WMAS NEWSLETTER #8

October 19, 1998

Drag-energist. It's not just for breakfast anymore.
        -From All I Ever Needed To Know I Learned From Escaflowne

    Hey happy campers! Time for another newsletter. First, I'd like to tell all of the people sending me anime-related forwards to stop it. Now. I don't like getting forwards in my e-mail; if it has "FWD" in the subject, it will be replied to tersely and deleted unread. Thanks.
    Anyway, nobody was really up for busting Sailor Moon last week, so we didn't do it. Please tell me if this weekly RPG thing appeals to you; the sudden and drastic decline in participation signals displeasure in my mind, and I won't do it if nobody's interested. But please tell us what we SHOULD do; the anime club is for all activities anime, not just watching anime for three hours each week. Is anyone still interested in Karaoke/Cos-Play, which was mentioned earlier this year?
    Our president has finally brought down his Ani-Mayhem cards, which means that we can play the game at future meetings and club related activities. It's like the Star Trek card game that Decipher did (www.decipher.com), but with better disasters and cool anime characters. Have Washu-chan take down Leon! Watch Ranma (girl) beat down on Jinnai! See Largo eliminate them all with a particle beam blast! All this, and more, in the Ani-Mayhem game.
    Hopefully, next week our president will not "forget" to bring Key (he swears he forgot, but I am suspicious), so we can watch it until we run out of tapes. We'll also try to bring everything else that you voted for in the past, and if you have a special request we are oh-so-amenable. We'll also probably bring Battle Athletes, because we think it's funny. If you want to see the end of Key in Japanese with Chinese subtitles, and you can handle VCDs, we can help you out with that too.
    Meetings are in some room on the second floor of Blair on Friday at 7 PM. Bring your love of anime. See you there! Aaron's bringing his camera.

    - Ben
 

This Week's Quasi-Trivia Question:

Last Week's answers-
HARD: Marmalade Boy. Man, that series has some real fashion victims. Consistently. Don't watch it unless you like weepy shojou.
EASY: Fatora kisses better. She's got the experience and the enthusiasm. Marc, Jill, Tina, and Mike all got it right.

Now, for this week-

HARD: In Escaflowne, why does Van's cat girlfriend lick his face when he returns from killing the dragon?

EASY: Would Kalia look good with long hair?

HINTS: In Vision of Escaflowne, Prince Van has a cat girl for a significant other, and she licks his face when he comes back from a successful dragon hunting expedition.
    As for Kalia, she is the major antagonist in the El Hazard 2 OVA series. She is a short demon goddess robot that looks like a young girl with short white hair.
    There are no trick questions. Answers are due by the meeting Friday.
 

Web Sites of the Week:

http://www.gundam.com/ - a really good looking Gundam website. For all you “war in the pocket” people.

http://http.bsd.uchicago.edu/~jaswww/newsletter/Issue6/article6-3.html – an article about tarot in Vision of Escaflowne. Just to show that I was right about the protagonist using the Celtic Cross.

http://anime.mit.edu/ - a network of computers with a variety of anime sites.
 

Contacting Me:

    You're not cleared for that information. No, really, go ahead. Just reply to this message or call me at X6232. If you want to get off this list, I guess I can do that, but it would pain me greatly. It might also cause a relapse in G'xqlx's active cycle, and I hate scrubbing off the scorch marks and cleaning up psychoplasm. Feel free to ask me about any references I may make; I know what I'm talking about.