Welcome once again (you poor, doomed masses) to yet another exciting year of study at the Colorado School of Mines. Major construction to the final building on campus is nearly complete, which means increased parking (Coming Soon: severely reduced parking). Furthermore, your friendly CSM Anime Club (CSMAC) has returned to the luxurious HH202 lecture/theater hall. Even your humble president “Boku wa” Jack Kelly has returned with 1 “successful” semester of leadership under his non-existent belt. While much about this coming semester is known, there is far more which is not. Will you survive Mines’ latest onslaught against your sanity? Will there be any decent anime from Spring and Summer 2012? Will Jack learn to group shows by an actual theme? Find the answer to these questions and so many others in this week’s review.
We’ve arrived at the final stretch for Spring semester. Of course, CSM is never one to give a moment’s rest amongst the various reports, projects and final papers, so many courses are offered their last major exams before Finals. CSMAC feels your pain, so get ready for an evening of pizza, soda, and mediocre anime. Unless, of course, you weren’t there, in which case you get to be treated to only reviews of mediocre anime, and that’s just as good. On to the review!
Every once upon an Age, a story comes along that is timeless. Its content, lessons, and characters transcend time and location to reach the hearts and minds of generations of people. But then there is the ever-present possibility of degradation, when the message telegraphed so long ago becomes little more than a cosmic game of Telephone, and the joy once experienced in previous incarnations is forever lost to those in the far future. These are the Never-Ending Anime.
Yeah, it’s that most dreaded time of year once again. You know the kind. It’s the type of showing that actually makes you slightly ashamed of being an anime fan. Yet while this evening is usually devoted to the garbage water that exists beneath the bottom of the barrel, this year’s Blacklist Night is by far the tamest in at least 5 years. Then again, we’ve already shown Aquarion Evol, Symphogear, and Kill Me Baby, so it’s mathematically impossible to do worse (way to program by theme, Jack!). That said, the evening is instead filled with fan service, enough that the club no longer provides tissues (a lot of people had allergies this spring). Read on to find out why so many of our members died during the drinking game.
For whatever reason, it seems like young teenage girls can rarely live a normal life. Whether it’s due to invaders from another dimension, invaders from space, or even other angsty teens, girls can’t just be girls. As such, the only way they are permitted to earn that simple freedom is to fight using some giant robot or another (or fight to the death in a parallel universe). Either way, there is usually a malevolent mechanized force at work, and only those with strictly X chromosomes can stop it. Read on for more mechanical mayhem.
You know, in this day and age of epic stories and trashy harems, sometimes it’s easy to forget about the regular people. These are the average Joe’s that have no special stories, but they are still entertaining enough to deserve our respect. This review is for you, the everyman, and your daily life.
We heard you like Code Lyoko
With so much injustice in the world of anime, the time has come to act. Strike at the heart of lame shows and stand for truth, justice, peace and love, friendship, piracy, and underage women. Grab your collectible action figures, decoder rings, and plastic utility belts. All together now! Tenshin TIIIIGHTS! Tenshin GLŌŌŌŌVES! Tenshin MA-AHH-AHCCHchhchchc…….
It’s the first week of major exams, so it’s time once again for the obligatory movie night. Unfortunately, Jack never got the memo that the movies shown should actually be good and/or entertaining. Instead, we have whatever he dredged from the bottom of a couple abandoned forum threads. On the plus side, this showing also begins this semester’s repeater anime (you might recognize it from our website banner): Black Rock Shooter. Settle in, this review is as painful as it is long.
So there I am, sitting in the front row at Anime Club, expecting the same obnoxious drivel that I’ve had to endure for the past…ever. The lights dim, the projector runs, and indeed, it’s the same obnoxious drivel, or so it seems…
Suddenly, a freak accident occurs, and I am left with a horrifying realization: the best anime in the past 3 years are all as equally lame as the other crap out there, except for one key difference. These “superior” anime have a twist that turns conventions on their head. In fact, every one of the shows in front of me has a plot twist that threatens to make them actually bearable. Am I to bear witness to what may become the greatest night in the history of CSMAC? Doubtful, but you may be surprised by reading this week’s review.