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Screening on Saturday 12th May 2018

Below is the program for the evening of Saturday May 12th, 2018.

As we enter May, we realise that Perth’s summer is but a fading memory. We are in the season of farewells, “Lupin III” being tonight’s farewell. But not a final farewell, as there are more adventures of the world’s greatest thief on the horizon.
It is also that time of year, with the AGM approaching in July, that our dear JAFWAites need to consider how the JAFWA committee has been doing, and more importantly step up and nominate for the elections so that some us may get some rest. Did you enjoy the Bunnings sausage sizzle we ran last week, on the Revenge of the Fifth?

Omae wa Mada Gunma wo Shiranai Persona 5 Golden Kamuy

This week we will have two preview items for you to examine. There is so much anime produced in Japan, We hope you will approve of the selection of preview episodes we have chosen (though one was a write-in request) as suitable examples of the wide variety of anime produced in Japan.

All items in the original Japanese language with English subtitles.

5:10pm Sakura Quest Ep 13/25
5:35pm Knight’s & Magic Ep 11/13
6:00pm Fune wo Ame Ep 8/11
6:25pm Omae wa Mada Gunma wo Shiranai Ep 1/?
6:30pm dinner break
7:15pm door prize drawing, and announcements
7:30pm SDF Macross Ep 23/36
7:55pm Persona 5 Ep 1 (preview)
8:20pm Lupin III (part IV) Ep 24/24 (final)
8:45pm The Ancient Magus Bride Ep 11/24
9:10pm Late Break
9:20pm Golden Kamuy Ep 1 (v) (preview)
9:45pm Youjo Senki Ep 11/12 (V)
10:10pm JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable Ep 12/39 (v)

Doors Open before Screening:~4:55 PM

Program Finishes:~10:45 PM

Dates of Interest

  • 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.
  • July 21st — JAFWA’s AGM and annual committee elections. All paid up members are requested to attend.
  • 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 Marionette’s Banquet

The arrival of up and coming band Ptolemaios attracts a massive crowd to Manoyama, who attend the Founding Festival as they wait for the concert to begin. Regretably, most the crowd is more interested in Ptolemaios than the festival. Will this really help the town, or will Uoshino have to admit defeat?

Knight’s and Magic

A world where medieval knights use giant robots called Silhouette Knights to fight against demon beasts, magical ravenous animals that devour everything on sight. Tsubasa Kurata is a mecha otaku from Japan who gets killed in a car accident. Tsubasa is reincarnated in this new parallel world as Ernesti “Eru” Echevallia, a boy born into a noble family. Tsubasa’s previous otaku memories inspire Ernesti into creating his own Silhouette Knight in order to defend his kingdom.

This evening’s Episode:Hit & Away

The enemy Prince Cristobal leads a large force of Silhouette Knights and airships to crush the Kuschperchan forces at their stronghold and capture Eleonora. However, he falls into a trap made by the Order of Silver Phoenix, who have been developing anti-airship weaponry (think Javelin missiles). But the enemy also have a mad scientist on their side.

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:Compile

Majime has been working on the Great Passage for 13 years now. He is the only full-time employee and Chief of the Dictionary Editing departemnt, though his relationship with his girlfriend has advanced. But now, after all the impediments the company has placed, he is getting a second staff member to assist. Please welcome Kishibe-san, though she is uncertain of her qualifications.

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:Drop Out

The battle within the city comes to a close, with the surviving Zentraedi defectors coming to terms with the destruction they caused. Along with Rori, Konda and Warera, the defectors are all given asylum within the Macross.

preview item – Persona 5 the animation

in modern-day Tokyo, Ren Amamiya is transfer to the Shujin Academy after being put on probation for an assault of which he was falsely accused. During the course of a school year, he and other students awaken to their Persona powers, becoming a group of secret vigilantes known as the Phantom Thieves of Hearts who explore the Metaverse, a supernatural realm consisting of the physical manifestation of humanity’s subconscious desires, to change malevolent intent from the hearts of adults.

Tonight’s Episode:I am thou, thou art I

Ren Amamiya, known by the codename “Joker”, is arrested and is interrogated by investigator Sae Nijima over his actions as the leader of a team of “Phantom Thieves.” He retells the events to her, beginning in April, when he arrives in Tokyo after being put on probation for a year.

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:World Dissection, Part 2” finale

Leonardo has projected his consciousness into the minds of all Italians. Inside Rebecca’s mind, Lupin seeks to defeat Leonardo, in order to allow Rebecca to maintain her original personality. However, what of all the other Italians who failed to defeat his mental influence?

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 magus named Elias Ainsworth. Though she hesitates, she begins life anew as his apprentice and future wife.

Tonight’s Episode:Lovers ever run before the clock.

Lindel continues to reminsce to Chise about the time he spent training Elias. He noticed that while Elias was a quick learner he had trouble understanding humans. Meanwhile Elias awits Chise’s return in a cold house, with the message from Renfred weighing upon him.

preview item – Golden Kamuy

Saichi Sugimoto, a survivor of the battle of 203 Hill in the Russo-Japanese War has become a miner in Hokkaido in order to provide for the widow of his dead comrade, Toraji. He hears a dubious story of hidden Ainu gold stashed by a criminal group, and accidentally finds clues to its location. He decides to search for the gold along with an Ainu girl, Asirpa, who rescues him from Hokkaido’s harsh northern wilderness. Though other parties are also hunting for the gold.

Tonight’s Episode:Wenkamuy

Saichi “Immortal” Sugimoto, a Russo-Japanese War veteran, has become a gold panner in Hokkaido to provide for his dead comrade Toraji’s widow. He hears a story from a fellow prospector about how someone has stolen a gold reserve from the Ainu people, killed those who knew of the gold, and after getting imprisoned tattooed twenty-four inmates with parts of a map to the gold. Sugimoto doubts the story, but a deadly bear attack will change his mind.

Youjo Senki (The Saga of Tanya the Evil)

In an alternate universe similar to 1910’s Europe, in an empire torn apart by countless wars with all nearby countries. An arrogant Japanese is reborn as Second Lieutenant Tanya Degurechaff of the Imperial Army, a 9-year-old soldier girl. In search for an escape, Tanya decides to enter into the Empire’s Mages Division and fight in World War I, hoping to reach a high enough rank as fast as possible to remain far from the battlefield and in this way avoid the risk of being killed. Even if she’s now forced to speak with a young girl’s lisp, Tanya soon turns into a ruthless soldier who prioritises efficiency and her own career over anything else, even the lives of those beneath her.

Tonight’s Episode:Resistance

Tanya’s diminished smaller company attack the battalion of Allied Kingdom mages rather than retreat. Their company use their altitude advantage but suffer heavy losses, especially when Colonel Sioux uses an illegal Trench Gun. With the goal of end of war, and peace in sight, Tanya will do whatever needs to be done to win.

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:We Picked Up Something Crazy!

Following Otoishi’s defeat, Jotaro manages to retrieve the bow and arrow, though urges the others to be careful of any other Stand users that might have been created. As Josuke tries to escort the feeble Joseph back to his house to re-unite with Tomoko, his mother, the less than reliable Joseph begins to be troubled by something that no eye can see.

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