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Screening on Saturday 8th February 2020

We return for February, and amongst our anime goodness we will screen two episodes to preview other anime from Japan that does not manage to fit in the regular program. Yet.

Somali and the Forest Spirit ID Invaded

The movie KONOSUBA – Legend of Crimson is screening in a local cinema this week (Hoyts Carousel).
And Northbridge Piazza will be showing Whisper of the Heart / Princess Khanya on Wednesday, 5 February 2020 from 19:00-22:30. With Paprika / Ru & Siva on Wednesday, 12 February.

A reminder that JAFWA is having a Special General Meeting during the Dinner Break of Feb 22nd, to discuss matters regarding our marathon screenings. Could all members attend please.

JAFWA is doing a Bunnings Sausage Sizzle on May 2nd, down at Cannington. We would appreciate a couple of volunteers to help out.

Below is the expected program for the evening of Saturday February 8th, 2020.

All items in the original Japanese language with English subtitles. With assistance from a grant from

5:15pm Fruits Basket Ep 16/24
5:40pm Non Non Biyori Ep 6/13
6:05pm Dr Stone Ep 4/24
6:30pm dinner break
7:15pm door prize drawing, and announcements
7:30pm Somali and the Forest Spirit Ep 1 (preview)
7:55pm Fire Force Ep 4/24
8:20pm Sword Art Online: Alicization – War of Underworld Ep 4/?
8:45pm Demon Slayer Ep 4/26
9:15pm Late Break
9:25pm ID: Invaded Ep 1 (preview)
9:50pm Psycho Pass season 3 Ep 4/8 (v)

Doors Open before Screening:~5:00 PM

Program Finishes:~10:45 PM

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Dates of Interest

  • from Thursday January 30th 2020 — KONOSUBA – Legend of Crimson in local cinema.
  • Saturday February 22nd 2020, during the Dinner Break — JAFWA SGM to decide when we next have marathon screening.
  • Saturday February 29th 2020, 1PM->4:30PM — JAFWA’s next make-your-own-fun Event Afternoon, where we rent the Hall before the regular screening.
  • Saturday March 7th 2020 11:00AM->19:00 — Perth Japan Festival 2020 Elizabeth Quay, Perth WA 6000.
  • Saturday April 18th 2020 10:00AM->17:00 — RahCon 2020 Pop Culture Convention Mandurah Performing Arts Centre, with the theme “SuperHeroes”.
  • Saturday May 2nd 2020 — JAFWA has a Bunning BBQ fundraiser down at Cannington Bunnings.

Synopsis

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Fruits Basket (2019 remake)

After a family tragedy turns her life upside down, plucky high schooler Tohru Honda takes matters into her own hands and moves out into a tent. Unfortunately for her, she pitches her new home on private land belonging to the mysterious Sohma clan, and it isn’t long before the owners discover her secret. But, as Tohru quickly finds out when the family offers to take her in, the Sohmas have a secret of their own–when touched by the opposite sex, they turn into the animals of the Chinese Zodiac.

This evening’s Episode:She Said Don’t Step on Them!

Exasperated that Tohru is still using her school swimsuit at the pool, Arisa and Saki decide to buy a new swimsuit for her. Yuki and Kyo are forced to come along but their input was made moot when the girls decided to get a pink swimsuit. While having soba for lunch, Arisa recalls how she first met Tohru in middle school. But Arisa’s past is trying to catch up with her.

Non Non Biyori

In the countryside small town village of Asahigaoka, a place lacking many of the conveniences that people from the city are accustomed to. The nearest stores are a few miles away and one of the local schools consists of only five students, each of whom is in a different grade of elementary or middle school. Hotaru Ichijo, a fifth grader from Tokyo, transfers into Asahigaoka Branch School and has to adjust to countryside life with her new friends.

This evening’s Episode:Summer Vacation Started

As summer vacation begins, Renge’s older sister Hikage comes home from her school in Tokyo, hoping to impress the others with her know-how about city life only for Hotaru to outshine her. Later, Renge meets another girl her age named Honoka Ishikawa, who she quickly becomes friends with.

Dr Stone

Typical student Taiju Oki tells his science-loving friend Senku Ishigami that he will confess his feelings to their classmate Yuzuriha Ogawa. He prepares to make his confession to Yuzuriha under a camphor tree on the school grounds, but his attempt is interrupted when a bright light appears in the sky. Taiju pushes Yuzuriha to the tree to protect her as the light petrifies them along with the entire human population. After 3700 years spent trapped in stone, Senku and Taiju are somehow revived from their petrified state six months apart in what they now call the Stone World.

This evening’s Episode:Fire the Smoke Signal

After Senku creates a successful batch of gunpowder, which Taiju accidentally sets alight, the group spot a different source of smoke in the distance, suggesting that there are other survivors. Senku makes the decision to light the gunpowder further to use as a smoke signal, leading Tsukasa to find him and use Yuzuriha as a hostage to obtain the recipe for the revival fluid.

preview item – Somali and the Forest Spirit (Somari to Mori no Kamisama)

The world is ruled by spirits, goblins, and all manner of strange creatures. Human beings are persecuted, to the very point of extinction. One day, a golem and a lone human girl meet. This is a record of the pair, one a member of a ruined race, the other a watchman of the forest. It tells of their travels together and of the bond between father and daughter.

Tonight’s Episode:Journeying Parent and Child

Golem, an ancient wandering forest protector, finds a young human girl named Somali bounded in chains while making his rounds through the woods. He takes her under his care and allows himself to be called her father. The pair travel from city to city, learning the history of their civilization. They find out a war between monsters and humanity caused the near extinction of the human race, while some of the survivors ended up as either slaves or food.

Fire Force (En’en no Shouboutai, literally “Blazing Firefighting Corps”)

In the year 198 of the Age of the Sun, Tokyo is a crowded cosmopolis. But the world’s most populous city is threatened by devils that cause people to burst into flame at random. The only ones who can stop it are the Pyrofighters, a team of specialized firefighters. The young Shinra, blessed with the ability to ignite his feet and travel at the speed of a rocket, wants nothing more than to be a hero, and knows that this is the place for him. But he’s not the best at following orders.

Tonight’s Episode:The Hero and the Princess

At Company 8, an analysis of Joker’s exploding ashes reveals that they are Infernal Ashes, made from the remains of dead Infernals. Meanwhile, since disgraced fire fighter Setsuo Miyamoto killed four people on a spree, fire fighters have been unpopular with the citizenry. Later that day, after Miyamoto is found not guilty at his court case, he bursts into flames and becomes an Infernal. Princess Hibana and Company 5 have been observing the events and decide to capture the Infernal for their own purposes, which will bring them into conflict with Company 8.

Sword Art Online: Alicization (series 3 part 2) “War of Underworld”

Kazuto has been recruited to assist in testing an experimental FullDive machine, Soul Translator (STL), which has an interface that is far more realistic and complex than the previous machine he had played to help develop an artificial intelligence for the Ministry of Defense (MOD) named A.L.I.C.E. He tests the STL by entering a virtual reality cyberspace created with The Seed package, named UnderWorld (UW). In the UW, the flow of time proceeds a thousand times faster than in the real world, and Kirito’s memories of what happens inside are restricted.

Tonight’s Episode:Dark Territory

During the dive into the Underworld, Gabriel Miller briefly flashes back to his childhood obsession with souls. After logging in with the super-account representing the Dark Emperor Vecta, he quickly gains control of the army of the Dark Territory. General Shasta, being less than pleased with the Emperor’s plans, confides in his top soldier and lover, Lipia, that the Emperor must be killed to keep the peace. Meanwhile, in the human empire, Alice and Kirito arrive in the eastern camp near the Eastern Gate. Alice discovers that the gate is going to fall in a matter of days, removing the barrier between the Dark Territory and the Human Empire.

Demon Slayer (Kimetsu no Yaiba)

Tanjiro Kamado is a kindhearted and intelligent boy who lives with his family, making money by selling charcoal. Everything changes when his family is attacked and slaughtered by demons (oni). Tanjiro and his sister Nezuko are the sole survivors of the incident. Nezuko has now become a demon, but still surprisingly shows signs of human emotion and thought. Tanjiro becomes a demon slayer to help his sister turn human again and to prevent the same tragedy that happened to him and his sister, from happening to others.

Tonight’s Episode:Final Selection

Two years have passed since Nezuko’s transformation, and Tanjiro leaves for the Final Selection. Before his departure, Urokodaki warns him that a demon’s strength is equivalent to the number of humans it has eaten, gifting him a fox mask with a protection spell. Tanjiro reaches Mt. Fujikasane, where wisteria flowers bloom year-round, creating a prison for demons, and is informed that to pass the test, the applicants must survive there for 7 days.

preview item – ID: Invaded

In a world where investigators have the power to tap into a killer’s unconscious and see fragmented parts of their psyche. This is referred to as an “ID-Well”, a mental plane that can be digitally entered to collect clues regarding a killer’s victims, crime scenes, and even motives.

Tonight’s Episode:Jigsawed

Sakaido awakens in the ID-Well of the Perforator serial killer, notorious for killing his victims by drilling a hole into their heads. Things take a turn for the worse when Hondomachi is kidnapped by the Perforator.

Psycho-Pass season 3

In a future Japan where the psychological profiling system Sybil determines your place in society, or your removal for the good of society, now veteran Inspector Akane Tsunemori has been arrested by Public Security, for putting the public in danger. The unfolding story and the truth Tsunemori seeks involves two new investigators: Arato Shindo and Kei Mikhail Ignatov.

Tonight’s Episode:Political Strife in the Colosseum

Reformed enforcer Yayoi Kunizuka informs the team that she has determined Aki’s murderers were smuggled in from Myogadani while in suspended animation to prevent Sibyl’s scanners detecting their Hues. Shindo investigates Tsuchiya’s lab and discovers an AI entity which Tsuchiya left behind. It explains that Tsuchiya had developed an AI with highly persuasive speech and voice patterns. He used it to create an identical hologram copy of Karina Komiya called Ma-Karina

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