newsletter box 99, 3rd floor union house www.anime.com.au/wwwa the university of melbourne, parkville 3010 Welcome back minna-san! Volume 8 Issue 1 What’s this? A greeting in the second-half of first May 2003 semester? Well, in the world of the wwwa newsletter this is our first communicae in a while, and there are inside: still many activities to get “back” into! meet the committee!! 2 I’d love it if people could accept this space as a world where our views can flow back and forth. librarian’s report 3 Hopefully there will be four or so editions this year upcoming events! 4 and by the end we will have a great chain of conver- MANIEST... mara- sations! Please keep this avenue in mind as you thon.. KARAOKE journey through your collected anime worlds! anime review– AZU 5 What is a community? What is the sharing of exis- tence? Maybe some of these themes will be explored FAN ART 6 as we delve through old and new series and find announcing—Voices 7 parts of ourselves drafted into the universes of in the Black, a new anime artists. The chance to look around is first underground com- thing we are offered, and it is not unnatural to won- munity zine der what are the stories behind the other people who are too stuck in this world probing our imagination. the hidden truth in- 8 Upon investigating these avenues I was taken back side eva at the number of people who accepted the themes masaka... a local 10 of anime as they accepted themselves. Now I feel animation indus- there is always the time to share and experiment, be try? it with cruel and unusual methods :P culture ! 13 Lastly, please please please give feedback to the writers and artists of this newsletter! People cannot the library cata- 14 help but be touched in so many ways. - clem logue—videos, cds, ‘letter publications officer 2003 Gorgeous Sephiroth fanart by Pamela Ramali — and more lucious fanart inside! Thanks to our club sponsors: why is yuki here? well why is Manifest is coming!!! he on the mani website?? Check out the lastest news on Melbourne‘s annual www.tamarket.com.au anime festival inside, and remember you‘ve only got a cou- ple months to make that costume play dream of yours reach it‘s fruition ^_^ Can someone do Nami? Pleeeeease? 908 Whitehorse Rd, Boxhill www.animezone.com.au Supported by the Just a random picture spam Melbourne University Student Union Incorporated tim kong (batasan) and daniel chia (archangel) general officers Volume 8 Issue 1 Page 3 Hey everyone! This is ment. Of course if you larger we can probably do Yuye here (your librarian, have an idea or a sugges- away with this current as you might have tion, feel free to contact borrowing policy, but for guessed). Clem was nice me or any other commit- the time being please bear enough to lend me some tee member you can find. with it.^^ space in his kickass news- letter for me to write like Lots of additions at the Speaking of additions, we something, so here I am. start of semester to the have received packs of Yay! ^^ spindle list as well, some donations for the spindle 60 cds worth of the new- list (and some for tapes dammit the library This so far has been a est anime like Samurai too). Thanks mainly to was what first at- tracted me to this great year for WWWA, Deeper Kyo, .hack//SIGN Riva122, Linxz and Mod- club... i was kinda with a whole committee and Chobits. Unfortu- gal for these, along with boggled at the size voted in to replace the old, nately this increased the anyone else that donated of it until i met the smelly, rotting one. items for WWWA. For types of people who donated to it. we Lots of familiar faces the time being we will have a pretty nice around, along with not add them for bor- neighbourhood some new ones too rowing as it is pretty (well, not really). hassly, but expect a this picture by amy Thanks to all the peo- large addition at the (azusa-chan) who loves to scibble stuff ple that voted for me start of semester 2 during her long (you guys rock!), and with many new series commute to uni... Tim and Daniel for from 2002 and 2003. helping me with the borrowing and all. One last thing, for ne ne... you did Drop by and say hi members placing re- know that you sometime, if you serves by email, can borrow haven’t already. please include in the manga at the Unless we’re busy, title the format of the rowden white then wait a bit. ^^ media you are reserv- library (union ing (ie. Tape, cd or house 3rd flor) Anyway. The screen- spindle). This helps right, these are ings for this semester us a lot as it saves us donated by are progressing time in going through wwwa! nicely, with Witch Hunter amount of reserves on all the emails for the thing Robin on Tuesdays and some series’ to ridiculous that you actually want^^. Jungle wa Itsumo Hare lengths (.hack//SIGN had Apparently a new online Nochi Guu on Thursdays. 7 reserves on it 0_0 ), reserve system is being At the current rate we which was the reason why set up as I write, but the why did hack sign should finish in time be- the 4 cd borrow- email system will be in have any reserves at fore the end of semester, ing/reserve limit was in- place until that system all... so hope for the best. Next troduced. This probably comes into full use. semester’s screenings wasn’t to everyone’s Want to suggest haven’t been decided yet tastes but was necessary Looks like I’ve taken up what we screen unfortunately, although so people had more ac- enough space….. Catch next... the commitee RahXephon seems to be a cess to the popular new you guys at the screen- members are always big contender at the mo- series’. When we add ings!! contactable!! see more stuff to spindle and the e-mail list in this the list is substantially Yuye Zhang ‘letter or go to the homepage... ok ok so it’s not that kind of library but it’s yomiko...hey wouldn’t it be cool if we printed and shared scanned actually i think we should manga spend money and lend out soundtracks as well but you know you gotta write in if that’s what you might like Page 4 wwwa newsletter Manimanimanifest ...--- August 9-10 ooo the last time i was here i remembered the glow i could see on top of all those who cosplayed and those i knew were there to take time out to express the things which seemingly will only ever be part of a future mainstream society. but if you forget about these things time to time then please show up, there is so much to remember. manifest is character from a krap series but ap- melbourne’s anime festival encompassing panels by artists and ex- parently good perts, multiple screening rooms (this year’s theme is “infinite possibili- manga, fanart (and ties”...woah (quote from neo)), art, cosplay and trivia competitions, a header for this page!) comical debate, auction and big vendor’s room, and live karaoke sup- by al (lcz) ported by melbourne’s own re:set0. and for all us 3wa members it’s $13 for the whole two days! yep you can register now just ask some- did anyone read the one at the screeny.... comment from the gravitoncity photo www.manifest.ozonline.com.au !!!!!! board for san? ...omgosh...true tho Who’s up for karaoke??? it’s a chance to per- form tracks which you’re never given the option of doing in commercial karaoke bars!! and that means singing Anime Marathon cool anime songs of course ^_^ i hope everyone enjoyed the the last marathon dur- bring your own vcds or cds with karaoke mp3s or even midi files ing mid-semester break! think of a way the event @_@ might be improved? let us know before the next anyway i’m not even sure if they marathon coming before the end of term... are going to run this but i thought you might per- i think there should be some gratuitous intermis- suade things a little sion relief eh? :P thanks for listening... Volume 8 Issue 1 Page 5 eh? what can i write in here... ACumanga Daioh 2002 was one nice year. abenobashi ma- hou shotengai gave Azumanga is about a group of female us a bit of that flcl high school friends who journey through flavour, and fans of a soft landscape concerning their imme- eva or kanon proba- diate hopes and dreams and individual bly won’t forget the place in the world. It is quite pleasant, parody scenes. talk but not so mu፧ch in the uniform rhythm about a gainax- trademark universal of most dramas for Azumanga is very ‘ending’ much scene based, it relies on moments to connect the viewer between day to i think kanon did a day events. These kinds of moments decent job portraying might range from surreal holding-hands a journey of events escaping into the sunset to the loss of through a high school recognition of a imbecilic friend gaining student’s mind. it’s our attention through inventive repur- pretty easy to stand posing of normal objects and situations.