Lunar Landing Module in less than forty seconds in order to get at the tasty human beings within.

Did you know? The dark side of the moon has such a low Moon Bat population because the ferocious but equally heliophobic Flying Moon Tiger is a natural predator. Due to the extreme cold of the dark side of the moon, over the course of each lunar cycle Flying Moon Tigers must eat more than thirty-five times their own body weight in Moon Bats to survive!

Hey all—

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. —Virgil
Happy is he who has been able to learn the causes of things.

…But not, perhaps, as content as he who is still ignorant. As Albert begins to learn things about the past that were better left unknown, the Villefort family disintegrates under the weight of past sins and betrayals. Only Valentine is innocent—but can the love of Maximilien save her, or is she fated to fall with her house?

They say that Hope is happiness—
But genuine Love must prize the past;
And Mem’ry wakes the thoughts that bless:
They rose the first—they set the last…

Love and hope certainly join forces to create happy memories at Kokoro Library… but this time, the library has been targeted by evil! Lupin III—excuse me, I mean “Funny Tortoise the Thief”—has posted the sisters a note saying that he plans to steal the most valuable book in their collection, and the local police force seems both determined and completely inept. Can Kokoro find a way to prevent the theft, or is the library doomed?

And all that mem’ry loves the most
Was once our only hope to be:
And all that hope adored and lost
Hath melted into memory…

Memory and hope are not always trustworthy things, and for Michiru and Minagi they define a life of marginalization and loss. The time has come for their shared dream to end; can Minagi survive her loss? Meanwhile, Yukito discovers the real nature of Misuzu’s illness; can he save her, or is she destined to be alone forever?

Alas! it is delusions all—
The future cheats us from afar:
Nor can we be what we recall,
Nor dare we think on what we are.

We have reached the end of Macross Zero, and although the show didn’t exactly make sense at all times, it certainly was pretty, right? At any rate, after last week’s episode I have strong suspicions that the final stanza of today’s poem will come true in the final episode, as the likelihood of everyone’s dying seems extremely high. Can anyone survive, or will all fall to the flames of the Kadun of Fire?

Despite last week’s low attendance and high snowfall, we will be blazing ahead tomorrow in full confidence that everyone will download the relevant episodes! Literally every one of our shows in getting better with every episode, and you mustn’t miss the end of “Macross Zero” (or the announcement about its replacement). I’ll see you all tomorrow night!

—Matthew

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