It's a Midnight Channel Christmas

With the success from last year, we're visiting another holiday schedule. This time we'll be showing some of the same favorites including the Pikachu shorts and Itsudatte My Santa, as well as exploring some titles we haven't seen in the group. Please tune in at the correct times to participate in the club. keep in mind the timezone. And if you haven't joined TMC Skype chat yet feel free to add me.

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You can also expect the same great holiday music and splash screeens for the livestream waiting room that we featured last year. Check out the channel today and get ready to watch some anime!

http://justdubsonline.net/the-midnight-channel


All times are PST. UTC Offset: GMT -8:00

December 13th -
3:00PM - Pokemon: Pikachu's Winter Vacation
3:15PM - Yuki: Snow Fairy

December 21st -
3:00PM - Holiday Hi-Jynx
3:25PM - Winter Garden

December 25th -
3:00PM - Pokemon: Pikachu's Winter Vacation (2000)
3:25PM - Tokyo Godfathers

December 27th -
3:00PM - Pokemon: Pikachu's Winter Vacation (2001)
3:25PM - Itsudatte My Santa



Anime summaries:​

Pokemon: Pikachu's Winter Vacation

Spoiler

Pikachu's Winter Vacations are three series of videos, each composed of several Pikachu shorts. All shorts deal with winter and Christmas. This is the first series and contains Christmas Night & Kanga Games.

Yuki: Snow Fairy

Spoiler

Up in Heaven, Yuki’s grandparents decide that, having turned thirteen years old, she must go down to Earth to a village that is torn by bandits and intervene to save its people. However if she does not succeed within one year she will become as insubstantial as the wind. Down in the village, Yuki is befriended by a group of orphans whose parents have all been killed by the bandits and who now subsist by begging. Yuki amazes them by taming the wild horse Blizzard. She is instrumental in getting the orphans and farmers to stand up to first the warring bandits and then Goemon, the greedy lord that owns the region. But Yuki must face her greatest challenge yet when the displeased Demon God that lives in the volcano emerges to destroy those who live beneath.

Pokemon: Pikachu's Winter Vacation (2000)

Spoiler

Pikachu's Winter Vacations are three series of videos, each composed of several Pikachu shorts. All shorts deal with winter and Christmas. This is the second series and contains Winter Games & Stantler's Little Helpers.

Tokyo Godfathers

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Three homeless companions—a runaway girl, a transvestite, and an alcoholic—find an abandoned newborn on Christmas Eve while foraging through trash. Using clues found next to the baby, they fan out through Tokyo to find the parents, along the way confronting reminders of their own lives they have nearly abandoned.

Holiday Hi-Jynx

Spoiler

Holiday Hi-Jynx (Japanese: ルージュラのクリスマス Rougela's Christmas) is a special episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on October 5, 1998, along with Snow Way Out!, and in the United States on December 11, 1999. It was initially intended to be EP039, airing December 23, 1997, but was rescheduled following the EP038 incident.

Winter Garden

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This is sweet and bitter love story of Dejiko who is a grown up. The story begins on the Christmas day. Dejiko or Di Gi Carat is working part-time at a bakery shop. On her way from the shop, she happens to meet a young guy, Senba Taokuo at a park. Then, she meets him again in a town. While Dejiko begins to care for Tako and she’s looking forward meet him again, Takuo drops in at her shop.... Whether will she succeed in love?

Pokemon: Pikachu's Winter Vacation (2001)

Spoiler

Pikachu's Winter Vacations are three series of videos, each composed of several Pikachu shorts. All shorts deal with winter and Christmas. This is the third and last series and contains Delibird's Dilemma, Snorlax Snowman & Trouble in Big Town.

Itsudatte My Santa

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Mai, a Santa in training, appears in front of an unlucky boy named Santa on Christmas Eve, promising him that she will make him happy for one night.

Chocotto Sister:

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Haruma Kawagoe is an only child. A long time ago, at Christmas time, his mother miscarried the child that was to have been his baby sister. That night, young Haruma knelt down and offered up an earnest prayer: "Please make my mother well again, and please give me a little sister." Years have passed, and Haruma has nearly forgotten his prayer. But Santa hasn't.... one Christmas, when Haruma is least expecting it, he gets an unusual present - his sister.

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Today's showing is postponed by one hour. Sorry for the inconvenience.

 

All that random chatting on Skype is really time consuming.