We are coming to the end of a few regular series this week at JAFWA, so this week we will hold a survey to help decide what new regular series (we need at least 4) we put on the program in May.
Just a reminder to come early, as the COVID countermeasures limit the number of people we can admit.
This week we farewell our supernatural mystery solver in “In/Spectre”. And we will have a double episode of “Revolutionary Girl Utena”, to help speed up the arrival of May.
But best of all, we have decided on one of the new regular series that is to start – the second series of Re:Zero. But since it has been a while since we have seen the first series, we thought we would first put on an OAV to help remind you of the series. So after the terrible doom and gloom our protagonist suffered in the first series, our protagonist and friends get to relax and enjoy some winter fun.
A query:- Do we have enough interest to try doing an auction during the marathon screening of April 24?
We continue taking precautions to limit the possible second wave of CoVid-19, and we ask that you co-operate and even help where possible with our efforts to keep you safe – some social distancing, extra cleaning with antiseptic, library under limited access, etc. Also, we must ask that anyone unfortunate enough to be infected to not attend JAFWA until they are contagion free.
Help would be welcome during set-up and pack-up due to the extra duties imposed by COVID-19. Please arrive early to confirm personal details due to COVID 19 regulations. There will be Contract Tracing, either by the SafeWA app on your keitai (mobile phones), or by signing in at the contact tracing sheet at the front desk. And we need to wipe the chairs down with disinfectant before they are stacked away.
Below is the tentative program for the evening of Saturday April 17th, 2021.
All items in the original Japanese language with English subtitles. With assistance from a grant from 
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| 5:15pm | Arte | Ep 11/12 | |
| 5:40pm | Appare Ranman! | Ep 12/13 | |
| 6:05pm | JDr Stone: Stone Wars | Ep 10/? | |
| 6:30pm | dinner break | ||
| 7:15pm | door prize drawing, and announcements | ||
| 7:30pm | Ascendance of a Bookworm | Ep 12/14 | |
| 7:55pm | Revolutionary Girl Utena | Ep 13/39 | (retro) |
| 8:20pm | Revolutionary Girl Utena | Ep 14/39 | (retro) |
| 8:45pm | Promised Neverland Season 2 | Ep 9/? | (v) |
| 9:10pm | Late Break | ||
| 9:20pm | In/Spectre | Ep 12/12 | (v) (final) |
| 9:45pm | Re: Zero – Memory Snow | movie |
Doors Open before Screening:~5:00 PM
Program Finishes:~10:45 PM
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Dates of Interest
Barring a resurgence of COVID-19 pestilence, these events are scheduled to happen:
- Saturday April 17th 2021, 9AM-12PM — Nexus Toy Fair Victoria Park Leisure Centres – Aqualife and Leisurelife.
- Saturday April 24th 2021, from 1:30PM — JAFWA’s next marathon length screening. Suggestions as to what we should screen will be welcome, as there is still room to make last minute adjustments.
- Saturday May 22nd 2021, 8AM-4PM (before JAFWA) — Tokyo Alley 9 – Travel South Terrace & Sandgate Street, South Terrace, South Perth WA 6151. (couple of bloacks away from JAFWA)
- Saturday June 5th 2021 — JAFWA’s next Bunning’s Sausage Sizzle, down at Cannington.
Synopsis
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Arte
16th century Firenze, Italy. The birthplace of the Renaissance Era, where art is thriving. In one small corner of this vast city, one sheltered girl’s journey begins. Arte dreams of becoming an artist, an impossible career for a girl born into a noble family. In those days, art was an exclusively male profession, with women facing strong discrimination. In spite of these challenges, Arte perseveres with hard work and a positive attitude.
This evening’s Episode: “The Faliers’ Portrait Painter”
Now able to focus on Sofia’s portrait, Arte decides to visit a local painter’s workshop. At the workshop, Arte meets an apprentice named Matei, who admits he is envious of her as being an educated female noble gives her career opportunities denied to most apprentices. Arte is confused by Matei’s envy and begins spending more time working. In Florence, Leo is particularly bad tempered as he misses Arte.
Appare Ranman! (aka “Appare in Full Bloom!”)
After a certain mishap, the brilliant but socially inept engineer Appare Sorano and the shrewd but cowardly samurai Kosame Isshiki find themselves drifting on a boat from Japan to America. Broke, the two decide to compete in the Trans-America Wild Race to win the prize and return to Japan. The two battle crazy rivals, outlaws, and the great outdoors itself as they race through the wild West from the starting line in Los Angeles to the finish line in New York — in the steam-powered car they built.
This evening’s Episode: “We Will Stop You!!”
Gil the Butcher amuses himself by mistreating his hostages in the church of an abandoned town. The Great Race competitors complete repairs to their vehicles after Carter offers the services of his mechanics. Kosame recovers sufficiently from his injuries and he joins Appare and the other competitors to head for Gil’s likely hideout, a ghost town 90km away.
Dr Stone season 2 “Stone Wars”
Modern society is lost when a mysterious light leaves everyone petrified in stone. Thousands of years in the future, super genius Senku awakens and begins restoring civilization with his Kingdom of Science. Now as he sets down blueprints for a smartphone in the stone world, Tsukasa and his Empire of Might prepare for the upcoming war.
This evening’s Episode: “Humanity’s Strongest Tag Team ”
The was between the Kingdoms of Science and Might may be over, as Senku demands a truce from Tsukasa in return for reviving his sister, Mirai. But it turns out that Hyoga the spearsman is far too wedded to the doctrine of only the elite surviving and mediocre perishing. Can his sneak attack defeat the combined science of Senku and the sheer physical might of Tsukasa?
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame niwa Shudan o Erandeiraremasen)
The story follows Motosu Urano, a book-loving post-secondary student and soon-to-be librarian who ends up crushed to death beneath a pile of books during an earthquake. With her dying breath, she wishes to be reincarnated in a world where she can read books forever. Urano awakens in the body of a weak, five-year-old girl named Myne in a world where books are scarce and only available to elites. Myne, retaining her memories from her previous life, decides to create and print her own books so that she can read again.
Tonight’s Episode: “Baptism and Divine Paradises ”
As the seasons begin to warm, Myne arranges to end her apprenticeship with Benno and sells the rights of the paper-making process to him. Lutz decides to continue his apprenticeship as a merchant. To get money for her family Myne sells her recipes to Frieda. But it is the actual baptism day event itself that will drive Myne the most – the temple has a library!
retro – Shoujo Kakumei Utena (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
Utena Tenjou, a teenage girl who expresses her desire to be a prince through her strong-willed personality and tomboyish manner of dress. She finds herself drawn into a series of sword duels at Ohtori Academy, to win the hand of Anthy Himemiya, a mysterious girl known as the “Rose Bride” who possesses the “power to revolutionize the world”.
Tonight’s Episodes: “Tracing a Path” and “The Boys of the Black Rose”
Two men review Utena’s duels and the motivations of all the Duelists. Anthy reveals that she pays weekly visits to her brother Akio, the acting headmaster of the school — but the relationship between the siblings is far from ordinary. Meanwhile, the Black Rose Seminar appears in Ohtori Academy, led by “high-school” genius Mikage as a front for creating Duelists capable of defeating Utena.
Yakusoku no Neverland (The Promised Neverland) season 2
Emma is an 11-year-old orphan living in Grace Field House, a small orphanage housing her and her 37 siblings. Life had never been better; with food that tasted gourmet, plush beds, snow-white uniforms, and the love of their “Mother” (the caretaker) Isabella, as well the litany of daily exams that Emma always aced with her two best friends Ray and Norman. The orphans are basically allowed to do whatever they want, except to venture out of the compounds or the gate that connects the house to the outside world. Then she finds out the truth. Determined to break out of Grace Field House, Norman and Emma partner up with Ray to peel away at the façade of the farm and find a way to escape with all their other siblings. But escape and freedom has its own dangers.
Tonight’s Episode: “Episode 9 ”
Emma tells Norman that he should not shoulder the responsibility of saving humanity alone, but he reveals that because of the drugs administered at Lambda 7214 he has does not have long to live. Sonju and Mujika protect them from a marauding demon, and Mujika begins the process of distributing her blood to reverse the demon degeneration process. They receive news via the radio that Phil and the others at Grace Field House are about to be shipped, however it is a ploy by Peter Ratri to lure the escapees into a trap.
In/Spectre
When she was still just a girl, Kotoko was kidnapped by yokai. These spirits made her into a powerful intermediary between the spirit and human worlds, but this power came at a price: an eye and a leg. Now, years later, she watches out for dangerous yokai while developing feelings for a young man named Kuro, who is also special: an incident with a yokai has given him healing powers. He’s surprised when Kotoko asks him to team up to handle renegade yokai, preserving the thin line between reality and the supernatural.
Tonight’s Episode: “She Who Defends Order ” Finale
Rikka e-mails Kotoko, congratulating her on her victory but promising to return. Kotoko worries Rikka may try again, reasoning that due to the limitless potential of the human imagination it may be possible to create anything, even a new God. Kuro takes Saki to dinner, as Kotoko is still asleep suffering from mental exhaustion. He explains that Rikka is desperate to be human again and sought a medical solution in the hospital but is now attempting to use her power to create a creature capable of turning her human.
Re:Zero – Starting Life in Another World (Ri:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu)
Subaru Natsuki is an ordinary high school student who is lost in an alternate world, where he is rescued by a beautiful, silver-haired girl. He stays near her to return the favor, but the destiny she is burdened with is more than Subaru can imagine. Enemies attack one by one, and both of them are killed. He then finds out he has the power to rewind death, back to the time he first came to this world. But only he remembers what has happened since.
Tonight’s Episode: “Memory Snow”
Subaru and friends defeat the Demon Beast Wolgarm, the source of the curse, and save the children of Irlam village. The characters finally get a moment of peace, and Subaru goes on a certain secret mission that he must not let anyone find out about. However, even though Subaru is wearing a disguise, Petra and other children of the village immediately figure out who he is. Now that his mission was exposed within five seconds of it starting, Subaru’s “date course” with Emilia could be ruined.
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