Bethel Anime Club

So finally here are some of the posters I made for this fall semester. I may get a few more out provided I can find some decent art, but for now these are I’ve been able to make.

Wow, its been awhile since I’ve made some new posters for the Anime Club! Anyways, here are a few posters for the new series we’ll be watching this semester!

Come see Spirited Away, the 2002 Academy Award-winning film, this Saturday, AC337 at 7pm.
The highest grossing film in Japanese box-office history (more than $234 million), Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away (Sen To Chihiro Kamikakushi) is a dazzling film that reasserts the power of drawn animation to create fantasy worlds. Like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz and Lewis Carroll’s Alice, Chihiro (voice by Daveigh Chase–Lilo in Disney’s Lilo & Stitch) plunges into an alternate reality. On the way to their new home, the petulant adolescent and her parents find what they think is a deserted amusement park.. Her parents stuff themselves until they turn into pigs, and Chihiro discovers they’re trapped in a resort for traditional Japanese gods and spirits. An oddly familiar boy named Haku (Jason Marsden) instructs Chihiro to request a job from Yubaba (Suzanne Pleshette), the greedy witch who rules the spa. As she works, Chihiro’s untapped qualities keep her from being corrupted by the greed that pervades Yubaba’s mini-empire. The resolve, bravery, and love Chihiro discovers with in herself enable her to aid Haku and save her parents. The result is a moving and magical journey, told with consummate skill by one of the masters of contemporary animation. MPAA Rated: PG
Come see why the Japanese director, Hayao Miyazaki, is considered by many to be the world’s foremost animator.
This is a great opportunity to introduce friends to anime. Bring your roommates, your siblings, etc.
I hope to see you all there.
Rachel McNeil mcnrac@bethel.edu

Hey All!
Just a FYI the 3rd episode of Bamboo Blade we watched last Saturday has been uploaded to the website for all to download, just in case you had to miss the meeting for Homecoming activities. (here is the direct link: http://www.scaleddesign.net/animedl/Bamboo%20Blade/)
Also, I made two posters to get some advertising up around campus, for both next Saturdays showing of Spirited Away and general club awareness. Below are the links to them if you want to take a peak, since they are rather large and didn’t want to fill up your inbox:

-Matthew W
P.S: I’m not sure if you all keep up with recent anime news, however if you ever watched Cartoon Network or Toonami this may be of interest:

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-09-20/cartoon-network-to-reportedly-end-toonami-tonight

Toonami is really what got me into anime nearly 11 years ago, with classics like Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, Tenchi, etc. Its sad to it go, along with Adult Swim moving their anime programming to the 5am “death slot” it wont be long before anime completely disappears from CN. However we’ll continue to meet and partake in anime viewing as a group, and hopefully view some series you wouldn’t have been exposed to otherwise. Until next Sautrady, have a great week!

Its been quite a while since I’ve made some new posters for the Anime Club, but I finally got around to sitting down and making a few new ones. Sadly, I can’t attach them to this email, so you will be forced to visit the website (http://bethelanime.ath.cx), if you want to take a peak.
-Matthew W

New Nodame Cantabile Poster

Only Yesterday poster

ROD Themed poster

To kick off the third Bethel Anime Club summer session, I’ve put together two Haruhi themed posters! I’ll hang them up this week, hopefully attracting some new attention. I put Thursday nights on the posters, however I don’t think that has been decided as of yet.
-Matthew Williams

Pic from the Great Debate, a lot better then waiting in like forever for the cosplay competition! Yes, they are stuffing their faces with marshmallows as they try to debate.

Another pic from the Great Debate

Con Suite, full of free food!

Really creepy cross dressing man from Anime Improve

And another pic from Anime Improve

Line for WTF Japan, and this was a small line compared to the line for the cosplay competition!

WTF Japan Panel

Once again, I have no idea what characters they are from

Sara, as Sailor Pluto, our long lost Bethe Anime Club member

Cosplay from FLCL

Not sure what character she is from

Main area at the thunderbird, crowded as always

Two characters I also don’t know

Characters from Super Milk Chan

Shot from the opening ceremony

More from the opening ceremony

This is from the Horrors of Anime Panel, one of my more satisfying and disturbing experiences