Stanford Newtype Anime

It’s the start of a new year and we’re planning on showing you the latest and greatest in Japanese animation.

Come stop by our booth at the Activities Fair in White Plaza on Friday 9/25 between 12-4pm.  We will also be at AANSOC‘s We Are Family Marketplace at the Old Union on Saturday 6/26 between 2-4pm.

Our weekly screenings this year will be on Saturdays at 8:30pm in room 200-219.  That is part of the Main Quad in the History Corner (northeast corner). Map

Our first screening is THIS WEEK, on 9/26.

We hope to see you there!

Frederik Schodt will be presenting a talk on Osamu Tezuka titled “At the Center of the Anime/Manga Revolution: Osamu Tezuka and Astro Boy.” It will take place in Encina Hall’s Phillipines Conference Room from 12:00PM to 1:15PM. Lunch will be provided as well.

By the way, there will be a set of screenings (unrelated to Newtype) sponsored by the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, the Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford University, the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts as well as the Stanford Humanities Center. They are calling this “The Art of Anime – Contemporary Art-Animation From Japan” and will be showing subtitled anime on seven Thursdays from 7PM-9PM in Cubberly Auditorium.

This is their schedule according to their flyer:
January 15 – Art Animation Shorts from Tabaimo, Koji Yamamura, Tomoko Konoike, Akino Kondo and Makoto Shinkai
January 22 – Paprika
February 5 – Millennium Actress
February 12 – Evangelion 1.0 – You Are (Not) Alone
February 19 – The Place Promised in Our Early Days
February 26 – Jin Roh
March 5 – The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

For more information, please visit their site.

Cal Animage (Berkeley’s Anime Club) has invited Stanford Newtype to join them in their Spring Quarter Marathon showing of new series. For more info: Cal Animage’s Site.

Quick Info for the Lazy:
Sunday, April 22rd, 2007, 10am-10pm
2040 Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley

Not quite an “anime event”, but close enough–a game music concert in San Jose in association with FanimeCon. Read below if you are interested:

PLAY! A Video Game Symphony [site]. During the weekend of
FanimeCon, PLAY! Will be presented by Jason Michael Paul Productions, Inc.
in association with FanimeCon at the San Jose Center for the Performing
Arts. This award-winning orchestral performance features music from
blockbuster video games (past, present, and future), will take place
Saturday night (May 26, 2007) at 8:00 P.M. For more information, please see
the PLAY! Website.

Tickets are available now and there are three ways to purchase them.
- Online: Ticketmaster
- In Person: Symphony Silicon Valley / 467 South First St. / San Jose, CA
95113
- By Phone: (408) 286-2600 (Symphony Silicon Valley Box Office)

Ticket prices for this concert range from $36-$72 a seat with a select group
of the best seats selling for $100 including limited edition PLAY!
souvenirs.

As an added bonus to all currently registered FanimeCon members, Play is
offering a special discounted rate on ticket prices. There is a $6 discount
for FanimeCon pre-registered attendees, and a $10 discount on the $100 seats
with souvenir bags. The secret password to take advantage of this deal is
“fanime” in lower case. Enter this code when you are purchasing your tickets
through Ticketmaster.

New anime related convention in town this year. Visit their site for more info.

July 27-29, 2007

CON-X-TREME

Anime, Cosplay, Sci-Fi,Fantasy,martial arts, manga, Taiko, and more. Workshops on the creation animation and other media.
A Gathering of Warriors

Location – San Jose
Doubletree Hotel
Con-X-treme Keyword is “CXT” to get the convention our rate.

Pre Registration is: $35.00 USD – Reg open Jan 3, 2007

Tales of Anime
A celebration of gaming and shoujo manga/anime.
- Chapter 2| Angels & Demons
- April 6 – 8, 2007
- San Mateo, California

Yaoi-con
- A celebration of male beauty and passion in anime and manga
- October 28 – 26, 2007
- San Mateo, California

Hello, Stanford anime fans!

Long time no see! I hope you don’t mind me sending to this list, but I used to be part of Stanford Newtype years ago, and I’m still actively into anime. After leaving Newtype, I managed to become a staff member in the FanimeCon Publications group, and we have a few openings for newsletter reporters and publications designers. FanimeCon staff do not get paid at all, but we do get a free staff badge, as well as the experience of helping to run a convention attended by 10,000 people. Also, as a productive member of the Publications groups, our work will seen by a lot of anime fans.
Here are descriptions of the positions and how to apply:

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Newsletter Reporter

The FanimeCon newsletter distributes two print issues per day during the convention and one online issue per month between January and May. The newsletter reporter writes articles about Fanime and possibly other anime news for the newsletter. Some articles may be assigned, while others may be at the reporter’s discretion, so the reporter should be
able to follow an assignment as well as find interesting and newsworthy stories as they occur. The reporters must be willing to give full control over submitted articles to the editor, who may need to correct, trim, or rephrase the content.

If you’re interested in applying, please e-mail tenba@netflight.com.
Please show a sample of your writing by including a few paragraphs about which aspects of anime conventions interest you most.

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Publications Designer

Publications is responsible for producing various print material for FanimeCon, such as business cards, flyers, bookmarks, and booklets. The publications designer will be responsible for turning potentially vague instructions into an electronic document that is suitable for being sent to the printing shop. The designer must be willing to incorporate feedback and suggestions from managers and must be able to produce documents in a timely fashion.

To apply, please send a cover letter, a resume, and some of your design samples to publications@fanime.com.

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FanimeCon has other groups that need staff members. For example, the Rovers claim that they always need more people. There’s a FanimeCon staff meeting this afternoon:

Hilton San Jose
300 Almaden Boulevard
San Jose, CA 95110
Santa Clara Room
January 28, 2007 3PM

If you’d like to apply for staff in some other group, attend the
meeting, listen to the announcements, and approach the person who runs the group that interests you. If all else fails, the HR staff can help place you into groups with openings. If you can’t make this meeting (and I apologize for the short notice), there’s a staff meeting every month until the convention, and the next one will be in the same room
on February 11. The meetings after that are still tentative, but feel free to e-mail me if you’re interested in future meeting dates or if you have any questions.

Thank you for reading this, and have a nice day!
– Betty Lee
bettylee@netflight.com

Renowned animators Mike Judge (“Beavis and Butt-Head,” “King of the Hill”) and Don Hertzfeldt (Rejected, Billy’s Balloon) present “The Animation Show,” a collection of some of the greatest animated short films from around the world.
Animation Show Tour Dates:
> San Francisco – Jan 25
> San Jose – Jan 26
> Berkeley – Jan 27, 28
> Sacramento - Feb 9