Screening on Saturday 22^nd January 2022

Screening on the evening of Saturday, January 22^nd 2022

JAFWA‘s Summer of 2022 continues. All the new reular series we intended to start in January have started, including our retro series (though February is still to come). We can still intrigue you with soem preview episodes of other anime produced in Japan. So come along this Saturday, as start screening interesting anime from 5:15PM.

We apologise for last week, where our preview episode turned out to be double-length, and pushed the program nearly 20 minutes late. It was such an exciting episode that none of our reviewers noticed it had been stretched out, nor did the audience when it was shown. We only worked it out after we realised that the Late Break had started so late. We will try to avoid this overrun with tonight’s preview episode. This preview will just drag out “Vivy”‘s cliff-hanger from last week a luttle longer.

In addition to our regular program. We also screen various things during the Dinner Break. Like last week when we screened various anime music videos, one of our attendees asked anout this strange “Bubblegum Crisis” anime that came with its own music.
The scary thing is that he could not have been borns when BGC was made. Screening BGC was a staple of early JAFWA. To have someone not recoginise this cyberpunk anime classic, makes me feel old.
Does any one else want JAFWA to screen this anime gem once more? Maybe we could sneak an episode into the Dinner Break.

Excitement is growing over the new Mamoru Hosoda anime “Belle“, to appear at the cinema later this week.

Cash for Containers

As people may have noticed, JAFWA collects the recyclable containers (cans and bottles) that are disposed of by our attendees. It helps in a small way.

if you too would like to help JAFWA, and get rid of your unwanted recyclable containers, then please take them to Containers for Change, and quote JAFWA’s account number – C10505693.

Covid-19 Safety Precautions

We continue taking precautions to limit the possible future waves 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 is always welcome during set-up and pack-up due to the extra duties imposed by COVID-19 precautions.
– 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 near the entry.

Below is the tentative program for the evening of Saturday January 22^nd, 2022.

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

5:15pm	Fruits Basket season 3	Ep 12/13
5:40pm	Shadows House	Ep 12/13
6:05pm	Restaurant to Another World season 2	Ep 3/12
6:30pm	dinner break
7:15pm	door prize drawing, and announcements
7:30pm	Fena: Pirate Princess	Ep 2/12
8:35pm	Steins; Gate	Ep 2/24	(retro)
9:10pm	Lupin III part 6	Ep 2/9
8:45pm	To Your Eternity	Ep 2/20
9:00pm	Late Break
9:20pm	Moon and Laika and Nosferatu	Ep 1	(preview)
9:10pm	Talentless Nana	Ep 10/13	(v)
8:45pm	Re:Zero: season 2 part B	Ep 3/12	(v)

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 fannish events of interest are scheduled to happen:

• From Thursday January 20^th — New anime film Belle screening at Luna Leederville, in Japanese with English subs.
• Friday January 21^st through Sunday January 23^4d 2022 — GenghisCon is running at Belmont Sports and Recreation Club.
• Sunday February 27^th 2022 9:30AM-1PM — Collectors Zone Toy & Hobby fair at ECU Sport and Fitness Centre, Joondalup

Sad news! The Hyogo Prefectural Center is being closed. However, there is a petition being raised to keep it open.

Synopsis

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Fruits Basket – final season

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 stressed or grasped by the opposite sex, they turn into the animals of the Chinese Zodiac.

This evening’s Episode: “You Fought Well ” season 3

With the curse broken at last, Yuki (the former Rat) declares his love for Machi and the two become a couple. Akito reveals her secret to the other zodiacs and assumes her love for Shigure (the former Dog). Kyo (the former Cat) and Tohru make plans for the future and a flashback shows Kyoko’s last moments and the true meaning of her final words to Kyo.

Shadows House (Shadoo Hausu)

In a grandiose and dark mansion, the denizens of the Shadow House live, attended by their Living Doll partners who endlessly clean the soot their masters emit. Emilico, a young and cheerful Living Doll, is delighted to start serving her mistress Kate. As the two grow closer and are slowly exposed to various events within the House, they start to discover a number of dark secrets.

Tonight’s Episodes: “To Lord Grandfather’s Wing”

Emiliko finds herself bound and questioned by Edward, who alters his voice and desperately tries to get information about Kate. Meanwhile, Kate and the other children hatch a plan to slip into Lord Grandfather’s wing, but they are nearly discovered by Barbara and Barbie.

Restaurant to Another World (Isekai Shokudou) season 2

The Western Restaurant Nekoya is a restaurant situated in a mundane corner of an undisclosed Tokyo shopping district which offers a lot of Japanese versions of Western dishes. It opens during usual business hours but is closed during holidays and weekends. But secretly it is also open on Saturdays, as on this particular day it creates doorways to another world inhabited by elves, dragons, animal men and other fantastic creatures, who enter the restaurant and partake of its exotic food, with many of them becoming regular patrons. But while Nekoya mainly offers food, it is also a place where relationships are forged, inspirations made, and salvation for the needy is provided.

Tonight’s Episodes: “Hamburger / Beef Tendon Curry ”

Jack, Kento and Terry, three juvenile boys and best friends from a town in the Empire, regularly visit the Nekoya through their personal secret entrance to partake in its hamburger menu; the restaurant’s extremely diverse clientele inspires them to become adventurers and explore the world once they come of age. After the rest of the day’s customers are gone, Alphonse Flügel encourages Aletta and Kuro to participate in a trial of the Master’s latest curry dish variants.

Fena: Pirate Princess (Kaizoku Oujo)

An orphan girl, Fena Houtman, has been raised on an Island where there is no hope of becoming anything more than chattel, to be used and discarded by soldiers of the British Empire. But Fena is more than just another powerless orphan. When her mysterious past comes knocking, Fena will break the chains of her oppressors.

Tonight’s Episodes: “An Inherited Journey ”

Fena, Otto, and Salman escape Shangri-La on a small raft with a dog that followed Fena named Brule. They soon dock at Goblin Island, home to a small Japanese community led by Sanada Yukihisa, who swore to protect the Houtman family. Sanada gives Fena a small, clear stone, and is told that her father wanted her to have it. Relaxing in one of their baths, Fena cuts her hair and remembers the last word her father told her “Eden”.

Steins; Gate

Rintaro Okabe is a self-proclaimed “mad scientist” who believes that an international organization is conspiring to reshape the world according to its own interests. He and his friend Itaru Hashida inadvertently create a gadget able to send messages to the past. The discovery and experimentation of this instrument become the catalyst of fundamental alterations to the present. Oblivious of the consequences of their actions, Rintaro and his friends end up creating modifications of grievous proportions. He must then try to find a way to return as close as possible to the original timeline in order to save his precious lab members.

Tonight’s Episodes: “Time Travel Paranoia ”

Surprised to find Kurisu alive, Rintaro is subsequently humiliated by her during a lecture concerning the unlikeliness of time travel. After getting some provisions from the androgynous Luka Urushibara, Rintaro meets Suzuha Amane, who is hired by his landlord Yuugo “Mr. Braun” Tennouji as a part-time assistant in his electronics shop. Later, Rintaro investigates the supposedly altered events and learns that a man calling himself John Titor, who claimed in 2000 that he was a time traveler, has surfaced once more in 2010.

Lupin III part 6

The World’s geatest gentleman thief Lupin III, and cohorts, contending with detective Sherlock Holmes when Lupin becomes the top suspect in the murder of the former’s longtime partner, Dr. Watson. Lupin is also after a treasure hidden by The Raven, a mysterious organization that manipulates the British government from the shadows

Tonight’s Episodes: “Detective and Crook ”

Lily faints after seeing Lupin, while he and Fujiko escape Zenigata. Holmes vows to catch Lupin and tells Lestrade how Lupin was involved in the death of his partner, John H. Watson, 10 years earlier. At their hideout, Lupin explains to the crew about the legend of the “Raven” society and its mysterious treasure, and are surprised at his connection with Holmes.

To Your Eternity (Fumetsu no Anata e) season 2

An omnipotent narrator casts an orb of light to the Earth, watching as this entity copies the shape of a rock and then, many years later, mimics the moss on a rock. When a wolf dies beside the moss, it evolves, taking on the creature’s shape and gaining movement for the first time. As the wolf, the orb observes the dead wolf’s owner, a young man who lives alone on a frozen tundra. The time the orb spends with the boy leaves a mark on the entity as it observes, mimics, and bonds with the boy and then the other creatures it eventually comes across—all while transcending death and living for time immemorial.

Tonight’s Episode: “A Rambunctious Girl”

The orb now wanders south in the form of the boy it met earlier. Not knowing how to act as a human, the boy dies multiple times from starvation, injury, and being eaten by a bear, but keeps regenerating itself each time. Meanwhile, a nearby village is about to sacrifice a little girl named March to appease a god named Oniguma. However, as the party carries March up the mountain to the altar, her friend Parona creates a diversion, allowing her to escape.

preview item – The Moon, Laika and he Bloodsucking Princess (Tsuki to Laika to Nosferatu), sometimes known as “Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut”

With the conclusion of World War II in 1945, the world is divided between two major superpowers: the Republic of Zirnitra (based on the Soviet Union) in the east and the United Kingdom of Arnak (based on the United States) in the west. With their borders set on earth, both superpowers look to space as the next frontier for expansion, sparking a space race. However, Zirnitra has a trump card in the form of Irina Luminesk, a vampire who they hope to use as a test subject to spearhead research into achieving the first human spaceflight

Tonight’s Episode: “The Nosferatu Project”

In the year 1957, the Republic of Zirnitra has humiliated its rival the United Kingdom of Arnak by staying ahead in the space race launching the first artificial satellite into space, launching a probe into the Moon’s orbit, and putting a living dog in space. Now both nations are competing to achieve the first crewed spaceflight by putting a human in space. Lev Lep is a young man who has joined Zirnitra’s space program in hopes of becoming a cosmonaut. However, due to a previous incident, his chances of being selected are low, so he is assigned to the “N Project”.

Talentless Nana (Munou na Nana)

An academy on an island in unnavigable waters. There, students trained tirelessly to fight back against the enemies of humanity. Nana, a student newly transferred there, also sets out with the intention of eradicating all enemies of humankind.

This evening’s Episodes: “The Invisible Blade ”

Nana wonders why Jin has not use his talent to discover the identity of the committee himself. She then tries to escape, but she is injured when Jin transforms into Moguo. Before she passes out, Nana explains her family situation. Afterwards, Nana awakens in Michiru’s room where she explains to Michiru that she feels responsible for her parents’ death.

Re: Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu (Re: Life in a Different World from Zero) season 2 part B

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.

This evening’s Episodes: “Nobody Can Lift a Quain Stone Alone”

Subaru realizes that Garfiel’s aggression is a result of his insecurity over the reason for the departure of his mother from the Sanctuary. Garfiel believes that his mother left the Sanctuary 10 years ago because she preferred to find a better life outside, rather than stay with him and Frederica.