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Event Afternoon and Screening on Saturday 21st April 2018

Event Afternoon

JAFWA has the hall from about 12:30PM to 4:30PM, where it is make our own amusement time.

Does anybody have their own game machine and games they want their fellow JAFWAites to play? JAFWA will bring out the projector and screen. I am not certain we have access to the outdoor area, but we will try to keep you off the street.
In the past people have brought along video games and the hardware to play them, and sewing machines for cosplay creating. What do you want to do? Just so long as it fun, legal, and ethical. Hence selling/auctioning off unwanted relatives will fail to tick all these boxes.
Also we should probably avoid scuffing the floor of the Hall.

Screening

Below is the program for the evening of Saturday April 21st, 2018.

The new season of anime has started in Japan, and we have found a couple of sample episodes of 2018 anime series that we suspect you will appreciate. Our first preview episode we thought topical was “to the ends of the Earth”, dues to the fact that around about episode #8 our intrepid heroines travel to the foreign city of Fremantle in order to board their ice-breaker.

Sora Yori mo Toi Basho Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody Fist of the Blue Sky

Due to possible licensing issues, we have had to shelve our plans to screen the first episode of “Violet Evergarden” as a preview episode. Instead, we will re-introduce viewers to the storyline of the manliest of men, albeit it an earlier generation, with pulse-pounding, exploding-head martial arts action.

All items in the original Japanese language with English subtitles.

5:15pm Sakura Quest Ep 11/25
5:40pm A Place Further than the Universe Ep 1 (preview)
6:05pm Fune wo Ame Ep 4/11
6:30pm dinner break
7:15pm door prize drawing, and announcements
7:30pm SDF Macross Ep 21/36
7:55pm Death March Rhapsody Ep 1 (preview)
8:20pm Lupin III (part IV) Ep 22/24
8:45pm The Ancient Magus Bride Ep 8/24
9:10pm Late Break
9:20pm KonoSuba II Ep 7/10 (n)
9:45pm Fist of the Blue Sky Regenesis Ep 1 (V) (preview)
10:10pm JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable Ep 9/39 (v)

Doors Open before Screening:~4:55 PM

Program Finishes:~10:45 PM

Dates of Interest

  • Thursday April 19th 2018 — 2PM – 4PM, Anime Arvo@ Success Library Bookings open 02/04/2018 and spaces are limited. So, book online to secure your spot.
  • Saturday April 21st 2018 — 12:30PM – 4PM, JAFWA’s next Event Afternoon of make your own fun!
  • Saturday April 28th 2018 — 10AM – 4PM, Tokyo Alley #5, Citiplace Community Centre, City Station Complex Wellington St
  • Saturday May 5th 2018 — ~8AM – ~4PM, JAFWA sausage sizzle at Cannington Bunnings.
  • June 22nd to 24th 2018 — Supanova, Perth.
  • Saturday September 22nd 2018 — ~10AM – ~5PM, RahCon 2018 Pop Culture Convention at Mandurah Performing Arts Centre!

Synopsis

Sakura Quest

Yoshino Koharu is a young girl trying to look for a job in Tokyo, but is only met with a series of rejections. However, she has a seemingly lucky break when she receives a job offer to work with the tourism board of the economically struggling Manoyama village as their “Queen”. With no other choice, Yoshino accepts the offer and travels to Manoyama only to find out that she was hired based on a case of mistaken identity and that her contract term is for one year instead of the one day, as she had initially thought. With nowhere else to go, Yoshino reluctantly becomes Queen of Manoyama.

This evening’s Episode:The Forgotten Requiem

After the unexpected rain storm ruined the dragon fance, Yoshino arranges for the sacred dragon statue to be repaired, though her friends joke that they are now cursed by the dragon. Meanwhile, Ririko secludes herself at him under the guise of a cold, as she reflects on how she doesn’t seem to fit in with the rest of the town. As the matchmaking tour continues, it is revealed that Mr. Sandal’s great grandparents met in Manoyama, meaning his is descended from a Manoyama native.

Preview item – A Place Further than the Universe (Sora Yorimo Tooi Basho)

Mari Tamaki is a second-year high school student who wants to make the most out of her youth but is usually too afraid to do so. One day, she meets Shirase Kobuchizawa, a girl who has been saving up to travel to Antarctica, where her mother disappeared three years ago. Joined by two other girls, Hinata Miyake and Yuzuki Shiraishi, they join an expedition headed towards the Antarctic.

This evening’s Episode:One Million Yen For Youth

Mari Tamaki, a second year high school student who fears she has not been making the most of her youth, contemplates skipping school and going on an impulsive trip, but is too scared to go through with it. One evening, she comes across an envelope dropped by a girl, discovering it contains one million yen. What happens when she finds the owner of the lost envelope?

Fune wo Amu (aka The Great Passage)

Araki is a veteran editor for the dictionary department at the Genbu Shobou publishing company. He is looking for a successor now that he’s approaching retirement age. After Majime Mitsuya — a salesman who’s a poor talker — meets Masashi Nishioka — Araki’s coworker who is sociable and frivolous — Araki overhears their conversation and decides to recruit Majime into the department. The “odd couple” work together to compile a medium-sized Japanese dictionary titled “The Great Passage”.

This evening’s Episode:Resonance

Masashi has finally given Kaguya his confession of love, but difficult as that was to awaiting her reply. Nishioka’s embarrassed confession wil only add to the storm clouds miring Masashi’s journey to “The Great Passage“.

Retro – Choujikuu Yousai Makurosu (Super Dimension Fortress Macross)

In 1999 a city-sized alien spacecraft crashes in South Ataria Island on Earth. Over the course of 10 years the military organization U.N. Spacy reverse-engineers its technology and rebuilds the spacecraft, naming it the SDF-1 Macross. In 2009 at the launch ceremony of the Macross, a space war fleet from the alien Zentraedi arrives in the solar system and identifies the Macross as a former battleship used by their enemies. Mistakes happen. Thus begins the war between Human and Zentraedi, led by the brave crew of the Macross.

Tonight’s Episode:Micro Cosmos

Milia is now aboard the Macross as a spy and marvels at human culture. The premiere of Minmay’s film Shao Pai Long (Little White Dragon) takes place. A Zentradi attack prompts another transformation to combat mode, and Hikaru and Misa end up being trapped within the walls of the ship.

Preview item: Death March Kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyousoukyoku (Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody)

Ichiro Suzuki is a programmer who was tasked with fixing several bugs in two MMORPGs his company is preparing for publication. While taking a nap, he somehow wakes up in another world as Satou Pendragon, with what looks like the menu screen of the game he was working on appearing before his inner eye. Due to cheat codes, his level jumps to 310 and he becomes extremely wealthy. Satou decides to hide his level, and plans to live peacefully and meet new people. However, developments in the game’s story, such as the return of a demon king, may cause a nuisance to Satou’s plans.

Tonight’s Episode:The Catastrophe That Started with a Death March

Suzuki is a programmer, trying to get two video games up and ready for release, even with last minute changes to install cheat codes and unexpected bugs. After a Death March session where he hasn’t gone home for 3 days, and spent the last 30 hours awake, he thinks it is ready for release. But even in his long overdue nap, it seems he is still dreaming about the games. The attack by those lizardmen seems awfully real, doesn’t it?

Lupin the Third – Part 4

The internationally infamous Arsène Lupin, master thief and unrepentant womaniser, continues to seek out ever more challenging heists to pull off. With him goes an eccentric band of misfits; Jigen the scruffy sharpshooter, Fujiko the femme fatal of dubious loyalty, and Goemon the stoic swordsman. And close on their heels no matter where Lupin and his gang end up, the unrelenting Inspector Zenigata. Determined to put Lupin and his cohorts in prison for the seemingly endless list burglaries and thefts they have already pulled off.

Tonight’s Episode:I’m Going to Get You Lupin

Rebecca realizes she is truly in love with Lupin, and announces to Italy that she’ll be able to capture him. In the meantime, Lupin continues to break into various banks without stealing anything, and Rebecca understands that he’s searching for something in particular.

Maho Tsukai no Yome (The Ancient Magus Bride)

Chise Hatori, 15 years old. Lost, without hope, and without family, she is bought for money … not by another person, but by a non-human sorcerer named Elias Ainsworth. Though she hesitates, she begins life anew as his apprentice and future wife.

Tonight’s Episode:None so deaf as those who will not hear.

Since the incident with Cartaphilius, Elias has locked himself in his bedroom and refuses to see anybody. Silver, the fairy landlady, pushes Chise and Ruth out of the house with instructions to go shopping, where they encounter Angelica. The next day Chise meets a Leanan sídhe, a type of Fairy who lives off of a human’s lifeforce, and who is haunting an elderly man.

Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! (God’s Blessing on this Beautiful World) series 2

Kazuma Satou wasn’t looking for anything beyond his simple high school shut-in existence. But one untimely death later and he finds himself before the goddess Aqua with the chance to be deposited in a fantasy kingdom that is in need of heroes to defeat a demon lord. Things don’t look good from the moment he arrives and so Kazuma decides to ditch the whole “save the world” thing and just try to become rich and live comfortably. Unfortunately, the various eccentric companions he is saddled with aren’t really helping with that goal.

Tonight’s Episode:A Goddess for This Corrupt Hot Springs Town!

After witnessing Aqua warp the town’s citizens with her petty confessional hearings, Kazuma takes a dip in the mixed bath, where he comes across another man who is as sick of the town’s behavior as he is. Meanwhile, Aqua, contrary to how she is worshipped as a goddess, finds herself under scrutiny from the citizens after she keeps purifying the hot springs into regular water.

Preview item – Souten no Ken (Fist of the Blue Sky) Regensis

Set primarily in Shanghai during the 1930s, the series centers on the 62nd successor of the Hokuto Shinken martial arts style, Kenshiro Kasumi, the namesake and predecessor of Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star.

Tonight’s Episode:Successor to Hokuto Shinken: Kenshiro Kasumi

Kasumi Kenshiro, better known as “Yan Wang” or “The King of Hell”, is a laid back and chain-smoking Tokyo professor who is secretly the successor of the deadly Chinese assassin martial art Hokuto Shinken, and travels to Shanghai, China after hearing that his Triad friend Pan Guang-Lin and Pan’s sister Yu-Ling are in trouble. The three Hokuto families, the Hokuto Sankaken, do not welcome him. At the same time he helps Pan’s Qing Bang triad against their rivals, the immoral Hóng Huá Huì, in gaining territory and influence in Shanghai.

Jojo no Kimyou na Bouken – Diamond is Unbreakable (Jojo’s Bizzare Adventure – Diamond is Unbreakable)

It’s the year 1999, 11 years after Jotaro Kujo’s desperate fight against Dio in Egypt. Jotaro meets with Josuke Higashikata, the illegitimate son of his grandfather Joseph Joestar. He discovers that Josuke also has the same “Stand” power and that a new threat is surfacing in Morioh City.

Tonight’s Episode:Red Hot Chili Pepper, Part 1

While Josuke plays video games, he is ambushed by Red Hot Chili Pepper, who not only reveals he has been spying on him and his friends, but also has come to fight him in order to see if he is strong enough to take on Jotaro and Star Platinum. Despite Crazy Diamond’s show of strength and speed, Chili Pepper manages to show off his own strength before retreating. The next day, Jotaro calls on Josuke, Okuyasu, and Koichi to inform them that Joseph, whose Hermit Purple Stand can potentially detect Chili Pepper’s user, is due to arrive at the port.

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