Reign

>insert narrative of reign here, with much bravado<

Ministry

Official Board

• Alexis Siemon: Prez
• Sushu Xia: Veep
• Cat Davis: Treasurer, drug lord
• Brian Auriti: Acqs, Utena fanboy
• Jim Holland: Librarian
• Jono Dicarlo: Secretary/Webmaster
• Jeremy O'Brien: Club Boyfriend

Ninjas

• Arthur: arranger of Food
• Stephen: Music-Man, Pretend Robot Pants

Events

Bun Sale yaCUSA war

The Bun War of 2005 was a terrible battle between UCJAS and CUSA out of which only one side could emerge victorious. Out of long-standing tradition, yaCUSA annually peddled inferior Chinese buns to the masses, indulging its own capitalistic obsession. Cat, the great tactician of UCJAS, masterminded a scheme to conduct UCJAS's own bun sale, occupying its own rightful place in Cobb. CUSA, however, did not take kindly to what they perceived as territorial infringement, and claimed sole rights over bun sales; a spokesperson declared that CUSA had formally "copyrighted" bun sales with the university, a shadowy claim that University bureaucrats could neither confirm nor disconfirm in spite of Cat's repeated enquiries. Much bile spewed forth from the mouth of CUSA's representative, and after CUSA's rejection of UCJAS's peace offerings of bubble tea, it was clear that negotiation was futile.

Ensconced within the basement of Crerar, Alexis, Sushu, and Brian held a ceremony to end the war in one decisive blow. Alexis forged it, Sushu honed it, and Brian added various ornamentative details including but not limited to a fleur-de-lis and a Rose Seal. When they were done, a great email had been composed -- diplomatic yet severe, just what was needed to simultaneously infuriate CUSA and palliate the University. With a click of the Send button, the deed was done. CUSA's putative copyright over Chinese buns was exposed as a lie, and UCJAS rejoiced in its victory and reaffirmation of the importance of open-sourcing foodstuffs.

Monday Afternoon: CUSA Email 1
Monday Evening: JAS Email Reply 1 penned by Alexis, Sushu, Cat
Tuesday Evening: JAS Notification after Tuesday night meeting
Wednesday: CUSA Email 2
Wednesday Afternoon: JAS Email Reply 2 penned by Alexis, Brian, Sushu
Thursday Night: CUSA Capitulation Emails

Suicide-Prevention Marathon

Present Day, Present Time.... Lain broke our heads, and Boogiepop failed to piece it back together. In fact, we were too tired for Boogiepop. There were yummy soft green-tea gummies and other candies in a computer shell. Yay for thematic foodstuffs!

UChi-Con

Anime Central

Anime Screened

Rose of Versailles

Sporting one of the best sing-along opening songs evah, Berubara began as a casual historical anime full of Palace Intrigue and Impending Doom. But it soon transcended the very genre of Anime and became simply a Very Good Story. Very historical and yet full of sparkly shoujo-drama, all we can say is "Oscar-sama!"

We broke our "nothing over 26 episodes" rule to show this, but boy was it worth it! The floating bubbles, the floating sparkles, the floating sparkles *in* bubbles! Oscar's famous off-screen disarm move. And of course, the dramatic shots where everything suddenly turns water color and the music goes dun-DUUUN dun-DUUUN Dun-DUUUUN!! And of course, all the angst... Fersen and Marie, Oscar and Fersen, Andre and Oscar... Alain's sister... So many favorite scenes.

From BeruBara we learn that
- The proper way to work out love-angst (when a man) is to get into an all-out bar brawl
- The proper way to work out love-angst (when a girly-man) is to run away to America and shoot people
- The proper way to work out love-angst (when a manly-girl) is to fence
- The proper way to work out love-angst (when a girl) is to spend a lot of money on flea-colored dresses
- The way to avoid love-angst altoghether is to make heart-shaped locks.

Legend of Basara

Ta ta ra Tatara! Ta ta ra Tatara! Ta ta ra Tatara! Ta ta ra Tatara!
(Repeat ad nauseam)

6 episodes of Cuteness. The DVD also has a radio show done 10 years later by the voice actors. Definitely worth checking out

Gunbuster

IT BEGAN as one of the first giant mecha anime of all time. Poor little inept Noriko is in training to pilot a mecha; she can't accept her astronaut dad's death and wants to follow him. Or as she puts it, "I have to be a spaceman, to go into universe for finding Dad." The rest is history...

Gunbuster plot points that spawned mecha cliches:
- Main character must angst about something constantly
>> Corollary: Main character must obsess over an unconsummatable love interest
>> Corollary: Main character must blame self for every disaster to befall comrades
- Everyone's breasts are superhumanly pert and must be exposed at least once
>> Corollary: the smallest movements cause madd breast bounce
- Main character must have an outwardly tough supervisor with a heart of gold

Gunbuster plot points that did not spawn mecha cliches:
- Giant mecha do situps
>> This, however, most likely inspired mecha playing ping-pong (see Full Metal Panic)
- Main character saves the universe by tearing shirt open
- Psychologists are good sources of inspiration when naming characters
- Main character loves their dad

Crest of the Stars

Crest of the Stars had many full-body pans of boobiliciocity (the noun form of boobilicious), very Dramatic Classical Music for the opening which put everyone but Arthur to sleep, and floating fish.

Niea_7

Niea_7's opening song was broadly considered to be in really bad taste. The show itself was generally preferred to its predecessor Haibane Renmei; those holding this opinion gave the reason that in Niea_7 there are plot points.
Niea_7's opening song was much better than the opening song to Crest of the Stars, as in, it was a song. The show itself, while containing more pretense of a plot than Haibane Renmei, had such horrible animation quality that the audience's eyes bled after the screening. However, the Alien who pretended to be an Indian was almost enough to make up for the pain caused.

Location

The Main Screening Room moved in the middle of this reign, from the now-infamous Harper 130 to the hyper-modern Stuart 104.

Tales

Superior VHS Technology

Well remembered among Alexis's officers was the pioneering of the term "Superior VHS Technology" by Jono, who alone among the officers had learned the lessons of history; when the modern tools of the audio/visual trade failed, Jono's mastery of VCRs saved the club from certain anime deprivation.

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