So this week we have a bit of a different setup, and I will explain it later.  First off,

The Winners!

Angel Beats, first half of the semester.

BakaTest, second half of the semester.

Umineko, full semester

After those, we had a split vote between the other two half semesters and Kuroshitsuji. So we are having a Anime first, a runoff election.

This is how this meeting will go, we will show the normal number of episodes of Angel Beats and Umineko.  Then, we will have the seccond episode of each of the runoff shows.  Last, we will have people vote either for both half series, or the full series, no picking and choosing.

Last off, we will not have a sampler this week, or had one last week.  Sorry all.

Oh and if you still wanted a shirt, bring money and buy one either before, @ break, or after the meeting.

It’s that time again!  The Semesterly Ballot Meeting!

The Ballot stands at:

Half Season    B Gata H Kei

Half Season   Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu

Full Season    Scrapped Princess

Full Season Umineko no Naku Koro Ni

Everyone needs to show up and voice their opinion!

Don’t worry though, if you can’t make it I will let you know what wins by Monday.

Have a great first weekend of the semester!

Edit: Whoops! I should have told you, the ballot meeting is from 6-9p in Nord 410, also known as the JapanCASE room.  And if you are up to learning a bit of culture, there will be an origami session in the Nord Atrium, right next to the Go club, from 5 until the meeting start.  Come by if you want to talk about origami or just want to bug us officers about something.  We should all be wearing Anime Society shirts.

Marshall did a great job of explaining everything in the e-mail so I’ll just copy it for convienience sake.

Hello everyone!
And Welcome to japanCASE!  If you just recently signed the mailing list for fun and didn’t talk to any of our officers, we are the only group on campus dedicated to both Japanese culture and media.  First I would like to thank everyone who came to our SatCo yesterday, especially those who blew off another SatCo for ours.  There are a few resources I would like to bring to everyone’s attention before the semester begins.

Mailing lists:
We have two mailing lists, animesociety@case.edu for general announcements and jpconn-officers@case.edu if you need to contact an officer with an idea, suggestion, or other issue.

Collegiate Link:
No doubt Case has waved this in your face at least once and said how awesome it is.  Well their lying to you, its not.  However this is the only source used to register official members for student groups.  It is imperative that all members sign up at http://casewestern.collegiatelink.net/Community?action=getMyHome.  Our group is listed there by our old name Japan Connection.

Facebook:
We also have a facebook group japanCASE.  If you are on the mailing list there should not be any new information posted to this group however we encourage you to sign up as a way to invite new people to our organization and events.

Our website:
We have a website, http://japanconnection.org/, which should be updated frequently and have upcoming events as well as our group constitution and other group info.  These 4 resources are important for us to get you all the necessary information about our group that you need to be an informed japanCASE member.  But seriously, please sign up on Collegiate Link.

Kaiwa Club:
For those of you taking Japanese or wanting to improve your language skills Kaiwa Club is a Japanese and English conversation group which meets every Sunday from 4-6PM at the “The Coffee House at University Circle”(near Case Western Reserve University’s north side dorms). The group’s main focus is to give members an opportunity to use Japanese and English in a real setting, as well as to meet new people and have fun.

With all that said, our first meeting is this Friday, August 27, from 6:00-9ish in Nord 410.  At our first meeting we will show several series and vote on which ones to watch for the rest of the semester.  The list of candidates will go out on Thursday, free snacks and drinks will also be present.  We hope to see everyone there, new and old.

Marshall Hughes
President

Perhaps the most important bit of information to pull from this block of text is that our BALLOT MEETING is this friday in Nord 410 at 6pm.  COME AND LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD!

Anyway, Since Needless is done, there will only be samplers this week.

Last week’s samplers:
Working!!
Shiki

Two week’s ago’s samplers:
Seitokai Yakuindomo
Senkou no Night Raid
Initial D

See everyone next week for our BALLOT!

We are reaching the end of the Summer!  I know it is tough but all good things must come to an end.

This week we are finishing up Needless.  I expect much excitement and testosterone.  There will also be “fun” samplers, which should probably mean you should brace yourself for something sinister…

As for last week’s samplers, Ethan forgot, and I do not go to the meetings so I cannot list them right now, but I will update this post with them as soon as I get the information.

Have a nice week.

We are nearing the end of the summer, but it will soon be time for fall meetings to start!!

-Ethan

Same anime time, same anime place this week!
Friday, July 30, 6:00 pm , in Nord 410.

-Ethan

SSDD.  More of the wonderful Needless and your usual sampler strangeness.

Last week’s samplers were:

Mayoi Neko Overrun!
Highschool of the Dead

Also, in case anyone who is not on the mailing list (you should be), WE NEED VOLUNTEERS!  We are asking if somone would like to volunteer their services to create a flyer, for the anime side, the cultural side, or both, and adertise said flyer in CIM or CIA since we Case people can’t do it there ourselves…  When applying for said volunteering, you need not help with all jobs.  If you wish to help us, and we ALWAYS could use help, just contact one of the officers either by phone, email, IM stuff, facebook, snail mail, or even hit them with a (small) rock to get their attention.  Thanks in advance for any help anybody would like to offer us!

Tune in next week for…more of the same crap we have been feeding you for the past 10 weeks!  Thats all folks.

Yet again, we got more Needless coming up the pipe.  Ethan wants to let everyone know:

(Spoiler warning: there will be zombies.  You have been warned.)

Sounds fun…

Last weeks samplers were:

Giant Killing
Ookami-san and the Seven Companions

Have fun with the zombies!

Its that time again, and this week we have 3, count them 3 episodes of Needless!  Think you can handle the action packed rediculousness?  Assuming it still has that since I am not actually on campus to watch it…

Anyway,

Last weeks samplers:

King of Braves: GaoGaiGar
Gundam Unicorn
Dancougar Nova

And Ethan says:

P.S.  Happy belated Tanabata! (It was yesterday.)  Hopefully Orihime and Hikoboshi met safely and granted many wishes!  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanabata]