This is the first year of the club as PCAS; Previously we were CAS, though, so we sort of have a history going back to 1992. Since we're still figuring out how to do things - especially how to deal with no longer being a campus organization - we're probably going to stumble a bit, trying out a bunch of different ways of doing things. For example, we used to have showings during school terms and outside of school terms. Now I think I'll try referring to showings by season, with some showings being off-season.
January 6
January 13 and 14
Attendance: 8
Gene, Brian, Peter, Adam, Steven, Alan, Steve, Steve's guest
Schedule-free showings. We watched
Working!! 1
Ben-to 5
Another 1
Thermae Romae 1 (abandoned early in episode)
Daily Lives of High School Boys 1
Bodacious Space Pirates 2
Dirty Pair OVA 3
Godannar 11
This Ugly Yet Beautiful World 1
Inu x Boku SS 1
Attendance: 6
Arthur, Adam, Brian, Peter, Alan, Jenia
Schedule-free showings. We watched:
Brave 10 ep. 1
Heroic Age 3
You're Under Arrest 2
Saiunkoku 4
Gunparade March 1
Super Dimensional Century Orguss 1
Special A 1
Ellcia 1
Random experimentation with AppleTV (overscan issues)
Kurenai 1
Panty and Stocking 2
Sasami Magic Girls Club skipped
Those Who Hunt Elves 4
Tsukikage Ran 3
Rune Soldier Louie 4
Birdy the Mighty Decode skipped b/c other people have seen it or don't like it
Pumpkin Scissors 2
Flag 1
VOTOMs 1
No luck with AppleTV
Marmalade Boy
Toward the Terra
Phantom
Birdy the Mighty Decode
Doujin Work
GaoGaiGar
Nuku Nuku
Saint Tail
Attendance: 11
Gene, Alan, Cat Stevens, Sean, Brian, David, Jenia, Adam, Steve Racer, Victor, Arthur
Crunchyroll app on Roku sucks now
Dark Side Cat
Medaka Box 2
Dirty Pair TV 11
Panty and Stocking 7
Gintama 3
Another 1
Voting and schedule-building
Lupin series 1, ep. 1
Adventure Time
Attendance: 8
Guy, David, Adam, Victor, Brian, Cat Stevens, Alan, Jenia
Notes: Guy's air conditioning was fixed (at least temporarily) in time, so showings were held in his place as usual. We voted on shows and had so many ties at 5 votes we resorted to negative voting ("OK, who doesn't want to watch [show]") to straighten things out. Our Friday schedule might still be a little tight...
As for technical issues - Gene's TV is old enough that it appears there's no way to get it to correctly adjust for overscan issues with a 2nd gen AppleTV (maybe 3rd gen is better?). And the Crunchyroll app on Roku is awful now - you have to search for things (there's no general listing of shows). That might be OK if search results were more useful.
7 - ? Sampling for Fall season, Haganai OVA, some new stuff
ended up watching
Sakura-sou
Kamisama Kiss
Code:Breaker
Is This a Zombie?
Psycho-Pass
Haganai OVA
Magi
Kamisama Dolls
Girls Und Panzer
Attendance: 8
Gene, David, Cat Stevens, Brian, Victor, Alan, Arthur, Adam
7 - ? Sampling for Fall season, Mysterious Girlfriend X and Accel World OVAs, some new stuff
ended up watching
Joshiraku
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
From the New World
Binbougami ga!
Mysterious Girlfriend X OVA
Girls Und Panzer PV
Zetsuen no Tempest
Accel World OVA
Btooom!
Attendance: 6
Guy, Brian, Cat Stevens, David, Adam, Alan
Notes: Binbougami had to be abandoned on the first try due to issues with Funimation's site as a whole, but we got it to work a bit later. People seemed interested in most of the new shows, with Girls Und Panzer being a big surprise on both days (it's better than we have any right to expect). Both From the New World and Zetsuen no Tempest got a lot of positive attention on Saturday. OVAs for the series we'd completed ranged from bad-but-at-least-it's-short (Haganai) to OK-but-disposable (Accel World, Mysterious Girlfriend X).
7 - ? Sampling for Fall season (possibly including shows like Denpa Onna, Detroit Metal City, Occult Academy) as well as some new stuff (K, etc.)
ended up watching
Patema Inverted
Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko
Ixion Saga DT
Teekyu
Occult Academy
My Little Monster
Wooser
K
Detroit Metal City (special)
Aikatsu - stopped because subs used fonts that weren't embedded or on my system
Uchurei
Busou Shinki
Sky Girls
Attendance: 6
Gene, Arthur, Alan, Adam, Brian, Steve Racer
7 - ? Sampling for Fall season (AKB0048, etc.) some new stuff (such as Robotics;Notes)
ended up watching
Yes, Minister (half of S2 ep. 5)
AKB0048
Robotics;Notes
Gyrozetter
Ixion Saga DT 2
Book of Bantorra
Aoi Sekai no Chuushin de (only about half the episode)
Btooom! 2
Pale Cocoon
Attendance: 6
Guy, Brian, David, Alan, Adam, Steve Racer
Notes: The Madoka films showing on Saturday was very full; crowd seemed excited. These 2 films are basically the TV series animated but with a few minor differences: we don't see why Mami became a magic girl, see a bit more about Kyoko's past, there are a few comments thrown in about how "this/that person seems like something from an anime" (these were the audience LOL moments), and Shinbo gets a lot more budget to draw CHAIRS and FLOOR TILES and lots of ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES. Oh, and the introduction of the voice actresses at the beginning had its high point when Mami's actress declared herself "the head of shocking moments."
Saturday night we didn't watch Birdy the Might: Decode because everybody remembers at least the first episode. We had some problems with Funimation and even Crunchyroll, but were eventually able to watch videos on them. We couldn't get the Anime Network to do anything for us, though. We had to watch a 2nd episode of Ixion Saga DT. It's still just as good/bad. In contrast, Gyrozetter was bad enough we don't really want to watch any more (though kids might love it), and Aoi Sekai no Chuushin de was bad enough we couldn't be bothered to finish the episode.
Finally, we did the last bit of voting and schedule building Saturday night. Guy ended up trading away Humanity Has Declined (which he's already seen half of) for AKB0048. Point of interest: Moyashimon switches nights.
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure 4
Humanity Has Declined specials 1-3 (they're short)
Gokicha Girls
Detroit Metal City - part of episode 1
From the New World 1
Blast of Tempest 1
Tatami Galaxy 1
It's a UFO! Flying Saucer
Kyouso Giga
Kamisama Kiss 2
Psycho-Pass 2
Attendance:
Gene, David, Arthur, Alan, Victor, Steve Racer, Dora
Eva movie 3 - first 6:38 (with subs)
K episode 1
Code: Breaker 2
Kamisama Kiss 2
The Daily Lives of High School Boys 1
Kyou no Aska Show 1
Rose of Versailles 1
Hataraki Man 1
Attendance: 4
Guy, Alan, Adam, Brian
Notes: With our regular season showings completed, we resumed sampling shows to build our next season's schedule. Reaction to "It's a UFO!" on Friday night was very poor, and Gokicha Girls didn't do much better. Other Friday shows seemed to be well-received. On Saturday, the best-received were The Daily Lives of High School Boys and Kamisama Kiss, though K, Code: Breaker, Rose of Versailles and even Hataraki Man seemed to do all right.
Penguindrum Blu-ray 1 (squashed aspect ratio)
Queen's Blade 3 (Blu-ray)
Gundam Unicorn 1
Btooom!! 1
Eva 3.0 first 6:38
gdgd Fairies 1
Gakkatsu 1
Daily Lives of High School Boys 2
Last Exile: FAM the Silver Wing 2
Gintama 200 (season 4 Christmas special, 1st part)
Attendance: 7
Gene, Alan, David, Victor, Brian, Adam, Steve Racer
Notes: Alan had heard the Queen's Blade gets less bad as it goes on. Episode 3 may be less bad than episode 1, but it still isn't anywhere near good.
Aloha Lupin (one of the Lupin episodes dubbed by Streamline - the Miyazaki one with proto-Nausicaa piloting a robot partway between the Laputa robots and the ones that fought Superman in the Fleischer cartoon)
Inferno Cop 1
Maji de Otakuna English! Ribbon-chan - Eigo de Tatakau Mahou Shojo
Dirty Pair TV 6
El Cazador de la Bruja 1
Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad 1
Jojo's TV OP 2 (Bloody Stream)
Salmon-chan
Baka and Test 1
Detroit Metal City TV 1-2
Gyo (2nd half)
Attendance: 6
Gene, Adam, Alan, Victor, Arthur, Steve Racer
Notes: The "Maji de Otakuna English" show was very well-liked for being ridiculous, as was Salmon-chan. The ending of Gyo was less well-liked than the rest of the show.
Sword Art Online 3 (the Christmas episode)
Oda Nobuna 1
Hanasaku Iroha 7 (at which point it's definitely a comedy rather than a painful drama)
Air Master 2 - aborted due to streaming and video quality issues
Guilty Crown 2
Robotics;Notes 2
Persona 4 ep. 1
Jormungand 1
Attendance: 4
Arthur, Adam, Alan, Victor
Notes: we started late due to PS3 issues. The song at the end of Jormungand is pretty catchy and fun. Incidentally, Adam brought peanut butter mochi. That has to be some sort of assassination food...
* Otokojuku
* Heaven's Memo Pad
* Arakawa Under the Bridge
Attendance: 8
Gene, Alan, Victor, Brian, Cat Stevens, Sean, Steven, Adam
Fate/Zero 1
Space Brothers 1
Tsuritama 1
Nyarko-san 1
Dusk Maiden of Amnesia
Kids on the Slope
Sankarea
Accel World
Attendance: 6
Guy, David, Alan, Jenia, Victor, Adam