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Saturday 29th October, 2011

JAFWA has a separate Event afternoon running in the same hall from 12:30 to 4:30. It is make your own fun, but we know some people will be bringing semi-automatic nerf weaponry, mahjong, video games and even sewing. Try making a Cosplay costume for the evening! Or prepare for Halloween.

After the Event Afternoon, the tentative JAFWA program for Saturday 29th October 2011 is below. To be held in the Collins Street Community Center on Collins Street just off Canning Highway in South Perth.

Things of Note:
1) Movie Night! We are going to put on a retro movie tonight, either the first “Patlabor” movie, or the “Galaxy Express 999″ movie. Audience choice on the night, but be aware that we will have to remove “Blood C” from this night if you choose the longer “Galaxy Express 999″.
2) Semi-regular attendee Danae would like to show everybody her artwork. Check out superstarsagal12 on DeviantArt.
3) DVD Heaven on corner of Gt Eastern Highway and Kooyong Road is closing down and selling their stock of DVDs cheaply. Including US released anime DVDs.

Dale’s Suggestive Remarks, based on suggestion sheets handed in at JAFWA:
The ever reliable Thomson Han Yau Chow wrote on the 08-10-2011 on the topic of Comments on Animes & Replacements:

1. ‘Kamisama Dolls’: Looks good. If we don’t put ‘Sacred Seven’ on program, I vote for this one.
2. ‘To Aru Kagaku No Railgun’: Nice one. I nominate ‘Index II’ for its replacement after we showed the OAV.
3. ‘Welcome to NHK’: It is actually good. Too bad not everyone likes it.
4. Next year’s screening: how about ‘Working!’ season 2?

It was because anime looked good that I originally started watching it. And because anime often had a good and intelligent storyline that I have kept watching anime. Anime is a medium that covers so many genres. But what genre would you say that “Kamisama Dolls” and “Sacred Seven” fall into? Ordinary humans secretly in command of, and battling with superhuman powers. JAFWA does have a couple of timeslots open in 2012, that you can vote for. For instance, there is no reason that we can’t remove the retro 6 part Cultural CatGirl Nuku Nuku and replace it with one of those two titles.

I really should look for the OAV you say goes after the end of A Certain Scientific Railgun. Sounds interesting.

Not all anime is for everyone. For instance, I personally do not feel the appeal of yaoi, though being a fan of “Revolutionary Girl Utena” probably means I enjoy yuri. “Welcome to the NHK” does show a slice of Japanese life that is somewhat deviant from the approved standard. Is it just me, or does the socio-economic bracket of Hikkokimori and NEET show up in anime in disproportionate amounts these days.

Do not torment with the concept that there is, or more likely shall be, a second series of “Working!”. I am trying to convince people of the goodness and hard work of “Hanasaku Iroha”.

An unsigned missive was handed in on 15-10-2011 that I shall copy as precisely as I can work out the handwriting:

NO DVD SUBS Plz Play in English
Not EXSatlee what There saying

After a bit a puzzling and head-scratching (darn my dermatitis) I suspect this is a mocking comment regarding the DVD that we were playing “Dominion: Tank Police” from. I am sorry, we didn’t have a decent fan-sub available, so we were forced to use the US DVD release.
While the commercial fansubs may be jarring to an insulting degree to those who can speak Japanese, I do congratulate you for being able to speak Japanese to such a degree. Mind you, you will probably also object when we show the commercial sub-titles to “Dragon Half” (it is old enough we do not have readily available fansubs) and “Read or Die” (we support madman Entertainment). Have you considered providing decent sub-titles for JAFWA?

And once again Thomson Han Yau Chow writes on the topic of Comments on Anime:

1. ‘Kamisama’s memo-chou: It’s nice and I think it is a good idea to screen double ep. I nominate it as replacement of ‘Gosick’.
2. ‘A Certain Sci. Railgun’: I suggest the OVA & 2nd season of ‘Index’ as its replacement.

Thank you for approving our inadvertent mistake. The copy we showed was not the copy that the JAFWA committee previewed, instead being a combined episode 1&2. Which certainly helped us understand the story. But did annoy the people who wanted to watch “Level E” later that night.
Are you suggesting that a NEET detective series should replace our Gothic detective series merely because both are detective stories (what then is your opinion of Great Detective Conan?), or because of some deeper, more profound worth?

And yes, we have taken note of you Certain requests.

Australian DVD cover for first Patlabor movie
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All items in the original Japanese language with English subtitles

5:10pm Dog Days Ep 1 (preview)
5:35pm Gosick Ep 24/24 (final)
6:00pm Fairy Tail Ep 47/?
6:25pm Chi’s New Address Ep 085/104 =^_^=
6:30pm dinner break
Possibly showing something during Dinner Break
7:15pm door prize drawing, and announcements
7:30pm Chi’s New Address Ep 086/104 =^_^=
7:35pm Mobile Police Patlabor movie 1 (retro)
9:10pm Seikimatsu Occult Gakuin Ep 13/13 (final)
9:35pm
Late Break
9:40pm Blood-C Ep 7/12 (v)
10:05pm Level E Ep 11/13 (v)
10:40pm Welcome to NHK Ep 17/24 (?)
JAFWA Doors Open: ~4:55 PM
Program Finishes: ~11:00 PM
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By Dale – October 23, 2011

Saturday 22nd October, 2011

The tentative JAFWA program for Saturday 22nd October 2011 is below. To be held in the Collins Street Community Center on Collins Street just off Canning Highway in South Perth.

Things of Note:
1) We apologise for not showing “Level E” last week. Turns out that the copy of the preview item we showed “Kamisama no Memo-chou”, was unexpectedly a double episode. “Level E” will return this week.
2) Last week’s Bean Poll, whether to continue showing “Blood-C” was unexpectedly very close – by only 2 more people voted for keeping it in the program compared to removing it from the program. And yet it seems so popular.
3) DVD Heaven on corner of Gt Eastern Highway and Kooyong Road is closing down and selling their stock of DVDs cheaply. Including US released anime DVDs.

Dale’s Suggestive Remarks, based on suggestion sheets handed in at JAFWA:
Long time member Greg McLeod did write on the 24-09-2011 on the topic of Suggestions:

I want to see Dog Days because it has cat girls, dog girls, rabbit girls, fox girls, wolf girls…

I think I see a pattern here – you like furry animals. Though you are restricting yourself to only the female gender of furry mammals.
But seriously, that was only a single Suggestion. Why did you try to confound me by referring to it as Suggestions, in the plural?

However fear not, JAFWA is definitely considering showing a preview sample of “Dog Days”. Considering the topic of this anime, we are planning on previewing this episode during the evening of October 29. Not only does this tie-in with our monthly event afternoons, it might help take people’s minds off of CHOGM. That, and that it is also the final night for “Gosick”.

Dragon HalfAnimation Runner Kuromi-chan
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All items in the original Japanese language with English subtitles

5:10pm Dragon Half Part 1/2? (retro)
5:35pm Gosick Ep 23/24
6:00pm Fairy Tail Ep 46/?
6:25pm Chi’s New Address Ep 083/104 =^_^=
6:30pm dinner break
Possibly showing something during Dinner Break
7:15pm door prize drawing, and announcements
7:30pm Chi’s New Address Ep 084/104 =^_^=
7:35pm Hanasaku Iroha Ep 1 (preview)
8:00pm Animation Runner Kuromi OAV 1 (retro)
8:40pm Blood-C Ep 6/? (v)
9:05pm
Late Break
9:15pm Seikimatsu Occult Gakuin Ep 12/13
9:40pm Level E Ep 10/13
10:05pm Welcome to NHK Ep 16/24 (?)
JAFWA Doors Open: ~4:55 PM
Program Finishes: ~10:45 PM
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By Dale – September 30, 2011

Saturday 15th October, 2011

The tentative JAFWA program for Saturday 15th October 2011 is below. To be held in the Collins Street Community Center on Collins Street just off Canning Highway in South Perth.

Things of Note:
1) This week we say good bye to 3 series we have shown and loved – “Allison & Lillia”, “A Certain Scientific Railgun”, and the very retro “Dominion: Tank Police”. Come 2012 we hope to start a program with almost all new series (barring “Chi’s New Address”, “Blood-C”, and “Welcome to the NHK”).
2) People have asked that I once again order calendars from Japan this year. You can get some ideas from here. So far the most expensive are the Studio Ghibli Works, which with the current exchange rate are $39 each. I have ordered some calendars on speculation, come see me at JAFWA as they are mostly < $30.

Dale’s Suggestive Remarks, based on suggestion sheets handed in at JAFWA:
The ever reliable Thomson Hau Yan Chow wrote on 24-09-2011 a missive on the topic Comments on Anime & Logo:

1. Logo: OK, if our current logo is too ‘suggestive’, I can think (but not draw) one. The problem is: if we cannot
use licensed anime (in Australia) characters, we can only use the not-so-mainstream animes, which are either more suggestive (too many hentai game turned anime today) or nobody knows about it (and that made the logo pointless).
2. ‘Bleach – hell verse’: Very exciting & funny. Especially the last bit of it.

Back in the early days of JAFWA, about the time we weren’t even a formal club but instead a group of like-minded friends meeting in Tom Edge’s or Michael Studte’s house to watch strange cartoons from Japan, a mascot character was chosen. Misty Mei was introduced to the world in the opening animation for DaiCon IV by a garage group of animators who went on to become the world famous Studio Gainax. Misty Mei showed up some more in “Otaku no Video”, Studio Ganax’s homage to their origin in the otaku fandom of Japan. And was instantly beloved by the proto-JAFWA crowd of university
blokes once they saw the video tape.
However appealing her somewhat improbable anatomical movements may be to the male half of the audience, Misty Mei is now somewhat dated and it is time for the grand lady to return to her roots of representing all anime fandom, bow out and allow some new character to uniquely represent JAFWA. WaiCon and PANIc have their own unique anime-like characters, why can’t JAFWA. Use established anime characters as inspiration, rather than as a direct model if you will. Let 2012 be the end of the old world, in with a bright new future for JAFWA!

So many of our newer, younger attendees had been asking for Bleach we thought we should throw them a bone. The 4th movie “The Hell verse” did seem somewhat better than previous movies. Did they actually get the Bleach author Tite Kubo to write the movie, rather than the people who wrote all those second-rate filler episodes of the anime? I approve, just like the 10th One Piece movie, getting the original series author writing the movie makes for a far superior experience.

NEET Detective Agency animeNEET Detective Agency anime
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All items in the original Japanese language with English subtitles

5:10pm Allison and Lillia Ep 26/26 (final)
5:35pm Gosick Ep 22/24
6:00pm Fairy Tail Ep 45/?
6:25pm Chi’s New Address Ep 081/104 =^_^=
6:30pm dinner break
Possibly showing something during Dinner Break
7:15pm door prize drawing, and announcements
7:30pm Chi’s New Address Ep 082/104 =^_^=
7:35pm Kamisama no Memo-chou Ep 1 (preview)
8:00pm Seikimatsu Occult Gakuin Ep 10/13 (?)
8:25pm Blood-C Ep 5/? (v)
8:50pm A Certain Scientific Railgun Ep 24/24 (final)
9:15pm
Late Break
9:25pm Level E Ep 10/13
9:50pm Welcome to NHK Ep 15/24 (?)
10:15pm Dominion Tank Police Ep 4/4 (vn) (retro)
JAFWA Doors Open: ~4:55 PM
Program Finishes: ~10:55 PM
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By Dale – September 24, 2011

Saturday 8th October, 2011

No JAFWA on October 1st
Find some other way to enjoy Life. Westlodge is running in the afternoon.

The tentative JAFWA program for Saturday 8th October 2011 is below. To be held in the Collins Street Community Center on Collins Street just off Canning Highway in South Perth.

Things of Note:
1) The last Bean Poll, by a vote of 18 to 6, told us that JAFWA should finish up as much of the current series as possible, and begin screening all new stuff at the beginning of 2012.
2) People have asked that I once again order calendars from Japan this year. You can get some ideas from here. So far the most expensive are the Studio Ghibli Works, which with the current exchange rate are $39 each.
3) VillainCon? It’s a limited numbers convention to be held on October 1st and 2nd, (With membership restricted to 75 people) with an emphasis on the darker side of nature.This is the primary website: http://villaincon.blogspot.com

Dale’s Suggestive Remarks, based on suggestion sheets handed in at JAFWA:
The ever reliable Thomson Hau Yan Chow wrote on 17-09-2011 a missive on the topic Suggestions about Anime:

1. Ikoku Meiru no Croisee’: Even it is made by the same author as ‘Gosick’, their style is very different – so far, at least – and I would like to watch more of it.
2. I am supporting the screening of ‘Sacred Seven’.
3. ‘Blood C: although the fighting scene is exciting enough, it just feels something is missing without the ‘Vietnam War Elements’ in the last 2 installments of the franchise.
4. After screening of ‘A Certain Scientific Railgun’ I suggest we screen ‘A Certain Magical Index II’.
5 Tank Police: Not bad. Reminds me of ‘Patlabor’.

We are hoping that most of the current program lineup at JAFWA will be finished by the end of the year. Including ‘Gosick’. All so that we can start 2012 with a fresh new line-up. Start the campaign to put ‘Ikoku Meiru no Crosiee’ on in 2012!

Likewise, you may organise a ‘Sacred Seven’ for 2012 campaign.

While ‘Blood C’ does not have a vietnam war background like the first 3 instantations of the ‘Blood the Last Vampire’ franchise (OAV, TV anime, and live action movie), it is done by CLAMP so expect to see a lot of CLAMP background material to find its way in, if you are have an obsessive mania (aka -holic). Also, this CLAMP version has a certain inherent elegance, unlike all the other versions.

Should JAFWA show season after season of various anime series? I mean, look at all the different seasons of ‘Slayers’ we have already played, ‘Ghost in the Shell’, the 3 seasons of ‘Zero no Tsukaima’, likewise both seasons of ‘Spice and Wolf’, ‘Tower of Druaga’ and ‘Those who Hunt Elves’. Technically ‘A Certain Scientific Railgun’ is not the sequel but side story to ‘A Certain Magical Index’, but you want the sequel as well. Can we resist?

‘Dominion’ makes you think of ‘Patlabor’?!? Apart from that they are both retro shows? ‘Dominion: Tank Police’ is Masamune Shirow’s joke version of a not-quite post-human future dystopia populated by run-away crime and bio-industrial pollution. Meanwhile ‘Patlabor’ is an almost serious projection of near-future technological trends in construction machinery and sociological problems as an excuse to have giant mecha in Tokyo, with a background of impending global warming caused flooding.
OK, so both shows have cool mecha, an exploration of human nature in an extrapolated future, but one is a joke based on serious issues, while the other addresses serious issues with occasional humour.

Long time attendee Greg McLeod also wrote on 17-09-2011 on the topic Suggestions:

Paprika
I saw this at Manifest and really think it is good to show on a large screen.
This has really imaginative images and drawing, as to what could happen if you have a technology to see people’s dreams. Don’t spoil this by showing before the sun goes down.

I am beginning to get quite envious of Melbourne with The Melbourne Anime Festival aka Manifest.
JAFWA did wish to screen ‘Paprika’, as we do with all of the films of the late, great Satoshi Kon. Regrettably the Australian copyright for this incredibly wonderful animated movie is held by Sony Tristar, and they would not give us permission to screen it.
Pardon me while I go gnash my teeth.

Last Exile: Fam, the Silver Wing
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All items in the original Japanese language with English subtitles

5:10pm Allison and Lillia Ep 25/26
5:35pm Gosick Ep 21/24
6:00pm Fairy Tail Ep 44/?
6:25pm Chi’s New Address Ep 079/104 =^_^=
6:30pm dinner break
Possibly showing something during Dinner Break
7:15pm door prize drawing, and announcements
7:30pm Chi’s New Address Ep 080/104 =^_^=
7:35pm Kamisama Dolls Ep 1 (preview)
8:00pm Seikimatsu Occult Gakuin Ep 9/13 (?)
8:25pm Blood-C Ep 4/? (v)
8:50pm A Certain Scientific Railgun Ep 23/24
9:15pm
Late Break
9:25pm Level E Ep 8/13
9:50pm Welcome to NHK Ep 14/24 (?)
10:15pm Dominion Tank Police Ep 3/4 (vn) (retro)
JAFWA Doors Open: ~4:55 PM
Program Finishes: ~10:55 PM
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By Dale – September 10, 2011

Saturday 24th September, 2011

JAFWA has a separate Event afternoon running in the same hall from 12:30 to 4:30. It is make your own fun, but we know some people will be bringing semi-automatic nerf weaponry, mahjong, video games and even sewing. Try making a Cosplay costume for the evening!.

The tentative JAFWA program for Saturday 24th September 2011 is below. To be held in the Collins Street Community Center on Collins Street just off Canning Highway in South Perth.

Things of Note:
1) JAFWA has a separate Event afternoon running in the same hall from 12:30 to 4:30. It is make your own fun, but we know some people will be bringing semi-automatic nerf weaponry, mahjong, video games and even sewing.
2) Movie Night! Come in appropriate Cosplay to get in free. Bleach movie 4: The Hell Verse
3) People have asked that I once again order calendars from Japan this year. You can get some ideas from here.

Dale’s Suggestive Remarks, based on suggestion sheets handed in at JAFWA:
The ever reliable Thomson Hau Yan Chow wrote on 10-09-2011 a missive on the topic Comments, Suggestions and ‘words’ about Anime:

1. ‘Last Exile – Fam, the Silver Wing’: I’ve watched the premiere at Manifest 2011 & I think it worths a preview when it starts broadcasting at Japan in October. Note: I contributed a comment in front of camera. You guy may want to check it out if they include it in DVD. (^_^)
2. ‘Break Blade’: The ending looks more like ‘to be continued’. However, I loved the ending song with the scene that Rygart laughed at first but cried later while the camera panned onto the ‘Broken Blade’, Delphine, when the lyric ‘I wonder why they fight’ was being sung. Looking forward to a second season, if there is any.

So finally there is a reason to be jealous of Melbourne – The Melbourne Anime Festival aka Manifest. You are making me envious that I did not go. The original ‘Last Exile’ was very pretty, one hopes this second series is just as pretty with a meatier storyline. I shall assign my minions the task of finding a preview copy.
Just out of curiousity Thompson, were you wearing a JAFWA T-Shirt when you were filmed?

Ah, ‘Break Blade’ the 6 part theatrical anime adaption of the light novel ‘Broken Blade’. Gorgeously animated, but in the end barely a chapter in the life of some people caught up in the conflict of war. So yes, it does have the feel of to be continued on the grounds that few, if anybody, could claim to live happily ever after.
I take it you remember in episode 5 that Rygart returned to his home village to rescue his younger brother and only family, only to discover a boastful General Borcuse and his enemy forces had annihilated the village and its inhabitants. Rygart spent much of episode 6 fighting General Borcuse, both to avenge his brother and save his surviving friends. And at the end of the battle his younger brother shows up, having been en-route to find Rygart all that time. Yes, Rygart’s reaction was appropriate.
Still, I think ‘Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket’ is a better, albeit only slightly, demonstration of the horrors of war and the perpetual regrets caused by misunderstandings and inadequate information. I should resume trying to petition it to be mandatory viewing for just after children get excited by war movies.

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By Dale – September 2, 2011

Saturday 17th September, 2011

The tentative JAFWA program for Saturday 17th September 2011 is below. To be held in the Collins Street Community Center on Collins Street just off Canning Highway in South Perth.

Things of Note:
1) Though International Talk Like a Pirate Day is September 19, we will not be celebrating it this year, as that Monday is Respect for the Aged Day in Japan.
2) People have asked that I once again order calendars from Japan this year. You can get some ideas from here.

Dale’s Suggestive Remarks, based on suggestion sheets handed in at JAFWA:
Will return next week.

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By Dale – August 29, 2011

Saturday 10th September, 2011

No JAFWA on September 3rd.
Take the weekend off to enjoy Life, or even attend WestLodge.

The tentative JAFWA program for Saturday 10th September 2011 is below. To be held in the Collins Street Community Center on Collins Street just off Canning Highway in South Perth.

Things of Note:
1) The last Bean Poll said we should keep showing “Fairy Tail” by a vote of 25 to 14.
2) “Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood” finished with a spontaneous round of applause from the audience.
3) We start screening a new TV series, the CLAMP version of Blood the Last Vampire, with stylish blood and gore of vampire extermination.Blood-C, the complicated CLAMP version
4) And we have the final theatrical episode of “Break Blade“, post-apocalyptic mecha action and political intrigue from the light novel series “Broken Blade”. Break Blade japanese image
5) Do we wish to order calendars from Japan this year?
6) A reminder that the Hall does not have adequate heating, so come prepared with enough layers of clothing for the Winter Season.

Dale’s Suggestive Remarks, based on suggestion sheets handed in at JAFWA:
First time suggestee Caitlyn Boxshall on 20/Aug/2011 writes on the Topic of Anime Suggestions:

  • Durara
  • Darker Than Black
  • Ao No Exorcist
  • No.6

The series “Durara” does not look like it will be entering the JAFWA program any time soon. Not even as a preview sample. We have too much taste.

JAFWA did preview “Darker than Black” back in 2007, but there did not seem to be too much interest at the time. Now that it is available locally on DVD through Madman, it seems unlikely we would devote any of our limited program time to this intriguing title.

Flipping Heck! I have checked the records and it appears that JAFWA has not previewed “Ao no Exorcist”. And I thought that we had – dabnabbit. It is a rather pretty show with a new variation of a under-used theme, presented with a moderately interesting story-line. I had hoped that JAFWA could screen at least a preview of this show, but it looks like our limited timeslot problem raised its ugly head and left no room for this to be sampled.
What did we preview instead? Looks like “Yumekui Merry”, “Tegami Bachi”, “Stein;s Gate” and a few others. Oh, I see, we needed room to screen “Break Blade” one night so we took the “Ao no Exorcist” preview out of the program and forgot to put it back in. Sorry!

Just because “No. 6″ looks like it had an incipient yaoi relationship developing in the first episode we sampled, it seems to have excited more than a few members of the female portion of the audience. I wonder how I can use this to my advantage?

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By Dale – August 29, 2011

Saturday 27th August, 2011

JAFWA has a separate Event afternoon running in the same hall from 12:30 to 4:30. It is make your own fun, but we know some people will be bringing semi-automatic nerf weaponry, mahjong, video games and even sewing. Try making a Cosplay costume for the evening!.

The tentative JAFWA program for Saturday 27th August 2011 is below. To be held in the Collins Street Community Center on Collins Street just off Canning Highway in South Perth.

Things of Note:
1) JAFWA has a separate Event afternoon running in the same hall from 12:30 to 4:30. It is make your own fun, but we know some people will be bringing semi-automatic nerf weaponry, mahjong, video games and even sewing.
2) The last Bean Poll said we should just barely keep showing “Level E” by a vote of 16 to 13. This week we shall ask if we should take a break from screening “Fairy Tail” after the current story arc finishes.
3) A reminder that the Hall does not have adequate heating, so come prepare with enough layers of clothing for the Winter Season.
4) Ask and ye shall receive – Madman has put forth the trailer for Trigun – Badlands Rumble.

Dale’s Suggestive Remarks, based on suggestion sheets handed in at JAFWA:
The ever reliable Thomson Hau Yan Chow wrote on 13-08-2011 a massive missive on the topic Suggestions & Comments on Anime:

1. 2nd season of ‘Working!’ is coming in next season of anime. If we use it to take the place left by ‘Full Metal Alchemist’ we can, for once, in synch with the broadcasting over Japan, which could attract more people. (Just tell them this, we have a giant screen)
2. ‘A Certain Scientific Railgun’ has almost passed it half-way point. Would we screen its OVA?
3. As we don’t have as many OVA as before, is there any chance of screening some old, stand-alone OVA back in old days? (that means OVA series without a TV series) other than Area 88 (NOT THE TV SERIES!!!) I suggested before, I also recommend ‘Ah! My Goddess’ & ‘Sakura Wars’. Although both of them has TV series & movies, their OVAs are not related to their TV series & can be watched independently. I think we can use these retro-OVAs in lieu of movies. (when we don’t have movies to show that is).
4. Another retro piece I suggest: AWOL – Absent Without Leave. I really love this anime but, too bad, I never manage to watch all of it. Thats why I would recommend it (Part of the reason that is).
5. ‘Sacred Seven’: not bad at all. I like the ‘stone age’ style fighting. Also, Sunrise seems to get some innovation after ‘Tiger & Bunny’ (at last, not just Gundam after Gundam…). By the way, if they do something about that ‘maid stuff’, it will be better. For example: some of those maids could just wear working or combat suits with some characteristics of a maid outfit, not just always maid & maid & maid…

I had not been aware that there was a second series of “Working!” in production. It is a silly little show, that almost begs to be put on the program. Now, how would we fit that into the program? Remove “Welcome to the NHK” and free a timeslot to allow enough room for “Working!” season 2 to fit in somewhere, or wait until October when we know a timeslot will open up because we have regular series coming to an end. When does the second series of “Working!” start in Japan?
Hey, we have started screening series within a week or two of Japan (FullMetal Alchemist and Soul Eater come to mind). However, since JAFWA does take a break at least once a month, we do fall out of synch with Japan. Not to mention that an AGM practically forced us to preview a series to allow a survey/poll before making it regular also now inhibits such a Japan/JAFWA synchronisation.

You are correct, “A Certain Scientific Railgun” has definitely passed its half way point I did not know that there were any OAVs, I will have to check my suppliers. I wonder if these OAVs will contain even more, um, explicitly mature scenes and situations. And here I thought that you would instead demand that we put on the second series of “A Certain Magical Index”.

Part of the reason we don’t show as many OAVs is that there isn’t so many made these days. There is now far more room on TV channels to allow anime creators that outlet. Back when there were fewer TV channels many a production company made Original Video Animation just to show what they are capable of. Now, TV seems to swallow almost all anime production. Though evolution in the anime medium continues, we are now seeing Original Net Animations, and shows such as “Break Blade” are being released as a theatrical series rather than OAV. When is the final part of “Break Blade” to become available? My dentist does not approve of me gnashing my teeth so much.
This isn’t to say JAFWA is done with OAVs, far from it. It merely means that we will occasionally show retro series. For instance, in October we thought we would revisit “Dominion: Tank Police” based off of Masamune Shirow’s light-hearted manga about a girl and her tank.

I am not familiar with “AWOL”, for me this would be a new series not retro. I will ask around.

Finally a comment about anime we have screened recently. Specifically the sample of other anime “Sacred Seven” from Japan that we previewed last week, August 13. Perhaps I should not tell you, but Sunrise are bring out the next in their Gundam franchise – “Gundam Age”. But let us not dwell upon this, as we all know that only the first few Gundam series were any good, long before they brought in the pretty boys. “Sacred Seven” was indeed different, and I am glad to see that the I am not the only one suffering a cognitive a cognitive dissonance failure due to the surfeit of frilly, short-skirted maids. We will try something different this week, and soon I hope to preview “Ikoku meiro no Croisee” or “Hanasaku Iroha” or other goodness.

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By Dale – August 22, 2011

Saturday 20th August, 2011

The tentative JAFWA program for Saturday 20th August 2011 is below. To be held in the Collins Street Community Center on Collins Street just off Canning Highway in South Perth.

Things of Note:
1) JAFWA welcomes new attendees.
2) A reminder that the Hall does not have adequate heating, so come prepare with enough layers of clothing for the Winter Season.
3) I do not always find the movie version of a popular anime TV series to be worthy. Take the wonderful Escaflowne TV series and compare it with the movie. While the movie version of Cowboy Bebop was OK, it lacked the tone and feel of the wonderful TV series. But I am finally satisfied with the movie version of Trigun, and eagerly await the DVD from Madman. Japanese cover Trigun:BadLands Rumble movie

Dale’s Suggestive Remarks, based on suggestion sheets handed in at JAFWA:
Long time correspondent Greg McLeod did write on 30-07-2011 on the topic of Suggestions:

Please gyabo play gyabo Nodame Cantibile Paris gyabo. I am gyabo getting gyabo Nodame Cantibile gyabo withdrawal symptoms gyabo.
Gyabo, gyabo, gyabo, gyabo…

Dude, you need help. Much as the idea of more Nodame appeals to me, I can’t but help think it is too late to cure you. More Noda Megumi will just make you progressively worse.
Thus I will hold off making a Bean Poll to ask if we should see the second season of Nodame, just for your health.

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By Dale – August 15, 2011

Saturday 13th August, 2011

The tentative JAFWA program for Saturday 13th August 2011 is below. To be held in the Collins Street Community Center on Collins Street just off Canning Highway in South Perth.

Things of Note:
1) JAFWA welcomes new attendees.
2) A reminder that the Hall does not have adequate heating, so come prepare with enough layers of clothing for the Winter Season.
3) Last session’s Bean Poll determined that we continue screening “Occult Academy” with a 22 to 11 vote.
4) I like this: Borrower Arrietty - new Studio Ghibli movie

Dale’s Suggestive Remarks, based on suggestion sheets handed in at JAFWA:
From Krista dated 16-07-2011 without any Topic identifier:

Dokuro-chan!

Short and sweet, but not exactly to the point. You exclaim Dokuro-chan but without any context. Did it frighten you, surprise you, delight you or do something else to make you exclaim?
Or is the exclamation mark an imperative to me to do something to or about Dokuro-chan, but once again without context to help convey your meaning. Thus I can interpret this in anyway I chose. Oh deary me Krista, you seem to have underestimated the depths to which, um, my imagination can plumb meaning from this single utterance from your good self. tsk, tsk, tsk you may have managed to break my quasi-vow to not steeple my fingers and say “excellent” in a C. Montomery Burns voice.

What precisely do you want us to do with the ultra violent bludgeoning angel from the future and the poor guy she keeps killing. Violently.
I do not know if you attended JAFWA when we screened the first 8 episodes in early 2007, and then showed no more. I don’t recall why we stopped. Aesthetic reasons?

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By Dale – August 7, 2011