AnimeFest XXXV Spring 2006 (Virginia Tech)

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AnimeFest XXXV Spring 2006 (Virginia Tech)

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If anyone wants to attend, there is an Anime convention at Virginia Tech. It'll be in Whitmore 300 (behind Hancock Hall) March 24th 9pm through Sunday March 26th at 2pm.

Shout out here, I'll be there. :D
Day Start Time End Time Show
Friday 9:00 pm 10:40 pm Mushisi 1-4
10:40 pm 11:40 pm Nekojiru Gekijou
Saturday 11:40 pm 1:20 am Fate/Stay Night 1-4
1.20: am 3:00 am Magikano 1-4
3:00 am 4:40 am Keroro Gunso 1-4
4:40 am 6:20 am Trigun 1-4
6:20 am 7:50 am Slayers 1-4
7:50 am 9:30 am Those Who Hunt Elves 1-4
9:30 am 10:10 am BREAKFAST BREAK
10:10 am 11:50 am Karin 1-4
11:50 am 1:30 pm Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid 1-4
1:30 pm 3:10 pm Eureka Seven 1-4
3:10 pm 4:40 pm Air Movie
4:40 pm 6:20 pm Jin Roh
6:20 pm 7:00 pm Hellsing OVA
7:00 pm 8:40 pm Full Metal Alchemist Movie
8:40 pm 10:50 am Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
10:50 am 12:30 am Suicide Club
Sunnyday 12:30 am 2:30 am Ichi the Killer
2:30 am 3:50 am Binchou Tan 1-6
3:50 am 5:30 am School Rumble
5:30 am 7:10 am Tenchi GXP 1-4
7:10 am 8:50 am Mai Otome 1-4
8:50 am 10:30 am NoEin 1-4
10:30 am 12:00 pm REC 1-7
12:00 pm 1:30 pm Kujibiki Unbalance



Mushishi - A series of short stories that posit the existence of non-sentient supernatural beings called mushi (literally "insects") and explore people's interaction with them through the eyes of Ginko, a wandering Mushishi, whose job description lies somewhere between supernatural doctor and entomologist.

Nekojiru Gekijou - Welcome to the everyday life of Nyatta and Nyako, two seemingly lovable kittens. The wonderful twist is that Nyatta and Nyako could be described as the most racist, most ignorant, most hateful, most politically incorrect characters seen in any show so far and it would still be an understatement. Join them as they insult, maim, frame, and generally destroy the lives of those around them! Fate/Stay Night – Fate/stay night is about events in the life of a high-school boy, Emiya Shirou, who lives in Fuyuki City. Unknown to him and the rest of Fuyuki City, their city is the battleground for a secret war between sorcerers and their servants. When Emiya is almost killed twice by servants, he's drawn into the war.

Magikano – One boy with untapped magical powers. Three witch sisters, and another witch maid, all trying to unlock said magical powers. Hilarity, panty shots, and echhiness ensue.

Keruro Gunso - Sergeant Ribbit baby! Space frogs try to take over the world with their gundams. Space Frogs. Gundams. Invasion. Pie.

Trigun - Little bit of the classics returning! Due to over 300 insurance claims filed by the inhabitants of the cities Vash the Stampede has supposedly demolished, the FIA has sent two claims inspectors - Meryl Stryfe & Milly Thompson - to find Vash and investigate/fine him for all the damage he has caused.

Slayers - More of the old good stuff you need to see. Join Lina Inverse the sorceress and Goury the idiot swordsman wonder as they seek fame, fortune, food, and adventure in a fantasy world.

Those Who Hunt Elves - MORE old good stuff! Three people (and a Tank!!) are transported from the modern day world into the world of the elves. The elves attempt to send them back, but the spell fails, and the pieces of the incantation are spread all over the elven world....attached to the bodies of elven females. The crew (and their tank!!) Must go in search of the pieces of the incantation. Sexual Harassment ensues.

Karin – Karin and her family of Vampires live in modern day Japan. The only problem is that Karin, instead of sucking blood, actually *produces* too much blood. A neat switch on 'bloody nose' jokes, ecchiness, and vampires.

Full Metal Panic: TSR – The Second Raid is the direct sequel to the original anime series. The Mithril organization, mecha, robots, missiles, and freaking lazer guns yo.

Eureka Seven - Eureka Seven tells the story of a young boy named Renton, whose life just plain sucks. That is, until a giant robot crashes into his house. Piloted by a girl named Eureka, this encounter leads Renton to be pursued by the military and pulled into a web of drama, intrigue, and freakin robots.

Air Movie - Kunisaki Yukito is a traveller, ever seeking the 'girl in the sky' from a legend passed down in his family. His journey takes him to a small seaside town, where he meets Misuzu, a girl who seems eager to become his friend. A story spanning a thousand years begins to unfold against the background of their peculiar relationship.

Jin Roh - Kazuki Fuse, is a member of the elite Panzer Corps, an antiterror outfit with heavy personal armor, stahlhelms with masks containing breathing and night-vision gear, and heavy machine guns. Fuse suffers from a loss of faith in his mission when he fails to shoot a young, female terrorist; the girl detonates a bomb in front of him, killing herself. He strikes up an ill-fated romance with the terrorist's sister, Kei, who he meets as she mourns her death.

Hellsing OVA – Alucard. Vampires. Guns. Stuff dies. More stuff dies. Stuff gets blown up and there is blood. Alucard = Dracula spelled backwards. I really shouldn’t have to explain this kind of stuff to you.

Full Metal Alchemist Movie – Do I really need to explain this to you? Continues where the series left off. Ed in pre WWI Munich, and Al in the Alchemical world try to find a way to reunite. Nothing is stronger than the power of brotherly love!! *tear*

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance – From the director of Oldboy, a young deaf-mute man's failed plot to obtain a kidney for his ailing sister sets in motion a chain of events ending in a series of vengeful murders.

Suicide Club - On May 26th, 54 teenage schoolgirls gather on a platform at Shinjuku station in Tokyo to commit a mass suicide. As the train approaches the station, they line up on the edge of the platfom and hold each other's hand. Just before the train arrives to the platform, they throw themselves in front of it. This leaves the station in complete chaos as blood literally splashes on the platform from under the train. In the midst of the chaos someone leaves a small white bag on the platform. Meanwhile, in a hospital in Tokyo during a night shift, the security guard is left astonished as one nurse of two disappears without a trace and the other jumps off a window with no reason. A small white bag is found in the hospital. We have to show you something totally nuts each year folks.

Ichi the Killer - Kakihara, a sadomasochist yakuza enforcer who enjoys giving and receiving pain in about equal measure. Kakihara's boss Anjo vanishes one night after he is murdered in a particularly gruesome fashion. A mysterious group arrives and cleans up all evidence of the murder, and takes the 300 million yen Anjo had in his room. Violence. Lots of it.

Binchou tan – Binchou tan lives in an old house in the mountains. Binchou-tan is an iyashi ("healing") anime, focusing more on enjoying the small things rather than having some big story. It’s cute and simple. Period.

School Rumble – I have no idea what this is about. Every review said it was really random and funny. A bunch of people recommended it. That’s good enough for me, and it should be damn good enough for you.

Tenchi GXP – Set one year after the conclusion of the third Tenchi Muyo OAV series, GXP follows the exploits of one Seina Yamada, an accident-prone young man who ends up joining the Galaxy Police after receiving a pamphlet from an officer who crash-lands on earth.

Mai Otome – Second series of Mai Hime. Many of the same characters, except Hime = Otome, and they’re all lesbians.

Noein – Karasu travels 15 years into the past to retrieve an artifact essential to a war in the future from his childhood friend Haruka. Don’t expect it to make much sense at first.

REC - Fumihiko Matsumaru, 26, is an average salaryman who works in the marketing department of a snack company. At the beginning of the story, he is outside a movie theater waiting for his date to arrive. When it becomes obvious that he has been "stood up," he crumples his tickets in frustration. As he is about to toss the tickets into a trash can, a girl approaches, and in the "voice" of the tickets, implores him to not waste them. Dumbfounded, he sees the movie with her, which is Roman Holiday. During the movie, he notices that the girl is reading the subtitles out loud. When he asks her about this after the movie, she says that she was practicing the lines, and that she wants to be Audrey Hepburn. At dinner, she explains that she is a 20-year-old novice seiyu.

Kujibiki Unbalance - an OVA series that was spun off of the Genshiken TV series. Within Genshiken, Kujibiki Unbalance is a popular anime among the main characters, who watch and discuss it; as well as purchase associated products and adult-oriented dojinshi featuring some of the main characters, in particular "President Ritsuko". Kujibiki Unbalance has been called a "play within a play" since as of this time with the exception of the three OVAs, Kujibiki Unbalance does not truly exist outside of the world of Genshiken. It started off as a fictional manga series within the Genshiken manga. When part of the manga of Genshiken was adapted to anime, Kujibiki Unbalance fictionally became a 26 episode anime within the world of Genshiken and in reality became the 3 episode OVA allowing for a small glimpse of what those within Genshiken are sometimes watching on their television. These last two descriptions blatantly stolen from wikipedia cause I’m tired :) yay I’m done!!
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