Winter 2013 week 0: Friday, January 11 - Jan 14, 2013 6:39:43 PM
Post date: Jan 14, 2013 6:39:43 PM
Attendance: 9
Gene
Arthur
David
Victor
Jenia
Alan
Brian
Steve Racer
Megan (arrived with Steve)
We watched:
AMVs
* Call Me Maybe/Kill Me Baby
* Bumblebee Tuna (+)
Persona 4 ep 1
Tatami Galaxy 2
Jormungand 2
Kamisama Kiss 3
Sora no Woto 2
K 2
Heaven's Memo Pad 1 first half
Chunibyou 2
Winter 2013 week 0: Saturday, January 12 - Jan 14, 2013 6:40:12 PM
Post date: Jan 14, 2013 6:40:12 PM
Attendance: 5
Guy
David
Alan
Arthur
Adam
We watched:
A Dark Rabbit Has Seven Lives
Bakumatsu Gijinden Roman
Rune Soldier Louie 7
Maoyu (+)
schedule-building and intermission
Needless 5 (+)
Otome Yokai Zakuro
Winter 2013 week 0: schedule-building - Jan 14, 2013 7:18:33 PM
Post date: Jan 14, 2013 7:18:33 PM
After some back and forth, here's what we came up with:
Persona 4
Rune Soldier Louie
intermission
features (1st half of season) / Sora no Woto and Chuunibyou
Girls und Panzer / Ixion Saga DT
Psycho-Pass
intermission
K and From the New World (1st half of season) / features
We also decided that Jojo (which had enough votes to make it into the schedule this time) would be grandfathered into Spring 2013
Friday, January 18 (Winter 2013 week 1) - Jan 19, 2013 4:58:13 AM
Post date: Jan 19, 2013 4:58:13 AM
7 - 7:50 Samplers: Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East and Tamako Market (CR for both)
7:50 - 9:05 Persona 4 eps 1-3 (TAN)
9:05 - 9:15 intermission
9:15 - 10:05 Rune Soldier Louie 1-2 (DVDs from Alan)
10:05 - 11:10 Feature: Hotarubi no Mori e (aka The Light of a Firefly Forest) (fs from Alan)
Attendance: 8
Gene
David
Arthur
Brian
Adam
Alan
Jenia
Steve Racer
Skipped Persona episode 1 because we started late and because everybody had seen it just the week before. Persona 3 wouldn't play from TAN, so we went to Louie, planning to try again afterwards.
Saturday, January 19 (Winter 2013 week 1) - Jan 20, 2013 3:25:8 AM
Post date: Jan 20, 2013 3:25:8 AM
7 - 8:15 Girls und Panzer 1-3 (CR)
8:15 - 9:05 Psycho-Pass 1-2 (Funi/Hulu)
9:05 - 9:15 intermission
9:15 - 10:30 K 1-3 (Hulu/fs?)
10:30 - 11:20 From the New World 1-2 (CR)
Attendance: 6
David
Alan
Jenia
Brian
Victor
Adam
David's laptop had problems with Crunchyroll. We're blaming Flash.
Funimation.com not responding at Psycho-Pass time, so we used Hulu...which didn't require a login for an age requirement for some reason. It did require one for K, and proceeded to repeatedly show us the same small set of commercials for the worst movies and Hulu original shows.
Friday, January 25 (Winter 2013, week 2) - Jan 26, 2013 3:34:3 AM
Post date: Jan 26, 2013 3:34:3 AM
7 - 7:10 short Samplers: Mangirl!, Encouragement of Climb, and My Sister is an Osaka Mama (CR for all)
7:10 - 8 Persona 4 eps 4-5 (TAN)
8 - 9:15 Rune Soldier Louie 3-5 (DVDs from Alan)
Short sampler: Senyu
9:15 - 9:25 intermission
9:25 - 11:10 Feature: Mind Game (fs from Alan)
Attendance
Gene
David
Brian
Jenia
Adam
Alan
Cat Stevens
Steve Racer
Jordan
Emily
Victor
Saturday, January 26 (Winter 2013, week 2) - Jan 27, 2013 3:41:58 AM
Post date: Jan 27, 2013 3:41:58 AM
7 - 7:50 Girls und Panzer 4-5 (CR)
7:50 - 9:05 Psycho-Pass 3-5 (Funi/Hulu)
9:05 - 9:15 intermission
9:15 - 10:05 K 4-5 (Hulu/fs from Alan)
10:05 - 11:20 From the New World 3-5 (CR)
Guy can't host next 2 Saturdays due to being in France. We can go to David's next Saturday, Arthur's the week after.
Funimation's Roku app still doesn't work well at all; the UI is extremely unresponsive at times (minutes between screen transitions), though once an episode starts playing it's decent. Guy has a theory that it's using a stack-based UI.
Attendance
Guy
David
Brian
Peter
Alan
Jenia
Arthur
Adam
Friday, February 1 (Winter 2013, week 3) - Feb 02, 2013 3:23:52 AM
Post date: Feb 02, 2013 3:23:52 AM
7 - 7:50 Samplers: Kotoura-san and Zettai Karen Children: The Unlimited
7:50 - 9:05 Persona 4 eps 6-8 (TAN/fs from Steve?)
9:05 - 9:15 intermission
9:15 - 10:05 Rune Soldier Louie 6-7 (DVDs from Alan)
10:05 - 10:55 Feature - Code Geass: Akito the Exiled
10:55 - 11:20? one last sampler, if we're up for it: Love Live! School Idol Project
That was the theory, but Persona kept failing on TAN after the first episode, so we switched to Louie for the time being.
Attendance:
Gene
David
Arthur
Alan
Jenia
Steve Racer
Saturday, February 2 (Winter 2013, week 3) - Feb 03, 2013 3:50:40 AM
Post date: Feb 03, 2013 3:50:40 AM
IT'S GROUNDHOG DAY! And also Twin-tail Day...
7 - 8:15 Girls und Panzer 6-8 (CR)
8:15 - 9:05 Psycho-Pass 6-7 (Funi/Hulu/fs from ?)
9:05 - 9:15 intermission
9:15 - 10:30 K 6-8 (Hulu/fs from Alan)
10:30 - 11:20 From the New World 3-4 (CR)
Sipped Girls und Panzer episode 5.5 until Arthur is around to look at miltech specs with everybody else. So we actually watched episodes 6 and 7 only.
Attendance:
David
Jenia
Adam
Alan
Brian
Friday, February 8 (Winter 2013, week 4) - Feb 09, 2013 3:15:19 AM
Post date: Feb 09, 2013 3:15:19 AM
7 - 7:50 Samplers: Vividred Operation and Love Live! School Idol Project (CR)
7:50 - 8:40 Persona 4 eps 9-10 (TAN/fs from Steve?)
8:40 - 8:50 intermission
8:50 - 10:05 Rune Soldier Louie 8-10 (DVDs from Alan)
10:05 - 11 Feature: Emblem Take 2
Early attendance was very light, so instead of Vividred we started with Maoyu (which neither Gene nor Brian had seen yet).
Attendance
Gene
Alan
Brian
Arthur
Steve Racer
Adam
Victor
Saturday, February 9 (winter 2013, week 4) - Feb 10, 2013 3:37:19 AM
Post date: Feb 10, 2013 3:37:19 AM
7 - 8:15 Girls und Panzer 5.5, 8-9 (CR)
8:15 - 9:05 Psycho-Pass 8-9 (Funi/Hulu/fs from ?)
9:05 - 9:15 intermission
9:15 - 10:05 K 9-10 (Hulu/fs from Alan)
10:05 - 11:20 From the New World 5-7 (CR)
Charter Cable was intermittent, causing a few freezes during Girls und Panzer. We also had to switch to fansubs for From the New World; while files were copied we watched an episode of Adventure Time (the creation of NEPTR).
Attendance
Arthur
Adam
Brian
Alan
Jenia
Victor
Friday, February 15 (Winter 2013, week 5) - Feb 16, 2013 3:50:42 AM
Post date: Feb 16, 2013 3:50:42 AM
7 - 7:25 Samplers: Vividred Operation (CR)
7:25 - 8:40 Persona 4 eps 11-13 (TAN/fs from Steve/Alan)
8:40 - 8:50 intermission
8:50 - 9:40 Rune Soldier Louie 11-12 (DVDs from Alan)
9:40 - 11:15 Feature: Emblem Take 2, episode 2 (fs from Alan) and Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01 (DVD from Alan)
Bailed on Madox, so after Emblem Take 2 we watched Senyu 2-6
Attendance
Gene
David
Brian
Arthur
Alan
Adam
Steve Racer
Jenia
Saturday, February 16 (Winter 2013, week 5) - Feb 17, 2013 3:41:0 AM
Post date: Feb 17, 2013 3:41:0 AM
7 - 7:50 Girls und Panzer 10, 10.5 (CR)
7:50 - 8:40 Psycho-Pass 10-11 (Funi/Hulu/fs from ?)
8:40 - 8:50 intermission
8:50 - 10:05 K 11-13 (Hulu/fs from Alan)
10:05 - 11:20 From the New World 8-10 (CR)
We started late and had other delays due to technical issues and time copying files around, so we skipped From the New World. So now we're 2 weeks behind on that, and need to figure out how to adjust the schedule to account for that - it probably just pushes back features on Saturday nights even further.
Attendance
Guy
David
Brian
Victor
Alan
Jenia
Adam
Friday, February 22 (Winter 2013, week 6) - Feb 25, 2013 10:42:23 PM
Post date: Feb 25, 2013 10:42:23 PM
7 - 7:50 Persona 4 eps 14-15 (TAN/fs from Steve/Alan)
7:50 - 9:05 Rune Soldier Louie 13-15 (DVDs from Alan)
9:05 - 9:15 intermission
9:15 - 10:30 Sora no Woto/Sound of the Sky 1-3 (CR)
10:30 - 11:20 Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions 1-2 (TAN/fs)
David reports that Chunibyo episode 1 was skipped. Brian writes "TAN actually worked Friday night, to the amazement of many. Not sure if luck or something else."
Attendance
Gene
David
Brian
Steve Racer
Adam
Arthur
Jenia
Victor
Saturday, February 23 (Winter 2013, week 6) - Feb 26, 2013 2:39:49 AM
Post date: Feb 26, 2013 2:39:49 AM
7 - 7:50 Ixion Saga DT 1-2 (CR)
7:50 - 9:05 Psycho-Pass 12-14 (Funi/Hulu/fs from Alan)
9:05 - 9:15 intermission
8:50 - 10:30 From the New World 8-10 (CR)
10:30 - 11:20 Samplers: Minami-ke Tadaima (Funi/fs?) and GJ-bu (CR/fs)
Brian reports that "We watched everything as scheduled. GJ-bu was episode 7 (CR's only episode). It didn't grab anyone's attention, not just because is was a late episode, but it just wasn't funny or interesting. Just another 4 girls in a room show.
Like Minami-ke. But Minami-ke is funny, and was better received, and seemed back to it's successful format."
Attendance:
Guy
David
Brian
Adam
Arthur
Clare
Jenia
Friday, March 1 (Winter 2013, week 7) - Mar 02, 2013 3:44:25 AM
Post date: Mar 02, 2013 3:44:25 AM
7 - 8:15 Persona 4 eps 16-18 (TAN/fs from Steve/Alan)
8:15 - 9:05 Rune Soldier Louie 16-17 (DVDs from Alan)
9:05 - 9:15 intermission
9:15 - 10:30 Sora no Woto/Sound of the Sky 4-6 (CR)
10:30 - 11:45 Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions 3-5 3-4 (TAN/fs)
Due to a late start, we put episode 5 of Chunibyo off to next week (and were discussing an 11th week of showings for the season).
Attendance
Gene
David
Brian
Alan
Jenia
Steve Racer
Adam
Victor
Saturday, March 2 (Winter 2013, week 7) - Mar 03, 2013 3:22:7 AM
Post date: Mar 03, 2013 3:22:7 AM
7 - 8:15 Ixion Saga DT 3-5 (CR)
8:15 - 9:05 Psycho-Pass 15-16 (Funi/Hulu/fs from Alan)
9:05 - 9:15 intermission
9:15 - 10:05 From the New World 11-12 (CR)
10:05 - 11:15 Samplers: Sasami-san@Ganbaranai (TAN) and Oreshura (CR) and the last few remaining shorts:
Ai Mai Mi (CR, 5 min)
Puchim@s (Funi, 10 min)
Ishida to Asakura (CR, 2 min)
Inferno Cop (YouTube, 3 min)
We were running right up against 11, so we cut the samplers short. We also agreed to go for an 11th week of showings this season so we could finish out From the New World.
Attendance
Guy
Brian
David
Alan
Arthur
Friday, March 8 (Winter 2013, week 8) - Mar 09, 2013 3:23:8 AM
Post date: Mar 09, 2013 3:23:8 AM
7 - 7:50 Persona 4 eps 19 - 20 (TAN/fs from Steve/Alan)
7:50 - 8:40 Rune Soldier Louie 18-19 (DVDs from Alan)
8:40 - 8:50 intermission
8:50 - 10:05 Sora no Woto/Sound of the Sky 7, 7.5, and 8 (CR/DVDs from Alan)
10:05 - 11 Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions 5-6 and Lite episode 1 (TAN/fs)
We also watched Senyuu episodes 7-9. The Anime Network didn't work for us at all.
Planning for the trip to DMP's clearance sale was for Adam and Alan to travel down together (meeting up in Little Tokyo), and to meet Arthur down in Gardena.
Attendance
Gene
Adam
Alan
Brian
Arthur
Steve Racer
Saturday, March 9 (Winter 2013, week 8) - Mar 10, 2013 3:37:6 AM
Post date: Mar 10, 2013 3:37:6 AM
7 - 7:50 Ixion Saga DT 6-7 (CR)
7:50 - 8:40 Psycho-Pass 17-18 (Funi/Hulu/fs from Alan)
8:40 - 8:50 intermission
8:50 - 10:05 From the New World 13-15 (CR)
10:05 - 11 Samplers: Sasami-san@Ganbaranai (TAN) and Problem Children are Coming From Another World, aren't they? (CR). As time permits we may also include one of the following short shows:
Ai Mai Mi (CR, 5 min)
Puchim@s (Funi, 10 min)
Ishida to Asakura (CR, 2 min)
Inferno Cop (YouTube, 3 min)
Attendance
Guy
David
Brian
Adam
Alan
Jenia
Friday March 15 (Winter 2013, week 9) - Mar 16, 2013 2:45:22 AM
Post date: Mar 16, 2013 2:45:22 AM
7 - 8:15 Persona 4 eps 21-23 (TAN/fs from Steve/Alan)
8:15 - 9:05 Rune Soldier Louie 20-21 (DVDs from Alan)
9:05 - 9:15 intermission
9:15 - 10:05 Sora no Woto/Sound of the Sky 9-10 (CR/DVDs from Alan)
10:05 - 11 Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions 7-8 and lite episode 2 (TAN/fs)
Alan was running late, so showings started by sampling Bakumatsu Gijinden Roman.
Attendance
Gene
David
Arthur
Alan
Adam
Brian
Victor
Saturday, March 16 (Winter 2013, week 9) - Mar 17, 2013 2:32:56 AM
Post date: Mar 17, 2013 2:32:56 AM
7 - 8:15 Ixion Saga DT 8-10 (CR)
8:15 - 9:05 Psycho-Pass 19-20 (Funi/Hulu/fs from Alan)
9:05 - 9:15 intermission
9:15 - 10:30 From the New World 16-18 (CR)
10:30 - 11 Samplers: Straight Title Robot Anime andgdgd Fairies S2 ep 1
Attendance
Guy
David
Brian
Adam
Alan
Jenia
Arthur
Clare
Friday, March 22 (Winter 2013, week 10) - Mar 23, 2013 2:23:59 AM
Post date: Mar 23, 2013 2:23:59 AM
7 - 7:25 Persona 4 eps 24 (TAN/fs from Steve/Alan)
7:25 - 8:40 Rune Soldier Louie 22-24 (DVDs from Alan)
8:40 - 8:50 intermission
8:50 - 10:05 Sora no Woto/Sound of the Sky 11-13 (CR/DVDs from Alan)
10:05 - 11 Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions 9-10 and lite episode 3 (TAN/fs)
Alan was late, so Gene started showing Persona from his computer
Attendance
Gene
David
Arthur
Brian
Jenia
Alan
Adam
Steve Racer
Victor
Saturday, March 23 (Winter 2013, week 10) - Mar 24, 2013 2:38:38 AM
Post date: Mar 24, 2013 2:38:38 AM
7 - 7:50 Ixion Saga DT 11-12 (CR)
7:50 - 8:40 Psycho-Pass 21-22 (Funi/Hulu/fs from Alan)
8:40 - 8:50 intermission
8:50 - 10:05 From the New World 19-21 (CR)
10:05 - 11:25 Samplers: Senran Kagura, Cuticle Detective Inaba, Amnesia
Late start. We watched AMNESIA all the way through, abandoned Senran Kagura before even hitting the OP, and went through the whole episode of Cuticle Detective Inaba. Inaba was easily the best-received of the samplers - maybe it's just because we were in a group setting, but the comedy really worked for us.
Also, Psycho-Pass's ending was generally seen as fitting for everybody who had been able to buy into the show in the first place. The last episode's title caused some discussion because it's translated as "Perfect Order" (or "Perfect World", but the characters for "Perfect" in this case were 完璧 - "kanpeki" - which is more like the the older meaning of perfect as "complete", rather than "ideal and optimal" as it's commonly used.
Attendance
Guy
David
Brian
Adam
Alan
Jenia
Steve Racer
Jennifer (Steve's guest)
Friday, March 29 (Winter 2013, week 11) - Mar 30, 2013 2:21:15 AM
Post date: Mar 30, 2013 2:21:15 AM
7 - 7:50 Persona 4 eps 25-26 (TAN/fs from Steve/Alan)
7:50 - 9 Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions 11-12 and lite episodes 4-6 (TAN/fs)
9 - 9:10 intermission
9:10 - 11:05 Feature: Children Who Chase Lost Voices(BD)
Attendance
Gene
David
Brian
Alan
Jenia
Arthur
Adam
Victor
From Up On Poppy Hill - Mar 31, 2013 1:44:18 AM
Post date: Mar 31, 2013 1:44:18 AM
Attendance
Gene
Gene's friend Steve
David
Victor
Guy
Alan
Saturday, March 30 (Winter 2013, week 11) - Mar 31, 2013 1:47:9 AM
Post date: Mar 31, 2013 1:47:9 AM
4 - 4:30 Shorts/Sampler/Feature: Saint Oniisan 1 (fs)
4:30 - 5:20 Girls und Panzer 11-12 (CR)
5:20 - 5:30 intermission
5:30 - 7:10 From the New World 22-25 (CR)
late start
Attendance
Guy
David
Victor
Alan
Adam
Brian