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NEWS: Anime After Dark Film Fest Begins in Monterey, California

That sounds like quite the line-up. Wish I could go see that. The only problem I'm having is that Urotsukidoji will be playing. They're going to be showing a hentai? I know it's "after dark", but it's still 18+. There's gotta be some way of filtering the audience. At least I hope there is.

I appreciate the line-up of anime masterpieces they are planning to show, although the referential humor in Project A-Ko may be a tad too specific for modern audiences(how many people actually know about Macross, Fist of the North Star and Captain Harlock, for example?), even though they may get the gist of the other jokes.

kevin_video wrote:

That sounds like quite the line-up. Wish I could go see that. The only problem I'm having is that Urotsukidoji will be playing. They're going to be showing a hentai? I know it's "after dark", but it's still 18+. There's gotta be some way of filtering the audience. At least I hope there is.

If you ask me, they may show it last.

They are showing it last. Here's the schedule

samuraiwalt wrote:

They are showing it last. Here's the schedule

Even with that, it's still rated X.

kevin_video wrote:

samuraiwalt wrote: They are showing it last. Here's the schedule Even with that, it's still rated X.

It's rated NC-17 not X. TekkonKinkreet was rated R so technically you would have to be 17 to see that also.

samuraiwalt wrote:

kevin_video wrote: samuraiwalt wrote: They are showing it last. Here's the schedule Even with that, it's still rated X. It's rated NC-17 not X. TekkonKinkreet was rated R so technically you would have to be 17 to see that also.

I stand corrected, but my question still fairly sound. I'm very surprised that they would show these in public. I mean, there's so many others they could have gone with. Afterall, 10:30 isn't all that late.

I don't think it made a difference since it the majority of the audience was over 17 Fri. & Sat. Plus I think they were letting in people under 17 on Fri.

samuraiwalt wrote:

I don't think it made a difference since it the majority of the audience was over 17 Fri. & Sat. Plus I think they were letting in people under 17 on Fri.

Well, it would seem to me a very simple matter of ID check at the door, like they do at conventions. At the very least, making the audience aware of the content before the showing would be appropriate.
I'm not sure how I feel about the schedule of titles. Some of them seemed appropriate for a public showing of a cross-section of anime, but others are a bit obscure. Project A-Ko is dated (and a little obscure) and Cat Soup is just surreal. There weren't even any shojo anime (I don't count Princess Mononoke as shojo) in the line-up.