Weekly Bulletin for Saturday 12^th July, 2014

Screening

Below is the program for July 12^th, 2014.

Last night to nominate for JAFWA elections!

The after the Late Break program has been decided, thanks the the 21 valid votes from last session. Please welcome “Knights of Sidonia” and “Brynhildr in the Darkness” as regular items in JAFWA’s program starting in July.

As we found out last time the weather is getting a tad chilly and the JAFWA heaters could not keep up. Remember to rug up, and bring extra warm bodies.

All items in the original Japanese language with English subtitles.

5:10pm	Gin no Saji (Silver Spoon) season 2	Ep 3/11
5:35pm	Soul Eater NOT!	Ep 4/13
6:00pm	D-Frag	Ep 1	(preview)
6:25pm	Pupipou	Ep 3/15
6:30pm	dinner break
7:15pm	door prize drawing, and announcements
7:30pm	Log Horizon	Ep 16/25
7:55pm	Samurai Flamenco	Ep 13/22
8:20pm	Genshiken Nidaime	Ep 2/13
8:45pm	Witch Craft Works	Ep 2/12	(v)
9:10pm	Late Break
9:20pm	Knights of Sidonia	Ep 1/13
9:45pm	Brynhildr in the Darkness	Ep 1/13
10:10pm	Kill la Kill	Ep 15/24	(v?)

Doors Open Screening:~4:55 PM

Program Finishes:~10:45 PM

Dates of Interest

• Now – Nominate yourself for the JAFWA committee in the upcoming election.
• July 12^th – NEXUS Collector Fair from 9.00am 12.00 noon Park Recreation Centre Cnr Kent & Gloucester Street, East Victoria Park.
• July 19^th – JAFWA AGM from 3PM, with JAFWA annual elections during the Dinner Break 7PM – vote for anime overlord.

Synopsis

Gin no Saji, Season Two (Silver Spoon), Season Two

Life continues at Ooeno Agricultural School for city boy Hachiken. As the current crop of seniors prepare to move into the work force, more club responsibilities are passed on to the younger students. But in the midst of all the club activities, delicious food and good friends, Hachiken discovers that slaughtering animals might not be the only troubling aspect of farm life.

Tonight’s Episode: “Hachiken Jumps High“

Ooezo’s school baseball team continues to climb towards the championship. The amount of attention they are getting has inspired Hachiken, he wants to do something at the cultural festival that will make people realise how cool horses and horse-riding are. Of course, the most spectacular thing the club could do is show jumping, but the only riders who can do that are the club president and Mikage. That means it’s time for the others to step up their game and learn how to clear obstacles on a horse. For Hachiken, the pressure is beginning to remind him of exams in middle school.

Soul Eater Not!

DWMA (Death Weapon Meister Academy) is the place to go if you find that you are able the change into a weapon and need to master your newfound ability. Which is how Harudori Tsugumi finds herself in the United States, as part of the new class of students at the academy. Here she will learn to control her power and team up with one of the meisters (Students training to wield Death Weapons). However, she can’t quite make her mind up about which one to team up with.

Tonight’s Episode: “Waver, Run!“

Tsugumi stares in horror as Anya is cornered in a dark back alley by a monstrous looking attacker. Unable to transform into a weapon, the attacker finishes off first Anya and then Meme, only as he attacks her does Tsugumi awaken from her nightmare. Looking at one of her family pictures makes Tsugumi think her gloomy mood may be homesickness, but her attempts to shake it off wake up first Anya and then Meme. Later, in the cafeteria, Tsugumi asks her two friends why they came to DWMA. For herself, being a weapon, there was no real choice in the matter. But she wonders what brought the two Meisters here.

Preview – D-Frag

Kazama Kenji goal in life was simple; become a famous and feared delinquent. Instead he finds himself mixed up with his school’s struggling Game Development club and its various … eccentric … members. Yet the harder he tries to get away from them, the more he finds himself running into the other crazies in his school.

Tonight’s Episode: “The Kazama Family“

It’s a quiet morning at Fujou Academy. A blonde-haired girl at the front gate is bumped into by a passing student, spilling her flyers for the Game Development Club all over the ground. One student stops to help before pressing on into the school. This is Kazama Kenji, leader of the Kazama Family, a band of delinquents who have been getting a reputation around school. Which would be great as far as “Ken” is concerned except it’s the other two with a reputation and not him. Unbeknownst to Ken, the girl he helped at the front gate is meeting with the other members of the Game Development club. In addition to not developing any actual games it turns out they’re short of members, they need at least one new person …

Log Horizon

Elder Tale is an MMO with over twenty million players world wide. When a new expansion is added to the game, Shiro and his friends find themselvers amongst the several hundred thousand players across the world that are now literally trapped inside the game.

Tonight’s Episode: “Return of the Goblin King“

The forays into the dungeon finally started going well once everyone listened to Minori and took the time to learn each other’s skills and formulate group strategies. Isuzu and Rudy’s friendship grew enough that she was willing to add Rudy to her Friend List … although doing so proved impossible. But things became far more hectic as the next morning various goblin races swarmed both the beach and the forest. News of the army reaches the nobles at the palace before Shiroe or anyone else from the Round Table. But they are not far behind. Nor is Minori and her party, who are ready to help however they can.

Samurai Flamenco

He started as an enthusiastic amateur, grew into a trained hero with high tech gadgets, and now he leads a team of heroes backed by a giant robot. Hazama Masayoshi’s childhood dream of becoming the hero Samurai Flamenco has been fulfilled and then some. Of course, to be a hero you need villains to fight. But there seems to be no shortage of candidates lining up for that role …

Tonight’s Episode: “Night Before the Decisive Battle“

The team has now bonded over curry rice and Hazama is confident in their ability to work together in battle, they’ve even become the first ever recipients of the National Hero Award. But something else weighs on Hazama’s mind, the Flamenger’s support staff have uncovered abandoned From Beyond bases across the country. Although this would be consistent with a group that’s on the run after their string of defeats, Midorikawa has a different theory. They may instead be grouping for a mass assault, and there may be far more of them out there than first imagined.

Witch Craft Works

Takamiya Honoka’s life used to be completely normal. That is until the day he was attacked by a Witch of the Tower and learned that Kagari Ayaka, the most popular girl in school, is secretly his personal bodyguard and a witch herself. Now Takamiya must contend with a growing procession of eccentric magic users out to either kidnap or kill him, all whilst trying to figure out why anyone is interested in him in the first place.

Tonight’s Episode: “Takamiya and the Witches’ Motive“

It’s been a crazy week for Takamiya so far. Kagari Ayaka, the school’s most popular girl, is secretly a witch and his bodyguard, and a collection of colourful “Tower” witches have transferred to his school after a failed attempt first to kidnap and then to kill him. The worst part for Takamiya is he still doesn’t know why he’s being targeted, but he gets the feeling everyone else does. And so today he resolves to make Kagari explain it to him. That plan gets off to a rocky start when he realizes Kagari wasn’t on the bus to school. So Takamiya heads for their classroom to try and find her.

Genshiken Nidaime

The old guard have graduated and now only Ogiue, Ohno and Kuchiki remain. As a new year begins Genshiken is once again infused with new members, who bring with them their own quirks, tastes and personal baggage with which to befuddle, bemuse and entertain the rest of the club. The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture (Gendai Shikaku Bunka Kenkyukai, Gen Shi Ken) is back.

Tonight’s Episode: “Cross Over My Legs“

It’s Genshiken’s regular club meeting and Ogiue wants to put together a membership pamphlet. A brief introduction, and possibly artwork, from each club member. She even writes her own profile up as an example. Although she doesn’t want it to be a big thing, Ohno immediately sees it as a revival of the club’s magazine; Mebaetame. The topic quickly gets discussion started as the various club members reveal their own tastes, talents and interests as well as their assumptions of everyone else’s. Which ends, much to Yaegashi’s displeasure, with a gathering at her house.

Sidonia no Kishi (Knights of Sidonia)

A thousand years after mankind fled Earth, Sidonia is a vast colony ship traversing deep space. The people within, genetically altered to contend with the harsh demands of space travel and Sidonia’s limited resources, live under a military dictatorship. Nagate Tanikaze however knows almost none of this, he has spent his life in the service tunnels of the ship, training in mecha combat simulators. When he is finally found by the rest of the Sidonia’s population, Tanikaze finds himself inducted into their military to help defend the colony ship against monstrous beings known as Gauna.

Tonight’s Episode: “First Battle“

A lone mecha pilot heads towards an even lonelier asteroid. A station on the asteroid is under attack by a Gauna, which lashes out at the mecha pilot as he rushes in. Some precision manoeuvring and gunfire gets him past the Gauna’s tentacles and close enough to impale its core on his spear ,,, at which point the simulation ends. Unfortunately for Tanikaze Nagate, training simulators can’t fill his empty stomach. Unable to bear it any longer, Tanikaze finally leaves the empty service tunnels and heads to the upper levels to find food. However his expedition does not go well …

Gokukoku no Brynhildr (Brynhildr in the Darkness)

As a young boy, Ryouta Murakami cost a dear friend her life. A mistake he has never forgiven himself for. To this day he seeks to vilify his lost friend’s belief in the existence of aliens. But when a strange girl shows up at his school, a girl who bears an uncanny resemblance to his dead friend, Ryouta’s attention is pulled away from the stars to face the dark secrets this new girl brings with her.

Tonight’s Episode: “While Waiting For You“

Ryouta never used her real name, she was just Kuroneko (Black cat). The girl he played with as a child who claimed to have seen real aliens. The girl who died because ten years ago he wanted to see the aliens for himself. The girl that died trying to save him from falling off a dam. The girl that died from that fall when he survived it. And so ever since, as penance, Ryouta has spent his free time scouring the stars for signs of extra-terrestrial life. Even studying to become a NASA scientist so he can continue to scan the stars in his adult life.

Kill la Kill

Ryuko Matoi is a girl on a mission; to find the person responsible for her father’s death. Her search has led her to Honnouji Academy, a brutal, totalitarian school where the student council, led by Satsuki Kiryuin and empowered by their Ultima Uniforms, rule over everyone else. Ryuko quickly finds herself at odds with Satsuki’s dictatorship, but aid comes to Ryuko both from unexpected allies within the school … and a set of skimpy talking clothes.

Tonight’s Episode: “Don’t Stop Me Now“

The independent schools of Kyoto and Kobe have fallen to Satsuki’s forces, but Sakurada and his Osaka conglomerate are not out yet. Money buys a lot of amateur mercenaries, but using it as ammunition just gave Mako the means to fill her bag with souvenirs and her belly with exotic food. Now Sakarada must contend with Satsuki herself. Ryuuko too is heading for their battlefield, she has all the pieces of Senketsu save one, the piece Satsuki has grafted onto her own Godrobe. Mikisugi and Tsumugu are also in Osaka, which houses the secret headquarters of Nudist Beach.