Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Action/Adventure Anime Choices

For those of you not familiar with the choices up for vote, here's a little summary:

Those Who Hunt Elves: An actor, a martial artist, a gun-crazy high school student, and their tank are transported from earth to a world of elves and magic. However, the spell to return them home was botched resulting in fragments of the spell being magically imprinted onto their skin. Their solution: run around looking for elves and stripping them wherever they find them.


Madlax: In the country of Gazth-Sonika, civil war rages. There, a mercenary called Madlax plies her trade, with almost supernatural skill. In the seemingly peaceful country of Nafrece, Margaret Burton lives a tranquil life. As separate as their lives may seem, the two are connected by ties of mystery, and by a holy book that is also sought by the shadowy organisation, Anfan. As Margaret and Madlax follow the path of their destiny, they come ever closer to uncovering the truth - with no guarantee that it is a truth they can bear to learn.




RahXephon: In the year 2012 Japan was invaded by the Mu. Human-like beings from another dimension with blue blood. In the year 2015 Tokyo is attacked by invaders, who are repelled by a humanoid weapon called a Dolem. During the chaos, Ayato Kamina meets Reika Mishima, a girl whom he had never met but had done a painting of the morning before. During that same day, he is attacked by government officials but a woman named Haruka comes to his rescue, informing him that she was sent to get him by the Organization TERRA, and that Tokyo had been sealed in a time rift where time flows one third as fast as the outside world. He flees from Haruka onto a train where he sees Reika once more. Arriving at the Room of Rah, he follows her to a tremendous egg where the Dolem RahXephon is hatched from, and upon her singing his mother appears atop the Dolem that had stopped the TERRA Invasion. In the battle Ayato's mother is injured, and Ayato flees Tokyo Jupiter with Haruka upon seeing his mother's blue blood.


Samurai Champloo: Mugen's a buck wild warrior - violent, thoughtless and womanizing. Jin is a vagrant ronin - mysterious, traditional, well-mannered and very strong as well. These two fiercely independent warriors can`t be any more different from one another, yet their paths cross when Fuu, a ditzy waitress, saves them from being executed when they are arrested after a violent sword fight. Fuu convinces the two vagrant young men to help her find a mysterious samurai "who smells of sunflowers." And their journey begins. This is a story about love, friendship and courage... NOT!




Trigun: Trigun takes place in the distant future on a deserted planet. Vash the Stampede is a gunfighter with a legend so ruthless that he has a $$60,000,000,000 bounty on his head. Entire towns are evacuated upon hearing rumors of his arrival. However, the real Vash the Stampede is not the same man that rumor portrays him to be. The enigmatic and conflicted lead character in Trigun is actually more heroic in nature, and at at times a complete and utter idiot.


Don't forget to vote on the poll above! Voting ends on September 3 and you can sign up for this event by commenting here, visiting the reference desk, or RSVPing on our Facebook.

Summaries taken from MyAnimeList.

Monday, August 30, 2010

Young Adult Fall Events



School has begun and summer is coming to a close, but that doesn't mean the fun has to stop! We have prepared some fun activities for you guys to participate in if you need a little stress relief or simply want something to do on the weekend. Everything is scheduled on Saturday, so no worries on it conflicting with your academics. We will be continuing our schedule with more games, tournaments, contests, movies, and anime!

If you have any suggestions for future events, you can leave a comment here, leave a message on the chat box to your right, or post a comment on the discussion board of our Facebook.

Friday, August 27, 2010

Event Reminder!!

Just a little reminder for everyone. We will be having an ice cream party on Saturday, August 28 in the Board Room on the 3rd floor at noon. We will also be reading our "Share a Story" there as well. After the party is over, we will be having another chess tournament in the Randall Room on the 1st floor at 1:30 pm.

For more information and sign up details, check the previous posting.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Share a Story: "The Thing About Thingy"

For those who aren't able to stop by the reference desk to participate in our "Share a Story" event, I will be posting the last contributed line here for you guys to add on to until the final day: Friday, August 27. Here's the instructions for the story. Have fun with it and anyone can write! Here's the last line:

Rollo was a nice old chap who was completely unjudgemental and very charitable.

Monday, August 23, 2010

Chinese Checkers Winners!!



If you thought chess was a heated battle of the minds, you should've witnessed the sibling rivalry match at the Chinese checkers tournament held this past Saturday. The Fisher brothers banded together against the Ellis brother and sister team.



It was a close match and strategy was a key element. In the end, it was between Dylan Fisher and Darrd Ellis in the final round. Once the last marble made it the other side, Dylan got to taste victory and won the grand prize!



From left to right, first place winner and owner of Futurama's Bender's head Dylan Fisher, second place winner Darrd Ellis who snagged a chess set, and Devin Fisher who won third place and a jigsaw puzzle. Congratulations to all the winners and thank you to all of those who participated in the match!

Our next exciting event is Saturday, August 28 which is our Ice Cream Party where we will be reading our "Share a Story" and a chess tournament afterwards. There's plenty of information below and it's not too late to sign up, so don't hesitate!

Friday, August 20, 2010

Chinese Checkers Reminder

Tomorrow (Saturday, August 21) is our Chinese checkers tournament! There's still time to sign up or you can just simply walk in if you change your mind at the last minute. Our prize and link to the information about the tournament is here! So, feel free to join us tomorrow on the second floor for the tournament.

Also, the "Share a Story" is still going until Friday, August 27 and you can sign up for the Ice Cream Party and upcoming chess tournament on Saturday, August 28.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Ice Cream Party, "Share a Story" Reading, & Chess Tournament



Saturday, August 28, we will be holding an ice cream party in the Board Room on the 3rd floor. It will be at 12 pm to 1 pm. We will also be reading our "Share a Story" that everyone contributed to as we enjoy the sweet taste of ice cream. If you would like to join us, you can either sign up here by commenting on this post, sign up at the Reference Desk (2nd floor), or RSVP on our Facebook.




On the same date at 1:30 pm, we will be heading down to the Randall Room (1st floor) for another exciting chess tournament. We will be giving out prizes to the winners like before. The sign up rules are the same: Reference Desk, comment, or Facebook.

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Foreign Movie Friday & Chinese Checkers Prize



We would to thank everyone who attended "Foreign Movie Friday". I'm very happy that everyone enjoyed Kamikaze Girls and I'm hoping to show another foreign film in the future.


Just a little reminder, on Saturday, August 21 we're having a Chinese checkers tournament. We've picked out an awesome prize for the first place winner. It's Futurama's Bender head. So, if you're a Futurama fan, you need to hurry and sign up for the tournament!

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Chinese Checkers Tournament



On Saturday, August 21 will be holding a Chinese Checkers tournament. We will be giving prizes to the winners of the game. It will be held on the 2nd floor near the adult DVD section for the time being. If you would like to participate, you can either sign up at the Reference Desk, leave a comment here on this post, or RSVP on our Facebook page.

Also, don't forget to participate in our "Share a Story" event! It ends August 27!

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Foreign Movie Friday: Kamikaze Girls

Since I'm the guru of all things Asian media in the library, I wanted to start Foreign Movie Friday. There's a possibility that the name will change, but the concept will remain the same. I will be picking a different movie from a different country to be shown. Don't be surprise if it's not outside the Asian genre, but I'll try my best to mix it up a bit.



Shimotsuma Monogatari (better known as Kamikaze Girls) is my first pick to be shown. It is a Japanese comedy film that'll make you feel good and laugh out loud. It's based off of Novala Takemoto's novel with the same name. It is also a manga that we own in the library as well. Hopefully you guys will enjoy the show! It is really entertaining and highly recommend it.

If you're planning on attending, just sign up at the Reference Desk, comment here on this post, RSVP on the side of this blog, or RSVP on our Facebook group. There will snacks and drinks available.

Monday, August 9, 2010

YA Blog Joins Facebook!



It has been discussed over the course of a few days and we finally decided to join the social networking site to reach out to more young adults in the area. This way updates and responses will be increasingly quicker and ideas can be discussed more broadly as well. You can also look at our upcoming events before they're posted here and sign up for them too! So, please join and feel free to express yourself~

Official Rosenberg Library YA Group

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Chess Tournament Winners

We would like to thank all the participants for coming out and playing chess last Saturday (and, of course, the parents)! We had a very good turn out and we're hope for consist attendence for our future events.

The winner of this round-robin styled chess tournament was Franz-Josiah Torres who conquered the board with great mind power and walked away with a crystal chess board set. The second place winner who fought just as hard was Frances-Janelle Torres. Congratulations!!

Since the chess fever was spreading like a wild fire, the Galveston Daily News became involved and took pictures. The article was featured in last Sunday's paper as well as couple pictures of the players in Monday and Friday's paper. We also decided that we will be planning chess meets in the future. Our next game tournament will be Chinese checkers! So, hurry and sign up at either the reference desk or simply leave a comment here on this post. And once again, congratulations to Franz-Josiah and Frances-Janelle!